[expert] Disappearing Menus

2001-01-19 Thread Ronnie Whipp
e, and can be triggered from Konsole, and I can then use it (as root) to place it unnder (say) StartMenu - Applications - FileTools. But it would be nice for the reference in StartMenu - Panel to work. There must be a file somewhere that I can edit: any ideas? Ronnie Whipp

Re: [expert] Start X-Server

2000-12-03 Thread Ronnie Whipp
, there is no 'need' to stop at display :1, the same procedure with :2 will give you a desktop under C+A+F9, etc, but you have to use a different (text) console for each username. Ronnie Whipp. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]&quo

Re: [expert] edit PATH environment

2000-12-03 Thread Ronnie Whipp
, the latter as well if using Mandrake.) In profile, apart from editing the path you'll also need to edit the 'Mandrake security lines at various points. Once I have an /etc/profile that suits me, I save it to floppy, and copy it each time an install is necessary. Ronnie Whipp. Keep in touch

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 Menu Update

2000-12-02 Thread Ronnie Whipp
the 'Edit Menus' in the Panel section doesn't function either. Failing that, kmenuedit is in /usr/bin, and is part of kdebase. From there you can get it working: but NOT the one in the Panel sectiom. Ronnie Whipp == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[

[expert] KDE Konsole: Linux Console setting?

2000-11-29 Thread Ronnie Whipp
font. Any suggestions, please? Ronnie Whipp. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] CP command

2000-11-14 Thread Ronnie Whipp
, but with 7.1 they're 0777. I installed using 'Welcome to Crackers'security and added passwds later, if that makes any difference. Ronnie Whipp Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Playing MIDI files

2000-11-05 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Tom Massey wrote: Ronnie Whipp wrote: BUT, it would be nice to be able to replay thru Linux. Have you tried 'playmidi' in a terminal? I hadn't, but have now! Thanks very much. Playmidi seems to work OK, but 'can' ignore short term tempo changes, which are unfortunately necessary

[expert] Playing MIDI files

2000-11-04 Thread Ronnie Whipp
- it will in windows. (Winamp will play mp3 files thru linux, so something's working) Ronnie Whipp Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] root password

2000-11-01 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Ronnie Whipp am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:01:52PM +: My problem is that, having had to reinstall w98, I cant get grub back; DrakConf put in LILO instead -- any suggestions as root run sh /boot/grub/install.sh to install grub again. Alexander Skwar

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-31 Thread Ronnie Whipp
the selection click 'add', duplicate the linux entry using the name, say, 'single', and put the word 'single' into the append field: then you have the additional entry to scroll down to. My problem is that, having had to reinstall w98, I cant get grub back; DrakConf put in LILO instead -- any sugge

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Chris Spencer wrote: Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is

Re: [expert] c++ standard header missing

2000-10-30 Thread Ronnie Whipp
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:02:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #I check with webmin and kpackage to confirm this and my box have this package is this enaugh? or is there any more package i'm missing? - gcc-c++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm installed -

Re: [expert] pppd dead

2000-10-30 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Maximo Monsalvo wrote: Y have try to connect to internet in my linux mandrake 7.1 but when connect the next error acurre pppd is dead. Maximo Monsalvo Guspamar S.A Responsable Sistemas Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] c++ standard header missing

2000-10-30 Thread Ronnie Whipp
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:48:59 Ronnie Whipp wrote: .. I may have to do a bit more fiddling first, but at least this gets the old `Hello World' program to compile and work. It's better than nothing. It is worst than nothing. You are mixing he

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-29 Thread Ronnie Whipp
It doesn't on mine either, but at very least you won't have the same PATH environment variable, even though you have the privileges. On of the snags with su, etc. rharvey wrote: that does not make the user truly the same as root. at lest it did not on my system - Original Message