On Monday 11 May 2009 11:40 pm, David Kaiser wrote: > I did this command: > sudo apt-get -fu install kalarm > followed by entering my password; > followed by pressing enter at the [Y/n] prompt > > Kalarm works. I set an alarm, put it 2 minutes into the future. > Watched the news for a couple of minutes. Alarm popped up to let me > know that it worked. > > Total time to install? 108 seconds. Including download time (but it > is a FIOS connection - it might actually take you 400 seconds or more > with standard 1.5Mbit DSL) > > An issue far more serious than doing the piece of cake installation > is that the window manager didn't put decoration on the window, so i > had to hold the ALT key when dragging the window around with the > mouse. I can do that easily enough, and I can access the context > menu with Alt+Space so i can minimize and maximize, and resize the > window - but really this is not functional from a user interaction > standpoint. Does anyone know how to force the gnome window manager > to decorate kde application windows?
As I thought I'd written, that's exactly what happened to me. And I didn't know, and couldn't figure out, the alt-key tricks. Thanks! Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
