On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. > > Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a > little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a > problem with getting X to like my mouse (IntelliMouse Explorer).. I had > to type startx twice to get X and KDE up and running, but then things > were fine. Now everything's come crumbling down. > > First of all, I had the alt-tab bug for some time (see my other mails in > this list). That behaviour has stopped now. Alt-tab stopped working > altogether, I get the taskbox and NOTHING ELSE. I can close it with ESC. > Great. Next, my mouse has become sluggish like hell. We're talking maybe > 3 or 4 fps when I move the cursor around. > > Also, I fail to remember what dpgk-reconfigure I have to run to do > anything to my X Server. It is absolutely foggy to me, why X runs KDE > (I've looked around the X config files and found no mention of KDE at > all). I'd install a display manage (kdm,gdm) I use wdm. This will allow you to select your window manager (fvwm). I wanted to try fvwm, just to see if that'd run bearably fast > (we're talking Athlon TB 1200 / 512 MB RAM / very fast 200 gigs hd / > Geforce 3). I have absolutely no clue how to do that in debian. > > I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you > have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package > is called? apt-cache search firewall If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and > I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would help dpkg --get-selections dpkg -l > already. There's xf86config, xf86cfg, dpkg-reconfigure > whateverIhavetotype here and the settings in KDE. This is a damn > headache, and I'd be infinitely grateful if someone could help me with this. > > The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve > this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux > mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows > for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my best > to manage it. I had such high hopes for debian as well, it seemed perfect :/ > > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > Daniel -Kev
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