On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 07:49:42 -0500 (CDT) Dave Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used KDE since it first appeared until this week. I changed to > blackbox because I wanted a less heavy, more responsive desktop. I had a > problem getting it started, but once I got it (>startx blackbox) it has > worked flawlessly. I don't really miss KDE, well I did use KMail and liked > it a lot, but PINE works fine, too. > > I've seen your posts and cannot figure out why blackbox is dying. Could > this be caused by some app you use? Under KDE if I kept abiword up for > over 36 hours it caused all of the windowing decorations on all of the > windows and the desktop of KDE itself to simply disappear. Killing X and > restarting resolved the issue, but it does show that an app can cause a > problem across supposed "boundaries". (I have not had this problem with > blackbox, BTW.) > > Blackbox seems to be more stable than KDE in my working environment, which > I admit is fairly simple- emacs, pine, lynx, abiword. I do miss a > spreadsheet (KSpread was what I was using), but my wife is giving me a > login on one of her NT boxes so I can move the one spreadsheet I have to > Excel. > > I'd suggest starting simple with blackbox and adding one app at a time > until the desired (er, undesired) result appeared, then backtracking from > there. Hey Dave, Thanks for your response, but I have tried that. I had been using Blackbox as my only desktop for quite some time, and I was quite happy with it. But now that I am in Mandrake 9.0, it doesn't like me. I have been corresponding with Sean, and trying some debugging stuff, but I am not sure he knows what is happening. I can only hope that sometime soon I'll be able to switch back. Oh well, KDE 3 is set up nicely at the moment, and it is MUCH faster and more responsive than KDE 2 ever was. So I'll suffer with it for now. Talk to you later! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
