Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export
On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 22:48, Jesus Arocho wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Although I did not understand your last > paragraph, I did learn a few things from your example. I did get all > of the values and the variables were gone when the script ended. Maybe > I have been confused all along. Here is my file: > > #!/bin/sh > PALMTOPCENTERDIR=/opt/Qtopia/qtopiadesktop > QTDIR=/usr/local/qt > PATH=$PATH:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/lib > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$QTDIR/lib:$PALMTOPCENTERDIR/:$PALMTOP >CENTERDIR/lib export QTDIR PALMTOPCENTERDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > I expected the variables to retain the new values when the script ends. > So, I open a terminal from KDE desktop, run the script, do some work, > and close the terminal. Except that the new values only exist for > whatever process runs from that particular shell. > > The question then is, can this be done? If you want them all the time, add those commands to ~/.bashrc, or if you want all users to access them, add them to /etc/profile. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 11 hours 18 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 17:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 01:18, James wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, > > > thats too much of an understatement! > > > > 3 points. > > > > 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. > > 2. What's LX > > That I can answer. ;) LX happens to be my initials. I put them out > there so nobody has to learn how to spell my name. ;) Faster for > everyone to type, too. > > > 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have > > just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone.> > > > > > -- > > > Femme > > That's understandable for businesses, but was all that drive capacity > the property of Peter Ruskin personally? Maybe I misunderstood and he > was emailing from work or something. Just curious. Too old to work - I'm as good as retired now (bus pass from December). > > Best Regards, > > LX -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 17 hours 20 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IE & wine
On Wednesday 12 Jun 2002 15:55, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I generally use either codeweaver's wine or transgaming's wine, for > former because of the very nice tools for installation and setup (and > it tends to work better for me than snapshots from winehq) and the > latter for games - NOTHING beats transgaming for game playing ability. > > I have been able to get IE 4.0 to run under codeweaver wine, had mixed > success with late 2001 versions of wine from winehq. Transgaming isn't > very good at this sort of app in general. I haven't tried more recent > snapshots from winehq. > > As for post-IE 4.0 versions and wine, I was unable to get any of them > to work. IE 4.0 works fine except for the icons on the nav bar being > blacked out. You may have better luck with more recent IE's with a > recent wine...all I can say is try. It is really the only way to find > out. > My IE version 6.0 works fine with Codeweavers. > praedor > > On Wednesday 12 June 2002 09:38 am, Udo Rader wrote: > > hi list, > > > > for various reasons I need (please note: "need", not "want" ...) to > > have a running IE5.x (or IE6.x) running on my lm 8.2 box. > > > > lacking a windows license it is no option for me to use > > vmware/win4lin, so I decided to give wine a try ... > > > > has anybody got any experience with wine under LM8.2 in general (I > > installed the snapshot from the club-members downloads-page) and with > > installing & running IE on it? > > > > any suggestions are welcome! > > > > thanks > > > > udo -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 7 hours 9 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IE & wine
On Wednesday 12 Jun 2002 15:38, Udo Rader wrote: > hi list, > > for various reasons I need (please note: "need", not "want" ...) to > have a running IE5.x (or IE6.x) running on my lm 8.2 box. > > lacking a windows license it is no option for me to use vmware/win4lin, > so I decided to give wine a try ... > > has anybody got any experience with wine under LM8.2 in general (I > installed the snapshot from the club-members downloads-page) and with > installing & running IE on it? > > any suggestions are welcome! > > thanks > > udo It works here Udo. I'm using Codeweavers wine (because it works) on 8.2. I have a native Windows98 partition mounted on /mnt/win/c. So my command for what you want is... wine "/mnt/win/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe" I'd attach a screenshot as proof but my screen resolution is 1280x1024 and the attachment would be too big. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 7 hours 1 minute. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start
On Tuesday 11 Jun 2002 01:32, ajax wrote: > I've installed the kde3.01 rpms and I can't get kde3 to start. I get > these errors when I try: > > dcopserver: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined > symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv kwin: relocation error: > /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap > kpersonalizer: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined > symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv ksplash: relocation error: > /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kdeinit: > relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: > __ti12QApplication /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: xmessage: command not found > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > ksmserver: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined > symbol: __ti7QPixmap /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: xmessage: command not > found > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! > > waiting for X server to shut down > > Any ideas? > Thanks Looks like you haven't got qt3 installed. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 13 hours 5 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hp deskjet 720C lm 8.2
On Friday 07 Jun 2002 17:57, bascule wrote: > does anyone have the above printer listed under mandrake 8.2, only it > was in earlier distros and now it's not an option meaning i can no > longer print via cups to a 720 on a windows box, is there a particular > packsge i need - i have urpmi'ed cups, cups-drivers, foomatic and > looked for a mandrake pnm2ppa but there isn't one > > bascule I use 720C in 8.2 and it _is_ listed. You don't need pnm2ppa now, it's all included in CUPS. If it is connected to the parallel port and switched on, Mandrake Control Centre | Hardware | Printer should detect it. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 6 hours 20 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD viewing with xine - help needed
On Thursday 06 Jun 2002 19:15, Larry Sword wrote: > I have the following packages and xine plays encrypted just fine. I > believe the only package I had to download separately and install was > the xine-lib-d4d-0.9.8-0. > Can you tell us where from please? I can't find this in the usual places. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 21 hours 37 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.0.1 File Associations Re-Revisited
On Saturday 01 Jun 2002 04:40, Chris Spencer wrote: > I'm still trying to tweak my file associations in KDE and I have > encountered an odd problem. I just installed the Crossover Plugin so I > can use some Windows plugins and so far it seems to work pretty good. > But I am having an odd problem with file associations. > > I have downloaded and installed Windows Media Player and am trying to > get it to associate with .wmv files. In my list of file associations I > have an x-ms-wmv mimetype, filename pattern is set to *.wmv, and the > application preference order is just set to "wmediaplayer.sh" (the what happens if you make that "wmediaplayer.sh %u" ? > Crossover launcher for Media Player). Embedding is set to "show file in > a seperate viewer." > > If I left-click on a .wmv file I get a bunch of crap in my browser > window and Windows Media Player does not open. However, if I right > click on it, select Open With, then type in wmediaplayer.sh it opens it > just fine. > > What am I doing wrong with my associations? Any help would be > appreciated. Thanks... > > -Chris -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 511MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 2.2.2 Qt: 2.3.1 up 12 hours 11 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] File Associations and KDE 3.01
On Thursday 30 May 2002 14:31, Chris Spencer wrote: > Hello, > > Is there some reason why file associations don't seem to work in KDE > 3.01? Take mp3 files for example. If I browse to a directory and click > on an mp3 the player that KDE uses is the "embedded" mp3 player > (Kaboodle?). I would like to change this so that it uses XMMS. So I > changed the associations for all mp3 filetypes in KDE Control Center so > that it would use XMMS instead. And guess what? It still uses the > embedded player. Another example is for .mpg files. Even though Xmovie > is set as the primary player they always play in the embedded player, > which sucks because it always ends up crashing my Konqueror. > > If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks... > > -Chris In KDE Control Centre | File Browsing | File Associations, select the file type and then click the Embedding tab - Show file in separate viewer - add your preferred application. You can also do this by right-clicking a file in konqueror and choosing "Edit file type". -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 511MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 2.2.2 Qt: 2.3.1 up 18 hours 56 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
