teh_sAbEr

hi. is there a way to get the Slickbar to replace the normal KDE bar permanantly (kicker, i think its called)? thanx in advance.

thanx for the info. you wouldn't happen to know how to increase the size of the thumbnails (and icon text) inside konquerer, would you? thanks very much for the help.

in fluxbox i had to make an autostart.sh file to launch apps automatically at startup, but whats the procedure in KDE? do i have to make another autostart.sh file? thanx for the help.

ok, after updating URPMI sources and getting cooker, i was FINALLY (*sigh*) able to get gdesklets 0.30, although it still keeps on crashing on me when i try to load a sensor. ive tried "gdesklets open clock" (clock being a display i downloaded from URPMI), and "gdesklets shell"(to open graphical shell) all after "gdesklets start". heres a screenshot:

does anyone know of any open source flash development WYSIWYG editors (aside from F4L, according to the website, its not functional)? like the stuff macromedia offers but, for linux, and for free :D .

im not using XFree86, im using Xorg rite now. should i switch back?

thanx a bunch fr the info. ill be sure to try that...im urpmi-updating my system rite now..

EDIT: ok, so i tried "startx -- -dpi 100", but it brought up the blue mandrake colored screen, like it was going to load, but it didn't, and it just hung there. the weird thing is that i was able to see one of the minidock programs i have for fluxbox in the upper left hand corner.

thanx for the info

ic ic.. maybe i should rethink the whole thing. a little off topic, but is there a urpmi command that automatically updates all your software (like fluxbox, mozilla, GAIM, etc, etc, etc) with a later (or the latest) version than what you already have?

thanx for the help!

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uhh..im not too much of an expert on it either...i suppose its compatible..

ok thanx for the advice. i tried starting x from the console (i use XOrg, not too sure what version), because i usually start w/the KDE Login Manager. i type in

"startx -dpi=100" and it gives me a "Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed'". any advice? is there a way to change the default font to something that will work? thanks in advance.

of course i want to! could you point me to a 10.1 folder? easyurpmi doesn't seem to have 10.1 listed in the options..

is it possible to download the necessary files (via URPMI) to upgrade Mandrake 10 to 10.1 without having to download 700 MB ISOs? is there a command that updates all software on your system to something more recent?

cool thanx for the help, font problems are fixed now :-)

i have my resolution set to 1600 x 1200 rite now (using fluxbox mostly, GNOME rite now), and the apps have VERY VERY SMALL text, like for example, in GAIM, my friend's away message is readable in GNOME, but in fluxbox, its too small to read. how do i increase the size of the font so its actually readable on my end, without asking my friend to increase font size on their end? thanx in advance!

so would the SMP kernel work for me? or do i opt for another one? i think i did see an "enterprise kernel" there. don't they just compile this stuff into the kernel, or do they add code or something?

cool, thanx for the info, ill do that b4 performing the operation. with regards to the 4GB Kernel, i was poking around in RPMdrake, and i typed in the word "kernel" and stumbled across these kernels, some of which were compiled for smp (what is that?), and have support for 4 GB of memory. theres also one kernel there that supports 1 GB of RAM, and has i586 in its label (kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.8.1.5mdk1-1mdk) while the SMP ones are (kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.25.7mdk1-1mdk). my question is, what is SMP, and is it something i should get? thanx --teh_sAber

primary master is what im aiming for here, right now its a primary slave. so let me get this straight, when i edit fstab, i change it to match my new IDE config, HD, Cdroms and all. do i really need to edit lilo ? im not planning a dual boot system here, so is it really necessary? since thats the case, how do i take it off of the windows drive?

what exactly do i type in to get urpmi to update my current version of gdesklets to 0.30 or to download 0.30, because its saying "Everything already installed" when i type in urpmi gdesklets, and when i add a -0.30 to the end of it, it isnt found. thanx for the help!

about the Live CDs, Knoppix looks good, but i dont really wanna download 700 MBs again...i remember downloading Mandrake 10 here...took me DAYS with bittorrent. that being said, what about Damn Small Linux? its only 50 MB. would that work fine for just editing a .conf file or two?

i URPMI'ed mine. just go to the console and type (as the root user) "urpmi fluxbox", or you can do it from the Rpmdrake GUI if you like.

fstab file:

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,dev,codepage=850,suid 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=ext2,ro,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/hda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

and my lilo.conf

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hda
default="linux"
prompt
nowarn
timeout=3000
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hdb5"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
label="263-7"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe resume=/dev/hdb5 devfs=nomount"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

intended IDE setup in new PC

one HD, my linux driver to be set as master drive. it is an IDE drive.

Right now, my Mandrake drive is set as the slave, with the windows partition as the master. Just in case im not able to re-create the same IDE Setup in the new PC, what changes would i have to make to lilo and fstab?

thanx for the help, i was able to get it working, and it works like a charm!