A Couple of Incoherent Questions

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:27:02AM -0500, Brian K. Garel wrote:
> OK...Bare with me here...this probably isn't going to make much sense
> but I'll try.
> 
> I have been away from Linux for a while now using Windoze everything.
> Recently I scored myself a nice little laptop (older but I like it)
> Anyway, I found on the net the live distribution of Linux called DSL  I
> thought it was very cool and played with it for a while.  Eventually I
> started wanting more from my little linux box so I installed Fedora Core
> 2.  Missing parts of my DSL installation I decided to install the
> Fluxbox window manager which I think is a really neat little manager.
> In the DSL version there was a utility called Slit which kind of
> reminded me of GKrellm.  Question 1.  How do you get the thing working
> in Fedora?  Everything I've read says that it should just be there and
> be happy but I haven't seen it yet.  Question 2.  Does anyone know how
> to include desktop icons on fluxbox?  There was a utility that I
> downloaded from http://www.arny.org which I tried to install but it told
> me that one of the dependencies was Xlib (described in the error message
> as the X Windows Libraries) anyway, when I checked this out further
> apparently (from my limited understanding of the universe) X windows is
> now different than Xorg or something like that???????  Can someone
> please shed some light on this subject as I'm starting to lose my mind.
> 
> 
> Once I have this all figured out then I'll ask you about the stupid
> little Lucent Win Modem that I have in this thing!  ;)

Why is your message full of ^M's at the end of each line?  Is this sent
from a broken dos editor mail program? :)

I haven't actually heard of DSL before, and it seems like a bad name
choice, since any search for it by name will turn up 100x more
completely unrelated information.

Oh and it would have been easier to read if you had made a paragraph per
question too.

Lennart Sorensen
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