So I finally managed to solve the little problem I had with text boxes being too large. I tried everything and couldn't shrink it at all.
And now it's fixed itself. What's the difference? I didn't use kdm (the KDE login manager). Of course xdm didn't work either, so I'm going back to using startx. I don't mind; I like it when things look the way they're supposed to.
I also created a new stylesheet yesterday, a red-orange-yellow autumn-leaves theme that I really like. After I finished, I noticed that the color scheme looks remarkably like Dorothea's. Imitation and flattery, and all that?
Dorothea Salo says:
Liz over on mamamusings had yellow-and-red long before I ever did.It's not an unpopular scheme.
jl says:
Perhaps you could set the leaves background not to scroll with the rest of the page -- its a bit busy when the bg is approx half the page. (so where does the spell checker come from or is it only an mt thing --- hmm it doesn't like bg but accepts approx)
Laurabelle says:
I tend not to set backgrounds to stay fixed, because at least when I tried it first, it didn't work well in browsers. I mean, the effect worked the way it was supposed to, but page scrolling was really slow and jerky. Besides, I tend to find it distracting.
If the background is half the page, how wide do you have your browser window?
The speel-chucker is a MT plugin written by someone else, I forget who. It uses ispell, which means that because the admin of the webserver my site is on is a brit, the dictionary is British English. I also am unable to teach it any words, which is mildly annoying. I haven't given up on it quite yet, though, because it's slightly better than nothing.
jl says:
Haven't noticed the jerky scrolling, but then I haven't set up many pages like that either.
Screen resolution is 1280 X 1024 which is the default for my monitor.
jl says:
bummer I'm spam -- try a different email address - cause the other is on at least one black list -- sigh,
JL
jl says:
Hey, Mr. James Seng's bayesian filter sucks. Just thought you'd like to know.... (and your spell checker doesn't like "bayesian" ;-) )
Laurabelle says:
The filter doesn't suck; it just hasn't been fed enough comments yet. And don't feel bad that it marks all your comments as spam; mine usually get marked as spam too. :-)
(It is getting better, but it evidently still has its moments.)