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tell the person who sent the email to adjust their monitor brightness/contrast.

 

it may also just be a problem with their monitor. the blue may appear darker on their screen than you would expect. this is something you have to be careful of in web design, and why light colours are more common as backgrounds for text.

Dual 22" widescreen ???

Dual 20" widescreen, actually. But close enough :D

 

(that's at work, I didn't pay for any of it of course. at home i only have one 20")

at home:

[click for larger - 1680x1050]

my work desktop...

 

busy:

clean:

click for VERY LARGE (3360x1050) versions

Funny thing is, that xorg.conf file that I posted above is the one from Sabayon, that this was working on.

*shrug*, everything I read seems to indicate that you twinview will always treat both monitors as one large desktop.

 

 

I wondered if I needed 2 monitor entries, though, and I'm not sure how it's going to work with both monitors being identical.

It shouldn't make a difference. You just might have to take a second to figure out which is monitor 0 and which is monitor 1, so that you can set the up correctly with rightof or leftof (i think those are the proper keywords) in your server layout.

 

I just remember trying to do this same thing years ago and I could not for the life of me get twinview to do it, and i finally figured out it's because what I wanted to do was not what twinview was intended to do.

I've yet to try it so I'm curious: what didn't you like about it?

Mainly the look and feel. The game is really old so the graphics are sub-par when compared to games that are even 2 years old. I didn't get too far into the game play because I just couldn't get past how ugly my screen looked while playing, same thing with Vanguard (though thats a newer game, but still ugly).

You need two have to entries in your xorg.conf, one for each monitor, and then configure server layout properly. you actually don't want twinview, as the point of twinview is to treat two monitors as one large screen.

 

Read this, and look at Appendix P of the nvidia README - that should get you started.

Think if I removed compiz fusion it would run faster?

Yes, disabling compiz will probably speed up the game.

tried it, didn't really like it. right now i'm playing Age of Conan mostly, though sometimes i log onto EQ2 and/or WoW. Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings Online I don't have to pay a monthly fee for, so I play them on and off.

Modem too?

Do the even put modems in laptops anymore? Or any computer... :unsure:

There was an update after spiny posted this:

India has now filed an appeal also. According to the PC World article by Peter Sayer, this is the first time ever there has been an appeal after a BRM process under ISO/JTC 1.

That brings the total number of appeals to 3.

Install gives you a very basic system which has only a handful of apps.

What do you expect? They only have about 700MB of space on the CD in which to put the applications, and most of the ones you would need right away are there. More than in a base install of Windows, and in some cases more than a base install of OS X even - I'm talking buy the cd, format you drive and do a clean install - most Mac's come with more software than is included on an OS X install disk that you would purchase from a store.

While many applications are available for download, If you are a beginner, you would not know about them.

How is this different from any other OS?

It's not unique to Mandriva, you can do that with any distro.

Yeah, that's a feature of the Desktop Environment (KDE, most likely) not of the distribution. That's something the KDE programmers would be responsible for.

I wonder, if I buy the Linux version, do I get access to the other two versions?

Did you guys bother reading before jumping on Mozilla?

 

This would gather anonymised data on a voluntary basis, and provide the analytical information for anyone who wanted it.

At most, it will be a checkbox during install to participate or not (probably off by default) and it's anonymised so it can't be linked back to you.

 

So...who cares? Mountain out of a mole hill...

 

More and more I find that the register just spreads FUD. I love the part about bugs in the "bloated browser" - because they totally couldn't use the same bugs to get the same information with this proposed future "feature"

 

you're on the internet. your web surfing habits aren't private. they never have been. get used to that fact. stop looking at pr0n.

I don't use Mandriva out of personal preference, but I would never feel ashamed to use it - and I don't think I've met someone who is. I have a couple friends who have actually been praising it since the latest release, which is new. Before they just considered it "Ok", and one was a PCLinuxOS fan at the time. Although, I think he's using Sidux now. They aren't the Arch Linux types, though :lol: - they prefer tools to config files.

Is there any software for virtualising CD or DVD iso????

for example Deamon tools in case of Windows......

it's built into the OS, as root:

mount -o loop cdimage.iso /mnt/dir

(cdimage.iso being your image file, /mnt/dir being whatever directory you want to mount it to)

I probably should have read the original post more carefully...

Windows applications can't be "supported by Linux", except through an "emulator", because they are made specifically for Windows (I could explain in more detail, but I'm unsure of your level of understanding? no offense intended). You could try using WINE, but not all applications will run that way, some you'll just have to do without. You should, however, look into Linux equivalents, as most common applications have an equivalent.

There's a tool in Mandriva's control center for setting up NDISWRAPPER, you just do it through the normal networking and select the right options IIRC (this will take care of modprobing and everything). I would go this route as Mandriva may have some weird way of doing things or you may be missing a step (I remember there being extra steps to setting up ndiswrapper). With a distribution like Mandriva it's almost always best to use the tools provided.

 

(if you DID use this tool, and thats where you got the "could not find module" error, then ignore me ;) )

OMG LIQUIDZOO! :blink: you scared me!!!

Firebug is a great tool for troubleshooting, but not really intended for development.

No, you do need to install gtk-qt-engine first then an option to change gtk themes will appear in kcontrol.

No, you don't need gtk-qt-engine to change GTK themes in KDE. The method I mentioned works fine without gtk-qt-engine, you just have to use the gnomes tools (which will be installed anyways - if they aren't already). The only advantages to gtk-qt-engine are that it puts the options in kcontrol, and it allows you to try and use your QT theme as the theme for GTK apps.

cheezy indeed...

run gnome-theme-manager (may have to install it but not likely) and select a different theme from those available. then, you'll need to add gnome-settings-daemon to KDE's autorun (to make it run at login, so the theme gets set). gtk-qt engine is used to attempt to make a GTK theme from your current QT theme. It's ok in some cases, but some themes just don't work. It does, IIRC, allow you to change the normal GTK theme from within the KDE Control Center (meaning you can turn off it's QT-to-GTK translation and just use a real GTK theme).