Re: [newbie] Kde2 and Koffice on Linux Mandrake 7.1????

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed mandrake 7.1 on my laptop toshibasatellite pro 780.. Now i`d like to install koffice..this requires kde2..and so I should install it...I downloaded kdebase, kdelibs and kdesupport but if I try to install then using the kpackager it gives me an

[newbie] KDE2 and ~/.xsession-errors bloat

2001-03-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Ever since I started using KDE2, my ~/.xsession-errors file size has been ballooning out of control. I began with beta versions of KDE 2.0 and have been constantly upgrading them until now. I currently use Mandrake's KDE 2.1 RPM release and I still am having the same problem. I don't use KDE

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Saturday 20 January 2001 17:07, George Czerw wrote: After I updated 7.2 with the 0118 KDE 2.1 updates, and subsequently rebooted, I have the following problems: 1. At the KDE login screen a root login is forbidden. I put a new kdebase package onto the mirrors you do not need to update

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 20 January 2001 10:05 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2001 17:07, George Czerw wrote: After I updated 7.2 with the 0118 KDE 2.1 updates, and subsequently rebooted, I have the following problems: 1. At the KDE login screen a root login is forbidden. I put a new

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Thread David Boles
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:05:31 -0500, Christopher Molnar said: Hi Chris, I D/Led and installed the 2001.01.19 kdebase stuff as you said to do and things have improved but it looks like something else is really, really broken. Maybe not your stuff?? smile Not being a programmer type I would

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Thread Christopher Molnar
Your the second person that reported this. Can you please open a bug about it at: http://bugs.kde.org ? I suspect a coding issue. I will update RPM's again on Tuesday most likely. Thanks, Chris On Saturday 20 January 2001 18:54, David Boles wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:05:31 -0500,

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-19 Thread Dan LaBine
and kde.org, it is a bug accountable to one or the other. Could look on the KDE web site to see if the things already been reported. It still shows up in the KDE2.1beta as welll as the so called stabel KDE2.0. -michael- wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie

Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Molnar
If your a new linux user. Don't! Upgrade to 7.2. The dependencies require a bunch of additional packages and stuff. Also, 2.1 should be out in a month so this gives you plenty of time to upgrade :-) On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:18, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: Hi, I'm a new

[newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread -michael-
On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM, you said: Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebu

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread Dennis Myers
accountable to one or the other. Could look on the KDE web site to see if the things already been reported. It still shows up in the KDE2.1beta as welll as the so called stabel KDE2.0. -michael- wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM, you said: Hello,installed

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread -michael-
Christopher Molnar wrote: I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Molnar
I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem may be fixed. (no money-back

[newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Cristiano de Lima Logrado
Hi, I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Thanks, C.Logrado

Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:18 am, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Please opost with plain text. There's a list of cooker mirrors here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-27 Thread ron peake
Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems. Additional comments: (1) Ditch the Drake partitioner and use the non-free Partition Magic 5.X program instead. The Drake partitioner will not work properly with Quantum Fireball drives containing

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-27 Thread Robin Regennitter
was not on before. Rob - Original Message - From: "ron peake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 12:33 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems.

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-27 Thread Keldmar
: "ron peake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems. Additional comments: (1) Ditch the Drake partition

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-27 Thread ron peake
. - Original Message - From: "ron peake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems. Additional co

[newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-25 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar at the bottom of the page and no icons at all. The K button is a penguin with Linux written in. Is all this normal with the downloaded 7.2 version? I realy like the look of

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only

[newbie] KDE2 solution

2000-11-22 Thread skidley
I have a solution for all of your KDE2 problems. Run Enlightenment alone! It leaves KDE2 in the dust when it comes to effeciency, use of system resources, etc. But if yer dependent on a winblows imitating environment stick with your KDE2 bloatware. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191

Re: [newbie] KDE2 solution

2000-11-22 Thread Marcia
Dear All, It did not even occur to me to switch to Enlightenment or Icewm and maybe that will solve these napster -mp3 problems and possibly I could get the Linux Hearts game working in there? Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions about this? Also, I plan to install the new Suse7 that I just

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I agree with you entirely. I *was* under the impression, however, that I was maintaining my system rather well, and that my hardware is of good quality (I made sure to choose each and every component of my computer myself, after careful research). KDE2 is the only group of programmes I have

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Ian Land
Yes, run the KDE apps under gnome instead (or gnome running your favourite window manager). Seems to work fine that way! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" - Nathaniel Lee Are there any suggestions on what I can do to improve

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Ian Land
hmmm Well, all I can say is that, for me, running KDE is a problem (lots of crashes), but no problem running any of the apps (including konqueror), outside of it. Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install? I had a lot of problems when I did an upgrade, fixed by doing a completely clean

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Ian Land
Looks like you're just unlucky! 8-) On my machine, konqueror and kmail are v. stable (although, as I said, KDE itself seems pretty flaky). No doubt there'll be lots of patches in the coming weeks... I initially upgraded Mandrake 7.0 to 7.2. KDE2 was alright (I think -- I didn't use it

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 03 November 2000 09:43 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: KDE2 is the only group of programmes I have problems with. GNOME works fine, as did KDE1.x. Are there any suggestions on what I can do to improve KDE2's stability? Perhaps I can change some config settings, either in KDE, X, or

[newbie] KDE2 and sound

2000-10-31 Thread Santiago Canez
Hey all, I installed 7.2 on Sunday night and so far I am very impressed. I am having a few problems though that hopefully someone can help me with. 1. When I try to configure my soundcard I get the following error: Error in modprobe call! /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o: invalid

Re: [newbie] KDE2

2000-07-22 Thread Rob Ogilvie
Is it my imgaination or is your date off? Did you really send this on the 21st of April? --- alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Molnar wrote: Please wait a day and I will post it in here The version currently available is pretty buggy. -Chris Thanks Chris...

Re: [newbie] KDE2

2000-07-21 Thread Christopher Molnar
Please wait a day and I will post it in here The version currently available is pretty buggy. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading KDE2? Thanks. Harry -- --Chris

Re: [newbie] KDE2

2000-07-21 Thread Harry Flaxman
Thanks Chris. Will wait for your posting. Harry Christopher Molnar wrote: Please wait a day and I will post it in here The version currently available is pretty buggy. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading

[newbie] KDE2

2000-07-20 Thread Harry Flaxman
Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading KDE2? Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769

Re: [newbie] KDE2

2000-07-20 Thread frank
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading KDE2? ask for one, i'll give ya two...the last version designed to co-exist with kde1 is available here: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html read the README and copy the scripts for

Re: [newbie] KDE2 problems

2000-07-06 Thread Christopher Molnar
Install kde2and1stripts.i586.rpm and reboot. the problems should go away. and you should have your menu options for kde2. Make sure that the package does over-write the /etc/X11/window-managers file. -Chris In Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Gentile, Sam wrote: I finally got KDE2 installed on Mandrake 7.0

[newbie] KDE2 problems

2000-07-05 Thread Gentile, Sam
I finally got KDE2 installed on Mandrake 7.0 using http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html. I followed the instructions and used the mandrake script but the only way I can get KDE2 running is WINDOWMANAGER=kde2 startx. Is this correct? How do I get a menu choice? Also, all my menus are

[newbie] KDE2

2000-06-22 Thread Christian Punchin
Title: KDE2 One simple, but important question... How do I install Kleopatra (KDE2 B2)??? The install readme is kinda outdated since not all rpm's from RH 6.2 are mentiones there, and the QT add on is not included... Does ne1 know how to install it without affectinf KDE1?? Thanks in

[newbie] KDE2 questions

2000-06-04 Thread KompuKit
First of all, the relay rate of this list is getting ridiculous Denis@mandrakesoft, I assume from your email to me, that you are upgrading servers... this is understandable...but isn't there something you can do, in the meantime, about this problem? Second, I see that KDE2 has been released in

[newbie] kde2

2000-03-10 Thread TRBishop
Hello All, Giving Mandrake 7.0 a spin for a while. Very nice! Many great additions since 6.0. On the contrib. CD I noticed .rpms for kde2. Is this what I think it is? Is this beta or what? If I install the various kde2 .rpms, will I mess up my desktop/system, or will it integrate nicely? I

[newbie] Kde2 PreAlpha binaries and rpm's available

2000-01-26 Thread Christopher Molnar
Hello! I have built a new set of binary distributions based on a CVS snapshot at 8:00am EST 1-25-2000. I have created both a RPM and a -BIN.TAR.GZ distribution. To those who have downloaded QTCOPY dated 01-19-2000 - You do not need to update this. Continue using the same qt copy. (file name