LukeK

Awright I've succumbed to the lame "Halloween/Autumn" spirit and have semi themed my PC accordingly. Here is my non nominated, semi ugly screenie: Oct Screenie Numero Dos!

Dolson wins.

I recommend you take a look at other programs, such as xbindkeys. That'll take care of creating the shortcuts you're looking for.

Nominated Screenshot: Fluxbox, xorg 6.8.0 that sort o' thing. Nothing especially fancy. Oct Screenshot

I'm also running Gentoo with Xorg 6.8.0. I'm very pleased with the look of things though random program stability with xcompmgr running is less than satisfactory. (edit: btw I put a screenie of mine up a few days ago in the "Show off your desktop" thread.)

Just a little something showing off my fake OSX desktop. Gotta love x.org 6.8.0. Right now it has some bugs with Gnome that bother me, but it's sooo purrrtttyy. :woops: (Oh, running Gnome 2.7.4 btw and it seems pretty nice so far!)

I'm developing bvc syndrome -- I've changed my theme 3 times today. Here's the newest one, pretty much the same screenshot as before (hah) just different kuhllers.

Well I know you guys just can't get enough of these BBX Mercury-L screenshots, so here's another! By the by, bvc, great job on the port -- you've done a very thorough job! Programs open: gimp, gaim, xchat, gkrellm, xmms (with the OSD plugin, which I lurve) Without further ado, here is BVC's mercury in all it's crappy .jpg compression glory. (Gentoo 2.6.7, w/ Gnome 2.6)

I started out on Linux about 8 or 9 months ago with Mandrake 9.1. Actually -- originally I installed mandrake 8.2 when I first built my computer, but ended up erasing it and starting fresh with XP. It took me quite a while to give Linux another chance. I enjoyed Mandrake very much, though I was faced with some annoying bugginess at times. Also mandrake + gdesklets = an impossibility for my system. I was getting sick of descending into dep hell everytime I tried to compile or install certain programs and thus I tried Debian. I used Knoppix to install to my hard drive -- simple! So far I'm very much enjoying Debian. Apt-get is an excellent packaging method and like bvc said, it just works. While the Knoppix installation was simple, the lack of a program like mcc has forced me to learn a bit more about getting around in Linux and that is always a good thing.

Throughout the past week or two I had been reading the posts around this forum and others lately about how you can get a Debian installation by using the Knoppix cd, changing your sources and updating. Sounds simple enough right? Perhaps for the normal user, but I -- I am no normal user. (I had Mandrake 9.1 before this little excursion began) A few days ago I downloaded the Knoppix .iso which I burned (v.3.3) (obviously) to a cd-r. I gleefully installed Knoppix this afternoon only to find out that it's nearly impossible to get Gnome working under Knoppix. I apt-got virtually every Gnome component and requirement I could think of but still about half of the Gnome programs were MIA (SF of #musb informed me that I probably shouldn't even try at that method anymore). So...with a slightly less cheerful attitude, I turn to Gnoppix. Suffering through 100kbps downloads, I finally finish the download and burn the cd. Woohoo, looks to be working...right......right? While it does work as a live cd, I was slightly less impressed with the neverending errors I encountered when I attempted to install it to my hard drive. Crap. By now I'm more than a bit frustrated. I've tried multiple methods to try to get the hard drive installation to work, but still no dice. Continuing on I decide to try my luck at the regular Debian installation (hah yeah right, not with my luck) only to find that there are 7 cds of .iso files. Sooooooo I turn to the excellent, friendly folks at Mandrake Users. I don't think I'm hoping for too much when I say I'd like a Debian distribution running Gnome am I? Ok so I'm mostly venting here but I am very much wondering how I can get Gnome + Debian working. Any suggestions before I don the straight jacket and download all 7 iso files? Or perhaps is there a different distribution that's compiling friendly and will run Gnome without a fuss? Thanks very much!

Just thought I'd comment -- I'm using mozilla firefox (firebird) with pipelining enabled and the initial delay disabled (both user.js modifications) and it's for sure faster than windows.

Thanks for those commands bvc, the panel and the keyboard shortcuts now work as they should. No dice on the skin though, still doesn't want to show up black like it should. :shrug: Thanks again guys.

Thanks for the replies guys. I saw that Leech indeed required the pixmap engine so I checked before I downloaded it -- I have both gtk1.2 and 2 engines installed (which include pixmap). I also checked to make sure mandrake galaxy was not running, which it wasn't. :shrug: On my second problem, I just checked to see if the gnome-panel program was installed and my package removal program indeed reports that it is installed(though a search for that filename doesn't produce any results either). Any other ideas? Thanks again, Luke

Hello, I've got a quick question about an issue I have with dark themes in Gnome 2.4. I just recently downloaded a controls theme called Leech from art.gnome.org. It's a dark theme that's almost entirely black. Anyhow I installed it correctly but when I went to use it as my controls theme, some of the icons change but nothing is black like it should be. All the windows are white as normal, but a few of the window icons have changed. I wonder if any of you guys might have a suggestion as to why it will not use the proper colors. And while I've got a thread started I might as well ask this question also: Under Start Here->Desktop Preferences->Advanced, there is an icon/program called Panel (allegedly located at /usr/bin/gnome-panel-preferences). Whenever I double click, I receive an error message stating that the intended file does not exist. It also appears that my Keyboard Shortcuts program (gnome-keybiding-properties) is also MIA. Shouldn't these programs have been installed upon mandrake setup or am I missing a package of some sort? Thanks a lot, I appreciate the help! Luke

I'm not exactly sure what I was thinking. I could have sworn I had setup a temporary network before with only a switch (using the internet) but I must be going absolutely crazy. I will certainly try again after we've finished repairing his smoothwall machine. Thanks again, I appreciate the help greatly!

Sorry for the ambiguity. When speaking of networks not working I meant the internet and all network connectivity would not work. No samba, no internet, no ping, basically nothing. I'm not getting an IP either. I have no router hooked up (had problems with an old 486 that I was originally running smoothwall on) though I've had that setup for quite a while and it has worked fine. The network goes from the cable modem, to the switch, to two computers (one XP and the other mandrake 9.2). I realize there's not much info that I've given you but any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Luke

Hello, I'm setting up Mandrake Linux at a friend's house and have encountered some problems in setting up the network(Lan and cable internet). On my mandrake linux system it all configured automatically quite nicely. On his I can't seem to get it to work. I've got it hooked up to the onboard NIC which goes on to a 8 port gigafast switch and then to the other computers and the modem. I've attempted to configure the network using MCC but haven't had any luck, despite trying virtually everything I can think of. What might be causing the problems? Thanks for your time, Luke

Hello folks, I just recently purchased the TB Santa Cruz sound card (cirrus logic chipset) and have encountered a small problem with installation. I have been following orders/directions on the alsa site (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Turtle+Beach&card=Santa+Cruz&chip=CS4630&module=cs46xx) and have successfully ./configured, made and make installed the drivers. I then continue to run the 'modprobe' command to, as alsa states it, 'insert the modules into the kernel.' Upon execution of that command I end up with the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.o: unresolved symbol snd_compat_strlcpy There are about 8 consecutive errors just like that, each naming different components that are unresolved. I've read a few websites pertaining to this problem but so far none of the solutions I've read/tried have had any effect. Might you you have any advice? Thanks for your time, Luke K

Now this is strange. I logged in using the linux 3 thing that Steve mentioned and checked out the .xsession file. This of course had data about my last KDE startup and not Gnome so I returned to the regular login screen and attempted to boot into Gnome to duplicate the errors. For some strange reason it just starts right up. No problems at all. The only noticeable difference is that some random icons on one of my taskbars are gone. Not sure what happened but it appears to be working as of now. Thanks for the help guys.

Thanks for the suggestions Steve. I know it's not a hardware problem because I can easily boot into KDE or Windows without any problems. I'll go check those logs here in a little while.

Hello all, Today I fired up the ol' computer and attempted to boot into Gnome. The loading screen came up and a few of my programs also came up as it restored my last session. However, 3-4 seconds into the process, it goes to the blackscreen, shuts everything down, and reboots the system. I didn't do anything strange on the last shutdown, I simply used the normal command as root in the console: shutdown -h now It repeats this process every time I try to boot into Gnome. What could be the problem? Thanks for your time, Luke K

Sarah -- sorry, I neglected to mention that I have indeed logged out and back in. Also from what I could tell from the config files, they were looking in the exact place that qt3 was installed. I could be in error on that one though. Bvc -- I decided to try out Gnome and see how I liked it. I found a Gnome replacement for the program I was looking to install in KDE and everything worked out well there. If you folks will forgive me for changing the topic, I have a question about compilation and installation errors in Gnome. When attempting to install a program by .rpm I receive an error message regarding missing dependencies. The original program says it is missing the following programs: gnome-python gnome-python-gconf So I go to rpmfind and download the two dependencies. After installing gnome_python_2.0.0 I move onto gnome-python-gconf This installation gives me errors saying python_base2.3 is missing. SO off to rpmfind I go to download the missing program and also to the python site to download the source, in case. I compiled and installed the source code first but this yields no difference, the gconf rpm still reports it missing. I then install the python_base2.3 rpm and it asks to remove: libeel2_2-devel... libglade2.0_0devel libnautilus libpython python-2.2.2-6mdk I said yes and it proceeded. From there I go back to gnome-python-gconf.rpm and install that (which finally installs correctly). I then return to the original program file and re-attempt to install. It reports that gnome-python is still missing despite the fact that I (apparently) installed it without problems by .rpm. I uninstall the rpm and go find the source code for gnome-python. Compilation errors say I'm missing the headers for python. So I return yet again and find the rpms for the python headers (regular and devel). The regular libpython installs correctly but the devel package goes off on a bunny trail of missing dependencies. So here I am, after going through that process a couple of times and trying various other things. Thank you VERY much for your time and advice. Luke K

Thanks for the replies guys. Yes I have installed lib-qt3dev. In fact there are no other devel packages associated with qt3 that I have not installed. Qt3 and all of the components you mentioned, bvc, are installed at the paths you gave. The filenames that resulted from the urpmf command were slightly different due to varying versions (and I also didn't come up with a libqt-mt.la). It seems as though everything is installed where it's supposed to be. Anything else I might try? Thanks again! Luke K

Hello all, I have a quick question. When installing programs, I've come across the need to compile and install them myself. Whenever I run the ./configure command on virtually any program, it starts going through the normal steps but then stops when it reaches the part where it checks for Qt. It prints out the following error: Checking for Qt...configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! I have installed Qt 3.1.1-13 and virtually every other supporting package that it might need. From the very little that I read/know about makefiles, it looks like it is searching in the right directory for Qt. On google it appears that this error comes up often yet none of the solutions online that I have read (and understood) have worked. I appreciate any advice you folks might be able to give. Thanks for your time, Luke K