chattr +a -V

Following up on my posting Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog on an hpze4800, I've ftp'd my .xinitrc and .fvwm2rc (X window startup and fvwm configuration files, respectively) from my desktop, stopped the gnome display manager from starting on boot by removing the /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm symlink (runlevel 2 being Debian's default runlevel as opposed to 3 in other Linux distros), giving me a text login.

I used apt-get for some additional packages, such as

• kjots,
• Midnight Commander file manager,
• rxvt (for xclock: though the xbase-clients package is supposed to include xclock, `which xclock` didn't return anything -- remember to use the -norender switch if you want colored hands or highlights),
• qiv (for displaying a jpg as the root window background),
• multi-gnome-terminal (tabbed terms, yay),
• and because the fonts in use on my desktop look crappy on the laptop, dfontmgr to get the X-Fontname for registered fonts (for whatever reason, xfontsel from xbase-clients didn't pick up the installed urw foundry fonts)
• and xosview, which displays some of the same system info which gkrellm handles, but differently (plus I'm used to it and because I'm familiar with it, I can immediately spot conditions).

So, the laptop running X looks like this now:



gkrellm, xosview, the Toolbox SGI-ish button bar, the IRIX-like pager for multiple desktops and the window list are all 'sticky' (displaying in every desktop).