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(add OT: just saw that this emoticon is called 'mystilol')

Congratulation, Brit! Wonderful!

Can we have a screenshot, pleeease? 8)

Welcome IcoBgr, and good evening Sofia!

Because you got no answer yet, I'll try though I am quite new with Linux.

You might want to try:

- unplug your scanner

- in the MCC, software installation, search for

sane

xsane

-install the packages from your CD's

Shut down your PC.

Connect your scanner.

Start your Computer. When you are in KDE or Gnome wait ca. 30 seconds or a minute. A new icon should be automatically created on the desktop.

If nothing happens, try again in MCC - the scanner configuration. If it does not work, please post again - someone else here will guide you.

When it works, post it also.

Good luck!

From the cooker mailing list:

From: Warly  

Subject: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent  

Date: 24 Sep 2003 10:36:12 -0000  

 

Which means that if no major critical bugs are found in the next few

days, it will be considered as final.

Thanks to all who have participated in 9.21, the mandrake linux

distribution is becoming more and more a community project, and I am

really happy with that.

When we will be sure these ISOs are really final, that is to say by

the end of next week, club members and contributors should have

exclusive access to the download edition ISOs.

For others ISOs will be freely available worldwide by the end of october.

--  

Warly

http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-09/

Sorry, I forgot:

The files are in /usr/lib/kde3/

You can overwrite them.

I've found that this is a problem of the Mandrake KDE configuration - (MDK 9.1 - KDE 3.1, possibly solved with KDE 3.1.3, I don't know and maybe in 9.2).

Ranger made a fix for this, I had to replace the two files:

kio_smb.so

kio_smb.la

with the changed Ranger files, which can be downloaded here:

http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.1/

Now smb:// works with my kde version.

Writing this for those of us who don't plan to upgrade their system to a newer KDE version or to 9.2 ...

--anna

As some of you might know, I made/changed some wallpapers for the MUB birthday party, adding text to a wallpaper. Mystified asked if I can post here a short how to. No problem, I thought until I realized that I am using a German version of The Gimp - so all menu's and stuff are in this language. You would not understand what I am talking about. And I don't know the English wording.

Next step: I thought ok I am installing an english version. Lol. Could not figure out how.

To make it short. I ended up compiling and installing the newest Gimp devel release, 1.3.20. Almost everything rel. working with text has changed now. It's absolutely fantastic, almost all fonts are working, adding a text to an image is very easy now, with script-fu or without.

A 'vague' way how I did it with Gimp 1.25 (and 1.3.12) was:

-open the wallpaper

-open the layer dock

-create with script-fu a logo, delete the first white background layer here, then merge all visible layers

-drag the text image (from the layers window) to the open window with your wallpaper. You can select an area on the wp image before you do this.

Adding an icon or a small image to a wp: drag and drop from the layers window to the wallpaper window.

Please ask, if you need help.

I am using Konqueror. Sometimes Nautilus for a quick access to smb shares, which does not work in KDE.

Today I remembered that I heard of a file manager Win Explorer like, lol. xfe - I could not find a mandrake rpm. And because I am willing to learn compiling stuff and building rpm's, I downloaded the sources of xfe-0.54 blabla. Compiled, and made a rpm with checkinstall. I had to install libfox.something from contrib.

It looks like this:

http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest/xfe2.jpg

It works. It's fun building rpm's :D

Anyone feels like testing my first rpm? It's only 470 kb to download:

http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest...-1anna.i386.rpm

Build on a MDK 9.1 P4 system, you may need to install a libfox, install with urpmi works for me on my system.

But please: I made the rpm for fun and for learning - not because I think xfe is great.

Nice little buttons on the bottom of your site, fubar :D

Isn't scoopy great?

The only question left is: In Opera and Mozilla (with the standard fonts settings) your main text, not the titles, is displayed on my system in 'serif' - it that your intention?

When I change the font settings manually in the browsers then I get, of course, the chosen font, f.e. sans serif.

When I am back home I'll take a look at your css. It's my way of learning.

fubar, just a quick answer, can't do more, I am at work now :wink:

Your new site:

- put a doctype specification into your start site (is it index.hmtl?)

- the meta thingies belong into <head> ...</head>

When trying to validate the source of the following content site I am getting 15 errors ...

You want to create your own webpage?

a. You don't want to learn html. Just create some simple pages. You can do that using Mozilla Composer.

b. You have some basic knowledge of html? Every texteditor will do it - but Bluefish, Quanta or Screem make your life easier.

c. Do yourself and the world a favour and validate your webpage at http://validator.w3.org/

d. You care about accessibility of the web for handicapped people? Go here: http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/

Great tips for your web sites.

e. You don't want to 'write' any web site - just putting your photos on it? Gthumb generates a web album for you.

Wallpapers not often seen:

http://cstbb568.free.fr/

The site needs a while to get loaded. Go to Distro specific wallpapers. Fine Mandrake WP's ...

And one more huge collection:

http://www.basehead.org/wallpapers/wallpapers.php

If I am not mistaken, a KDE 'theme' is a bundle of

-color-themes

-styles

-window decoration

-backgrounds

-icons

- and more ...

In the KDE Control Centre you can combine all these.

In a standard installation of MDK the basic kdeartwork package from the cd is not installed. This was my first step.

Afterwards I searched at texstar and plf for packages which are named like:

kdeartwork

kdemoreartwork

color-schemes

wallpaper

styles

A lot of iconsets can be found on kde-look.org

And you may want to look at the MyDesktop thread here on the board (Off Topic). If you find a nice desktop - ask the owner :shock: , as I did: how did you do it?

Good luck!

...  my initial thoughts were getting rid of those %'s.

Lol, tyme, I did that - and the cat was sitting on the very top left.

The trick was: changing the 99% to 98%. So your thoughts gave me the direction where to look.

Thing is, that I wanted the cat sitting on the very bottom of the browser window - now there is some space. Ok, but I am happy with it.

I guess scoopys suggestion to give some more space to the image would have done the same.

Thanks to you both, problem solved! :lol:

Scoopy: I have this effect in all browsers, Opera, Konq, Mozilla.

I'll work on the image.

I'll try to understand your code, tyme.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Thank you, MUB, for the new section.

So, boys and girls, we have 30 days to fill it up :)

My first question is a html related one. On my homepage I am using a fixed background image:

http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/lesen.htm

When scrolling down to the bottom of the page, the feet of the little cat get cut off. And I don't know why.

At this page (same cat, but different code), this does not happen:

http://ln.hixie.ch/

What did I wrong?

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#FF9933">

<div style="background:url(img/gruenkatze.png) 100% 99% fixed no-repeat;"

But more serious problem happened while installation. When came to the selection of packages to install, I can't proceed. No matter which packages I selected (from minimum packages to all packages selected manually), it still pop this message:

<center>

basesystem package not selected

</center>

 

It bother me very much as I've selected all the packages. What is the basesystem package. Should it not include in the package selection menu? I really feel disappointed. Maybe it time to consider a change to Redhat.

You'll find on the cooker mailing list that this is possibly a bug in the RC1 release (still testing!):

http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2...03-09/thrd2.php

bug 4495 and bug 5012

Before changing to RH I would wait and try the final 9.2. release.

Sorry that I can't help you more.

... The NTFS partition becomes hidden and one should unhide this partition with a tool like FDISK or Partition Magic [PM]. I did this with the DOS-version of PM. But without results. The problem still resists.

Assuming that

- your boot.ini is ok

- your lilo.config is ok

i would first take a look at the partition table, try the Linux way:

# cfdisk -P /dev/hda

(you might want to change the partition flag)

I guess your version of DOS/Partition Magic does not like NTFS.

__________________

PM is evil

Gthumb 2.1.4, an rpm for MDK 9.1 can be found and dl here:

http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms

New features, so nice!

(I am sorry that I can't change the title of the thread to

Gthumb - a must for your digicam) *as you wish - scoopy :mystismiles: *

edit: :D :D

..

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Tho I am not too knowledgeable with card readers... I have heard of problems with the combo readers. I would investigate more before purchasing one.

 

I gotta check out this GThumb now.  Looks promising :D

Yes, I can remember about problems with the multi card readers. But single card readers are almost not available anymore. I'd like to buy the reader at my local computer shop, nice folks there, I got all our LAN stuff stuff there.

And they sell only Apacer readers. 17 Euros. They are known to work with SuSE (found it on an usb website with a big database ...) But you never know how mdk is doing.

Anyway, thanks, Scoopy!

Scoopy, thanks for your feedback on Pixie.

I looked at GQview. Nice features, indeed. But the look, hm.

So I searched a bit - and found GThumb. Release 2.1.0 is in /contrib. Ok, now I am happy (without Pixie).

- Renaming files (batch)

- Converting files (batch)

- scaling images

(in the next version: resizing, batch - not yet packaged for mdk)

- and TADA: creating web galleries with just lovely templates :D - and you can add new customized themes/templates.

I need these 4 things to create very easily a web gallery, and it comes in one software. Background: since we got a digital camera, my partner wants me to set the pics on our website, for friends and family, and such a digi cam produces a lot of pic's, believe me :roll:

Of course gthumb has more features, thumbnails, editing files, manipulating images ...

Nice GUI too. Gnome 2.2.

Next week I'll go looking for a card reader, so I don't have to boot Windows. Any suggestions? Is an Apacer 6 in 1 known as working with Mandrake 9.1?

I have been waiting for a good replacement for window's ACDsee photo browser and thought this would be it someday. I would like to see thumbs of all images (jpg, gif, psd, etc), click for preview, and be able to easily sort to other folders.

PP does all this - and more. Three windows on the screen: folders (like konqueror) - thumbnails - preview. The thumbnails with a right-click menu to organize and edit the files...

It's worth trying. If there was not this problem: mimetypes, so you can't convert images (also batch converting), I'd say: wonderful. If someone knows a solution for it, please let me know. I guess it's something in the kde control centre, editing mime types?

Hi all,

just wanted to let you know that I found a VERY nice software for:

- creating html web galleries

- slideshows

- thumbnails

- editing fotos, alot of different effects

- and more.

It's PixiePlus 0.5.4 (KDE), packed for mandrake by a volunteer, you'll find the rpm in /contrib.

I have not tested all features, but the web gallery is exactly what I was looking for: it comes with a few templates, which you can easily change, no need of html stuff knowledge.

The effects and editing function are comparable with Paint Shop Pro. Take a look at the web site:

http://www.mosfet.org/pixie/

There you'll find the one problematic point - because of the special KDE implementation in MDK, the mimetypes are broken, so the 'converting' of images doesn't work, at least not out of the box. And you can read that Mandrake does not package PixiePlus officially because 'they got no time'.And after installing, you have to run menudrake to get an entry in your menus ( an easy one).

I am glad that I've found PP, because Kalbum was not very usefull for me. And I ran Windows to create easily a web gallery.

Sorry, can't help you here any further.