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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.32 in qemu report/questions
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:47:39 +0000

An image or ISO of BL 3.4 would be nice to try out. How are you logging on
to AOL with Linux? I thought that was impossible!

-------------- Original message from James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>:
--------------


> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> >> I tried icewm, but it won't start: how come?
> >
> > Did you actually have X working before installing icewm?
>
> Yes. I now understand part of the problem was that the icewm menu was
> being pushed off the bottom of the screen (qemu window) because I reset
> resolution to 1024x768. The background color wasn't showing either,
> though. But that's a bit of a moot issue now since I've abandonded that
> 3.32 install, having upgraded it to 3.40 (mounted fs.img and basically
> copied everything to the qemu disk image I had made). On the "new" 3.40
> install I've done, icewm is working fine.
>
> I've also got BL booting with grub under qemu. I'm thinking of making a
> qemu image of BL3.4 and making that available for those who might wish to
> test BL (or use it for other nefarious purposes on machines that have some
> other more mainstream OS installed on them). Any interest in such a qemu
> image, anyone? I can also finally provide instructions for getting BL to
> boot using grub, as I promised to do a long time ago.
>
> >> Also, I see your icewm package installation routine overwrites
> >> .xinitrc -- which proved to be not a little problematic in my case,
> >> Wouldn't it be wiser for the routine to save the current .xinitrc
> >> as .xinitrc.swm or .xinitrc.bak rather than just to overwrite it?
> >
> > It does! The old .xinitrc is called .xinitrc~
>
> In root's directory? I don't see it there, though I do see .xinitrc (so I
> can view hidden files). Wonder what happened?
>
> >> I've also installed Abiword, but I cannot get it to start
> >> from the CLI (can't open the display 0.0).
> >
> > It doesn't run from the CLI. It runs from X.
>
> Actually, I meant from the CLI in an xterm. Maybe my terminology was off?
> Anyway, it would not start under that 3.32 install I did. But under the
> new 3.4 install, it does run when abiword is issued from the xterm, as it
> also runs from the icewm menu.
>
> One other thing I've noted: naim is not logging me in. I get prompted for
> a password after I enter my user name, but it never finishes
> authenticating. That naim is actually an older version, and there were
> some problems getting older versions to get and stay online, since AOL
> performed some changes to their network. Perhaps the newer version of
> naim (0.11.8) would work where this one fails? Wanna make another attempt
> at compiling it, David?
>
> I'll try and get to Opera soon, if I can continue to devote some time to
> this project.
>
> James
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