Hi Chris, thanks for the responses. I've listed my comments under yours,
see below.
There was one problem I forgot to mention. On the first reboot after
installing KDE2, it stuffs the fixed width font. Luckily I have a backup of
all the fonts and was able to put them back, but still annoying. Wouldn't
go into X at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 July 2000 1:49
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Cooker] KDE 2
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Alex Boag-Munroe wrote:
> Installed KDE 2 over the weekend, and, I must say, look out Windoze. IE
was
> my favourite browser until I saw Konqueror. Nice innit?
-Hey... That's what I like to hear! Do I have to read further?
>
> 1. I cannot run simple things like XKill. Just says it can't run it. If
I
> type it in at the command prompt, it works fine. Likewise with Drakconf.
> ???
I will look into it and see if it is fixable (packaging) or if it is a bug
(kde2 developers)
>
> 2. kdesu doesn't kick in. If something requiring root is run, it just
> complains that it can't run it.
>
Known issue. I've seen a bug open on this one at bugs.kde.org
> 3. After a couple of logins, not only do I have the KDE 2 menu items on
the
> K Menu (Start menu type thing, u know), but all my KDE 1 menu items appear
> too. And yes, u guessed it, I can't run any of them.
>
Did you install the kde2and1scripts package? It should have a KDEHOME
variable that creates a .kde2 directory in you ~/ dir. Can you check and
let me know?
--Yes I did install the scripts package. Those items are there.
> 4. When I install KDE1and2scripts, it makes the relevant changes to the
> windowmanagers file, but the changes do not appear on the menu at the
login
> screen UNTIL I add them in using the login manager.
>
Or until you reboot.
> And last, but not least
>
> 5. After a program error, or hang, and I restart X, all the desktop icons
> disappear. Only after I delete the .kde2 folder from my home dir can I
get
> them back. Oh, yeah, one last thing. Some sites look weird under
> Konqueror. Look at the left and right panes on www.mandrakeuser.org for
an
> example. Pay particular attention to the subscription text box on the
right
> hand side.
The deleting of the .kde2 dir should be un-nessasary, can you send me you
.bashrc and your /etc/X11/window-managers files? Also, take a look in your
/etc/profile.d directory and make sure that there are no kde2.* files? And
please send me the kde files that are there as well?
I ssuspect you may be a victim of an old package that wasn't
correct. (been fixed now).
>
> It still looks lovely tho.
-Chris
