On Monday 09 December 2002 05:04 am, jedd wrote: > Howdi, > > I've rtfa'd, but can't find much info on these issues that are > currently confusing / annoying me. I'm using kde 3.0.3 debs, > with a mostly sarge, partly sid, system. Kernel 2.4.19 (custom), > and using KDE natively on XFree 4 as well as via VNC. Mostly > I work around problems I find, but building a box from scratch > for the girlfriend recently highlighted a lot of things I'd never > noticed before. I'm hoping someone can help with at least > one of these. :)
I'm not up on all of these, but I'll help where I can. > CD burning. Arson seems the best of breed, as far as aesthetics > go, but it gets mighty confused with my ide-scsi sg0 cdrom > device (AOpen 32x). gcombust gets further, but it's a less > consistent UI. Arson's lack of data-burning functionality is > a bit weird. What do most Debian / KDE3 users use? (I'd > normally use mkiso / cdrecord in konsole, but the girly's > not really into the CLI ... yet. ;) I used gcombust for a long time, and it worked great. I'm now using k3b, which is the first KDE-based cd burner app that works as well. I am now using 3.1, so I can't tell you how k3b will work for you, but gcombust is fine (confused yet?). > Browsing (file). Maybe it's an MS-ism, but opening the sub-dirs > in the lefthand pane doesn't scroll the pane up (to reveal the bit > that you just descended into). Is that normal? Configurable? It took me a little while to figure out what you were talking about. I do not think that is configurable. I guess I'm used to using the scroll-wheel to move it down, and I don't use Windows so I can't tell you what the MS-ism is :-) > Printing m's. I *think* this is a KWord issue. When printing > to my HP LaserJet 1200, the rightspace on m's is missing, so > every m runs into the next character. Printing from kedit (f.e.) > doesn't show this problem. Anyone else seeing this? Using the same font? Any font? What happens if you print to a pdf, then use kprinter to print the pdf? > PDF's. kghostview barfs on pretty much any pdf I throw at it, > but gv copes with the same file(s), which is particularly weird. > Anyone else seeing this with kghostview .v. gv? I have vague recollections of this being a problem with those packages. Search the list archives for kghostview, to see what the fix was (there was a fix). > xmms-arts. It doesn't seem to be available as a deb with kde3, > or am I missing something obvious? There's a several second > delay after trying to start an mp3 file with xmms. I installed > the custom deb for xmms-kde, which is also damned sexy, but > it's just a front-end so didn't affect this problem. I'm sure there > was an arts-output for xmms in the kde2 debs . . . (?). The solution for this is to set your artsd timeout to something very low (or turn it off, if you don't use noatun/kaboodle), and the use the OSS output for xmms. At least I've never had anything but problems with the arts output for xmms. On the other hand, I now use noatun exclusively, so maybe its improved in the meantime. > file .v. web konqing -- I'm sure I used to have the 'home' button > configured to take me to ~ when doing file-browsing, and to take > me to http://localhost when doing web-browsing, in earlier > versions of the deb's for KDE. Is this a lost feature now? Hrm, I'd never figured out how to do that (set seperate homes). So to me it's a "never had" feature :-) > konq-web peculiarities. I've seen others mention some sites that > they get bad performance on -- for me it's www.theregister.co.uk, > which is strange because they're pretty pro-GNU/Linux. I get > really slow loads on what are mostly text pages, and about half > the time I get pages devoid of text. Do others get this with them, > or is the problem at my end? This may be the ip6 problem that was bandied about here a little while ago. You'd probably be best served again by checking the archives for the various suggestions. > home/end key mapping - on VNC this works fine, doing shift-end > to select to end of line. On direct console (different machine, > same set of deb's) shift-end on the numeric keypad just shows a '1'. > I think I saw something about this, but googling on the relevant > keywords is less than satisfying. I don't actually know what you're talking about here. In bash? In a text editor? I get 1 if my num-lock isn't on, but a capital F in bash, and the "select to end of line" behavior in KMail's composer if it is. I mean, I feel dumb for suggesting it, but did you check your numlock? 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