Thanks for the tips! I'll take a look--
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> On Son, 21 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 21 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie:
> > [snipped]
> > First: How do I get KDE to use a Dvorak keyboard layout? It works fine at the
> > command prompt before I start X, but not in anything in KDE, including kvt
> > windows. I use the Dvorak keyboard almost exclusively and I really can't switch
> > to Linux unless I can get it to work all the time. This is one place where Red
> > Hat 5.2 is better than Mandrake 5.3--it works in X as well as the command
> > prompt.
>
> Some Nicholas Leipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recently asked this at the kde-user
> mailing list. Maybe you should contact him, if he has got a solution for this
> already.
>
>
> > Second: How can I get the kfm to work more like the Win9x Explorer? I know that
> > may be heresy, but I'm used to some luxuries like being able to hit Win-E to
> > open an Explorer window at the root dir (and I'm sure I'm not the only one). I
> > would love to be able to do the same sort of thing in KDE. Failing a keyboard
> > shortcut, I would like to be able to put it on the toolbar so one click will
> > open a window of the root dir. The other part is that I would like to have the
> > tree and long views open by default. I went into the configuration and didn't
> > see an obvious way to set that up.
>
> There is an app called kexplorer which mimicks the behaviour of that MS one
> quite good. You can get it at:
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/multimedia/cdrom/kexplorer-0.1.tar.gz
> As for the key bindings, I remember there was a thread recently on
> comp.windows.x.kde. Maybe a search on dejanews (www.dejanews.com) will wield
> some results.
>
>
> > Third: How do I copy/cut and paste between apps? I have been mostly
> using KDE
> > apps for everything because open windows are saved between
> sessions, even after
> > a rare crash (I LOVE that!!!) but sometimes I want to
> use Netscape and I want to
> > copy a URL from the KDE browser to Netscape. I
> copy it, and it shows up on the
> > clipboard list but it won't paste into Netscape
>
> It does: mark the URL in kfm with your mouse and then click with the middle
> mouse button in the 'go to'-panel of Netscape.
>
> >[snip]
> > All in all, I think Linux Mandrake is incredible...the stability
> > and versatility are awesome. KDE takes the concept behind Win98 and takes it
> > to a higher level. Thank you to everyone involved, and thank you in advance to
> > anybody that can answer my questions or at least tell me where to look!
> >
>
> Same here ;-)
>
> > --walker.
>
> tom