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  1. 08-03-2005 #1
    astrophysicist
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    Help!! with Destkop Environments!!!

    Yesterday I changed my repos to unstable. I did apt-get dist-upgrade and upgraded my distro. Then I did apt-get update and updated my aptitude.

    The next thing I know when I restart my comp, I now have KDE!?

    Before I had Gnome, but now KDE? Can anyone tell me which DE is better. I want one that revolves not so much on X and teaches me more about Unix through the Terminal. Thanks.
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    Re: Help!! with Destkop Environments!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by astrophysicist
    Yesterday I changed my repos to unstable. I did apt-get dist-upgrade and upgraded my distro. Then I did apt-get update and updated my aptitude.

    The next thing I know when I restart my comp, I now have KDE!?

    Before I had Gnome, but now KDE? Can anyone tell me which DE is better. I want one that revolves not so much on X and teaches me more about Unix through the Terminal. Thanks.
    You might like fluxbox.
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    Re: Help!! with Destkop Environments!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by COKE CAN
    Quote Originally Posted by astrophysicist
    Yesterday I changed my repos to unstable. I did apt-get dist-upgrade and upgraded my distro. Then I did apt-get update and updated my aptitude.

    The next thing I know when I restart my comp, I now have KDE!?

    Before I had Gnome, but now KDE? Can anyone tell me which DE is better. I want one that revolves not so much on X and teaches me more about Unix through the Terminal. Thanks.
    You might like fluxbox.
    [troll inside]*box are good but FVWM is better [/troll inside]
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    im currently with gnome, but switch to xfce soon. i have crappy 64 ram, so i need something to be pretty light, yet still looks nice.

    astro, what are your needs?
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    Re: Help!! with Destkop Environments!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by astrophysicist
    I want one that revolves not so much on X and teaches me more about Unix through the Terminal. Thanks.
    Both GNOME and KDE are full fledged graphical desktop environments, but you can use terminals in either.

    If you really want to sink-or-swim in a terminal environment, press Ctrl-Alt-F3.
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    Re: Help!! with Destkop Environments!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Gnux
    Quote Originally Posted by COKE CAN
    Quote Originally Posted by astrophysicist
    Yesterday I changed my repos to unstable. I did apt-get dist-upgrade and upgraded my distro. Then I did apt-get update and updated my aptitude.

    The next thing I know when I restart my comp, I now have KDE!?

    Before I had Gnome, but now KDE? Can anyone tell me which DE is better. I want one that revolves not so much on X and teaches me more about Unix through the Terminal. Thanks.
    You might like fluxbox.
    [troll inside]*box are good but FVWM is better [/troll inside]

    FVWM? Any details, screenshots, etc? I'm not familiar with it.


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    DE's? Who needs 'em? My Slackware setup works beautifully without X. This way you definetly learn bash.

    Well, I am not like most so Xfce might be a good choice. I tried it and liked it.

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    COKE CAN wrote:
    FVWM? Any details, screenshots, etc? I'm not familiar with it.
    Try http://fvwm.org/ for all of your FVWM needs.
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