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Franklin, I've see you're post about antialiasing font in linux there are very nice...
But I have a little problem, can I have your email, or just reply to your original post?
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Sorry for the OT...

Franklin,

Thanks for that heads up.

I had installed the previous version of Freerock just after Slackware 10.2 was released and it completely shagged my menus in KDE, so much so that I uninstalled it pretty quickly. 2.12.1 did still affect my KDE menus but to a far lesser extent and not to the point where I had to follow the advice on Freerock's FAQ to unjumble them.

Like some other posters, I normally use KDE but it's good to have the choice and so far Freerock feels nippier than KDE.

Regards,

dkpw

Gware made a huge mess on KDE so I decided that Slackware should be kde-only. Besides KDE already has the software I need and gnome would just provide "copies" of em.

Hello again,

I will hijack this thread with one more post only because I said I would post the results from using the patched fam package.

I installed the new fam package from dropline on my server (slackware-10.2 - 2.4.31 - no Gnome) and started it up.

I did not at first think there was much difference.

For those who are interested (god help you ) fam, running on the client, will attempt to use famd running on the server. If it cannot, it will drop back to polling at an interval set from one of several config files on the client depending on how fam is started on the client. The default is every 6 seconds supposedly, but I can assure you that what I have been experiencing seems like over 6 times per second. I have seen a number of posts during my search that indicated a small network has been brought to it's knees as a result of this behavior. I believe that /home directories were being exported via NFS in these cases. [0]

My client box has slackware 10.2 with 2.4.31, slackware 10.2 with 2.6.13, and SuSE-10.0.
The 2.6.13 slack install, which I am using mostly now, automounts the NFS share at boot via fstab. An icon is created in Gnome on the desktop automagically and browsing the share from this icon does not cause the hammering of my server now as it used to! If I browse any of the directories further down the tree though my server gets hammered again. So a slight improvement there.

What is odd is this. I have a number of symlinks in my home directory that point to these same files that cauuse the hammering mentioned above. If I browse these directories via the symlinks, I get no hammering. This is new and a big improvement.

I am of the opinion that my configuration is to blame to some degree, but evrything looks ok.

So thats it. I will keep playing and maybe post a success story sometime.

Thanks for the help zborgerd and when I have more time I may post to the dropline forums. Just no time with the holidays and work.

Steve

[0] I admit to only vaguely understanding this