SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:02:50 -0600
Gary <gv-list-linuxsxs at mygirlfriday.info> wrote:

> Hi Collins,
> 
> --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:06:16 AM -0800 Collins 
> <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > The automatic setup for X produced a usable if not very readable startup
> > for  my old 15" monitor.  After adjusting it for 800x600 it's livable.
> > Unfortunately some of the kde dialogs aren't setup for anything smaller
> > than  1000x768, so I have to mother them around with alt-drag.
> 
> This is one of my pet peeves with SUSE. I am running 8.2, and any time I 
> have changed either monitors, added an additional mouse, or changed it, 
> etc, after the initial install, had nothing but problems. In RH, Kudzo
> most of the time picked up the changes automatically. If not, a simple
> config and it was done.  Not so, in my experience, with SUSE, using SAX2
> (sucks2), changes seem to have been made, but it never works properly, and
> when you go in there again, it changed on me.. In fact, I just spent about
> 4 hours trying to get an additional mouse to work, every time I started up
> Sucks2, it would redefine my monitor incorrectly, which froze the mouse to
> change it, etc. Then try adding the mouse, crazy... amateur status in this
> yet... I got so fed up, the only way to get it right, was the old
> fashioned way, do it by hand.  This caca has happened all the way back to
> v6.4 with me... I have had it.

This is really annoying with mice. Change the mouse and you are in YaST
hell. The menus are, I have concluded, only intended to be used with a
mouse, which is a catch 22. I do know the keyboard shortcuts, but they are
not all properly set up - at least in the mouse selection menu. Tabs move to
the least likely places and selecting an item is iffy. I dread the 'new
hardware' found menu when it involves a mouse.

Still, SUSE is over all pretty good. I will continue to use it in production
systems. If distributions were perfect, we would have to disband the list!

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