Re: [TCLUG:10969] GNOME configuration questions/musings

[Thomas Veldhouse <veldy@visi.com>]

I am using 0.16.3 with no serious problems.  Backgrounds seem to change
when you switch back and forth between desktops and they can be hard to
recover, but other than that - no problems here.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Scott wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> > finding the configurator for Enlightenment is difficult
> 
>      It's called Econfig I think.  I'd suggest you avoid the
> latest E updates (0.16.1+) as they have some severely broken
> parts that cause it to crash and burn constantly.  If you
> absolutely want to use it, the 0.16.0 release seemed to be
> the last one not suffering from a crack overdose.
> 
> > I still have to load the CD-ROM module by hand
> 
>      Do you have /etc/conf.modules set up correctly?
>  
> >         what do people use for an ICQ workalike program? I've been trying
> > GnomeICU; but it requires GNOME
> 
>      I've been using gnomeicu for quite awhile and haven't
> had the weird problems you described.  Maybe someone tweaked
> it badly for rh 6.1, because it works fine on 6.0 and SuSE
> 6.2 for me.  For alternatives, there are probably decent
> text based ones, but I haven't found another besides
> gnomeicu and kicq (I think) that don't totally suck.
>  
> > mail configuration for a dial-up system...  I'll ask lots of
> > questions once I've found & read the relevant HOWTO. :)
> 
>      What do you mean by mail configuration, are you trying
> to set up sendmail/qmail/postfix?  I'm on dialup, and all I
> do is have procmail forward junk from all my accounts to
> this one, then have procmail here filter that off into the
> appropriate place.  Storing all my mail server side is nice,
> especially when I get the sudden urge to purge and install a
> new OS.  Don't have to worry about losing important info
> this way.
> 
> > netscape crashes -- this in and of itself doesn't surprise me. why
> > it brings down X in the process, does.
> 
>      Netscape is another one of those programs with a
> substance abuse problem.  Which version are you running?
> 4.61 that ships with SuSE 6.2 has worked fairly well so far;
> it hasn't even trashed my bookmarks yet!  4.5 and earlier
> have problems with java, so if that's what you're using it's
> time to take a hint from the Jefferson's and move on up.
> 
> Scott
> -- 
> The sweet things don't stick around but the bullshit lasts forever.
>  -Nicole Blackman
> 
> 
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