From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Trying to get GUI'ed Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:47:53 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB3E969.CA796415@gelm.net> References: <200210190850.g9J8oBF04104@philonline.com> <3DB2BA87.E2C47BDD@gelm.net> <1035185117.3735.13.camel@zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Furness Cc: linux-newbie Hi, Paul: Thanks. I have seen fwvm mentioned somewhere in my distribution. I am using Slackware8.0. I'll browse the directories that start with 'x' for files that match your suggestions. I've been using Netscape Communicator on Windows o/s for several years, so I plan to try it first just because it might be familiar. I believe Mozilla has been around for a decade or so, so it would be another browser I'd try. ;-) IIRC, Gnome has been mentioned more often than KDE, when I heard about applications I was interested in and they required a GUI, so I'd try Gnome before KDE. So, Gnome & KDE are not only window managers, but also tool packages too. :-| I am familiar with tarballs (.tgz .tar.gz) and have installed and compiled several applications. I am comfortable with that method of packaging. ;-) Regards, Chuck Paul Furness wrote: > > To get much nice stuff out of the GUI, you really need to have a decent > window manager running, as that will give you the ability to move > windows around, have virtual desktops and set up menus on mouse-clicks. > This is another component that you run on top of X. There are so many > around that it's hard to pick one - sawfish, fvwm2, enlightenment, > fluxbox, olwm, afterstep... the list is a long one. > > On top of the window manager, you might want to look at desktops - KDE > or Gnome - which give you a set of tools which work more or less > together. > > Netscape (or better, Mozilla) are separate packages which you can get > from a number of places (you could start with www.mozilla.org or > www.netscape.com). If you have a package manager (RPM is the most > ubiquitous) then you can get the software pre-packaged in a simple to > install format. Even if you don't, the install for Mozilla is pretty > easy from tarball. > > Paul. > > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 15:15, Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Howdy, Y'all: > > > > I am trying to 'upgrade' from 'console' to GUI. > > I think I have successfully installed XFree86/4.2.1. > > I can 'startx' and I get a monochrome desktop with > > a tiny clock and three windows; 'login', 'xterm', and 'xterm'. > > I can toggle among three resolutions. > > > > I want to run a browser, preferably Netscape > > (preferably v4.61 if available for linux). > > > > What am I missing? > > Where do I go for help to get from where I am to where I want to be? > > > > Regards, Chuck > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > -- > Paul Furness > > Systems Manager > > 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs