Hi,

I am using OpenBSD 4.0 as a desktop and I must say everything is
runnig much better than I expected. For instance, the hotkeys are per
default enabled and recognised and working fine (volume up, down,
mute, etc)!

However there are so far only two things that annoy me

1- The web pages fonts are not antialiased, so that they look ugly.
Firefox itself is looking fine, as all gtk applications, they are
antialiased but the content, what you see below the upper pannel, is
looking "ugly" I have googled a bit but I only find references to
firefox 2.0 and I am using 1.5.0.5

2- The gnome-terminal tabs cannot be dragged, they are fixed. I know
this can seem to be a minor issue, but I am used to work with some ~8
tabs open and sometimes it is very nice to be able to drag the last
one to be the 2nd one etc etc I guess this is a feature of
gnome-terminal 2.10 The other *nix system I am using is fedora 4 and
ubuntu dapper and in both of them they are "draggable" I have looked
in the ports but the version was also 2.10... well, I guess I have to
live with that and wait for OpenBSD 4...4? sigh...

3- Is there a way to use colours with "ls"? I have looked at the man
page and found nothing re colour.

4- How can I change the default idiom of the gnome desktop? In Linux I
would just go into

vi /etc/profile

and then add the line export [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Btw I only have ca_ES.ISO8859-15 and ca_ES.ISO8859-1! What about UFT-8??

Another problem I encountered was when doing "locate filename" this
error was returned: locate: database too small:
/var/db/locate.database. I deleted locate.database (under /var/db/).
Then I did ./locate.updatedb which is located in /usr/libexec. Works
fine now.

I know these are newbie questions... but this is called OpenBSD newbies, right?

I am just trying to find out whether I can "survive" with OpenBSD as
my main desktop or not

At least I didn't ask "HELP! HOW CAN I INSTALL BERYL/AIXGL IN OPENBSD????"

;)

thanks!

Pau
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