How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

[Dave Feustel]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:10:40PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 11:45:36PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Dave Feustel <dfeustel <at> mindspring.com> writes:
> >> > Neither xterm nor konqueror is in the menu list as far as I can tell.
> >>
> >> Konqueror is definitely in the menu!
> >>
> >> As for xterm, if it isn't listed in the menu, that's a bug in the xterm
> >> package, please file a bug in Bugzilla, all GUI programs are supposed to be
> >> registered in the menus! (But why don't you just use Konsole?)
> >
> > I used konsole for quite a while, but I experienced wierd behavior that
> > seemed to target konsole. I switched to xterm after konsole began
> > starting up with non-stop repeating of 'i' on the command line even
> > when I wasn't touching the keyboard. Another problem I experience
> > even now with xterm is that the first 2 characters I type on a command
> > line after a period of inactivity just don't echo. This has happened
> > so many times that I reject the possiblity that I am not pressing
> > the keys hard enough.
> 
> 
> How many of your machines does this occur on?

I have 4 systems, 2 of which are AMD64. I run Fedora on the oldest
AMD64. This problem has occurred with every OS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, F9)
that I have run on that box. I use a kvm to interface to all 4
computers. I am the only user of these systems.