Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At , Heimo Claasen wrote: [...] (It's a drag with Debian, where you get the [typically wrong] result only after the whole installation procedure and after starting X; or rather, after failing to get somewhere then. And in addition, there are real nuisances built-in there: the value to enter for vi

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-08 Thread Heimo Claasen
That looks to me as if the GUI (KDE in this case) starts up with the lowest resolution, say 640x480 - does cycling through screen resolutions (with [CTRL]-[ALT]-[+]) give you any other/larger screen dimension ? (The pop-up windows should be significantly smaller then, and be situated all inside the

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-07 Thread Hal MacArgle
r screens like the Control Centre which is the worst of the lot.. Only half of it is viewable. Some of the others are better in that you can actually see the very top of the OK, Cancel, etc buttons.. It may be a non-compatible issue with this one box only and it's BIOS/MB.. I'm sure th

RE: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-07 Thread James Miller
On 7 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Try maximizing the dialog box window, if possible. This > should neatly sidestep the whole issue of ``virtual > monitors''. > > I, also, have encountered the above problem, and have > attributed it to bad dialog box design. The problem also > occasional

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-07 Thread raihan
Hi, Try maximizing the dialog box window, if possible. This should neatly sidestep the whole issue of ``virtual monitors''. I, also, have encountered the above problem, and have attributed it to bad dialog box design. The problem also occasionally plagues Windows dialog boxes, as well. I did n

RE: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-07 Thread James Miller
On 7 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > > > dragging the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen causes > > the screen to shift in that direction, making what was cut > > off at that edge visible (while at the same time cutting > > things off at the opposite edge). > > I l

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-06 Thread ichi
James Miller wrote: > > dragging the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen causes > the screen to shift in that direction, making what was cut > off at that edge visible (while at the same time cutting > things off at the opposite edge). > I like this feature of "virtual resolution", and woul

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-06 Thread James Miller
, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: Trying to learn Mandrake 8.1 in an attempt to help the > neighbours move to Linux - I'm not doing too well with this pur- > chased commercial package - "Standard Edition." > > Have KDE installed and the KDE Desktop and ri

Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-06 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Trying to learn Mandrake 8.1 in an attempt to help the neighbours move to Linux - I'm not doing too well with this pur- chased commercial package - "Standard Edition." Have KDE installed and the KDE Desktop and right side sliding tool bar working fine, centered all di