I installed it when Amarok's UI got buggy and stuck with it since then. It crashes when attempting to read in my SID collection and I can't for some reason push any part of its window outside the borders of the screen (like on an Amiga) -- but other than that it's good enough.
The way it presents the music library made me listen to full albums again instead of constantly cobbling together impromptu playlists of isolated favourites-of-the-moment.
If you right-click the right spot on the GUI, you can unlock the layout and then drag the panes around. You can also combine several panes into a tabbed single pane.
I did try OpenSuse but not for long since resuming from suspend-to-RAM crashed every time and I'm unwilling to use a distro without working suspend/resume. What's better about KDE in OpenSuse (or Arch, Chakra or Mandriva, for that matter) than in Kubuntu? Everyone's harping on Kubuntu but I rarely see reasons given; not that I couldn't think of things to complain about in Kubuntu (Akonadi, Nepomuk, Virtuoso... sigh)
Dolphin: no idea - perhaps something to do with (web)surfing? [I do know it's a file manager]
Gwenview: a viewer of some sort? [I do know it is]
Blogilo: a blogging tool?
KGet: a frontend to wget? [I do know it's download manager]
Kopete: a kurrency konverter? [I do know it's an instant messenger]
Kstars: something to do with stars - planetarium software? [I do know it is]
Parley: an instant messenger/IRC client?
Marble: a game? [I know it's a globe of earth]
Cantor: math app? Assuming it's not a philosophy app, anyway...
Rocs: no idea!
Nepomuk: no idea! [I do know it has to do with search and the 'semantic desktop']
Akonadi: no idea! [I do know it... er... serves my PIM data?]
Kauth: a security/groupware/superuser something-or-other...?
KNewStuff3: a portal for an app store? [I do know it's... something like that]
It's ridiculously complex, but I'm sure I can make it even worse. Audio production is JACK territory. JACK is an "audio connection kit" meant specifically for apps like Ardour (recording), Rosegarden (sequencer), Hydrogen (drummachine), JACK-Rack (virtual rack for effects plugins), ZynAddSubFX (software synthesizer), or Jamin (JAck Mastering INterface). When you run the JACK daemon, these and other apps can talk to JACK rather than fight over access to the sound hardware.
More interestingly, JACK lets you connect the MIDI and audio inputs and outputs of these applications and your sound hardware to each other in meaningful ways. For example, you could (1) let Rosegarden control Hydrogen and an external, physical synthesizer via MIDI, (2) let an external MIDI keyboard control ZynAddSubFX, (3) send Hydrogen's output to JACK-Rack, (4) send JACK-Rack's and ZynAddSubFX's outputs and the soundcard's line-in to Jamin, (5) send Jamin's output to Ardour or Audacity or whatever else you want to use to record the results, (6) and so on. (I don't know if such a setup ever happens in the real world. Perhaps you're now twitching in light of my audio naivety. But it was just an example.)
With QJackCtl, you get a graphical JACK front-end that'll let you set stuff up with relative ease. Install it.
What JACK then DOES all the audio buzzing about "within" it is, typically, this: It gives it to ALSA. Unlike Pulse, JACK, GStreamer, Xine, Phonon and many of the other funny names you'll come across, ALSA is part of the kernel (or rather, has parts in the kernel). So ALSA is not an optional convenience. The ALSA project provides soundcard drivers; through ALSA, applications talk to the sound hardware. (Unless you install OSS4, I suppose. Or do something else I don't know about.)
I usually attach JACK to the ALSA interface hw:0. The hw: interfaces provide direct access to the sound hardware, bypassing ALSA's own software mixing, rate conversion, and other niceties that may (?) slow things down or lower quality. hw:x,y means soundcard x, subdevice y. hw:x without a subdevice means use whatever subdevice is available. In my case, subdevice 0 has four hardware audio channels, and subdevice 1 has one. I suppose that's why I can let JACK talk to hw:0 without it blocking out any other, non-JACK applications like the Flash plugin, media players, or games.
There'll be other ALSA interfaces available in QJackCtl besides hw:, in my case: plughw:. And Audacity's preferences offer a different and larger ranger of ALSA devices besides hw:0,0 and hw:0,1, for example: spdif, iec958, dmix, and default. As far as I know, plughw:, dmix and default all provide software mixing, so they may have their uses if you find some application blocked by another (such as the JACK daemon) due to a lack of hardware mixing. And if ALSA's software mixing doesn't work for you either, PulseAudio or something like it comes in as another layer on top of ALSA providing software mixing.
ALSA woes can be mended and virtual ALSA devices with specific properties created in ~/.asoundrc, though if you're lucky you don't need that file at all. See http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/.asoundrc for the lowdown.
I said JACK attaches to ALSA, but you can also attach JACK to OSS, for example. OSS these days is something like a compatibility layer provided by ALSA, which has replaced OSS. OSS devices on my system are/dev/dsp,/dev/dsp1, and/dev/audio.
There's also OSS4, which isn't "legacy" and which some ALSA-frustrated users swear by. It doesn't come with any distributions I'm aware of, so you might have to install it yourself.
I suppose you could also attach JACK to (say) PulseAudio as an intermediary layer betwe
With KDE and KWin compositing, there's some visual noise and I'm dropped back into the KDM/GDM login. With GNOME or a desktop-FX-less KDE, the computer freezes. (I was trying to figure out which combination (if any) of browser features, display manager, desktop environment, compositing engine etc. might trigger the problem, but not successfully. It's rather tedious work, too...)
> I am on KDE 4.3 RC2, so things may have been fixed from whatever KDE you were using. Which > version have you? Can you test with KDE 4.3?
I'm using 4.2.96 (4.3 RC2) as packaged for Kubuntu 9.04.
> > Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu. > > This only seems to affect pages in frames. > > I cannot reproduce, and you point to a specific site?
> > (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background: > > this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website > > background colour and the View Background colour would help. > > Again I cannot reproduce. What site, and what is your background colour setting?
> > Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media > > along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places > > instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks. > > Is this an English installation, or translated? I do not have that issue in neither my English nor > Hebrew interfaces.
English. The equivalent tab in the Kickoff menu works, by the way.
> > Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor > > colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after > > search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm). > > I don't have this issue, either! And I use Kate a lot.
Hm again. I've seen complaints about both (1) and (2) before, so it's not just me... black background again; it's possible the cursor turns black rather than background-coloured.
> > KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no > > matter the background colour. > > Which theme? I cannot reproduce this, either!
Any theme I've tried! The results list box that pops up to the right of the main search box always uses the "View Background" colour (black, unsurprisingly) with black text (except for the highlighted entry).
"Command oriented" mode has readable text, although I don't understand its autocomplete function. I type "fetc", it completes "fetchmail" and puts the cursor at the end of it, but I still have to type "fetchmail" before "Run fetchmail" appears below.
> > Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the > > pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar. > > I cannot find that widget, though I have seen it in the past. Again, I am useless! > > > PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control, > > though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.) > > I don't use those features, so I don't know. Sorry. > > > Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows > > on rotate. > > I don't use those effects. > > > kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have > > been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.) > > This sounds serious, please file a bug!
I think KDE 4 is coming along nicely now. I do still have some problems, though:
Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu. This only seems to affect pages in frames. (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background: this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website background colour and the View Background colour would help.
Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks.
Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm).
KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no matter the background colour.
Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar.
PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control, though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.)
Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows on rotate.
kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.)
KNode: It seems the article composer has its own hardwired colour scheme, at least for quoted text? That green isn't easy to read on a dark background. I can't figure out where (or how) to change it.
Kwin cube/pager widget: Unbug. On switching desktops (but not on manual rotate), the cube seems to try to adapt its layout to the pager's own 2D world. With a multi-row pager this can lead to cube folding in on itself (though you're perfectly safe if you don't think about it).
Switching desktops: This is not a bug, either, but isn't there a way to turn off the huge you've-just-switched-desktops "OSD" that pops up every time? It tends to blot out part of the app I want to see instead.
Panels: This is not necessarily a bug, but panels don't always seem to shrink or expand with the contents (say, a growing task bar).
Desktop: This is not a bug, but I really wish I could pop up a launcher menu with a middle click AND a window list with a right click AND use the wheel to switch desktops. All at the same time, too. As it is I can either have just the window list or just the desktop switching (although the paste-into-sticky-note thing is spiffy, too, I'll admit that).
"Add Widgets" list and Adept: Couldn't the widgets/packages be sorted in some manner? (Alphabetically?)
Desktop Theme Details control panel: Mixing & matching bits of different themes just doesn't seem to work for me. I don't know if this is a bug. Also, I wish the translucent bits could be made a little less translucent. Things can get hard to read, what with everything else shining through.
There's probably more. It's nothing terribly dramatic, just a little awkward at times. I've also noticed many bugfixes over the past upgrades from 4.early to 4.3 RC2. And nothing got worse *g*
I've paid more attention to the SID in some Commodores, but I was quite impressed with the nasty, gritty POKEY sound in these Atari 8-bit demos: Zero, Pure, Unfused, Recall... I don't even know if those are the best. (I do have an 800 XL somewhere but precious little working software, most importantly Archon.) The PC beeper was one reason not to envy PC users...
The realtime kernel (in my case) is for audio, actually. My life doesn't depend on it, and it's largely voodoo to me, but it gets me lower CPU usage, lower latencies, and fewer under/overruns in JACK.
KDE 4.1 didn't work for me, for several reasons, the dualhead thing among them, so of course I'm wondering if KDE 4.2 has the same problems. (My own anecdotes are actually quite relevant to me!)
KDE 3.5.10 suits me just fine, and I know my way around it more or less... but I'd rather not "fear" the upgrade should that time arrive. (At the moment the state of Ubuntustudio's realtime kernel keeps me from upgrading, and I don't have the patience to try and see if I can start over with 64 Studio, Jacklab, what have you).
Do you have dual (usable) monitors on any virtual desktop past the first? My 2nd monitor turns into a dead black area there, with a "busy" mouse cursor and no functionality whatsoever. That is - with KDE 4.1. I was wondering if this has been fixed for KDE 4.2, but there're no up-to-date KDE 4 packages to try it with.
Well, I was responding to the A.C. who had the same problem... (the article did get a number of helpful comments, too). Certainly installation can be confusing if you don't already know what you're looking for and where to look for it...
Slashdot Mirror
I installed it when Amarok's UI got buggy and stuck with it since then. It crashes when attempting to read in my SID collection and I can't for some reason push any part of its window outside the borders of the screen (like on an Amiga) -- but other than that it's good enough.
The way it presents the music library made me listen to full albums again instead of constantly cobbling together impromptu playlists of isolated favourites-of-the-moment.
Too bad. But of course I can keep using it.
When I go to mozilla.com, a big green button offers me a .tar.bz2 with a distro-agnostic Firefox binary. Isn't that what you mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTLD
Meaning: BSD users desire Linux?
If you right-click the right spot on the GUI, you can unlock the layout and then drag the panes around. You can also combine several panes into a tabbed single pane.
I did try OpenSuse but not for long since resuming from suspend-to-RAM crashed every time and I'm unwilling to use a distro without working suspend/resume. What's better about KDE in OpenSuse (or Arch, Chakra or Mandriva, for that matter) than in Kubuntu? Everyone's harping on Kubuntu but I rarely see reasons given; not that I couldn't think of things to complain about in Kubuntu (Akonadi, Nepomuk, Virtuoso... sigh)
Oooh, let me try!
Dolphin: no idea - perhaps something to do with (web)surfing? [I do know it's a file manager]
Gwenview: a viewer of some sort? [I do know it is]
Blogilo: a blogging tool?
KGet: a frontend to wget? [I do know it's download manager]
Kopete: a kurrency konverter? [I do know it's an instant messenger]
Kstars: something to do with stars - planetarium software? [I do know it is]
Parley: an instant messenger/IRC client?
Marble: a game? [I know it's a globe of earth]
Cantor: math app? Assuming it's not a philosophy app, anyway...
Rocs: no idea!
Nepomuk: no idea! [I do know it has to do with search and the 'semantic desktop']
Akonadi: no idea! [I do know it... er... serves my PIM data?]
Kauth: a security/groupware/superuser something-or-other...?
KNewStuff3: a portal for an app store? [I do know it's... something like that]
Isn't "lurker" what they called the slum denizens of Babylon 5?
It's pronounced "useable", I suppose?
It's ridiculously complex, but I'm sure I can make it even worse. Audio production is JACK territory. JACK is an "audio connection kit" meant specifically for apps like Ardour (recording), Rosegarden (sequencer), Hydrogen (drummachine), JACK-Rack (virtual rack for effects plugins), ZynAddSubFX (software synthesizer), or Jamin (JAck Mastering INterface). When you run the JACK daemon, these and other apps can talk to JACK rather than fight over access to the sound hardware.
/dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1, and /dev/audio.
More interestingly, JACK lets you connect the MIDI and audio inputs and outputs of these applications and your sound hardware to each other in meaningful ways. For example, you could (1) let Rosegarden control Hydrogen and an external, physical synthesizer via MIDI, (2) let an external MIDI keyboard control ZynAddSubFX, (3) send Hydrogen's output to JACK-Rack, (4) send JACK-Rack's and ZynAddSubFX's outputs and the soundcard's line-in to Jamin, (5) send Jamin's output to Ardour or Audacity or whatever else you want to use to record the results, (6) and so on. (I don't know if such a setup ever happens in the real world. Perhaps you're now twitching in light of my audio naivety. But it was just an example.)
Check out http://jackaudio.org/intro and http://jackaudio.org/faq for a friendly introduction.
With QJackCtl, you get a graphical JACK front-end that'll let you set stuff up with relative ease. Install it.
What JACK then DOES all the audio buzzing about "within" it is, typically, this: It gives it to ALSA. Unlike Pulse, JACK, GStreamer, Xine, Phonon and many of the other funny names you'll come across, ALSA is part of the kernel (or rather, has parts in the kernel). So ALSA is not an optional convenience. The ALSA project provides soundcard drivers; through ALSA, applications talk to the sound hardware. (Unless you install OSS4, I suppose. Or do something else I don't know about.)
I usually attach JACK to the ALSA interface hw:0. The hw: interfaces provide direct access to the sound hardware, bypassing ALSA's own software mixing, rate conversion, and other niceties that may (?) slow things down or lower quality. hw:x,y means soundcard x, subdevice y. hw:x without a subdevice means use whatever subdevice is available. In my case, subdevice 0 has four hardware audio channels, and subdevice 1 has one. I suppose that's why I can let JACK talk to hw:0 without it blocking out any other, non-JACK applications like the Flash plugin, media players, or games.
There'll be other ALSA interfaces available in QJackCtl besides hw:, in my case: plughw:. And Audacity's preferences offer a different and larger ranger of ALSA devices besides hw:0,0 and hw:0,1, for example: spdif, iec958, dmix, and default. As far as I know, plughw:, dmix and default all provide software mixing, so they may have their uses if you find some application blocked by another (such as the JACK daemon) due to a lack of hardware mixing. And if ALSA's software mixing doesn't work for you either, PulseAudio or something like it comes in as another layer on top of ALSA providing software mixing.
ALSA woes can be mended and virtual ALSA devices with specific properties created in ~/.asoundrc, though if you're lucky you don't need that file at all. See http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/.asoundrc for the lowdown.
I said JACK attaches to ALSA, but you can also attach JACK to OSS, for example. OSS these days is something like a compatibility layer provided by ALSA, which has replaced OSS. OSS devices on my system are
There's also OSS4, which isn't "legacy" and which some ALSA-frustrated users swear by. It doesn't come with any distributions I'm aware of, so you might have to install it yourself.
I suppose you could also attach JACK to (say) PulseAudio as an intermediary layer betwe
10.00 Beta, build 4402. Browser identification: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00.
With KDE and KWin compositing, there's some visual noise and I'm dropped back into the KDM/GDM login. With GNOME or a desktop-FX-less KDE, the computer freezes. (I was trying to figure out which combination (if any) of browser features, display manager, desktop environment, compositing engine etc. might trigger the problem, but not successfully. It's rather tedious work, too...)
That's the first webpage I've seen that actually crashes X (when using Opera). I suppose that's not the punchline? :)
So what's a "Spezl"?
> I am on KDE 4.3 RC2, so things may have been fixed from whatever KDE you were using. Which
> version have you? Can you test with KDE 4.3?
I'm using 4.2.96 (4.3 RC2) as packaged for Kubuntu 9.04.
> > Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu.
> > This only seems to affect pages in frames.
>
> I cannot reproduce, and you point to a specific site?
Any site with frames (that I've tested):
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_frame_cols
> > (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background:
> > this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website
> > background colour and the View Background colour would help.
>
> Again I cannot reproduce. What site, and what is your background colour setting?
Black or blackish. It probably affects any site that doesn't have a background colour of its
own, for example:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html
> > Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media
> > along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places
> > instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks.
>
> Is this an English installation, or translated? I do not have that issue in neither my English nor
> Hebrew interfaces.
English. The equivalent tab in the Kickoff menu works, by the way.
> > Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor
> > colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after
> > search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm).
>
> I don't have this issue, either! And I use Kate a lot.
Hm again. I've seen complaints about both (1) and (2) before, so it's not just me... black background
again; it's possible the cursor turns black rather than background-coloured.
> > KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no
> > matter the background colour.
>
> Which theme? I cannot reproduce this, either!
Any theme I've tried! The results list box that pops up to the right of the main search box always uses
the "View Background" colour (black, unsurprisingly) with black text (except for the highlighted entry).
"Command oriented" mode has readable text, although I don't understand its autocomplete function.
I type "fetc", it completes "fetchmail" and puts the cursor at the end of it, but I still have to type
"fetchmail" before "Run fetchmail" appears below.
> > Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the
> > pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar.
>
> I cannot find that widget, though I have seen it in the past. Again, I am useless!
>
> > PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control,
> > though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.)
>
> I don't use those features, so I don't know. Sorry.
>
> > Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows
> > on rotate.
>
> I don't use those effects.
>
> > kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have
> > been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.)
>
> This sounds serious, please file a bug!
There's this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi
I think KDE 4 is coming along nicely now. I do still have some problems, though:
Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu. This only seems to affect pages in frames. (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background: this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website background colour and the View Background colour would help.
Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks.
Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm).
KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no matter the background colour.
Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar.
PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control, though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.)
Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows on rotate.
kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.)
KNode: It seems the article composer has its own hardwired colour scheme, at least for quoted text? That green isn't easy to read on a dark background. I can't figure out where (or how) to change it.
Kwin cube/pager widget: Unbug. On switching desktops (but not on manual rotate), the cube seems to try to adapt its layout to the pager's own 2D world. With a multi-row pager this can lead to cube folding in on itself (though you're perfectly safe if you don't think about it).
Switching desktops: This is not a bug, either, but isn't there a way to turn off the huge you've-just-switched-desktops "OSD" that pops up every time? It tends to blot out part of the app I want to see instead.
Panels: This is not necessarily a bug, but panels don't always seem to shrink or expand with the contents (say, a growing task bar).
Desktop: This is not a bug, but I really wish I could pop up a launcher menu with a middle click AND a window list with a right click AND use the wheel to switch desktops. All at the same time, too. As it is I can either have just the window list or just the desktop switching (although the paste-into-sticky-note thing is spiffy, too, I'll admit that).
"Add Widgets" list and Adept: Couldn't the widgets/packages be sorted in some manner? (Alphabetically?)
Desktop Theme Details control panel: Mixing & matching bits of different themes just doesn't seem to work for me. I don't know if this is a bug. Also, I wish the translucent bits could be made a little less translucent. Things can get hard to read, what with everything else shining through.
There's probably more. It's nothing terribly dramatic, just a little awkward at times. I've also noticed many bugfixes over the past upgrades from 4.early to 4.3 RC2. And nothing got worse *g*
I've paid more attention to the SID in some Commodores, but I was quite impressed with the nasty, gritty POKEY sound in these Atari 8-bit demos: Zero, Pure, Unfused, Recall... I don't even know if those are the best. (I do have an 800 XL somewhere but precious little working software, most importantly Archon.) The PC beeper was one reason not to envy PC users...
Though now that I've said that, they're everywhere.
Oh? That's exactly what it looks like for me (Opera 9.64). The funny buttons only seem to appear once per page, so I don't really mind.
Odin: Receives wisdom of runes will hanging from World Tree. Buddha: Englightened while meditating under Sacred Fig tree.
Installing the binfmt-support package does make .EXEs executable (makes the kernel invoke wine on its own)
The Borg icon actually fits: Axum, aka Five of Twelve.
The realtime kernel (in my case) is for audio, actually. My life doesn't depend on it, and it's largely voodoo to me, but it gets me lower CPU usage, lower latencies, and fewer under/overruns in JACK.
KDE 4.1 didn't work for me, for several reasons, the dualhead thing among them, so of course I'm wondering if KDE 4.2 has the same problems. (My own anecdotes are actually quite relevant to me!)
KDE 3.5.10 suits me just fine, and I know my way around it more or less... but I'd rather not "fear" the upgrade should that time arrive. (At the moment the state of Ubuntustudio's realtime kernel keeps me from upgrading, and I don't have the patience to try and see if I can start over with 64 Studio, Jacklab, what have you).
Do you have dual (usable) monitors on any virtual desktop past the first? My 2nd monitor turns into a dead black area there, with a "busy" mouse cursor and no functionality whatsoever. That is - with KDE 4.1. I was wondering if this has been fixed for KDE 4.2, but there're no up-to-date KDE 4 packages to try it with.
Well, I was responding to the A.C. who had the same problem... (the article did get a number of helpful comments, too). Certainly installation can be confusing if you don't already know what you're looking for and where to look for it...