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From: Chick Tower on 11 Apr 2010 23:12
On 2010-04-10, Chick Tower <c.tower(a)deadspam.com> wrote:
> ***If anyone knows how to do that in Fluxbox, or X overall,
> I would appreciate hearing about it.***

To reply to myself, I asked this on my local LUG mailing list. A couple
of people suggested using the xset command to set the mouse acceleration
under X. You could consult the man page, but, in short, the necessary
parameters are

xset m <acceleration value> <threshhold>

Since I only wanted it to work in Fluxbox, I put it in
~/.fluxbox/startup rather than in ~/.xinitrc.
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From: Bernard Hoffmann on 12 Apr 2010 09:12
On Apr 9, 4:36 pm, "j...(a)wexfordpress.com" <j...(a)wexfordpress.com>
wrote:
> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?
>
> John Culleton

I switched from Gnome to Xfce in 2006. For brief periods in 1999 and
2005 Kde was my desktop, and Kde3.5 is still running on a Debian Lenny
install now on one machine which I hardly use. After trying and
evaluating the different Kde4 releases now many times up to 4.3.4 I'm
quite sure I will never use it, a main reason being all the database
and storage centralizations that have been alluded to elsewhere in
this thread.
There is nothing here that I really need, never used Kontact or Kmail
etc. any way. For me it will be Xfce for the foreseeable future, and
sometimes Afterstep.

Barnabyh

On the road without my pc, hence using googlegroups.
From: Chick Tower on 12 Apr 2010 14:16
On 2010-04-11, tapp <tapp(a)linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Chick Tower <c.tower(a)deadspam.com> [Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:40:08 +0000]
>
>> However, I miss having mouse acceleration.
>> ***If anyone knows how to do that in Fluxbox, or X overall, I would
>> appreciate hearing about it.***
>
> I'm not sure this is really you're asking about, but well: you can control
> mouse acceleration in all X based WMs with "xset m a t", with a =
> acceleration and t = pixel treshold.

Yes, that's exactly what I was asking about. Thank you very much, Tapp.
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From: Uncle Vince on 12 Apr 2010 19:05
On Friday 09 April 2010 07:36 am, john(a)wexfordpress.com wrote:

> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?

I run KDE 3.5.10 on SlamD64-12.2. The install DVD I burned came with KDE
4.0.x. In early 2009, for the hell of it, I installed that version of KDE
4, and even then, only because I wanted to test Amarok 2.0.2. I know those
were early versions of each application but I was unimpressed with the
changes to them. So I reinstalled Slamd64 with KDE 3.5.10 and I've been
using it since. It works well and it works the way I like.

I read the Linux groups to keep up-to-date on the progress of KDE4 and
Amarok 2 but, so far, it doesn't look like I'll be upgrading to either
anytime soon.

--
I've seen that look on Hawkman's face enough times, Jess. He's about to go
off.--Rick"Hourman"Tyler
From: E. Hoffmann on 3 May 2010 13:46
Jim Kalb schrieb:

>>>>>> "john(a)wex" == john(a)wexfordpress com <john(a)wexfordpress.com> writes:
>
> john(a)wex> I ask the
> john(a)wex> general question, what GUI do you currently run? And
> john(a)wex> why?
>
> fvwm. No bloat, and you can set up everything exactly the way you
> want.
>
So do I. Fvwm does not work out of the box, neither does the slackware
distribution, it has a comparatively steep learning curve, but everything
you configure you set down into a configuration file where it can be re-read
and re-used for years. Upgrading or changing a distribution does not mean
that you have to do configuration over again, just use those configuration
files. I like that. Never more "where was that menu where I started
PROGRAM": instead

cd .fvwm
grep PROGRAM *

I find this comfortable.


Erch

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