Hello,

Hello All,

This is my first mail to this group, so please forgive me if I do something wrong, or if this is not the place for these 2 questions...

You've found the right place.....welcome :-)

I just bought SuSE 7.2 Pro and installed it on a new Sony Vaio 1.5GHz P4 machine. 7.2 is a great improvement from 6.3 by the way! I have been running 6.3 on another machine for over a year. I use the KDE interface on both machines.

Errgghh. I hate KDE. I prefer using FVWM2 with the M4 pre- processor "AnotherLevel (lestiff style)". At least that way, I actually *have* some memory free :-) But, each to their own, I suppose.

Question 1: My CPU Fan seems to be on 100% of the time I am booted into SuSE 7.2. When I boot into windows, the fan only comes on occasionally. Is this normal for SuSE to run the fan all of the time? Is it going to burn out the fan eventually?

Question 2: In 6.3, all open windows were shown in buttons just above the task bar at the bottom of the screen, so I could quickly jump to any window - even if it was on another virtual screen (then it's virtual screen would automatically become active). In 7.2, I only have buttons for windows that are open on the active virtual screen (and they are shown right in the task bar), so I have to switch to the other virtual screen first to get to a window there. Is

No. Furthermore your fan is hardware dependant, and is not controlled by any software. If you are concerned about this, I suggest that you check out the program called "sensors", which is available off the CD. Note: If you have upgraded your kernel (i.e. replaced it from one already installed from the CD), you'll have to make sure that you compile in "sensors". But if your using the kernel off the CD, you won't have to worry :-) there a way

to have it show all window buttons in 7.2 like it does by default in 6.3?

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I have looked extensively everywhere I could think of to find answers to these questions before using this mail list, but I can't find information about them.

Thanks for any advice you can pass along.

HTH, Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- A Student at the "Southampton Institute", Southampton, Hants, ENGLAND