note to self....

Well, it just gets weirder and weirder - GNOME (perhaps I should start calling it "The GNOME" or "the gnome", since its behaviour is becoming quite fae, and should probably be personified) for reasons yet to be understood, has left the desktop. Not only that, it appears to have taken with it.

My faithful FVWM has been the only available Window manager, but even sweet FVWM has lost her configuration files, so all I got was the default root window menu, where XTerm - the X-Windows Eye-Candy Messiah [Oh save us from our bloated gluttony of Widget-Bloat, oh beloved Spawn of the Xt Widget-set] - was the only room exit shown.

The "Exit FVWM" exit was a false door, since it looped back through a KDM that would only return to FVWM, completely ignoring any prayers and imprecations offered on the altar of the KDM Login Session Menu.

Where, or where, is that GDM I request all those weeks ago, and so painstakingly downloaded over the borrowed DSL connection? Gone, gone, gone away, it would seem. At least, it's not running, and I have yet to find the radio button that will entice it to leave it's dormant state and participate in the operation of the system.

So KDE4 is running now, having dropped to the console login, and started it form the command line.

posted by 0x0000  # 17:39