Kaixo!
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:00:38PM +0200, Andre Steden wrote:
> where are the icons: printer, xkill, news, floppy and cdrom on the
> gnome desktop ??
Gnome works a bit differently than KDE.
floppy and cdrom should automatically be created by gmc on its first run.
print icon is the task of g-print package (a small Gnome app that does just
that: recognize drag and drop on the icon and send it to the printer)
So those are not included in mandrake_desk package.
> The Del key works as backspace with the gnome-terminal.
Open Settings -> Preferences dialog then check/uncheck the entry
"Swap DEL/Backspace".
The reason is that, for some obscure reason, the Linux kernel in console
mode doesn't send a BackSpace but a Delete with the BackSpace key.
But of course X11 (and other OS too, important to know when doing remote
login) send a BackSpace with that key.
Also, as text mode programs, to handle that BS-key-sending-Del problem,
became to treat Delete as BackSpace (that is: "delete previous char" action).
and bash, etc are configrured to delete previous char when receiving a ^?
Now; under X11 the key send a real BackSpace (that is ^H) and the programs
doesn't always react well on it.
Two solutions have been available so far:
* change console behaviour so that BackSpace key sends a BackSpace (^H) and
configure the programs to use that. Then no problem on X11 as nothing change
* make the xterms send a ^? so the programs work as in the console.
For doing that the keys BS and DEL are switched (that is BS sends ^? and
DEL sends ^H). Of course that is not wanted on systems configured to have
BS send ^H in console; nor it is wanted either on non-Linux systems;
so the xterms have that behaviour as a configurable option.
That is a legacy problem that has its roots on the beginnings of the Linux
history, and it is not easy to properly fix (that is have all programs
work with the same setting).
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> Andre Steden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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