Re: A few quick questions . . .

["Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile redhat com>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Yuki Taga wrote:
>1) Why would /sbin/ifup ppp0 cause my modem to dial only sometimes,
>while other times it just sits and stares at me after I make this command?

Responded in a separate message.

>2) I can't seem to get windows in X to snap open to the maximum space
>without ending up behind the Gnome Panel.  I can't find a way to fix
>this in the docs.

You don't have the panel set to auto-hide, do you?

>3) I can't get exmh...

Exmh, uck.

Does Exmh have network mail-reading capabilities yet?

>4) Why do I get this sometimes when exiting linuxconf?  The file
>/etc/sysconfig/network (for example) as a revision date in the future.
>This probably means that you system time is wrong or has been wrong at
>some point.  (I have news for linuxconf:  It's buggy.  My system clock
>is perfect.  If a file has an incorrect date on it, linuxconf gave it
>that date.)  ^^_^^

*sigh*  Please report this bug at http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla.

>5) Using Gnome with Enlightenment:  I cannot seem to make sense of
>the Alt-Tab circulation.  If I have only two apps open, it seems fine.
>Add a third app and the circulation sometimes works, sometimes breaks down
>(only two cycle) only to get better again as I continue to cycle.

I believe E is trying to emulate the Windows behavior, in which Alt-Tab
takes you first back to the window you were most recently at, then
through the rest.

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