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  2. Urpmi [solved]

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by ffi

    Thanks ffi, that's brilliant advice, and is what I did in the end anyway. I was kind of hoping that my whizzy urpmi tool (which already knows where the repositories are and which packages are in which repositories) would save me a manual download. Urpmi has already got a boatload of options, so I figured this would be one of them :/

    I believe the whole point of urpmi, over rpm, is finding those depencies for you ;) but be thankful you are on on urpmi, apt would refuse to anything untill you had either uninstalled the app or satisfied the deps...

  7. Cleaning up the menu

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    argh trying somethings have made the entire menu disappear for my user only :sad: and I don't know how to get it back either, I had backupped everything but reverting doesnt help and neither can I open folders, it asks for the application to open with...

     

    logging into another DE solved this but I still lost with the original question in my OP.

  8. Cleaning up the menu

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    argh trying somethings have made the entire menu disappear for my user only :sad: and I don't know how to get it back either, I had backupped everything but reverting doesnt help and neither can I open folders, it asks for the application to open with...

  9. Cleaning up the menu

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    I have some double entries and programs in my menu which are no longer installed, there are no entries in /usr/share/applications, probably they are leftovers from before mdv migrated to xdg. How do I remove those entries systemwide and permanently (without the menu editor)?

     

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  15. Need advice about French keyboard layout [solved]

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by ffi

    I finally understood how to read those two parts you mention, neddie. It seems the Macintosh does like Windows does. That and the fact that it would be easier for my son made me decide that's how I want things to be. Linux is the outsider here; I wonder why!

    On the even darker side (there's no bright side it seems), I looked at the xmodmap man page and did some tests: there's no way to control what caps-lock does using xmodmap. :-(

     

    Do you know of any way to reconfigure the caps-lock key à-la-xmodmap so that it shifts all the keys?

     

    Yves.

    I tested it on a mac with a french/belgian azerty keyboard and caps-lock behaved like caps-lock not shift-lock (unlike windows), this is the behaviour I would have expected in XP with a qwerty lay-out too...

     

    on a side note I often wonder if because of those keyboards the flemish are literally so little to the point, unlike the dutch....

  17. Qt4 apps, fonts look blurry

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    In Qt4 apps fonts look a bit blurry (ie Opera beta, Skype, SMPlayer) whereas in Qt3 they look fine, is there a way to tune them? I tried qt4config but couldnt find an option to make them look better

     

    screenshot1ya7.th.png

     

    left qt4, right qt3 both with arial unicode ms 10

     

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  19. Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 released!

    in Portal News

    Posted

    I updated to 0.6.2 from 0.5.2 with MCC (from main_backports), but I'm experiencing some major problems with v0.6.2.

     

    I lost e.g. all my window decoration (the window borders) and could not roll the cube or move windows (i.e. with <alt>+LMB). I couldn't change windows with <alt>+TAB or Super+TAB. In short: I lost all 3D effects and some other window managament items. I experienced same kind of problems earlier also with 2007 Mandriva, but they were corrected in Compiz-Fusion in 2008.0. Now these annoying problems came back.

     

    I had to uninstall the 0.6.2 and install 0.5.2 anew to get a working 3D system back. Anyone else experiencing this?

     

    I'm now using Gnome desktop and the graphics card is MSI NX7600GT-T2D256EZ Club 3D LITE (NVIDIA) PCI-e.

    it was a bug and it has been fixed today

  21. 2008.0 - where are my buttons?

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by ffi

    Are there other mice configured like this?:

     

    Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Mouse2"

    Driver "evdev"

    Option "bustype" "0x0003"

    Option "relBits" "+0+1+2"

    Option "product" "0xc517"

    Option "vendor" "0x046d"

    Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"

    EndSection

     

    if so try commenting out the lines Option "relBits" "+0+1+2" and change Option "XkbModel" to "evdev"

     

    Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Keyboard1"

    Driver "kbd"

    Option "XkbModel" "evdev"

    Option "XkbLayout" "us(alt-intl)"

    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

    EndSection

  23. install "make"

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by ffi

    Edit: Ok so it seems that urpmi is not installed either...

    urpmi has to be installed, else something probably went wrong installing (bad burn?) but you have to be root to be able to use it (or see it)

     

    don't use rpm.pbone.net to install rpm's it could mess up your install

  25. Mandriva 2008 first impressions

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by ffi

    Saw this on Cooker ML relating to multimedia keys:

     

    "kmilo is not installed by default anymore. It was coming with klaptop.

    I think it's the reason why multimedia keys are not supported under

    KDE."

     

    so try installing that.

    kmilo is installed. I made a mistake I wrote xev when I should have written evdev. Anyway using evdev as the driver for the mouse causes the keycodes to change for many keys, so they don't match any keyboard map. See this bug report where a solution can be found too:

     

    http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=34344

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