[sf-lug] Debian install without a desktop

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What do you get after doing the following...
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$sudo apt-get update


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$sudo apt-get upgrade


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$sudo apt-get install fluxbox


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$reboot


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$aptitude search fluxbox


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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:36 PM Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> I've finally begun again attempting to set up Debian without a window
> manager with plans to install Fluxbox afterwards.
> I did the basic install but toggled (off) the option to install a desk
> top and all seemed to go well until after the reboot.
> That left me in a state where there was a flashing cursor in the top
> left corner of the screen but no key board input was recognized.
> I tried Alt-F1, .... Alt-F6 and even Alt-F7 but to no avail.
>
> I then re-did the install all over but this time left the top asterix
> ('*') in place as shown here:
> {*] Debian desktop environment  # I deleted the asterix on this line the
> first time.
> [ ] ... GNOME
> [ ] ... Xfce
> [ ] ... KDE Plasma
> [ ] ... Cinnamon
> [ ] ... MATE
> [ ] ... LXDE
> [ ] ... LXQt
>
> I've now got a system running and I was happy with it until discovering
> that "copy/paste" doesn't work, at least not from one 'window' to
> another. For example, when I have two instances of Xterm on my screen at
> the same time I can't copy from one and paste into the other- at least
> not using right click highlighting and then left click copy and then
> 'moving' to the other terminal left click cursor positioning and right
> click pasting.
>
> $ ls /usr/share/xsessions
> => gnome-classic.desktop gnome.desktop gnome-xorg.desktop
>
> So I guess Gnome got installed by default.
> It surprises me that gnome doesn't provide the copy/paste feature.
>
> If I do ever figure out how to get Fluxbox working without any of the
> desktop environments listed, would I have the copy/paste capability
> (that I'd not want to be without?)
>
> Grateful for any advice/suggestion offered, as always.
>
> a
>
>
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> Alex Kleider
> (sent from my current gizmo)
>
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