Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-08 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi folks, Good read. Just want to offer my thanks for all the testing and info. Really helps a newb. Cheers, Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Thanks for posting on this Jape. I'm new to Debian (preparing to install soon) and will likely be caught by this. Hope it's OK to ask some newby questions. I want a light weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Kailash
Is there an alternative network manager for XFCE, and can one be selected during initial installation? https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd HTH, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.10.2013 09:10, Oliver Fairhall a écrit : Thanks for posting on this Jape. I'm new to Debian (preparing to install soon) and will likely be caught by this. Hope it's OK to ask some newby questions. I do not remember having read that this list is for experts only ;) On 07/10/13 02:31,

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-07, Oliver Fairhall o.fairh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I want a light weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so will likely struggle with not installing Gnome (really don't want Gnome or KDE). With the

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.10.2013 15:12, Curt a écrit : On 2013-10-07, Oliver Fairhall o.fairh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I want a light weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so will likely struggle with not installing Gnome (really

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread davidson
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop.

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-07, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments, then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-07, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments, then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the netinstaller at least that's the way it's done:

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 10:02 AM, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-07, Curtcu...@free.fr wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments, then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the netinstaller at least

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.10.2013 16:02, Curt a écrit : On 2013-10-07, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments, then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the netinstaller at

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 03:10 AM, Oliver Fairhall wrote: Thanks for posting on this Jape. I'm new to Debian (preparing to install soon) and will likely be caught by this. Hope it's OK to ask some newby questions. If you don't mind getting (possibly) dumb answers. ;-) I want a light weight DE, and

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 10/07/2013 10:43 AM, Jape Person wrote: These folks are sophisticated enough to want to use VPN connections when they're connecting to public wireless locations. They just don't know enough about package management to sort this sort of thing out for themselves. I wanted to leave them with

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 11:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 10/07/2013 10:43 AM, Jape Person wrote: These folks are sophisticated enough to want to use VPN connections when they're connecting to public wireless locations. They just don't know enough about package management to sort this sort of thing

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Joe
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:01:15 -0400 Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: I hope that is actually the case. I am sober now and not kibbitzing with my buddies, but don't have much time. If I can get some free time I'll try again with my eyes open and taking notes for a possible contribution

NEWBIE installation report - was [Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?]

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Jape Person wrote: On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop

Re: NEWBIE installation report - was [Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?]

2013-10-07 Thread davidson
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did an install from [Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 Wheezy - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130615-21:54] My choices from the the opening set of menus were: Advanced Options Alternative desktop environments Xfce Advanced options Expert install

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But

You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
Heh. Just being a little tongue-in-cheek here. I needed to do a fresh installation of Debian on two systems for friends this weekend. I tried both stable (7.1) and the 10/02/2013 daily of testing -- both of them the netinst image. For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread davidson
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop. you do not mention the display manager. at login, did the display manager's login dialog box not offer

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop. you do not mention the display manager. at