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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>: 
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> 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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