I would prefer gnome over KDE.  Does wifi work? Shutdown and suspend?

Thanks

Did you pay attention to the approximate disk space hit incurred? Is it a lot?

bandaidcork wrote:

I am not able to get the apt-get to work. It can't resolve the repositories.

I hate to ask the obvious but have you added the debian repos properly?

I got it to run ion as my window manager with the same tweak to /usr/bin/startsimple.sh a few days ago but if I tap the power button when it's running ion, it starts shutting down right away, without asking me anything, as opposed to popping up a window with shutdown options like in KDE. Are you experiencing any similar problems with gnome or is it just me?

Last edited by Celegorm (2007-11-12 11:58:41 pm)

this method also works with installing Xfce4, which I had tried to get working in a previous thread.

the difference is, instead of entering "gnome-session" into the /user/bin/startsimple.sh, you add "xfce4-session" instead. (after of course, adding the xandros repos, and apt-get install xfce4 )

This thread is also of importance, because I think that in getting compiz working under the standard xandros operating system (which makes, many, many things easier, and faster) will come from running gnome over xandros.

I had it (sorta) running earlier, but I'm not sure how to configure it, and it appeared to be "broken", despite animating my windows, and menus.

Adamn wrote:

also, perhaps this information should be added to the wiki under the heading of "alternate window managers"

I'd second that. My original intention was to just wipe Xandros off completely and start with Ubuntu when I got it, but remembering all of the headaches I've ever gone through getting atheros wifi working, power management, etc...  I figured "Hey, it's still Debian-based, it can't be THAT bad..." and to my utter delight, Xandros seems to have been finely tuned for this machine, with all the hardware working out of the box (imagine that!).

I would definitely recommend sticking with the default OS and just, say, install other software from the Xandros repos. I'm sure you could find 90% of what you want through that, anyway. And man...that Asus launcher isn't actually half bad, it's like a Palm interface. When you just want to look up a website or check your e-mail real quick, this is much faster than any full blown WM/IDE. AND, of course, you can edit the tabs/entries with a single RC file. Reminds me of Fluxbox.

Adamn wrote:

now, the other hard part, would be gracefully switching between gnome/kde/xfce/icewm(easy mode)

session managment is still a problem.

Actually, if we could get pure GDM to run we'd have it built in already (replace line 26 with "gdm" maybe?).

I had this going (and saw all of the choices in the 'Sessions' menu), but it was right before I toasted the install by editing the startsimple.sh script wrong. Infinate X11 re-loading with no vtswitch sucks.

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Jon Bradbury wrote:

Adamn wrote:

now, the other hard part, would be gracefully switching between gnome/kde/xfce/icewm(easy mode)

session managment is still a problem.

But why would you want all those window managers? You only have 4gigs to play with...

Umm...because you CAN?  Because it's Linux?

Need I say more?

Does this install the gnome network manager? And does gnome network manager support WPA Enterprise through its GUI?

Thanks
AP

Is there any way to access gnome without editing the simplestart file? I want to be sure it works before changing that file.

If you intend on using gnome/xfce fulltime instead of KDE. After doing the above, is it safe to remove kde completely so to free up some disk space?

Straylit Me wrote:

If you intend on using gnome/xfce fulltime instead of KDE. After doing the above, is it safe to remove kde completely so to free up some disk space?

i tried using "sudo apt-get remove kde" but it said no kde package. is there a way to get rid of the kde so it only has gnome on the eee to save space?