On Sunday 20 July 2008, Jack Chastain wrote: > Greetings to the list. > > I am a new member, live just south of the Orange/Ulster line not all that > far from New Paltz. I am a Unix SA familiar with Solaris and have just > started really getting involved with Linux. > > I could sure use some help :-) > > I am using Kubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad imported from overseas. Nothing > terribly odd with it other than some of the keys don't quite have a > familiar marking - problem easily solved with a seperate keyboard and > mouse. In all, I am very impressed with what I have so far.
Concerning the laptop keyboard -- if you have multimedia keys, I was able to get the multimedia keys on an IBM Thinkpad working by a) setting the keyboard laytout in the Control Center under "Regional & Accessibility" -> "Keyboard Layout", and b) by installing KMilo to control what program to run for certain keypresses. Unfortunately for some reason I can only get ONE step in volume control with kernel 2.6.26 so far, but it works as expected with 2.6.24. > I would like to start thinking about doing some programming work (in a > language or languages as yet undefined) on the system and initially > installed KDevelop. Have a few problems there and if anyone would care to > share some experience regarding initial setup of that system, it would be > well received. I tried KDevelop and found it confusing and "heavy", and ended up using either Kate, or the Nano command-line editor after copying /etc/nanorc to ~/.nanorc and uncommenting the desired colorization regex sets near the end of the config file. > Looking forward to meeting some folks at the August meeting. Maybe by then, > I will understand a bit more about what I am doing! It takes time. Have fun, and see you in August. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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