What window manager?

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

I'm totally new to X and I have no idea what I'm doing.  I am running 
grml 1.1rc1 and a 1.70 GHZ processor with 256 MB of RAM.  I did 
"aptitude install gnome-orca" and it installed a bunch of things.  I ran 
the Orca setup and it talked.  What else do I need to do to start Gnome 
with speech?  There is no program called gnome on my system.  I tried 
"startx" but it just sits there and puts me on tty7 with no text.  I 
tried grml-x to set up X and it wants to know what window manager to 
use.  I tried putting in gnome but it couldn't find it.  I finally 
randomly picked fluxbox but nothing.  I tried again with openbox but 
still nothing.  What do I need to do?  What else do I need to install?  
What window manager should I use?  If there's a web page somewhere I 
should be reading, please point me to it.  I can run startx and it shows 
a bunch of startup messages with some warnings but that's it except 
switching me to tty7.  I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do.  If I 
just run orca by itself after I run startx, I get an error that the 
display environment is not set.  Any help is appreciated.  Does it 
matter what window manager I pick?