Hi,
Thomas wrote:
You as experienced Users have no problem as you are trained in solving such
tasks. I really welcome the work of Ondrej to simplify the installation of the
necessary apps
for a working GNUstep environment. This targets a main problem for novice users
like me to begin starting writing something simple with Gorm/Projectcenter: the
pain in the a… installation with wmaker.
The gap of knowledge between you and new (unexperienced) users is big. Now for
instance I have the problem that my Keyboard (Logitech K120) works great with
XFCE (German mapping) but sucks under wmaker as the mapping doesn´t fit (can
not delete text backwards as on the Mac). When you search for information you
realize that the wmaker community is very small….. and I have no Idea, where
and how to change the Keyboard mapping….
Maybe it would be a good idea to include a little FAQ/main problems list of
wmaker on the GNUstep webpage ;-)……
This is strange, I use WindowMaker almost everywhere (alternative XFCE)
and I don't have an issue with delete backwards. i suppose you refer to
use Backspace vs. Delete ? Italian and German keyboard should be pretty
similar in this regard.
Your keyboard seems pretty standard. Never had particular issues if you
didn't customize things.
The only detail I usually change in WindowMaker is the windows grab
modifier, since it may interfere with dragging e.g. in Gorm.
Open WindowMaker preferences, section Mouse Preference and check the
"Mouse Grab Modifier".
By the way I enjoy to see that GWorkspace works under XFCE, not perfect but… as
a Mac User I love the column browser:-).
What I have to do that the shelf accepts shortcuts? Under Debian (AMD) +
wmaker 0.95.9 drag n drop doesn´t work.
:) I hope it is further improving, working quite a bit on it lately to
refine these things of typing, shortcuts and dragging.
What kind of shortcuts? I don't understand. Do you refer to the Tabbed
Shelf?
Riccardo
