Lots of problems - help please

From: Daniel Klein (bringa_at_gmx.at)
Date: 06/24/04

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    Hi,

    I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden.

    Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a
    little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a
    problem with getting X to like my mouse (IntelliMouse Explorer).. I had
    to type startx twice to get X and KDE up and running, but then things
    were fine. Now everything's come crumbling down.

    First of all, I had the alt-tab bug for some time (see my other mails in
    this list). That behaviour has stopped now. Alt-tab stopped working
    altogether, I get the taskbox and NOTHING ELSE. I can close it with ESC.
    Great. Next, my mouse has become sluggish like hell. We're talking maybe
    3 or 4 fps when I move the cursor around.

    Also, I fail to remember what dpgk-reconfigure I have to run to do
    anything to my X Server. It is absolutely foggy to me, why X runs KDE
    (I've looked around the X config files and found no mention of KDE at
    all). I wanted to try fvwm, just to see if that'd run bearably fast
    (we're talking Athlon TB 1200 / 512 MB RAM / very fast 200 gigs hd /
    Geforce 3). I have absolutely no clue how to do that in debian.

    I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you
    have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package
    is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and
    I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would help
    already. There's xf86config, xf86cfg, dpkg-reconfigure
    whateverIhavetotype here and the settings in KDE. This is a damn
    headache, and I'd be infinitely grateful if someone could help me with this.

    The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve
    this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux
    mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows
    for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my best
    to manage it. I had such high hopes for debian as well, it seemed perfect :/

    Thanks for any help you can offer.

    Daniel 

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