off-topic: Just how the heck does one use gnome/gnopernicus

[Alex Snow]

I remember listening to that series on acbradio, and gnopernicus never 
worked as well for me as it did in that series.  Even trying it with 
the latest version as recently as a year or so ago.  So I guess your 
milage varies.
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:44:57PM -0700, Gregory Nowak 
wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:36:43PM -0400, Joshua Lambert wrote:
> > Here is how I launch gnopernicus from a text console.
> > xinit gnopernicus
> 
> I haven't used gnopernicus/gnome in 2 years or more now, so all I'm
> about to write stands to be corrected. If you don't want to be
> potentially confused/misinformed, use your delete key now.
> 
> You need to launch gnopernicus from within gnome itself. This means
> actually being in gnome, and running gnopernicus from the gnome
> desktop, not from the text console. I believe the run command is
> alt+f2, but I don't remember for sure. If I'm correct, you want to do
> something like pressing alt+f2, typing /usr/bin/gnopernicus, followed by
> the enter key to launch gnopernicus. Beyond that, I don't remember
> much.
> 
> Back when gnopernicus first came out, Mark Mulkayhe (spelling) did a
> series on acb radios main menu, taking you through the basics of using
> it with some applications, along with teaching some gnome/x basics. I
> don't know how much of that is still relevant today, but if you're not
> up for going through the docs, you might want to find that, and give
> it a listen as a starting point. Hth somewhat.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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