RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme.
Title: RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Thanks for that. Any screenshots? -Original Message- From: mycal62 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 21 February 2003 12:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Hi Craig, you can get it here : http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/galaxy-kde-0.0.4-5mdk.i586.html You will also need fontconfig, and libfontconfig.so.1 first. Tried it in KDE 3.1 under 9.0 and it will install fine , but it's nothing special. very flat and plain Later Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, What is this galaxy theme everyone is talking about (came with 9.1_RC1)? Does anyone have any screen shots of this new theme. IMHO it could be Mandrake's reaction to Redhat's Bluecurve. Thanks in advance. Craig Good luck Team New Zealand. Lets keep the cup at home. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal!
RE: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice
Title: RE: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice Hi All, I had this trouble with 3D shapes. If you have OpenGL turned on and are using an nVidia card (with latest drivers), this will cause the problem you have described. I found by turning off OpenGL in OpenOffice fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 5:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Joe Braddock wrote: To insert a picture into an OO document, use the Insert==Graphics==From File menu. Works like a charm. Joeb Then I think there must be something wrong with my settings. I go insert-graphics-from file menu - up comes a window, I direct to .jpeg file, click open and a square with 6 small green markers to the parimiter appears but no photo. Any thoughts ? I think this one is a setting, too, John. There is one somewhere to show or hide graphics - to speed up handling of large documents. Check through all the settings you can find. Anne
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I asked that question before. Not many people were forthcoming with suggestions. It seems like the spellchecker in Mandrake9.0 is corrupted. There is no possible way that I know to get it working. Redhat8.0's OpenOffice spellchecker had the same problem, but running the repair tool fixed this up. Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). I actually e-mailed the openoffice mailing list as well and their suggestion was to blow away the Mandrake version, and grab the 'official' version from the openoffice.org site. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Malcolm Candlish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 8:56 AM To: Mandrake List Subject: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish.
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack).
RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
Title: RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. -Original Message- From: Carl J. Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 04 November, 2002 10:39 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl
[newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Whoops. I accidentally sent this to the wrong mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think I might have opened a hornets nest ;-). Craig -Original Message- From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:22 AM To: 'Miark' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Check these sites out. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/136244=thread=109 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208=thread=109 http://www.freedos.org/ I know it's hard to beleive. But they aren't a monopoly for nothing :-(. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:11 AM To: Craig Williamson (ENZ) Subject: Re: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. Eh? How can M$ do that? Miark
RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There, Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box. The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up. The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies haven't caught on. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 1:54 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS! Todd
RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There, It is probably true that Dell sales people don't want to sell this, because it is mainly for businesses. Also they probably don't want to peeve Microsoft anymore than they already have. Some more information. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949671.html?tag=fd_top Microsoft's response. http://members.microsoft.com/partner/licensing/licensingbasics/DellOfferingChannel.aspx Redhat's Reaction https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/open-source-now-list/2002q3/001508.html -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:00:14 +1000 Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box. The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up. The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies haven't caught on. Hope this helps. Craig MS must have tightened the reins, or the person I talked to from Dell was clueless. I asked for the n-series and she said it was not available. I asked for a pc without an OS, and she said they don't sell them without the OS, but that I could use fdisk and wipe everything out. I said but I'm still paying for the OS and she says no, it comes with the computer and I said well, don't you think the price of the OS is factored into the price of the computer? Let us know if you have an inside scoop! Todd
RE: [newbie] OO program fonts
Title: RE: [newbie] OO program fonts Hi There, For your font rendering problem. I don't now what the Mandrake 9.0 stance is for xft2, fontconfig, and freetype. If these are installed, try some of the xft2 fonts in OpenOffice. Just as an example, take a look at this Redhat 8.0 screenshot for OpenOffice. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots/redhat80/snapshot12.jpg This is what can happen if they take some time to look at OpenOffice. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 14 October, 2002 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OO program fonts Noah Hicks wrote: Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Use spadmin to add/delete fonts. Use Options to choose the default fonts for text documents, and font substitution if required. BTW, font handling is much better in the latest verison - it will detect resident fonts automatically. Sir Robin
[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 i18n ISO
Title: Mandrake 9.0 i18n ISO Hi All, I finally downloaded it. Do you need to download the i18n ISO image or can you get away without it. Thanks in advance. Craig
[newbie] Mandrake9.0 with WindowsXP
Title: Mandrake9.0 with WindowsXP Hi All, This may sound dumb, but when Mandrakes website says it can support NTFS natively, does that include WindowsXP's version of NTFS (NTFS 5.1 I think). Can someone help. Thanks in advance. Craig
[newbie] Issues with kmerlin
Title: Issues with kmerlin Hi All, I recently downloaded kmerlin 0.3.1 with KDE 2.2.2 . There are quite a number of bugs (funny it accesses an M$ product ;-) ) so is there an alternative to accessing MSN. Any suggestions please. Sorry if this arrives as HTML as this is my work PC. Cheers. Craig
[newbie] Konqueror and Flash Plugin
Title: Konqueror and Flash Plugin Hi All, I recently installed the Flash plugin that came with the Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack Edition. It will work with Netscape but not with Konqueror or Mozilla. Loading and enabling Konqueror plugins still won't detect it. Is there any way I can get Konqueror to work with Flash. Also on a side note, any way to get Mozilla to detect it. I'm using Mozilla 0.9.5 that came with Mandrake 8.1. Cheers. Craig Williamson
RE: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1
Title: RE: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1 Hi there, You need XFree86 4.0.3 or higher in order to run the nVidia drivers. Mandrake also comes with XFree86 4.1.0 so you should be right there. -Original Message- From: Dan bingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 12:25 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1 I've been farting around with my X setup (Mandrake 8.1).. getting my NVidia TNT2 to work.. I got the driver working, but now I can't find out where to specify which version of XFREE to load.. it's loading into the old 3.x.x version and the Nvidia driver doesn't work.. Does anyone know how to specify which version of XFREE86 to run? Any help is appreciated. /Dan _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
RE: [newbie] How to renew IP address?
Title: RE: [newbie] How to renew IP address? Hi All, You can also try: ifdown eth0 (stops the current network) ifup eth0 (looks for new information for the new network) This can be used for anything from ethernet (eth0, eth1,...), PPP sessions (ppp0, ppp1,...) so this command is quite flexible. Good Luck -Original Message- From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to renew IP address? On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:33 pm, Johnson, David wrote: Ok. I've searched around and I know I've seen it on the list before, but I just moved my machine to a different physical network and need to get a new IP address from a DHCP server. How do I release/renew my IP address without rebooting the machine? Thanks in advance! Hopw about /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Gerald
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Hi All, I am looking for a Microsoft Publisher-like program for Linux. Gnome/GTK+ or KDE/QT only please. Do any of you have suggestions. Thanks. Craig
[newbie] Joystick setup
Title: Joystick setup Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help.
RE: [newbie] avi files
Title: RE: [newbie] avi files If you've got Mandrake8.1 there ia a program called xmovie. If you don't have it go to sourceforge with the address http://xine.sourceforge.net and download an excellent media player. It's still in beta, but it should help you. Cheers and good luck. Craig Williamson -Original Message- From: mnu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] avi files Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in linux? Thanks Meg
[newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware
Title: Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware Hi All, I'm writing this because I'm curious. With all the trouble with WindowsXP having all these hardware issues, isn't it about time to get our thinking caps on and re-focus our attention on the fact at this moment in time we have an opportunity to exploit Linux hardware capabilities. One guy saying he couldn't get his USB keyboard to work under WinXP where Linux could is a prime example. Okay so WindowsXP has almost rock solid stability, but for the first time ever, LINUX SUPPORTS MORE HARDWARE!!!. We need to push this at this time before Microsoft gets it's act together. What are your thoughts on this and I hope it will inspire someone on this mailing list to push this further. This may be the invunerability that could drag Microsoft to its knees. Craig Williamson
RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP
Title: RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP Hi There, If you go to www.kde-look.org you can get the Luna interface (but only for KDE 2.2 or higher) FYI You can also get the Acqua (MacOS X) theme if you really want it. Also you can change the window decoration to system++ (I think) and you will have the classic MAC window decoration. I'm using this at the moment and it's frickin' awesome. Craig Williamson -Original Message- From: Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP how do we get the Luna theme on Mandrake? does it come with KDE selection? I really enjoyed and missed apple system 7.6, but Mac computers usually are more expensive than pc. If we can run mac theme on Mandrake - that would be great! Eric On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, skinky wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:11, D. wrote: | Well why do we care about XP? And if you just | installed it how do you know that it is more stable | then ME? Don't you need some run time before you make | that statement?? And please tell us how you enjoy | paying the license fee again after you upgrade your | hardware. The last time that I looked this was | [newbie] Linux-Mandrake list not XP. If there is a | problem running a dual boot with XP(eww) and Mandrake | then yes we care. | Don | | --- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, | and it went smoothly. | Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. | The usual applications that | would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP | hiccup. | | Two things though in both Linux and XP I just can't | get my ancient external | parallel port CDwriter to work automatically. With | XP I have to wait until HP | puts the download on their website, which I had to | to with my scanner with | ME, and so far with Linux the information I found | requires me to play with | some settings which I am more than willing to learn | just hard to find the | time lately. | | As far as the Luna interface being a rip of Apple's | Aqua, not with all the | wishful thinking and eye squinting does it look like | Aqua. I still enjoy | Linux's adaptability for making the Aqua theme much | nicer than to enjoy | without tying it to a premium system. | | If anyone wishes to drop me a hint on the CDwriter | issue or a link for the | truly RAW newbie I would appreciate it very much. Quite the opposite in my case. As I have _no_ intention of upgrading M$ Win98SE to XP, I'm quite curious as to the differences in XP. I never got ME but I've read about a few people's experiences with it. Yes, this is a Linux-Mandrake list but there's nothing wrong with the comparision between the two OS's displaying a theme. And besides, I think Robert wants to know how to get his CD Writer going in Linux. Sorry I can't help you there Robert. Good luck. skinky PS. why are we getting so touchy on the M$ subject? Must be the weather... ; ) -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip)
