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| I had a few quick questions about what needs to be changed in order for the
'greeter' to start up automatically. It seems that, in order for me to save
disk space, I had to make a choice and I did remove gnome, which I do
believe broke a few things. I'd also like to know how to change the script
that starts up the X Environment automatically and what to enter into it to
start up my choice of environment.
I beliee it broke my 'greeter', so when I log out, it will just drop me at a
shell prompt.
I also have a problem with 'cups'. I can install a network printer fine,
however, it will not print to it using its IP and port #. It will only ping,
and does reply. The printer test doesn't work with debian. It does work with
SUSE and FC but not Debian even when using the proper driver and
credentials. Also, in the printer manager, when you scan the default subnet
I see no activity on the JetDirect.
Also, Thanks for the heads up on XFCE, Blackbox, etc, they are of great
help.
TYVM.
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| AJackson 2006-09-12, 7:17 pm |
| Hello.
mg wrote:
> I had a few quick questions about what needs to be changed in order for the
> 'greeter' to start up automatically. It seems that, in order for me to save
> disk space, I had to make a choice and I did remove gnome, which I do
> believe broke a few things. I'd also like to know how to change the script
> that starts up the X Environment automatically and what to enter into it to
> start up my choice of environment.
>
> I beliee it broke my 'greeter', so when I log out, it will just drop me at a
> shell prompt.
Your "greeter" is a X Display Manager. This program manage one or more
X window terminals (you usally run at least one on your workstation)
and logins on those. Remember that X11 is distributed, so they need to
be able to manage X server, not necesarily running at the same machine
as the XDM programe. A X server is the program manage at least a
display, keyboard and pointing device, usally a mouse).
There is three common implementations that implements a XDM.
Oldest is xdm, I would guess that it uses less resources than the
others.
Then has KDE and Gnome one each. Again guessing, Gnome has most
features, then KDE.
So to get a login greeter, you have to install one of them, that are in
packages named after those XDM:s, xdm, gdm and kdm.
aptitude update; aptitude install xdm
You might need to start it manually
invoke-rc xdm start
> I also have a problem with 'cups'. I can install a network printer fine,
> however, it will not print to it using its IP and port #. It will only ping,
> and does reply. The printer test doesn't work with debian. It does work with
> SUSE and FC but not Debian even when using the proper driver and
> credentials. Also, in the printer manager, when you scan the default subnet
> I see no activity on the JetDirect.
I would guess network problems. Either your router, the printer or
firewall rules in you desktop.
Good luck
AJackson
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