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the brown they use is a bit too chocolaty for me...it makes me feel like i should be eating my screen. Aside from that I like the look, but I'd personally go with a color that doesn't look like it came out of a foil wrapper ;) - the baige [sic?] scheme on the other hand looks like something i might prefer.

The legality of libdvdcss has never been tested, however, one may be able to label it illegal in the US under the DMCA as a copyright circumvention technology. It's thought that libdvdcss is OK because of a certain section of the DMCA that allows such circumvention for software interoperability (it doesn't use a cracked key, just a list of known keys and then brute force when that fails). IANA, but it seems the issue hasn't really been tested - but some distributions avoid distributing it on their CD's (or at all) just to avoid run-in's with "johnny law". DeCSS, on the other hand, has been determined illegal in the US largely due to it's use of a cracked key. More Info (where I got my info): libdvdcss, decss

well, e17 still isn't considered stable - although I have used it and it is, in fact, usable - a lot of it's pieces still have their little issues and will crash from time to time. perhaps instead of engage you can try something like avant window navigator: https://launchpad.net/awn - I use this in GNOME and it's quite nice, I'm not sure if it works well in KDE but I imagine it does just fine.

actually, i may have been wrong...perhaps this might be the rpm you need.

To run engage you have to leave ecore installed, the core of enlightenment 17. I can't seem to find a good package anywhere, however...anyone know a place to find one?

Seriously? I personally hope that GNOME doesn't follow KDE4's lead, I'd rather they do their own thing, and do it their own way. I mean, that's why I use GNOME instead of KDE... (btw, dolphin? looks like nautilus to me)

I believe both yakuake (KDE) and tilda (GNOME) are activated by a key press, not by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen - but they both function in the way you want, appearing on key press (I think F12 for yakuake, I forget what it is for tilda) and disappearing when you press it again.

Konqueror will be there. It's still the web browser for KDE, and AFAIK they aren't going to remove the file browsing ability. However, Doplhin may be set as the default FM on a typical install.

I'm not fan of KDE, but KDE4 RC1 is certainly not a polished product and still has some pretty big issues. Also, there are a lot of changes between KDE4 and KDE3, so, you'll have to expect to learn a few new tricks, or relearn a few things. That being said, you may just not like the new design for KDE4, but that doesn't necessarily mean it sucks ;)

This is probably because Firefox is a GTK2 application, and when you logged into GNOME some default configs (regarding style, fonts, etc.) were generated.

Most likely (unless you tell the installer otherwise) the new install will overwrite the GRUB from the old, and you may (depending on the distro) have to re-add your Mandriva install to the new grub to be able to boot it.

glad you got this working

Depends on the wireless card, it may be easier than you think ;) (I'm not sure what card you have). Also, I'm going to move this over to laptops & portable devices since this is a laptop you're working on.

You know, I thought about it, but for some reason I dismissed it as the problem. But you're right, that's probably it.

Yes, I believe that is how the option is intended to work. There is always a chance of that anytime you resize a partition, no matter how you go about doing it. One way to try to minimize the chance (in my experience, the chance is quite small to begin with) is to defragment your Windows partition before resizing it. Making a backup of important data is always a good idea (really, you should do this on a regular basis anways). Yes, it should take care of that for you. Pretty much. From the XP cd fixmbr should do the trick, maybe with a fixboot to be sure. Also, booting the Mandriva CD into rescue mode should give you an option to restore the Windows bootloader. (fyi - I took a look at your other post, but did not have an answer...sorry :unsure:)

Right click on the toolbars and you should me able to modify their size or, if you'd prefer, remove any you don't want. As far as the crappy fonts in Firefox, this could be caused by several issues. My first suggestion would be to install the MS fonts - if you have a Windows install this should be simple, just go into Mandriva Control Center under fonts and you should be able to import them from windows (I know this was available in previous Mandriva versions, it may not be in 2008). Another is to go into Firefox's settings (Tools -> Options -> Content) and change the default font & size to something more easy on the eyes. If either of these suggestions don't resolve your issue, let us know and we'll see what other options there are.

Normally, to boot from an external hard drive, your BIOS has to support it - I believe this is true even if you are using a grub stored on an internal drive that connects to an external, because the BIOS has to recognize the external drive so that the boot loader can access it. I realize this is not really an answer, but simply some information...I have not experimented with booting from a USB drive, so I can not advise you on the specifics.

could you post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?

I've never used on-board, except on my laptop (no real choice there). But, I personally tend to stray from onboard components (except LAN) because they aren't easily replaced if they break; then again, you'd just end up getting an external anyways, if they did break - but disabling the onboard is sometimes tricky (though not usually). As far as whether or not they support 3D, that depends on what kind of card it is - some onboard have support, some don't.

I've used two different PCI-E video cards (one was a set of 7600's in SLI) and they have always worked fine for me (no differences between using them and AGP cards).

not all of them will work with wine. you can check the application database for compatibility: http://appdb.winehq.org/ there's also Cedega for running games, but thats pay-for.

the nvidia drivers should work fine for this card, and you shouldn't have any issues with trying out 3d desktop effects. that's not to say that 100% it will work no problems, but, I'd say 99.8%

To be fair, I've had this exact same thing happen in Windows on more than one occasion (and, actually, I've never had it happen in Linux). So, it's not just a Linux issue. Did you make sure you were root when you tried to delete the file?

what is /mnt/win_d? Is this a Windows partition? If so, what filesystem is it? edited after re-reading original post

Why? Installing it on the MBR won't harm windows, and it's a heck of a lot easier than messing with the BIOS when you want to boot a different OS. But, if this is really what you want to do, you'll probably have to modify the grub options towards the end of the installation to tell it to install to the MBR of the slave instead of the master drive. Mind better describing exactly how you're "stuck"? Do you not know what to do next? Are you having issues with the disk partitioning?