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I have it installed on a VM but can't seem to get Cinnamon running properly. Haven't messed with it too much but I was wondering what Desktop/Window Manager you installed to get to the point where you could use a "modern graphical web browser"?

I'm not picky and I just kind of randomly picked cinnamon during the install. Then Tasksel failed so when I restarted that part of the install I left the Desktop stuff out and everything worked fine. Once booted up I used aptitude to grab it, updated xinitrc to launch cinnamon-session but when I ran startx (after fiddling with enabling the hurd console that is) I was greeted with "Cinnamon Session Failed".

Anyway, I don't have a ton of time to mess with it but I'd like to try some options and see what I can get working. Any insight you have is appreciated!

Edit: When I said VM above, I mean VirtualBox if that matters...




I used fluxbox as the window manager. I simply installed iceweasel, xinit, xterm and fluxbox, ran startx and had working environment.




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