Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Fred Albrecht
Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-19 Thread Fred Albrecht
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ top quote snipped ] I went to the club site, clicked the "Downloads" box, and then the "MandrakeClub mirrors script" link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.p

Re: [expert] KMail and Pine

2003-08-23 Thread Fred Albrecht
Guilherme Cirne wrote: One solution is to delete all .index* files after using Pine and before opening KMail. Is this safe? What are these index* files used for? Is there a better solution? The simplest way is to setup an IMAP server to store your mail (which you can retrieve with fetchmail). T

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-15 Thread Fred Albrecht
KevinO wrote: I must first state that I do appreciate the efforts of Vincent and all of the others that worked on and contributed to this book. I am also pleased to see that this book has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License. But... I just got my copy today and I am disappointed.

Re: [expert] Auto Scroll

2003-06-05 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:48, Brian V Bonini wrote: > I realize that, the question really is, what's causing it to switch to > off to begin with... Hard to say without extensive testing. You'd have to test it periodically and make a note of the last app you started. Personally I'd suspect KDE (bu

Re: [expert] Auto Scroll

2003-06-05 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 22:22, charlie wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:31 pm, Fred Albrecht sent this :- > > Am I the only one who thinks KDE > > is so buggy it's not worth using ? > > What bugs are you finding Fred? Well, I gave up on the previous versions which crashed o

Re: [expert] Auto Scroll

2003-06-04 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:00, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:55, Fred Albrecht wrote: > > What do you mean "instead of kde" ? > > > > well it's the only other option, right? :-P Certainly seems that way on the list. Am I the only one who t

Re: [expert] Auto Scroll

2003-06-04 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:12, Brian V Bonini wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:55, Fred Albrecht wrote: > > Anyway what does xset q say ? > > Here's what mine says: > > $ xset q > Keyboard Control: > auto repeat: off This should say "on". You can

Re: [expert] Auto Scroll

2003-06-04 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:01, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 13:57, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > Occasionally my keyboard will loose its auto-scroll, I think (really not > > sure) it may ave something to do with VMware. Only seems to happen when > > VMWare is/was running. Only thing that ge

Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?

2003-05-29 Thread Fred Albrecht
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:16, elPunishar wrote: > i have no > -> pheripherals -> mouse > in control center. i only have > -> hardware -> MouseDrake Just use xset then. It has the advantage of working out of kde too. -- Fred. Linux, {Free,Open}BSD mercenary {sys,net}admin @ N48º53.115 E02º19.3