On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:25:06AM +0200, Petros Sidiropoulos wrote: > Hello all........ > > >>Not that I've ever run X in Hurd, but my guess would be that you need > >>to run xfs, the X font server. > That's it. > > YESsss..., i did it, ;-) the X system started and a pure environment appear > on the screen with something called Icon Manager > (I can't figure out what it is), I 'd like to have something more useful > like an xterminal or xeditor on my desktop:: how this > could be done? only I have to install apps or something else?? > > In order to start X I had to install packages like xfs which is not > described in older messages about installing X.
The "problem" with X is that you can either install the fonts or run th fontserver or both. I forgot why xserver-common doesn't depend on xfs|xfonts-base, but at least it suggests xfonts-base. Installing xfonts-base and xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-shareable is recommended (or, if you get your fonts over the network, installing and running xfs is a good alternative). In anyway, that's a Debian question and not specific to the Hurd. You will find the same question in the debian-user archive a couple of times :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
