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

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

2005-03-17 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

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 after

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 week

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.   sigh  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

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

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

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 100%

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

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: 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

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. Hmm, I

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

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 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

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 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 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 the case

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 20:49, 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 i got:

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

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

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 but not

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. In the

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 love

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 one

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;) Believe me

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
http://counter.li.org - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 21:26

[newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
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 leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with another

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 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 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 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

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

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 Mandrake graphical

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 what

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 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. No

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 sharing through a router

2003-11-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
julian wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:02 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I want to use the KDE Desktop sharing application, but have a Linksys router installed. So the IP address that the desktop sharing gives me is my internal IP. What do I need to do to authorize desktop sharing on the

[newbie] KDE Desktop sharing through a router

2003-11-15 Thread Trey Sizemore
I want to use the KDE Desktop sharing application, but have a Linksys router installed. So the IP address that the desktop sharing gives me is my internal IP. What do I need to do to authorize desktop sharing on the machine. I suppose I first need to find the IP assigned by my IP (in the

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop sharing through a router

2003-11-15 Thread julian
On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:02 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I want to use the KDE Desktop sharing application, but have a Linksys router installed. So the IP address that the desktop sharing gives me is my internal IP. What do I need to do to authorize desktop sharing on the machine. I

[newbie] KDE desktop cruft

2003-07-30 Thread Russ Kepler
I've got a couple of icons on my desktop that I can't get rid of (and don't appear in the Desktop directory). I suspect that they're artifacts from an automount or something, but I can't remove the /mnt entries, either. The icons appear as CD-ROM mounted at /mnt/cdrom2 and CD-ROM mounted at

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop cruft

2003-07-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:57 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: I've got a couple of icons on my desktop that I can't get rid of (and don't appear in the Desktop directory). I suspect that they're artifacts from an automount or something, but I can't remove the /mnt entries, either. The icons appear

[newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread Lanman
I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me out with 2 small problems. I'm in the process of trying to Lock Down KDE on Mandrake 8.0 . In other words, I'm trying to remove some functionality. If successful, users will only have the ability to click on designated icons on the desktop. So

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:20:19 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me out with 2 small problems. I'm in the process of trying to Lock Down KDE on Mandrake 8.0 . In other words, I'm trying to remove some functionality. If successful, users will

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
Oh (he said sheepishly) and will they all have their own login? and can not all be a member of group samedesk? On Sunday 09 September 2001 17:08, you had thoughts to the concept of: Normally I would agree with you, but in this case, there will be upwards of 18,000+ users. That's the

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-18 Thread Vic
I erased all that are listed in the small quoted printable text file attached. On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:10 am, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: No but now I deleted a couple of stale files and did a runlevel switch from 5 to 1 back to 5 again and now they work. weird On

[newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-17 Thread Vic
I installed the ximian gnome. KDE icon files and other files are still in the dir /home/user/Desktop so I know they were not erased, how can I get them displayed again. I have no clue what to do.

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-17 Thread Romanator
Vic wrote: I installed the ximian gnome. KDE icon files and other files are still in the dir /home/user/Desktop so I know they were not erased, how can I get them displayed again. I have no clue what to do. Did you reboot? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Little Tux Email

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-17 Thread Vic
No but now I deleted a couple of stale files and did a runlevel switch from 5 to 1 back to 5 again and now they work. weird On Saturday 17 February 2001 08:46 pm, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: I installed the ximian gnome. KDE icon files and other files are still in the dir

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-07 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 05:53, you wrote: yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit if you had the file it would be in ~/ (a more generic method of specifying a home directory) Since you do not have the .Xclients file, there

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-07 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition You must have a /home directory folder for user. Every

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-07 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: never mind...fixed it...in: Ksysguard Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I don't have a

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-07 Thread KompuKit
Roman...whats your ICQ# ? Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: never mind...fixed it...in: Ksysguard Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit Romanator wrote:

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-07 Thread Romanator
Sorry. I don't have an ICQ number. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email KompuKit wrote: Roman...whats your ICQ# ? Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: never mind...fixed it...in: Ksysguard Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote:

[newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE comes up... but also the gnome file manager...and desktop icons come up...then I must CLOSE them (by Xing them out) How can I stop this...? -- Registered Linux User: =

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE comes up... but also the gnome file manager...and desktop icons come up...then I must CLOSE them (by Xing them out) How can I stop this...? -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I accidently clicked on a gnome app...while in KDE... now ...everytime I reboot...or restart..KDE

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? The .Xclients file will be in /usr/home/kit -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: For some reason...I don't see this hidden file.. (yes i have SHOW HIDDEN selected) where is it...? in my user dir? /home/kit ? or in the root dir ? The .Xclients file will be

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread Romanator
KompuKit wrote: I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition You must have a /home directory folder for user. Every one has one. It's not a partition but a directory folder. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop

2001-02-06 Thread KompuKit
yes...I have a dir called: /home/kit and the file is not there but not a dir called: /usr/home/kit Romanator wrote: KompuKit wrote: I don't have a /usr/home/kit I didn't make that partition You must have a /home directory folder for user. Every one has one. It's not a

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop problems Solved

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Dennis Myers wrote: Just wanted to let the list know that I finally have the full kde desktop. I decided that there must be something wrong with my home burned disks and went online and downloaded the kdebase, kdeadmin, kdesupport and a bunch of other libc files that weren't wanting to load

[newbie] KDE Desktop problems Solved

2000-12-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Just wanted to let the list know that I finally have the full kde desktop. I decided that there must be something wrong with my home burned disks and went online and downloaded the kdebase, kdeadmin, kdesupport and a bunch of other libc files that weren't wanting to load properly from rpmdrake.

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop

2000-05-12 Thread flupke
from your telnet session, you could try to kill KDE : ps aux |grep -i kde |grep -v grep kill -9 [PID] PID is the PID of KDE (the number in the 2nd column after the "ps" command) If it doesn't work, try to kill your X session HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,

RE: [newbie] KDE Desktop

2000-05-12 Thread flupke
=- -Original Message- From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop from your telnet session, you could try to kill KDE : ps aux |grep -i kde |grep -v grep kill -9 [PID] PID is the PID

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-07 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: I have an ATI Mach 64 (CT) card running at 1024X768 in 16 bpp. The resolution is fine, like it has always been in OS/2 including xfree86OS/2., but when I scroll vertically

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-06 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Pierre Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Basically, can I install the floppy and the cd-rom on the panel and delete all the icons without risk of causing problems elsewhere? yes.

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-06 Thread Pierre Lucas
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Pierre Lucas wrote: I have an ATI Mach 64 (CT) card running at 1024X768 in 16 bpp. The resolution is fine, like it has always been in OS/2 including xfree86OS/2., but when I scroll vertically or move a window on the display, I see

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-05 Thread Pierre Lucas
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Pierre Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Basically, can I install the floppy and the cd-rom on the panel and delete all the icons without risk of causing problems elsewhere? yes. --Chmouel Thanks for your

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-02 Thread Pierre Lucas
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chmouel, (you still with us :)) yep gnus-scoring follow thread for me ;). Am i correct in assumeing the desktop icons are contained in the kde packages and not specificly in the applications rpm, in the

[newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-01 Thread hugahog
Hi again, On a resent install of LM 6.1 I find I do not have permission to use most of the desktop icons such as linuxconf and rpm's. Yes, I created a user account during install and my root desktop is OK. I tried (as root) bringing up the /home/Larry desktop and changing permissions but did

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, hugahog wrote: Hi again, On a resent install of LM 6.1 I find I do not have permission to use most of the desktop icons such as linuxconf and rpm's. Yes, I created a user account during install and my root desktop is OK. I tried (as root) bringing up the /home/Larry

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions

1999-12-01 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I *think* you can log on as root, go into Linuxconf, User accounts, user accounts, select the user you wish to edit, and add/subtract permisions available to that user. Linuxconf just asks me for the root pswd so I don't have to log out and then log back in as root. Same w/ Kpackage. Don't

[newbie] KDE Desktop

1999-11-23 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, Following advice from the list I have reinstalled Kppp twice and unchecked the script "Autoconfigure hostname from this IP" in the IP tab of Kppp setup. Still I find that if I connect using Kppp most other items on the desktop are unusable ie I cannot connect and then decide to

Re: [newbie] kde Desktop

1999-10-04 Thread Richard Yevchak
I have the same problem. I hope someone nows of a fix. Richard Sean King wrote: I am having the strangest error with kde under mandrake 6.1. I just up graded my system from 6.0 to 6.1 and now every time that i log in I get all the icons that I deleted from the desktop file back in

RE: [newbie] kde Desktop

1999-10-04 Thread Aaron deRozario
] kde Desktop I have the same problem. I hope someone nows of a fix. Richard Sean King wrote: I am having the strangest error with kde under mandrake 6.1. I just up graded my system from 6.0 to 6.1 and now every time that i log in I get all the icons that I deleted from the desktop

[newbie] kde Desktop

1999-10-03 Thread Sean King
I am having the strangest error with kde under mandrake 6.1. I just up graded my system from 6.0 to 6.1 and now every time that i log in I get all the icons that I deleted from the desktop file back in desktop file. I was wondering if any body is having these errors and if anyone knows how to