Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Good on you! It's great to see newbies from the Windos world experiment with the new OS instead of just sticking with the defaults. Don't get me wrong, KDE is a very nice environment, but it is a little too Windos-like for me. I think a major reason why GNOME doesn't have more users is that it

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:26, you manipulated electrons to produce: > The same is true of KDE! > > Miark Well, *I* couldn't at the time! Was driving me nutz! :-) Nobody has answered the other questions tho. WE really need a common troubleshooting FAQ for M8 I am trying to build it up fro

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ctrl-alt-backspace is supposed to be an emergency measure only, to be used when there is no other alternative. It will kill your entire X-server, which is often unnecessary. If you have GNOME loaded, you can log out by using the menus obtained by either clicking the footprint or by right-clicki

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-22 Thread John Rigby
Hi Civileme, Arghhh Big Bill STILL has me! I kept doing C+A+del !! THIS went into the Newby book under "EScaping Big Bill" However, the other weirdos are still a problem. For Newbies it is difficult to locate things by name. ( Same as Doze, but I KNOW Doze :-) ) I hope the Kmail t

Re: [newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 11:27, John Rigby wrote: > Hi folks, > I am sitting here in front of a sortof Gnome Desk Manager. Do not > know how it got here in the first place and was only trying to > close/kill it. > Instead it trashed my KDE Taskbar. > Alt+Tab just shows the foot and Konq Browser -

[newbie] Those little things......... REAL Beginner stuff

2001-07-21 Thread John Rigby
Hi folks, I am sitting here in front of a sortof Gnome Desk Manager. Do not know how it got here in the first place and was only trying to close/kill it. Instead it trashed my KDE Taskbar. Alt+Tab just shows the foot and Konq Browser - still active to the Net. Thus, I was able to go to a Si