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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:38:48 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >> Which version of BL3 are you using?  Versions prior to 3.30
> >> had a 16mb fs.img.  This was increased to 20mb in 3.30.
> >
> >   I installed BL31 (20 MB) ad installed AbiWord.
> > That filled the 20 MB and was not even a complete install.
> > I don't think 20 MB is going to be enough for BL31.
> 
> 
> Do you mean you installed BL3.31? 

    Well, that IS the latest one.    Isn't it ?    :)

> I think Steven said previous versions 
> would not work at all with Abiword.  And he also thought people would not 
> be installing Abiword to the loop version but first install BL to hard 
> drive.

    I must have missed that.
 
> Icewm is something that goes on top of Xvesa, not a replacement.
> You can use Xvesa in BL2.  Download and install the xvesa.tgz package from 
> delilinux and then type (as root - or first chmod +s Xvesa)
> 
> xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 800x600x16
> 
> The above works in BL2 or BL3 (unless I goofed on some detail).
> 
> The -screen part is optional, but without it you get plain VGA and some X 
> programs won't work with that (Opera 7, Abiword, flwriter).

    er ...   Are we talking at cross-purposes here ?   I was discussing the 
latest BL3.

    I already have a perfectly working BL2, which is already running AbiWord, 
and can 
do so from icewm, Gnome, Enlightenment and KDE - all functioning well, along 
with a 
handfull of other windows managers.
 
> Xvesa is an X server like xvga or xs3.
> Icewm and swm are window managers.  You can use X without them.

    Uh-huh !   I know that.    :)

Regards,
        Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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