Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-03-02 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:40:48 +0530 Antony Paul disseminated the following: Thanks I set up it using gconf-editor. Neither gconf nor GConf is in my system. It is really annoying to open multiple windows and to find the windows in the task bar. Which is why you ought to try out ROX:

Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-03-01 Thread Antony Paul
Thanks for the reply. I am a newbie. I couldnt find an application named GConf/gconf. I went to System - File Tools - Nautils and it is opening a window. In the preferences I couldnt find an entry like Always use browser. Can u explain me a bit. Do I have to download anything else ?. rgds

Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-03-01 Thread Smiley
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:53:31 +0530 Antony Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am a newbie. I couldnt find an application named GConf/gconf. I went to System - File Tools - Nautils and it is opening a window. In the preferences I couldnt find an entry like Always use

Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-03-01 Thread Antony Paul
Thanks I set up it using gconf-editor. Neither gconf nor GConf is in my system. It is really annoying to open multiple windows and to find the windows in the task bar. rgds Antony Paul On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:50:39 +0100, Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:53:31 +0530 Antony

[newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-02-28 Thread Antony Paul
Hi all, I am using Mandrakelinux 10.1. I want to set the browsing of hard disk to open in same window. Now when I double click on the computer icon in desktop it opens a window. Subsequent clicks in folders opens a new window. I want all folders displayed in same window. rgds Antony Paul

Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window

2005-02-28 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:17:23 +0530 Antony Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am using Mandrakelinux 10.1. I want to set the browsing of hard disk to open in same window. Now when I double click on the computer icon in desktop it opens a window. Subsequent clicks in folders

[newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Thread Keith Powell
I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem. There's no desktop panel! The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets, and so on. Also, if I try to change the background from the

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Thread john
Keith Powell wrote: I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem. There's no desktop panel! The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets, and so on. Also, if I try to change the

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 19:39, john wrote: Keith Powell wrote: I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem. There's no desktop panel! The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets,

[newbie] Gnome-games?

2004-12-08 Thread Todd Slater
After futzing around with gnome in Slackware and Ubuntu I've come to enjoy a few of the gnome games. I can't find them in 10.1 Official DE and the machine is not on a network so I can't set up urpmi--can somebody verify whether tetravex etc. are available in contrib or some place? Thanks! Todd

[newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home directory, still no panels. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 22:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 22:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:09, Brandon Rife wrote: Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Install Xtart and don't muck around with your .xinitrc unless you truly know what you're doing - at least it allows you to run any number of installed window

Re: [newbie] Gnome panels

2004-10-13 Thread Brandon Rife
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:09, Brandon Rife wrote: Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Install Xtart and don't muck around with your .xinitrc unless you truly know what you're doing - at least it allows you to run any

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-19 Thread emnej
Marco Verheul wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast.

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-11 Thread Marco Verheul
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was

[newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was fast, and that running off a cd. Todd -- Any

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-10 Thread Jonas Claesson
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:46, Cotton wrote: Forgive my newbieness to the list... what's the cooker maillist? And the servers you're talking about - I'm assuming the Mandrake mirrors? Thanks, The Cooker maillist is a mailist that discuss packages in cooker (the development version of

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-08 Thread Cotton
Forgive my newbieness to the list... what's the cooker maillist? And the servers you're talking about - I'm assuming the Mandrake mirrors? Thanks, Cotton Jonas Claesson wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:21, Edgars Smits wrote: Any idea when there will be a release of Gnome 2.6 ready for

[newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-07 Thread Edgars Smits
Any idea when there will be a release of Gnome 2.6 ready for Mandrake 10CE? I looked at the gnome source files, and decided I was too much of a newbie to compile them all etc. correctly on my working laptop. Cheers ED Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-07 Thread Jonas Claesson
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:21, Edgars Smits wrote: Any idea when there will be a release of Gnome 2.6 ready for Mandrake 10CE? I looked at the gnome source files, and decided I was too much of a newbie to compile them all etc. correctly on my working laptop. Cheers ED It is already

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-27 Thread song
Me too. My Konqueror browser stalled...I had to use xkill. On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:15, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve On the Gnome site (http://www.gnome.org) there are links to

[newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:15, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve On the Gnome site (http://www.gnome.org) there are links to artwork for Gnome - but much better wp's at

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:45:19 +1030 Stephen Reynolds disseminated the following: I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. http://art.gnome.org/ -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread Marco Verheul
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:15, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve Check out http://www.dewback.cl/files/public/backgrounds/gnome/. You'll love it! Cheers, Marco -- They're pink and

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread Miark
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:15:08 +1100, Stephen wrote: On the Gnome site (http://www.gnome.org) there are links to artwork for Gnome - but much better wp's at www.deviantart.com When I go to www.deviantart.com and look at any image with Konq, my CPU meter hits 100% and Konq totally locks up.

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 14:24, Miark wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:15:08 +1100, Stephen wrote: On the Gnome site (http://www.gnome.org) there are links to artwork for Gnome - but much better wp's at www.deviantart.com When I go to www.deviantart.com and look at any image with Konq, my CPU

[newbie] Gnome and Evolution - Broken

2004-02-10 Thread Job Evers
Awhile back I upgraded to 9.2. Everything worked for awhile and then I somehow broke Gnome and Evolution. I didn't have time to fix it so I started using KDE and have been checking my mail through ssh. I now have time to fix it, but I can't even remember what I did that may have broke it.

Re: [newbie] GNOME Settings Daemon error

2004-01-16 Thread Job Evers
Nevermind. The problem has somehow managed to fix itself and everything seems to have returned to normal. --- Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I restarted my computer and when Gnome finished loading I recieved this error: === There was an error starting

[newbie] GNOME Settings Daemon error

2004-01-15 Thread Job Evers
I restarted my computer and when Gnome finished loading I recieved this error: === There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop, menus

2003-12-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
John wrote: Hi I have been through all the updates for 9.2 including the menu update. Gnome desktop is nowhere to be found. It was listed during the menu update process(update-menus -v) and is listed in the software database for removal but does not show up as desktop environment. The kde

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-24 Thread The Other
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:28:30 -0200, Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's

[newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-23 Thread The Other
12/23/03 Hello All, When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML format (under the Documentation menu), nothing

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken

2003-12-23 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:38, The Other wrote: 12/23/03 Hello All, When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in

Re: [newbie] gnome authentication keys 9.2 issues

2003-11-16 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:07:01 +, Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] gnome authentication keys 9.2 issues: The one problem that I also have is gnome now when loading takes forever... the splash screen stays up for ages

Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:55:31 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be falling for the rumour mill here, but it does sound a bit disturbing. The skinny is that Gnome wants to take over the newest fork of X Windows, Gnome-ifying it to kill KDE and user choice of a desktop

[newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-20 Thread HaywireMac
I may be falling for the rumour mill here, but it does sound a bit disturbing. The skinny is that Gnome wants to take over the newest fork of X Windows, Gnome-ifying it to kill KDE and user choice of a desktop environment. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7488

Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-20 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:55:31 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pcli This really is bad news if it is true. Much as I like Gnome (1.4) and dislike KDE, this kind of action can only fracture the OSS community and slow down the acceptance of Linux as an alternative for the desktop. From

Re: [newbie] Gnome recent open documents

2003-07-28 Thread DrewMartin
- From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnome recent open documents On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:27, DrewMartin wrote: Hi all, How do remove the list of recently open documents from the Gnome

Re: [newbie] Gnome recent open documents

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:27, DrewMartin wrote: Hi all, How do remove the list of recently open documents from the Gnome start menu? I'm using 2.2 with MDK 9.1 It's a One Step process. 1st step: remove Gnome -- Mon Jul 28 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 14 days, 58 min, 2 users,

RE: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Frankie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 08:39, JoeHill wrote: BTW, you can see my family, such as it is, at: http://nodex.sytes.net/family/ Our sincere sympathies lie with your wife and daughter. can you believe a schmo like me ended up with them?! No. I thought she might have

[newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Brooks Family
Hi all. I've got Mandrake 9.1 and I'm currently using Gnome2.2 for my desktop. However, I've noticed that there are a lot more things that seem to be written for KDE (themes, applications, etc.). What makes KDE so much more popular than Gnome? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:05:46 -0500 Brooks Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi all. I've got Mandrake 9.1 and I'm currently using Gnome2.2 for my desktop. However, I've noticed that there are a lot more things that seem to be written for KDE (themes, applications, etc.). What makes KDE

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Brooks Family
I'm not real big on KDE either. I like Gnome because it seems to be very configurable and looks smoother than KDE. What do you mean by Bloat? JoeHill wrote: I personally *hate* KDE, but that's just me. Bloat (like Gnome) with incompatible themes (qt) and a more and more Windows-like

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:21:33 -0500 Brooks Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm not real big on KDE either. I like Gnome because it seems to be very configurable and looks smoother than KDE. What do you mean by Bloat? like having to load a whole bunch of background processes just to run

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:05 am, Brooks Family wrote: Hi all. I've got Mandrake 9.1 and I'm currently using Gnome2.2 for my desktop. However, I've noticed that there are a lot more things that seem to be written for KDE (themes, applications, etc.). What makes KDE so much more popular than

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:39:59 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:18:57 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: if I can get the girls to bed at a decent hour I saw your pics on your site, your family is beatiful! How much has really changed since RC1? Those RC1

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Todd Slater
They're ready: http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ Todd On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:18:57 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. If you can get those put together, I'd really like to give it a try. Thanks. Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:45:54 -0400 JoeHill

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:08, Todd Slater wrote: They're ready: http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ Todd Crickey - now I have to get outta XFCE, get into WindowMaker and do this all over again! Dang! (g) Thanks, Todd - you're a great bloke! -- Mon Jul 21 13:55:00 EST 2003 13:55:00 up 7

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread JoeHill
On 21 Jul 2003 13:58:05 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Crickey - now I have to get outta XFCE, get into WindowMaker and do this all over again! Dang! (g) shite, with his rpms I was in and out in 10 minutes...minus the download time of course! -- Joehill Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: On 21 Jul 2003 13:58:05 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Crickey - now I have to get outta XFCE, get into WindowMaker and do this all over again! Dang! (g) shite, with his rpms I was in and out in 10 minutes...minus the download

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread JoeHill
On 21 Jul 2003 14:21:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Some of us are on dial-up. Whinge. ha ha! I got to say it fer once! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ Everything is possible. Pass the word. -- Rita Mae Brown, Six of One

Re: [newbie] Gnome vs. KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Eric Huff
Are you converting to XFCE? :) My plan is on any future installs, to just install xfce and pekwm. Well, don't need to intstall pekwm since it's just in my home dir. I like ice, but as rarely as i use it, i'll let it go. Also, i won't have to worry about that stupid gtk problem since ice is

[newbie] Gnome Themes

2003-07-18 Thread Brooks Family
Does anyone know where I can get some themes for Gnome 2.2 that have transparent backgrounds in the windows? (i.e., when I open up, say, terminal, I can still see my desktop background behind the text) Thanks Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes

2003-07-18 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:17:49 -0500 Brooks Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Does anyone know where I can get some themes for Gnome 2.2 that have transparent backgrounds in the windows? (i.e., when I open up, say, terminal, I can still see my desktop background behind the text) I'm not

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes

2003-07-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 14:17, Brooks Family wrote: Does anyone know where I can get some themes for Gnome 2.2 that have transparent backgrounds in the windows? (i.e., when I open up, say, terminal, I can still see my desktop background behind the text) Thanks Jack There's really only

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John What window manager are you

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John later = What programme is

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Don't see anything I can recognise as genome-iconedit though ? Been to kde CC - Components == Session Manager and it is already | X | Restore previous session and all apps are closed. PS. I also get Kppp on desktop as well as

[newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread John Richard Smith
I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John later = What programme is responsible for initiating apps on arrival on desktop ? John

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John What window manager are you using? -- Brant Fitzsimmons

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting home/.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John later = What programme is responsible for

Re: [newbie] Gnome Talk (Mdk9.0)

2003-03-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 06:11, Anne Wilson wrote: My menu says I have Gnome Talk installed, but when I select it a widget whirrs for a moment on the kicker bar, then it goes away. I can't find any information anywhere, either in docs or on the web about this app. Can anyone a) suggest

[newbie] Gnome Talk (Mdk9.0)

2003-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
My menu says I have Gnome Talk installed, but when I select it a widget whirrs for a moment on the kicker bar, then it goes away. I can't find any information anywhere, either in docs or on the web about this app. Can anyone a) suggest what may be wrong - should I uninstall and re-install

RE: [newbie] Gnome PPP doesn't work

2003-03-18 Thread Tsur, Oren
in and PRESTO I could do everything?? I must say I am enjoying learning my new OS but HELL, am I CONFUSED!!! Oren Tsur -Original Message- From: Douglas B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2003 19:23 To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: [newbie] Gnome PPP doesn't work Hi all, Can

RE: [newbie] Gnome PPP doesn't work

2003-03-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 19:44, Tsur, Oren wrote: I have the same problem. Mind you I have some weird experiences with my Mandrake. Some things are visible on my desktop only in Gnome and not in KDE and visa versa. It took me a whole evening to try and give myself permissions to MY DESKTOP

[newbie] Gnome PPP doesn't work

2003-03-17 Thread Douglas B.
Hi all, Can you help? Gnome PPP establishes a PPP connection with the ISP but then fails to log me in and dies with ppd daemon died unexpectedly. KPPP on the other hand works fine,so where is the problem likely to be? Maybe I'm making the wrong settings - it's not clear to me how account

Re: [newbie] Gnome PPP doesn't work

2003-03-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 06:23, Douglas B. wrote: Hi all, Can you help? Gnome PPP establishes a PPP connection with the ISP but then fails to log me in and dies with ppd daemon died unexpectedly. KPPP on the other hand works fine,so where is the problem likely to be? Maybe I'm making the

[newbie] Gnome themes and Mdk 9.1-beta

2003-02-10 Thread Kolade Aking
Hi all, I've just install the Mdk9.1-beta on my ssystem and was not careful enough to choose the right gnome theme for myself at firstboot. Now i've tried all i could to start gnome-themes and change it, but it just wouldn't work, can someone help me out? Thanks Czaking

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-20 Thread Rob Wideman
Then try Enlightenment - mso much more, er, ah, ummalternative? (Besides, there's a great utility called genmenu that creates menu structures for fluxbox, Enlightenment and WindowMaker that is bloody awesome - so when Gnome fails you, you have something to fall back on dude!)

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-20 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I have tried E but i didnt like it too much. I have browsed for alternatives and i like the look of Fluxbox, its installed just not configured. I guess i am just too darn picky. Rob If you like fluxbox, you might like waimea also. very purty, and very light. I use xfce, cuz i'm a

[newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Russ
Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; Could not look up internet address for (my computer name used to log onto attbi's cable network). This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct this by adding (my computers name) to the file

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Chuck Burns
On Sun, January 19 2003 3:31 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; *snip* Add the following line to your /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 whateveryourcomputerhostnameis like.. assume your computer is Factoid.. 127.0.0.1 Factoid -- Chuck Burns -

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Russ
It worked, and it didn't seem to affect the others either (I tend to jump around to different window managers (variety :-)) thanks On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:47, Chuck Burns wrote: On Sun, January 19 2003 3:31 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:31, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; Could not look up internet address for (my computer name used to log onto attbi's cable network). This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
KDE's looking better all the time... AAA I hate that damn thing...too cartooney like WinXP. Ah that would be another reason why i havent moved past Win2k as my other OS. Guess everyone has their own cuppa tea like you say. Rob __ Do you

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:50, Rob Wideman wrote: KDE's looking better all the time... AAA I hate that damn thing...too cartooney like WinXP. Ah that would be another reason why i havent moved past Win2k as my other OS. Guess everyone has their own cuppa tea like you say. Rob

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 1:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 05:15 pm, RichardA wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:43, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-16 Thread RichardA
On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Somebody correct me if I'm all wet, but I understood that the logrotate would run at the next bootup if it was shut down during it's scheduled time. How do we findout? It SHOULD run at next bootup - but you never really know -

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:57, RichardA wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Somebody correct me if I'm all wet, but I understood that the logrotate would run at the next bootup if it was shut down during it's scheduled time. How do we findout? It

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-15 Thread RichardA
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:43, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by

[newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Rich
I've used the Gnome Search tool since Mandrake 8.0 but have run into a problem since installing version 9.0. It ran OK for awhile, but now an error message pops up whenever I run a search that the slocate.db database is more than 8 days old. I thought that this database is supposed to update

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday January 14 2003 07:56 am, Rich wrote: I've used the Gnome Search tool since Mandrake 8.0 but have run into a problem since installing version 9.0. It ran OK for awhile, but now an error message pops up whenever I run a search that the slocate.db database is more than 8 days old. I

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread RichardA
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is never on at that time? Richard Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-25 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 5:34 pm, Pilagá wrote: El Mar 24 Dic 2002 01:15, Noah A Hicks escribió: I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the fonts in GNOME with no trouble. But Galeon and

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-25 Thread Noah A Hicks
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 5:34 pm, Pilagá wrote: El Mar 24 Dic 2002 01:15, Noah A Hicks escribió: I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Pilagá
El Mar 24 Dic 2002 01:15, Noah A Hicks escribió: I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the fonts in GNOME with no trouble. But Galeon and some (most) other GNOME programs don't respond

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Noah A Hicks
Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:08, Noah A Hicks wrote: Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-23 Thread Noah A Hicks
I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the fonts in GNOME with no trouble. But Galeon and some (most) other GNOME programs don't respond to the change. ie, they stay large and cumbersome. I

[newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-22 Thread L.V.Gandhi
How to change menu and tool bar fonts and sizes? I am working in KDE 3 of mdk9. Menu letters are big in galeon. Further how to change language for galeon menu? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:56, L.V.Gandhi wrote: How to change menu and tool bar fonts and sizes? I am working in KDE 3 of mdk9. Menu letters are big in galeon. Further how to change language for galeon menu? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam,

Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-( SOLVED

2002-12-13 Thread Morgan Read
Thanks for everbodies help - the only solution was to use GnoRPM to first verify all gnome graphical desktop packages and then re-install all that had errors by upgrading with the allow replacement of packages option enabled in the preferences. This process seemed possible only with GnoRPM and

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