Ok, I'm not thrilled yet with helix.
This is probably mostly ignorance, but I've had a lot of trouble since I
upgraded. keep in mind that my use of a gui has primarily been to crank
the resolution up to get 4 or 5 xterms across the screen, and an easy way
to crank up xterms on lots of different boxes. Other than picking a theme
I like and enabling sound, I usually don't muck with much.
Here are the things I have found, pretty much all related to the panels
On startup, I get messages about a menu panel already running. Choosing
yes to start another or no, doesn't seem to help. I just get varying
results, not of which are optimal.
Sometimes both the top and bottom panel show up, sometimes only one,
sometimes neither.
Sometimes both are dead (ie gray with no objects on them) and don't
respond. Soemtimes one works, and not the other.
The top panel has been two different sizes. Programs don't know about this
panel anyway, and their title bar gets covered. I know how to move them
down. I can't get to properties for thsi panel, just general properties.
The pager gets into a state where you can no longer get to a program. You
can see it in the atsk list, but it's not visible.
I'll see if I can figure it out tonight. The helix upgrade tool doesn't
work - always gets network erros (like the installer). I'll try do a
manual download liek I di for the install.
charles
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Adam Sleight wrote:
> > funny enough, I'm using sawmill (since it was the default with helix), but
> > I swear it was working originally.
> >
> > I did switch back to E, and then back to sawmill which might have done it.
> >
> > But since it was working when I got it, I like to think I can get it back.
> >
> > Then again, that top panel i was complaining about earlier has dissapeared
> > on me too :)
>
> to add the top panel...do a Add menu panel. You said it doulbed in size..there
> are properties for the panel you can change. I tried sawmill about 3 or 4
> months and didn't like it too much. Now I tried it ...and I LOVE IT. It's
> really awesome. Helix is cool too. I have it running on 6.2 piglet and it
> works great. You should be able to add a pager in Add applets..somewhere.
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