On the advice of friends I decided to give enlightenment a go. (and I must say, from what I saw, it's beautiful!)
A strange thing happened, though. I started netscape to browse the package list at www.debian.org to look for esd (the sound thing that it complained about not having at startup) and things were working well, I went to the full package list, it got about 25% loaded, and I hit Alt-F to do a search. I typed "enlightenment" figuring I might find some other fun stuff for it too. Well, I clicked find and my system came to a screeching halt (mouse wouldn't even move) for about 60sec. Then it went and found the first thing with "enlightenment" in the description... odd... ok, move the "find" window from over the description so I can see what it was... window moves about 20pixels... screeching halt... I gave this one 5 minutes and it still didn't come back. ERG! So, I did a hard reset... fsck whined, made me boot single user to fix a partition, then I rebooted again... tried E once more only this time not loading netscape... things were fine for about 1/2 hour. Killed X, changed my wm back to wmaker, fired up X, started netscape... things fine for about 1/2 hour... killed X, changed wm back to E, fired up X, started netscape, 5 minutes, grinding halt... hard reset... fsck whines... now I'm not bothering with X. So something weird is going on with E and netscape... any ideas? I'm liking the look of E, I think if I can get it working I'll keep it! TIA! -Dano -- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege. --Noam Chomsky