On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:19, Charles A. Punch wrote:
> nkey wrote:
> > im just now beginning to run GNOME (was using KDE) and id like to change
> > the color of my fonts on my desktop but cannot find an option anywhere to
> > let me change this!
> >
> > GACK!
> >
> > is it possible to do so?
> > thanks!
> >
> > im using Sawfish and also letting Nautilus draw my desktop. so im not
> > sure whats up. if i turn off that nautilus feature, my text goes from
> > white ot black, but i cant seem to get any other text colors on my
> > desktop.
> >
> > luke
>
> I have been using mainly KDE, but every once in a while I try GNOME. It
> seems that I always get a kind of bleed through effect. Sometimes when I
> am in KDE the desktop icons from GNOME will bleed through and vice
> versa. I do use GNOME programs in KDE and vice versa. I am wondering if
> this has anything to do with it. It doesn't seem to crash anything but
> is mostly annoying. The really strange thing is that I don't use any
> desktop icons except "Trash." The first thing I do after an install is
> get rid of them. I have had these kind of problems in several versions
> of Mandrake and I always wind up going back to KDE, because the problems
> seem to go away after awhile,. if I just use KDE. If I continue to use
> GNOME, it seems that it gets worse . I can't seem to get the settings in
> GNOME to stay where I set them. They keep changing back to the
> defaults. Last week I ran Netscape in GNOME and it changed (spell
> checked perhaps?) my address in my mail settings and changed the number
> (0) to the letter (o). as a result anyone who replied to my mail would
> get a return. It also sent some of my mail with blank body text. (the
> subject line was all that was readable). I think GNOME has possibilities
> and it seems to be less and less buggy with each new release, but I have
> to go with KDE for now. Sorry I don't have any answers, but sometimes
> listing the problems helps in running down the solution.
That's really odd. I've been using GNOME as my primary desktop for almost two
years, and I've never had any problems like these. For your desktop icon
problems, what apps cause this? I know that if you run Nautilus without the
--no-desktop tag, or GMC without the --nodesktop tag, they will try to manage
your desktop.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
