Re: [newbie] Changing Bit Depth/Resolution

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Philp
True Death wrote: I'm new to linux and linux-mandrake alike, my friend sort of "coaxed" me into trying it. I have several problems, but I'll start with the one I'm most sure of. Simpily put, how do i change the bit depth and resolution for KDE??? You change bit depth by telling it X what

[newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake

1999-04-04 Thread Charley Sparks
I have a wonderful installation of Mandrake 5.3.. it's sweet and I love it. I asked my Lady to pick up Star Office at CompU$A ( the web site said they had it ) All she could find was Caldera 1.3 with Star Office. The install script gags... it brings ua a window witha garbled message and stops.

[newbie] email client

1999-04-04 Thread Mike Fieschko
Robert Sheskin writes: Can someone recomend a good email client that can filter messages. HTML would be nice too. I use Netscape now but was hopping that something a bit more stable was around. After using fetchmail to download my mail from my ISP, I have procmail filter the messages

RE: [newbie] Modem Shutdown

1999-04-04 Thread Russ Westbrook
Mr. Techno :-) Wow, this is great. I haven't put this in yet because I have one question. What does this mean and how do I do it? "And all you godda do is out this command in rc.local ..So that it will execute in bootup.." I'm thinkin this means adding a line in this file. Also, thanks to Dan

Re: [newbie] KDE and Other WinManagers

1999-04-04 Thread Keith Russell
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:38:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Biztech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got windowmaker to run by running a command called wmaker.inst then startx. Then I can switch back to kde by startx kde In window maker you can switch to Afterstep so I haven't tried to modify the

Re: [newbie] email client

1999-04-04 Thread Robert Sheskin
- Original Message - From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 9:20 AM Subject: [newbie] email client ---snip--- After using fetchmail to download my mail from my ISP, I have procmail filter the messages into folders.

Re: [newbie] KDE and Other WinManagers

1999-04-04 Thread Keith Russell
On Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:03:33 -0600, I wrote: Unfortunately, now the root user is forced to use AfterStep. Well, okay, I thought about this a little bit and renamed the .xinitrc file in /root to .xminitrc.AfterStep. Now "startx" runs KDE just fine as root. So now I can switch between KDE and

Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Philp
Charley Sparks wrote: I have a wonderful installation of Mandrake 5.3.. it's sweet and I love it. I asked my Lady to pick up Star Office at CompU$A ( the web site said they had it ) All she could find was Caldera 1.3 with Star Office. The install script gags... it brings ua a window witha

Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake

1999-04-04 Thread SciFyKid
i downloaded it using gozilla in windows over a couple of days it is SO cool it rules over MS Office thats my opinion : )

Re: [Re: [newbie] RH Star Office and Mandrake]

1999-04-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i downloaded it using gozilla in windows over a couple of days it is SO cool it rules over MS Office thats my opinion : ) I agree with the exception of the presentation program. I have to admit, PowerPoint is far superior IMHO. Mike

[newbie] Re: DPMS, modem speaker and virtual desktop (2)

1999-04-04 Thread Tomasz Wzietek
Hello again, It's been a few days since my original post. I've been digging here and there trying to find information needed to solve my problems and I finally got it! Well, at least most of it. Of course, it wouldn't be possible without the help of the friendly people here... A big "thank