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centos machines:
bolt (ewimmer)
watercress (zoran)
cotd03
superbear (dhatch)
superbee (dhatch)
suse machines:
funk
Concerns:
- math library is different (maybe better),
e.g. cos(0.029461298225215302)
- no ddd
- no icemon64
- sbowline reports vnc problems
argh! yeah, can't alt-middle to rotate objects in zeno
Resources:
http://lois4/document/the-lucas-companies-guide-to-kde-and-centos/
http://lois4/document/ilm-centos-migration-faq/
Q: when double-clicking to copy a word in gnome-terminal, it doesn't get ~ or =
A: Edit Profile -> General -> Select-by-word characters, add ~=
ARGH! How the hell do I save the profile???
QUESTIONS:
Q: how to configure hotkeys (e.g. to raise/lower windows) from the command line?
Subject: how to configure kde hotkeys from command line?
How do I configure kde hotkeys (e.g. to raise/lower windows)
from the command-line?
E.g. I have F1/F2 configured to raise/lower windows
(this was hard wired into my synapses long ago; it can't be changed).
When an app wants an F1 or F2
usually something like shift-F1 works just as well (e.g. mathematica help),
or I can use a menu as a last resort...
However there are some things for which I simply can't
find another way to get at the feature without F1...
For example, htop's Help.
I know I can do
start menu -> control center (or kcontrol) -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard shortcuts...
but that amount of interaction, for something
that I only want for a few seconds at a time,
completely violates my sensibilities.
What I want is the ability to say:
alias myshortcutsoff <some magic>
alias myshortcutson <some anti-magic>
and then:
myshortcutsoff
... use F1 like normal people do for a few seconds ...
myshortcutson
Any clues?
A: (from Thomas Chan):
alias myshortcutsoff 'kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group "Global Shortcuts" --key "Window Raise" "" && kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group "Global Shortcuts" --key "Window Lower" "" && dcop kwin KWinInterface reconfigure'
alias myshortcutson 'kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group "Global Shortcuts" --key "Window Raise" "F1" && kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group "Global Shortcuts" --key "Window Lower" "F2" && dcop kwin KWinInterface reconfigure'
Then to see help in htop, in gnome-terminal,
also need to do: Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Help -> Contents -> clear this out
then htop, and F1.
Can't get it at all in konsole, thought Thomas says he can, weird.
Q: how to get it to save my window configuration for next login??
A: kcontrol -> KDE components -> Session manager
change from "restore previous session"
to "restore manually saved session"
wtf? I don't even know how to save a session, so changing it to:
"start with an empty session"
(see answer from thomas)
ANSWERED QUESTIONS (most recent first):
Q: I want ctrl-b to backspace over words delimited by spaces, not some other
freakish idea of what a word is. How?
A: Look for "wordchars" in the man page.
The default (when unset) is '*?_-.[]~=’.
So add some stuff:
set wordchars = '*?_-.[]~=/'
Q: how to copy-paste text from htop?
A: shift-select the text
Q: how to make firefox not start by loading all 30 URLs that killed it last time?
A: From Thomas Chan:
Put about:config in the url bar.
search for browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
and double click it to set it to false.
Q: how to make the kde window manager (or whatever)
show the window size when I resize the window,
most importantly in terminal windows?
A: start menu -> control center (or kcontrol) -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Moving -> Display window geometry when moving or resizing -> YES
Q: focus stealing?
A: I don't know the details of what behaves well by default and what doesn't,
but this sure seems like a good idea so I did it:
start menu -> control center (or kcontrol) -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Advanced -> Focus stealing prevention level: Extreme
Descriptions of the various levels are available via Help -> what's this?
Q: where is lsof?
A: /usr/sbin/lsof (what the heck is it doing there??)
Q: this isn't loading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_pqwk-WkBc
is it a flash problem? flash player 7, need flash player 10 or something?
A: yes, download the tar.gz and install it per instructions
WEIRD, the current download tar.gz just contains the .so,
without any installation script...
so, running the one I had from the beginning of last year instead.
Oh no, it complains not compatible with 64-bit architecture...
OH, per message from Christopher Marlett 9/18/2009,
check to make sure there are no plugins in my .mozilla/plugins
or anywhere in my default profiles plugins folder that would
be overriding the global default (which should be 10.0.32.18)
rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/{flashplayer.xpt,libflashplayer.so}
and restart firefox.
Yup, that fixed it!
Q: how to make firefox come up when links are clicked on in gnome-terminal
and thunderbird?
A: (from the document)
In firefox:
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> System Defaults -> Check Now
Then restart gnome-terminal.
Q: how to turn ice cream on?
sudo /etc/init.d/icecream start
but how do I make it turn on automatically on startup?
/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep ice
sudo /sbin/chkconfig icecream on
/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep ice
Q: how to make all the title bars smaller?
A: control center -> Appearance & Themes -> Window Decorations -> BlueCurve
control center -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts -> Window title -> change from 9 to 12
control center -> Appearance & Themes -> Theme Manager -> Platinum (not sure that makes any difference in size but that's what I'm doing)
(oh that changed the window decorations to System++)
(whatever, looks good)
Q: how to get konsole to remove that excess crap from the window title?
A: can't. use gnome-terminal instead. (change the app of the launcher;
the launcher name will stay konsole, don't know how to change that)
Q: argh! ctrl-s / ctrl-q don't work for scrolling control in konsole?
A: settings -> configure konsole -> use ctrl-s/ctrl-q flow control
Q: how to get the centos shell to see shift-enter as enter?
A: it's a konsole thang.
Settings -> keyboard -> change from XFree 4.x.x to Linux console
Q: how to turn off xlock?
A: start menu -> control center -> appearance & themes -> screen saver
turn off "require password to stop"
Q: can I get the gnome cpu meter applet? or any alternative to the useless default cpu meter?
A: use ksysguard.
right click on panel -> add applet to panel -> System Guard
right click on it -> Setup Update Interval... (I set mine to 1 second)
to add a sensor: right click -> Launch System Guard,
expand localhost in Sensor Browser,
drag a sensor from there to the display window
can't get it to show iowait though.
Q: I successfully moved my terminal launcher applet to a different panel,
but now I can't move any other launchers... when I drag them around,
the cursor blinks with a circle-with-line-through-it
A: just do it 100 times, eventually it will take
Q: how to configure hotkeys (e.g. to push/pop windows)
A: start menu -> control center (or kcontrol) -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard shortcuts
Windows
Raise Window -> F1
Lower Window -> F2
Q: how to get konsole to remove the tabs bar from the bottom?
A: right click on it -> Hide
Q: how to get rid of the konsole menu bar?
A: Settings menu -> Hide Menubar
Q: how to get konsole to put the scroll bar on the left?
A: Settings -> scrollbar-> left
Q: other konsole crap removal?
A: settings menu -> configure konsole -> show frame -> OFF
Q: I created a "kasbar" (right click on taskbar -> add new panel -> kasbar)
How do I get rid of it?
A: on the other (normal) panel, Remove Panel -> Kasbar
Q: p4diff isn't in my path (/san/dept/rnd/etc/p4diff)
A: add it, I guess. weird.
Q: how to get the mouse to go fast on centos but slow on suse?
A: edit .xsession
there's a line that makes it go fast:
xset m 5/1 10
make that happen only on centos.
(it's 2/1 4 otherwise...
on suse it was 2/1 3)
(hmm I might like this better on centos:)
xset m 3/1 3
Q: how to make it not bring up bam-central?
A: comment out the line in .xsession