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kde problem

by doug waud

Hi all I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook running SuSE 7.0 (personal edition) with kde as the window manager. For reasons unknown (to me at least) I can no longer click on an icon, for example, the shell icon, on the Kpanel and get a response. Also, the icons on the desktop, netscape and soffice, for example, have disappeared. Finally, if I click on the K menu button I can navigate out to the various programs, but again nothing responds. I can however, hit Alt/F2, get a command window, type in netscape, xterm or soffice, and the respective application comes up! I have searched the web and found no hints as to what might be going on. I happen to have the Que "Practical KDE" by Dennis Powell where, on page 46, under "Troubleshooting" there is a section "KDE starts but Applications won't". He suggests a chmod 1777 /tmp which I tried (and got drwxrwxrwt which says I didn't hit a typo) but the problem remained. I also tried chmod -RV 1777 /tmp to recursively chmod (I found several subdirectories in /tmp) but again without success. :-( The KDE version is 1.1.2 according to the SuSE box. The kernel is 2.2.12 (but, that, I suspect, is irrelevant). So, my specific question is "has anyone out there seen this and/or knows the solution/fix?". If not, a broader question is "what would you try next?" (without blowing away everything and reinstalling linux :-) --- this same SuSE/KDE works fine on a Dell desktop box). As you might gather, I have reached the point where I am open to suggestions of any kind :-) doug

April 24, 2001

RE: [Wlug] VAX/VMS

by Evans, Robert

At this link you can get it from the source: http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ Then try going to OpenVMS Documentation where you can find: OpenVMS Guide to System Security -Robert N. Evans Software Engineering Stratus Computer -----Original Message----- >>Hey, >> >> I was wondering if any of you knew reliable and accurate sites on >>VAX/VMS especially things that deal with networking and security. I need to >>right a technical paper on those. And I'm at a lost of reliable sources

April 23, 2001

VAX/VMS

by Geoff

Hey, I was wondering if any of you knew reliable and accurate sites on VAX/VMS especially things that deal with networking and security. I need to right a technical paper on those. And I'm at a lost of reliable sources since google is me 9,000 plus sites and at the ones I've looked at none of them are what I am looking for. Geoffrey Phillips +01-508-795-6841 geoff_phillips(a)acm.org (Professional) gphillips(a)clarkie.net (Professional) resume at: http://www.clarkie.net/

April 23, 2001

Re: [Wlug] In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Wesley T Allen

I just might be interested in doing that. One other question.... Would 9 people be interested in getting Alpha Centauri, if I can get both of these games for $20.00, that would be REALLY COOL. Wes On 20 Apr 2001 10:01:47 -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: > Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? > > I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 20, 2001

In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Keller, Tim

Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) Tim.

April 20, 2001

Re: [Wlug] In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Doctor Orbitz

Is Tribes 2 an FPS (liek Quake and such?) Sounds like fun. My only problem is games run at liek 7FPS on me. I have an Athlon 750mhz with a GeForce 256 running the Nvidia drivers (gotta check for latest) but Quake 3 runs like hell. I tried switchign to 16bpp, no go. I think maybe the problem is that I cannot change my Virtual desktop size lower then 1280x1024...any ideas? Orbitz "Keller, Tim" wrote: > Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? > > I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 20, 2001

Re: [Wlug] lilo

by doug waud

Hi > I was wondering if anyone can help me with lilo. When > I boot my machine it only displays LI. I seem to > remember this having to do something with the drive > geometry. Any Ideas? I also installed grub which > when I boot just displays GRUB. What could be wrong? Start with the Lilo User's guide, troubleshooting, Boot loader messages http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/node68.html#SECTION006200000000000… (the main page is http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/user.html in case I screwed up that more specific pointer) :-) I find this whole document is the "bible" for lilo. doug -- Douglas R Waud 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Marc Hughes

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > > Third, there are hundreds of thousands of developers using Delphi who now > can use their familiar development environment to do Linux applications. I > believe this will have a major impact on the Linux world and give C a run > for its money. Will it supplant C? Of course not! Will it provide a > credible alternative? You bet! Like Me! I've been doing Delphi for the past 4 years at my job. Up until now, it's been Delphi at work, PERL/C/PHP/etc. at home. This Monday I'm starting a Linux job... you better believe that I'm going to push to get a copy of Kylix there! I more relate Delphi (and hence Kylix) with Java in programming style. It just "feels" more like Java, just about everything passed by reference, meager garbage collection, and kick ass utility classes. But the real power is in the development environment, not the language. I can slap together a nice looking application that does something usefull in half a day. Using GTK or QT it takes me that long just to get the GUI right. Expect to see a lot more graphical applications (even tho most will be crap) as soon as the Free version is released. -Marc

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Doug Chamberlin

At 4/16/2001 11:50 PM (Monday), Tom Guilderson wrote: >I won't proceed to thrash pascal since I have never really done any >development in pascal, but the linux/unix development world is dominated >by C. [more snipped] If you are going to do any >serious development in a Unix environment, you will need to know C. This has certainly been true for a long time. However, Kylix is a significant departure from that history and a significant event worth noting. Why? First, the version of Pascal that Borland has evolved is "not your father's Pascal". In it's Delphi form it is fully equivalent to C++ in power and efficiency. Second, Delphi (and it's Turbo Pascal ancestor) have never been ported from the DOS/Windows environment before (except for a brief aborted visit to the Mac OS). Therefore, no one using the Unix platforms has been able to evaluate it properly. With Kylix this will be possible. Third, there are hundreds of thousands of developers using Delphi who now can use their familiar development environment to do Linux applications. I believe this will have a major impact on the Linux world and give C a run for its money. Will it supplant C? Of course not! Will it provide a credible alternative? You bet! Interesting times, indeed!

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Dennis Payne

> I won't proceed to thrash pascal since I have never really done any > development in pascal, but the linux/unix development world is dominated > by C. If it is not written in C, then the interpreter, byte code > interpreter/virtaul machine for the language was likely written in C > (perl, tcl/tk, python, java etc etc). C is also the language that gives > you the best interfaces for system calls into the low level aspects of > unix such as the file systems, I/O etc. If you are going to do any > serious development in a Unix environment, you will need to know C. Pascal and C are so similar in capabilities, the argument presented here is confusing. Except for strings there is no reason, Pascal couldn't directly interface the system calls as C. The free pascal compiler has a C string type and can do just what I suggested (or at least that is what the documentation suggests). The language that the interpreter, compiler or whatever is written in doesn't disprove the viability of languages only proves the flexibility of C. Assuming that's true, free pascal is written in pascal. (Perhaps instead of BSD/Linux where the GNU tools are replaced with BSD tools someone could make a distribution using only Pascal, ADA, etc.) (I don't mean to start a holy war. Considering the author suggested python, tcl/tk, etc. as tools, he obviously doesn't believe C is the best tool for every job. These statements just bothered me.) Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

April 19, 2001