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If it's installing and working, then it should be as simple as getting the source RPM and rebuilding it. rpm --rebuild foobar.src.rpm This should be done as user, not root, and several devel packages (qt3, kdelibs etc) should be installed. Before rebuilding you most likely have to export qt3 and kde3 to your terminal session, say like . /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh . /etc/profile.d/qt3.sh export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH (replace /etc/profile.d with the actual position of the profiling scripts for Mandy- not having any handy now, so I can't recall where they are placed) Remember that the export will last just for this terminal session- if you close the terminal then you must re-export again.

Check the permissions of your user's folder- or logout, and do as root: chown -R oracle:oracle /home/oracle

Can you tell me how you can change the colors of a theme in Gnome within one minute? The only way I've found myself is rewriting the theme... :P In KDE4, you can change anything about a theme within seconds, provided that you don't mind pressing alt+F2 and typing "systemsettings". The only thing that you can't control so far is the size of some plasmoids, but this is supposed to be addressed in 4.4

What did you set as backend? mplayer, or xine?

Apart from the solution you chose, there's another one: reinstalling grub/lilo to your root partition(s), and using a third party primary loader. GAG is a good one.

I am an all-Nikon guy, and I wil stay like that, so I don't really care. However, this is a promising start.

It appears fine for me (nvidia GPU). Maybe some odd setting for kwin?

Samba is by far the best solution- actually I am using it even for sharing between *nix machines. For configuring the samba shares, I am using webmin. I find it much more feature-rich and intuitive than the MCC samba module.

To use the full screen for your windows in KDE 4.X you don't have to autohide the panel. You can alter its properties and set it fullsize or centered, and tick the option to be covered by windows (from the "advanced" menu). When you hover the mouse over the panel area, it will appear on top. Actually this thing is my main regression with XFCE4: There the panel cannot be covered by windows, either with XFWM4 or compiz-fusion window manager. You have to set the panel as "floating" to achieve that, but this has a couple of regressions.

Ah, fine! These are good news. Thanks for the answer! :) Actually, the server is using CentOS with DirectAdmin, so the safest way is most probably creating a "reseller" for the task. But this is rather easy to manage.

I have set up a webserver on a machine with 3 static IP's, pointing to a certain domain name. The domain name is set on a virtual Apache host, while the physical host points to the base IP of the server. It's using a rather popular CMS, which is working fine. However, I want to test an alternative CMS on the same server. I can put that one in a folder inside the root folder, and I can assign a DNS to it (say a free one from dyndns). I also want, if possible, to use another port for that one- say 8088 instead of 80. Question no.1: Can I create another Apache virtual host, which will use as root the subfolder with the new CMS? Question no.2: Is it possible to run on Apache two virtual hosts, which are using a different port? You may well assume that I'm no techie, when coming to Apache configs- hence the questions... Thanks in advance. [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

No need to uninstall PulseAudio: just disable the pulseaudio daemon from running. This will also disable the GNOME system sounds. To resolve this, install esd (unless installing esd asks about removing pulseaudio first).

Is port 3389 open at the work's firewall?

I can hint biting the bullet, and creating a dualboot system where the physical windoze installation can also be used as a virtual machine. Just follow the guide here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9697 It works well for me at three different machines. The VM performance is not stellar, but pretty much acceptable, if your laptop has some nuts (e.g dualcore CPU, 2+ GB of RAM). VM performance with VMWare is certainly better, but you have to go the other way round (that is first installing windows natively, not in VM, without any drivers, and only then creating the VM within Linux). Dealing with the bootlader in VMware is trickier than in VirtualBox, but quite manageable.

Anyway, all these are hardly relevant to the issue with Rhythmbox. Please check if everything in your ~/.gconf directory is writable, and is owned by the user. If not, then # chown -R ben:ben /home/ben/.gconf

Ummm, not sure this is the reason, but I can see in the log several lines complaining about lack of space in your home directory. Can you give us a "df" output?

It's not just only games. Many professionals can't use Linux right now- musicians, designers, publishers. Linux has an exhellent kernel for demanding audio jobs, but virtually no support at all for common editing plugins (VST, VSTI, RTAS). All of them are well supported in OSX, so I guess importing them to Linux should not be a great deal, but since the userbase is less than minimal, most, if not all, vendors of such plugins are simply not interested spending money to port their plugins to a potentially unapetizing market. VST was recently planted natively to many Linux audio editors/sequencers, but the way they work leaves A LOT to be desired. No VSTI or RTAS yet, and dunno when they will be available. For designers, all existing editors are either poor, or amateurish, compared to (say) Dreamweaver or Quark XPress. Heck, even Gimp may be a great app, but when it comes to color management, it simply sucks- bigtime. For publishers, the almost non-existing support for CMYK color palettes and printing in Linux, makes it a no-no.

Likely a segfault/bug. Actually while not a GNOME fun, I do like Rhythmbox, despite its heavy GNOME dependencies. I think I like Listen 0.6.X better, but it's really a matter of taste. Can you repeat the instance, but running rhythmbox like strace -o debug.log rhythmbox After the crash, you will find a file named "debug.log" at your user's root folder (it can be quite large) which you can submit either here, or at the Mandriva bugtracker.

The real troublemaker is probably perl-tk. This bug seems related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491536

It doesn't seem to be an option yet- with, or without guest additions installed. Have in mind the screen in virtualBox is effectively a terminal, not a real physical display. I haven't seen this option in VMWare, either.

gxine is not a dependency to ANY other package- that is for sure. Removing it should remove NO-OTHER-PACKAGE. Quite obviously you were trying to remove other things in parallel. BTW all that is also Greek to me... :P Anyway, packages named "gzine" and "drake" do not exist at all. If you want help, you must give accurate failure reports. Else, noone will be able (or care) to help.

Firefox 3.5.X is MUCH faster, quite stable, and using less resources. Having KDE looks at your GTK+ apps is as easy as installing either qtcurve-KDE4 and qtcurve-gtk and using that theme, or alternatively using gtk-qt-engine. There's no"best" solution here- Ubuntu and mandriva use qtcurve, SuSE uses gtk-qt... you can just pick the one that looks best to you. There is also a rather nice and quite congigurable oxygen icon theme for GTK, named "hydroxygen".

Adding your user to the scanner group is the normal way to do things, but still I'm surprised your other scanner was working as plain user without setting him the right group priviledges.

Working on it since early morning. No plasma crashes, great looks, very good usability. It may not be as complete, or stable, as KDE 3.5.10 yet, but (IMHO) it's about time for everyone to move forward.

That's strange... the above command SHOULD list all groups users "matthew" and "root" belong, respectively. Instead, it returns only the primary group... What about cat /etc/group as root? It should return a fairly long list.