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Thanks, Mhn. Now that you mention it, neither can find smart. I'm going to boot to 2007 again to check on something else, so I'll try running urpmi just with contrib (if that's possible) and perhaps try any other tricks I can think of. Can anyone suggest some switches and procedures I could use? I've tried --fuzzy, --auto, --more-choices and --test (I added the last after urpmi installed smartmontools when I tried to install smart). I am very disappointed with Mandriva 2007, especially after the favourable reviews. It's probably going to be some time next year before it's fit to use. I'm still not persuaded that a financial outlay of the magnitude sought by Mandy is worth making for, in effect, about 6 months' optimum use.

Thanks, dexter11. I've already done all that, of course. Urpmi could not find smart. I've now looked in a mirror using the browser and I can find it, so I do not understand why urpmi can't. Ah, well. I may wait until bittorrent becomes available on 2007, anyway. A kde application which I use a lot is broken as well.

I've got the code to use for adding sources to Smart but this useless urpmi tool cannot find any software called Smart (except for smartmontools, which I now have installed whether I want it or not, thanks to urpmi). How do I get Smart? I think I may have reached the end of my tether with Mandriva. It cannot install Bittorrent of all things because something called "python-twisted-web" is not available. Why bother releasing an OS which cannot carry bittorrent?

Greetings. I have a hyperlink in an OpenOffice spreadsheet to a .wav file. On Windows and Linux (non-kde), the hyperlink results in the .wav file playing or a player being opened. I'm not sure which but users of each tell me that the hyperlink works. In Kde (Mandriva 2006), Konqueror sticks its beak in, then crashes. Backtrace is: This is one of those cases where clicking on links which have nothing to do with the file browser provokes an unhelpful response from Konqueror. Can anyone suggest a remedy? I've tried adding %u to the command line in file associations and selecting "Use embedded viewer" to no available. The %u string keeps disappearing, of course, into the black hole of Kde settings.

I'm not game enough (any more) to update Kde. It causes too many problems. I still have 3.4.2 and I think the file you want is /etc/sysconfig/i18n Changing the language in that file worked for me.

I'm disappointed. I wish they'd get rid of that dopey Penguin. If they're going to have a penguin, why not a masterful, intelligent-looking one, like me? I'll continue using my plain screen. The only parts of the desktop I use, except for logging out, are the panels.

Is the figure a percentage and, if so, a percentage of what? Please don't tell me to read the fine manual (in Linux that means the internet):

Thanks, all. The previous thread provided the answer. I renamed the folder containing those messages to mail.bad Now that I think about it, I actually tried a different method previously. I deleted a subfolder of "inbox" called "cur". Not a good idea. A mental block stopped me disposing of the mail files - I thought I had already tried that. I did search the forum but evidently used the wrong keywords. In charity towards Mandriva, I'll now think of it as more carelessness on their part rather than commercial crassness. B)

Well, this is a worry. I've just checked my /etc/sysctl.conf and "swappiness" is not even mentioned. :huh:

This irritating piece of advertising stops me using Kmail. I managed to get rid of it in the 2005 version but I cannot find the secret for the 2006 version. Whenever I launch Kmail, a very unwelcome "welcome to mandriva" message appears in the inbox. Not to mince words, it is spam and it shows how out of touch the people now running Mandriva are if they think this kind of nonsense is in the least persuasive. The message is regenerated somehow. Deleting the source document results in an error message. Is there some alteration I can make to a shell script or some other document to stop this "message" appearing?

Nope. Not a peep. I've now tried three methods all put forward and implemented by users of other distros: 1. Placed a symlink in ~/.kde/Autostart. No go. Mentioned at length in the .xsession-errors file. 2. Placed a script named .xinitrc in the user home folder. No response. Not a mention in .xsession-errors. 3. Placed a script in the same terms but named .startTorrent in ~/.kde/Autostart. Again, no reponse and no mention in .xsession-errors. This is the content of both scripts: I'd appreciate other suggestions. EDIT: bittorrent started after I changed permissions of the script to rwx rx rx

Thanks, scarecrow. I seem to have followed at least one of the suggestions in the Gentoo wiki. I placed the symlink for bittorrent in that location and it generated the content quoted from the .xsession-errors file. The programme is opened from a menu command without error message. That mirrors the script I've written. I'll try placing the script in Autostart and report back. Thanks again for the reference.

There seems to be no recent thread on this subject and a dearth of information generally. Gnome evidently has a gui command for adding startup files but kde seems unable to cope with the concept. I want bittorrent to start when I logon because it's only seeding and I can forget to open it. I've tried adding a symlink to /~/.kde/Autostart but it does not work. It occurred to me today to look at the .xsession-errors file and, lo, this: Odd that kde should look in the Autostart folder for an icon. Any ideas, anyone?

I've been using the Mandriva Control Centre. That applies to system-wide menu changes. The right-click on the menu icon gets an editor to make user menu changes, which is the equivalent of System >Configuration >Other >MenuDrake. What I have found is that you cannot permanently remove or move or change any of the Default settings in the system-wide menu. You can, however, add to that menu. Similarly, you can add to the user menu, which incorporates the system menu. If I want to add to or repair anything on a system-wide basis I use the MCC first (system menu). Saving that also corrects or adds to the root menu but the reverse does not. After making any changes to the system menu, I open Midnight Commander, and copy the file named "added by menudrake" to a safe place because it will be destroyed by the next step. That file contains additions which I've made to my user menu. The file is in /~/.menu. Having backed up that file, I open the user menu editor and use File >Reload System Menu and save. I then copy the "added by menudrake" file back, overwriting the new file which has been written in its place. Then I use the command File >Reload System Config and save. Hey presto, I have my user submenu back and the changes made to the system menu have also been incorporated.