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  2. KDE Launcher

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    thanx for answer

     

    yes, i'm looking for a panel with links to apps...  just like what i saw in the screenshot... but in KDE i can't put the panels in the middle of the screen... 

     

    thanxs again.

     

    In KDE desktop menu, icons,align to grid play with that a bit and see if that will do what you want.

  3. autostart ups drivers in root?

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    Just got back from a bunch of errands - thanks to both of you!

     

    Hey - neat new KDE3.4 background (I musta just updated! - duh!)

    Also the menu is very tall now - gotta figure out how to knock it down to size (heehee)

     

    Okay - just looked at /etc/rc#.d - had forgotten that they were shells. That wouldn't be too big a deal - a one liner for each, but I had forgotten about the "K" and "S" bit - the K would be easily and I guess I would just ignore the S (operationally, I do that anyway. There is a way in the monitor to tell it to shutdown, but that would be having Belkin power off instead of Linux. Bad Belkin! - Normally when there is a power outage (1:30AM - another NSTAR "upgrade", once a month), I am sitting at the computer and shut things, including Mandriva, gracefully. Belkin will do it auto if I'm not there, I hope!!!

     

    Anyway, all I "need" is to put /usr/local/bulldog/upsd in /etc/rc.local, and make sure it is root executable which it was. I took both of them out of my user autostart, and tried adding a link to /usr/local/bulldog/monitor with user, not root permissions, and it worked beautifully. upsd takes a while to start as it sets up a "network" where it's the "master", and its just about ready to send info to monitor when monitor gets started in user. Is it possible to put a 5 sec delay in front of monitor starting?

     

    So anyway, thanks to papaschtroumpf, even though I went Adam's route (thanks Adam!!!)

     

    I also did not know if, in Mandriva2006, everything goes through 1, or 2, or 3, if it is going to be run in 3 or 5 ? I know a 3 will do the 3 and a 5 will do the 5, but that's all. I don't think a 5 will do a 4 because it goes directly from 3 to 5. Or am I more in a fog than I think.

    tia

    Kristi

  4. autostart ups drivers in root?

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    I appologize because I think I have asked this before and not noted it down.

    Belkin has 2 driver programs that need to be started up with root proviliges. I did hang them in user autostart but that's getting old as it likes to start 2 of them when I log into root and that, while amusing, is not useful.

    I think I should (?) put them somewhere in /etc/rc#.d where # is 1, 2, or 3

     

    I think this is right and can I put them in in such a way that they don't ask for a password.

    tia!

    Kristi

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  5. No "start new session" in menu. (solved)

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    oops: startx -- :1

     

    Bingo!!!!!!!! - I get to say "you clutz!!!!!!!!!" :lol2::lol2::lol2:

    But I also get to say a HUGE thanks!!! :D :D :D

    Now, how do I automate it, even a little? EDIT scratch that - it's too darn easy!

    tia

    Kristi

     

    EDIT2: looks like Simon and Laurent (cooker) are starting to see it as a real prob so I'm sure it will be fixed by b2

     

    But DEVRIES gets the prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drum::drum:

  7. No "start new session" in menu. (solved)

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    No "start new session" in menu.

    You are aware of this but are keeping it secret from the rable because:

    d) this is a doctoral study - what will an ant do if you take of one leg?, 2 legs? 9 legs? At what point does it start exhibiting psychotic behaviour.

     

    You want us to find ctrl-alt-esc hehehehehehehehehehe

     

    but also tell me how to kill a root process in user with ctrl-esc that has root power.

     

    Kristi 2006 cooker current (edited and cleaned up a tad... :)

  9. how to get a soundbite to play?

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    it says no suitable plugin available

     

    Try building the plugin from source and follow the install instructions on the mplayerplug-in site (link in a previous post)

     

    I did try that but became frustrated at the point of it not finding mozilla-plugins, so I went back to MCC and uninstalled mplayer and reinstalled mplayer plus about everything related including plugins. It put the plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla I copied them to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2 keeping the plugin and the component separate. I then cranked up firefox and BBC and video worked immediately (chosing windows media). I then checked that language site but it would not work as it was trying to go through mplayer. I found that MP3 had been automatically checked, so unchecked it. Now the language site worked. I then went back to BBC and tried an audio and it specified realplayer (they do that). It played fine with no change and is playing through rp. However it automatically re-put-a-checkmark for MP3 (in firefox/edit/preferences so when I went back to the language site, it tried to play it through mplayer again. So I need to either find a way to get it to play through mplayer correctly, or leave it's hands off the MP3 checkmark, or just change it manually each time , which is not a big deal.

    Kristi

    EDIT - I believe mplayer is truncating the first 1/2 second or so - where can I configure the mplayer plugin? tia

  13. how to get a soundbite to play?

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    My guess would be that firefox isn't finding the plugin. Look for these 2 files (updatedb (as root) and locate):mplayerplug-in.so  and mplayerplug-in.xpt. Copy these files to /home/your name/.mozilla/plugins (that's were I have them) and try again.

    Yeah, it doesn't seem to be able to play it, or play it completely with mplayer. I did inadvertantly get it to work perfectly with realplayer. not sure how so I am going to try to undo everything realplayerish and install it again, because I have realplayer in 2 places - it should be in user/local, I think but I also have in in firefox/plugins - I know how that happened. and I did have to go ahead and allow the bad signature thing and yes, it caused no probs. Back in 10 min.

    Kristi

    Yeah (wound up doing a full install since my trash had been trashed :lol2: I installed RealPlayer (please understand that realplayer is against my religion) - I think I got an rpm from real. it installed to /use/local . I forgor to clear out the plugins in user/.mozilla (sorry, so all I really know is while the mplayer plugins are in there, it won't work, but if the two rp plugins are there AND I go into edit preferenced and douple click mp3 and RE-choose /usr/loca/lrealplayer or whatever, then when I click on one of those letters, a little RP player pops up and plays it - good fidelity.

    So Thanks!!!

    Kristi (off to do easyurpmi and about 253 cooker updates :juggle:

  14. how to get a soundbite to play?

    in Software

    Posted

    My guess would be that firefox isn't finding the plugin. Look for these 2 files (updatedb (as root) and locate):mplayerplug-in.so  and mplayerplug-in.xpt. Copy these files to /home/your name/.mozilla/plugins (that's were I have them) and try again.

    Yeah, it doesn't seem to be able to play it, or play it completely with mplayer. I did inadvertantly get it to work perfectly with realplayer. not sure how so I am going to try to undo everything realplayerish and install it again, because I have realplayer in 2 places - it should be in user/local, I think but I also have in in firefox/plugins - I know how that happened. and I did have to go ahead and allow the bad signature thing and yes, it caused no probs. Back in 10 min.

    Kristi

  17. how to get a soundbite to play?

    in Software

    Posted

    What language site is that? I tried: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book...va=test&x=7&y=9 but it plays wavs and not mp3 and works perfectly fine.

     

    Do you have a plugin installed (mplayerplug-in or mozplugger)? Else try that.

    I do not hear anything.

    No matter what I put in the firefox/edit/preferences/ it does not seem to work - for example, if I put mplayer in there I get only the tail end ot the soundbyte.

    can't get realplayer installed - can't get its plugoin in firefox have no idea what I'm doing here.

    Kristi

  18. bad signatures

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    Trying to install RealPlayer so I can play mp3's in browser (Firefox)

    Downloaded RealPlayer10GOLD.bin set it to executable and ./executed it per instructions.

    Get 

    ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Anything I try to install with MCC gives me a signature error:

    snap3.png

     

    early on in this MDK/MDV game, I just ignored it and installed it anyway. Last time I did that I had to re-install 2005LE.

     

    I am running 2006 cooker sorta-current - no updates for last day or 2 (lazy)

    How can I play mp3s that are in a browser page like

    http://www.frenchtutorial.com/standard/pro...on/alphabet.php ?

     

    How can I get a decent signature and/or install what I need to get by this?

     

    tia!!!

    Kristi

  19. how to get a soundbite to play?

    in Software

    Posted

    I have had super results with my shuttle AN35N mobo,nforce chipset, and mobo sound (which I think is a realtec chip. KMix works beautifully, and xine, Mplayer, Kaffeine, and anything else I have tried seems to work just fine.

     

    I went up to a language site and clicked on some sounds - a small mp3 downloads and then something tried to play it, but I only get the last little bit of the sound. i tried setting mp3 to amrock, audacity, etc, but nothing seemed to change it at all. (If I use say audacity to play the mp3 in temp, it plays fine.)

     

    Any tips?

    tia!!!

    Kristi

  20. 2006 cooker current - start a new (root) session

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Open a console, log in as root and type: <application name>. Or alt-f2, more options, user=root. Or ctrl-alt-backspace (or in a console, as root, type init 3), log in as root and type startx

     

    Thanks much Devries!!!!!

     

    Is this a permanent kind of thing or only till it gets fixed. It has gotten to the point that I can run 99.99999% of stuff in user because things will ask for a root password if needed.

    Thanks!

    Kristi

  25. easyurpmi creates wrong sources for 2005

    in Software

    Posted

    It worked for me, putting aside "updates" which had wrong path for hdlist(but very easily fixable).

    when I set up easyurpmi several days ago, 10.2 wasn't there so I just used cooker. works fine. At least with kern source and Nvidia.

    Kristi

    2005LE - only took me 4 installs to get the nic to work - must be a good release........ And I was cooker current. Damn security.

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