On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:04:46 -0800 Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> wrote: > Most things installed, but kdenetwork packages from ~ccheney/kde-other > got error 404, file not found. Are the above lines not right, or is > there a problem in the repository? The sources are right, but you may have problems with meta packages. Try installing each software you want one by one. > Also, a few packages from Karolina's repository are not yet available > in sid or ~ccheney. The ones I particularly want are kgamma and > noteedit. I gather noteedit has recently been adopted, so hopefully > we'll see a new build of that soon in Sid. Will someone be making a > kgamma package? That, I leave up to somebody else since I don't know if it is planned. Try contacting Karolina or KDE maintainers, or do a apt-get source -build. > 1. Keyboard repeat rate. KDE Control Center lets you enable or disable > keyboard repeat, but you cannot set the initial delay time or repeat > rate. See the Option "AutoRepeat" in your XF86Config-4. > 2. Locale setting. KDE keeps leaving me with LANG=C. I have selected > English, USA in KDE Control Center's locale panel, but this seems not > to have any effect on the environment variables visible in Konsoles. Environment variables are changed with dpkg-reconfigure locales. Kcontrol only changes KDE environment. > 3. Mouse buttons. I have a Microsoft Optical Intellimouse with both a > wheel and extra side buttons. KDE seems to offer no convenient way to > initialize this correctly so that the scroll wheel works right. See your XF86Config-4, Option "ZAxisMapping". > My current hacked-up fix for this is to give myself a fix for #4 by > invoking $HOME/.kdestart from /etc/kde3/debian/startkde, just after > the invocation of ksplash. In $HOME/.kdestart, I call xmodmap to set > up the mouse buttons, kbdrate to set up the keyboard repeat rate, and > invoke my$HOME/.bash_profile to initialize my environment. Are there > better solutions? All your problems are XFree-related. Try fixing them in your config rather than in KDE. -- Lucas Moulin <lucas@brebis.org> "I wish I had a shilling for every senseless killing, I'd buy a government" -- NOFX
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