Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs

2003-04-01 Thread Bobby Patel
- From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bobby Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:20, Bobby Patel wrote: I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a username/password

[newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs

2003-03-31 Thread Bobby Patel
I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a username/password and sesison type I would like to use. The sesison type choices are KDE, GNome, IceWm, failsafe, and defualt. The only things that work are failsafe and IceWm. When I try to login with KDE or Gnome, the cursor turns to a

Re: [newbie] KDE and GNOME broken in 8.2?

2002-04-01 Thread Damian
El lun, 01-04-2002 a las 22:49, civileme escribió: Sure are. To reproduce, just install asking for KDE and GNOME and tell the installer you don't have Disk2 or 3. Then KDE will crash early and often; Konqueror will die, and GNOME will just return you to the login screen. A lot of

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another program

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:37:42 + (GMT) shanon loveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled helpfully: snippage Check out blackbox / fluxbox. Even faster. = yup! Mike -- Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 05 Feb 2002 19:53:53 -0800, Bryan B Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Gnome. The main annoying reason was: For some reason KDE cannot handle very fast internet connections. In konqueror (spelling?) if I download a big file from the internet Kde becomes totally unresponsive till I

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 06 Feb 2002 00:22:20 -0600, Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 21:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You can give all GTK+ (including GNOME) apps anti-aliasing with gdkxft (http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net). It's a bit of a hack, but it does a decent job. How did you

Re[2]: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi everyone, And thanks for all the responses I got to this thread. A.G.Diaz, i use xfce but since the original poster prohibited the expression of reasons for preferring other desktop/window Managers i just watch this thread from the sidelines. *grin* Thank you for adhering to my question

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-06 Thread skinky
On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:42, Roman Korcek wrote: Again, thanks to all, and a bitter Argh when remembering that 2 days ago nobody responded to my monitor power management and emu-tools questions. :-( * From: Roman Korcek * Subject: [newbie] emu-tools * Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002

[newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you. And please let's not talk about other WMs, I would only

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Robin M. Weare
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:20 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:20:30 +0100, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Berthon
think they are equivalent. Jean-Christophe - Original Message - From: Robin M. Weare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:20 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread s
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 03:20 am, you wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you.

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Derek Jennings
Well of course you should use the one you like best... Personally I prefer KDE, mostly because I love the way the KDE applications not only pick up my themes Window Decoration, but also all the buttons and drop down boxes pick up the theme as well. It just looks so pretty (I use the

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:20:30 +0100, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:20, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Miark
never get the pointer to behave similarly. So I gave up. But KDE is, IMHO, excellent all the way around. Miark - Original Message - From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another program sawfish? Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
If I still worked for my previous employer I might be very interested in GNomes mail client (Evolution??). I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another

RE: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread JSheble
I'm not suer I count since I only tinker with Linux from time to time, but when and if I ever run in X, I use Gnome. It's way faster (at least on my machine it is) and I like the way it looks and behaves better than KDE... Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Jose Mirles
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 19:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant change them. It seems they are set in another

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On 05 Feb 2002 18:15:02 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone responding to this thread is running KDE. Personally, I have found that Gnome (with the Sawfish WM) is far more configurable,

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread shanon loveridge
--- Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2002 19:15, Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:55, Walter Logeman wrote: I have evolution open in KDE. However i have a problem. on my 1600 x 1200 screen all the gnome aps fonts are too small and i cant

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Walter Logeman
Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to set your fonts and font sizes for Gnome apps. You can run GnomeCC in KDE, no problem. Have been trying this for a while but there are problems. Using Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2.1 Gnome control center 1.4.0.1 On the occasions it has not crashed it has

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:24, Walter Logeman wrote: Use Gnome Control Center (gnomecc) to set your fonts and font sizes for Gnome apps. You can run GnomeCC in KDE, no problem. Have been trying this for a while but there are problems. Using Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2.1 Gnome control

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I use Gnome. The main annoying reason was: For some reason KDE cannot handle very fast internet connections. In konqueror (spelling?) if I download a big file from the internet Kde becomes totally unresponsive till I get the file. It can't handle pulling 1-3.5MByte/sec over internet2 :(

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-28 Thread Mohammed Arafa
panel is the same save sessions options but i cant for the life of me remember where - Original Message - From: Charles A. Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in? I know that there is probably

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-28 Thread Charles A. Punch
Mohammed Arafa wrote: u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to resume it next boot. u can 1. kill the gmc process (that should also kill the gnome icons) then save ur sessions 2.

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: Mohammed Arafa wrote: u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to resume it next boot. u can 1. kill the gmc process (that

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: I have already turned off the save session option. I have also already killed the GMC process(if you mean using Xkill). The autostart is something to check out though. I'm not sure where it is, but I'm sure it can't be too hard to

[newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-27 Thread Jon Doe
I have a strange problem. I am running Mandrake 8.0 and I have upgraded to the 2.2 KDE. Things work great, except everytime I login now, KDE comes up, then all the Gnome icons come up, over top of the KDE icons and then gmc comes up. I am not sure which file to edit to fix this. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-27 Thread Charles A. Punch
I know that there is probably a better way to do this, but I, (in desperation) got rid of those bad boys, by slapping them with Xkill everytime they showed up. It took five or six times, but eventually they stopped coming up, so far. If there is a better way to do this that will not leave a lot

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
nkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:52 pm, Dan LaBine wrote: Just a thought here, but wouldn't it be incredibly wise of us to suggest and promote KDE as a prefferr

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Correction; LEAST Likely to cause tension with first-timers. My Bad! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Dan LaBine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome Tom; Yo

RE: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Johnson
take more than window managers "to kick the financial crap out of Microsoft." We need 3rd party vendors to support Linux as well. -Original Message-From: Dan LaBine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:53 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbi

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: Mark Johnson To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE or Gnome Abe and Mark, this is an example of what I was talking about in the "Mandrakesoft CEO defend Lin

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
i may as well jump in also. =) i like Enlightenment as user. not the fastest nor best for using less memory, but i'm all about the eye candy. KDE as root, as it's easier to get around... lots of tools... more "dummy proof" in my mind, and when i'm root i want to do what i need to do get

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm tempted to add my tuppence. KDE as root - invariably. Gnome has never worked for me; don't ask why, I didn't mind for I've been able to use the Gnome apps I needed all along. Blackbox - yes. Ice WM - looked terribly naff and unsexy to me. Enlightenment:

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Absolutely! Iagree to the thing about choice, Oh, yeah and to the quote about beer! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Michael Scottaline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [n

[newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-16 Thread Dan LaBine
Just a thought here, but wouldn't it be incredibly wise of us to suggest and promote KDE as a prefferred desktop environment? Don't get me wrong, I don't actually have a preference of my own, but if we want Linux to kick the financial crap out of Microshaft, we're going to have to make it as

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Mandrake already has KDE as its default environment. At the same time, it does not hinder those of us who like to use something else (e.g. GNOME). In fact, with Mandrake 7.2's new menuing system, we can easily switch between environments and still keep the same menus. I believe that we already

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:52 pm, Dan LaBine wrote: Just a thought here, but wouldn't it be incredibly wise of us to suggest and promote KDE as a prefferred desktop environment? Don't get me wrong, I don't actually have a preference of my own, == from the looks of your header it's

[newbie] kde vs gnome vs java

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1, and the latest IBM Java V1.1.8 Under Gnome, a java app I use a lot (PolarBar eMailer) works fine (except for another problem for another email). But under KDE the mouse left click does not properly select list items. Menu items are selected OK though. I

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome removal

2000-04-22 Thread Mike Corbeil
Emmette Hutchison wrote: how to I remove or stop using a desktop environment like gnome or kde? At this point I just want enlightenment running. (I'm assuming that I have to edit an x settings file somewhere, but I'm not quite sure where.) Emmette To be able to stop using or to uninstall?