problems using gnopernicus

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

I appear to have everything installed and configured but I'm having 
problems. With startx, I don't even know if I'm getting as far as 
gnopernicus. if i hit alt+f2 it beeps at me; I can type ok after that but 
not sure anything happens. However, I can start gdm as root and then log 
in as chomiak after the beep. then i do get speech and it says the braille 
device can not be initialized and says it's creating windows. Where I 
usually end up appears to be icons of stuff in my home directory, though I 
also can end up in something that says "menu: pushbutton available". I see 
no way to get into preferences, plus which of course starting gdm as root 
isn't really the proper way to do things. Also, I'm stuck with a bunch of 
things unkilled when I get out of there since I see no logout button. Once 
when I tried to start gdm and apparently it was already running, I did get 
braille asking me whether or not I wanted to try opening on another 
console with Yes/No choices, but I'm assuming that was not actually within 
X so was just using brltty in text console. Btw, if i run startx and then 
go into another console and try to start gnopernicus, i get errors about 
can not open display.


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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."