?? NEWBIE QUESTIONS: Auto Power Down and Mouse Cursor Size??
Hi all, I am trying to move from Windows to SuSE and I'm seeing some things I was hoping someone could explain. First, I am brand new to Linux -- only a few days now. I'm running SuSE 8.2 Personal w/KDE. My machine is new and it's ACPI compliant. I'm finding that if left alone for a while (I don't know exactly how long), the machine seems to power itself down automatically. I'm trying to prevent this behavior. I have gone into "Control Center | Power Control | Display Power Control" and I made sure that all three options ("Standby after", "Suspend after" and "Power off after") were disabled. I even tried clearing the "Enable display power management" checkbox but nothing seems to help. The machine always seems to power down on its own. The second question I wanted to ask is, how can I make my mouse cursor larger? There is an option, in the "Control Center", I believe, for "Peripherals | Mouse | General | Large Cursor" but that seems to have no effect. The cursor is always small, even after re-boot. If anyone can offer some suggestions I would be very grateful. Thanks. Tony
Try going to www.kdelook.org and downloading some different cursor sets. As far as I know (which could be wrong) KDE doesn't have this option, although it's not hard to install a new cursor, which can in turn be bigger.
The second question I wanted to ask is, how can I make my mouse cursor larger? There is an option, in the "Control Center", I believe, for "Peripherals | Mouse | General | Large Cursor" but that seems to have no effect. The cursor is always small, even after re-boot.
This is driving me a little nuts here. I'm a recent convert to Suse 8.2 from Redhat 9.0 I upgraded VIM from the default to 6.2 I followed the tutorial (sort of) to have syntax highlights enabled by default. In the tutorial program, it says you need to do :edit ~/.vimrc (this file doesn't exist -- only vimrc I had was /etc/vimrc owned by root -- changed it to 0777 and tried it anyway) :read $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim :write I did all of the above, except the vimrc file I edited was the aforementioned /etc/vimrc I did it as root first, as /etc/vimrc was owned by root. When I'm root, it works. I changed back to me, and tried the exact same thing, and syntax is not on by default. Also, I do not have a ~/.vimrc file, but I do have a ~/vimrc~ I checked the ~/vimrc~ file and it does have syntax set to on if terminal has color. I'm not running the GUI version, but my xterm should have color, although I have no clue how to check. When I do :syntax on it works fine. Any chance when I run VIM I'm invoking some hidding vimrc file? Thanks Paul
FYI: I solved this problem. I copied ~/vimrc~ to ~/.vimrc and it worked.
This is driving me a little nuts here. I'm a recent convert to Suse 8.2 from Redhat 9.0 I upgraded VIM from the default to 6.2
I followed the tutorial (sort of) to have syntax highlights enabled by default. In the tutorial program, it says you need to do :edit ~/.vimrc (this file doesn't exist -- only vimrc I had was /etc/vimrc owned by root -- changed it to 0777 and tried it anyway) :read $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim :write
I did all of the above, except the vimrc file I edited was the aforementioned /etc/vimrc I did it as root first, as /etc/vimrc was owned by root. When I'm root, it works. I changed back to me, and tried the exact same thing, and syntax is not on by default. Also, I do not have a ~/.vimrc file, but I do have a ~/vimrc~ I checked the ~/vimrc~ file and it does have syntax set to on if terminal has color.
I'm not running the GUI version, but my xterm should have color, although I have no clue how to check. When I do :syntax on it works fine.
Any chance when I run VIM I'm invoking some hidding vimrc file?
Thanks Paul
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