Personal Frustrations (Dapper)

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:52, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:41, Luka Renko wrote:
> > On 3/9/06, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> > > I am running dapper with the latest updates and have a couple of
> > > frustrations:
> > >
> > > 1.  It appears that Katapult is no longer launching at login and i need
> > > to manually start it.  How do I restore this setting?
> >
> > It is working on my system, but it may be that it is started by "restore
> > session" (my fresh install was done the day Flight4 was released).
> >
> > 2.  I am using a laptop that has the various function keys for volume
> > (fn+)
> >
> > > but they are not working for raising/lower the volume or muting things.
> >
> > Did you try different keyboard layouts (this works on my HP nw8240)?
> > Did they work before and they do not now (regression)?
> >
> > 3.  Kate no longer allows me to open multiple instances of it open.  How
> > do
> >
> > > I
> > > fix that?
> >
> > I really like the new default (thanks to Tonio), but I do not know how
> > this can be changed back to old behaviour. You should probably ask Tonio.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Luka
>
> Hmm I liked the "old" way a lot better, the same for konsole with the tabs
> at the bottom, i much prefer the tabs to be at the top.  I guess I'll have
> to start customizing things, I liked how things looked straight out of the
> box.
>
> I have selected for keyboard layout for the Dell Insipron 8xxx ( I have a
> latitude D810)


I worked with Tonio_ today on figuring out my Kate problem, by editing the K 
Menu entry to inlcude just the application name, I can now get different 
windows.  However still frustrated with a change to how the keyboard works, 
tried different options and on the screen I see the volume 
increasing/decreasing but nothing changes.

JOnathan