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  5. Change Gnome's default handler for files

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    http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.2/ch07s07.html

     

    what gnome? 2.8? 2.10? 2.12?

    in 2.12 you can then click Add> and Use custom command

     

    It will then be added to the list and can be made the default. Now what that does to a shortcut with file:// ....I don't know....I've never used another file manager in the recent gnome's... but probably nothing will happen, so rox will not know how to open it. I doubt you can change file:// w/o editing sources and compiling, which would be a nighmare.

  11. What does Linux want to be?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Gotta be root. Why?

    Because this restriction, while it might seem an annoyance at first, ensures a very sensible security policy. If you're running a browser on the internet, you're running as a user of the machine, not an administrator. If you want to install software, or change things in the machine's settings, you have to be an administrator (or know the password to become one). You only take on the role of administrator when you want to do administrative things, and when you're browsing you're a user.

    Ok, so you have to type a password and become root to install stuff, that's a minor inconvenience, but it means that you can't knacker your whole system accidentally, and if some internet nasty gets hold of your browser, it only has privileges to do what a user can do, ie it can't hook into the OS and install some nasty backdoor or whatever. Any vulnerabilities are mitigated by this security model, which of course is also possible with a Win system (given good practices) but less often observed.

    Sorry, didn't mean to go over your head. Users can't go out of the $HOME DIR...so again...Gotta be root. Why?

  14. What does Linux want to be?

    in Everything Linux

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    It is my impression that everything is easier in Windows.  For instance, I go to a web site and it says I need flash and click here to download it - done!  I go to a web site and it says I need Adobe Acrobat, click here to download it - done!

    There is one very simple reason for such things being easier in Windows - the web sites you relate to, were deliberately and intendedly designed for users of IE on Windows. Their designers care neither for alternative browsers nor for alternative OSes, for variety of reasons.

    That's not what I was being referred to. I've been taken to the linux downloads for flash and opera browser, but then what? Gotta be root. Why?

  16. What does Linux want to be?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by bvc

    I'm just wondering if Mandrake is still the closest distro when it comes to being as "user-friendly" as Windows is.

     

    Phil

    I'd say it is still the closest. The code that would be required for some of the things you mention could easily be added by a distro (....i.e..popups...install missing software etc..) Yes, this can easily be done for a user that doesn't have root privy's. In this day of Huge Storage when an app is installed by a user they should get a popup that ask if they want to install it to their $HOME DIR, not a popup that ask for the root password :rolleyes:

     

    There was a time, you had to learn windows. As you pointed out Nero stuck in your head from the box you paid for ;) Linux has it on their cd's. They are not funny names, their just already there for you to find. But you had to find out about Nero, just the same.

     

    Linux Web Browser media integration does stink. It is hard to believe we still can't get that right. Sad really.

  17. What does Linux want to be?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by bvc

    It's just like cars. Some need a pick-up, some a limousine and others still a mini-van. ;)

    need a limousine? :lol2:

     

     

    > Now I am discovering that in order to use Mandrake 10.1 with my left hand I need to run XModMap but

     

    I don't understand why, with KDE you just use the mouse configuration panel for KDE "Configure your Desktop" under the peripherals.  Are you using some other window manager?

    https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=29170

    http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News04/M...se_Story01.html

  18. changing mouse to left-handed [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Glad you got it working!

    Say....I have always wondered.....if I finally learn what utilities to run in KDE like Kaffeine and KOOKA and Koffee and KopperKettle and whatever else....do I need to learn an entirely new set of utilities that all start with "G" in the Gnome world?

     

    I tried Gnome once and it all looked so strange I came running right back to KDE.

    You can use the KDE apps in Gnome, just like you can use gnome apps in KDE.

    Gnome usually has its own app, but you do not have to use them.

  19. What does Linux want to be?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by bvc

    so pbpersson, it's that time again? :D

     

    I think you are expecting too much. You get what you pay for, and linux isn't ready for the 'Big Show'.

     

    I rememer my first try. Mandrake 7.2. Installed fine, nothing worked>researched and found my hardware was too new....so I removed it. Tried again with MAndrake 8.1 and everything could work if I was willing to make it work. I did, and I did it knowing what I said above. You get what you pay for, and linux isn't ready for the 'Big Show'. That is the attitude I have always held towards Linux and it gets me through the hard times it gives me.

     

    This is not 'ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country'....it's an OS, it should work. If it doesn't, move on to the next, find a diff distro, or continue in win. Whatever....

  20. changing mouse to left-handed [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    well if all you want is to play some games, install and use Gnome. According to this

    http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News04/M...se_Story01.html

    the left handed mouse config in the Gnome Control Center works

    So far, the biggest problem we have found with 32-bit Mandrake 10.1 Official is that you cannot switch from a right-handed mouse to a left-handed mouse using the KDE Control Center > Peripherals > Mouse panel. If you are a lefty and use the KDE desktop, you might want to stay away from Mandrake 10.1..........

    .........

    The switch to a left-handed mouse works in the Mandrake 10.1 GNOME desktop. However, we have experienced other problems using the mouse when in the GNOME desktop on Mandrake 10.1.

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