Michael C. Robinson wrote: >I'm wondering whether or not I should even pursue a Gnome 3 installation?
Was going to install GTK+ 3 on my system. I found the GTK+ developers help and bug support rather unfriendly and decided to go with GUIs/desktop software where the developers were more polite when issues or fixes are reported. Luckily, there are tons of options besides Gnome 3 (and even GTK+). By the way, if you already have Qt on your system and want a desktop environment that's lighter than KDE, you might want to check out razor-qt ( http://razor-qt.org/ ). >One problem I have with tab window manager is that I don't know how to >fire it up at boot. Another problem, >I don't like having a login terminal. I prefer to Exit using the >window manager. If I click Exit now, I end >up in X without a window manager. I like the reverse. I actually liked starting from console in DOS and then having to go into Windows and back to DOS. So, on Linux and BSD systems I like being able to get in at the command line, do whatever I want and only go to the window manager if I want to do more complex multi-tasking. Usually, I start up a window manager using the startx command. I edit .xinitrc to tell it what to run (autocutsel, urxvtd and my window manager). Armin K wrote: >There is something called "Desktop Manager" which does some kind of that >... GDM, KDM, LightDM, XDM, SLiM and <insert any other that I didn't >mention DM here> As Armin wrote, a Display or Login Manager sounds like what you're going to want. Some more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qingy https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CDM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM I tried Qingy at one point and found it interesting, but as I mentioned, I prefer my command line. Ken Moffat wrote: >Also, build a less primitive WM. I build fluxbox as a first step, >because it doesn't need an extra toolkit You might want to check into Openbox and its openbox-session capabilities: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart Have used it in the past and it will work well with a login manager and allow for saving session information. I'm currently using jwm. It needs very few dependencies to build. http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/ You can use the command line and the jwmrc XML file to customize it to work with your X Windows installation and the your login manager of choice. Armin K wrote: >Why o Why Acrobat Reader? What's wrong with opensource pdf viewers like >Evince, Okular or ePDFView? Agreed. I don't even use Acrobat Reader on Windows (unless required at work). If you can get used to the keymappings/navigation, I recommend mupdf. ( http://www.mupdf.com/ ) It's an extremely lightweight PDF viewer written by some of the Ghostscript developers. I have seen some other development using the mupdf libraries instead of poppler that might provide other more user-friendly (for some people) interfaces. Might be worth checking into to. >I think Dirk Dashing requires Gnome or KDE. Interesting. Hadn't heard about this one before, but I usually stick with Open Source applications. System requirements are listed here: http://www.dirkdashing.com/dirkdashing2/linux_download.htm I don't see a mention of Gnome or even GTK+ as a requirement. It does say OpenGL compatible card, so I'm wondering if OpenGL is a requirement or possibly it's been compiled into the executable. The use of 32 bit libraries could be an issue to setup. You could also try running the Windows version under Wine. You'd need Wine working, but might be less other dependent libraries that way. Although, it looks like the game supplies most of the needed libraries. It mentions SDL and ogg-vorbis are bundled in. Best wishes. Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
