hi dale and all. yes, the pathname was wrong.
thank you for your help. :) At 11:15 02/09/04 -0500, you wrote: >Hope I'm not missing the point, or saying something obvious, but I've had >a similar problem in several incarnations of Mandrake. The problem (in my >case, at least), is that the pathname is wrong. The pathname I found >was "/usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf", but it should be "/usr/sbin/drakxconf". >Note the pathname difference *and* the difference in filenames, drakxconf >instead of drakconf (which is the command-line version). I fixed it by >right-clicking on the menu-entry, going down to properties, clicking on >that, and changing the path-name. Then I opened menudrake, changed the >pathname there, and saved. Finally, I trashcanned the old desktop icon >and dragged a new one from the menu. Presto! Mandrake Control Center >works. > >Dale Huckeby > >ps. I had a lot of frustration with menudrake until I realized that you >have to rightclick on the menu-item, choose properties and change the >pathname *there* in addition to changing it in menudrake. > > >On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Does this happen when in Gnome or any other Window Manager other than > KDE, but > > KDE works OK? And do you get the same symptom when trying to open any other > > 'drak' tool? > > > > If so it is a bug I reported to Cooker in 9.0Beta2 but no one else seemed to > > have a problem with it. When I upgraded to Beta 3 it went away, and I have > > not tried Beta4 or RC1. > > > > If this describes your symptoms I suggest a clearly worded post to > the Cooker > > list might be in order. > > > > derek
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