Re: [MLUG] Torvalds: "Use KDE"

[Josh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yep.......now if only I could spend the $100. :-)

My current project (which I am sure to spend way too much money on) is finding a decent PDA vent mount. I have a wired FM modulator in my car and I want to feed it MP3s from my pda..but need a reasonable way to mount it so I can control it while driving. Gomadic.com has some great options - but $40 for a piece of plastic seems excessive.

I've almost "pulled the trigger" on some laptop HD deals a few times..but it always comes down to wanting something else more. (Or needing to save.. I am getting married in July and thats not cheap)

I am going to spend the next few weeks visiting some family up in rural Nebraska..so my laptop will be my only easily-accessible work machine...that experience might push me over the edge into buying a new HD and installing Linux. In the meantime, I am trying to get it to boot from a USB disk.. wondering if I can use my USB->IDE converter and an old 20 gig drive I had laying around to get debian installed as a stopgap measure.

It would suck to have to have a nice desk, two power outlets, etc. to boot into Linux..but better than editing PHP/Java on windows XP for the next 3 weeks.


Phillip Kelchen wrote:

I had to replace my laptop's HDD a few months ago. I put a *nice* Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 in it and it is more than big enough for me. I had wanted the 7200rpm model, but it was backodered for a month and you really can't use a laptop very well without a hard drive. 5400rpm is a lot better than 4200rpm, which is what my old dead one was. It was about $150 shipped, but if you don't need 100GB, a 5400rpm 60GB unit is about $100.

Phillip


On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:24 -0600, Josh wrote:

I can't comment on the suspend issue. My laptop has to stay windows until I buy a large enough hard drive to dual boot.

I'm running Kernel 2.6.12 at the moment. It has been very stable and udev has impressed me. I added USB hub, webcam, and a 4 slot (9 type, I think) card reader in under 20 minutes the other night. udev made it fairly painless.

As for open office 2.0 - I've had it for the last few weeks and have had no issues. I started exporting invoices to PDF from OO and have found the built in table formula system to be very useful. You can enter formulas directly into an OO.o table rather than having to import an OLE object from OO.o calc. Makes making nicely formatted invoices/time sheets a much smoother process.

Phillip Kelchen wrote:

I am waiting for Debian Sid to hit my computer. Ubuntu is nice but there are a few niggling problems, mostly centered around OpenOffice 2.0 (final) not being officially available and hibernation does not work correctly even with swsusp2 support in the kernel (random X hangs some while after resuming.) Kernel 2.6.14 in Sid should fix the suspend issues if I am not mistaken and there is OOo 2.0.0 in there officially. And I think that the KDE 3.5.0 packages are not that far away from getting into the repositories- they are in the unofficial Ubuntu ones but they gunked up my Ubuntu install

Phillip

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:58 -0600, Josh wrote:

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Josh wrote:
>
>> Mike Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for these useful comments.  One thing I'd like to be able to
>>> configure is the background colors separately for each desktop.  I
>>> cannot do that in Gnome -- If I change one, they all change.  Does
>>> KDE allow different desktops to have different background colors?
>>
>>
>> KDE will let you configure each desktop's background color or picture
>> independently. I frequently do that just to have a nice large visual
>> cue as to which one I am currently on.
>
>
> Exactly my plan.  Thanks.
>
>
>>> I mostly use a few desktops for running various things on the server
>>> itself, but then I have a different desktop for each supercomputer I
>>> connect to at our supercomputing facility.  There are five of those.
>>> So I have 12 desktops in Gnome.  I'm not using KDE at the moment.
>>
>>
>> I do that, too. I love being able to VNC into several computers and
>> full screen them each on a desktop..then I can use the old "move the
>> mouse to the edge of the screen" tool to jump from machine to
>> machine. (Thats another great KDE feature..being able to go from
>> desktop to desktop just by moving the mouse off the edge of the
>> screen. Saves me a lot of time and clicks as I never actually click
>> the desktop panel in the topbar anymore.)
>
>
> Is there a keyboard shortcut for that too?  In Gnome I can use
> ctrl-alt-arrows to move between desktops, which is nice.
>
By default, CTRL+D brings up an alt+tab style list to choose the desktop
to switch to. (Its handy since you can name desktops.) You can also
assign hotkeys to any of the following actions:

Switch to Next desktop
switch to previous desktop
Switch one desktop to the right
switch one desktop to the left
switch one desktop up
switch one desktop down

All of my desktops are organized in a straight line (1-2-3-4) so the
last two are useless for me - but kind of neat if you want to do some
sort of row/column grouping based on purpose or something.

I'd highly recommend ya go through the "Control Center" a page at a
time..it has hundreds of configurable options that you can tweak to
customize your experience. This all refers to KDE 3.4... still waiting
for 3.5 to hit Debian unstable.

> Mike
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