On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 16:43, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > 1. Her "Ameol" Windows program doesn't work under Wine. > > Try crossover office instead.
Cheaper to get her to drop Ameol :) > > 2. She uses putty, and she wants the mouse buttons to behave the same > > (centre marks, right pastes). > > Recompile? And re-write. Least practical at present... > To switch them for all X apps: man xmodmap, xmodmap -pp. Yup, got that one. > > 3. Browser fonts (she prefers Mozilla) are still awful. > > Well, one would need to know what she doesn't like. If you spend money, > you can get truckloads of type 1 fonts (and don't believe the rubbish > from some Linux folks about truetype beeing better quality). You could > copy the fonts she uses from windows, should look the same. > Antialiasing I thought was always turned on now. Yes, but font mapping still sux, apparently. As soon as there is some form of font management package she can use (fontdrake worked for her) I can leave her to sort it out. > > just putty. I also note that putty tends to come up with "garbled > > packet" errors a lot with Debian/testing. There is no putty for > > Debian/stable. > > Well, test a little ;) Ohboy. Been there... > putty is windows software, what does that have to do with linux? The > linux side of putty is called openssh. Actually, the Linux version of Putty is Putty. It was ported, and Debian's "apt-get install putty" installs it. It'd be nice if it was a wee bit more reliable though... Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
