Hi Jude: Don't use twm or icewm as window managers - for best results you'll want to install and run the Gnome desktop env which includes the metacity window manager. Starting "gnome-session" after startx may work for you.
regards Bill On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 01:00, Jude DaShiell wrote: > So far earlier today I had a non-graphical system as a base line. After > having done aptitude update and aptitude upgrade and installing all > upgrades I decided to try installing xserver-xorg and gnopernicus to see > if they'll play nicely together. So, aptitude install xserver-xorg > --with-recommends then aptitude install gnopernicus --with-recommends got > me a few megs worth of files installed. Upon rebooting I noticed speakup > still comes up and whatever x environment may or may not be functional on > this system did not attempt to start and fail. Much nicer than installing > debian desktop from tasksel. Some other notes I chose isa:1 for monitor > type and told the system to talk to the monitor for further information > and not use the frame buffer to get its information. This is a pretty > modern monitor and definitely not an rgb model either. So before I try > running startx and then running gnopernicus -s to see if the X environment > wants to talk is there anything else I neglected to do? The sound card is > functional and plays podcasts fine and I ran alsa-conf and alsactl store > against it earlier too. I've heard twm is a disaster and don't know if > that is installed or not and can get icewm for this system too if it would > work better for this level of accessibility. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list