On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Debian testing amd64, fresh install, idiot newbie user. > > I had everything pretty much working and configured except for my > bluetooth mouse. Finally I succeeded in getting it working, although I > cannot tell you how. I had installed Blueman, but it couldn't get the > mouse paired either. But then suddenly I had two bluetooth icons in my > Gnome panel. Using System Monitor I killed two bluetooth devices - that > is, killing the first one changed nothing but killing the second one > deleted one of the bluetooth icons. Afterward I was able to get a GUI > dialog box that found the mouse. And this time I had a Next and a Back > button. I was finally able to get the mouse working when I selected > "connect" but "without pairing." > > However, the mouse was not working properly. The pointer moved around, > but left clicking did not work. I could select things only by > right-clicking on them. > > After poking around for a while and not finding a solution I decided to > reboot. After logging in I got a popup asking if I wanted to > grant permission to the bluetooth mouse. I responded Yes, and the mouse > then worked properly; that is, a left click worked as a left click. It > has been working fine ever since. > > Unfortunately, the entire Gnome panel was gone. Also, windows had no > title bar or icons in the corner to minimize or maximize them The > keyboard worked, but I couldn't launch a terminal because I have > forgotten the secret keyboard shortcut to launch a terminal. The only > way I know how to do it is Applications > Accessories > Terminal, but > there was no panel so I couldn't click on Appplications. I did get to a > command line with Ctrl-Alt-F1, but I was unable to do anything > constructive for failure to know what the window manager is called or > how to restore it when not in X. > > Eventually I found that by right-clicking anywhere on the desktop I got > a popup wiith various options, one of which was "create launcher." I > created a launcher for "gnome-terminal" and finally was able to get a > terminal up. Using the terminal I finally discovered that for some > reason metacity and gnome-panel were not started during the boot/login > process. > > At this point I have a working desktop, but after every boot I must run > > nohup metacity & > nohup gnome-panel & > > I know there are startup scripts, but I have never poked at them > before. I assume I can edit what I need with a text editor or nano. I > hope there is a Debian user here who can point me to the correct script > that needs editing. I am also hoping that looking at the startup script > will shed some light on how this bizarre mess happened. > > In spite of the issues that I have had getting Debian testing working, > I am liking it so far. > > I also tried the live CD of Karmic. Just as with all previous versions > of Ubuntu on my Thinkpad, it does not shut down completely. And, while > I was able to get the bluetooth mouse working, it died randomly and had > to be restarted. Having worked with Debian for a few days, I am not very > impressed with Karmic. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I'm not a Debian user but I might suggest creating a new user to test with and see if their desktop is broken the same way. If it isn't then it's probably something in the dot files that might have been moved over from your Ubuntu installation (just a guess) .. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
