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Thanks, qnr. I tried your suggestions, but with no success; however, you sent me on the right path. This is what I did: I right-clicked on the generic icon ->properties ->, then clicked on "Icon". In the "Browse Icons" dialogue box, I clicked on Browsel... I went to forward slash, then under Folders, clicked on /usr/, then /share/ , then /pixmaps. I scrolled the files untils I found "gnome-screenshot.png". Then clicked OK. Well, guess what? The "gnome-screenshot.png" sent me back to the Browse icons, where you see the icons to choose from. I just now discovered that the icon *does* appear in the long list of icons. The camera is so small in the list of icons, I overlooked it. (No longer a "spring chicken" and eyesight must be going he-he!) Thanks for your help! Richard

Thanks everybody! Unfortunately, pressing the Print Screen button does absolutely nothing. :? I appreciate the time you took for the research, exroller and appreciate you comments. I found bvc's suggestion to the be handiest. However, I wanted to add the "Camera" icon (like you see in the drop-down "Action" menu.) I Under properties I selected "Select Custom Icon..." and was surprised that it wasn't listed there since it is a default gnome icon. All the rest of the functional gnome icons are there, as well as many "nonfunctinal" ones (i.e. "useless, silly" onesl--even worse than the Coke can, but I'm trying to be nice by saying "nonfunctional"), but the Camera icon is missing. It was not one of the icons in the list. I'm sure it's located somewhere. Is there an easy way to find it so that I can use it? Thanks again for everyone's help! Cheers, Richard L.

I have configured Gnome 2.0 in Mandrake 9.0 with no menu panel at the top. (The top menu panel contains Action -> Screenshots icon). Instead, I have created an edge panel at the bottom where I've placed the Gnome menu along with various shortcut icons/launchers to programs. This is similar to the default look of Gnome in Red Hat 8.0. The Gnome menu of Red Hat 8.0 contains the screenshot icon when you open it; however, this must not be a default since the Gnome menu that I added to the bottom panel does not. How do I add this shortcut icon either to the panel or in the Gnome menu? (NOTE: I'm aware that I can use the run command: gnome-panel-screenshot, but sometimes I'm lazy and just want to click on an icon to take the screenhot.) Thanks! Richard L.

Well, gg4, can you provide us the link here, please? Thanks, Richard L.

Thanks for the tips, c_m_f! Cheers, Richard L.

Thanks, c_m_f! *Do you know if this third party menu will allow me to make keyboard shortcuts to launch applications and programs?* If it does, then I will download it. It looks very logical. Whenever I switch back in Mandrake to the KDE style menu to do this, then save it, logout, login, return to Menudrake, and save, I get a crash notification that KDE style menu has crashed and therefore I can't use the keyboard shortcuts that I've just made to launch programs. I switch back to MenuDrake because the Mandrake Menu has all the applications in the Menu (such as various terminals, etc.) that don't show up in the KDE Menu...Mandrake has left it barren. I guess I will have to figure out how to find all the apps that are in the Mandrake Menu and try to figure out how to add them to the KDE Menu. Ugh!!! Or else, do without keyboard shortcuts to launch applications (which is faster than picking up the mouse and clicking.) Luckily the Houston LUG meets every Wednesday evening, so maybe someone there can help me. If not, I'll be back to the forum. Thanks again! Richard L.

An unfortunate drawback in MenuDrake 9.0 for KDE 3.0 is that it doesn't allow you to make Keyboard shortcuts for applications and programs as the original KDE Menu Editor does in a simple fashion. As a newbie, I found it complicated to use Menu Style, choose Original Menu Editor, to make the keyboard shortcuts. When I did so, it disabled some of my icons on my panel (changing them to cogwheels and unworkable) and gave only the KDE start menu, leaving out added programs from Mandrake (yes...I'm aware of the warning). I was finally able to switch back to MenuDrake, activate my panel icons, and get the Mandrake-style launch/start meu back through a lot of fumbling around . MenuDrake doesn't appear in the KDE start menu anywhere. I finally opened a run command and typed in "menudrake" to get it to come up and make changes. I had to log out without saving sessions a couple of times to get the Mandrake defaults back. I just wanted to state that Mandrake has the reputation of being a simple distro for beginners, but this was making something overly complicated that was simple in KDE to begin with.:x I hope this changes in 9.1 . :wink: Regards, Richard L.

I installed 1.3 yesterday. It was my first tar ever to successfully install (I'm a true point and clicker/newbie and did it with command lines as the instructions in the Read Me file said)! :D But if anyone else is a nontechie/newbie like me, I couldn't find the Read Me files before I actually downloaded the tar, so do this first *before* the download: make a directory called mozilla to which you will download it to first, and install it by command lines. My mistake was that I first downloaded it into my home directory, then I right-clicked and chose "Extract Here"....a big mistake since it scattered a bunch of files that were nonsense to me in my home directory :!: Well, mistakes are the fun part of learning Linux (he-he). I'll let someone else give the command for how to extract the file on a command line, since I don't quite remember it now. Regards, Richard L.

Hi, Pepse First off, see if there is an icon for opera in your KDE launch menu as follows: 1. left click on the K (launch/start menu button, bottom left) 2. move cursor to Networking ->Internet....and see if an Opera icon might already be there. I think when I first installed Opera 1.1 that Opera automatically placed an icon there in the menu, but I might be incorrect. If it's there, then left-click and hold it to drag to the desktop. You'll be given an option to Move, Link, or Copy. Choose Copy and a shortcut icon will appear on your desktop. If the icon is *not* in your start menu under Networking ->Internet, then the following steps will help you to create one on your desktop: 1. rt. click on desktop ->Create New...->left click on Link to Application. 2. In the Properties box you will see a field with "Link to Application" highlighted to the right of a cog wheel. If needed, highlight it and type Opera to replace it. In a few steps, we'll come back to the General tab and create the Opera icon. But for now, go on to the next step: 3.Click on the Execute tab and in the Command field type: soundwrapper /usr/bin/opera note the space between soundwrapper and the first forward slash. Be sure to keep it all lowercase as Linux is case sensitive. 4. Now click back on the General tab, then left click on the cog wheel icon. You'll get a "Select Icon" dialog box. Make sure the System Icons radio button is activated. Wait a few seconds for all the icons to appear in the wide field below. 5. Scroll through all the icons until you see two for Opera. Left click on the icon you prefer and you'll be brought back to the Properties for Opera -KDesktop window. Click OK and you will see the icon on your desktop. Now is also want it on your panel: Left click and drag the desktop icon to the panel and drop it there. It will automatically make a copy on your panel. To move it on your panel to where you wish it to be located, right-click on the panel icon and choose Move. Move your cursor to the proper location on the panel, then click to leave it in that spot. I am a newbie and nontechie to linux and Mandrake -- a pure point-and-clicker Gui person. I know my instructions are very basic for the real beginner, but these are the kinds of instructions that help me, and perhaps others who are coming from Windows that may read this post. I hope that you don't feel condescended to by the precise manner that I have written them, as I don't know your Linux/Mandrake skill level. Please post back to let us know your success. You're the first person I have tempted to help with Linux and Mandrake. I hope this has been useful. Sincerely, Richard L.

Thanks mtweidmann and onurb. l. First off, I need the desktop icons for other family members who are used to Windows and that's their style for shortcuts (they don't like going into the menu and searching for things nor do they care for multiple panels); otherwise I'd just go ahead and delete them and add more to panels. 2. How do you use hot-keys to launch programs, onurb??? 3. What website do I go to in order to update KDE? 4. If I update it, would I have to reconfigure everything all over again: panel, wallpapers, files, desktop icons? If that is the case, it wouldn't be worth it since I've gotten everything like I want it for now. I appreciate your responses....thanks! Richard L.

I have Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop. Sometimes I prefer not having my desktop icons show on the destkop, particularly if they get in the way of my wallpaper, so I right-click the desktop and choose "Configure desktop....", then I uncheck (untick) Enable Desktop Icons. There seems to be a bug in Mandrake's KDE 3.0 of version MDK 9.0. After I hide the icons by disenabling them, the cursor changes to the watch and is stuck as such. It only becomes a pointer if I move it to the panel. Then, if I switch to different virtual desktops with the pager, the wallpapers, which are scenic photos, get all messed up and the pager goes berzerk. (Each of the four virtual desktops has a different wallpaper). Because the desktop becomes unstable, I have to re-check Enable Desktop Icons. This behavior is only happening in Mandrake 9.0. On my desktop computer, I unfortunately had to put RedHat 8.0 (Mandrake couldn't recognize the CD-Rom drive for the install). Hiding/Disenabling Desktiop icons in KDE 3.0 of RedHat works just fine. Can anyone help me with a solution. In advance, Thanks! Richard L.

I totally agree with phunni. It looks just like Windows ME. If you want a really friendly "WindowsXP" look with KDE, look at the screenshots for Lycoris at their website. Also, Xandros has blended nicely their KDE with some "Windows" look and feel. I have Xandros, but got rid of the "Windows" look since I'm a linux-nontechie, point and click, newbie, but am bored with the WinXP look and experience. Have Mandrake 9.0 on a laptop, but not fully functional yet (sound and wireless card). I'm starting to learn a little about using the Konsole and command lines now. Cheers, Richard L.

I finally got the video worked out last week. I downloaded the two files and burned them to a CD-R in WinXP. Then with the help of a mandrake user in my area, I was able to get the video and GUI working. We also got the external floppy to work. We're now working on other things and will post in the proper places on the forum if I need any further help. Thanks again...this is a great forum! Sincerely, Richard L.

Thanks Pzatch for your immediate reply. I installed late at night (and tired...big mistake), so when I got to the video options and they didn't work, I mistakenly clicked to go on to graphical login...wished now I had defaulted into text login. Well, this morning I figured out that I could get a text login by pressing CTRL + ALT +F1 (I think that is what I did). Anyway, I wasn't sure if I needed to be root or not. I typed in su and my password. Unfortunately, due to my lack of experience, there were too many options for me to choose for everything and I didn't want to mess up my setup any further, so I canceled out before I got to the very end. I went to the laptop website for linux and it seems that this laptop (Toshiba 5005-S504 and -S507) need to download a driver. Don't know how to do that in text mode. Should I download the driver by getting on the internet on my desktop and putting it onto a floppy??? I've never done any of this in Linux, being a newbie, but could do it in Windows XP. Thanks again! Richard L.

I've just installed Mandrake 9.0 onto my Toshiba Satellite 5005-S507 (allotted 9 gigs for MDK out of the 40 gigs, used Partition Magic 8.0. Machine also has WinXPHome). This computer came out a little over a year ago. The screen is 15-inch, UXGA: 1,600 x 1,200. The video card is a GeForce4 440 Go. I wasn't able to successfully set up the video. After installation, the screen is all garbled. If I need to download some kind of a Linux driver for the card, how do I do it when I can't get into X windows? (I'm a non-techie Newbie and don't know anything about text prompts or command lines, but willing to learn if steps are made simple). Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Richard L.