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This is the second one of these in Portal News this morning... I'm confused! :huh:

I'm not using Gnome now, so this is from memory and I'm assuming you now have your main panel with the menu at the top, and you have another panel at the bottom... if that is correct:

I believe you will first have to right-click on the lower panel and click 'delete this panel'. Then drag your top panel to the bottom. Then in your main menu find the gconf-editor and go to > apps > panel > toplevels > top_panel, and change the 'orientation' key to 'bottom' or 'lower' (I can't remember). Then > gconf-editor > apps > panel > global, and check the 'locked_down' key.

And for that icon, please post the output of

df

and

mount

Gnome-screenshot is in the gnome-utils package in the Mandriva repos.

This thread is getting a bit confusing with all the different problems. I would suggest that you start a new thread in the Hardware section about your scanner problem, and include the scanner model you're using. Then we can mark this thread solved. :)

I've been waiting too, I've been reading that they were going to release it on Valentine's day. I like this:

K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE)

I just finished downloading it and I'll install it on my laptop tomorrow. :)

To make it automatic, edit your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=no
RESOLV_MODS=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=yes
PEERNTPD=no

Let us know if that works.

I'm sorry if this appears to be a foolish question, but after you opened > software management > options > media manager > and ticked Main/backports, (before you closed the media manager) did you open > file > update > and tick Main/backports then click update?

Please post the output (as root) of

ifconfig -a

and if that output shows you using eth0, post the output of

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Linux doesn't recognize Windows partition names, it simply gives them a mounting point. If you would like, you could unmount /dev/sdb1 and rename /mnt/win_c2 to /mnt/win_e. Then unmount /dev/sda5 and edit your fstab in this section to:

# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=1C02-1C67 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=323E-130E /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Then remount /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/win_d and remount /dev/sda5 to /mnt/win_e. This will be a closer match to your Windows names.

I was unable to install hplip.

Did you ever install hplip? If not, try installing it after you have booted up the kernel-desktop-latest, it will install the hplip-hpijs and hplip-hpijs-ppds as depends.

If you are still unable to install it, please post the errors here.

I'm playing the demo now and laughing at the animation and sounds! :D

Thanks for pointing it out!

I have no KDE Control Center in the menu

There's a systemsettings-kde3 package in the repos that is the replacement for kcontrol in Mandriva 2009.0. It gives you the same control settings that are in kcontrol, or you can simply make a menu entry for kcontrol.

You have cooker mirrors and official mirrors mixed on your system. Whats the output of

rpm -qa | grep -i rpmdrake

if it's a cooker rpm that's your problem.

It appears you're not the only one. Here's the bug report: bug #44836

Now I understand... maybe I should change my password to stupid. :)

Are you using cooker?

Anyway, here's two bug reports to check:

bug #46522

bug #45653

I've tried xpdf, Okular and Adobe Acrobat.

I thought that since I've learned to decrypt with pdftk, I'd try to encrypt with it. So I encrypted some pdf files. Then while playing with them I found out that Adobe Reader 8.1.2 asked me to enter the password, then it opens them without any problems. What version did you use?

I've never used pdftk for this, but try: pdftk FRUSTRATED.pdf input_pw STUPID cat output FRUSTRATED.pdf

Actually, I don't think you need 'cat'.

pdftk FRUSTRATED.pdf input_pw STUPID output FRUSTRATED.pdf

Not config files, I think they are identical. The difference is color schemes, I think.

OK, the 'config' files I referred to are for themes, some screensavers, color schemes (as medo has noted), etc. They can be config, xxxrc, or settings files. Here's an example for you, it's a diff for /var/lib/mandriva/lxde-profiles/Free/config and One/config

--- Free/config	2009-02-08 15:48:23.000000000 -0500
+++ One/config	2009-02-08 15:48:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#iNet/DndDragThreshold
#iNet/CursorBlink
#iNet/CursorBlinkTime
-sNet/ThemeName=Ia Ora Arctic
+sNet/ThemeName=Ia Ora Smooth
sNet/IconThemeName=nuoveXT2
#iGtk/CanChangeAccels=0
#cGtk/ColorPalette

please note the file is a config. :D

Have a quick install of task-xfce and see if it asks you.

It's used for screensavers, themes, and installing a different DE, e.g., xfce. :)

The DE config files are different.

You can open a terminal and run

rpm -qa | grep -i mandriva-release

and it will show you the release version, and a common file that you can disregard.

I'm not using KDE4 yet, but it appears that KDE4 can not yet (automatically) import user settings from KDE3 into kmail and other apps. Please see bug #42398

There's a set of scripts here: kde-apps.org

and if you check the last comments, they work for Mandriva 2009.

However, I would suggest that you simply use John's manual method he posted in this thread here: Import existing KMail settings to KDE4

How do I set up a printer? Mandriva 2008 had a printer setup icon in mcc. 2009 does not.

If you installed your system using the Mandriva One CD, you need to install the system-config-printer package from the repos. They didn't have room for it on the CD.

I'm glad it's working for you! :)

Since the binary has now been tested and works, I'll leave it here for a while.

I've absolutely no idea why you are having problems compiling this. I don't know what else I can do to help you with this, except give you a link for the qmake-manual, and I've compiled it for you. :)

I will attach it here for now. Please let me know when you have it.

Moto4lin is distributed under the GPL-2 License. You can obtain the source code here: sourceforge.net

You can find more information here: moto4lin.sourceforge.net

My disclaimer: I do not own a Motorola phone to test this, so it has not been tested by me. If it damages your phone and or PC, I'm not responsible.

This binary was compiled on Mandriva 2009.0 using GCC 4.3.2 and QT 3-3.3.8b. Please extract it in your ~/home directory, then in a terminal (as user) run

cd moto; ./moto4lin

Good luck, I hope it works for you.

Here it is:

I had to make a zip archive because the forum software wouldn't accept a bz2, and it corrupted a gz.