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I think I'll have to try Slackware in the future. I like the system itself but I don't like the desktop environments. It's not just about personal preference, it's also a functionality issue. So I guess I'll return to Debian for now and try Slackware again in the future when KDE 4 is a little more reliable. Thanks for all the help.
Ewwwwww... Slack w/ Gnome? That's just... just... not normal.
Just kidding. I ran Slack with Dropline Gnome years ago. It was pretty cool.
If the OP ever wants to run Gnome for Slackware then I suggest that he/she gives GSB (gnomeslackbuild) a try as it is the least intrusive version of Gnome for Slackware that I have ever run, that is, it does not replace that many standard Slackware files. I have tried Dropline, but, in my opinion I think GSB is superior.
I think I'll have to try Slackware in the future. I like the system itself but I don't like the desktop environments. It's not just about personal preference, it's also a functionality issue. So I guess I'll return to Debian for now and try Slackware again in the future when KDE 4 is a little more reliable. Thanks for all the help.
Walang anuman (your welcome).
HeHe, sort of my feeling with Debian. I've got it setup in a VM, but Slackware is my main. When Slackware lost GNOME, I absolutely hated KDE. Went with GNOME on my own. Try XFCE for awhile. Went I went 13.0 and 64-bit, I gave KDE another shot. It's what I use now (KDE 4.5.5). Got used to it. Works well enough for me.
Sorry to see ya drop Slackware so soon, but what the heck, you spent more time on it than I did Debian.
I just seemed to be having nothing but problems from KDE. If I could get past those I think I could learn to adjust with other things I don't like that much. I think it's just a bad time for me to be trying anything though, I'd had terrible luck lately. I've tried installing Debian a few times today. Twice I've run into corrupt files and the one time I actually did manage to install Debian I couldn't access the internet for some reason. I didn't even have this much trouble when I was a complete newb to linux.
As I said yesterday, Debian was annoying me, I was having no luck with it at all. On a whim I decided to try out Gnome Slackbuilds. Well I haven't installed it yet but KDE hasn't been annoying me yet. This time it actually read the correct sizes of folders and transfered everything when I brought stuff over from my external hard drive. Well, except for one folder. For some reason as far as it's concerned one folder has nothing in it and it brings nothing over. I'll see if I can figure that one out later, maybe I'll boot into XFCE and see if I can bring it over through it. I have a couple of questions though.
1. When installing Slackware it asked me to set up a point for my Windows partition to be mounted. I just called the mount point /NTFS. It's auto-mounted at boot but I had set it so that only root could access it. I figured I could give my root password when I wanted to access it as a normal user but that doesn't seem to be the case, when trying to open the directory it just says that it can't open. I know everything is okay as I used the cd command to get into it as root and everything is indeed there. So how can I open it as a normal user?
2. I'd like to install Webcore fonts. It seems that I must symlink one of the files into conf.d. Could anyone enlighten me how to symlink or even post a tutorial? I've taken a look at the man page but I don't quite understand it.
I'd like to install Webcore fonts. It seems that I must symlink one of the files into conf.d. Could anyone enlighten me how to symlink or even post a tutorial? I've taken a look at the man page but I don't quite understand it.
Don't symlink the files. They're both completely optional. I don't use them. (And I am the maintainer of that SlackBuild).
As for how to symlink, you use the ln command. See here:
I may install it later if I continue to run into bugs in KDE or just can't get used to it.
That one folder that KDE was having problems transferring for some reason had no problems when I did it in XFCE. I think things are fine now, I shouldn't be assaulting anyone with questions anymore. I do have one minor question I was saving until the important ones had been answered. When I'm loading Slackware, the Tux logo is messed up. There are two Tux's sitting next to one another, and are discolored. Why would that be?
Again, I thank you all for all the help you've given me.
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