Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-11 Thread john
frengoGorgia wrote: Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390)

Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-10 Thread frengoGorgia
Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: > Hello > Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed > through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I > ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. > -- > ** (process:7390): CRITIC

Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 11:33, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel > > installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent > > re-install I had been using the graphical

Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem

2005-04-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: > Hello all > > I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel > installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent > re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that > it would not retain the "faces" s

Re: [newbie] KDE -> KOrganizer -> Free/Busy

2005-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 13:26, SOTL wrote: > Hi All > > Does anyone have any idea of how to set up KOrganizer Free/Busy > > Where the setup ask for Server Information what server should be entered? > Same for User Name and Password. > > Is the following correct? > > Server Information: mail.ISP.net >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Sunday 20 March 2005 15:24, riccardo wrote: > Remark > ___ > > although my system is very old and out-dated, > I mention this because of Mandrakes recent new relationship with > Brazilian 'Connectiva' > > . . . several times, in the past, i have updated my KDE using > Connectiva's APT pa

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread riccardo
Remark ___ although my system is very old and out-dated, I mention this because of Mandrakes recent new relationship with Brazilian 'Connectiva' . . . several times, in the past, i have updated my KDE using Connectiva's APT package management tool ~ First Class :)) best rgds _

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sunday 20 March 2005 06:10, Mr. Geek wrote: > Guys, you're beating yourselves up for nothing on this. After you add > Thac's RPM's to urpmi, take a moment to install the ICE desktop or some > other one. Chances are that you'll have at least 2 desktop environments > installed anyway. > Once you'

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mr. Geek
Guys, you're beating yourselves up for nothing on this. After you add Thac's RPM's to urpmi, take a moment to install the ICE desktop or some other one. Chances are that you'll have at least 2 desktop environments installed anyway. Log out of KDE, and log back in as root or a normal user, but l

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Saturday 19 March 2005 18:05, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:44:36 +0100, Pablo Ortuzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, > > > when I run > > > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > > > > nothing happens. Does the same h

Re: [newbie] KDE unable to start

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:44, Carlton Matthew wrote: > On my other PC I get teh message:- > error trying to start KDE > No write access to '/home/carlton/.ICEauthority' > KDE is unable to start. > > On further investigation, the file appears to be owned by root > how do I change ownership back to

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:44:36 +0100, Pablo Ortuzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I > > run > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > > nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? > > No. 204 packages were going to be installed.

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Miark
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:18:17 +0700, Fajar wrote: > > The last time I used Thac's RPMs for KDE, it was a nightmare, > > as it was for at least a few other people. Any reason to > > expect similar problems with 3.4 RPMs? > > I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) You bet! Were you one thos

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Saturday 19 March 2005 14:07, Paul Smith wrote: > I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I > run > > urpmi --auto-select > > nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? > > Paul No. 204 packages were going to be installed. Due to missed dependencies, none

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I run urpmi --auto-select nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mr. Geek
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) Luck! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.c

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:32 am, Miark wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: > > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva > > > > packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way > > > > to urpmi them? > > > > Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/1

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:32 am, Miark wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: > > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva > > > > packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way > > > > to urpmi them? > > > > Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/1

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Miark
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva > > > packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way > > > to urpmi them? > > Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can > add Thacs to your urpmi resources as

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Friday 18 March 2005 07:30 pm, Leaf wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 18:09, Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: > > > On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: > > > > Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:12:31 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed KDE 3.4. The login panel has changed afterwards. > How can I get the previous one? I found the solution meanwhile: urpmi mdkkdm Paul Want to buy

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
I have just installed KDE 3.4. The login panel has changed afterwards. How can I get the previous one? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Leaf
On Friday 18 March 2005 18:09, Julie Sloan wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: > > > Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: > > Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > > > Hello, > > > > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages > > > available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread frengoGorgia
Il sab, 2005-03-19 alle 00:18, Paul Smith ha scritto: > > > Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to > > > your > > > urpmi resources as well. > > > > Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One > > suggestion folks. Make sure you have

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:55:49 -0500, Mr. Geek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leaf wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: > > > >>Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > >> > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages ava

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Mr. Geek
Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-e

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Leaf
On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: > Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > > Hello, > > > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, > > but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? > > Look like a flame-question for the

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread frengoGorgia
Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: > Hello, > > KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but > no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-ex

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 18 March 2005 20:42, Michel Leunen wrote: > It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is > to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. Don't simply "upgrade" from 10.0 to 10.2...that'll be an even finer mess. Better to do a fresh install.

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-18 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well you could try a new (kde)install after removing everything that's associated...but that'll be a fine mess, prolly. It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. No prob...too ba

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:28, Michel Leunen wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > apparently your problem isn't solved yet... > > No. I've tried to do another update hoping it will repair kde but with > no luck. I think I'll have to reinstall it, I'm afraid. Well you could try a new (kde)install aft

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-17 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: apparently your problem isn't solved yet... No. I've tried to do another update hoping it will repair kde but with no luck. I think I'll have to reinstall it, I'm afraid. so let's take a few tests: Ok, let's go! After booting up into xfce4, open a terminal and try to start kon

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:48, Michel Leunen wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's > > running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib > > upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). > > I'm not

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread Michel Leunen
Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: However, while the installation was OK (not a single error), when I started the system up, when loading the Mandrake GUI selector (I actually don't know its name, hope I made myself clear: that is, where you should enter the username and password) the system didn

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). I'm not 100% sure that my problem is a consequence of an upgrade but I think i

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:44, Anne Wilson wrote: > I haven't moved win4lin to this box yet anyway, so that's not a problem.   >  I seem to spend 6 months ironing out problems on a new install, > only to have to do it all over again because I need maybe just one thing > that the existing instal

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 22:52, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's > running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib > upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). > I haven't considered it until this last w

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
rio Registrado de Linux 381647 http://counter.li.org - Original Message - From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:17, Anne Wilson wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:17, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 21:26, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > I messed my KDE so bad konq would take about 5 minutes to start from > > xfce...beuh!!! So I installed Mdk10.2rc3 totally afresh on that > > laptop..and I'm not complaining;) > > > > B

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas
Have you tried to launch kde from the command line ? If not, try : startx kde -- :1 as root, in a text shell and you will know if the problem is in your configuration or kde itself. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:20:29 +0100, Michel Leunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Here's o

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 21:26, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > I messed my KDE so bad konq would take about 5 minutes to start from > xfce...beuh!!! So I installed Mdk10.2rc3 totally afresh on that > laptop..and I'm not complaining;) > > Believe me KDE is a PIA when it comes to upgrades.makes you

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:19, Michel Leunen wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? > > Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading > > yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my > last upgrade. > I

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:12, Michel Leunen wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Just for curiosity's sake...are you familiar with the commandline > > ergo when you say that about "/usr/share/bla/bla", are you trying to find > > "clickable" executables like in windows? > > I'm a new Linux user bu

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: Michael, capitalisation is very important. Try it again with slocate XFdrake Oops, sorry. Hey H.J.Bathoorn, maybe I'm really dumb after all :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# slocate XFdrake /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.p

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't know if you are aware of this, but when you update a package, if it is running it does not appear to be affected. It is not until you re-start it that the new package kicks in. Yeah, I learned that the hard way :-) In the case of kde it would be logging in afresh tha

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:49, Michel Leunen wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ slocate XFdrake > > /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png > > /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.png > > /usr/sbin/XFdrake > > Thanks Anne, that's definitely not the same as what

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ slocate XFdrake /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk_128.png /usr/share/mcc/themes/default/XFdrake-mdk.png /usr/sbin/XFdrake Thanks Anne, that's definitely not the same as what i got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michel]$ slocate xfdrake /usr/share/mdk/xfdrake

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:19, Michel Leunen wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? > > Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading > > yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my > last upgrade. > In

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 20:12, Michel Leunen wrote: > > I don't know what XFDrake is so I looked where i could find it. I just > said that the only reference to XFdrake I found was in /usr/share/mdk/ > and it's a directory. Sorry - I made a mistake on the capitalisation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:12 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: > mean when telling me to try xfdrake? What is it? i do not know ~ but, taking a wild guess . . . maybe, Mandrake's tool for setting up X-windows { XFree86 or X-Org } [ my Linux presently is SuSE ] ? best rgds

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my last upgrade. In the case it was the upgrade that messed my kde up, what's the solut

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Just for curiosity's sake...are you familiar with the commandline ergo when you say that about "/usr/share/bla/bla", are you trying to find "clickable" executables like in windows? I'm a new Linux user but not completely dumb, I hope :-) Executables are found in "bin/" and

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:26, Michel Leunen wrote: > $ konqueror > konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined symbol: > _ZN9KIconView21contentsDragMoveEventEP14QDragMoveEvent > > Have no idea what it means. Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the f

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:20, Michel Leunen wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a > > command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. > > If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. >

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: It does seem rather difficult to do anything about kde if you can't even get in. He should be able to try renaming .kde, but that would only work if the problem was after logging in, and as I understand it he can't even get so far. But - if he can't, how did he get XFCE wor

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde that's for sure. You're right, everything else seems to work just fine. I can log in Gnome desktop, XFCE4 without any problem. Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Michel Leunen
Anne Wilson wrote: Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. Hmm, I just have one directory called xfdrake (/usr/share/mdk/xfdra

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 05:41, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: > | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. N

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop | and no icons and I have

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde > that's for sure. I hadn't realised about XFCE when I sent it, but you're right, of course. > Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check >

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: > > eric jackson wrote: > > > You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the > > > command line, did you try startx? > > > > No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandra

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: > eric jackson wrote: > > You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the > > command line, did you try startx? > > No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login > tool. Typing startx from a command prompt

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, the X server is launched. I ca

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:18:24 +0100, Michel Leunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. You didn't say if you had a co

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:01, Michel Leunen wrote: > Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop > and no icons and I have to

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread SOTL
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:01, Michel Leunen wrote: > Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop > and no icons and I have to

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:20 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from anywhere): [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:20 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: > >>After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi > >>--auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from > >>anywhere): > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# k

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-11 Thread SnapafunFrank
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from anywhere): [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# k3b k3b: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libartskde.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZTv0_n28_

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: > After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi > --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from > anywhere): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# k3b > k3b: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libartskde.so.1: > undefined symbol: > _ZTv0_n28_N4Arts1

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Thread Keith Powell
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > > > In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 > > which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have > > been a complete failure. > > > > So, PLEASE

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Thread Keith Powell
In reply to my question on how to upgrade KDE with the packages on CD4, On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:21, linuxgirlie wrote: > I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following: > > Copy all the KDE files into /tmp > Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed > now) that won't allow

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: > After several frustrating hours of failure, I am afraid I will > have to ask! > > In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 > which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have > been a complete failure.

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-01 Thread linuxgirlie
I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following: Copy all the KDE files into /tmp Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed now) that won't allow you to add media under other users. Go to Mdkc Control Centre (configure your computer) and add new media...eg the folder with kde i

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-09 Thread John Layt
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:22, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Thanks for you tips. I have been member in Mandrake Club (Sliver > Member) for future use and to be comfortable for all downloading stuff. > I think I should renew my membership every year, isn't it right ? Well, > I hope not, at lease I hope they

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-09 Thread Danesh Daroui
John Layt wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:08, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:08, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > >Hi, > >I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. > >During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP > >sites, but ther

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
once you've got mandrake installed, then you can just add kde 3.3 using urpmi Just skip it for now, and choose another window manager like gnome. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:08:59 -0500, Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > > >

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread Marek Pawinski
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP sites, but there was not any KDE iso image. Can anybody help ? Regards, Danesh Daroui I think the forth Cd (KDE cd) might only be for Mand

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: >Hi, >I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. >During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP >sites, but there was not any KDE iso image. Can anybody help ? >Re

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-23 Thread Jack
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:26 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:19 pm, Jack wrote: > > I seem to have more recent versions and I also have Mandrake 10.1 > > community. I suppose that could be making a difference also. > > > > I could remove the later versions of the C c

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-20 Thread Jack
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:41 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote: > From what I can gather from the osl2000 web site, XOSL is an entirely > different boot manager. > > I haven't tried the osl2000 product, but based on the screenshots, I'd > still prefer XOSL. > > It looks like the original web site is do

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-20 Thread Jack
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:18 +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 23:17, Jack wrote: > > > > Perhaps a power-user like you can make it recognize > > my Canon D760 printer/copier but I can't, especially when there > > is no driver *anywhere* for it. > > > Have you tried Turbop

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-20 Thread Rick Kunath
Jack wrote: I think xosl is now called osl2000, which is the boot manager I'm using... - Jack From what I can gather from the osl2000 web site, XOSL is an entirely different boot manager. I haven't tried the osl2000 product, but based on the screenshots, I'd still prefer XOSL. It looks like th

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 23:17, Jack wrote: > Perhaps a power-user like you can make it recognize > my Canon D760 printer/copier but I can't, especially when there > is no driver *anywhere* for it. Have you tried Turboprint ? http://www.turboprint.de/english.html HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sen

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-19 Thread Jack
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:32 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote: > I gave up on Partition Magic (and Drive Image) around Linux years ago > for the better Paragon Hard Disk Manager product (it includes Drive > Backup and some other useful utilities.) (I'm not associated with them, > just a happy user.) >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-19 Thread Jack
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:49 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > Wow, sounds like you had a rough time of it Jack. I have been there done that > - my MBR got wiped out on several occasions when I had a dual boot system. > The one thing I did that solved that was to completely wipe out the Windows >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-19 Thread Jack
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:32 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: > used to be you could start up in dos and give "fdisk MBR" and it would reset > the windows bootup. Does this no longer work in 10.1? or 10.0? Anybody know? I think it would still work... but not if you're using a 3rd party boot manager lik

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-19 Thread Rick Kunath
Jack wrote: It tends to make me wary but how does one learn without "fooling around." :-) I have now abandoned Drive Image for Paragon Drive Backup 6.0 which comes highly recommended. It even uses Linux on it's recovery CD. I do *not* want to have to depend on Window's repair function. Excellen

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-18 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Monday 18 October 2004 09:32 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Hi Randall... > > > > My XP partition went "poof". I think it was a faulty mbr. My Drive > > Image 7.0 image backup didn't work so I was forced to unhook my boot > > manager, rebuild XP with the repair function, and then re-install my >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 18 October 2004 08:07 pm, Jack wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 07:26 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > > On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00 am, Jack wrote: > > > Yes I do. On another matter... > > > > > > Is it possible that Konstruct interfered with my winXP setup on c: > > > drive? I just

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-18 Thread Jack
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 07:26 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00 am, Jack wrote: > > Yes I do. On another matter... > > > > Is it possible that Konstruct interfered with my winXP setup on c: > > drive? I just spent the last 2 hours recovering my windows system. I > >

Re: [newbie] KDE TV

2004-10-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 17 October 2004 02:50, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo guys > > I have mandrake 10.0 PWP. > Win TV Theater card > 878bt chip > Geforce 3 TI-500 64 MB > Pentium 4 2GHZ > 358 Ram > > I have done a lsmod to see which modules are load but I cant find anyone of > thos listed in this link (

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-17 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00 am, Jack wrote: > Yes I do. On another matter... > > Is it possible that Konstruct interfered with my winXP setup on c: > drive? I just spent the last 2 hours recovering my windows system. I > might have mentioned that I'm dual-booting. Does konstruct do anything

Re: [newbie] KDE TV

2004-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 17 Oct 2004 01:59, Jack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:44 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't have a tv card, but I needed xawtv to work so that I could work > > with capturing from a camcorder. I had great problems getting it to > > work, and it turned out to be the need for a loca

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 16 October 2004 20:19, Jack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 19:59 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:53 pm, Jack wrote: > > > gcc4.0-c++-4.0.0-0.1mdk > > > libgcc1-3.4.1-3mdk > > > gcc4.0-4.0.0-0.1mdk > > > gcc-cpp-3.4.1-3mdk > > > gcc4.0-cpp-4.0.0-0.1mdk >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-16 Thread Jack
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 21:36 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:32 pm, Jack wrote: > > Unfortunately, I do not... > > OK... You've got binutils installed too, right? (I'm just sorta' reading > through posts on Google, and this RPM package has been brought up several >

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-16 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:32 pm, Jack wrote: > Unfortunately, I do not... OK... You've got binutils installed too, right? (I'm just sorta' reading through posts on Google, and this RPM package has been brought up several times). -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrato

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