[Tfug] OK, XFCE on an older rig has lost it's mind...

[Jim March]

Ah.  OK, I unborked it.  CTRL-ALT-F2, got another text session with
login, did vi to change color depth back.

OK.  Now why in hell is XFCE got dead panels?

Jim

On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, well now I've borked it completely.  Like an idiot I tried
> setting color depth to "8" instead of "24" in xorg.conf to try and
> salvage video performance.  Oops.  Killed "X" deader'n'elvis.  And
> "rescue mode" is screwed too.
>
> Siiiigh.
>
> Screw it.  I'll load xubuntu alternate 7.10, see if that's more
> reliable than loading gnome ubuntu alternate and doing "sudo apt-get
> install xfce*" to get XFCE.  The latter trick boogered stuff up
> apparently.
>
> Grrrrrr.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 12:40 AM, Brian Murphy <murphy at coppershadow.com> wrote:
> > Jim March wrote:
> > > I'm rebuilding an old IBM Thinkpad "iSeries" Celeron 600 critter.  All
> > > of 192megs RAM and that appears to be peak (sigh). Trident video with
> > > wow, 4megs RAM!  (bleah)
> >
> > Sounds like a good candidate for fvwm95! :-)
> >
> > B
> >
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