kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 130
BLANDY ALLRED
blandyb at gmail.com
Tue May 29 19:51:13 UTC 2007
I am new but just an FYI you can find lost applications that don't show up
in the Kmenu by going to run command and typing kappfinder and then scanning
for programs and then selecting the ones you want to be added to the kmenu
On 5/29/07, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com <
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> 1. Re: Different results from one install CD: KMenu issues
> (Ollie Killingback)
> 2. Re: QT GTK engine (Donn)
> 3. Re: HELP: Unable to login to computer?? (Donn)
> 4. Re: QT GTK engine (Matthew Flaschen)
> 5. Compatibilitat de monitors amb kubuntu (Eduard Bonet)
> 6. Re: Compatibilitat de monitors amb kubuntu (Eduard Bonet)
> 7. Reloading Experience--Wireless (Larry Hartman)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:20:06 +0100
> From: Ollie Killingback <ollie at techieinblack.info>
> Subject: Re: Different results from one install CD: KMenu issues
> To: Kubuntu Users <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <465BC616.10205 at techieinblack.info>
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> Thanks for that:
>
> Jim said "AFAIK if there are no items in a section eg Edutainment then
> that is not shown", which was the clue I needed. In Games, for example,
> there were some installed, not by me, therefore I suppose part of the
> default set-up, and these didn't appear in the list. But I downloaded a
> few more and all of those plus a decent selection of those that were
> already there now appeared in the Menu. I just added the rest by hand
> by comparing the two machines.
>
> You sometimes just need a hint to learn, and I'm grateful. I'll settle
> for never knowing why the same CD had different results on two machines
> - at least I can deal with this effect now. It's something else to look
> out for when I recommend others to Kubuntu, as I will.
>
> --
> Ollie K
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:30:55 +0200
> From: Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: QT GTK engine
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <200705290830.55762.donn.ingle at gmail.com>
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> > I just found out about the Appearance and Themes -> GTK styles and
> > fonts. I see "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" (that was what I
> > had) and QT in the drop-down. I'm still unsure what I "should" be
> using.
> >
> Far as I know, that's it. It makes GTK apps passingly QTish. I have found
> that
> this level of 'skin' (or whatever it is) makes GTK apps really slow under
> KDE
> and I have since disabled all the illusion.
>
> /d
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:34:28 +0200
> From: Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: HELP: Unable to login to computer??
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net>
> Message-ID: <200705290834.28306.donn.ingle at gmail.com>
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> > I have moved what I stored in .kde-sav to .kde which should have copied
> > over my email. I have about half of my email boxes with information
> > showing in them.
> You should have ALL of the boxes. Something else is going on. Perhaps the
> permissions within the mail directory are weird. You could try to run
> kmail
> from a command-line (open konsole, type kmail, press enter) and watch what
> it
> says -- maybe the problem will be revealed. Also check that your
> missing 'boxes' are not under a sub folder in the new tree.
>
> hth
> /d
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 04:16:35 -0400
> From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: QT GTK engine
> To: Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>, "Ubuntu user technical
> support, not
> for general discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <465BE163.2050302 at gatech.edu>
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> Donn wrote:
> >> I just found out about the Appearance and Themes -> GTK styles and
> >> fonts. I see "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" (that was what I
> >> had) and QT in the drop-down. I'm still unsure what I "should" be
> using.
> >>
> > Far as I know, that's it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > It makes GTK apps passingly QTish. I have found that
>
> Yeah, that seems to be it (I've tried on and off and definitely can see
> the difference) now, but I swear that's the original setting (Use my KDE
> style in GTK applications). Maybe I just had to toggle it...
>
> > this level of 'skin' (or whatever it is) makes GTK apps really slow
> under KDE
> > and I have since disabled all the illusion.
>
> Hmm. I haven't noticed a performance change.
>
> Anyway, I appreciate the confirmation.
>
> Best,
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:51:12 +0200
> From: "Eduard Bonet" <bonedu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Compatibilitat de monitors amb kubuntu
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hola ubuntaires,
>
> He decidit comprar-me un monitor per connectar-lo al port?til; sabeu si hi
> ha marques o models de monitors incompatibles o que donin problemes amb
> Kubuntu? Alguna web on s'hi digui quins s?n compatibles i quins no, una
> cosa
> per l'estil de la que hi ha per targetes inal?mbriques?
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:07:04 +0200
> From: "Eduard Bonet" <bonedu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Compatibilitat de monitors amb kubuntu
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> El 29/05/07, Eduard Bonet <bonedu at gmail.com> ha escrit:
> >
> > Hola ubuntaires,
> >
> > He decidit comprar-me un monitor per connectar-lo al port?til; sabeu si
> hi
> > ha marques o models de monitors incompatibles o que donin problemes amb
> > Kubuntu? Alguna web on s'hi digui quins s?n compatibles i quins no, una
> cosa
> > per l'estil de la que hi ha per targetes inal?mbriques?
> >
>
>
> I am sorry for this message, obvioulsy a mistake; it was thought for the
> catalan kubuntu list.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 06:26:45 -0400
> From: Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Reloading Experience--Wireless
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <200705290626.45492.larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net>
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> For those who are US citizens, hope you all had a good Memorial Day
> weekend.
>
> I had 4 days off and spent some of those four days reloading (K)ubuntu on
> my
> laptop. I decided to do this because I first learned how to use Ubuntu on
> Dapper just before Edgy was released, and had upgraded twice to Feisty. I
> made some mistakes in the initial loading process that I just could not
> resolve that cost me abilities to use some w32codecs-related media. So
> after
> wisdom from 8 months of use and improved packages I reloaded.
>
> My system is an HP dv8000 laptop that comes with two hardware
> difficulties.
> The first is ATI XPress 200M graphics. FGLRX has come a long way in the
> past
> 8 months. The other is the BCM4318 Air Force One wireless. The BCM43xx
> module is too flaky with this card, so I went to NDISWrapper. NDISWrapper
> was not so hard to get working, but Network Manager just would not play
> well.
> I eventually got nm to work ok, but never got my wireless to start
> immediately at boot. So off to the Ubuntu forums I went.
>
> Someone on the forums--I think Compwiz18--posted about a networking tool
> called WICD. It is a replacement for nm that is built in Python. Here is
> the sourceforge website:
>
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/pages/features.php
>
> Let me tell you that for the past 8 months I spent hours on nm to get it
> to
> run properly--and only partly succeeded. WICD, however, was set up in 15
> minutes and working perfectly out of the box--it is a Debian package. I
> suspect that many of Ubuntu/Kubuntu users out there would like to trade in
> nm
> for something better: well here is an opportunity to investigate.
>
> Oh, and BTW, my w32codecs-related media issues are completely resolved. I
> also switched to Firefox from Konqueror, it simply works better on a
> couple
> key websites I visit. Now I am less dependent on M$--and that is a good
> thing in my estimation.
>
> Larry
>
>
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