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Mandrake 10 - The Definitive Guide.

I bought the one for 9.1. About half the book covers KDE and the apps.

The rest covers consol, filestructure, linux in general. Perfect book!

Around 500 pages in total, in a nice pocket-book size.

KDE 3.2 on my main PC, mainly because it's got enough power to run it flawlessly, and because my girlfriend also use this computer.

On my second computer, I run Fluxbox, have only run it for two weeks, so I'm guite new to it. So far I just love it on this low-spec laptop.

I have installed Fluxbox on my main PC and I may convert to it completely after a while... I'm not sure yet.

it is hard to distinguish the outline of the boxes. Maybe you could give certain boxes a different color or make use of background images. The borders should certainly a bit more accentuated.

I have no problem with the boxes or borders here, but I have a very good LCD-laptop-monitor, on for example a darker and possibly more blury CRT I can imagine the boxes will be difficult to see (not saying that any of you guys have that :o ).

I have a question in the same alley...

I have a laptop (266Mhz, 128RAM, 6GB disk) running Fedora Core 1 with Fluxbox. This runs quite smoothly today.

Will I notice any difference installing MDK10 with Fluxbox? Will it run better/worse? I'm espesially thinking about kernel 2.6 vs 2.4 ?

method 2 (GUI). if you want to do a symlink (preferred method) via GUI, open Konqueror file manager, go to file in the top menu bar (it might be edit......i'm at work so i'm going by memory), select "create new", then "file", then select "link to application", browse to the executable you want to link, click "ok"/"apply".

Thanks, this metod worked perfectly!

knows of a way to check batter status from the command line.....

apm

I've set up my laptop with Torsmo, stripped down to only monitor the battery status (updated every 60 seconds so I don't pull the counter unnessesary much). Scrennshot of it here.

I've been google'ing a while now, trying to find out how I can set current apps to start automaticly when I log into KDE. Maybe it's just me being dumb today, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for, so I'll take my chances and ask the stupid question here.

The closest I think I got was this:

on KDE, just dump a symplink in ~/.kde/Autostart

Is this correct, and what is a symplink?

What I want to start is Torsmo and KSmoothDock.

Yesterday I finally understood Fluxbox on my old low-spec laptop... and it's sooo fast. I need to learn more!

Anyone know of any good links on howto's and clues on fluxbox? (besides the official site...)

Quick question.

The best way to upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9 ?

I have 0.8 on both my Fedora and MDK install, and haven't dared to upgrade yet because I used forever to get mplayer/flash/java to work...

What I have done, is to put a 3Com Wireless DSL Gateway between my ADSL modem and my PC's. This way I don't have to worry about my ADSL modem, the 3Com-box takes care of that...

Yes, Samba is on the CD's or if you have an FTP-install, just urpmi for it. In addition, I can recomend installing KDESambaplugin to get a GUI for configuration.

The stupid thing with KDESambaplugin is that you need to be root, to avoid loging in, I've run this command as root from console: kcmshell kcmsambaconf.

There must be an easier way to start an application as root?

You'll then want to create a symlink (probably something like /dev/pilot) to whatever get's created in dev when you plug your device in

How do I do that?

I know the USB-port works, I use the same port for my USB-stick.

I'll take a look at Jpilot, but I shold get the /dev/pilot to work first, right !?

I just bought an Palm Tungsten W. Having some problems getting Mandrake 10.0 /Kpilot to discover it. Any tips or links to howto's ?

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no, just nice to have to share with other or if you have to reinstall......unless you enjoyed the netinstall.

I actually found the network-install quite painless.

Works just like gkrellm - no temps.

Same here, no network traffic either...

but I still like it, this may be a stupid question, I run it under KDE 3.2, how do I get it to start up each time I log in?

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Didn't help. Any other suggestions?

I run 2.6 on my Shuttle (nForce2), and it finally runs smooth... didn't with 2.4.

All hardware was detected "out of the box". Nvidia drivers was quite easy to install. The newest one is compatible with 2.6, just download it from: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...2_1.0-5336.html

Just make sure there are no partitions active on the disk you want to install MDK on, and the install-app will do everything for you. It will ask if it should use the free space to partition and install linux on, then it will ask what apps, etc. you want to install, install'em and then at the end you have the option to change the boot sequence. Just make sure you see "windows" there.

Then when you boot, you can see that you can choose between linux and windows. No problem

Yep its on the madrake mirrors I guess but remember the DL edition doesnt have the USB key.....

Well according to MandrakeSoft it doesn't, but I can confirm that it works...

Although, I like Knoppix better as a Live CD. More HW support.

BTW: Has MandrakeMove come with 10 ? Haven't seen any info on that.

I have this USB Otical wireless Logitech FX Trackman:

This trackman has 4 buttons. Back in Mandrake 9.2 I could use hold down the middle button "scroll" by rolling the ball at the same time, but I can't get this to work in Mandrake 10.

If I choose anything else than "any PS2/USB mouse", the mouse stops working.

The button way out left work as a middle button in Firefox, but scrolling does not. The actual middle button doesn't work at all...

Any of you guys know what to do?

It does however have one disadvantage, it doesnt draw over nautilus in GNOME. So if you use GNOME you either have to disable nautilus' desktop drawing with the instructions at the torsmo site or dont use GNOME

Alright, this looks just like what I've been looking for... but, what does it mean that you "have to disable nautilus' desktop drawing" ? Does that mean no wallpaper? How do I disable nautilus' desktop drawing and what is the consequence?

Thats sounds ominous to me, have you just re-installed the OS, but kept your /home?

Nope, this is a clean install from scratch... I haven't started importing stuff from my old harddrive yet...

Have you try to dele your user settings, i dont't where they are sitting but probally something like /home/you/.thunderbird

Thanks !nkubus, you gave me a good hint.

The problem was that by some strange reason, that I didn't have read/write privileges the folder /home/users/.thunderbird.

So a fast chown -R user .thunderbird as root fixed the problem... thanks!

I hope your not trying to install over an old copy are you? if so thats your problem.

Don't worry, my old mail is safely stored somewhere else ;)

This is a clean install. I just reinstalled everything saturday night... well, if no-one have any good ideas, I guess I just have to use Opera M2 for now and hope that I find this out one day...

Well, I haven't been able to start Thunderbird, so it's not configured...

No messages in console what so ever, it's like this:

#user@machine: ./thunderbird
#user@machine:

Nothing... absolutely nothing...