[juneau-lug] Fedora Stuff, KDE 3.2

Just a little report on Fedora Core 1.

I have had FC1 going for 3 wks now and I think I made a good move. It is 
fast as stable. The Fedora community seems to be very active. There are 
a couple of Fedora news sites and I like that packages for new and 
updated programs are available a lot sooner for Fedora than they ever 
were for Redhat.

Speaking of new programs, I have been compiling quite a few that didn't 
have prebuilt packages. I have used to rpmbuild to put together RPM's, 
and Kconfigure for the rest. Most of these new programs were for KDE. I 
built KBarcode, KRename, Bookcase, Tux Notes, amaroK and Scribus.

I upgraded to KDE 3.2 last week. The upgrade didn't go quite as smooth 
as I would have liked. After installing the new packages, I couldn't log 
in because the DCOP server wasn't running. I finally tried logging in as 
root and it went right in to root just fine. Backed out an logged in to 
my normal account and it logged in just fine. Not sure what the problem 
was, but most everything seems to be working fine now. I am having a 
problem with the Find utility, but I don't really need it.

Also, I installed the prelink utility that is supposed to make ELF apps 
load quicker. I ran it on Open Office, but I did something wrong, or ran 
it on the wrong executable. Anyway, I forgot about it until yesterday 
when I was having a problem with something using up the CPU. Turns out 
it was prelink. I unloaded it and all is fine again.

At one of the meetings way back, someone pointed out that in KDE, if you 
go the window menu for an app, you can store the window settings. I 
found out more about this last night...it also remenbers which desktop 
the app is on when you store the settings. I have four desktops: apps, 
web, graphics and multimedia. I open an application on the appropriate 
desktop, or move it there, then save the settings. Next time I open the 
app, it is opened on the correct desktop. Cool!

One other thing. I like to play BZFlag, but at times I could not get 
sound from it if the aRts sound server was running, so I would disable 
it. Then I would have to re-enable it if I wanted to use an app that 
required aRts. Then I found out that aRts grabs control of the sound 
card and won't let esd apps have it. I also found out that there is an 
idle setting for aRts in the Sound System settings. Set this to a low 
number, and the aRts server releases control of the sound card, so esd 
can take it. 'nother problem solved!

Guess that's enough for now.

Later.

Chuck Hakari


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