Re: a funny thing happened - gnome's replacement of important files.

[Tim Lewis <talewis worldnet att net>]

I can see how this could irritate.  You might try running XF86Setup in
the meantime (I asume you are using XFree86 on Redaht 5.2).  This
program is slightly more useful than XConfigurator in configuring the
mouse.  It allows you to select different mouse configurations and test
them and you can recover using keystrokes if it bombs your mouse.  Read
the keystroke bindings at the beginning before moving forward.  

God luck,
Tim



hitch wrote:
> 
> it is an interesting situation that enlightenment almost REQUIRES a
> three button mouse, or at least a three button emulation on a two button
> mouse.  with this I have no problem.  I like lots of buttons.  However,
> I have a touchpad built into my keyboard, and so I can't just nip off to
> the store and get a mouse with three buttons.  So I try the emulation
> method.  I had originally intended to do this in the first place, but
> apparently it didn't "take", and my two button clicks do nothing at
> all.  asking around, I determined that the likely place to change this
> was in linuxconf.  interestingly enough, however, gnome replace
> linuxconf with its own program.  this is hardly upsetting in and of
> itself, except that this program that was perfectly fine on its own, has
> been replaced by one that does not work due to the tangled mass of
> incomprehensible libraries that it cannot find.
> my first suggestion - in the future, rename linuxconf to linuxconf.old
> or some such.  or name your new program something different. but PLEASE
> don't remoce from the system the ability to function without running X.
> I'm more than slightly irritated.
> 
> I assume that copying linuxconf from another system will not be a
> problem?
> --
> - The Hitchhiker
> 
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> great truth is also true."
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