Dear debian KDE users and developers, I know this is slightly off topic, but after years of using Unix
and Linux, I still have barely a clue about how X windows works and in particular how all the programs, configuration files and directories fit together. Every time I have installed a new Linux system , be it RedHat, Mandrake and now Debian, I have just kept my fingers crossed and hoped that it would somehow miraculously come together, and more often than not it does, but when it does not work, I am lost. I have so far instlled one Debian Woody system, and by luck I almost got a decent X Windows and kwm working, but there were problems so I am tryed to reinstall 'woody', after coming to grief with an attempt at 'sid', but I don't have a clue where to set up X windows. (Actually I can make some sense of an XF86config file, but none is to be found in /etc/X11/). I had a go, during a dselect session, using a VGA based graphical set up program, but could not control it because the wrong mouse settings had been fed into it, from who knows where. So what I am asking is: 1. what is a straightforward to go about setting up X-windows, and then getting it to work with KDE? 2. Is there clear straighforward documentation, somewhere, that will give me a simple picture of how X windows works on a Linux system? ... something that will tell me which files and directories and programs do what, and how do I control them? Thanks for your attention and TIA. James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
