kristi

Rolf asked a question and I found that none of the KDE base stull had been installed.

I installed it.

I can now choose KDE at the logon menu.

Thanks Rolf!!!!!!!!!

==> solved - 0.1.3 install fails to install KDE base modules. Under what conditions is unknown. Fixed by booting to Gnome and using MCC install to install them.

EDIT: see my post 6 posts down from this post in this thread - lisa has to be allowed in install.

Kristi

huh? sounds like a badly packed iso. can you get it from cooker mirrors?

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I got it from ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/M...devel/iso/i586/

and ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandrakel...so/2006.0/i586/

ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandrakel...586/media/main/ does not have it.

Kristi

can you log into kde from the console or using gdm or can't you install kde?

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There is no KDE. It doesn't install even though I have told it to.

I have installed it about 8 times, downloaded it twice, burned it to CDs twice.

1) I get NO KDE. never. Ever. regardless of whether I choose KDE OR KDE & Gnome OR all GUIs, or check the individual program selections.

2) at boot, at command prompt, I get

cat: /var/run/console.lock No such file or directory

3) In the install, I am unable to configure the mouse - I click on configure but nothing happens. (PS2 Logitech Mouseman) xorg.conf has it as a PS2/MS Explorer which is normal. Mouse works fine in Gnome.

Any ideas on these 3?

tia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kristi

Hi John,

Yeah, I'm kinda sporadic these days - not using the computer much. Waiting for 2006.1 or somesuch to install it!

Best!

Kristi

Profuse thanks to all. What I did was, with the setting in kwrite set to DOS/Windows, I opened a new (blank) kwrite, copied the text from the old kwrite window, and saved it. That apparently saved it "correctly" as I was able to read it with Gates-o-matic.

Only reason I needed Winblows was that my Labtec webcam has a nice motion detector that runs under XP, and I wanted to use it briefly. I do not know of one for Linux.

Thanks again!

Kristi

using 2005LE kwrite. changed Open/Save to DOS/Windows, but still when I open it in windows XP it is without delimiters.

tia

Kristi

Try cups to set it up. Open a browser and in the adressbar type: localhost:631 Follow it from there.

 

PS you can print drafts from your regular printer if you adjust the printersettings.

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THANKS!!! Devries! :D

Going to localhost:631 and adding one, and all the deskjets were there. Don't know why they aren't in the regular way, but what the heck!!! :D

Yes! i had already changed the "regular" printer to draft, so this one I added will be left for the occasional "good" use.

Thanks!!!

Kristi

Just reinstalled 2005LE to get a printer working. During install, it offered me HP deskjet 5740. That printer works fine after install. But trying to install another one (one draft, one regular), most of the deskjets that were avail during install are not avail - it looks like 10.1 or prior choices.

Where did they go, and how can I get them back?

tia!!!

Kristi

[moved from Software by spinynorman] Thanks! :D

Turned out to be AdBlock extension, item

*ads* ...triggered by "uploads",

when removed,

did the trick!

Kristi

firefox is only showing my avatar and spinynorman's, while Opera seems to be showing all of them. Any idea why that might be?

tia!!!

Kristi

Hey, John, in menu, switch user, I still only get the one user - even when I added a second temp user. What did I do wrong?

Kristi (/me is really getting to like that mod of yours!!!!!)

EDIT, I checked in admin mode in Login Manager, users tab, but no joy.

EDIT2 is there a special Login Mgr for KDM? Where is it? tia!!!

A. I am so stone age! - course I was using auto logon and I didn't have the mod from AussieJohn to display all of my users including root as options at logon time. I had been rebooting, just to reload a user. :woops:

B. I had assumed early on, for this install, that I had set up my root konqueror to view hidden files - something I always do. :woops:

C. Ian, wastebin didn't work. But note the contents of trash.desktop below.....

D. coverup, your suggestion to create a new user held the key. When I logged in to this user, there was trash, so I fired up a root konqueror and looked in Desktop. I found:

.directory

Home.desktop

System.desktop

trash.desktop

Welcome.desktop

.directory contained (arctic, when I cleared Desktop (with a correctly set up konqueror) this was all I got)

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Directory
BgImage=
Icon=desktop

Home.desktop contained

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Home
Name[af]=Huis
(I deleted the rest for this post)
GenericName=Personal Files
GenericName[af]=Persoonlike Lêers
(I deleted the rest for this post)
URL=$HOME
Icon=home-mdk
Type=Link

System.desktop contained

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=System
Name[af]=Stelsel
(I deleted the rest for this post)
GenericName=System Locations
GenericName[bg]=СиÑтемни файлове
(I deleted the rest for this post)
URL=system:/
Icon=system
Type=Link

trash.desktop contained (not seen one of these before)

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Name=Trash
Name[en_GB]=Wastebin
Comment=I removed the non english lines and comments
Comment=Contains removed files

Welcome.desktop contains

(by this time I was tired of this and didn't care!!!)

So I just did a select all and copied it on top of what I had in Desktop for the kristi user.

Voila!!!

to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kristi

Ah!

I see! (I had to change the autologon, too)

Very nice!!!

Thank you!

:D

check that - there is a .directory that contains

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Name=Trash
Comment=Contains removed files
[IconPosition::Trash]
X=-30
Y=-160

uh, nevermind, but.....

I went to /home/kristi/Desktop with my root konqueror and deleted everything.

I rebooted, but all I have on the desktop is kdetv and 2 kookas

and if I look at /home/kristi/Desktop with root konqueror, it is empty.

hmmmmmmmmmm.

another option: delete all your user config files in your de as root, then log in again. everything will be reset to the default values (and your stored mails will be gone unless you backup those :P ).

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can you please explain this a little more, and I'll give it a shot. exactly which files? stored mails?

tia

Kristi

no success - I think maybe a re-install may be best - when I need to - meantime I'll just forget about it.

Thanks for all the suggestions everybody.

can you be specific as to where on the KDE menu this is?

(MDV 2005clubKDE3.4)

to get to a root session in Mandriva club 2005KDE 3.4

Press ctr-alt-F2, log in as root and type:

startx -- :1

hit enter.

you will pop into a root session.

This is something that Devries told me a while back that I thought I had tried on this release, and I thought didn't work. :woops:

But I just checked it and it does.

ctrl-alt-F7 will give you the user.

ctrl-alt-F8 will give you the root session (assuming you only have one user logged in).

When you log out of root, give it a minute, then it will give you a command line prompt.

At that point, do ctrl-alt-F7 to get the user session.

lost my trash icon that, when I click on it, asks me if I want to empty it. The trash icon I have doesn't ask me that. This happened as a result of a reinstall of Mandriva, and me deleting the wrong one.

So I went looking for it and found some trash in

/home/kristi/.local/share/Trash

How do I create an icon on my user desktop that will ask me (when I click on it) if I want to empty the trash?

tia

Kristi

Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/me puts bananas on shopping list!

Damn - how'd you get to be so smart!

I clicked on the littlebox to the right of that and that lets you choose from stuff in the menu - it worked fine for opera, so i expected it to work like that for the mozilla firefox menu entry.

:woops: :woops: :woops: :woops:

Thanks for sticking with me!

:D

yes, that's it - I've just been abreviating.

I choose "mozilla firefox" which is an entry in the menu.

yep, I'm on Mandriva 2005A(club KDE3.4) & kmail

But when I select

configureyour desktop, components, component chooser, web browser, firefox, it does that wierd thing described above.