On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 21:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2005-01-10 at 15:50 +0530, rada and gus wrote:
After doing "sux -", start some graphic program, but not a kde one. Or try several, some kde, some generic, some gnome, for example. Maybe try ethereal, gkrellm, yast
Thanks for the input.
When I try it on my 9.1 system now it seems to run everything fine after sux - xgnokii, kwrite, gmplayer, gtoaster, konqueror all seem to run fine. Seems I can't reproduce it.
Yesterday on my friends dell laptop running 9.2 I had constant problems "can't connect to X-server", though periodically it would work - can't precisely recall how and when.
The problem is not critical but also not academic. I am not a newbie, but far from an expert. I use two main programs from a root console - namely kwrite and konqueror. I use kwrite to edit config files or files owned by root and I use konqueror to navigate in folders that I do not have access or write permissions. So it is very handy to sux - from a user console, edit a file with kwrite, close kwrite and exit from root back to my user console. Same with konqueror.
Well, then it seems clear that there is some problem with 9.2. But it is too foggy. My guess is that it is related to kde, so try some gnome editor instead: for example gedit.
As for navigating directories, I concur with Joe: I simply love 'mc'. It is text based, but menu driven (accepts mouse input), very fast and practical. And you can use it over a modem link.
Thanks for the suggestions Joe and Carlos about mc and gedit. Sounds good. I think you are right about it being a KDE problem, though I have not been able to prove it. I remembered I had recently upgraded KDE in 9.1 via Yast and I thinking back perhaps that's when the problem went away on 9.1 - and in the 9.2 systems where it seems to be a problem I had not upgraded KDE. I'll have to check that out. Gustav Degreef.