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Welcome Center / Re: Introducing Yertle

« Last post by Artim on Today at 04:41:25 AM »

Welcome!  You're a great story teller! I never did the Arch thing because I read it was second only to Gentoo in being deliberately as difficult as possible so it's users can feel especially proud and accomplished doing ordinary tasks the rest of us do with a single click.  But I did play with Slackware just for grins, because I wanted some alternative to the 'buntus. 

I too expected to just use the miniME CD to install PCLinuxOS and figured I'd just tie Xfce on afterwards.  But exploring KDE a little has at least delayed that decision for awhile.  I'm surprised how well this KDE desktop works on a nine-year-old Dell with 512 of RAM!  The file manager ticked me off enough to get itself removed and replaced, and I've experienced a couple of slow-downs which may or may not be due to the interface.  I expected this desktop to be a total resource hog, but even with pretty desktop widget thingys it's really not.  Perhaps if I was better at multi-tasking it wouldn't work so well for me.

The Xfce edition of PCLOS is an older one and a challenge to get updated.  Prob'ly better to use the miniME to install, then add task-xfce to it from Synaptic.  Or wait for the Xfce edition which is being worked on to be released "when it's ready" rather than on a date certain, ready or not.  Awesome.

Anyway, welcome!  This is the friendliest community of helpful people that you'll find in any distro's support forums.

Still exploring and still impressed,
Artim

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Desktop Hardware / Re: Scanner not recognized, epson sx105

« Last post by Webt on Today at 04:38:10 AM »

Very little to add, except that I struggled for three years to get my epson to scan with pclos. No joy. I have yet to hear of anyone using pclos getting an epson scanner scanning! Bite the bullet, give it away, buy a cheapo HP. Works out of the box.

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Code Hackers / Re: community project,a Qt/KDE technology based update notifier

« Last post by atolboo on Today at 04:36:59 AM »

.... do you use "qt linguist" program or you edit the file "by hand" using a text editor like kwrite?

I use Qt Linguist to translate them and all 3 are visible there.
The internal viewer of Krusader is used to identify where they are situated in the source code.

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General / Accidentally reformatted a 2 GB partition so what now

« Last post by wedgetail on Today at 04:33:45 AM »

I guess I am due for such a 'disaster' as the topic line says. The situation has bearing on my other topic about revamping my system to go along with Old-Polack's Linux multiboot approach to configure his computer, so running a number of variations of PCLinuxOS installs in such a manner that your working Display is the same common interface. (Avoiding to customise to your particular taste everytime you install a test system, that got stuck in my head)

I have an old dual boot Windows/PCLinux drive where I am not quite ready to ditch the Windows part. I rummaged around and found a 20GB IBM IDE drive, and since my test pc has dual IDE channels I decided to replace the 80GB Windows/PCLinuxOS drive.

I have reset all bytes to zero using the dangerous dd command. The partitioned first partition,  /dev/sda1 is 2GB and LABEL=BOOT-D

It was when applying formatting the partition I slipped.

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[root@KDE32M1 ~]# mkfs -t ext4 -L BOOT-D /dev/sdc1
It should have been /dev/sda1

This is an identical partition size and the LABEL=BOOT-A , it has been formatted with the same tool, so not much has changed apart from the name, and yeah it is of course empty now.  The question is how empty? I say this because I have been in far worse situations and tried to recover, both under windows and Linux, albeit with varying success and expended a lot of time and effort (for educational purpose of course  ).

In this case if I lose the information I will not be devastated as it is a test pc I am using and I think it will need some re-build anyway.  I have decided however that I will relearn about this and make some attempts, before doing anything.

1..  Available a spare partition on this drive (only has 3 partitions and the /dev/sda2 is a 4G swap) , /dev/sda3 while not the best I could use that to store information.
2..  Available what seems to be a very fast USB external drive, could use this to store a file coppy of the 2GB 'accident'

While I think about the next step I would like to ask for suggestions as what you would do ( apart from giving up  )

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Code Hackers / Re: community project,a Qt/KDE technology based update notifier

« Last post by muungwana on Today at 04:31:45 AM »

Well, the number of packages to be upgraded and replaced (first two lines) don't stay in the line but go below, to the next line.

It does the same thing even in english. I suspect to have something in a line,the text has to have a certain range of characters.Too many and some will fall to the next line,too little and some from the lower line will move up.This is just a guess though.I tried adding space characters and they were simply ignored.

I think the problem is that we are having too much text there and the bubble uses some intelligence to make them fit but it ends up messing up the format.

I will change the text to make it look like below,suggestions welcomed

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Software / Re: KDE 4.10.1 woes

« Last post by JohnW_57 on Today at 04:28:47 AM »

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,116404.0.html

Added xorg to the repository sections (I'm using http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/) Reload (brought mesa and various X packages), Mark, Apply and reboot.

Desktop effects now work.

Mouse problem is gone.

It still crashes occasionally.

And setting are not saved

BTW why isn't xorg part of the default sections?

Please read other topics or search for it!

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,116404.msg992615.html#msg992615

JohnW

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Desktop Hardware / Re: Scanner not recognized, epson sx105

« Last post by Aleph on Today at 04:27:54 AM »

I installed sane-backends-iscan-firmware and sane-backends-iscan-proprietary-drivers from synaptic but doesn't works.

Memo to phil - Never buy an Epson printer/scanner.

Why?

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Software / Re: KDE 4.10.1 (or perhaps X) woes

« Last post by JohnW_57 on Today at 04:24:19 AM »

The crash happens when I quickly click on a Taskbar thumbnail.

The problem seem to go away after I change the Qt graphics system in Configure desktop effects / Advanced tab from Native to Raster.  Looks like this one https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268384

To solve try this: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,115351.msg985379.html#msg985379

In Smooth Tasks Settings -> Appearance -> Tool Tip there is a check box labelled Hide Tool Tip after Click.

JohnW

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Code Hackers / Re: community project,a Qt/KDE technology based update notifier

« Last post by agmg on Today at 04:23:18 AM »

 

Well, the number of packages to be upgraded and replaced (first two lines) don't stay in the line but go below, to the next line.

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Code Hackers / Re: community project,a Qt/KDE technology based update notifier

« Last post by muungwana on Today at 04:20:12 AM »

I installed qt-update-notifier-1.4.2-3pclos2013.i586.rpm from the link that ghostbunny provided.
Had the same issue with atolboo but once I removed the two folders suggested by muungwana, everything is OK.
Having a final review of my translation in case I need to change anything before the next version.

The only issue that remains is this one:

The two paths are files that held log outputs.
The new version will use different file names so the problem would not be there.

what is the issue in that image? that looks like ancient greek to me
I am  having fun with your language,i have already used "ancient greek" to mean something is beyond by ability to reason with it