Axel Hecht wrote:
> 
> Spider wrote:
> >
> > hehe, I actually find it lacking some in the layout parts. Can't understand why
> > I can't get bold text in it..
> >
> > Actually, I've made transit to linux now, and I've found I miss a few things.
> >
> > 1) Knowledge enough to customize <insert windowmanager here>
here I come, after two 9 hour renders in my linux system... Whee :-)

> For a graphics wizard the choice of windowmanager is crucial. Bad
> enough, the really colorful ones are still moving targets. I guess you
> should look at
> http://www.enlightenment.org  for the dark side of life and
> http://www.windowmaker.org  for a rather fancy default styling
> But be assured, as soon as you go this way, you'll loose any connection
> to reality (even the virtual one, which would be very bad for us here)
> and your PCs performance is about to drop as well. Those fancy things
> MUST hog.
Well, they DO hog.. (hmm, I had s-povray running at a nice level of -15 at the
same time, did that addanything perhaps?? ahh, it does .-)
But, I think I'm settling in somewhere between KDE(Not my Fav.) and Gnome.
Windowmaker looks good, but takes too much of my valueable desktop-space.
(Yes, I know I can shrink it but it looks *yech*)

> > 2) textpad(http://www.textpad.com). Can't beat it.
> Unix folks boot Emacs. Those that don't boot emacs, use XEmacs :-) (I
> do). SysAdmins use vi. Next to what you say may be nedit. It's the
> favorite of my pal here. Should be on most distributions, I guess.
hehehe, ok. I have nedit, emacs and Xemacs and some others here now. Time to
learn to use them.

> > 3) A good X IRC client(I'm sure they exist)
> Well, here we go: good is a very moving target. I saw alot of critics
> about the various, none satisfies both users and purists. 
Agree with you :-)

>But there are
> at least three major areas:
> KDE/QT: has several, no idea; 
I have kirc somewhere, haven't tried it.

> GNOME/GTK: same; 
xirc, actually very good.

> NONE: try zircon.
SHEESH
it really is bugged. Tried changing the colours? it sets background=text and
friggs around.. I can't stand a client wich seems to be made with Buttons alone.

> > 4) textpad... No, I've taken that.. My Mail files.
> > 5) The speed of my mouse. (unaccelerated but fast... strange I can't find a
> > setting for it)
> man  XF86Config and a lot of luck, I guess.
yeah, I guess it is that. then for some howto's for my mouse-wheel :-)

> > well then, so little to make me happy.
> > Actually, the speed of linux feels great.. I feel I get more from the system now
> > than from windoze..
> And some things less (BSOD :-))
hehehe, well, I have that :-) (screensaver in Gnome)
but, there is always thos small annoyances that happen.. core ... core .. core
.. :-)


> Welcome home
Thankyou.

> Axel

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