Greetings gurus, I have installed Debian 3.1 on my old Compaq Presario 1825 laptop, Pentium II, Celeron 366, 192 meg ram, ATI Rage 3D, 30 gig hd, DVD-ROM, 15" LCD, etc. Everything is working fine, even sound, Will... :) I installed KDE, Gnome, FluxBox, BlackBox, Enlightenment, fvwm, and IceWM. I am using gdm and it found all of the window managers except for Enlightenment. I'm not sure why it doesn't see it nor do I know how to make it "Enlightenment aware". I want to run a light weight window manager, but have it be as "Window$ Refugee friendly" as possible. I have used fvwm on Puppy Linux and FluxBox (I think) on DSL and Feather Linux. In all cases there was a "user menu" that could be accessed either from the kikker or via a desktop click, or apps could be launched via desktop icons. I ran the setup script from within fvwm and it picked up portions of the KDG and Gnome menus, but some selections from the menu's don't work. I haven't been able to get/find any user menus on the other window! managers, nor have I discovered how to create desktop shortcuts in the other WM's. I've done a fair amount of Googling but haven't found solutions yet. Can anyone point me in the direction of some HOWTO's on configuring any of these desktop environments? Recommendations on the various window managers would be greatly appreciated as well. My goal here is three fold. I want to use OpenOffice 2 Beta on this machine, I want the machine to respond fairly crisply, and I want to learn some more about what goes on "under the hood" of the OS. I can accomplish the first goal with my Linux distro of choice, but the current incarnations of KDE and Gnome are just too resource intensive for this laptop, hence the decision to install Debian. Also, for reasons I have yet to determine, the USB mouse has stopped working, but the builtin touchpad is working fine and the USB mouse works if I boot up on a live CD.
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