thelorax

Try digikam especially if you use KDE (as it is a KDE app). I just bought a digital camera, and it was so easy to download photos using digikam (which is in contrib).

I suggest trying Totem, its a great Xine gui for gnome, just urpmi totem.

Hi I'm trying to get Openoffice to use the kprinter dialogue, which apparently works. But I can't get it to work I load spadmin, click properties for the generic printer and change the command to kprinter then click OK. It then shows in Printer Adminstration as having kprinter as the command. if I press test page, then the kprinter dialogue comes up! I then close the printer administration dialogue and start openoffice, but when I go to print I still get the openoffice dialogue. Are there any suggestions of what I am doing wrong, and how to fix it, thanks. ------ Edit, Actually this does work, I was just too stupid to realise it ;)

Hi, On further investigation I also found that it does load files extremely slowly. I also fixed this by uninstalling the copy that came with Mandrake 10 (CE) and doing an install of the version from the openoffice website.

Hi, No I didn't have any problems with the icons, they all displayed fine. In relation to the freetype rpm, it fixed my problesm, apart from the italics issue. It will be interesting if you have the same result. You should note though that if you install the plf freetype rpm, it's virtually impossible to uninstall, as urpmi says that practically every program you have is dependent on it and trying to force an uninstall is problematic.

Hi, Have you used openoffice before? It always takes a while to open, but it seems as fast as usual on my install. Openoffice fonts can be a bit dodgy, I suggest looking at their font faqs for help, http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html especially the bit about changing the user interface font. That should help improve the font for the menus and dialog.

Hi, Have you tried the tvtuner configurator which is part of the Mandrake Control Center, its under hardware. It trys to autodetect your card, but it also gives you the option of manually specifying your card from a list. If your card is on the list its worth trying that. I strongly recommend that you update your drakex tools before you do this as they are quite buggy without the update. hope that helps

I don't really need much help but I am intrigued by my situation. I had an annoying font problem with an installation of Mandrake 10 (CE) and after much mucking around, and despite some helpful advice, I couldn't fix it, so I decided to reinstall. I reinstalled on the same computer, with no hardware changes. The same partitions and even the same packages (I saved the package selection from the previous install). Yet none of the issues that I had on the first install have occurred, but I have completely different problems, eg. the nvidia driver needs to be modprobed on boot (which I got around easily thanks to the useful advice contained in the forum) despite using exactly the same driver etc. So what makes that happen? Shouldn't it have had the same problems not new ones? I think its trying to piss me off ;)

Thanks again for all your help, but I have ended up doing a reinstall, since I had spend so much time playing around with the fonts I figured it would be quicker just to reinstall. Now my fonts look good, I even reordered the font config files re: your suggestion thanks. One of the differences was that when I imported my windows fonts I ran drakfont from a terminal and ended up with many errors and bad fonts. I then removed these fonts and used the KDE font installer which worked great. thanks again.

Hi, Thanks for all your help, but unfortunately changing the order didn't make a difference. I changed the order to exactly what you suggested then There were no error messages. My .gtkrc and .gtkrc2 both say: So I don't think the problem is there. I've almost exhausted all the tips and suggestions I can find to improve the fonts, with no success, its very frustrating. Thanks for all your help, I might try doing a clean install on a spare partition and see whether I get the same problems. Cheers,

Here is a screenshot of what slashdot looks like for me, as you can see normal fonts are ok, but italics are terrible.

Testing

Hi, I've been using Konqueror 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 (CE) and whenever I hit the preview button it posts and comment and when I hit post it previews! Does anyone else have this problem?

Mine is According to xdpyinfo my dpi is 81x81 Playing with the font order doesn't seem to have made a difference so far. Any other suggestions?

Any suggestions on improving the fonts would be appreciated. I also found that after installing the upgrades my fonts didn't look so good. I also remember having to fiddle around in previous versions of Mandrake to get fonts looking good. but unfortunately I don't remember exactly what i did ;( I tried to fix the bad fonts by downloading the freetype2 rpms from the plf (libfreetype6-2.1.7plf) I think. This made all my antialiased fonts looked awful, but when I disabled antialiasing, my KDE fonts look ok now (please note that this will probably vary according to your screen resolution, mine is 1024x768). But it also created two problems: 1) Fonts on gtk2 programs look terrible (I assume they must be automatically antialiased). This is not a big problem for me as I don't use many gtk2 programs, but firefox with xft also looks awful. 2) Italicised KDE fonts look terrible. This makes webpages with lots of italics very annoying to read (eg. slashdot). All the rest of the fonts in Konqueror look good though. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix these problems, or generally to get good fonts it would be much appreciated. thanks,