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Dual 22" widescreen ???

If so...lucky Bastard

I only got one 22" flat wide screen, it's enough when sniping in ETQW.

Instead of metacity I think KDE is kwin.

So it's

#!/bin/bash

kwin --replace &

cd <directory>
./eschalon_book_1

compiz --replace &

It's Kiba-Dock :)

I use it because it's more powerful than AWN, should work in KDE (but I havn't tried). At the moment it's only available through SVN. Compiz is required for Kiba-dock.

Would be wayyyy easier to install fusion-icon and set it up in sessions. Then you can enable/Disable compiz with a click.

Or make a script for the game;

example for gnome; It disable compiz by replacing it with metacity, launching the game afterwards. When you exit the game compiz starts up again.

#!/bin/bash

metacity --replace &

cd <directory>
./eschalon_book_1

compiz --replace &

chmod+x the script file and either you can click it to launch or make a nice shortcut in the menu to the script.

Another month and another round of "Show your Desktop"!!!

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Honestly I don't know. But I read somewhere it says yes, but to be sure it would be better to ask them.

Ian is a normadic linux user :D :P

OT:

I think it's perhaps the ghost from the past that's somehow hunting Mandriva in the light that people don't know it's changed (a kinda FUD?). That could be boiled down to non-existing PR.

If I take a look at Ubuntuforums subforums which have places for other distros http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=147 (our gatway for people who want to try another distro(s)) the most hot distros are Arch and Debian (and other Debian based) Distros, where Mandriva there's only a few threads/posts about (kudos to Adam to take time helping out there), which lead to

1) People don't know about Mandriva/what it is

2) Bad reputation from the past.

I think the Mandriva users need to user some power on saying; "YO! This is the new shit!!!!" :)

Many (as in most) people like an unbloated default OS which comes with minimal stuff installed (the definition of minimal may be different for each individual - even in the linux world). So Ubuntu comes with their version of it but still have the most common tools/apps its people use. You may not agree with the choice, but it's easy to install/uninstall what you want.

While many applications are available for download, If you are a beginner, you would not know about them.

...and the assumption you can do/mastering a whole different OS from the beginning without a little bit of learning? I don't buy that, nor do I think you do if you give it some thought.

You'll have exactly the same problem if you put a person behind Windows who never used Windows before. The person have to learn how to do things in Windows.

Offtopic: I have crossover. Click the .deb and it's installed and running - I don't see the problem here.

Yeah, lack of maps are a problem, wonder when they make some? I can the current maps in my sleep now.

+1 what arctic said.

There's also a healthy competition among distros, though many have diffrent (main) goals/philosophy/idealism so people can pick which one that fit them best which IMHO is nice. Sure sometimes the feelings run a bit high among the "normal" users - but afterall we're human like the rest of the world

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness released! (list modified)

and ofcause Penumbra: Black Plague, which I forgot earlier.

Version 1.5 is out!

Meh, I'm being stupid. There's a script that comes with the game. Run it, instead of running the binary. :D :D

NOTE: There's a minor error in the first release regarding libs dependencies.

libfmodex.so => not found
libfmodevent.so => not found

Which comes with the game - but it look for these in the system instead of in the game directory.

A quick fix for this is;

32-bit:

Copy the two lib files from the game (in linux_libs directory) to /usr/lib

64-bit:

Do the same but to /usr/lib32

ldd the binary file to see if you miss something, but it should only be these two files on most distros.

Dependency list:

orion@orion:~/.Games/PAA-Darkness$ ldd RainSlickEp1_bin 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
libfmodex.so => /usr/lib32/libfmodex.so (0xf7de8000)
libfmodevent.so => /usr/lib32/libfmodevent.so (0xf7d8a000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 (0xf7ce4000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXrandr.so.2 (0xf7cde000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7beb000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7bc6000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7bbb000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7a6c000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7a67000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7a4f000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf7a41000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf795a000)
libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGLcore.so.1 (0xf6c1b000)
libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib32/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xf6c18000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0xf6c10000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7fd6000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf6c0d000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xf6c0b000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6bf3000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6bed000)
orion@orion:~/.Games/PAA-Darkness$

On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness is out!

Demo and buy it at playgreenhouse.com.

I have to agree that Kubuntu is not so nice/polished as Ubuntu, but I'm a Gnome user :D

Nevertheless, if you want to use KDE on Ubuntu, it's way more better to do a server install (minimal installment) and install KDE core, xorg, KDM and customize/add what you like. Then you'll properly get a KDE that you like.

Dear mr. Artificial Intelligence,

this is a democratic forum, where anyone can freely express himself.

If you do not like this, then you can pack your toys and go play at Ubuntubeach.

Ofcause it's democratic. But your so called elitism don't suit you by trolling each distro you don't like. It's very arrogant.

I seriously doubt if any serious Linux user would ever touch Ubuntu again after a thorough Debian Sid experience (either via Sidux, or by other means).

Or, as they said some years ago, Ubuntu is an ancient african word which means "I can't install Debian"

You talking out of your ass again, scarecrow. Go troll somewhere else.

Envy is a bad thing :D

Lately I have the feeling there are more and more fanbyos who don't have half this mind of their own, just look at all those "How to... ...on Ubuntu" blogs, while most of the things they write about are not distro-specific.

Nothing wrong with an enthusiastic supporters. What worries me is the lack of enthusiastic supporters of other distros. We're talking about image/face to the outer world here, making known you're there. The Ubuntu community of artists, programmers, bloggers, musicians, writers etc. etc. are part of the success, they are giving the distro a face.

I'm an Ubuntu enthusiast, what do I like about computing? Gaming. What did I do? Making an Ubuntu Gaming Site and wrote a tons of installation guides aimed at Ubuntu and made a game list, which have now atm. 3000 hits everyday and estimating triple of hits when this year running out.

Create something for your distro that give it a face is my advise.

I wonder though how much extra work it is to have the engine offer both DirectX/OpenGL. There's a lot of games that have done that in the past.

 

Remember that there's no DirectX on OSX, so if it's on OSX, it's got the OpenGL support.

...and The consoles are OpenGL too, if they want to take that direction (like everybody else it seems).

They have always supported linux - so It's 99% chance it comes as well on Linux.

Seems the game genre on Linux is really starts to move now.

ID Software have announced that their next big game will be Doom IV. ID software is one of the biggest game supporters of Linux.

Frictional Games have released Penumbra: Black Plague. It's a First Person Horror Adventure, the second release in the Penumbra series.

Frictional Games have also announced that an expansion of Penumbra: Black Plague - Penumbra: Requiem is in development.

I don't know. Maybe LGP have to pay an amount of money to port the game, but newer and more popular games too much.