On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 21:43, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All.
> 
>   Some problems with 9.0 
> 
> 1.  On a total of 6 different boxes whenever the cursor is over the
> "open" areas of the desktop.  I always get a clock Icon. As soon as it
> goes back over an application it seems to work just fine.  Annoying but
> not problematic.
> 

Not that this is a fix, but I've seen this whenever running
KDE-influenced apps without the KDE DCOP server running... it gets all
confused. It's happened once or twice on 9.0, but not as much as it used
to.

> 2.  In 1024x768 mode you can't have 1 background per desktop in kde
> (havent tested the others you'll see why in a sec.).  Larger modes the
> background will refresh but in 1024x768 it won't .(Most noticeable on my
> laptop since thats the largest it will do) Smaller has the same
> problems. 
> 

Whuh? You mean the first backdrop is the only one you get? How about if
you don't do backdrop pictures and just do colors, does it still act
wrong?

> 3.  I can't use anything but kde! on my laptop. and desktops.  Oh I can
> log into by favorite ... WindowMaker.  but it can't load the mandrake
> menu system.... doesn't do much good to have a desktop without a menu.
> Gnome has trouble saving to the home directory some of the settings and
> it seems to be breeding Icons as well. xcfe and fvmm also have problems
> loading the mandrake menu.
> 

Now this is sad... we should pass a hat :-) I know I get all upset if
XFce quits working and I have to log into KDE, make some phone calls,
take a walk, my goodness hasn't it started yet? Anyway, XFce has modules
which pick up the menu from GNOME or KDE when starting, so that would
fix your problem. Not sure if similar exists under wmaker, but if you're
really desparate I suppose parsing /usr/lib/menu/* is an option.

> 4.  On my laptop only (Compaq Armada M700 with a Lynksis 10/100
> Etherfast PCMCIA Nic) the ssh connections are slow as molasys.  Web
> surfing ftp etc happens at normal speed. (even over the net, on cable
> here) but when ssh'd into a server on my LAN or any of a number of other
> ones I've been on it's like packets get transmitted in bursts. Then for
> a few seconds it's normal then back to the slowdown.
> 

Could there be traffic shaping going on? Shorewall's default config
helps ssh rather than hindering it, but it could have been tinkered
with. Really though, that sounds like a network issue -- I'd expect that
there's a switch between point a and b which has a misconfigured port.

> Thoughts .... questions..... pointed fingers and hysterical laughter? :)
> 
> James
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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