Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use it on my laptop and don't really care. I'm not into pretty GUI things for the most part, so it doesn't bother me. I don't use my laptop enough to bother

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
John Abreau wrote: The thing that annoyed me most with metacity ... Just chiming in a bit. I just installed SuSE 8.1 on my laptop. Since I had been using SuSE 8.0 and KDE3 previously, there was no problem. Everything just installed and came up fine. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
You can always switch your window manager without using the gui to do so. You make yourself a .xsession file in your $HOME that starts up the window manager of your choice. Of course, you also lose all the gnome stuff starting, unless you copy one of the default xsession files and change it.

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 09:59, John Abreau wrote: [snip] It's like Redhat was saying If you don't *LIKE* metacity, you don't have to *USE* gnome. Kind of reminds me of the Windows Refund crap where manufacturers would tell customers: If you don't want Windows on your laptop, you

Re: Relaying file ops to userland

2002-12-25 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:05:46PM -0500, you wrote: It seems that I recall several times in the past that I've stumbled across packages that allow you to rig your system such that various file operations are relayed to code in userland rather than (or in addition to) being handled by the

Fixed-wireless Internet (was: DSL Provider of Choice)

2002-12-25 Thread bscott
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, at 1:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You hang a wok on your wall. Been there, done that.. I didn't mean a *real* Wok -- although your link is very amusing! :-) http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/wok-on-the-wall.html Wireless (802.11b/a/g) isn't very

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, at 9:59am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The really aggravating part is that Redhat seems to have made a significant effort to make it difficult to switch back to sawfish. In the end, I had to kill off metacity and quickly start sawfish before metacity respawned, and then save

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-25 Thread John Abreau
On 25 Dec 2002, Paul Iadonisi wrote: However, just to clear up a point, Red Hat switched from Gnome 1.4 to Gnome 2.0 in Red Hat 8.0 and, to the best of my knowledge, there *is no* gui for switching window managers in Gnome 2.0. The good news is that I read one of the Gnome summaries not

Re: Fixed-wireless Internet (was: DSL Provider of Choice)

2002-12-25 Thread Kurth Bemis
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, at 1:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You hang a wok on your wall. Been there, done that.. I didn't mean a *real* Wok -- although your link is very amusing! :-) http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/wok-on-the-wall.html Wireless (802.11b/a/g) isn't very