[ydl-gen] Re: yellowdog-general Digest, Vol 13, Issue 18

[Larry Miller]

On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:00 AM, yellowdog-general- 
request at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:08:42 -0700
> From: Anthony Lanni <anthony.lanni at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] KDevelop crashes etc etc
> To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List
>     <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
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>  I'm not sure about the other stuff, but you can edit /etc/ 
> sysconfig/desktop
> to read
> DESKTOP="GNOME"
> and that should default you to the gnome environment.

Thanks!

I know everything is just setting parameters in text files, but  
finding out which one is a bear.

Every flavor of Linux or UNIX or OS X seems to have its own flavor of  
boot-up.

This was a real nugget! I see other settings here.

My network connection (via Airport) now persists. I set something  
that makes it happen-- no idea what... But it is also set in etc/ 
sysconfig/networking/profiles/default!

On KDE my home folder icon comes and goes... strange OS...

Larry

>
> thx
> anthony
>
> On 9/12/05, Larry Miller <ldmiller at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> Apple G3 Pismo Powerbook (500 MHz) w/256 Mb Ram, 11G disk and Airport
>> for networking
>> YDL 4.0.1
>> have run yum and gotten all updates from the Open Mirror and Oregon
>> State U.
>>
>> 1. kdevelop:
>>
>> YDL 4.0.1 comes with KDevelop 3.0.3, a KNOWN BUGGY version that
>> crashes if you just open and close it and nothing else!
>>
>> Also, except for the simplest programs it does not output any object
>> code.
>>
>> After more than a YEAR with *no* update from YDL it appears that *no
>> one* uses KDevelop? Is there an update?
>>
>> I went to KDE.org and there are a number of later revisions-- do I
>> have to compile the sources for one of these? Trying to use a pre-
>> compiled binary distro such as from Fedora gets you into Dependency
>> Hell...
>>
>> 2. Network connection:
>>
>> "Forgets" on reboot even though set to come up on login.
>>
>> 3. Firewire connection to CD/DVD burner:
>>
>> Hangs on "sleep", takes several POWER UPs to get its brains back.
>> Installer does not include K3b-- why not? is there another burner
>> program?
>>
>> 4. How do I make GNOME the default environment? When I installed
>> *everything* (trying to fix kdevelop), one of MANY install attempts,
>> there was an app to set the default. I am now set up as a workstation
>> with Gnome added, but this app is nowhere to be seen, and the machine
>> always defaults to KDE, the Crap Desktop. After SIX YEARS no manual!
>> And THIS is going to beat up Microsoft and Apple? Pfah!
>>
>> GTk+ seems much more stable.
>>
>> 2, 3 and 4 seem like they might be related, like there is a
>> configuration file missing.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Larry Miller
>>
>