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no, the menu/program icons work great. but DOCUMENTS do not open, even ones i've just created with 1.1.

the only place i've seen these is in the nightly builds at the mozilla site. is there an rpm version with xft enabled?? edit: i found the official release with xft here.

i've associated writer documents with OOo until i'm blue in the face, but they never seem to stick. is there a trick i'm missing? (this is in gnome 2.4) i forever click on the icon and it tells me there is nothing associated with the file.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial or reference on how to search logs to troubleshoot particular problems? the tool in MCC->SYSTEM looks useful, but i'm never able to figure out what exactly i want to search for. like today, my laptop keyboard has stopped working on me twice, and i had to turn off the computer both times (wouldn't reboot by itself). it might have been something to do with my wireless network card (i reinserted it soon before the lockups) or perhaps urpmi trying to access a cdrom that wasn't attached. where would i go to see what the deal is? thanks.

I usually suggest giving people a knoppix cd so they can just play around before installing anything, but lately i've been handing out MEPIS cds. mepis looks cool but isn't quite as loud as knoppix. it also installs onto hard disk MUCH easier, if/when they decide to make the leap. once someone's really wanting to stick with linux i suggest mandrake, but that's probably just because that's what i'm familiar with, and it seems to have the friendliest support board around :)

it sounds like LILO isn't loading at all. have you tried reinstalling lilo using the mdk install cd? (boot with the cd, at the prompt: RESCUE and then when the menu comes up, you can restore the bootloader.) it may also be an issue if you recently added a new partition, maybe lilo is looking for operating systems in the wrong partition? (ie, mdk used to be hda5, but after adding a new partition it is hdb1, so you'll need to edit lilo.conf by hand). if you post a bit more info about what modifications you've done lately, i'm sure lots of ppl can chime in with helpful info.

yeah, i'm using your rpms :( first i got the you need a newer version of pygtk, now i get errors like no module named gnome.ui. i'm just going to give up for now, maybe in 6 months i'll try again and my laptop will magically have all the dependencies :)

urpmi gnucash didn't work?

i think they will be merged eventually, but this is just a new release of mozilla (the big browser). i hadn't realized firebird 0.7 had been released too.

I'm probably going to waiting to upgrade to 9.2 until i can buy the cds from mandrakesoft, but i have never really looked at a powerpack set before. this link shows many of the applications included. the ones that most got my attention were vmware (which i know is quite expensive), win4lin,crossover office, and opera. are these all full versions? or limited demos?

here's one that looks like the original flame, but a bit shinier: a few more: available here

ok, here's another one. i think i still like the flaming bigbird on acid up above the best, though.

I have been using old mozilla icons for a while rather than the ugly flame icon that comes with firebird... tonight i found this icon: that's a bit better, but i'm still not sure about it. does everyone else use the default icon? or have you found/created a better icon?

did anyone ever solve this mystery? i've got all sorts of cooker rpms installed now, which probably isn't the best idea... but still no desklets

this seems to be a pretty slick media player that played all the formats i threw at it without having to fiddle with anything. and especially in 9.2rc2, it was perfectly integrated into nautilus (in gnome). the version i just installed in 9.1 seems a bit older, but is still pretty good. is there a "down-side" to totem that I'm missing?

I can't remember from 9.1, but i just installed 9.2rc2 on another partition and allowed it to do the default for everything. Upon rebooting, I have a pretty-well functioning system, but not a single terminal program! (no konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal, nothing). why would it even allow you to install without one?? I suppose you could exit X and get a prompt that way, but that seems a bit extreme.

along the lines of what chris z said, i put an icon for aumix on the toolbar whether i'm in KDE, Gnome, or IceWM (I switch quite frequently). Gnome also has its own volume applet, but I prefer aumix because it allows you to change many more settings than just the main volume. gnome: right click on the taskpanel, pick "add to panel" -> multimedia -> volume control (for gnome's volume control) or "add to panel" -> "launcher from menu" -> "multimedia" -> "aumix"

ok. This page says that I should: How do I set an environment variable? Seems like one of those basic things I should be able to do, but the only thing i could come up with was "putenv" but that didn't seem to work and i don't want to fuxor things up more than i have to :) anyone wanna point me in the right direction?

i don't know gtoaster, but it sounds like you're just burning the wav files to cd, not making an audio cd. is there somewhere in gnome-toaster that you need to specify what type of disk you're making? (i couldn't find it!) maybe you'd have better luck with k3b or another program, making sure to pick "audio cd"?

ok, i got that too (mdk9.1, gnome 2.4), and after dealing with dependency hell for a while, i finally thought i had everything installed, but now all i get is: [bill@localhost tmp]$ gdesklets You need a recent version of PyGTK to run this program. I have PyGtk-0.6.11-4mdk.i586.rpm installed, which is from the cooker... is there a more recent version out there somewhere? any idea what else i should look for?? thanks. edit: I actually had pygtk-0.6.11-4 and also pygtk2.0-1.99.17-2mdk. I tried removing 0.6.11-4 and that didn't seem to help either :(

i was going to ask about that earlier... your avatar says your record uptime is 1 day, which made it sound like things weren't going so well on your system :(

thanks schaez! :D i was too daft to figure out that error message, but now it works perfectly after updating the menu and restarting gnome. you're the hero for the day! :wink:

thanks. i must've missed that one. i'm more comfortable doing simple editing in console than in an X app (kedit, gedit, etc). not sure why. i can use vi enough to edit a line or two if i have to boot from the rescue disk... but i wouldn't want to ever have to use it for much of anything else. i also just realized why nano probably seems easier. i hadn't remembered that pico was the editor used in pine, which i used many years ago. so between that, the fact that i had a cat named nano (not the cat in my avatar), and my laptop is named pico... i like nano & pico. (yes, i'm weird).

that's what i've been doing, but is there a way to stop it from doing that in the first place??

this seems like something that there is probably a good FAQ about somewhere, but i didn't find one: when i first installed mandrake, i was baffled by vi and emacs. i stumbled upon nano, and have used it ever since because there's nothing you have to remember... all the shortcuts i need are at the bottom, although i think the only thing i ever use is ctrl-x. but i notice when i edit files in nano, it seems to wrap the text and put in line breaks sometimes. i thought maybe i needed a more "serious" editor, but when i pulled out emacs and putzed around, it looked like it did the same thing. should i generally be concerned about line breaks? and is there a reason for me to learn emacs or vi? i don't need an all-powerful editor, i just do light editing of files.