Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops

1999-10-31 Thread Traci Collins
Barry Marler wrote: In Enlightenment, disable "edge flip". /b It makes me feel better to know that I am approaching this the way the rest of you would approach it. Unfortunately, that was the first thing I did and it resolved the problem of flipping when I got too close to the edge. It

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1999-10-31 Thread Justin Rickert
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[newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I hope you don't mind my repeating this message. My main reason is that I tested Gnomeicu in Gnome (which I should done earlier) and it works fine. But it won't work in KDE. Is there any to make it work in KDE? Thank you, folks, so very much. Benjamin Here is the data for KDE:

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers

[newbie] Time settings !

1999-10-31 Thread David M. Kufta
Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock. The above would only occur if your system was left up and running

Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 03:50, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I hope you don't mind my repeating this message. My main reason is that I tested Gnomeicu in Gnome (which I should done earlier) and it works fine. But it won't work in KDE. Is there any to make it work in KDE? Hi Ben, try

Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?

1999-10-31 Thread Karma Konchog Jungney
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Saturday, Oct 30 1999, 03:16, Benjamin Sher wrote: THINK TWICE AND THRICE BEFORE STEPPING INTO THE INFINITE LOOP OF EMACS AND VIM, or they will eat you up alive or send you straight to a mental asylum. Use a simple text editor such as mcedit, pico,

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Steve Philp
Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is:

Re: [newbie] KDE Problem

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 iso...

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can download this off of the Internet? I have 6.1, but I want to give 6.0 a try. I am having some printer troubles with 6.1, however I have heard that these problems don't exist in Mandrake 6.0. I have been using AltaVista to search

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other. I

[newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card

1999-10-31 Thread Gregg Carrier
Any reason why only about every third message I send here gets through??? quite frustrating... Here goes again: Hi all, Total newbie. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Pentium 2 266mhz. 128meg RAM Video card: Jaton Video87AGP Monitor: IBM 6556 p72 I tried to configure X windows through the install process,

Re: [newbie] Time settings !

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the correct time you can simply run the cmd: clock -w to correctly set your hardware clock. Interestingly enough, my system

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alex V Flinsch wrote: I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the

Re: [newbie] Strange Jumping Between Virtual Desktops

1999-10-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Traci Collins wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I had a similar situation. I cured it by turning off Active Desktop Borders in the KDE Control Center/Desktop/Borders. Hope this helps. It might, my problem is happening in Gnome but there may be a similar

Re: [newbie] Time settings !

1999-10-31 Thread Patrick Putteman
So was mine, time changed automagically to my happy surprise ;o) - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Time settings ! On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list,

Re: [Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?]

1999-10-31 Thread Michael Scottaline
Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think Vi/Vim is as simple as any editor you mentioned above but Vim has more feature like cut/copy-paste, split-window for multiple file editing and colors. i write this letter with Mutt and Vim as the editor (i choose Mutt becouse it can handle multiple

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Brett Jones
Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Steve Philp
Brett Jones wrote: Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? By appending 'eth0' to the end of the ifconfig command, you specify that you only want information for that interface. Here it is:

[newbie] executing programs

1999-10-31 Thread M L Cates
I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute

Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP

1999-10-31 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,Rlongo wrote: | Hi I'm Rob, | | New to the list and using Linux, what's up dudes! Power to the | Penguin!!!? I guess =)I'm lookin for some straight forward step-by-step | information on how to setup an ISP. I have been reading all the How-Tos | that came

[newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE

1999-10-31 Thread Joe Marcom
Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type." What does it mean by this?

Re: [newbie] Spell checker Gone?? 6.1

1999-10-31 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Dunno, It's working fine here! Ernie On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,G_REEPER wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Has anyone noticed that when u run the spell checker in kmail it just pops up | and goes away? Or am i the only one with this. | Steven | |

Re: [newbie] executing programs

1999-10-31 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
M L Cates wrote: I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". The "current directory" is probably not in your path. try typing $ ./program_name Which means run the program right here in this directory. I have tried to type "sh" before the

Re: [newbie] Spell checker Gone?? 6.1

1999-10-31 Thread Hugh
It happened to me once when I had to kill Kmail. Afterward when I restarted the program The checker would appear then disappear I shut down and rebooted and all was well Hugh On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dunno, It's working fine here! Ernie On Sat, 30 Oct 1999,G_REEPER wrote: |

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE

1999-10-31 Thread bluebottle
You need to put some media in the drive before you mount it. John the Nadger On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message:

Re: [newbie] executing programs

1999-10-31 Thread Matt Stegman
I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot

[newbie] Cyrillic fonts in KFM -- poor quality

1999-10-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am thrilled to see that KFM supports Cyrillic as a browser. My thanks to KDE for thinking of us Slavicists. However, I must be frank in saying that the Cyrillic fonts selected for KDE are ugly. There is no other word for it. Just plain ugly. Why couldn't KDE use the same quality

Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Rib: God bless you! How simple the solutions sometimes are: I typed gnomeicu -a and that did it. Works perfectly. Just thrilled. By the way, what does the -a add to it that makes it work in KDE when without the -a option it seems to be dead? Thanks a million. Benjamin -- Benjamin and

[newbie] funky KDE display and fancy-schmancy mouses

1999-10-31 Thread Gregg Carrier
Hi all, I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with KDE installed. A few questions about the K display: When I click on items that generate menus, the menus have no background. It's as if they are on a transparency laid over the destop. Very hard to read since all the words are overlapping. Opening windows

Re: [newbie] Windows 98

1999-10-31 Thread jc
Il me semble que vous avez un an d'avance jeff wrote: Hello all. I have setup a linux server with Mandrake 6.1. Boy was that easy. Then I connected my windows box and setup all the params to log onto my linux box. It has logged on and everything seems fine except it asked for a

[newbie] problems mounting floppy

1999-10-31 Thread David van Balen
I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /proc

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on

Re: [newbie] funky KDE display and fancy-schmancy mouses

1999-10-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with KDE installed. A few questions about the K display: When I click on items that generate menus, the menus have no background. It's as if they are on a transparency laid over the destop. Very hard to read since

Re: [newbie] Graphical Text Editors for programmers

1999-10-31 Thread Seth Gibson
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: Those of you who are planning on becoming programmers and are looking for a GRAPHICAL programmer's text editor, you might wish to consider I would say that the best for programming is definitely code crusader. . .its more of an IDE than a text

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Any reason why only about every third message I send here gets through??? quite frustrating... Here goes again: Hi all, Total newbie. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Pentium 2 266mhz. 128meg RAM Video card: Jaton Video87AGP Monitor: IBM 6556 p72 According to

Re: [newbie] executing programs

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am trying to learn how to do some C programming and my question is this: How do I execute the program after it is compiled? I have tried typing the name of the program in at the prompt and it says "command not found". I have tried to type "sh" before the

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type."

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1999-10-31 Thread Dreja Julag
Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could probably look to a howto, but they are not the friendliest little

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output

[newbie] Segmentation Faults?

1999-10-31 Thread Clyde J. Kell
Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes If I wait nothing happens. If I switch to another console Root or

Re: [newbie] Gnomeicu won't work in KDE!

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 04:23, Benjamin Sher wrote: By the way, what does the -a add to it that makes it work in KDE when without the -a option it seems to be dead? hi Ben, gnomeicu needs gnome-panel to dock the applet. so if you dont use GNOME then you must by pass the panel. more details

Re: [Re: [newbie] Graphical text editors?]

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
On Sunday, Oct 31 1999, 01:11, Michael Scottaline wrote: === You are obviously a very bright young man (oh-oh; apologies if I got the gender wrong). And you've reminded me that I'm not quite marginally competent ;o) hi Mike, please dont say that. it maybe because

[newbie] frontpage98

1999-10-31 Thread Jeremy Schroeder
hello all, is there a program like frontpage98 for Linux?

[newbie] Terminals

1999-10-31 Thread Ribbo
dear friends, which one of these terminals do you like ;) -Konsole -Kvt -Gterm -Aterm -Xterm -Rxvt and all comes with mandrake. here im using WindowMaker,i choose Aterm and make it shaded and transparent. Eterm is great too (but not include in mandrake), you can put background image on it, but

Re: [newbie] Time settings !

1999-10-31 Thread Barry Marler
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote: So was mine, time changed automagically to my happy surprise ;o) On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good Morning newbie-list, Just as a reminder, in order to display the correct time on your linux system, if the cmd: date shows you the

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 03:35:22PM -0800, Dreja Julag wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 07:20:47PM -0500, Clyde J. Kell wrote: Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped What program? Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled

[newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?

1999-10-31 Thread M Thompson
Hi All! I hope someone can lend me some advice. I am currently running Ranish Partition/Boot manager 2.37.12. I am going to upgrade my 1.6Gb hard drive to 18Gb, but the Ranish Partition Manager does not support drives larger than 8 Gb. The 2.38 beta version of Ranish Partition/boot manager

Re: [newbie] problems mounting floppy

1999-10-31 Thread M Thompson
I had a similar experience. First, make sure you have a directory named "/mnt/floppy" Then, to resolve it, I went to a console and then typed: "mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy" without the quotes If the diskette is "ext2," then type: "mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt/floppy" without the quotes

[newbie] Re:

1999-10-31 Thread Karma Konchog Jungney
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could probably look to a howto, but

RE: [newbie] Time settings !

1999-10-31 Thread Ken Wilson
This all seems well and good but I seem to have another problem. The time setting is correct but it continually shows the wrong time zone. It is showing MST and it should be PST. How do I change the time zone. I have tried various permutations of including the 'PST' string inside my command to

[newbie] Re: problems mounting floppy

1999-10-31 Thread David van Balen
It works now (I rebooted). I don't know what the problem was though. DvB

[newbie] Pdksh doesn't run my .profile

1999-10-31 Thread Dan Lauterbach
When I set my login shell to be /bin/ksh and login from the xdm screen using gnome or kde, it doesn't run my .profile. I'm running pdksh-5.2.14, which came with my Linux Mandrake v6.1 distribution. If I switch to another virtual console (crtlaltF2) and login, it runs my .profile just fine. If

[newbie] Creating directory in KFM?

1999-10-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Am I imagining this or is it true that there is no way to create a directory in KFM? I don't see an option for that anywhere. I have to do it in xterm. Is that true or am I missing something? Surely, I must be missing something. This can not be. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher

RE: [newbie] OT Freeware Partition Magic Boot Magic?

1999-10-31 Thread Singer XJ Wang
FIPS is probably your best bet from my Experience. But in my opinion, Partition Magic is worth the price. its Amazing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 10:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: