Re: Lots of problems - help please

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:12:02 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote:
> 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'd install a display manage (kdm,gdm) I use wdm. This will allow you to
select your window manager (fvwm).

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?

apt-cache search firewall

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

dpkg --get-selections
dpkg -l

> 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
-Kev

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