Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 22:23, Paul Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: But occasionally I screw up my KDE and rather then fiddling around editing .rc files I just delete my entire .kde directory, and restart the X server. That way everything KDE is back to defaults. Kaj, I adopted the same approach and everything is now fine. Thanks. Paul

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 10:18, Paul Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and

[newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake

[newbie] KDE Problem

2001-08-18 Thread B.
I have an unusual problem with the KDE desktop. When I enter my system under root, the KDE desktop loads with 10 copies of the GMC file manager. I end up deleting all the copies, then everything is fine. Is there a configure file for the KDE desktop? How can I fix this? Michael Want to

Re: [newbie] KDE Problem

2001-01-26 Thread Romanator
AL wrote: Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot! This is worth a try... While in console mode, log in as root and type in: pico .Xclients Press the enter

[newbie] KDE Problem

2001-01-25 Thread AL
Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot!

Re: [newbie] KDE problem

2000-09-14 Thread John Couturier
I have had similar problems in the past. Make sure that the .kderc file in your $HOME directory is owned by you and not root. For some reason mine was owned by root when I logged in the first time. -- Original Message -- From: Hellmut [EMAIL

[newbie] KDE problem

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Ashman
-- Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every

Re: [newbie] KDE problem

2000-09-13 Thread Hellmut
Hi! I have experienced the same problem and I found out where it came from (On my machine): Every time I ran kdesu on my users desktop, I wasn't able to change the color scheme anymore. It had to with kdesu here, but I don't know which file got locked... :( -- Here is an interesting one.

[newbie] KDE Problem

2000-07-02 Thread Martin Ibarra
Hi list anywhere remember my question about xserver crash? no problem I can use X server with gnome, and I localize the problem, and the name of the problem is KDE, I can't start KDE or any program of KDE, I read the xsession-errors and its say: imwheel process could not be verified: : No existe

[newbie] KDE Problem

2000-04-13 Thread Fabio
Hello to all, I've setup differnt users on my mandrake 7.0. In one user when I right click the mouse I can only create a new folder. With the other users I've the full menu, I can create a new desktop link etc. How can I fix this situation ??? Thanks in advance Fabio

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Thread Chip Wiegand
I downloaded the files with ...1.1.2-... so I believe those should be the correct files. When I tried rpm -e kde* I got an error - error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm And when I tried rpm -uvh kde* I got the message: rpm: only one major mode may be specified I cannot run kpackage, it

[newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-05 Thread Chip
I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. Before actually doing anything

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-05 Thread R_Yeo
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Chip wrote: /home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found. So, what the heck do I do now? I How about creating ("touch) the Xclients-default file with just one line: exec startkde

Re: [newbie] KDE Problem

1999-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make

[newbie] KDE Problem

1999-10-29 Thread alain ayerra
Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make the things start working again, i

[newbie] kde problem

1999-10-16 Thread Gene Zesch
Can anyone tell me how to use kmodem with Mandrake 6.0? It's set up to use kde in the /opt/kde and doesn't install in Mandrake. Surely there must be a simple workaround? Thanks, Gene

Re: [newbie] KDE Problem

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I tried to submit this problem twice but it doesn't seem to be getting up to the list. I am really stuck on this one. I installed the Linux-Mandrake 5.3 package on one of my computers yesterday and all seemed to be going well until I started

[newbie] KDE Problem

1999-03-25 Thread jimaller
Hi everybody. I tried to submit this problem twice but it doesn't seem to be getting up to the list. I am really stuck on this one. I installed the Linux-Mandrake 5.3 package on one of my computers yesterday and all seemed to be going well until I started KDE. First, I got an Error