when using konquer in file-browser mode (nosnig around my home directory, for example) if i run across a *.tar.gz for example and if i make the mistake of double-clicking on it (thinking that if less can read it, everything ought to be able to) knoqueror tries to display the file, figures out it should pass it to a helper application -- which is konqueror -- and then hands the task off to that application.
which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... ... until i ctl-alt-f1 to get console, log in an kill one of the main kdm processes; then all my current windows are okay (even switching virtual desktops is no problem) but no new processes can be spawned. when i log out (or wind up killing X via atl-alt-backspace) kdm restarts and then all is rosy again. i let it go one time to see if it'd quit after so many iterations, and there appeared to be no end in sight. how do i tell konqueror to NOT spawn itself as a helper app? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do "man bash" then search for "emacs" and "readline" (to search a manpage, type / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...