On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:30:56 -0500 (EST)
Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I'm not thrilled yet with helix.
>
> This is probably mostly ignorance, but I've had a lot of trouble since I
> upgraded. keep in mind that my use of a gui has primarily been to crank
> the resolution up to get 4 or 5 xterms across the screen, and an easy way
> to crank up xterms on lots of different boxes. Other than picking a theme
> I like and enabling sound, I usually don't muck with much.
>
> Here are the things I have found, pretty much all related to the panels
>
> On startup, I get messages about a menu panel already running. Choosing
> yes to start another or no, doesn't seem to help. I just get varying
> results, not of which are optimal.
>
yes me too..I finally gave up (considering it's beta) and created a new account
and moved my files into that account and it works great. Definitely there are
issues to work out...thus beta.
> Sometimes both the top and bottom panel show up, sometimes only one,
> sometimes neither.
>
> Sometimes both are dead (ie gray with no objects on them) and don't
> respond. Soemtimes one works, and not the other.
>
> The top panel has been two different sizes. Programs don't know about this
> panel anyway, and their title bar gets covered. I know how to move them
> down. I can't get to properties for thsi panel, just general properties.
Yeah..that's why I don't use the top panel. No need for it.
>
> The pager gets into a state where you can no longer get to a program. You
> can see it in the atsk list, but it's not visible.
yet to see this one.
>
> I'll see if I can figure it out tonight. The helix upgrade tool doesn't
> work - always gets network erros (like the installer). I'll try do a
> manual download liek I di for the install.
yeah. On my firewall at work...I tried install it but the firewall logs show
http-proxy denied..even though I was allowed access...go figure. I just got done
an hour or so and going to try it on Mandrake 7.0 ...I'm betting the farm I'll
have to create a new account and use that one instead of the existing one.
>
> charles
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