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How do I install new Screenlets?

 

Easy Way

 

Simply open up the Screenlets manager (System - Preferences - Screenlets). Select the Install option on your right, search for the screenlet you want to install, select it, and you're all set.

 

Manually

 

Some screenlets that weren't updated to the new API don't work with the Screenlets manager installation method, and need to be installed manually. You need to copy the Screenlet's directories to either your ~/.screenlets directory (if it doesn't exists, just create it) or to /usr/local/share/screenlets (for system-wide access).

It is there in the FAQ

This is assuming that you have installed the base package first.

Intel have also halted their plans for a rival product, opening up the market for the OLPC...

Have they? I know that they have pulled out of the OLPC, but as far as I was aware that was because Intel was trying to compete and collaborate at the same time, I thought that the development of the classmate was still going ahead.

which is doomed to fail because of its creator's complete lack of understanding of developing countries

Yeah, I did read an article on the BBC about how the laptop fitted into those neads, kinda knocked down what optimism I had for the project.

I have an HP Laserjet 1018, works fine and dandy. However it doesn't work out of the box and HP don't provide the driver at all. I have to rely on this project as HP doesn't support this and certain other printers under linux. It's not a happy story all round as far as HP printers are concerned.

Netscape was the first browser I ever used, it was the only Browser we were allowed to use at uni, there was no way you could start IE. I stuck with it since then, even downloading the next release over a 56k connection we had at home, that was a pain, but after using it for so long at uni, I went through the pain rather than using the IE that was already there.

Livna will do, but I hear from the Fedora Forum that there will be a merger of repos for Fedora 9 - we shall see.

Yes, RPM Fusion, I reckon that it's a safe bet for Fedora 9, whether or not it's a good thing is yet to be seen :unsure:

Even my 3D effects work, which I've yet to get working in Gentoo.

That's one of the things I like about Fedora, provided that you have a card that is supported by an open source driver that works with AIGLX, 3-D effects work out of the box. Every other distro I have tried recently requires more effort that I can be bothered with.

I would go for livna, I have had no problems with it yet. Looking at the freshrpms mailing lists, it appears that the packages are there, but have not been announced. As far as I can remember, the rpm providing the yum config for the repo is release independent, so it will automatically pick the F8 repo if you are using F8.

The concept art of the desktops look amazing IMHO,

What a waste of time.

 

Seems I need 800MB CDR now. What a ball-ache. I think I'm gonna give up on this, too much effort required.

Nope, you need to use a DVD (this was noted somewhere, obviously not on the downloads page, that would be too obvious )

Compiz-Fusion will only work with the opensource "radeon" driver- not the proprietary "fglrx" one.

That is not strictly true, fglrx works fine if you are using XGL, and the latest version of fglrx supports AIGLX, although it's not quite there yet in terms of stability.

Compiz, Metisse is a waste of effort IMO. Do you have utility for configuring compiz, I'm not sure if the install it by default (sorry about this, I wasted my Mandy 2008 install a while back, somebody help me out here :P). If you do, there should be something that allows you to alter the opacity of active and inactive windows.

I still don't understand something fundamental. Take a look at this theme, for example:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php...T?content=26448

Is it intended for Linux or for Mac? How would I know? Does Mac use Gnome also? Cause I saw some Mac-ish themes in the site, so it looks awkward. I'm just afraid I'll try to install the wrong thing and won't be able to roll back to my functioning environment.

It is intended for Gnome :P, I don't know if Gnome would work on OSX, never heard of it to be honest. However, that icon set should work for Gnome on Linux (although I noticed a comment on that particular icon set that it is broken on later versions of Gnome).

Another quick question if you don't mind, how do I set it so as any window I open is semi transparent?

Do you have compiz or Metisse enabled?

yossarian, have you tried Gnome Look?

Go to the theme preferences window in Gnome and try dragging the icon for the theme into that window. If the theme package/archive is in the correct format it will install automatically for you, it's as simple as that ;)

I agree that these terms are misused, and I don't expect all RC1s to be released. But I do expect that by the time they say "here is a candidate for release" then at least the major functionality is frozen and only unexpected bug fixes, tweaks, minor changes and so on will be made from here on. That means to me that it should be FAR from "unstable" and very very much time to start criticizing it as though it were very nearly finished.

 

You can't have it both ways, either it's an RC1, in which case people are entitled to express their opinion that it sucks (and will suck when released), or it's a beta (with a projected start date very probably later than Jan 11th), in which case it's too early to write it off.

I couldn't have said it better. Further to that you find that most projects do follow that ideology. The argument that the "alpha/beta/RC" labels are "commonly" misused is no defence, although I'd have to argue that the misuse isn't really common in the general sense, but definitely common when talking about badly managed projects.

Ooooh, I sense a storm brewing!

When sdb1 and sdb5 are not mounted, their placeholders /mnt/backup and /mnt/virtual are empty directories, the permissions on these directories can potentially cause problems writing to the partitions when they are mounted (irrespective of umask). The mount points are locations within the filesystem where the partitions are mounted, they are not the partitions, you can write to the mount point when the partition is not mounted, but then you will have problems mounting the partition at that point as the directory is no longer empty.

What are the permissions on /mnt/backup and /mnt/virtual when sdb 1 and 5 are not mounted?

Somebody might try suggesting to Mandriva to mimic the Installonly plugin that YUM uses on Fedora, it lets you decide how many versions of a kernel to keep installed at any one time.

I have the company stuff in there, check the Legal page ;)

Good stuff

You need to update it quick Ian, you must display the company's registration number, registered address and place of registration in order to comply with the UK Companies Acts.

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/promotion...tationery.shtml

The contacts table looks a bit squished, other than that it looks good

Interesting how this thing is playing out...

 

Good that Mandriva got the deal back.

Hmm, apparently there is a commitment, not a contract here:

"...In an interview with the BBC, Nigeria's education minister questioned the need for laptops in poorly equipped schools.

 

Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachuku said: "What is the essence of introducing One Laptop per Child when they don't have seats to sit down and learn; when they don't have uniforms to go to school in, where they don't have facilities?"

 

"We are more interested in laying a very solid foundation for quality education which will be efficient, effective, accessible and affordable."

 

The previous government of Nigeria had committed to buying one million laptops.

 

Dr Aja-Nwachuku said he was now assessing OLPC alongside other schemes from Microsoft and Intel.

 

"We are asking whether this is the most critical thing to drive education."..."

 

Source: BBC: Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'

If this is indeed the case, then I hope for the sake of other Mandriva customers that this isn't one of those deals that could contribute towards cripling the company financially!

Ian, it might be worth trying one of the Live CD's, I know that it's a pain in the backside, but worth a try.

Actually, Dr. Mogoto of the Nigerian education ministry has agreed to provide Mandriva with the venture capital it desperately needs. The only problem is that his money is in francs and the offer is time sensitive, so he needs a French account number to make that deposit before the deal can longer happen. Fortunately, Mandriva CEO, Francois Bancilhon, was able to provide Dr. Mogoto with Mandriva's account number and access codes in time.

Marketing (although I think you're really talking about advertising since marketing is more about numbers)

I disagree with you there Dyslexic, Marketing is about knowing what the market wants (strategic marketing) and then delivering the product to the market (operational marketing), the latter involves selling, distribution, and advertising.