[newbie] IM clents and webcams
Does anyone know of a Linux instant messaging client that will also support a webcam, preferably using the Yahoo protocol? I'm away from my family for a few months and my daughter likes to use Yahoo, so it would be good to be able to chat with her in this way. I'm running 10.00 PowerPack. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror history
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 18:26, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 14:05, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, nor can I find a history list. Am I just being stupid and missing these somehow, or do I need to tweak the configuration in some way? By the way, I'm using 10 Official, KDE 3.2. Thanks David In Konqueror click on Help - Konqueror Handbook andgo to chapter 7, it explains how to use history in the Navigation Panel. As for the drop down list, it does maintain a list but it does not display them - I don't know why, if you right click in the location field and select auto completion it will auto complete from URLs you have visited, not ideal but the best I can suggest. Following up my own post, to resolve the issue of the blank drop down list try right clicking within the white location area, then click on text completion and change it none, then change it back to dropdown list (or whatever your preference) - there must be a better way but this seems to work. Yes, it does! Thanks for that. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror history
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 20:41, Hoyt Bailey wrote: --big snip There is no setting such as you describe. Nothing under any hedding related to java even. Settings configure Konqueror Java and Javascript Javascript David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konqueror history
I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, nor can I find a history list. Am I just being stupid and missing these somehow, or do I need to tweak the configuration in some way? By the way, I'm using 10 Official, KDE 3.2. Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Used to be that Gnome was highly configurable (and not so bloated) - back in the pre-2.0 days - was my preferred wm/desktop, but nowadays, it's, well, just way too much bloat, not configurable as it used to be; but that's what the Gnome developers think is simple. Thanks for that. I haven't tried 2.6 yet but I believe it's worse from the configurability point of view. I don't really like KDE - too bloated for my liking - so maybe I'll go back to using WindowMaker eventually. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David What about: gnome-search-tool = Wastebasket ...see what that turn up...?? Nope - tried that one -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David Sorry - forgot versions - ok: /home/der/Desktop/Trash/.directory You can edit that file (.directory) Thanks Stephen OK - this is the modified /home/der/Desktop/Wastebin/.directory file - [Desktop Entry] Type=Directory Icon=/home/der/installfiles/icons/Trashbox.png EmptyIcon=/home/der/installfiles/icons/Trashbox.png Name=Trash Name[af]=Gemors Name[az]=Zibil Name[be]= Name[bg]= Name[bn]= Name[bs]=Smee Name[ca]=Paperera Name[cs]=Ko Name[cy]=Sbwriel Name[da]=Affald Name[de]=Mlleimer Name[el]= Name[en_GB]=Wastebin Name[eo]=Rubujo Name[es]=Papelera Name[et]=Prgikast Name[eu]=Zaborra Name[fa]= Name[fi]=Roskakori Name[fr]=Corbeille Name[gl]=Lixo Name[he]= Name[hi]= Name[hr]=Smee Name[hu]=Szemtkosr Name[is]=Rusl Name[it]=Cestino Name[ja]= Name[ko]= Name[lo]= Name[lt]= iukliad Name[lv]=Miskaste Name[mk]= Name[mn]= Name[mt]=Skart Name[nb]=Sppel Name[nl]=Prullenbak Name[nn]=Papirkorg Name[nso]=Seswaraditlakala Name[pl]=mietnik Name[pt]=Lixo Name[pt_BR]=Lixo Name[ro]=Gunoi Name[ru]= Name[se]=Ruskalihtti Name[sk]=K Name[sl]=Smeti Name[sr]= Name[sv]=Papperskorg Name[ta]= Name[tg]= Name[th]= Name[tr]=p Name[uk]= Name[uz]= Name[ven]=Tshikha Name[vi]=Thng rc Name[wa]=Batch Name[xh]=Inkukumo Name[xx]=xxTrashxx Name[zh_CN]= Name[zh_TW]= Name[zu]=Izibi Comment=Contains removed files I've replaced the two icon entries with the desired filename. Makes no difference, though, and every time I edit the file, it saves as .directory~ If I then rename to .directory, log out and restart Gnome - no change. I'm confused! Maybe I'll just keep the standard icon.Thanks for trying, though - any more suggestions? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Changing gnome icons
How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Changing gnome icons
How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
Like others, I find Opera fast, and I like the interface. The fonts look terrible, though - changing them in preferences doesn't seem to make a difference, so am I missing some other way? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
Just as an aside, we shouldn't be too complacent about viruses and worms. I get my fair share of them and, being an inveterate fiddler, I sometimes run the *exe variety through wine to see what happens. Why, you might ask: I have no idea! Anyway, recently I had one arrive by email, and on running it just by double clicking, it proceeded to deposit about 90 files into every directory (including hidden ones) below my home directory. They had very entertaining names as well, usually relating to Britney Spear's reproductive abilities! No harm actually done, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. Be warned! David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
Just as an aside, we shouldn't be too complacent about viruses and worms. I get my fair share of them and, being an inveterate fiddler, I sometimes run the *exe variety through wine to see what happens. Why, you might ask: I have no idea! Anyway, recently I had one arrive by email, and on running it just by double clicking, it proceeded to deposit about 90 files into every directory (including hidden ones) below my home directory. They had very entertaining names as well, usually relating to Britney Spear's reproductive abilities! No harm actually done, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. Be warned! David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java and Firefox
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 17:25, JoeHill wrote: Okay, it's my day to ask a lot of stupid questions. I cannot get Firefox to recognize that I have Java installed. I have the path set to the java executable (tried java and java_vm and also just the path to them) and even copied the javaplugin.jar to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/plugins, still no go. Any clues for the clueless? For me, ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/plugins gives libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so* Note that libjavaplugin_oji.so has to be a symbolic link to the plugin - copying it won't work. I have j2re1.4.2 compiled for gcc 3.2 installed. HTH David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 07:29, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I am using sylpheed-claws and I am really happy with it except for 1 small problem, if someone sends a link in a email I am unable to click on it and have it open a browser. So far I have not been able to find a place to change this in any of the sypheed settings. Is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Marc __ Under configuration/common preferences/other you'll find a few options. Your cursor doesn't change when hovering over a link but if you double-click it will work! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation fault
On Friday 31 Jan 2003 12:09 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 11:55 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:19, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 10:16 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Just for future reference if you download from the command line with urpmi --noclean blah blah then it will not erase /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and if the same rpms are called again it will find them in the cache derek Thanks for the information, Derek. It's very useful to know about --noclean. Pity that the MCC install software facility doesn't give the choice of keeping the downloaded packages on the hard drive. Perhaps a future version will. Cheers Keith This does not work for me in mdk9.0. It deletes the file in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/. It worked in 8.1. Does anyone else have this problem? Sharrea Hmm You are right. That will teach me to believe 'man' pages derek That's funny, because it works OK for me in 9.0 and in 9.1 (beta 2). I haven't tweaked any settings. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap, Sensible UK ISP?
On Friday 31 Jan 2003 10:39 am, Margot wrote: Hi All If you have followed my other thread (Internet Connection Problem) you will see that in spite of lots of help from various people I still can't connect to the internet from my new linux machine using my current ISP Eurobell. I'm beginning to think that what I really need is a different ISP, because Eurobell's technical support people don't seem to understand their own system setup, let alone mine! I have a 56k dial-up modem and a standard BT phone line which I will have to continue to use as there is no cable where I live, and I can't afford anything else. Eurobell charges a penny a minute any time of day/night, which is useful because I have ME so my sleeping/waking hours are somewhat erratic. I spend about fifteen pounds a month, and can't afford more because my budget is limited (Incapacity Benefit doesn't stretch very far, and I need to eat occasionally!). Can anyone recommend a suitable UK ISP that is both cheap and linux-user-friendly? I'd also like to hear about any that you would NOT recommend - feel free to mail me off-list if you prefer not to criticise your current ISP in public! TIA Margot Try UKLinux - http://www.uklinux.net There's a free option and various paid ones: no adsl at present but as you're on dial-up, I would recommend them. Linux orientated so tech support is good, albeit a little slow sometimes. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apt4rpm
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:41, Todd Slater wrote: Is anybody out there using apt4rpm? If so, what are your impressions of it? In the absence of any other replies: I have used apr4rpm with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, but not with Mandrake. With SuSE it was very useful because there is no online software installation other than Online Update, which really only provides bugfixes, etc, rather than version updates, new packages, etc. There is a lot of support for apt and SuSE so plenty of packages are available on the repositories, but I don't know if that's the case for Mandrake. To be honest, I can't see it being any better than urpmi which offers all the software you would want and resolution of dependencies, which makes it pretty comparable to apt for debian (still the best, I'm afraid). I did occasionally have dependency problems with apt4rpm but I suspect that that is probably down to the rpm packaging system rather than apt itself. There is quite a nice GUI for apt called synaptic if you prefer that approach. Don't know if that's any help to you..;-) David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I'm rather surprised that it's not doing it automagically - if you leave an applicaton running when you exit Gnome2, it should, said SHOULD start running when ya start it back up again... ...or maybe that was a bit of functionality that was lost in the change between Gnome 1.4+ and GnomePew, er, Gnome2... not being an expert in these things but apparently gkrellm isn't session-aware and won't be restarted automagically - you do have to add it to startup programs in control centre/sessions. What I would really like is to have it start on all desktops but it doesn't seem to be possible. After starting gnome, you need to ALT-R click and select all desktops. Or am I just too lazy? :-) David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation fault
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 14:05, Keith Powell wrote: I have just spent about two and a half hours downloading a package and all its dependencies, using MCC Install Software. When it tried to install the packages, it couldn't, saying that there was an installation fault. It then abandoned the installation. How can I find out what the fault was, please, in the hope that I can prevent it happening in the future? Secondly, /var/cache/urpmi/rpms is now empty. Does this mean that I have to start all over again with another two and a half hours download? This second download may be faulty as well. Five hours downloading is half the weekly length of time I can be connected! For information, the package was the Texstar Phoenix. I have heard some good reports about Phoenix and would like to try it. I am feeling very frustrated at the failure of the installation! Many thanks Keith Did the installer not give you a reason for the failure of the installation, such as a package conflict? I am afraid you will need to download again, but you could do this from the command line and add the --noclean option: that way, the downloaded packages will stay in /var/cache/urpmi/rmps. For example, as root: urpmi phoenix --noclean HTH David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: hardware weirdness
On Friday 24 Jan 2003 3:29 pm, Paul wrote: Hello all, Forgive this OT post, but can someone point me into the right direction? My PC is going nuts. When it is upright, it won't boot properly (powers off immediately after switching it on). When it lies on the side, the system keeps running without a problem when switched on. Already had the entire internals apart and back together again, to no avail. What can be wrong here??? I tried all I can think of. Um, can't even begin to think of a reason, other than a loose connection somewhere. If you've looked at all the internals, maybe there's a probelm with the power cable? But tell me, just why on earth did you try booting it on its side??! Or was it just an accident? David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: hardware weirdness
On Friday 24 Jan 2003 4:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Don't you do that when you're checking on hardware jobs you've just done? I always do before righting it and closing the case. Anne Well, no. but maybe that's because I'm not a computer professional! I'm a gynaecologist, actually. Might be worth trying with some of my patients.. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta2 CD1 + CD2 Install
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 6:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: install method ; expert f1 route This is my experience: Problems, === No wheel mouse available Installed my Logitech optical wheel mouse no problem failed to detect swap partition detected mine OK no create packages list on floppy agree During system configuration it refused to accept cd1 when prompted to provide it during set printer to be available at boot time. same here Failed to install my printer Z53. N/A - my HP deskjet 5550 installed fine. Unable to install Xwindows , it's choice of screen resolution and generic Geforce3 screen driver would nottest/install. No problem with my GeForce2 Refused boot disk creation Didn't try to do that Insisted on installing lilo, but then failed to do so. Nope, installed OK with me (on MBR) On first reboot found fault with filesystem on chosen partition, could not repair it, No problems. I chose reiser for all of mine I had to format over chosen partition to restore full boot. seems like a long way to go yet. Agreed though. Still, they're getting there. It's away ahead of beta 1! David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were still around. :) Anne I get one of these messages every couple of months, and have done for the last year or so. I guess someone somewhere must still be making money out of it, despite all the publicity, or it wouldn't still be going. I believe there have in fact been a number of arrests over it. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing RPM Packages and Setting Time
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:09, Colin McElhatton wrote: Hi, I think that now I'm starting to delve a bit deeper into using this extraordinary Linux release however I've encountered a couple of hitches I hope someone can help me with. 1. I am trying to install some RPM packages I downloaded but I am at a loss as to how to install them properly. I tried to install a WINE RPM for instance and I think I did install it but then I could not find the place where Linux installed it. I used the KRPM application from the KDE desktop. Any help with this and how to locate installed applications would be appreciated. If you type man rpm in a terminal it will give you an overview of the rpm command, which is used to install packages.I tried typing rpm into google and the first hit takes you to rpm's homepage, which gives you all the info you need. You can find documentation for most of what's on your system in /usr/share/doc/*packagename* You can use the find files command in KDE to locate files relating to a package - eg search for wine* will bring up any file name beginning with wine 2. I have a multi-boot PC with Win98 / XP and Mandrake installed. When I get into WinXP the time is OK but when I get into XP the time is always 1 hour ahead. Is there any way to solve this? Have you checked your regional setings in Control Panel? 3. Also while I'm at it might as well ask :-)... I have a 56K modem which I use with Mandrake but which takes a very long time to initialize and start dialing...is there a way to speed up the initialization process and get it to dial out faster? Sorry, don't know Thanks to all in advance. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:02:38 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:54:48 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before, so I apologise, but I can't locate much information. David Unfortunately, you can't yet convert Evolution addressbook to Sylpheed. If you take a look at http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/features.html, you'll see that there are tools to import from pine, mutt, kmail, the bat, calypso, and maybe more. The most current version is 0.8.8, which I haven't tried yet. Todd For those who are interested, below is a reply I've had from one of the sylpheed-claws developers. It works! ..snip.. I'm one of the development team on Sylpheed-Claws. I came across your mail in the archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and noticed the answer you were given was incorrect. I have a few to minutes to spare, so here is the correct answer: In Evolution (tested with version 1.2.1) when you are on the Contacts Page, choose '/File/Save as vCard'. It is then possible to read the vCard into the Sylpheed(-Claws) address book: In the Sylpheed address book choose '/File/New vCard', then in the dialogue that follows give it a name, and select the vCard file. Voilà, your Evolution contacts list is available in Sylpheed. Hope that helps. best regards Paul PS Please, if you feel like, respond to the thread on the mandrake and tell them this. Thanks. ..snip.. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmnew
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:32, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just downloaded and installed a list of security updates, and am left with a box regarding cups, in which it says that some configuration files were created as .rpmnew. They concern classes.conf and printers.conf. It would be catastrophic if anything were to go wrong with printing today, as I am in the middle of a big job in which printing is essential. Is there any risk in accepting these? It seems odd that I am given the choice of deleting them or accepting them as a main configuration file. Anne When I've used MCC to install updates, it has warned me if this happens and offers the opportunity to compare the old and new config files then edit as appropriate. You might want to take a look at etc-update which makes the job easier - for example, it can merge the old and new files. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:02, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:54:48 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before, so I apologise, but I can't locate much information. David Unfortunately, you can't yet convert Evolution addressbook to Sylpheed. If you take a look at http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/features.html, you'll see that there are tools to import from pine, mutt, kmail, the bat, calypso, and maybe more. The most current version is 0.8.8, which I haven't tried yet. Todd Thanks, Tod. I've installed 0.8.8 but can't see a lot of difference: one problem I had was that it wouldn't compile with JPilot support despite having all the necessary files installed and specifying it when configuring. No big deal though - I guess I'll just have to copy my addresses across manually. There's not too many of them (maybe a reflection of my terrible social life)! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed - importing addresses
Hi I'm thinking of changing over to sylpheed-08.3claws and wondered if there is a relatively simple way of importing my evolution contacts into the sylpheed address book. I think this may have been addressed before, so I apologise, but I can't locate much information. David -- Registered Linux User #207521 The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:03, Chris Slater-Walker wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Slater-Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2003 17:03 To: 'Daniel Kosfeld' Subject: RE: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste Hello People, I also think that it's going too far. I have neither the time nor the inclination to read through nonsense like this. In future, please avoid (?sending topics like this to this mailing list). I subscribed to this list to get sensible tips and information, and not this worthless, puerile nonsense. I would be interested in knowing the average age of the subscribers on this list. It seems to me it can be no more than 14. ...translated by Chris Slater-Walker -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2003 09:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste Hallo Leute, ich finde allerdings auch, dass das eindeutig zu weit geht. Ich habe weder Zeit noch Lust, mir solch einen geistigen Durchfall durchzulesen. Unterlasst es bitte in Zukunft, solche Beiträge über diese Mailinglist auszuschütten. Ich habe mich in diese Mailinglist eingetragen, um sinnvolle Tipps und Informationen zu erhalten und nicht diesen ordinären, pubertären Blödsinn. Mich würde jetzt doch mal das Durchschnittsalter der hier postenden Mitglieder der Mailinglist interessieren. Beträgt augenscheinlich nicht mehr als 14 Jahre. He's obviously been following all the OT threads closely -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:22, Anne Wilson wrote: It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? I do not want to be a nuisance to others, but nor should they be a nuisance to me. An insoluble problem, that occurs on every list at some time, I think. A bit of off-topic banter is generally good for a list in my opinion,but, in fairness, whilst it may be fine for those of us who have cable/dsl/unlimited dial-up, it is a bit of a pain for those who are paying by the minute for online time and mailbox space. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I totally agree - but the way to improve that problem is to encourage cropping of quotes. Sometimes we get two or even three screens of quotes to 2 lines of new material. That seriously does harm bandwidth and mailbox space. .and my scroll finger! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] what´s the best modemfor Linux ?
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 14:58, K. Spress wrote: How about a 3 Com Hardware based modem. Not a Win Modem. Win Modems do not play well in Linux. some work some do not Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my sincerest apologies and reply with remove in the subject field. I will remove your name immediately! == Listen to us every Sunday at 11:00 am EST at: http://www.alternacast.com not with Linux, apparently. With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] network shares
I have a home PC connecting to the internet through a network hub and ADSL router. I've connected my laptop to the hub also and would like to share files between the two computers, as well as have internet access.Both are running LM 9.0 If I try mount -t nfs //172.16.213.1/home/der /mnt I get an error mount: directory to mount not in host:dir format (I'm trying to mount the desktop's home directory to the laptop) If I look in control centre/mount points, I can see the available servers but no options to try and mount anything. How do I do this? Many thanks. David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:12, Derek Jennings wrote: WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. - --snip boring bit removed! --snip Tell me Derek, Where do REN's fit in with ADSL? I mean, does an ADSL connection have a REN rating (since you're in the mood for explaining things to us Brits!) David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:04, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, After an amazing 12-hours (!) download on my slow connection, I finally got my hands on the new StarOffice RPMs. I downloaded the following ones: 1) staroffice-common-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 2) staroffice-en-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 3) adabas_en-6.0-1mdk.i586.rpm I understand that the first one is a common module, the second one a language-dependent module, and the third one a database. Now, in what order should I install these? Is there any special syntax or would a rpm -ivh nameofthepackage.rpm do? Last but not least, I have OpenOffice 1 installed and running on my computer (Mandrake 9). Is the installation of the related StarOffice going to cause me any problems, or can they both run side by side without any problems. And I suppose that any StarOffice installation has to be done as root right? Thanks for your help. I don't have access to any Mandrake CDs and my connection being slow, crashing my system would be a major problem so I rather be just a little paranoid and ask for your advice. Many thanks! Andrei If you have them in the same directory by themselves, you can just cd to that directory and type urpmi * (as root, no quotes). They won't interfere with OpenOffice at all and to be honest, I can't see any great advantage to StarOffice. Though, presumably, you are a silver club member as well, so you might as well have them! David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:59, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting StarOffice. Actually, I am very impressed and happy with OpenOffice already and I could live for it for a while. But, hey, since I could I wanted to try it out - see how similar/different they really are. Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice? Cheers, Andrei To be honest, Andrei, I'm not sure about uninstalling StarOffice, as I haven't tried it, but I'm sure that someone on the list will be able to answer that one. David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM 9.0 and mozilla
For some reason, I can no longer start mozilla as a normal user, but just as root. I haven't changed anything as far as I know, except installed the java plugin (the xpi) and the permissions haven't changed. Any ideas? David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 9.0 and mozilla
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:26:39 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:04:31 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, I can no longer start mozilla as a normal user, but just as root. I haven't changed anything as far as I know, except installed the java plugin (the xpi) and the permissions haven't changed. Any ideas? David, try starting it from the console using mozilla's full path (I believe it's /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla , but can't be sure as I don't use the RPM's for Mozilla). The error messages should say enough I think. Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Just says no such file or directory. I think the executable is /usr/bin/mozilla (and it is there): I know your suggestion is correct for the tarball of 1.2 Thanks, though! David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Three random GNOME questions
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:03, Noah A Hicks wrote: I have three unrelated GNOME questions. 1. How do I enable/disable the AA fonts? When I boot up, I get logged into GNOME with AA off. If I logout and log back on, AA is on. 2. Why do applications like Galeon and Gnumeric use different font sizes than those set in the GNOME desktop and how can I change this? I have all my fonts set at the 10 size in the GNOME but Galeon and Gnumeric and anything that's not an intergral part of GNOME seems to use the 12 size font. 3. I would like to use the GDM as my logon program. Right now the KDE logon manager is what I see when I logout of GNOME and I would like it to be the GDM. Thanks alot -Noah Hi I don't know much about the fonts questions, I'm afraid, but you can set gdm as your login manager by editing (as root) /etc/sysconfig/desktop and changing KDE to GNOME David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mplayer and software manager
I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using the software manager it tells me that everything is already installed - it certainly isn't, I've checked thoroughly. So, I tried text mode in a terminal - urpmi mplayer and I get a list of files to be installed, is that OK? I hit Y and the installation aborts, saying that a number of files aren't found. I'm also getting an error saying unable to take medium 'Update for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftpiu)' into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftpiu)]exists. This is a reinstall of LM 9.0 and I didn't have these problems before - I can't think that I've done anything different, so any suggestions would be gratefully received! Thanks David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi
For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? Thanks. David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. --snip-- With the appropriate kernel support, you can read a NTFS partition: its just not a good idea to try to write to it (tho' I've never tried, I must admit). David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:28, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I did a netstat and it does not appear that 6346 is open. Also, I went to MCC and checked firewallit asked me to install smoothwall so I think there is no firewall installed. Is there a file where I can open a single port like this? tia, Bill W. On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:11 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002 05:45 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: hI, When I run gtk-gnutella, there is an icon that shows that the prog thinks I'm firewalled. I run a stock LM9 installation and I did not set up any firewall when first installed. This prog runs on port 6346. Is there a way to check if the port is open/closed? tia, Bill W. Actually a stock installation may have installed the smoothwall firewall. Have you checked to see if iptables are running or smoothwall. Look in MCC and security, click on firewall and see what it says? I couldn't get gtk-gnutella to connect either, even if I disabled the firewall in MCC.Netstat did show port 6346 to be open. In the advanced options for MCC, I added 6346/tcp and that seems to have solved the problem. HTH David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified that the LBA value is correct and can fix the CHS value Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error? I've not seen all of this thread but, having used Partition Magic a lot in the past, I've come across this error message several times: basically it seems that PM doesn't like the partition table written by some linux installers. The only one I've come across that doesn't lead to this message is SuSE.I've always just allowed PM to go ahead and fix the errors and have not suffered any dire consequences to my linux installation.Conversely, not fixing the errors doesn't seem to upset Windows. I get the impression that fdisk (linux version as well as dos version) and parted don't like each other. As a matter of interest, I've now given up on PM and use Paragon's Hard Disk Manager: it doesn't seem to give rise to these errors and also has the ability to read ext2 and 3 filesystems from within Windows, so you can still access/read files from both systems. Its cheaper too! Mind you, if the rest of my family would convert to Linux, I wouldn't need to worry about this and could stop dual-booting! David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 05:00, Mark Weaver wrote: David Robertson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: David, How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had to touch it since. One Mandrake 9.0 server running - same thing there. My workstation at home is Mandrake 9.0 on my home LAN and again, set the Network settings when I installed the system and haven't had to reconfigure once. I dare say there's got to be something drastically different in the you and I are doing it and not something wrong with the software. Mark I have LM9.0 installed on an Asus laptop which I use between home and the office so, to be honest, it's not completely straightforward. Home connection is simple as I have ADSL through a small LAN protected by a router, so no problem there. I have that set up as my default profile in the control center. I set up a work profile with a fixed IP to my office LAN and internet connection by dial-up through a pcmcia modem.This profile just gets forgotten each time I start up and when I'm at work I have to reconfigure all the settings each time. Even after that, on trying to dial out, a connection seems to be made and then the ppp daemon dies. This happens trying control centre, kppp or gnome-ppp to connect. I have always had that particular problem with LM, even going back to 7.something when I first tried it. So I now just use wvdial and it works. I'm quite sure it is me and not the software. I just find that network settings are more difficult to configure and maintain in LM than in other distros. I also would like to be able to dial out as user and not as root each time.I have added myself to pppusers. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: greg wrote: Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the same, didn't have to touch a single setting to get it to work, but with Mandrake I have tried every possible combination known to me, and set everything as it should be, re-installed three times, with less and less packages installed to see if anything was interferring with the net connection, but no go. It looks like I will be getting rid of it for good, and reverting back to Red Hat, where I can at least use the system. If you don't know what problems I have had, just do a search for my posts internet problem mandrake 9 for an idea. I am about to go to work, but I think tomorrow, if nothing has come up and I still can't get it to work, that will be it. Unbelievable! thanks to those who have tried to help, but I can't take this anymore. I have sympathy with you. I've used Mandrake over the years and generally like it because it tries to be pretty user-friendly and generally succeeds. That's the only way we're going to get all these Window$ users over to Linux. Now, I'm no coder so can't criticise, but Mandrake's network setup has always been their worst feature: using 9.0 now, I have to reconfigure every time I start the computer: settings for dialup access just don't get saved, nor do my lan settings. I just end up using wvdial forinternet access: simple and it works. Having said that, I do still think Mandrake is a great package: they all have their faults! David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Icons
Open Nautilus, Preferences/Windows and Desktop: it should be there. If you reset your preferences, maybe you need to restart Nautilus. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kathy Montgomery Sent: 12 November 2001 19:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons Funny, I'm not finding this option in my Nautilus preferences... ? I have set the preferences to Intermediate and Advanced. - Kathy David Robertson wrote: Hi If you are using Nautilus, go into preferences and make sure that use Nautilus to draw the desktop is checked. I think you need to have the preferences set to at least intermediate to do this. Then log out and back in: your icons should be there. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sorry, this is a test
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:23:45 +0100 Gordon Burgess-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent a message over 12 hours ago, and it hasn't appeared. It has now...:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:38:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I consider to be the usual Mandrake network setup nightmare! (Much better in 8.1 - at least it is no longer assumed that if you're on a LAN, that's how you want to connect to the internet!) Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were all there - internet, control-centre, Mandrake this-and-that, etc. Then they suddenly disappeared: on logging in, a blank desktop and no reaction from the right mouse button. This has happened before, with LM 8.0 and Ximian gnome, but LM doesn't have a doorman-reset facility as in Ximian, so just what has gone wrong and how can I fix it? I'm running a laptop with a S3 Savage/MX display chip, Aureal Vortex au8810 sound, Pentium 700, 128MB RAM and in general Linux runs fine, tho' I need a separate sound driver. (Sound is fine in Gnome but nothing in KDE). I've tried reconfiguring XFree 4.1 but to no avail. Any suggestions? I am guessing that you had been using Nautilus and that it was drawing your desktop. At some point you must have exited the program or set it to Not draw and manage the destop. To correct this launch Nautilus, if your Icons reappear nothing else need be done. If not, select the Advance Setup buttom and then choose to have it draw your desktop. If you choose to use GMC it will also draw the desktop and create icons but be forwarned, there is a Gonome problem with GMC/Nautilus where other than the drive icons, all icons create by GMC wiil not properly function. This problem exist when 8.1 is done as a Clean install. It is not present if you do an upgrade install. Charles (-: Thank you - Nautilus wasn't drawing the desktop David -- David E Robertson FRCOG Director, Assisted Conception Unit The Esperance Hospital Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 3BG UK Tel/Fax +44 1323 410333 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web www.sussex-fertility.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] virus attacks, etc
Hi You hear so much now about hackers, probing, etc while connected to the net. Not that any of my data is worth stealing, just how can I detect any probes or find out if anyone is trying to get to my computer. I know this is a vast subject, so can anyone at least point me in the right direction to learn about appropriate programs, etc, or is there a simple way. Are there tools that come with LM 8.0 that will do the job? Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vortex!! 2500 au8830 based - don't work :(
On booting, go into the bios settings and you'll find an entry for plug and play bios somewhere - disable it, or set it to no. then reboot. After unpacking au88xx.tar.bz2, you'll need to edit the Makefile to allow for whatever kernel you have. Good luck David On Saturday 22 September 2001 7:00 pm, you wrote: Question: Vortex!!- 2500 au8830 based chipset -don't work :( what i may do? How to problem? Help me please I already have au88xx*.tar.gz. Unpaked successful. When i try install the driver it say about errors.PnP OS -dizabled in bios. - Under windows my soundcard detected as Vortex au8830 pci audio with irq4. df80-df83. i/o range - d800-d807; d400-d407. Sundcard may use soundblaster pro emulation under dos. -- Configuration of my PC HP CD-Writer 9100i as hda1 - cd-writer p3-500 - cpu P3c-2000 INTEL820 chipset - motherboard Vortex!! 2500 au8830 - soundcard Asus V3800 v 2.26 - videocard ammount of RAM - 256mb OS - Linux Mandrake Russian Edition v 7.0 Full based on: gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, XFREE86 3.3.6, kernell 2.2.14 X session KDE security level - middle --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X window on Toshiba Sat pro 4600
Well, I don't know much about the Toshiba, but you could try to send your mail in plain text, rather than html. A lot of GNU/Linux users are a bit picky about things like that (not me , of course!) Are you sure that the screen resolution isn't just set too small? You should be able to adjust it to 1024x768 in the control,centre, I think. David On Monday 24 September 2001 8:08 pm, you wrote: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV PBRI have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a notebook Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 but I have problems configuring the X Window. I have a Trident Cyberblade card. Basically, the KDE appears much smaller than the screen size./P PThis is the first time installing Linux sonbsp;if anybody have anynbsp;idea about thenbsp;XF86Config file I should have or how to solve the problem would be very grateful./P PThanks.nbsp;/P PBRnbsp;/P/DIV/divbr clear=allhrGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'http://explorer.msn.com/ab r/html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Login Manager
You need to create a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and just insert the line DESKTOP=GNOME (without quotes). There should be a setting in /etc/X11/prefdm that specifies gdm if the preferred desktop is gnome - I can't remember the details but I think the file is OK as it comes in LM 8.0, so all I had to do was create the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. David On Monday 24 September 2001 9:12 pm, you wrote: Hi Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Login Manager
It didn't exist in my system either, but I found that just GNOME didn't work - it had to be DESKTOP=GNOME David On Monday 24 September 2001 9:44 pm, you wrote: On Monday 24 September 2001 03:35 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: Hi On Monday 24 September 2001 21:24, you wrote: Its annoying me that I cant figure this out, but how does one change from the default KDM Login Manager to say GDM? 1. Make sure that gdm is installed (it probably is). 2. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and change KDE to GNOME Hey I'd actually figured things out up to there by examing every script I could find. Thing is though, there isnt a /etc/sysconfig/desktop file? Whats the format? Interesting that you don't have such a file. In my desktop file, there is just a single word: KDE (GNOME also works to start gdm on my system, I have tried it, but decided I prefer kdm even though I run Ximian Gnome for my desktop). Dave -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ximian Gnome
I've just installed Ximian on to my LM 8.0 system (updated with the last MandrakeFreq) and all my desktop icons and links have gone. I don't really like a bare desktop and can't see how to create new icons/launchers, so how do I rescue things and get back the old Mandrake ones? Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] login manager
Hi, everyone. I've just defected to Mandrake 8.0 from RH 7.1 because I'm not too happy with the way that RH is going as a company and so far I like it a lot, especially the ease with which you can update. However, I prefer to run Gnome and would rather log in with gdm, but can't get rid of KDM! I've created /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing only GNOME and /etc/X11/prefdm does seem to specify gdm if the preferred desktop is Gnome, but every time I start up, there's KDM! How do I change this (or does Mandrake's gdm look like KDM?) Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
