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

[Jim March]

Well I just fixed XFCE's panels :).

Solution: do an ALT-F2 and enter "xfce4-panel &" no quotes.  That
brings up panels - at least until next reboot.  Under
Settings>SessionsAndStartup select "save session on logout".  Logout.
Log back in and prestobingo, panels work.  Then DE-select "save
session on logout" so the user doesn't bork everything themselves :).

As to OpenBSD, I don't doubt you.

Thing is...I've got more app support in Ubuntu (as you say,
synaptic/apt-get ROCKS).  Ubuntu is what I personally use, and...I'm
trying to flat-out master it and do all my user support in it, at
least as much as I can.  You know?  I'm just over a year into this
Linux adventure, I'm learning a lot, I'm at a point where I can
support newbie users.

Barely.

If I stick with basically one system I'll be in better shape, y'know?
I can test stuff on my own box...and I just have the one :).

So for now, I'm not going to delve into anything else.

Jim

On Nov 13, 2007 1:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
> Do not be angry at me for this comment but that computer would love
> OpenBSD (and this is comming from
> the mouth of primarelly FreeBSD user)
> Complete installation with X would be less then 600Mb + OpenBox
> + XFce-panel and fah for wall paper +
> application you need 1-2Gb. No FreeBSD ports just pkg_add utility to add
> pre-compiled OpenBSD binaries.
> It would take me 2-3 hours to load the crap and it would fly like a bird.
> Couple times I did that for my friend they thought they have a new
> computer.
>
> Speaking of Ubuntu I installed just as a joke 7.10 on an older PIII 650Gz,
> 312Mb ram and 10G hard.
> It really did work out of box 100% and very efficient. I really liked
> Sinaptic installer. It is an ideal
> grand-mother distro. I could not believe Opera is not a standard package.
>
> Good Luck
> Predrag
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:14:33 -0700, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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