Maxwell Rain

Tnx, Galeon works like a charm

thanks, I will try this as soon as I can. Right now I have to go out and celebrate the beginning of a new academic semester Thank you for the help.... again. Hopefully one day, I will be able to do the same for others

As a normal user it didn't make any difference. A lot of noise, but no screen. As root it worked. The Mozilla browser opened without a problem. So now, I can work in Mozila by becoming root in the Konsole. But I just want it to work in my IcewM menu Any ideas on how to tackle this ?

Hello, I'm working with Mandrake 9.2. on the IceWM Window Manager. I've tried installing Mozilla from the Mandrake ISO discs. It shows up in the menu, but when I click it nothing happens. Well, the hard-disk starts working, but Mozilla won't start. Not with the browser, not with the newsclient. Not that it would make a difference I think, but it's the same when I work on KDE-desktop. Quote: I also think Mozilla-mail is very good. If you already have Mozilla installed, it may also be available on your box. To find out, go to a terminal and type: mozilla --mail [enter] If it doesn't come up, it should be fairly easy to install. I've tried that as well. Same thing, hard disk starts working, but mozilla won't start. And I'm sure installed the browser and the mail/news-client. Does anyone know what the problem might be ? Greetz, Maxwell Rain.

Thanks, I was beginning to think the same

Yes, I looked there. but, euhm, well, I didn't find it (now that's not a new story is it). I used the search function as well. No luck. I did do an install with the tarball from OpenOffice.org, and not of the Mandrake discs. I didn't know it was on those discs. Damnit, These first linux steps are complicated. And I haven't even begun getting the sound working

I would like to Uninstall OpenOffice from my Mandrake 9.2. system. Currently using IceWM as window manager. I ran the setup file as local user, and was able to uninstall the local setup for Openoffice. But can't seem to uninstall it completely from my workstation. The Uninstall deletes OpenOffice in : /home/maxwell/OpenOfficexxx But in /opt/OpenOffice/ nothing happens. It won't uninstall there. I tried running the setup as root, but then the Konsole doesn't recognize "setup" as a command. On the OpenOffice site I can't find any information, and via google most searches come up with windows uninstall information. Anyone here with any experience in uninstalling OpenOffice ? Thank you.

Wait, I think I got it ! Boot Options --> "No I don't want auto-login" --> rebooted et voila, login-screen. I should have seen this before, you stated it a couple of messages ago. I'm in 8) Thanks for all the help, you're a lifesaver

Quote: type: su [enter] it will ask for password to become root. as root type: kdm [enter] if you have kdm installed, a box will come up which is the kde login manager. Right up to there I knew where we were heading. But... no login manager. It's just boots up again. ;( Is there anywhere where I can get to the login manager ? Is this an option I should activate somewhere ? Maybe some usefull information, I'm not sure. But I'm the only user in this computer. Root and Maxwell are the same. Well, there is only one normal user : "maxwell", and then of course there's root. Maybe this has something to do with the not appearing login manager ? 'Cause I would really like to look at IceWM and smoke it over btw: I really appreciate all the help you're giving me

okay, it just changed here. I rebooted not using the "default graphical interface"-option (is that auto-login ?) username, password then "startx" KDE booted then I did Ctrl-Alt-Backspace And I'm now staring at a command line as a normal user. [maxwell@localhost maxwell]$ What do I need to do ?

*cough* huh ? Well, I turn on the computer, and it starts up, boots up KDE and that's it. No login whatsoever, and no typing. Just waiting for it to boot up. Can I change this ? And how ? In the Boot-menu under the Mandrake Control Center: should I tell it not to launch the graphical environment when the starts ? I'll just try that this time.

Quote: Maxwell Rain, as far as office apps go, I don't use Open/Star office because it's resource hog! It's getting better though. I like both Abiword and Kword as word processors but mostly use Abiword since it is more versatile and easy on resources. If you need a spreadsheet program, Gnumeric is the king! We use it on a daily basis at our radio station and it has never crashed once! Tnx, I will try some of the word-processors you mentioned

You are right, there shouldn't be any need to install IceWM on top of the already installed version. But I was under the impression that it didn't install, since I didn't see any options when rebooting. Turned out I had to change my boot-configuration to launch IceWM at startup. But : that didn't work... It just rebooted under KDE So I tried the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace... didn't work either. I just popped right back into loading KDE. So then I tried choosing "Failsafe". So then I got: Quote: Telling INIT to go to single user mode INIT: Going single user sh-2.05b# So this didn't work. Now what do I do ? ;(

Okay, I donwloaded IceWM from the homepage, and restarted the install as stated in this page : http://jetblackz.nabaza.org/InstallingIceWM.html Quote: tar zxvf icewm-1.2.13.tar.gz cd icewm-1.2.13 ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6 --exec-prefix=/usr/X11R6 --with-imlib --without-xpm --enable-gradients --enable-shaped-decorations --enable-xfreetype --disable-corefonts make && make install cd .. && rm -fr icewm-1.2.13 icewm --version When I entered the command given there, I got this error : Quote: configure: WARNING : you should use --build, --host, --target configure : WARNING : invalid host type : ./configure configure: error : unrecognized option: --enable-gradients Try './configur --help" for more information [root@localhost icewm-1.2.13] # make && make install make[1]: gcc: command not found make[1] : *** [ymsgbox.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/maxwell/icewm1.2.13/src" make: *** [base] error 2 [root@localhost icewm-1.2.13]# cd .. && rm -fr icewm-1.2.13 [root@localhost maxwell]# icewm --version What did just happen ? ;(

Quote: As I suspected, the power of your system is limited, but enough to find a solution. Hopefull, 'cause no way in hell I'm going back to using Windows. I made the jump, and now I'm staying in