What window manager?

[Alex Snow]

running gnome from a live cd is going to be a bit painful, unless you 
have a really fast cd-rom (at least 48x) and a reasonably fast 
processor.
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:05:48AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
> 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?
> 
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