Date: 15/7/2003
| Seeing as my KDE 3.1 doesn't restore my keyboard and mouse settings between sessions I've recently had to become conversant with the "command line" way of setting these. And so I'm now going to share this with you (like it or not).
xset m 5 4
xset r rate 250 30
Gives you some basic semblance of a usable mouse and keyboard.
Speaking of the command line whipping the new GUI tools I recently had the misfortune of having to burn a single file on to CD-RW from linux. An amazingly bad array of software is availble to eat your time away, seemingly endless broken packages will parade through your HD promising so much and delivering so little. Lets see, KDE Bake Oven was a complete non-starter. K3b started with a promising GUI config tool, detected all my hardware, setup the permissions to run and then hung X11 trying to saving the resulting config. Not cool... very NOT COOL!
So having a mere 15 minutes left to get the CD-RW burnt I got back to basics and used the command line tools. Which to my delight a) actually work and b) got it right first time. The file was tucked away in the plastic and I was outta there in the nick of time.
Finally I don't know what drug the Gnome coders were on when they made their Desktop folder '~/.gnome-desktop'. They should change it to match KDE's '~/Desktop' right away. Especially since there doesn't appear to be anyway of looking up it's current location. Let alone the user confusion caused when switching between Gnome and KDE. *sigh* (Btw symlinking .gnome-desktop to Desktop doesn't work flawlessly either... I tried it)
Needless to say I'm so impressed with the state of Linux usability that I recommend even seasoned computer veterans stay well away.
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