Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 23:36, robin wrote: > After extensive googling, I found a hint - someone had the same problem > and solved it by completely uninstalling KDE, then reinstalling. > Apparently KDE sometimes prefers to be installed rather than upgraded. > This was in SuSe, but may also apply in Mandrake. I don't have acess to > the computer in question at the moment, but you may care to try it; > otherwise I'll see if it works tomorrow. I need to get in to work early > so I can either fix it or downgrade before people say "Robin's buggered > up the computer again!" > > Sir Robin Can't they say that anyways? With or without it actually BEING buggered up? Just to take the piss outta ya? Or don't your students muck with you or poke fun at you in a lovinly respectable way? -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:55:00 +1100 8:55am up 18:11, 5 users, load average: 0.45, 0.23, 0.21 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | || | linux user:267497 * RH 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Bart: I had a fight with Milhouse. Homer: That four-eyes with the big nose? You don't need friends like that. Lisa: How Zen. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
well, i had the same problem few minutes ago and i did it!! i am sorry, but really cannot tell you how but suddenly it just worked. i played with Control Center a lot - that's all i can tell. try allow desktop menu, font menu settings.. do not give up cheers, joe robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
Charles Roberts wrote: robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) I have the same problem Robin. Think I will just live with it until 9.1. Charles After extensive googling, I found a hint - someone had the same problem and solved it by completely uninstalling KDE, then reinstalling. Apparently KDE sometimes prefers to be installed rather than upgraded. This was in SuSe, but may also apply in Mandrake. I don't have acess to the computer in question at the moment, but you may care to try it; otherwise I'll see if it works tomorrow. I need to get in to work early so I can either fix it or downgrade before people say "Robin's buggered up the computer again!" Sir Robin -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have the same problem Robin. Think I will just live with it until 9.1. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 06:39, robin wrote: > I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after > trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. > (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread > when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my > mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) > > I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works > OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It > looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. > Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by > dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is > there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or > something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? > > Sir Robin > (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out > soon) Honourable Sir Robin, Methinks that this was previously regurgitated in the kde-linux group - tried doing a search through, but can't quite seem to locate the particular thread - or could be due to dain bramage. I recall, though, something to the effect of a bad linking against older libraries... You might, dear Sir, want to have a peruse of that listing...as there is quite a bit of good talk... BTW, KDE 3.1 kicks-ass. Gnome 2.2.0 still leaves alot to be desired... Cheers and Turkish Beers! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:45:01 +1100 6:45am up 19:49, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.13, 0.15 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | || | linux user:267497 * RH 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: For more than a thousand generations the Jedi were the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Before the dark times. Before the Empire. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons...
I have installed expert. Again and again but always on the one computer. I have found a lot of ways to destroy a linux box. I never saw anything about makeing icons. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons... > I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I > installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons > that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past > couple of times. Maybe I missed something and it never knew to place the > icons there. That may make sense?? > > -Original Message- > From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... > > > Weird. I always make the users during install. > > Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is > where icons go. > - Original Message - > From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM > Subject: [newbie] No icons... > > > > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > > appreciated... > > > > Thanks, > > Chris Kelly > > Registered Linux user 185775 > > > > > > > >
RE: [newbie] No icons...
Thanks, Eddie, I will try it. -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons... Ok, here's what you do Kelly. Login as root ( I haven't been able to su and do this) and go to the K icon and open the menu ( I'm assuming you are using KDE) under the configuration options go to boot and ini submenu and open login manager, there you can change the options on your graphical login including backgrounds, icons for users, etc... Hope that helps. On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon... > > -Original Message- > From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... > > > What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like > in KDE? > > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > > appreciated... > > > > Thanks, > > Chris Kelly > > Registered Linux user 185775 > -- > Eddie Torres > www.veloct.net -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
RE: [newbie] No icons...
Ok, here's what you do Kelly. Login as root ( I haven't been able to su and do this) and go to the K icon and open the menu ( I'm assuming you are using KDE) under the configuration options go to boot and ini submenu and open login manager, there you can change the options on your graphical login including backgrounds, icons for users, etc... Hope that helps. On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon... > > -Original Message- > From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... > > > What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like > in KDE? > > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > > appreciated... > > > > Thanks, > > Chris Kelly > > Registered Linux user 185775 > -- > Eddie Torres > www.veloct.net -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
RE: [newbie] No icons...
I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past couple of times. Maybe I missed something and it never knew to place the icons there. That may make sense?? -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is where icons go. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > appreciated... > > Thanks, > Chris Kelly > Registered Linux user 185775 > > >
RE: [newbie] No icons...
I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon... -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like in KDE? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > appreciated... > > Thanks, > Chris Kelly > Registered Linux user 185775 -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
Re: [newbie] No icons...
Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is where icons go. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > appreciated... > > Thanks, > Chris Kelly > Registered Linux user 185775 > > >
Re: [newbie] No icons...
What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like in KDE? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. > > When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in > as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my > wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have > them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on > other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is > appreciated... > > Thanks, > Chris Kelly > Registered Linux user 185775 -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
[newbie] No icons...
I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
