[newbie] GNOME questions

2002-12-13 Thread Noah A Hicks
I would like to know the answers to a couple of questions regarding GNOME that have been bugging me for a while. Thanks to anyone to feels like answering the less-than-critical queries. 1. How do I set up my computer to use the GNOME desktop manager for my logging in/out? Presently, the I see

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

2002-11-30 Thread Derek Jennings
You might be able to undisable them with menudrake (either as root to configure system menu, or as a user to configure your individual menu) Do you have the problem in all users? If not you can simply create a new account for yourself. derek On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:35:12 +1200 Morgan Read

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

2002-11-30 Thread Morgan Read
Hmm, tried this - no joy I'm affaid, Main Menu still vanished in all logins including root. Still get an error message - no system menus found!. When I open the Global menu (right click on the Panel) the Gnome Programs menu has no entries... :-( M. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:44, Morgan Read wrote:

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

2002-11-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 30 November 2002 07:20 pm, Morgan Read wrote: Hmm, tried this - no joy I'm affaid, Main Menu still vanished in all logins including root. Still get an error message - no system menus found!. When I open the Global menu (right click on the Panel) the Gnome Programs menu has no

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

2002-11-29 Thread Morgan Read
Thanks for your help, but Civileme's script seems to report every menu entry: ...has been disabled check your menus any ideas about undiableing them? Morgan If you are lucky simply running updates-menus might fix it for you. (try it as a user, then as root) Also try removing that .desktop

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

2002-11-28 Thread Morgan Read
I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the GnoRPM tool asked me where to put a .desktop icon that turned out to put an icon in the main menu. Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity

[newbie] gnome won't start

2002-11-18 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hello, Due to an electric failure my PC was shutdown violently while I was working with Gnome. Since then I can't login anymore with gnome. I reinstalled gnome and delete all .gnome files but It still doesn't work. What can I do ? Thank you, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner

2002-11-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:35:56 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just made my first attempt at compiling and installing a package (gwc-0.17-5) from source. Unfortunately I'm in trouble. The GWC README file lists FFTW and libsndfile as dependencies and I downloaded these and they

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner

2002-11-13 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:35:56 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just made my first attempt at compiling and installing a package (gwc-0.17-5) from source. Unfortunately I'm in trouble. The GWC README file lists FFTW and libsndfile as dependencies and I downloaded these and they

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner

2002-11-13 Thread Aaron
Hi a thought, did you search google to see if someone made an rpm of it. if they did try using urpmi if you have it configured correctly it will try to find dependencies and install them, if it fails it will usually give a list of the needed rpms. Which you can download or have it download. I

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:35, Peter Watson wrote: I just made my first attempt at compiling and installing a package (gwc-0.17-5) from source. Unfortunately I'm in trouble. The GWC README file lists FFTW and libsndfile as dependencies and I downloaded these and they seem to have compiled

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wave Cleaner

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 04:51, Peter Watson wrote: Many thanks Frans and others who replied It is now working a treat. One other query arising is that in order to compile this program and its dependencies I had to my numerous items from /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib and various others from

Re: [newbie] GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop Theme

2002-11-11 Thread Terry Sheltra
Mike, You might also want to try http://art.gnome.org They have quite a few themes available for GNOME 2.x, including Metacity themes, Nautilus themes, Sawfish themes, etc. Terry Mike M wrote: I want for my desktop to look like the one shown at:

RE: [newbie] GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop Theme

2002-11-10 Thread Franki
]On Behalf Of Mike M Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2002 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop Theme I want for my desktop to look like the one shown at: http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/90scr3.png Anyone know of the theme installed there? I can't find it anywhere

[newbie] GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop Theme

2002-11-08 Thread Mike M
I want for my desktop to look like the one shown at: http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/90scr3.png Anyone know of the theme installed there? I can't find it anywhere on freshmeat. Also looking for cool dark themes. :) -Ak = - --From the messy

Re: [newbie] GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop Theme

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 17:03, Mike M wrote: I want for my desktop to look like the one shown at: http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/90scr3.png Anyone know of the theme installed there? I can't find it anywhere on freshmeat. Also looking for cool dark themes. :) -Ak =

[newbie] Gnome config

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
All of the gnome config programs seem to be broken up among the menus. Is there a way to open up the main gnome config program so I can take care of several things at once? - paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-09-05 Thread Warren Post
Actually there are many more options than just these two. Each has its advantages, so try 'em all and see which one(s) you like the best. When you install Linux, you'll be asked which graphical environment(s) you want to install. Choose 'em all. Upon each login you will be able to choose which

Re: FW: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-09-05 Thread dfox
I use the following programs in the same time usually: vmware (running win98), mplayer, xmms, krusader, openoffice The cpu load in KDE 2.2 is around 89%, in gnome 1.4 around 31%(or even less) The machine is a 1,2GHz celeron with 256MB RAM I think it may not be a KDE versus gnome issue -

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-09-05 Thread Richard Holt
On 30 Aug 2002 22:08:18 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually there are many more options than just these two. Each has its advantages, so try 'em all and see which one(s) you like the best. When you install Linux, you'll be asked which graphical environment(s) you want to

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-09-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 19:41, FemmeFatale wrote: best book i found and it doesn't assume any knowledge is called A Practical Guide To Linux by Mark G. Sobell. Hey, I've got a book here by Mark Sobell also, and it's one of the best books on Unix I've seen. Good author. What's the ISBN of the

RE: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-30 Thread Tenchi
on. Still I need a good solution that works pretty much like krusader and koncd... any ideas? T. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gabriel Phoenix Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 6:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnome

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-29 Thread robin
Gabriel Phoenix wrote: [snip] Oh I agree with you... it amazing what happens when people fool around with the settings. Both KDE and GNOME are well, dull, especially, when compared to the eye candy of XP and WindowBlinds for MS Windows. I guess it comes from the fact there are few graphic

RE: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-28 Thread Tommy Eaton
I use KDE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 00:28, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Red Hat 4? That book is _way_ out of date. Ignore anything it says about graphical interfaces. One of the best books I've found so far for familiarizing a newbie with Linux internals was, surprisingly enough, a Red Hat Certified Engineer

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 00:28, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Red Hat 4? That book is _way_ out of date. Ignore anything it says about graphical interfaces. One of the best books I've found so far for familiarizing a newbie with Linux internals was, surprisingly enough,

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-28 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 09:59, Damian G wrote: On 28 Aug 2002 00:10:25 +0500 Gabriel Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4.

[newbie] gnome-libs-devel for 8.2

2002-08-27 Thread chuck
I'm trying to compile a gnome app and I think I need gnome-libs-devel in order to do it. Is this available for 8.2? Thanks, -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread UrLoverGuy13
hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4. something so i guess its kinda old. Anyways I was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know ur comments :)

RE: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread Troy Billington
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Gnome, or KDEhey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4. something so i guess its kinda old. Anyways I

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4. something so i guess its kinda old. Anyways I was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know ur

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:00:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4. something so i guess its kinda old. Anyways I was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know

[newbie] Gnome-Card

2002-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
Sending again, in the vain hope that someone knows something about Gnome-card :-) My contact details are all in a .vcf file read by Gnome-card. This gives an easy to read display, and all was well until I wanted to amend a record. When I saved the file I found that it would not read the

[newbie] Gnome-card save problems

2002-07-15 Thread Anne Wilson
My contact details are all in a .vcf file read by Gnome-card. This gives an easy to read display, and all was well until I wanted to amend a record. When I saved the file I found that it would not read the new version. I had to rename the backup file and load it unaltered. I am at a loss

Re[2]: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-12 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Sridhar, Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, some are from March. Which ones do I need? With KDE3 one knew he had to

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:41:46 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm back after exams (which I all passed miraculously...) and meanwhile Gnome 2.0 has been released. Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points

[newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Smiley
I just installed Gnome 2.0 through Mandrake Cooker; all seems gone smooth, but only default theme is shown... I do have gtk-themes installed, but they're not listed in the selection box: is just a little bug or something changed, since Gnome 1.4? Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:14:41 +0200, Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Gnome 2.0 through Mandrake Cooker; all seems gone smooth, but only default theme is shown... I do have gtk-themes installed, but they're not listed in the selection box: is just a little bug or something

[newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ I'm interested and await the Mandrake 8.2 RPMs; the bloat of Nautilus, and other faults, put me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much has been improved ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:49:13 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ I'm interested and await the Mandrake 8.2 RPMs; the bloat of Nautilus, and other faults, put me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:39:15 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to each his own man, but are you serious? Enlightenment is every bit the resource hog that Gnome and KDE are Have you ever run e as a stand-alone wm? Both cpu and memory usage average less than 01.0%. If that is hoggish

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robin wrote: | Aru Sahni wrote: | | When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, but | find it takes up too many resources. Which one should I take (i.e. | KDE) and how do I change it? | | Thank You | | Definitely not KDE! (see

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles A Edwards wrote: | On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:27:00 +0200 | Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:38 pm, Aru Sahni wrote: | |When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, |but find it takes

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-20 Thread FemmeFatale
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:50:50 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME can be fast if you turn off Nautilus. Open the Nautilus preferences menu and tell it not to manage your desktop. Not specifically addressed to you Sridhar but to anyone

RE: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-20 Thread Aru Sahni
/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] GNOME On Wednesday 19 June 2002 02:38 pm, Aru Sahni wrote: When I first installed MD on my

Re: [newbie] Gnome-Desktop Problems

2002-06-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 23:46:38 +1000, Fordy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having some trouble putting icons on my desktop. My desktop has no icons whatsoever on it, and it doesn't have a pop-up menu when i right click on it. In fact there seems to be nothing I can do to change the desktop, or

[newbie] Gnome-Desktop Problems

2002-06-01 Thread Fordy
Im having some trouble putting icons on my desktop. My desktop has no icons whatsoever on it, and it doesn't have a pop-up menu when i right click on it. In fact there seems to be nothing I can do to change the desktop, or add any icons to it. Advice i've tried - - Adding shortcuts to

[newbie] Gnome Enlightenment Help

2002-04-20 Thread Jesse Angell
Hello everyone, I just installed Redhat 7.2 (not mandrake I know.. dont shoot me) and installed Enlightenment with it. When I start Enlightenment.. I have to start gnome.. So that works starts Englightenment THEN gnome starts over it.. so the gnome start menu thing, covers up half the

[newbie] Gnome Speller in Evolution

2002-02-24 Thread Charles Muller
I wrote to the Evolution support people about spell checking e-mail, and they told me to use the Gnome spell checker. I have not yet been able to figure out how to start this app up, much less use it in Evolution. Does anyone have experience with this? Regards, Chuck -- -

Re: [newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-21 Thread Nelson Bartley
oh.. hehehehe NB On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 21:01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You can uninstall imwheel with the root command: # rpm -e imwheel On 20 Jan 2002 20:28:28 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! you are a god. Now the real test, how do I remove it.

[newbie] Gnome Theme Selector?

2002-01-20 Thread Nelson Bartley
Heyo, When I installed LM and updated it, I chose a theme through the first time wizard. Well, I really don't like it now, however I cannot find a way to change it. I'm using the latest cooker (20/02), and the new control center isn't of much help. NB Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-20 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hi Guys, I'm in need of serious help. I'm trying to reduce the amount of scrolling that occurs in gnome when I scroll on my mouse. Rather then scroll by one line (similar to an up key) it scrolls by a whole page. I cannot seem to find a menu or control panel option to change this, and changing

Re: [newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 Jan 2002 18:44:53 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm in need of serious help. I'm trying to reduce the amount of scrolling that occurs in gnome when I scroll on my mouse. Rather then scroll by one line (similar to an up key) it scrolls by a whole page. I

Re: [newbie] Gnome Mouse Scrollig

2002-01-20 Thread Nelson Bartley
Thank you! you are a god. Now the real test, how do I remove it. permanently. Thanks NB On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 19:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 20 Jan 2002 18:44:53 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm in need of serious help. I'm trying to reduce the amount of

RE: [newbie] Gnome Theme Selector?

2002-01-20 Thread Matt Bullock
cant be of more help. matt -Original Message- From: Nelson Bartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Gnome Theme Selector? Heyo, When I installed LM and updated it, I chose a theme through the first time wizard. Well

Re: [newbie] gnome ppp

2001-11-25 Thread lee
X screensaver and apache were both running,I'll investigate this further as time permits. This problem has kinda been solved as seen in the thread modem busy Thank you very much for your time Robin :-) Lee On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:01, you wrote: At 10:56 AM 11/17/01 -0500, Lee

[newbie] gnome ppp

2001-11-17 Thread lee
Hi Folks, I'm trying to get gnome ppp to work on my box here. It'll start the connection,but the daemon dies unexpectedly just after logging on to my isp. Has anyone had any luck using this method for connecting? the internet dialer seems to work ok(on another box),but as the link to

Re: [newbie] gnome ppp

2001-11-17 Thread lykaslair
At 10:56 AM 11/17/01 -0500, Lee Martin wrote: I'm trying to get gnome ppp to work on my box here. It'll start the connection,but the daemon dies unexpectedly just after logging on to my isp. Has anyone had any luck using this method for connecting? the internet dialer seems to work ok(on

[newbie] gnome desktop (M8.1, Gnome, Desktop)

2001-10-23 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi All of a sudden all my desktop Icons are gone, I also can select the desktop itself (drag left mouse button over desktop), right click. It's almost like the desktop is gone. I'm using the version of gnome that comes with M8.1 I looked in ~/.gnome-desktop and they are there. Any ideas? Also

[newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread shipahoy
Hi I did a reinstall of mandrake 8.1 and have lost a setting somewhere. When I used to run Gmome apps like Pan and Sylpheed in KDE the window focus would follow the mouse, now I have to click in a frame to focus it. For example, in Sylpheed if the mouse is in the message view frame, and I

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop (M8.1, Gnome, Desktop)

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:23:54 +0200, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All of a sudden all my desktop Icons are gone, I also can select the desktop itself (drag left mouse button over desktop), right click. It's almost like the desktop is gone. I'm using the version of gnome that

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove a package called imwheel. That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. I've been wondering this for a

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 3:41 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove a package called imwheel. That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread skinky
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: | On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:27:59 +, shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 | | H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Remove a package called imwheel. | | That worked. Thanks. | | It makes you

Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus

2001-10-23 Thread shipahoy
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove a package called imwheel. That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re:[newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons

2001-10-04 Thread ArekG
[OT] This is my first letter to this list, so I'd like to write 'Hello' to all list subscribers. [OT] Hello David, on Thursday, October 04, 2001 at 9:46:19 AM, you wrote in subject of [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons: DR Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were

Re: [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons

2001-10-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I consider to be the usual Mandrake network setup nightmare! (Much better in 8.1 - at least it is no longer assumed that if you're

Re: [newbie] Gnome 1.4 and icons

2001-10-04 Thread David Robertson
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:38:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I consider to be the usual Mandrake network

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Charles A. Punch
I have had problems with Nautilus, so I used GMC for my desktop. I'm just curious about these error messages I get when I run nautilus from a terminal. Any ideas what kind of a can of worms I'm opening here? Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Are you using any 'exotic' fonts? Try switching the font settings in the GNOME Control Centre to something ordinary, like Helvetica or Times. If that doesn't do it, try the following. Edit /etc/gconf/1/path. This is what mine looks like. You should be able to just copy and paste this into your

Re: [newbie] Gnome CD-ROM floppy access

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Make sure that you have either Nautilus or GMC configured to manage your desktop. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:52:08 -0400, Charles A. Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to open File Manager in Super User , then drag drop onto the desktop. Works fine from the desktop. I would like to get it

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 17 Sep 2001 09:21:35 -0400, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After starting up Mandrake 8.0f2 in Gnome, I opened nautilus (from a terminal), and deselected Use Nautilus to draw the desktop. This than made my screen blink for a second, and viola, handed control of the desktop back

RE: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-16 Thread The Spider
Find is a bad example - it's got bugger all to do with KDE - it's a stand alone program, which utilises none of KDE's libraries, GUI or much else. You are talking about the console command 'find' aren't you? You know, 'find / -user *.OLD -exec rm -f {} \;' type find aren't you... otherwise

Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:49:35 -0400, Naish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which are the important differences between them? (not the stupid ones, only the important) Thanks... Jorge Any kind of KDE vs GNOME review would be very subjective. In the end, it comes down to personal preferences

RE: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Peter Rymshaw
this stupid, but I had it up to here with accidently clicking log out menu item in KDE on the Big K menu. Also, KDE feels a bit sluggish. -Original Message- From: Naish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] gnome

Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Matt Greer
On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote: I'm scared to death I'm going to hit Lock accidentally and then not know how to get back. Just enter your password. And yeah, I always accidently hit logout in the K menu. Having the most destructive element being placed first in a menu is

Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote: Funny you should mention that. Isn't there a way to move it? I'm scared to death I'm going to hit Lock accidentally and then not know how to get back. snip If I recall when you hit lock, you can recover

Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Mark David Hamilton
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:39:15PM -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote: Funny you should mention that. Isn't there a way to move it? I'm scared to death I'm going to hit Lock accidentally and then not know how to get back. snip

[newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread Naish
which are the important differences between them? (not the stupid ones, only the important) Thanks... Jorge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] gnome VS kde

2001-09-13 Thread The Spider
I think Gnome is more resource hungry. Two examples are xine(a multimedia player) and the command find available in both environments. My machine(PIII 600, 256MB-RAM) can run xine at its full speed (200 frames on 200) only under KDE. Also if i try to find a file using the respective tool, KDE

Re: [newbie] gnome

2001-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've switch from kde to gnome and I don't know howto setup icons. I would like to create a icon for internet connection. I would also like to setup an icon for gimp. Any help would be appreciated. Method 1: Right-click the desktop and

[newbie] gnome

2001-07-28 Thread johnix
Hi! I've switch from kde to gnome and I don't know howto setup icons. I would like to create a icon for internet connection. I would also like to setup an icon for gimp. Any help would be appreciated. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100%

[newbie] gnome taskbar icons donot come anymore

2001-07-21 Thread Ravi Malghan
X : gnome Hello: when I run an application, an icon used to appear in the panel (like it appears in the taskbar of winodows). It doesnot appear anymore, so when I minimize the application,I lose that window. I still have the panel though. When I login as a different user it's normal, the

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-25 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 24 June 2001 14:15, Dan Gordon wrote: No i tryed playing the game one night did not like it and closed it as normal, when i logged off i did not click restore session but the darn thing now starts each time i login... strange but true ? When i do top or gps i can still see it

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-25 Thread Dan Gordon
That did the trick, thanks Alex :-) On June 25, 2001 06:07 am, you wrote: Sounds familiar. It took me a few hours to figure out where it was coming from.. Take a look in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc and remove any references to gnome-chess -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-24 Thread DStevenson
On Sunday 24 June 2001 10:01, Dan Gordon wrote: I tryed the game gnome chess and now every time i login the game automatically starts up, how can i stop this ? Just a thought, when logging of, do you restore the session? If you do, the system will restart processes which could just drag your

Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-24 Thread Dan Gordon
No i tryed playing the game one night did not like it and closed it as normal, when i logged off i did not click restore session but the darn thing now starts each time i login... strange but true ? When i do top or gps i can still see it running, if i kill the prossess it still starts next

[newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-24 Thread Dan Gordon
I tryed the game gnome chess and now every time i login the game automatically starts up, how can i stop this ? -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail Registerd Linux user #217868

[newbie] Gnome Applets not redrawing

2001-06-19 Thread Sven Heinicke
I Use Mandrake 8.0's Gnome on two systems and on both of them some of the applets don't redraw correctly. To be specific Character Picker works fine but if I slide the menu on and off the screen it doesn't redraw correctly until I move my mouse over the buttons. Sven

Re: [newbie] Gnome will Not Come Up

2001-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Probably a stupid question, but do you have *all* of GNOME installed? One missing package is enough to screw things up. Also, try running this as root at a console: chksession -l GNOME should be in the list. In the directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ there should be a file called

[newbie] Gnome v. KDE in LM8

2001-06-13 Thread Talonholco
Hello and thank you for reviewing my post... I recently installed LM8 as a companion o/s (dual-boot) on my machine. Once the boot selection is made, Linux boots flawlessly and presents the X terminal, where you identify the user and select your GUI. Oddly enough, there are vast performance

Re: [newbie] Gnome v. KDE in LM8

2001-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Firstly, please do not post mail in HTML. If you look at the source for your original mail (not this one), you will notice that there are two copies of your message: an HTML one and a plain text one. All this does is make e-mail downloads longer for us. On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:06, [EMAIL

[newbie] Gnome will Not Come Up

2001-06-13 Thread Wendell Gragg
When I log in to my linux box and select Gnome as the windows manager, KDE still comes up. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Thanks, Wendell Gragg _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-07 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. It is ~/.xinitrc Paul -- If you think you can, you can. And if you

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-07 Thread Romanator
I fixed in the .xinitrc file. Roman Barry Premeaux wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. Roman Registered

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-07 Thread Romanator
Paul, I knew there was a file. It's fixed. Thanks for responding. Roman Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-06 Thread Barry Premeaux
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I was looking at

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