Re: [newbie] X Login On Startup
Yup, that happened to me before too. My recomendation is: delete your old kdebase (rpm -e kdebase) reinstall kdebase from the RPMs in the Mandrake distribution The only problem is that after you run KDE again, you might have to reconfigure some minor details (I had to reinstall my theme. YMMV.) On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Richard M Davis wrote: Can someone, por favor, point me at the settings files that dictate the Mandrake 6 login screen. My machine crashed while trying to start Another Level instead of KDE (I think that's what happened, I've only got patchy details from the guy that perpetrated this evil deed!) I ran fsck on my /home partition, and everything's almost back to normal EXCEPT the Login Dialog is now just a default KDE, offering only KDE and failsafe, instead of the nice top hat and all the other lovely WM choices which was the default after installation. I could easily reinstall, but I'd like to understand how this bit of the system setup works, if anyone can help. Cheers! Richard
Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link
What is the Netscape link set to execute? To find this, right click on the link, go to Properties, then tab Execute, and look at the field under Execute. On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, you wrote: Hi all, The Netscape link on my KDE desktop has suddenly decided to stop working. I have to log in as root and poke around in /usr/bin for the Netscape executable to get it to run, but when I am not logged in as root I can't get NS to run, no way, no how. (It worked fine for a while...) I know this is probably an easy fix but I can't find it in the KDE online help or my newbie books - what's the story? TIA John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 5.3
Re: [newbie] Expert Mouse support?
You can also use imwheel, which comes with M6. It's a lot easier to set up, and supports more applications. (unfortunately for me it scrolls Netscape very slowly. Any fixes?) On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, you wrote: I'm not sure about the Kensington Expert in particular, but you might want to look at: Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ this is mainly how to map a mouse wheel to extra buttons, but it'll probably say something about thumb buttons etc. On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Dan Brown wrote: Is there a driver available to allow use of the extra buttons on a Kensington Expert Mouse? It works fine as a two-button serial mouse now, but it'd be nice to get the added functionality of the extra two buttons. Thanks for any info!
[newbie] unmounting
Hi, Sometimes when I shutdown or reboot in Linux Mandrake 6.0, when it gets to "Unmounting file systems", the root file system doesn't unmount. It just says that the device or resource is busy. Thus, I have to run fsck on the next reboot, unless I do a SysRq-U, which I don't exactly care to do every time I want to shut down or reboot. Any ideas? Eric Popelka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
