Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well you could try a new (kde)install after removing everything that's associated...but that'll be a fine mess, prolly. It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. No prob...too bad this is happening...and prolly quite maddening too, for you. This upgrade stuff is what tore me away from kde to xfce, almost like windows isn't it?:( Yeah, among other things as well :-( Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: apparently your problem isn't solved yet... No. I've tried to do another update hoping it will repair kde but with no luck. I think I'll have to reinstall it, I'm afraid. so let's take a few tests: Ok, let's go! After booting up into xfce4, open a terminal and try to start konqueror from there.copy (select with left mouse button and paste with middle button) the error messages and mail 'em to us. [EMAIL PROTECTED] michel]$ konqueror konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView21contentsDragMoveEventEP14QDragMoveEvent On top of that start a new session by doing , , simultaneously and then logging as you (or any other user you like) at the prompt. Then at the same prompt: "startx -- :1" without the quotes and watch the space between "--" and ":1". That should open up a second X(kde)session on ,,check ,, to go back to check your running xfce4 session if you care;) And go back to the original ,, to see the error messages it produces in respect to kde. Here is what appears and there is no error message it seems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michel]$ startx -- :1 Release Date: 18 December 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.4-1.tmb.5mdk i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux LinuxPC 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 Build Date: 05 November 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Thu Mar 17 21:21:41 2005 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Using vt 8 (II) Initializing extension GL SetClientVersion: 0 8 That's all. Nothing more except some newlines. It doesn't tell me much, quite cryptic for me. Thanks for your help. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: However, while the installation was OK (not a single error), when I started the system up, when loading the Mandrake GUI selector (I actually don't know its name, hope I made myself clear: that is, where you should enter the username and password) the system didn't react. It wasn't frozen because when I entered Ctl+Alt+Backspace, the X system stopped alright. Yes, this is exactly the same bahavior as the one I have with may computer. In the first place, I though it had something to do with my hardware. However, when I started up the system WITHOUT authomatic X window startup (that is, only the terminal), and when I write (after the login) # startx the X Window (with KDE) started without problems. This doesn't work for me, though. I mean kde doesn't start but no problem with gnome or xfce. Hence, I suspected that the problem was indeed the GUI Selector. Then, in the configuration panel, I changed the default manager from Mandrake's own to KDE's or GNOME and now everything works fine. I have tried it too but to no avail. Thanks for your help. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). I'm not 100% sure that my problem is a consequence of an upgrade but I think i'll follow your advice in the future. Thanks, Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Anne Wilson wrote: Michael, capitalisation is very important. Try it again with slocate XFdrake Oops, sorry. Hey H.J.Bathoorn, maybe I'm really dumb after all :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# slocate XFdrake /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.png /usr/sbin/XFdrake Sorry, Anne and thanks for your help. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't know if you are aware of this, but when you update a package, if it is running it does not appear to be affected. It is not until you re-start it that the new package kicks in. Yeah, I learned that the hard way :-) In the case of kde it would be logging in afresh that would do that. Does that explain it? It makes sense, especially since I mainly use xfce and I don't remember if I logged in kde since the last update. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Anne Wilson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ slocate XFdrake /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.png /usr/sbin/XFdrake Thanks Anne, that's definitely not the same as what i got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michel]$ slocate xfdrake /usr/share/mdk/xfdrake /usr/share/mdk/xfdrake/xfdrake-test-card.png No executable in my system. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my last upgrade. In the case it was the upgrade that messed my kde up, what's the solution? Retry an update? Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Just for curiosity's sake...are you familiar with the commandline ergo
when you say that about "/usr/share/bla/bla", are you trying to find
"clickable" executables like in windows?
I'm a new Linux user but not completely dumb, I hope :-)
Executables are found in "bin/" and "sbin/" directories in linux but very few
will execute dierctly by mouse-click. You need to type a command!
I don't know what XFDrake is so I looked where i could find it. I just
said that the only reference to XFdrake I found was in /usr/share/mdk/
and it's a directory. The unsaid question was then: Anne, what do you
mean when telling me to try xfdrake? What is it?
Did you try adding a new user ("userdrake" on the commandline) or deleting the
kde config (.rc files) files Kaj and I suggested?
Yes, but to no avail.
Like your site BTWvery clean and slick:)
Thanks.
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Re: [newbie] login manager
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Michel, as far as I understand you want to log in as a new user in order to see if KDE works, OK ? If so, just create a new user from a root konsole, like this : # adduser [username here] Then you'll be prompted for a new unix password, just choose some and carry on. When done, log out of the root session, kill the X server by pressing and log in as the new user, choosing KDE . If the problem is some setting in your old .kde directory, the new user's KDE will work just fine. No users can use kde. Creating a new user doesn't change anything. The new user can't choose kde as window manager. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Anne Wilson wrote: It does seem rather difficult to do anything about kde if you can't even get in. He should be able to try renaming .kde, but that would only work if the problem was after logging in, and as I understand it he can't even get so far. But - if he can't, how did he get XFCE working, I wonder? I have tried deleteing the ~/.kde to no avail. It doesn't seems to be a settings problem but rather a library problem. Some library corrupted or missing. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde that's for sure. You're right, everything else seems to work just fine. I can log in Gnome desktop, XFCE4 without any problem. Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check what kind of error messages come drifting by I can launch some of the KDE config program like userdrake but konqueror, for instance, returns with an error message and never shows up. The error message is: $ konqueror konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView21contentsDragMoveEventEP14QDragMoveEvent Have no idea what it means. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Anne Wilson wrote: Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. Hmm, I just have one directory called xfdrake (/usr/share/mdk/xfdrake). Nothing that I can launch. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login manager
Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to enable/disable users in the login window: "Try kcontrol > System > Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there." What is the name of this Login manager? The one to type in a terminal. Since I've lost kde, I use xfce4 and the login manager doesn't appear in the XFCE menu. Thanks, Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, the X server is launched. I can see the blue background image and the splash screen but that's all. I forgot to say that there is no peculiar message in /var/log/... either. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with another window manager. How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall once again. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Need a GMail invitation? Send me an email. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with MdkKDM
Anne Wilson wrote: Try kcontrol > System > Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there. Thanks Anne, that was the problem. The user was disabled but now the question is what disabled it? Michel -- ---- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with MdkKDM
Hi, I use the mdkKDM as desktop manager and one of the users just disappeared from the list today. To be clear, the user exists, the problem is that mdkKDM just didn't show it in the desktop manager window. An idea? Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] workgroup
Rob Blomquist wrote: You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking conventions. The default samba workgroup is 'mdkgroup',that's what I wanna change. The Windows machines on a network need to have a workgroup, Linux machines don't have to have a workgroup, but may to fool Windows. Do you mean that it doesn't matter? I can connect to windows machines on a different workgroup (MSHOME) but does it mean no matter what the linux workgroup is I can *always* connect to the MSHOME workgroup? It seems to be the case but... Thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] workgroup
I've shook up my little network at home and changed the workgroup name my machine belongs to. But I can't find in the mcc where to change this name in my mandrake. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce4 user login broken
Margot wrote: Couldn't find the file you mentioned - deleted by cat, perhaps? :-) Not sure I gave you the correct path to this file. initrc only exist if you have created it because you have special programs to launch at session startup for instance. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce4 user login broken
Margot wrote: When I try to login to Xfce4 as user, either from the login manager or by using 'startxfce4' from a terminal, I get a few seconds of the Xfce 'mouse' (or is it meant to be a rat?) logo flashing, and then I just get the blue screen with the Mandrake logo. Everything was fine yesterday, but not working when I rebooted this morning. Just a guess. In the meantime didn't you change the ~/.config/xfce4/initrc file? I just had the same behavior with a wrong initrc. To test, just rename initrc and launch xfce without it. It must start without a glitch. Michel -- ---- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] screensavers
All the kde screensavers in /usr/bin, the one with a name beginning with a 'k' (which stands for kde I presume) doesn't appear in the screensaver list under XFCE4. Is it possible to add them and use them with XFCE4? I suppose it's possible since I can launch them by hand in a terminal but I didn't find a way to launch them automatically when I'm under XFCE4. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Okay, if you've already done an "urpme kdebase", then double-check that your urpmi sources are correct (make sure you're not pointing at cooker or something like that), and do an "urpmi kdebase". Theoretically, that should make all your KDE stuff usable again. Actually, re-installing kdebase didn't solve my problem but re-installing the whole kde did. Thanks, Michel -- ---- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Oh, I didn't think of that. Trying to urpme kdebase will probably try to uninstall half the packages on your system, so that's not practical. Yeah, that's the case. I did it and now, my whole kde is completely unusable. It seems it's not the right way to do it. I hate to sound like a Windoze user, but you may have to reinstall to fix it. That's what I did, because I broke so many things. I have gnome and xfce still working :-) Too early to reinstall everything. Michel -- ---- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
De: Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I know it's unlikely that you made the same series of mistakes I did. But >perhaps you got some broken packages from some source. You could try the >following, after making sure you only have proper Mandrake urpmi sources >defined: > >su >urpmi.update -a >urpme konqueror >urpmi konqueror > Thanks, I've done a whole update without any result. Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall konqueror. The problem is there is no package for konqueror. It's part of the kdebase package. Reinstalling it didn't change anything. Thanks anyway Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
>On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100 >Michel Leunen disseminated the following: >> It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I >> don't like much the XFCE one. > >ROX! > >Homepage: > >http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ > >It's available thru urpmi (though I prefer to install it as a user in my home >dir instead, easier to tweak), along with a lot of goodies to go with it. It's >the best file manager on the planet. Ok, I will give it a try. It's not that hard to be better than xffm which is (IMHO) definitely unusable. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
JoeHill wrote: You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. Michel -- -------- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Dennis Myers wrote: Michel, what version are you using? 10.0 if it is 10.1 have you done the latest updates including bugfixes and normal updates as well as security? Ok, that's a good idea. I tried updating everything doing an urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select but the next time I logged in, it all messed up. Now I can't even start KDE. Don't know what to do now except reinstall KDE from the beginning. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
et wrote: Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb?&& update-menus updatedb&& update-menus no question mark :-) Yes, that's what I've done, thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb?&& update-menus Thanks Aron but it still doesn't work. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13KToggleAction15setCheckedStateERK8KGuiItem What's going wrong here? Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
De: aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >log on (as root) updatedb &&update-menus >see if that helps Yeah, it helped a lot. It's working now. Thanks. What is this command supposed to do? I don't really understand what the man page is trying to explain. What is the slocate database and what is its purpose? Thanks, Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:20 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: > as root (assuming you have urpmi set up > type urpmi qcad Ok, Tried that. Answer from the system: Everything already installed. So I assume everything was correctly installed and indeed, everything seems to be ok since I can use qcad. The only thing I can't do is installing libraries :-( Thanks, Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
aron Smith wrote: > Is that lib avabile as a .tar or tar gz? > .zip is a windows compression scheme No! I had no choice. There is only one library available on the web site and it's a .zip file. I suppose it's because it's the same lib for windows and linux. Anyway, I don't think it makes a difference. Thanks, Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
Thereidos wrote: > Free translation from Polish: > Edit/Application preferences/Paths > There you have to add the path to were you placed part library. I've tried this with no luck. No object appears in the Object browser. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
aron Smith wrote: > BTW .zip files are for windows Yes, I know but that's the only file type available on the qcad website. I didn't have any other choice. Thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] qcad library. How to?
I've just installed qcad on my mdk 10.0 but there isn't any object libraries. So I went to the qcad site and downloaded the partlibrary.zip file. So far so good :-) The problem is that the library I downloaded doesn't appear in the object browser of qcad. How to install those libraries? I created a folder /usr/share/qcad/libraries and put all the libraries there. Isn't it the right way to do it? Am I missing something? Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake + CUPS + printer RICOH Aficio 180
Hi, Im a real Newbie with old computersâ this is New-Caledonia, a pacific island. Il currently running a kind of cyberpoint with - a server (Mandrake 9.2) use also as a office computer - 6 slaves (only webbrowsers) (Mandrake 9.2) - two W**nd*w slaves :-( - two macosx computers Several questions, main is -> how to make my printer (RICOH Aficio 180) work on the server and share it with everybody (or at least, Linux and MacOSX machines) -> We use open office, but it takes HOURS to open. is there another alternative ? -> is there another newsgroup, source, archiveâ I may use instead of boring you boys whith all my questions ? Thanks in advance ! michel, from far away away land (and french speaker !) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Wireless 128-bit WEP Encryption
Hi, Using 9.1RC2 and Linksys USB WPC11 wireless. The AP requires the use of 128-bit encryption. I have the exact same elements working with Windows XP pro on the same hardware components. Without encryption everything works with the following ifcfg-eth0 file: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE="Managed" WIRELESS_ESSID="mytest" WIRELESS_CHANNEL="6" WIRELESS_RATE="11M" WIRELESS_RTS="2432" WIRELESS_FRAG="2346" iwconfig shows the following concerning encryption: Encryption key:off But when I try the following ifcfg-eth0 which should enable 128-bit encryption, everything is setup correctly except for the encryption. DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE="Managed" WIRELESS_ESSID="mytest" WIRELESS_CHANNEL="6" WIRELESS_RATE="11M" WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="DC50-B65D-7ECE-BBEE-FF2D-3594-1A" WIRELESS_IWCONFIG="key restricted key on" WIRELESS_RTS="2432" WIRELESS_FRAG="2346" iwconfig shows the following concerning encryption: Encryption key:--00 Encryption mode:restricted Encryption mode:open It looks as if the values are not set or correctly mapped. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or where to search; I have already covered the Mandrake and Atmel sites, and google has been of little help. I'll be happy to provide whatever other information you need. Thanks Michel Lamarche Communications Bienvivre, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound blaster pci 128
On Sunday 29 December 2002 16:45, Scott Wagner wrote: > Hello > Does anyone have any experience with the sound blaster pci 128 card > in M 9.0.? e.g. how is the sound quality? Does M 9.0. have > built-in support for this card? Depends on the app. xmms uses mine with no probs, but mplayer can't find it at all -- Michel Clasquin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] howto configure synaptic apt-get to run as user?
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 19:09, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Merry Christmas list members, > > I checked my menus to see what was configured for synaptic to run, > and it shows for the command to run as; > kdesu /user/sbin/synaptic > which does not work for the icon I created on my panel. Sorry, can't help, but I've also found that while synaptic runs fine when launched from an root xterm, it refuses to cooperate with menu systems, even with kdesu. Maybe in the next version ... -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reloading Windows
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 17:11, Dennis & Sue wrote: > I've decided that I want to dump Windows 2000, and replace it with > Windows 98. When I do this, It will ( probably, I don't know for > sure ) rewrite the boot record and I will lose access to Mandrake. Yes it will > The only way I know how to regain access is to reload / ( I am an > unashamed Newbie ). > I know there is an easier way, and I really like my current setup. > Any suggestions ? 1.Make a boot floppy. Before you do anything else MAKE A BOOT FLOPPY. Even if you made one when you installed Mandrake, make a new one now (floppies can degrade over time if they are unused, and you might have changed something else since then). The easiest way is to run drakconf (as root), click on the booting section and select the "make a boot floppy" option there. 2.Now test the boot floppy. That is, boot from it. Hold down DEL as you boot and set your computer to boot from the floppy drive instead of the hard disk. Save the setup and reboot. If linux comes up, you can move on. [optional] back up the following files to floppy, just in case: /etc/lilo.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (if it exists on your system) If there is no /etc/lilo.conf on your system, you must be booting from grub: get back to us in that case 3. Install windows98. Don't worry, it won't even know your Linux disk is there. But if you installed win2000 on NTFS rather than FAT32, you may need to dive into FDISK and remove the win2000 partition. 4. If win98 is working OK, or as well as can be expected, then boot from your linux boot floppy. Sign in as root and run the following command in a console or xterm: lilo That should restore your boot menu with both linux and windows listed just as you had them. Test everything thoroughly, then set your computer back to booting from the hard disk by default. Easy, huh? -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 04:57, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? AFAIK, a database component, some fonts and graphics, and a free support hotline for a limited period (after which you pay for support). But you're a club member: download it and see! The two will live happily side by side. >How > does Hancom's product compare? I bought version 2.0 when it came out. Problem is, mdk 9 broke some obscure compatibility and now HO won't install unless you download the new version (2.01 IIRC). But over 200 MB on a 56K dialup connection? maybe not. Compared to OOo, HO has a few features OOo doesn't, but the reverse is also true. Nothing major. Perhaps HO is a little less obsessed with styles than OOo. Oh yes, the word processor plays nicely with Unicode, if that is important to you. Still pining for WordPerfect ... Michel -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Way off topic Gospel of tux
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 03:28, Marc wrote: > I just thought some of you folks would enjoy this. Sorry if I > am wasting bandwith for others > > Marc I sure hope that was under an open doccie license, for I've just forwarded it to two religion lists! Thanks, Marc, that was magnificent. -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. 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 Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:13, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't > like it with an urpmi command? > Anyaway, is "urpmi.removemedia" safe in case I want to get rid of > it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice? urpmi.removemedia will remove download sources, not packages To remove packages, just use rpm -e packagename do this as root and use only the base name of the package, not the 0.0_mdk_1586 junk at the back, ie rpm -e staroffice You can specify multiple packages to erase too see "man rpm" for more detail -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming
On Monday 16 December 2002 20:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: > What are the best text editors? Them's fighting words around here, pardner But try nedit. I practically always have one open, either as a cut 'n paste scratchpad or writing shell scripts. It has everything you asked for plus keystroke macro recording, case changing etc etc -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a new distro
On Monday 16 December 2002 12:29, Derek Jennings wrote: > Neither and both. All Mandrake tools use a gtk toolkit because it > is smaller and easier to use than qt, and will not oblige the > lighter window managers like Blackbox or Xfce to keep the QT > libraries loaded. Mandrake includes (I think) 11 different Window > managers as standard, With a few more available from the contrib and unsupported mirrors, if you know where look around >and you can use whichever one you please and > select which at boot time. Menus are consistent across them all, so > installing an RPM in KDE will give you a Fluxbox menu entry. But *not* an xfce one, although you can get xfce to display both the gnome and kde menus. Personally, I *like* maintaining my menus by hand, but I'm probably in a minority of one in that ... -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!
On Sunday 15 December 2002 13:30, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer > showing its menues, but some "-" instead 8-? > > Should I go back to kde3.03? I'd prefer not... O8-) Saw that last week just after upgrading freetype2 to the version from texstar. reinstalling freetype2 from the cd's cured it -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apt sources
I just installed texstar's apt and synaptic. I like the concept, but the iblio.org server is so sl o o o o w .. Can anyone point me to an alternative site or two? TIA -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] noarc & scr mdk rpms
On Friday 13 December 2002 04:45, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or > *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? noarch means that the package contains no binaries and will therefore be equally useful on an x86 machine, a ppc (apple) box, a SUN computer etc etc. It is normally used to package help files, graphics and so on. src means source. Strictly for experts > And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Often. But not always. I've found that most simple end-user apps can be installed, if you use rpm with the --test option first. Don't do this for libraries or anything fundamental. In fact, as a general rule, keep non-Mandrake rpms as far from your kernel as possible and you should be ok. If you try to install Redhat's version of X11, for example, you're on your own. Thing is, redhat and other non-mdk rpms will sometimes install into /opt or /usr/local rather than /usr. Then, when you find a proper mdk upgrade rpm later on, it won't overwrite the old one and you end up with two versions floating around, symlinks pointing the wrong way ... it can get messsy. Try a little harder to find mdk rpms before you introduce these aliens. rpmfind.net is your friend, so is google. -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:13, Ray Henry wrote: > > > With Windows, you can use Hyperterminal to write requests > > > directly to the modem and see what the responses are. Anything > > > like that in Mandrake 8.2? > > > > Minicom :) HTH, > > > OK, says it's already installed. But it's not in any of the menus, > and locate minicom or locate Minicom find nothing. Search on the > Internet reveals nothing as to where to find it. How does one find > it on the system? If it is installed, you should have /usr/bin/minicom and /usr/bin/xminicom If they are not there, try (as root, from an xterm) rpm -e minicom urpmi minicom and then try to find it again with which minicom -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote: > 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? /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg seems to be what you are looking for -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing default browser
On Monday 09 December 2002 02:12, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > I'd like to change my default browser from Konqueror. URLs in mail > messages can be opened from within the message with Konqueror as > the default browser. If I go into "file associations" and change > the default browser to anything else here's what happens: Here's > the URL for example, > http://honestreporting.com/a/r/323.asp. With Konqueror as the > default it opens and goes to that site. If the default browser is > something else the browser opens, then I get: > file:///root/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/26647.0.323.asp, where the > address should be.. > Konqueror is ok, and it's getting better with each release, but I > don't like having no choice. According to your message headers you are using kmail So what you want to do is to change the association for html files in the KDE control centre run kcontrol (no you don't need to be running KDE as window manager to do this) click on FileBrowsing, then File Associations expand text (click on the + next to it), then select html you will see on the right a list of browsers on your system The one on top will be the default, if it is not found the second one will be used. Now you can add browsers or rearrange them I used this to set my preferred browser to galeon and that is what loads when I click on a link in kmail -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake
On Friday 06 December 2002 15:00, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person > download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make > copies and is selling them? > Hate to find out it is the the latter (not associated with Mandrake > and is making a buck for themselves) So? www.cheapbytes.com has been doing it for years ... -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice
On Thursday 05 December 2002 21:28, hgm wrote: > Can somebody please help me. > > I can't see any text in the openoffice toolbar any more. there are > just some underline signs. I really don't know what happened > because the software was running perfect up until now. The same thing happened to me last night. Have you upgraded freetype2 lately? restoring freetype2 from the mdk9 disks solved the problem for me. -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 22:43, Anthony Abby wrote: > Thanks I'll check it out. I understand that 3.1 is supposed to be > released on Thursday so this might be OBE now anyway... > > > I'm not sure about from official Mandrake RPMs, but you get use > > Texstar's. Go to www.pclinuxonline.com and on the left side of > > the page should be some links to Texstar's rpms. They work great Mostly. But the Freetype2 package currently on texstar breaks OOo (all menus and text disappear). Had a very entertaining early hours of the morning getting that lot back on track again. -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 21:26, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Michel, > > I also use myspell-en_GB, but for my spell checker to work I had to > also load myspell-en the U.S language component. > > This seemed necessary for me, so please try it and let me know if > it works. To get it, go to the Mandrake Control Centre and proceed > as before. Thanks, Malcolm, but I already have the following loaded: myspell-en_CA myspell-en_GB myspell-en_US myspell--hyph-en myspell-hyph-nl myspell-nl_NL I still think it's the fonts. As soon as I change the text to a regular font, the spellchecker works fine. I suspect that drakfont marked them as "symbol" fonts, like Wingdings, when it installed them, and now OOo is trying to be helpful by not spellchecking anything written in them. Michel -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash RPMs for Mdk 9.0 sought
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 00:45, Derek Jennings wrote: >You can find a binary installer at > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_V >ersion=ShockwaveFlash&P5_Language=English The instructions are quite > straightforward. > For Mozilla just make sure you copy the plugin and java class file > into /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins > Galeon will work if Mozilla works. > For Konqueror open KDEControlCentre>WebBrowsing>Netscapeplugins and > make sure that /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1 is one of the paths specified, > then 'Scan for new plugins' and P.S. do all this while logged in as root - the plugin will work for all users. Couldn't live without flash - the Doonesbury daily dose depends on it! -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding new screensavers to xscreensaver?
On Sunday 01 December 2002 20:13, Jerry wrote: > I just downloaded some new screensavers from a link in one of the > recent Mandrake Linux newsletters (they were from reallyslick.com). > Unfortunately, i lost the newsletter which had some info on how to > get them to work with xscreensaver. could someone please send me a > copy of the newsletter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or explain? If you installed from RPM's as I did, they should have been added to ~/.xscreensaver automatically, otherwise you can just add them at the end of that file - the format is not hard to figure out. You can check if they have been activated with the command xscreensaver-demo (dumb name for a setup program! Why not xscreensaver-setup?) and look if their checkboxes have been checked. This needs to be done for each user. Remember, if you are going to fiddle with the settings, these new ss's need to run in GL mode -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 29 November 2002 20:06, Ken Walker wrote: > tools/options/language settings/writing aides/available language > modules /highlight oo myspell spellchecker and hit the edit button > on the right, when in there tick what you want to be active. > > Mr Smiley Tried that several times, but as I just discovered, OO just will not check anything writen in the CSX (Romanised Sanskrit) fonts I use, even though the doccie langauge is set to english(uk) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 29 November 2002 19:59, Michel Clasquin wrote: > > I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of > tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it > just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying > that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows > :-( Bad habit, answering my own posts, but I've just discovered that OO refuses to spellcheck anything written in my custom-loaded CSX+ fonts. stuff written in its own fonts seem OK SERIOUSLY weird! -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk > are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell > Checker. > > 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. > 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for > different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. > 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. > 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools> options> Language Setting> > Writing Aids> Select Language Edit> tick myspell spelling, then > ok. I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Symbolic links
On Friday 29 November 2002 18:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > I see, so symlinks aid initiation by linking commands to devices > and apps and as such > are quite different in nature from a pipe which is , if I > understand correctly, a way > of diverting a stream of data , refered to as standard output, to > the imput side, > refered to as standard input, of another programme. > > So them how do aliases fit into the grand scheme of things in > linux. Aliases only work on the bash command line AFAIK, and in other shells that support them, while symlinks work just as well in a GUI. Also, an alias can contain parameters: if you're tired of typing rm -f all the time, you can set an alias called rm to that. Then typing will actually be understood as . Unless you give the full pathname , then the alias will be ignored. Of course, just to muddy the waters even further, it is possible to write a little shell script with all the parameters you want and symlink or alias to THAT! Ah yes, Linux, never give a user one way to do things when he could have six ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail filters
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:27, Anne Wilson wrote: > I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail > does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a > filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would > rather completely delete it. Have you considered using Settings | Configure pop filters There is an option there to delete the mail from the server before it even reaches you. Of course, that assumes that you are contacting a pop3 server directly, not going via fetchmail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies
On Monday 25 November 2002 02:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 3.) Run the proggie and see what happens..."core" files are easily > deleted...(grin) Aha, a fellow graduate of the Crash 'n Burn School of Software Testing! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading packages.
On Monday 18 November 2002 14:34, Keith Powell wrote: > Should I have been connected to the Internet when I first entered > the sources in the command line? Yes, and running console or xterm as root. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts too small
On Monday 04 March 2002 01:35, Damian Gatabria wrote: > hi.! > > does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more > and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that > high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text. > Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger. Use Galeon. Out of the box, it has a widget on the toolbar that lets you specify a size from 10% to 200% and above? for that particular page. More generally, you need to go into each browser's preferences, set the font *and* then specify that it should use your fonts, not those specified by the web page author. If you don't specify this, your fonts will only be used if the author made a weak specification like "Serif" (which is actually the right way to write HTML, but fewer and fewer web authors do this) All the examples below start from the top menu: Netscape4: Edit| Preferences | expand Appearance (click on triangle) | Fonts | fill in as you wish Mozilla/Netscape 6: Same as above, but needs to be done separately. Do NOT trust it to pick up your netscape4 prefs! Galeon: Settings | Preferences | Rendering | Fonts/Colors | fill in as you wish Konqueror: Settings | Configure Konqueror | Konqueror Browser | Appearance Opera has these settings as well IIRC, but I don't have that app loaded so you'll have to search for it yourself. Generally each of these ask for a serif font (serif s are the little hooks at the end of letters in typefaces like Times), a sans serif font (sans as in "without", so this is like Arial) and a monospaced font (all letters are equally wide, like Courier). Things like "fantasy font" are ignorable. One final way of making your apps more readable is to take your screen resolution down a notch. If you are running at your monitor's ragged edge, like 1600 x 1200, bring it back down one step and see if your eyes don't appreciate it! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakes in a row ... or are they?
Hi all After yet another bout of updating (when will I learn?) all my Drak* and *drake programs are dead. No error message, no ghost processes, no nothing. From the command line or from gui, makes no difference. If I am not root, the "Input" box prompting for root password appears, after that - nada I tried downgrading a few days' worth and no difference. Wait a few days and upgrade everything with drak in the package name again - no luck. So, we must be looking for a support library of sorts. Any ideas? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kmail-evolution migration?
before I commit myself to another major download, a simple question does Evolution import existing kmail messages? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFce in 8.2? -- was: Xfce and the xscreensaver daemon
On Saturday 23 February 2002 14:49, Derek Jennings wrote: > I reported this as a bug in 8.2Beta1. Now Beta 3 is out and XFce has > been taken out altogether!!! > > I am a bit worried about this and hope it is not because of the bugs I > reported in Beta1 :-( > > I hope Mandrake do not simply remove XFce from the distro. Here's another happy Xfce user who echoes that idea! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce and the xscreensaver daemon
On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:49, Terry Smith wrote: as root, edit the file /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc find the line that launches xscreensaver and remove the --lock-more parameter (or something like that - it's not on my system anymore so I can't check exactly). This parameter is no longer supported by xscreensaver and it causes the app to crash on startup. > This should be a simple one. > > I, along with many others on the list, have settled in on Xfce as my > desktop manager of choice. One neat thing about Xfce is the Xscreensaver > pgm that runs with it (although you can run it with other desktops, wms, > etc.). > > From xfce you configure with xscreensaver-demo. When I do that it tells > me that the xscreensaver daemon is not running. I can execute it at that > point. > > What I'd like to do is have the daemon run on xsession initialization. I > thought I could add a line like > > xscreensaver & > > to the user's ~/.xsession file (as implied by the manual) but it doesn't > seem to work. > > So how do I automatically invoke the xscreensaver on a user's xsession > startup? > > TIA. > > Terry Smith -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate
On Friday 22 February 2002 09:59, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: > Every time I try to use the MandrakeUpdate I get errors saying it wasn't > able to install anything. You may be trying to download too much. Occasionally MUpd finds that fubar-1.2-3 is available, but by the time it gets around to doing that, after downloading everything else, dubar -1.2-4 has taken its place already. This can then upset the whole lot of downloads and installs. It shouldn't, but sometimes it does. Before you click Cancel on MUpd, have a look in /var/cache/grpmi and see if (some of ) your packages are actually there, and install them by hand. I do this every time MUpd gets a bellyache and it has saved me a lot of re-downloads. Otherwise, just keep trying different mirrors. For cooker purposes, ftp.ciril.fr is pretty good at the moment, but last year I had more joy with ftp.sunet.se -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anti-virus
On Thursday 21 February 2002 14:32, you wrote: > I read in a review of the Lindows.com pre-release version. > One of the 'achievements' of Lindows is that it is able to run Microsoft > Outlook under Linux. The review pointed out that it was then possible to > infect a Lindows computer with an e-mail borne Outlook virus I stand open to correction, but while that virus would be able to replicate itself to other computers and maybe demolish the ~/.wine directory, it shouldn't be able to damage the underlying Linux system. > Ironically none of the anti-virus applications would run under Lindows. Not surprising. Virus checkers run very close to the bare silicon. They only need an underlying OS to bootstrap themselves, then they take over. The same thing happened when windows moved from fat16 to fat32. 16bit viruses ran happily, but all the virus checkers had to be recompiled. > (Why anybody would go to the trouble of running Linux, and then use > Microsoft applications on it escapes me..) as it says somewhere in the bible, "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow [OT]
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 23:51, you wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 16:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > To give fair credit, however, I understand that MS has replaced the > > legendary BSOD (R). It's black now. Yet another market-driven > > innovation. > > Oh good so the acronym BSOD still stands? Oh no, this is the BSOI = Black Screen Of Innovation -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shell script programming
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 06:30, Walter Logeman wrote: > Rodrigo, > > > Thank you all, these sites are really cool !!! > > Some more just for the record: > And on behalf of the Royal Society for the Preservation of Bandwidth, I suggest you try this command: locate rute.pdf If it's on your system, read it (use the app xpdf). If not, install it from the mdk cd's, and then read it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where to put skins for xmms ?
On Monday 18 February 2002 17:17, you wrote: > What directory would i put skins for xmms in ? Let's see, assuming that your login (username) on your system is "thepoet58", that would be /home/thepoet58/.xmms/Skins Don't bother decompressing them; just dump the zip, wsz, or tgz file in there and xmms will see it the next time you select a skin and decompress it on the fly (assuming that you have installed unzip, of course) Also, have a look at this file: /usr/share/doc/xmms-/README where xxx is your version of xmms -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] zip
On Monday 18 February 2002 23:06, you wrote: > > How do you windows/zip a file? I can unzip using the unzip command but > > there doesn't seem to be a zip conterpart. I need to zip a file to > > send to a assocaite running windows. Thanks. > > > > there should be a zip command as well. just try 'zip file_name' zip and unzip are separate packages. It is possible to have just the one and not the other installed. Just get out the cd's and install it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control > characters.. > > I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through > all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) > grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix > equivalent > > has anyone ever done this? Someone apparently did. Often enough to write a standard utility called dos2unix ... http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dos2unix there is also a unix2dos package to go with it -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:31, Stojs wrote: > can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Generally, yes, if the redhat rpm is fairly recent. But look on rpmfind.net for a mandrake version first. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pdf maker
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:21, christiyono wrote: > Hi... > > Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents > in pdf format? Yup. Scribus is a DTP app still in early beta but getting on nicely. It exports its files straight into pdf. Kword will save to pdf, but you do it via the print menu - just select the pdf "printer" and go. Same goes for Abiword. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Installing files
On Thursday 07 February 2002 12:58, Derek Jennings wrote: > > ~~~ > > > > Now I'd like to upgrade xfree86 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 > > > > I have tried, but the dependencies are horrendous... > > > > where to from here? > > > > Walter > > Why? What will 4.2.0 do for you that 4.1.0 does not? > I can understand upgrading Evolution. The older version has some nasty > bugs, but what is wrong with XFree86 that requires an upgrade? Nothing AFAIK. But I wanted to update something else that required 4.2.x. Long forgotten what it was ... Besides, I am obsessive about staying on the bleeding edge. Ya gotta problem with that? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing files
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 15:44, Walter Logeman wrote: > Hi again, > > I dont want ro do the nodependency check thing -- i want this to > be a stable machine. Also i want to do a more serious xfree86 > upgrade and need to grasp all this. > > > > # rpm -Uv xmms-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm > > > error: failed dependencies: > > > xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-esd-1.2.5-4mdk > > > xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-gnome-1.2.5-4mdk > > >xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-mikmod-1.2.5-4mdk > > > 426 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/xmms (12:25:22) > > > # > > > > > > This leaves me confused as to what it is telling me and what > > > to do now. > > The thing is i have xmms-esd-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm > xmms-gnome-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm > mikmod-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm > > all sitting here in rpm awaiting installation... can i install > them all at once so there is no depencency? Yes. You can issue this command rpm -Uvh --test xmms* mikmod* If you see no error messages, repeat without the --test -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Various questions
On Saturday 02 February 2002 15:50, marvin wrote: > 2) Has anyone installed kde 2.2.2 Yes >and did it break their > system. No -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?
On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:48, Michel Clasquin wrote: > 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you > like, otherwise just use > tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz > from the command line, without the quotes of course) oops there were quotes in there originally ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Saturday 02 February 2002 02:16, marvin wrote: > KDE seems to take a lot of memory. > > I have a 128MB machine, it`s a pure workstation with no servers. > Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.1. I have :- > > Once it`s booted up and I use top, I see 120MB in use and 4.6MB swap > used. > > Yes, I know ram is cheap but I`m wondering why so much ram is used. Short answer: Linux always uses all the RAM you have on your system. Whatever is available is used for caching. Don't worry about it. Anyone feel like giving the long answer? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?
On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:49, Hanan Z. AL-Shargi wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? > if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it > ? I'm a newbie ( as I'm still posting here in this list :-) ) and have > never installed any thing other than RPM's !! ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm but I think that may be a little dated. But really, installing either OpenOffice or StarOffice from the installation binary is about as hard as clicking on install.exe in a windows system. You should not need to install either from source. 1. go to www.openoffice.org 2. follow instructions there to download install641_linux_intel.tar.gz 2a. Go make several cups of coffee - this is a big file! 3. Open a terminal and use cd to go to the directory where you downloaded the file , for example cd /home/a_user/downloads 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you like, otherwise just use tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz from the command line, without the quotes of course). A directory called "install" with lots of files in it will be formed. cd to it: cd install 5 Now run the command ./setup 6. Follow the on-screen instructions -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Word processing on IBM Aptiva 2168.
On Thursday 31 January 2002 23:30, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2) We have a multilingual family. We need spell checking in Danish, > > > French, German and Spanish. I might be interested in seeing Russian > > > spell checking as well, though I don't use my Russian much these > > > days. Does AbiWord provide all of this? > > > > > > Brian, I don't recall seeing any GNU word-processor (ABI, KWord) with > built-in spell checking for danish. My version of Kword (d/led from cooker 2 days ago) can be set to use either aspell or ispell, and Danish is available for both. How good the dictionaries are I have no way of judging, but they are right here on my system. You'll also need to install the danish locales rpm. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]
On Friday 01 February 2002 10:58, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? > I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else > the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only > partially displays. I have 64 Mb of RAM and a separate 32 Mb video card. Actually, the uptime a server (perhaps running only text-mode apps) can achieve is completely irrelevant to that of a desktop machine that runs X, a window manager, and loads up a new app every few minutes. Bragging rights, that's all. But you can restart X (ie exit to the login screen, then restart X and reload the window manager) without rebooting. That will most likely get rid of any zombie programs still using up memory and the uptime counter will keep right on ticking. Once the Pan newsreader froze my X screen solid. *Nothing* worked - except CTL-ALT-F1 which put me in a console from where I could issue a "killall pan". CTL-ALT-F7 then put me right back in a smoothly working X screen, with Pan gone. Now with a, shall we say, lesser OS that would have been a reboot for sure. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 05:43, Michael Viron wrote: > I've seen servers that have uptime measured in a few hundred days with > no problems at all (I've personally admined one that was up for almost 3 > months before we had downtime due to a power outage). About the only > time that you should have to reboot (or shutdown) the system is either > when you upgrade hardware or update the kernel. Or when you look out the window and see a tropical thunderstorm approaching ... that's when we start switching off *everything* down here -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > of the word it's StarOffice, at least originally, but the code is > open to the public to modify and improve. so -- star office is only > modifyed and worked on by Sun, but open office is worked on by anyone > who wants to get involved. > > am i right about that?? Yes, but about once a year Sun grabs the OO source back, tarts it up with some new fonts and such and presents it to the PHB's as the *new* and *improved* StarOffice ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
On Monday 28 January 2002 19:33, marvin wrote: > b) pasting problems into AbiWord (v0.9.2 ditto) You *will* have problems trying to cut and paste between QT and GTK programs. Try this instead: have both apps open. highlight the text you want to transfer. Do NOT press ctrl-c or choose "copy" from the menu. Click once on the other app to change the focus, but be careful not to click-drag and create a new selection. Now click the middle button and your text will be transferred. If you have a 2-button mouse, click left and right simultaneously. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Book question.
On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:58, Javier de Lázaro Redruello wrote: > I´ve got a simple question for you, guys: > > Wich book should I read to beguin learning MDK Linux? > > I want to learn all those easy things as making short cuts, installing > software, etc. On your mdk cds is a package called RUTE. It installs a truly excellent (IMHO) introduction to linux in pdf format, which you can read with xpdf or the Adobe Acrobat reader. Don't expect to finish it in a few hours: it is pretty big. And no one has ever claimed that it is "for dummies" You might have it installed already, in fact. Check if the file /usr/share/doc/rute0.X.X/rute.pdf exists on your system Apart from that, the best way to learn almost anything to do with a computer is to switch it on and start playing with it. Make mistakes, figure out how to fix your mistakes, lurk the newsgroups, browse the linux websites, if you don't understand a command then immediately type "man ", and it is amazing how you start picking up on the tips and tricks. I'll allow one exception to that rule: When you go and learn a new programming language, a book helps you to find out what the major commands are! But generally, books are overrated. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] backspace, where art thou?
Hi gang All of a sardine my backspace key behaves like a delete key - ie it deletes to the right rather than to the left. Please tell me where to fix this - It's driving me insane! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake not Mandrake?
On Friday 25 January 2002 00:14, Mark Lucas wrote: > I have been downloading, compiling and installing sources - new kernel, > modules etc. > When does my Mandrake 8.0 distro cease to be Mandrake and become a > 'generic' Linux (if thewre is such a thing)? Good question. Guys, you can vote now whether Mark is to be kicked off the *mandrake* list 1,2,3 ... Nahh, you're still OK -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Xfce
On Thursday 24 January 2002 13:49, Derek Jennings wrote: > Off topic. I took Sridhar's comments to heart and spent some time > researching which applications executed fastest for use with my XFCE > based laptop. The performance differences were quite striking. here are > the apps which performed best . > [[snip]] > File Manager -XFtree > These are not always the prettiest applications, but they are fast.. Did you try xwc (XWinCommander) ? Fast, and pretty too. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail query
Ummm, sorry, I looked all over Kmail and I can see where I have a choice between sendmail and smtp, but I don't see anything for fetchmail. Or would that be under "local mailbox" somehow when you set up a new account? >On Wednesday 23 January 2002 01:44, Derek Jennings wrote: > You could tell Kmail to use fetchmail to poll your mailbox. Then there > will not be any error messages when you are offline. > > On Tuesday 22 January 2002 20:50, Michel Clasquin wrote: > > Is there any way to have kmail check for and download mail every X > > minutes, but *without* giving a bogus error message every X minutes > > while I'm offline? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine (SOLVED)
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 19:01, you wrote: > I decided to try the codeweavers installation of wine. It was very easy > to use and while I think I could have managed the script file ok... The > graphic tool is very nice. There's a graphic tool? I guess I should get my hands on xmessage after all ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] warning
On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:19, Jesse Angell wrote: > I caught a virus from this mailing list, on windows xp, it wasn't ... > Be ware, scan your system.. Or use Linux instead. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
