What window manager?

[Tony Baechler]

I'm not running from a live CD.  If I wanted that, I would go with 
Ubuntu which boots up talking.

Alex Snow wrote:
> 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?
>>