This might be a little rude, but I'm hopeless when it comes to designing, and using any form of graphical program.

I need two logos to be done. One I have got the basic design sorted out, I just can't make it look nice. The other I'm yet to think about.

Is anyone kind enough to lend a hand?

Thanks

I also noticed that pressing ctrl-alt-F1 gets me only a black screen, not the text console I expected. Pressing Alt-F8 should bring me back to the KDE desktop, but this did not work to recover from the black screen. Is this a problem with Mandriva 2011 or my computer?

Mine!

I am installing new wallpapers , and although the installation is successful the wallpapers are not visible.

Can anybody tell me why is this happening. Am i missing something ?

Thanks in advance,

Pushkar Sambus :)

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The GIMP: http://www.gimp.org (Image Manipulation)

Blender: http://www.blender.org (3d rendering)

And some good sites:

http://www.linuxartist.org (General Site, good info)

I've recently put together my most recent pet project which is a Nano-ITX computer complete with WiFi and TV tuner. My intent was to have this little computer attached to our second LCD TV in the rec room to allow guests and family at Xmas to surf, watch TV, watch movies, etc.

I've installed Mandriva 2010.0 and this works well running KDE even on the Via C7 1.5GHz CPU. I've given some thought and have tried Enlightenment E17 as it claims to be relatively configurable.

My goal is to have a UI that allows people to complete the above mentionned tasks without needing to feel confused over learning a new OS. I've noted some installable applications/UIs such as Moblin which is in the right category. However, Moblin 2.0 is really slow and almost impossible to use.

I prefer to use something that runs on top of Mandriva 2010, and not a brand new OS. The TV tuner and WiFi both need specifically compiled drivers and I don't want to mess with some optimized distro with no ability to build from scratch.

Any recommendations?

Would you please help me with thi small, yet annoying problem?

I installed Koffice from MCC under Mandriva 2010. After that I right click in Dolphin and go to the Create new submenu. It the shows me a list of documents I can create, including those for OpenOffice, HTML, and plain text. However, I see some spreadsheet, presentation and text documents that 1. have no icon, and 2. have no extension (when I click on them a compressed file apperas, but it has no extension).

Has somebody else experienced this problem?

I am a very organized person, so I don like having a mess of entries in Mandriva's main menu. That is why I always edit it. I categorize everything and move entries and submenus from place t place. Has anyone noticed a problem with Mandriva's menus? I've been having this since mandriva 2008 (or even before, I don't remember). Has anyone noticed that moving entries or changing submenus messes the whole menu? Is there a way to solve this?

Good link

Converting MAC icons to Linux

You need some tools:

Stuffit 4 Linux

More links

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4455

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=98048

Some icon links

http://www.iconfactory.com/news.asp

http://www.xicons.com/

And I know :bvc: has all types of cool icon links.

Have fun with it!

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Mac4Lin version 0.3 Released!

24th October 2007

Mac4Lin is back! A new version, more changes, better looks and an overall more polished product. Please read changelog for information of changes in this version. It gives me immense pleasure to inform all that downloads have crossed 110 GB till date!

Mac4Lin now comes with a unified documentation in PDF format. Please go through this for illustrated installation instructions. Also some entities like GTK theme/Pidgin etc. now include two versions. Hence individual README files are only included if there is any need to convey release specific important information to the user which the generic documentation does not include. Read the README file for more details, in such cases.

With the release of GNOME 2.20, there have been issues reported with the Icon theme. Work is going on to make the theme compatible with GNOME 2.20 (found in OpenSUSE 10.3/Ubuntu 7.10 - Gusty etc.). There will be a separate release of Icon theme for GNOME 2.20. Users of this version can replace the original ver.0.3 Icon theme with the new one, which will be released soon after this release. GNOME version can be checked by clicking System Menu > About GNOME. Other components of this package are reported to work with GNOME 2.20. The installation of GTK Metacity theme and Cursors is almost same execpt that the Theme Manager in GNOME 2.20 has a new look.

Thanks to Victor Hugo Casals for the Safari skin, M.Lettner for the panel backgrounds, Calande for the font guide, Mitko for nm-applet icons, Vish for Grub and Buu700 for Usplash screens. I also thank all those who tested the pack and everyone who are directly or indirectly involved in this project.

The project was conceived on an Ubuntu system but since its dependent on GTK, it should work on any distro with GTK.

Apply it, flaunt it, enjoy it! :)

Anirudh (a.k.a ANi, infra_red_dude)

For any suggestions/comments/complaints/feedback/bug tracking please drop a mail to: infra_red_dude.users@sourceforge.net

Project Website and Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin

Screenshots:

PS: Keep checking this place. An Icon theme for GNOME 2.20 will soon be released.

I can set up a panel on the left side of screen OK. What I cannot do is drag and drop icons on either of the two panels (usual bottom and the added side) as I usually can do. I can drop widgets OK, but that is not what I need/want.

When I was trying out the 64 bit Spring, I had no such problem.

Any ideas anyone, Please.

Cheers. John.

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Is it possible to map the set a keyboard shortcut for the KDE4 function that lets you see all open windows at once. I don't remember its name, but it's the same as Mac's Exposé.

Currently it is set to be called when I move my mouse tto the upper left corner, but I want to have a keyboard shortcut for it.

Thank you

I have the same Nvidia driver installed in both OSs and image settings are the identical. You can see from the two screen shots that one is very poor quality (the one in 2010-Spring) and the second one is Normal and AOK (2010.0). All the images in 2010-Spring Picture Frames and the desktop wallpapers suffer this same ugly effect. I must point out that the images are from the same folder and used by both OSs. I have done 3 clean reinstalls of 2010-Spring with a clean /home each time and still get the same results. All updates are installed to this date.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and does anyone have suggestions as to what might be causing it in 2010-Spring ???.

Cheers. John.

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Unofficial download available through ftp://ftp.kde.org/

Click here: Mandriva/2010 repos

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Ive been tinkering for a while now and Searching for one feature that I need to make my desktop complete...and that is changing my stinking wallpaper!!

I really have tried to find out how...and I cant for the life of me find it anywhere! Is it hidden? Under a rock?

Would appreciate a little help.

Oh....and HI!!

Then I try to reselected 'Expand' properties, it doesn't go back to normal.

Here's how it looks:

How can I fix this problem?

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I'm wondering how I can modify icon size on menu bar list?

Thanks for your support.

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KMail has alternate white and blue lines (highlighting the text) for every second entry in the

folder pane and header pane.

I would like to remove these blue lines, but how?

I found this in KDE help on the web:-

"In System Settings->Appearance->Colors->Colors. for each color set except

Common Colors (which doesn't have it), change the Alternate Background to be

the same as the Normal Background."

(note USA spelling!)

But what is the "Alternate Background"? Mandriva has so many possibilities!

And none that I can see with that exact description or similar. Any clues?

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This hasn't stopped MIB from creating packages. Discussion has occurred on official Mandriva forum Click Here

The link to the MIB instructions for installing KDE4.3.5 is HERE

I myself are considering upgrading, as my KDE4.3.2 isn't quite as stable as my KDE4.2.4 on 2009 was.

Security concerns using the MIB repos should be minimal I expect. Can anyone please confirm this for me?

It is impossible to resize the kde 4.4 desktop icons. The resized icons still active until you logout. When you relogin, the icons on the desktop go to the default small icons, simply they do not retain the customised icon size. Any help. Thanks.

Fahd

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Any way, after some Googling, one suggestion is Fotoxx. I install

fotoxx-9.5-1mdv2010.0.x86_64

The segfault is annoying, it means you can not load images after launching the program.

I have removed and re-installed, the problem remains. Has anyone else tried this program? BTW there are two versions on the repos, both segfault loading images. Any thoughts on how to trouble shoot this?

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Here's mine. Mandriva 2010 x86_64

is there anyway of making my panel transparent ?

i'm using plastique with all effects enabled and quartz for my windows and can't find a setting anywhere,

mandriva 2010 one, kde 4.3

And may I start with my return to Mandriva with my Mandriva 2010 desktop :)

GTK Theme - Dust

Icons - Magog White

http://digitizor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lancelot01.png

thats what i want. thanks a ton.

I upgraded my 2008.1 version to 2010.0.

I'm using KDE and the theme/style that I've set for buttons and checkboxes, etc. is "Oxygen".

BUT.. this style is obviously not accepted by all windows. So, for instance not by OpenOffice. The window style looks like the very old FreeBSD style, you know? The colour is very grey and the buttons very simple and rectangular. Or for example, when I click on "browse files", the window that appears has the same old style, not the Oxygen style. Or the standard buttons and dropdown boxes in firefox look different as well.

What shall I do? Does somebody knows whats wrong or how to fix this? I can upload pictures if you want.

Thank you,

Matt

I've just installed Mandriva 2010.0.

How do I remove La Ora completely, and use the oxygen theme for scrollbars, buttons etc? I did try and do it from the KDE control center, which only changed it in some KDE applications and not non KDE applications (like openoffice)?

Regards,

Kiran

I've been running successfully Mandriva 2009.0 with compiz fusion for a few days now. Suddenly today Firefox started to launch in full screen without the borders decorators, so I can't even minimize the window. The problem occurs only with Firefox, other programs are running fine with their borders.

Any tips? Thanks!

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So here's my KDE 4.3.2 desktop, and contrary to what some members here believe... it's very easy to configure and it does have a nice help center. :)

That is not a show stopper, but what is a little annoying is a can't change the colour of selected items in the main drop down menu in apps like Firefox for example. Using KDE that is.

Any ideas anybody please?

Has anyone else got this problem or is it just me?

i've dissabled all the settings i can find but it still comes on after 10 mins - even tried setting it to 2 hours, 10 mins later and its back on,

in the end i created .xinitrc and added this

xset s off

seems to have worked, but its a bit 'permanent'

and it won't be saved when i image my / partition

is there another way i can switch my screen saver off ? - so i can have an option of switching it on if i need to

ta

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I confirmed thw screensaver doesn't work with compized enabled or disabled.

When the screensaver is invoked, it actually cuts the signal to the monitor as if in powersave mode. I have lock screen enabled, but it never asks me for my password.I have power settings at "Never". I didn't have this problem with KDE Cooker, Mint 7 or Suse 11.2 64bit.

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What is this?

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After moving to Ubuntu, I found that this was no longer possible. Clicking a scope only highlighted a tab in the panel, but does not bring the scope window to the foreground. Some googling suggested that that this was a new design feature in Metacity to prevent new windows from stealing the focus.

What a surprise is to find out that KDE has adopted a similar feature. If I click a scope in a model, all I have is a blue tab in the panel, and a flashing window name. I run Mandriva 2009.1 with KDE 3.5, but windows behave exactly the same as in Ubuntu. Is there a way to setup windows to behave the way I used to?

KDE 3.5 control center has a menu for Window-Specific Settings, with a single entry "Disable focus stealing prevention for XV". This sounds like a right place to look, but I have no clue what to do.

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They really suck now. What RPM has the original font config files so it will look like it did after install?

Any clues?

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Please follow instructions in the README: kde/stable/4.3.1/Mandriva/README

Please note that some of the servers/mirrors are still updating at this time.

Admittedly Kde4 has been unstable at first.

Strange to use at first.

I now have kde4.2.4.

And I love it.

Only after I read the documentation on kde.org did I understand what it's all about.

Kde4 has been built to be the leading edge of desktops, and I think they've done well. Is it the leading edge? I don't know, haven't used a mac for years, vista (well just like felt a flash xp, to be honest) and gnome, well I haven't touched that for years either.

For me, KDE4, particularly my 4.2.4 version, is rock solid. Very functional. Sure I miss konqueror over dolphin.

I guess I'll have to wait and see if 4.3 gets packaged up for Mandriva.

Is anyone else looking to upgrade to the latest kde when it arrives?

On the KDE 4 desktop of MDK 2009.1 there is a bar on the right hand side (clear and jutts out a touch), what is it and whats it for.

Next, in kde 3 my task bar was narrow and grew wider as i opened more. i dont seem to be able to get teh say effect with 4? i had 3 set to centre and as narrow as poss then dynamic, i kinda get something with 4 by setting similar but its not very user friendly with the strange width settings. is there anywhere you suggest for help?

thanks as always

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Any ideas how to fix that?

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Is there any way to disable this short of disabling compiz? I like some of the other effects.

Thanks,

radioz

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I usually fill the gaps in my needs for running the computer by programming more or less complete/clean bash scripts, with a bit of zenity if needed, and by putting lanchers upon them.

Now I'm at a point where zenity is not enough. I want several GUI controls in a single window. BUT…

My family life, and my professionnal life, make it so that I have very little time for programming.

So I need a very quick way of programming a GUI, and of programming the event handlers. And I don't want my programs to require an exotic runtime or launcher. So it'll have to be either Perl, Python, bash, or Tcl/Tk (installed by default on any mainstream Linux), or a tool that generates a binary (if that exists).

My first attempt has been with Visual Tcl; it's a bit rough around the edges, but still usable, and stable enough. Unfortunately, this tool has not been updated since 2007, and suffers from incompatibilities with Tcl 8.5 or newer (and we're at 8.6…). This can be patched (see “Tristan 2008-09-29â€) but still, I was disapointed to see that the much-advertised “widget†array did not work (any more?)…

So I decided to search for more GUI designers… I found nothing else related to either bash or Tk, the two languages I had in mind for fast programming. My need for speed rules out C/C++, as well as Java (the language I'm most familiar with).

Looking further, I found seemingly great wxWindow-related tools, for Python, a language I'm willing to learn as it seems to fit my criteria (which is: as few written lines as possible to get the job done) :

— Boa-Constructor: nice first impression although the GUI is a bit overwhelming, but it is way too unstable. The IDE crashed at each of my ten attempts to achieve the same simple app I had programmed with Visual Tcl, and before I could even attempt to program event handlers.

— PythonCard: clean (and stable, it seems) and simple, but too much so : I miss the wx sizers.

Looking still further, I finally found some hope :

— wxGlade: at last something that I can use! Simple and to the point. All is there without fuss and with no crash. It is just an UI designer though, that generates a python file that you open in your favourite editor and where you program the event handlers at the right places. Although this is OK with me, I'd like something more integrated, where you take no risk of breaking the GUI code while programming the event handlers, nor loosing your handling code when re-generating the UI; that's because eventually, I'm thinking of using what I'll have found for teaching the basics of programmation to my son. Anyway, this is so far my best finding.

— wxFormBuilder: I did not try yet (not in Mdv's repositories); I'll have to.

— WideStudio: I did not try yet (not in Mdv's repositories); I'll have to (but I really wonder what this MWT is, how it integrates the desktop, and what needs to be installed at runtime).

And in case I find nothing appropriate, I keep bookmarks for Code::Blocks, Gambas, Lazarus, Anjuta, KDevelop and MonoDevelop.

What do you all use for quick and not-so-dirty GUI-app programming? Do you know what tool would suit my needs, if possible with a good learning potential for kids?

Yves.