On Monday 13 August 2001 14:17, Dave Burrows wrote: > Right you are, of course; it's a Pentium 133 not a Celeron 133. > > The rest of what you write about will take some time to sort through as > I am using Gnome and not KDE. > > Thanks, Civilme, > > Dave > > On Monday 13 August 2001 19:41, civileme wrote: > > On Monday 13 August 2001 12:02, Dave Burrows wrote: > > > Running L-M 8.0, Celeron 133, 64MB RAM; using Gnome/Enlightenment > > > (yes, it's all very slow and so on but hey, the machine was free > > > and it's what I could afford.. it'll let me learn some fundamentals > > > as I build a better box for L-M) > > > > > > Description of issue: When certain apps are open (for example, KDE > > > Mail, Mozilla), if I move the curser to the right edge of the > > > screen, the screen I'm wanting to use slides all the way left > > > exposing my desktop and it's a nuissance to get it back on task > > > again. > > > > > > Question: How can I prevent this from happening? > > > > > > Thanks in advance for your response, > > > > > > Dave > > > > Well, first you can show me a Celeron 133--I've never seen one of > > those;-) > > > > Usually in KDE there will be a preferences or config setting that > > causes you to go to the next window when the mouse approaches the > > edge of the current one and there is a desktop in that direction. > > > > You should be able to turn it off (how you got it on is an > > interesting question, because it is default off. > > > > If you cannot turn it off, set the number of desktops to 1 and it > > won't happen any more. > > > > The turn-off should be on the menu path Configuration=>KDE It will > > be called something like Windows wrap. > > > > > > Civileme > > Sorry, from your original message the logical assumption is that you are using KDE because you say so. OK it is a preference in GNOME. Again, look at the configuration files. Civileme
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