On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:59:35PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:32:58AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > >Gnome-terminal has a feature that I really like. It underlines text > >that has the syntax of a URL. If you point to the text with your cursor > >and cntrl-click, it starts your browser in another window and sends it > >to look at the URL. But there is a problem: I can't get the rest of > >gnome desktop to work, and if I try to run gnome-terminal under KDE, I > >can't configure fonts for the gnome-terminal window. To configure fonts > >for gnome-terminal I think I should use gnome-control-center, but it > >seems to fight with KDE control center. Sometimes it works, but not > >very often. > > You can't get GNOME to work? What do you want, and what are you doing? > > Debian's GNOME shouldn't be difficult to get working... >
First, I think I may be making progress toward satisfying my wishes, by installing icewm. I don't know for sure because I've so liked the initial fonts and colors that I haven't tried to change them. In a way my problem may be solved already. But it has been my experience in the past that things change in over time in a windowing environment, and it is often hard to put them back the way you liked them. So, for now, I am somewhat optimistic. Gnome: My problem with gnome is that when I install the packages and choose it in the display manager (kdm), I get a garble of incompletely drawn windows, and there is repainting whenever I move the mouse, which repainting makes the garble worse. This happens on a Sarge system that is a clean new installation. I'm puzzled about this and about the installation. I thought putting a new ext2fs on the root partition would wipe out all old information, but somehow old garbage seems to be surviving and poisoning things. But, for now, I hope to avoid confronting this issue. Thanks, -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
