<foo> simply produces <foo>in the text).
<URL: http://somewhere.tld/ >,
and it will be automatically made into a link.
(Do not try any other way or it might count as an attempt to spam.)mailto: URI,
e.g. mailto:my.email@somewhere.tld,
if you do not have a genuine Web site).
Anonymous Coward #774 (alkama) (2004-04-03T11:11:17Z)
Gentoo is THE distrib;)
have a look!
Anonymous Coward #735 (nat) (2004-03-26T23:07:37Z)
> I'll urgently discourage people who ask me for advice from trying Linux
the answer is 'Knoppix'
> highly configurable
the motto is "DON'T TWEAK THE COMPUTER, you fool. get accustomed with the default configuration. distro maintainers tweak for you to work"
seriously: Debconf will be good for you :-)
phi (2004-03-25T18:30:15Z)
I'm very impressed by your 4×3×3 layout for I have only a 1x1x1 layout. But, true, Windows is able ti manage 1600x1200 pixels, and provide scrollbars in any application, of which many manage tabs.
Nevertheless, don't think Debian is the best distraction: you could have spent more time yet with Windows.
Ruxor (2004-03-25T15:56:07Z)
The viewport-dimensions line is used to enlarge the desktop dimensions (add virtual screens within a desktop): this used to be part of Gnome-1.2 (and easily configurable within the control panel) but it seems that viewports have been deprecated from Gnome-2.4, or not yet integrated, or whatever. However, I can't live without them. It took me some Googling effort to discover (in various mailing-list messages) that sawfish can create them anyway even if Gnome won't.
(To make things perhaps clearer, the layout is conceptually three-dimensional: it is divided in "desktops" which are themselves larger than the screen area and can be divided in "viewports". I am accustomed to having a 4×3×3 layout: four desktops each 3×3 times the screen size. The viewport-dimensions line creates the 3×3 viewports.)
bort (2004-03-25T14:46:30Z)
I agree that, at least after getting used to Gnome-over-Sawfish, the new Gnome-over-Metacity seems like utter crud.
However: you mention you had to "work around a stupid limitation of Gnome by adding the cryptic line (define-special-variable viewport-dimensions '(3 . 3))" and add "Needless to say, there is absolutely no kind of documentation anywhere that tells you to add this line, or why you need it.". So, why do I need it? And where did you find this was the way to fulfill this need?