When on Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mircea Luca wrote, I replied:
Thanks Mircea, I'll try debian-kde after I give iirc #debian a try.
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:29:41 -0800
> From: Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLU] kde || gnome || ???
>
> Ralph Winslow wrote:
> >
> > I've recently upgraded to unstable, and in the process lost my GUI
> > environment. I've managed to restore a GUI environment through
> > hacking (i.e. trying this and that while not really understanding
> > the whole GUI rendering process) but it's not the environment that
> > I had had. The one I had and liked resembled the one I use at work
> > on my Solaris workstation. I can highlight text with a left button
> > push/drag or double click, reposition the cursor, and center click
> > to paste. The new environment is sort of like the previous albeit
> > fancier, and cut/paste doesn't work. The new hasn't got a lock
> > token on the tool bar right next to the pick your desktop section.
> > (Sorry I don't know the 'real' terminology for all this stuff; I
> > only really use a bunch of xterms, cut/paste, and a browser in the
> > GUI environment; I'm just a command line guy at heart). Can anyone
> > advise on how to restore my old environment? TIA
> >
> > ----
>
> Solaris comes with 2 desktop environments-CDE and Open Windows(I think I
> got this one right,didn't use Solaris for almost 2 years now)). KDE
> kinnda looks like CDE .The other one from Solaris looks like the Win
> 3.11 interface.By your description
> I think you were using KDE and now you have a problem starting KDE.I've
> seen
> reports of problems with KDE in woody ,but since I haven't got yet to
> install
> woody ,I using kde2 in hail and it works.Your best bet would be to
> subscribe to
> debian-kde mailing list since now your system is basically woody and ask
> there.
> Sorry ,can't be of more help if I don't run woody yet.
>
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> Alan Saporta
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