that.
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sure you ./configure --prefix=/usr, or the ROX apps
will not find it.
Whoops. Fogot to do that, but the pager is working...
Now, what was i trying to do when i started all this?.
Thanks for your help, guys and gals,
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JoeHill wrote:
whats next? winux???
Thanks. I'm gonna have nightmares tonight...
Joe, i rarely LOL reading email, but when i do, it's often your fault!
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I find dereks explanation the easiest to follow, especially for a newbie:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10
Works like a charm
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On Friday 27 Jun 2003 11:05 pm
xvprint is good, too, for killing jobs...
However, what I am missing is a print manager , or some point and click
way of killing of print jobs - my printer is an Epson Stylus Colour 400.
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of Things you'll probably have to do when
installing on a new machine.
Thanks!
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Compiling /stuff/rpms_local/other/rox/Pager... please wait...
creating cache ./config.cache
checking that pkg-config runs... yes
checking that gtk+-2.0 (version = 2.0.0) is installed... no
configure: error
It looks like others are helping you with the drive stuff, but since you lost it all,
here are links to archives, etc. Speaking of the newsgroup, anyone spent much time
over there?
Hope this helps:
Partitions:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiew=2r=1s=partitionsq=b
General
but we're not petrified yet
Whew! Ater today at work, *I* am!
My friends ask me why i spend all day designing and programming on a computer at work,
then come home and play with the computer. I think maybe this weekend i better go
outside and drill holes in stuff...
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Hello,
If i ctrl-alt-F* to different tty's, is there any way to tell, in a bash script, which
one i logged into?
I am thinking of having a default login, but run different startups, for example, if i
log into tty2, 3, etc.
Thanks,
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that next version of fbpanel looks really sweet,
thanks fer turnin me onto that, sometimes nice to have.
Yeah, seeing the list at the bottom keeps me informed about my place
in the universe..
heh, ya, that's about all i use it for...and the clock...
Before i got it, i was using
did look first before i asked...
Thanks for the link, Joe!
Now tty1 can be my login, startx, and start email tty. tty2 will just take me to the
prompt. tty3...
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about clearing all the folder
settings, of which i have many. I haven't tried it in 9.2, but if it's the same as
claws, you can get rid of the nasty problem of people filling in their reply-to ...
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in the non-claws?
Well, that's the problem, it's not the same in non-claws. I got it to work fine in
claws.
I'm not sure how it id's a header: it may just be that under header, i can type the
first few letters of what i wand, then under keyword, the rest.
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My gf rented harry potter 2 today.
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I just built 0.9.0claws. In 0.8.11claws, I could click a message to read
it and hit the delete key to delete it and it would automatically open
the next message. It doesn't do that anymore, I have to click or hit
enter or the space bar for it to open the next message.
Mine does that by
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right?
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html
Found one for 0.8.3... maybe I missed it - I'll check again.
Yeah, i haven't found any for the 9 series
today...
Tell me how it goes. So far i have been using rox.
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I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right?
Yeah, check here:
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html
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chmod directory to sort my mail.
There are some things that are hard to get used to in sylpheed, like shift page down
doesn't select downward a page.
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I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right?
Yeah, check here:
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html
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fields, and even
make up my own, but how would i just tell it to look for some sequence anywhere in the
header?
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, that is cool. It works mostly, but sometimes instead of setting the
value of the item, it just runs the item. But the menu rc file is easy
enough to edit...
The backspace key is the big gem, though. :) I'll try that when i get home.
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. Unfortunately, no one in southern california
speaks german, so i have become terminally out of prafctice...
And i am apparently too lazy to learn spanish (which also has the
noun-gender problem).
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, but it's manual is at:
file:///usr/share/sylpheed/manual/en/sylpheed.html
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Sort of not a hijack:
Is there any reason to have webmin in the startup services if i
don't actually remotely log into it?
thanks,
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On Monday 23 June 2003 06:11 am, Mark Berry wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Tsyko wrote:
One very stupid question..
How do I launch
Espanol es muy facil comprender
facil? :)
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default account?
Just curious, mostly. This syphilis program is cool...
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I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm.
How do i make the rpm utils see that as my most current version?
When i try to install some other rm from rox, it keeps wanting to
install rox-filer 1.3.7, since according to it i have none
installed...
thanks,
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There's a twiki on it at:
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Using_urpmi
On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:25 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation
out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this
case UC Santa Cruz or to
. Now i
have 2.0.0 installed *and* my urpmi knows it's 2.0.0!
thanks!
eric
also, if you've added your contrib sources properly,
# urpmi checkinstall
should get your the rpm for your version of mandrake.
I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm.
How do i make the rpm
are on the
same ide buss or different? I just want to make sure i get this
right...
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I would first look at /var/log/messages
You might see the same messages in there.
If you use less /var/log/messages (instead of more) you can hit
the end key to get to the end of them.
eric
On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:31 pm, Wade Waldron wrote:
Okay, when my system hangs I am able to press
I have to apologize: i swear i saved this info, but can''t find it
here or in the archves:
I remember a little while ago, there was a sylpheed flurry about
doing something special to install it (ie not just using the
standard mandrake rpm).
Am i just smokin it?
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it's buried in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:56 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail
crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or
otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address
book is
...
Yeah, i think i can get used to this...
Thanks for the rpms locations.
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...)
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the bookmark manager, bookmarks - 'add bookmark to',
or right-clicking in the bookmarks tree, but I'm still on 1.2.5.
See my reply to eric- if they really have taken these useful
options out, it might be worth installing the older one.
Richard
I mistakenly sent to Richard directly. Here's his reply
A! If i were, theoretically, wanting to just reformat /boot,
and rebuild it, how would i do that?
I had this exact need last weekend...
eric
On Saturday 21 June 2003 07:03 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday June 21 2003 12:21 am, eric huff wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out
which libs/paths are with pekwm...
Thanks for the tip,
eric
On Saturday 21 June 2003 02:55 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 16:44, eric huff wrote:
Hi Folks,
I am having a problem with pekwm crashing when i move files in
Rox-filer.
I boot in init 3, and when it crashes, i
get to do more testing.
(right now, i am on their mac, using webmail. talke about awkward! I know
it's possible, but i can't even find undo on this thing, nor can i
shift-end, home, etc while editing text...)
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On Saturday June 21 2003 09:46 am, eric huff wrote:
A! If i were, theoretically, wanting to just reformat /boot, and
rebuild it, how would i do that?
I had this exact need last weekend...
Disclaimer: I've never done this! But I believe you could do
an install with the first CD
bookmarking in Galeon. You
can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder,
order them non-alphabetically, export them in three different formats...
Well, after your last suggestion, i might have to agree with you. :)
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better. Plus, it works in galeon, too. It also
solves my achy-mouse-hand problem of the menus chasing after the mouse.
Yeah, i think i will stick with the panel for most things...
Well, even though it's all such a simple thing, this thread has helped me
quite a bit! Thanks to all,
eric
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below was how to get a session type for a 'non
Mandrake' RPM.
I should have mentioned that. I guess i just assumed it was for something
else...
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Here is the apend line from mine:
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off
On Friday 20 June 2003 10:05 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Friday 20 Jun 2003 4:06 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
Seems ACPI was turned off for a reason... X windows won't boot
with it turned on!
Now I am stuck how
eric huff wrote:
I tried everything i could think of to get it to alpabetize, but
couldn't. Plus, the mozzilla that came with 9.1 is so borked,
it eventually stopped working all together for me. Even after
deleting the mozilla dir.
Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla
didn't work
with it on.
For me, my parallel port won't work with acpi on! Never did solve
that one.
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for 9.1? I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's working pretty
well for me. It's gets very extensive use throughout the
entire day without any trouble.
Yep. Alphabetises fine in bookmark editor, but the puldown
doesn't at all...
You've lost me, eric. I don't alphabetise - I sort
is pretty good. Seems much better
than before. I think i'll try this one for awhile.
Well, thanks for making me check!
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well i bought a WD For windows ONLY... My maxtor does linux duty.
My g'f has a maxtor. No problems with either. But they bought
out another company repackaged them as maxtors on the box...
maybe thats the problem? That was less than ayear ago I
bought mine 2 years ago...
Yeah, they
BTW, what is a crunchie?
Crunchhead or Crunchy=programmer
code cruncher
Hah! I guess that's true. When i first saw it,
i used the granola / hippie meaning...
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Todd, Todd - Don't get too huffed up there
Hey, i resemble that remark...
huff
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How can I add session types ( kde, gnome etc ) to users when you
are not yet on desktop.
I can drop to a root terminal, but what do I call ?
big snip
Where do I go to add these desktops to the login managers session
menu ?
I thin kthis is what you want.
Here are excerpts from emails on
I remember somebody on this list suggesting there is
something what can be done to speed up OpenOffice at
start up, some sort of additional software.
Does anybody remember/know what is it?
This from gurpmi:
Name: oooqs
Version: 1.0-0.rc3.2mdk
Size: 255 KB
with
startx 1 startx.out 2 startx.errors
Regular messages will go to startx.out, errors to startx.errors.
See if that sheds any light?
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You can turn off autologin:
At the CLI, as root:
drakboot
then click no fo autologins.
Or, get there from in mandrake control center.
select boot and then drakboot.
eric
On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:40 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote:
Along these lines When I boot up my machine go directly to
KDE
in galeon?
I just use 2 of them, but can't get rid of the other...
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Example: i want ~/Documents to only find ~/Documents not
every page with the word documents in it. Google (and a couple
others i tried) ignore all the non-letter characters.
I tried using hex codes (like we sometimes put %20 into a path
for a space) but that didn't help.
Have you
solves my problem of menus following the mouse like a cat.
I use the menus less and less as i learn the progs, but when i need
them...
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installed, i had no trouble shrinkin it. Latere, after
getting rid of stuff in windows, (and haveing to reinstally ML9.1)
diskdrake told me the partition was too fragmented to shrink. As you, i
had defragged many times.
Not sure why it behaved differently...
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Hi folks,
Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? I need to get it on my
machine at work.
I googled, but there seemed to be too many choices.
Thanks!
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as internet explorer. Editing, that's
a diff story, but the bookmark filing in IE is pretty good.
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tend to run everyting maximized, so it never matters to me...
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Thanks for the info, folks. Our IT guy at work is intrigued, as well.
(was using a paid for version with lotsa installing...)
Putty is small and fantastic:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
i second that
reasons (amongst others):
1. single exe file
2.
I love putty.
(That's a pretty racy statement taken out of context, eh?)
LOL!
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So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking...
-A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
Sorry if i missed it: where does this go?
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A great place to start is
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences
Also, though not updated, MUO is very informative:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html
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went in and expert installed to re-partition
we'll see how much damage i can do from here :)
If you're anyting like the rest f us, A LOT! :)
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Ok, got my computer runnin again...
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On
gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K.
I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps.
It could be swap, could be even gKrellm itself reading the drives - have
you
was running filesystem
comparisions between Reiser and XFS.
Ahh. What did you decide after your comparisons?
Stephen, i know you are a Reiser guy, do you get this? Is this what
caching might prevent?
Thanks,
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have said they liked
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/true/882/SDHash.htm
but i never used it...
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About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On
gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K.
Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this
often.
I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps.
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, lilo is working fine, and it does still boot into windows just
fine.
I am running ML 9.1.
Thanks in advance for any rescue advice!
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linux writing to fat32, not
ntfs. As far as i've read and heard on these lists, writing to ntfs is
experimental at best.
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fsck won't save my /boot partition: bad superblock.
At this point, i think i should fdisk hda6 and copy the /boot from knoppix
over to it.
Does this make sense?
Or should i let the install cd format that section, and do a mini install?
Thanks for any advice,
eric
On Saturday 14 June 2003 09
For anyone interested in the downloadable manuals, i just stumbled on them
rpm'ing.
mandrake_doc-en
Version: 9.1-2mdk
Size: 18715 KB
Source: main
Currently installed version: (none)
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, but I
can see it helping here.
And for those of you like me who have trouble speling approppos :)
it's the same as man -k link (k for keyword).
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.
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On Fri June 13 2003 05:03 am, Ken Walker wrote:
There is if you type aprops ln, goes to show if you use that you think
is what you want, it isn't always and can lead you on a merry
roundabout.
-Original Message-
From: eric huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
with backups? This seems
interesting
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Didn't some people have problems doing this since config files that needed
updated weren't? I think it was with kde or something.
Or are you just trying to get more people frustrated with kde, Joe? :)
eric
On Fri June 13 2003 06:07 am, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:14 +1000
Jon
of missing bits but the other manual pages are there (or
at least lots of them) and manpath is set.
But i do have a man ln, and it has link in the desc.
(no apropos for links, either)
NAME
ln - make links between files
Oh well
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for
it, i'll pour over it. I do plan to get a little file server running
here...
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what it says to add sources.
Then, in the installer (mandrake control centter--software--install)
search for mandrake.
eric
Thats nice
You maybe have the web-address please
Thanks
Johan
For anyone interested in the downloadable manuals, i just stumbled on
them rpm'ing.
mandrake_doc
in the middle of
a word. And didn't files that started with . show up first, too?
I have this problem with lots of apps (galeon, rox, xterms, etc).
Is there any way around it?
Thanks,
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and that's probably where apropos comes in
(see last line of included output)
I was just about to mention apropos, but check out my output: no ln
command.
I definitely have ln, and a man page for it...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos link
NETLINK_ROUTE [rtnetlink] (7) - Linux IPv4 routing
the hyphens so that sig's are ignored by servers. If your mail
reader includes sigs in replys, that are properly separated from
the mesg body by the hyphens, then it's your email client that has
a bad design. Kmail properly and automatically adds the hyphens
before the sig.
Right,
On Thu June 12 2003 09:07 pm, JoeHill wrote:
nohup gkrellm
That definitely gets added to my bag of tricks...
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Great!
Thanks, that is exactly what i was looking for.
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On Wed June 11 2003 05:21 am, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:38:04 -0700
eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When i installed, it did this just fine, but if i go into diskdrake
now, it says all data will be lost
?
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You should be fine putting it on the same drive as your Win XP. This is
what a lot of people do who dual-boot their machines.
Yeah, defrag it first, then you can resize it when you install. Make sure
to back up your XP data first...
Quoting Henri Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just bought
. How do you get it to resize like it did the
first time?
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Yeah, defrag it first, then you can resize it when you install. Make
sure to back up your XP data first...
Diskdrake in 9.0 can not resize NTFS
Using a 3rd party app such as PM v5 or other such partition program will
be necessary.
Try googling
JoeHill wrote:
in the list of topics there is one about Mailfilter
Didn't some *crazy* guy write that?
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DJ Yes Linux can have spaces, but when you are typing a file name
DJ containing spaces in the command line you must wrap the entire
DJ file name in quotes
Thanks - learn something every day here. :-)
Personally, i think linux handles spaces better than that other OS that
forced them on us
thing was built to only work for windows) but linux has
been much tricker.
For the record i'd like to reiterate that i am not bashing linux in any
way: i love it here and am never turning back.
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As a matter of interest - how do you access the Gnome Control Center
if you are in kde?
I went into menudrake, and set it to gnome, and found it to be:
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center
You get almost the same thing in Nautilus:
go -- start here
but it's a slower interface.
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Export it as a csv text file (or someting like that). It was one of the
text choices in outlook express (maybe version 6).
Then, in kmail you can import it, and configure some stuff as you do.
If you are like me, you'll do it a few times before you get all the outlook
export choices set
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