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the problem comes when you want the image to be the exact width of the current image, but a different height. maybe i'm not coordinated enough, but i can never grab the full width of the image.

i'm probably using the word "compile" incorrectly. i just did a plain install of the nvidia driver. quake3 and ut2003 played fine, so i will just assume it's ok unless i come across any problems.

i took a tnt2 out of my box and put in a geforce4 ti4200. it seems to be working just fine, my glxgears went from 600 fps to about 4000. i know the nvidia driver is for all nvidia cards, but i wanted to make sure that during install it doesn't compile itself to work with the specific card that it finds... do i need to reinstall the driver?

i guess i didn't want it to autocrop, i wanted to be able to pick which parts of the image to cut off (sometimes the top, sometimes the bottom, etc.) ideally it'd let me crop one "dimension" at a time rather than have to draw a rectangle. not sure if that makes sense to anyone but me.

this seems like something that would be the gimp's bread and butter, but i'm having great difficulty cropping pictures to the aspect ratio they need to be to get prints made. it seems like there HAS to be some way to easily set what ratio you want a cropped picture to end up with. i can crop a part of the photo just fine in the gimp, but can't figure out how to chop off part of the top and bottom to get it to the size i need to make a 4x6 print. any ideas/tips/etc? :) thanks.

ok, i have tried both bits of code that bvc posted as my .gnome2/session-manual file, but still no dice. i notice that the .xsession-errors file now has this line in it: SESSION_MANAGER=local/pico:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3403 pico is my computer's name and i have been using icewm off and on with gnome... but i don't think icewm would have anything to do with gnome. (i was using metacity, not icewm in gnome). to get the .xsession-errors file, as soon as gnome crashes at the splash screen, i ctrl-alt-f1, then use nano to edit the file so i can see what everything is. any other ideas? thanks.

I need to learn to leave my computer alone when it's working just fine. :( i tried to install new themes for gnome, and then gnome crashed. every time i try to start gnome, i get an error right away. this is gnome 2.2.0 on mandrake 9.1. in the ~/.xsession-errors file, i have the following: (gnome-session:1675): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BluecurveRcStyle'. (gnome-session:1675): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BluecurveRcStyle'. (gnome-session:1675): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 615 (g_object_new): assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object type)' failed does that mean anything to anyone? there's probably a way to just reset themes to the default, but i haven't figured it out. going into a different window manager and running gnome-theme-manager didn't seem to work.

this could just happen in phoenix because that's the app i use the most often... but sometimes i'll find my mouse pointer gets stuck in a 90 degree angle shape (similar to the pointer used to resize windows at the corners, but without the arrow). you can't click on anything when the pointer is like this. this has happened in gnome, dke and icewm and on two different computers. is there any good way to get the pointer to reset itself? the best solution i've done is to ctrl-alt-F1, then init 3, init 5 to restart x... but there's probably a better way.

i am trying to figure out the same thing for a gateway 200. i have been trying to figure out how to add new keyboard shortcuts in gnome, but the gnome control panel doesn't seem to have an "add" button for new shortcuts (even though the help files talk about one??!). This is in gnome 2.2.0 on mandrake 9.1. http://mapage.noos.fr/nicolinux/index_en.html might be helpful to someone more experienced than me. the "Special Keys for X Windows" section kind of made sense, but i was afraid to modify too many files without knowing what i was doing.

got it. i hadn't changed the permissions of the script "noip2", so i couldn't execute it. i'm still getting the hang of some of these things-- i mainly figured it out because in shell everything else had an asterisk next to it and i did the "one of these things is not like the other" game, eventually figuring it out thanks for the help and the link up above. 8)

ok, i'm making progress. i used your script except changed 'noip' to 'noip2' and put the script in /etc/init.d and named it noip2. 'chkconfig noip2 reset' seems to go ok (no errors), but in MCC it says that noip2 is stopped, and if i try to start it, it says "cannot find noip2 service". what did i miss?

after looking at this a bit more, i'm confused. i hadn't rebooted since i installed noip a few weeks ago. (i had used it before, but decided to reinstall everything, so i started over). i had started noip2 as a binary to make sure it was working, then put the script that the readme says to put in /etc/init.d/rc5.d (is that the right spot for my startup dir?) after my reboot this morning, i had to manually restart noip2--it didn't start up by itself like it should have, so i must have that script in the wrong spot. i actually ended up rebooting primarily because things were locking up like crazy. the only thing i did differently yesterday was i plugged in a usb CF reader for the first time, which i had great difficulty unmounting... i think that may have caused the lockup somehow. i ended up having X freeze completely, so i did a ctrl-alt-F1 and then "shutdown -r now". so the main question now is... where do i put that noip2 startup script?

well, noip2 was running, but it still didn't work. i kept trying to figure it out, and ended up rebooting (old windows habits die hard). that seemed to work... so i guess for now the problem is solved. still not quite sure how that "hotsearch10000" thing was taking my noip name.

i've been using no-ip to track my dynamic IP for a few weeks, but tonight i noticed it wasn't working anymore, and instead of forwarding to my website it either times out, or forwards to one of those spam web-search sites. i know apache is working because i can see pages from inside my lan or if i enter my IP directly. is this a common problem? or has my no-ip address somehow been taken over by a spammer?

i posted too fast. i installed the latest CVS rpm and now it works fine.

i had never used xmms or any other media player on my laptop, but today i tried it with shoutcast streams, and they play 2x (or more?) normal speed. that makes it hard to listen, and also xmms gets ahead of the server every 20 seconds or so. this is on a laptop running i810 sound drivers, using OSS as output drivers (arts doesn't seem to do anything). any ideas?

good call. thanks :>

actually, i never see the avatars at all. phoenix 0.5. so it's not just crappy browsers :lol: (anyone know what i might have set weird?)

Glad I was able to help 8)

heh, my experience was very similar to yours. I'm not in IceWM right now, but I'll try to explain this from memory. At first I had to open it from the command line (as you described), but once open I added an icon for it in the menu (using IceME, the menu editor on the IceWMCP). At some point I had a problem where that didn't seem to be working and I may have had to add it on the menu using MenuDrake (in the Mandrake Control Center). Sorry I can't be more specific, because I ended up just having to play with both and can't remember which worked better. Can someone else help fill in the blanks and explain (to both of us) which he should use... IceMe or MenuDrake to edit the menus?

you can just rm /home/TYME/.gnome-desktop/Trash although it'll come back next time you relogin... but if you keep your computer up for long periods of time it might not be a big deal if it's that important to not have a trash?

try downloading the IceWm Control Panel. It is MUCH better than IcePref. Using the IceMe tool included should solve your menu problems. If that doesn't work, you may need to edit the config files yourself. It's not all that bad, and I had to do it once for exactly the problem you're describing (text rather than icons). This IceWM FAQ describes how to edit the relevant file. I'm not sure why your settings aren't being saved. Hopefully someone else will have insight into that (or it'll get fixed with IceWMCP). Good Luck! :)

can't be of too much help (i'm a newbie too), but this page looks helpful. especially this hint about which driver to use: Probably works best with "gimp-print" with the setting "-sModel=pcl-4". good luck. :P

that's one of the plugins i had been looking for but couldn't find. the link was dead on the post above, but i easily found it on www.rpmfind.net (not sure why i didn't think to look there before). Thanks!

I haven't used analog cables in my PCs for years, just because they didn't seem necessary anymore... until now. I saw links on web pages talking about various programs to help with this (paranoia, and a few plugins for XMMS) but all the links seemed to be dead. Does anyone know a good way to get CD audio playback without using the analog cable between the CD-Rom and sound card? My problem is solved (I dug an analog cable out of my closet), but would like to know for future reference. Thanks :)