I love the new 10.1, i got the highest end nvidia just for it, and compiz kicks ass. Here is my problem, I have no preference between KDE and Gnome as long as they can do the basic stuff i need, and with alot of mono stuff i do, gnome is the better choice, but i have been a kde user up until now.
One thing i use with KDE that i really NEED is window placement, i have dual monitor set up, and popups just some up smack dab in the middle of the frame borders between the monitors, in KDE i could go into advanced settings and alter this, by specifing the it remember the position. Also i use slickedit and want its windows to be arranged specifically to when they come up. Now i love compiz/gnome but i can't figure out in gnome how to get this simple feature? i went to KDE/compiz, but compiz (when started) removes the menu (on the window frames) that allows the selection of advanced options. So have i really lost this important feature by now having jumped to compiz? i have googled and found nothing about this, probably because compiz is so new. Would it be hard to add to gnome, something that just said, hey check this app-name window title against a list, and if its there place it at a certain position and size on the screen? My system is a tyan dual opteron with 9GB a RAM and one thing i am finding is that compiz crashes 1-2 times a day, so i have a window that just issues compiz --replace gconf and this little annoyance actually hardly bothers me, i am thinking since 386-x64 is a pretty rare platform still, that it will not be a reliable as 386-32? I also find amarok crashes just about everytime i do something to it, i.e. about 50 times a day, but its an immediate restart and it doesn't do it again (immediately anyways). Since i jumped to 10.1 (compiz) and dual opteron at the same time, unfortunelty i dont know what is more to blame. I am going to buy SLED 10 anyways cause i want the legal mp3 stuff included. I need to also figure out how to set up a chroot for mplayer (other media) to still use win32.dll's for codec's. Any advise, links would be appreciated. Man, for a non-techy user, linux would be a real bitch and a half to people running new amd 64bit systems, if they need wmv support :( My beef about SUSE is the people griping about package management slowness ... i mean, how many times do you update packages, and can one not multitask? i think before people pick on something that might have them waiting 1/2 hour? for an entire year? they might want to optimize their email experience that they use many 10's of times a day, this whole "suse is crap because package managment takes an extra 1 min." is just so idiotic. .. just flip screens and do something else while you wait, or go grab a drink, its not like you have to do it alot! I am a developer,and i package manage about once per day, and i set it to do its thing, and them i am off doing something else - i can multitask!!! Plus if you really value your time that much, as i do, start by buying 9GB RAM for your system, with all the time you save in a year by doing that simple cheap task, you can spend all the time you save, many many hours package-managing until your hearts content!!! :) -tl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
