Re: [newbie] Adding new Desktop Environments

2002-04-17 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
Take a look at: /usr/share/config/kdm and the kdmrc file. Under the subsection of: [X-*-Greeter] is a line for something like Session Type. I believe that editing that line to add gnome and put things in the correct order will do what you ask. At 11:24 AM 4/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hello all,

Re: [newbie] If xcdroast is on my computer, where might I find it?!

2002-03-21 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I use Mandrake 8.0, and the CD burning programs are under Applications ... Archiving ... CD Burning. If you dont see them there, then perhaps the default install did not install them and you will have to add them through Software Manager (look under INSTALLABLE). Hope this helps. On Thu, 21

Re: [newbie] Powerdown problem

2002-03-21 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I believe the command is: shutdown -h now and NOT shutdown now -h ;-) On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:14:56 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:43:27 +0100 (MET) Jesper Nyholm Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I execute the command halt linux starts

Re: [newbie] Powerdown problem

2002-03-21 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I never make tiping ... tipping ... tipos ... yeah, been there, done that a few times myself. At 04:49 PM 3/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:27:09 -0800 Dan Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the command is: shutdown -h now and NOT shutdown now -h ;-) I

Re: [newbie] 'ls' doesn't sort the way it used to?

2002-03-04 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
Why not try an alias in your bashrc file, so that ls does it YOUR way? At 04:42 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hello everyone: A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, 'ls' used to display directories and files in case sensitive order, prioritized by Directories, then directory names

Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I believe you will find that CTRL - ALT - F7 will get you back ... Xwindows by default puts the GUI on F7. At 12:49 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulatio

2002-02-04 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
Edit your configuration file. If you use LILO, edit /etc/lilo.conf so that under your present boot section you have append = hd?=ide-scsi (where the question mark is replaced with the drive designation of the CD-R or CD-RW drive, for example for the common arrangement where it's the

Re: [newbie] Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 03:34 pm, you wrote: I am not sure if this addresses your problem. I am using MDK 8.0. I have the WordPerfect RPM. When I installed the RPM, MDK found two dependencies (I believe these were libc5), installed them, but WP would not run. What I had to do was DL and

Re: [newbie] Monitor Lock-up

2002-01-20 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
On Sunday 20 January 2002 05:54 pm, you wrote: Have you tried: K -- CONFIGURATION -- KDE -- POWER CONTROL -- ENERGY ? Hi, When my IBM 202 monitor shuts itself down for the night, and I am still logged in, I have to turn the whole box off in the morning (which led to more difficuties

Re: [newbie] gimp print window

2002-01-03 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
You might try holding down the ALT key ... left click anywhere in the dialogue box and while holding down the both ALT and L button on the mouse, drag the box until you can see the PRINT key or be able to grab the bottom of the box and resize it. At 08:43 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hi,

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
Assuming that is not a winmodem ... you might take a look at it via statserial and see if that gives you the info you need. At 05:19 PM 12/11/2001 +0200, you wrote: Just enquired on the price of an external USR modem and was quoted about R800. Before I end up having to fork out this dough I

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I admit to seeing this thread in the middle, not from the beginning, and REALLY admit to being a newbie but have you checked out www.linuxprinting.org yet? Specifically: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112 http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp At 02:27

Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?

2001-11-20 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I believe the answer is to install them BOTH, at the same time, i.e. rpm -U (or whatever) KERNAL.rpm IPTABLES.rpm Try that with rpm -Uvh --test and see if the mutual dependencies are solved. At 08:31 AM 11/20/2001 -0800, you wrote: Hello all So I thought I'd be all Tom Brinkman-like, and get

Re: [newbie] packer program

2001-11-15 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I believe you already have such a program that will compress / decompress files, called GZIP. In a terminal window, run MAN GZIP and see if that is what you seek. Otherwise, try apropos zip and see what programs come up. At 10:14 PM 11/15/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi folks, after installing