RE: Getting KDE stuff off root (was Can't use GUI as root)
Tried that among other things. Got me half way there with KDE3.1.* but still crashed on certain operations. In 3.2.*, Kmail will always crash. On Tuesday 06 April 2004 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to coax KDE into letting me simply move everything to another login Add your user to the appropriate groups and it will have the necessary privileges. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE stuff
My girlfriend insists on a graphical mail client so I thought kmail would be good for her. Should I just update my sources.list? Im not familiar with all the addressess and apt-get commands... Tia -Ethan -- "Linux is like a WigWam - No Windows, No Gates, and Apache inside." Have you had your Debian Today? Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: KDE stuff
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:52:08AM -0500, Ethan Pierce wrote : My girlfriend insists on a graphical mail client so I thought kmail would be good for her. Should I just update my sources.list? Im not familiar with all the addressess and apt-get commands... Just add the following line to sources.list deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian/ unstable kde2 contrib do 'dselect update' and then 'apt-get install task-kde'. kind regards, Markus -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0 - Free Software For A Free World -
KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)
I want to get right into customising this thing (currently ranked as newbie). So I installed the Afterstep desktop instead of KDE. Kinda nice, in many ways. But I miss some of the nice little apps from my Corel KDE stuff. I've found that I can fire up the file browser by executing CorelExplorer. But it lets me look at files but not, for example, open them. And I cannot, for the life of me, work out where to find all the little KDE things I was using. So: how do I go about getting them to run under Afterstep. And also, I was hoping that those who have tried a bunch of different desktops would summarise why you settled on the desktop you prefer. Advantages and disadvantages of the varoius desktops you've tried. TIA
Re: KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: guyren I've found that I can fire up the file browser by executing CorelExplorer. guyren But it lets me look at files but not, for example, open them. I believe corel hacked up KDE 1.1.2 and included some KDE 2 stuff in it so file associations worked..dont know if you can open them by clicking on htem or not ..i would doubt it, corel didnt seem to go through much trouble to make sure anything else but kde worked the way they wanted it to. guyren And I cannot, for the life of me, work out where to find all the little KDE guyren things I was using. if your talking about the KDE apps in the K menu, view the properties of the entries in the K menu, they are usually stored in /usr/share/kde/applnk corel may have it somewhere else though. guyren So: how do I go about getting them to run under Afterstep. if your runnig corel chances are you probably have to make your own menu. debian's packages come with a script that automatically adds them to the default menus of all the window managers. guyren And also, I was hoping that those who have tried a bunch of different guyren desktops would summarise why you settled on the desktop you prefer. guyren Advantages and disadvantages of the varoius desktops you've tried. fvwm95 - simple, small lightweight WM, good for machines with low(but not real low) memory E - thick, big, pretty WM, ive seen it consume up to 230MB of memory on this SuSE 6.3 box next to me though(forgot which version it has installed) KDE - nice integrated desktop, somewhat stable, kind of slow, memory hog/resource hog as well. GNOME - havent had much experience with this one, but it looks like KDE with more features, i'd think its less stable as its a younger system then KDE by about a year, but i can't say for certain 4DWm - typically available on SGI/IRIX machines this X desktop is pretty bland, but it gets the job done..barely afterstep - my desktop of choice, the window management in afterstep is incredible, i love how it behaves, you can drag windows behind other windows without bringing them foreward, you can drag windows to other desktops, you can instantly send a window to another desktop, you can minimize to the title bar(like the mac, never thought id use that feature when i saw it on the mac but i use it often now) and its VERY stable, im running the latest stable distribution of it(self compiled) the dock is great too lots of useful system monitoring utilities. i really didn't like how KDE handled multiple desktops, e.g. when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen it ends up on the edge of the next screen, causing (me at least) to be switching 3-4 desktops before i see whats going on, there is an option to center the cursor when the desktop changes but that throws me off for a second too. i was a beta tester for corel and wasnt all that impressed with it..had some nice features...good for newbies i guess id never really use it though. nice of them to send me a free copy of deluxe though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:10am up 147 days, 19:11, 1 user, load average: 0.72, 0.48, 0.41
Re: KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: ... guyren And I cannot, for the life of me, work out where to find all the little KDE guyren things I was using. if your talking about the KDE apps in the K menu, view the properties of the entries in the K menu, they are usually stored in /usr/share/kde/applnk corel may have it somewhere else though. That dir leads to *.kdelnk files, does afterstep understand them? You will probably need to start the progs you want from a term window. guyren So: how do I go about getting them to run under Afterstep. if your runnig corel chances are you probably have to make your own menu. debian's packages come with a script that automatically adds them to the default menus of all the window managers. guyren And also, I was hoping that those who have tried a bunch of different guyren desktops would summarise why you settled on the desktop you prefer. guyren Advantages and disadvantages of the varoius desktops you've tried. afterstep - my desktop of choice, the window management in afterstep is incredible, i love how it behaves, you can drag windows behind other windows without bringing them foreward, you can drag windows to other desktops, you can instantly send a window to another desktop, you can minimize to the title bar(like the mac, never thought id use that feature Double click on the title bar to achieve this with KDE, if it doesn't work then snoop around the KDE Control Center to find where to enable the behaviour (they call it shading). when i saw it on the mac but i use it often now) and its VERY stable, im running the latest stable distribution of it(self compiled) the dock is great too lots of useful system monitoring utilities. i really didn't like how KDE handled multiple desktops, e.g. when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen it ends up on the edge of the next screen, causing (me at least) to be switching 3-4 desktops before i see whats going on, This bit is configurable in KDE, you must have had electric borders(?) turned on with a really small delay. there is an option to center the cursor when the desktop changes but that throws me off for a second too. KDE handles all this stuff you say afterset does (maybe not the first one you mentioned, but then I've never turned off the auto-raise option and tried it). I'd say that look'n'feel has more to do with ones wm preferences than features (as long as it does what you need, of course). - Bruce
