Chris H

Ta for the likely explanation.

I'll go xchat, used it before so no issues there.

Just tried to add an IRC account to Kopete but there doesn't seem to be any mention of IRC in the Kopete I'm using.

Kopete 0.60.3

Any ideas?

Have a quick install of task-xfce and see if it asks you.

If it doesn't make a difference then Mandriva needs to hook it out of the process.

You can open a terminal and run

rpm -qa | grep -i mandriva-release

and it will show you the release version, and a common file that you can disregard.

Cheers, turns out it was One.

Umm... let me guess. The one you have installed, probably?

If you don't know what you've installed, then you (most probably) have made a mistake...

It's not really OUR task to know what you've installed... you should know.

It was installed from a cover CD, no longer have it so no idea whether it was free or one. However, rpmdrake asks this question on a number of meta packages during installation. I would've thought that rpmdrake would've been able to sniff it out without asking questions which could throw people. Someone not familiar with Linux/Mandriva may simply walk away rather than take the risk of choosing the wrong answer with unknown consequences.

If you are a KDE user, the menu opened by clicking on the star in the taskbar is labeled with "free" or "one".

Ta for reply but it's KDE 4 and there doesn't seem to be a Mandriva branded launcher, just KDE or Lancelot.

Wanting to install some software and it's asking me to select which version I'm using, sort of thing?

Flash

One

Free

Powerpack

Can't remember what I've installed except that it was off Linuxformat uk.

Any ideas how to work out which version?

Ta

No. Only the "Add to favorites" choice.

Which is what I have.

Odd how so different people's instalations are regarding kde4.

Foxmarks add on has the ability to sync passwords across installations. May be possible across profiles?

Have always set my encryption on my router to WEP cos it works.

But with the state of wifi connectivity on linux today should I be looking at something else?

My router has the option of:

None

WEP

WPA-PSK [TKIP]

WPA2-PSK [AES]

WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES]

Any I should be looking at?

Ta

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I can do drag & drop directly from lancelot...

 

What I do is this. First I unlock the widgets (I keep them locked usually). Then I find the app from lancelot menu and simply do a drag & drop to the panel (where I want).

 

If I want to move the application icons around in the panel, I'll simply click on the "gnome-foot" looking icon on the right and the panel is in settings mode. The alternative is to right click on the panel and choose "Panel settings". Then I can move the icons around and change the lay-out of the panel.

Interesting. I've tried both loced and unlockd widgets setting and the + sign on the dragged icon disppears when it gets over the toolbar.

Do you have the right-click add to desktop option in lancelot?

Do I smell a Stag Ian?

Open menu, find the program, rightclick and choose taskbar, panel or what it's called in english ;-)

I was using lancelot and that doesn't provide the option. Added the mandriva menu and I can just drag and drop so problem solved.

Cheers

Anyone remind me how to do it?

Managed to figure it on a previous installation but I've not figured it out this time.

Ta

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Just to add some info which may be useful.

Mandriva with KDE4 and to some extent XFCE has been leading to overheating and shutdown on my laptop. Gnome was the least likely of the desktops to cause this issue.

I have also noticed it with gOS, Dreamlinux, OpenGEU and other distros.

One thing they all had in common was the use of the ati graphics driver. This driver has come on in leaps and bounds recently and allowed me to operate compiz and all that flashy stuff without breaking.

What I did today was to do a fresh install of Mandriva One 2009 and use the fglrx driver instead of the ati driver. And lo and behold no more runaway processes or high cpu xorg processes!

Might help someone!

But I'd miss the community spirit!

Typical, spend ages searching, post and then find the answer!

system-printer-config

Fresh install of 2009.

No printerdrake installed.

Have installed task-printing and it's installed cups etc. Problem is that still no sign of printerdrake and the software for working with windows network printers is not installed.

Any ideas?

If I remember correctly the keystrokes ctrl-shift-keypadplus or keypadminus can scroll through available resolutions. Might be worth giving that a go and see if you can get a useable screen.

Still crashes for me. Create a style rule and....... boom!

Back to quanta I think until Kompozer gets sorted.

Ooh!

I get a pop-up window telling me this:

Amarok could not find any collection plugins. Amarok is now updating the KDE configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then restart Amarok.

If this does not help, it is likely that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:

$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/

$ su -c "make uninstall"

$ ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"

$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

$ amarok

More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.

Looks like it's broke.

I found a kompozer that wasn't selectable or something along those lines.

:unsure:

Will give it a go, thanks.

Thanks for the info!

Amarok 1.98, new look.

All been working well but for past few days it's not picking up any new music added to the hard drive. Even specifically selecting the music or folder still no joy.

Anyone come across this?

FWIW Rhythmbox and Exaile are picking the music up no problems.