[luau] Lost my Desktop

[Robert Hershberger]

Ray Strode wrote:

>> The owner is 'hersh', the group is 'users'.
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>> users is a group I set up for my network then made as everyone's 
>> default. chown'ing the /tmp/orbit-hersh/ directory and contents does 
>> not solve the problem either. 
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> hmmm.. very odd...
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>> I never have had any luck with upgrading, I always hit some 
>> dependancy problem (ok except for the very rare occassion) and can't 
>> proceed. Though I would like to try the Ximian desktop... 
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> I haven't used the Ximian desktop in a long time, but IIRC you can use:
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> lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh
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> (From a super user logged into to X)
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> Doesn't work for you?  Have you tried the latest vendor packages?  
> What distribution
> are you running?  An old version of RedHat?
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No that doesn't work for me (unfortunately),  but I have a proxy set up 
so lynx doesn't work.  How do I set up lynx to talk to the proxy 
machine?  TIA

Robert