FullMonty-DVD: installation and maintenance

[DeBaas]

Got it with the A) instructions
Ignored the localization questions during the process, but all's well.....
Thanks
Ed

[pinoc]

Got it with the A instructions
Thanks
Ed

GOOD! Quite a relief to hear it is working. Don't even want to think about people downloading a 4GB iso and then it get's borked with an update...
best,
-p.

[saiyuki]

Hi. I made a new text file on the desktop, and was suprised to find i needed to supply a password before i could open it to type anything  Also the text file was duplicated across all 6 desktops. I seem to recall (probably wrong though), that each desktop would be seperate with the 4.6 update. Is this normal?

Regards saiyuki

[pinoc]

Hi. I made a new text file on the desktop, and was suprised to find i needed to supply a password before i could open it to type anything  Also the text file was duplicated across all 6 desktops. I seem to recall (probably wrong though), that each desktop would be seperate with the 4.6 update. Is this normal?

Regards saiyuki

Creating a new file as user on the desktop does not require a password upon opening. Files on the desktop are in the virtual desktop 7 which is common to all 6 FM-desktops and for this reason such a file appears on all 6 FM-desktops. If you want to have a file only on one given FM-desktop then you should place this file inside an existing container. For example, assume your file is a text document, select the FM-desktop 2 (Office) and drag/drop the file from the desktop into the container Office, then choose Move Here and your new file will be in this container and no longer on all 6 FM-desktops. Equally you can move launchers or files outside any container. Each container is just a directory, for example the Office container on desktop 2 is located at ~/.kde4/vdt/2/2a/ and files/images or whatever you put in this directory will appear in this container on the desktop. Similar for all other containers available under ~/.kde4/vdt/. But be careful what you change in there, these directories are hidden for a reason 
hope this helps,
-p.   

[saiyuki]

Thanks for the info. I'll stick with creating text files in the Document folder instead of the desktop. Knowing my dysloxic fingers i'll muck it up 

Regards saiyuki

[DLWood]

Fix on fresh FM installation worked like a charm.  I now notice that both Firefox and Thunderbird won't start when clicking the icons on the Internet desktop.  When entered in a terminal, I get:

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[user1@localhost ~]$ thunderbird
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/home/user1/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied

What to do?  Chromium and Opera work just fine.

[pinoc]

Fix on fresh FM installation worked like a charm.  I now notice that both Firefox and Thunderbird won't start when clicking the icons on the Internet desktop.  When entered in a terminal, I get:

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[user1@localhost ~]$ thunderbird
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/home/user1/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied

What to do?  Chromium and Opera work just fine.

don't know, from a fully updated FM Firefox and Thunderbird start just fine here. Check the permissions of /home/user1/.gnome2 they should be user1.user1  if your account is called user1. If not change them accordingly, from a root-konsole enter:

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chown -R user1.user1 /home/user1/.gnome2regards,
-p.

[Texstar]

Fix on fresh FM installation worked like a charm.  I now notice that both Firefox and Thunderbird won't start when clicking the icons on the Internet desktop.  When entered in a terminal, I get:

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[user1@localhost ~]$ thunderbird
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/home/user1/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied

What to do?  Chromium and Opera work just fine.

Open a terminal , su to root and type chown -R yourname:yourname /home/yourname  with yourname being your user name that you are using.

example:

[root@localhost ~]# chown -R texstar:texstar /home/texstar
chown: cannot access `/home/texstar/.gvfs': Permission denied (you can ignore this)
[root@localhost ~]#

[DLWood]

Changing permissions did it.  I looked at the user1 home folder and the only thing that had root as the owner was that .gnome2 folder.  Now I think I know why....when I did a fresh installation of FM last night, the installation stopped at the login prompt instead of going to graphic login.  I logged in as root, did "startx",  and installed it that way.  Forgot about that.

Another question though??  .....  It seems only while in the FM (not PCLOS KDE 2010.12), the dropdown choices in some dropdown boxes disappear when I move the mouse to select one of the choices.  The KDE Configure Your Desktop searchbox is one example.  Is there a setting that I can change to make the dropdown choices persistent?

[pinoc]

Changing permissions did it.  I looked at the user1 home folder and the only thing that had root as the owner was that .gnome2 folder.  Now I think I know why....when I did a fresh installation of FM last night, the installation stopped at the login prompt instead of going to graphic login.  I logged in as root, did "startx",  and installed it that way.  Forgot about that.

Another question though??  .....  It seems only while in the FM (not PCLOS KDE 2010.12), the dropdown choices in some dropdown boxes disappear when I move the mouse to select one of the choices.  The KDE Configure Your Desktop searchbox is one example.  Is there a setting that I can change to make the dropdown choices persistent?

and again, no such issues here with KDE Configure Your Desktop. Can you try to setup a new user-account and test if you have the same issues there? Maybe best to start with a fresh new user-account.
-p.

[DLWood]

Setting up a new account didn't resolve the dropdown issue for me.  I've installed FM on maybe 3 or 4 computers since the Jan ISO, and every one of them has had this minor issue.  Thanks pinoc and Tex for the permission help.

[ebvt]

I'm just in drakelive-install of the latest FM over an older edition of fm which had a 12gb / partition. Installer keeps telling me I don't have enough space but I don't seem to be able to increase that old root partition above 12gb Have already reduce the size of home, but that did not resolve it. I am no custom installation man and seem to be stuck here. The livecd works well on the sony vaio but keeps telling me I don't have enough space. Can someone help?

ebvt

[pinoc]

I'm just in drakelive-install of the latest FM over an older edition of fm which had a 12gb / partition. Installer keeps telling me I don't have enough space but I don't seem to be able to increase that old root partition above 12gb Have already reduce the size of home, but that did not resolve it. I am no custom installation man and seem to be stuck here. The livecd works well on the sony vaio but keeps telling me I don't have enough space. Can someone help?

ebvt

Hi ebvt,
don't quite see how you could have FM on a 12GB / partition, this is just not enough. You need at the very least 15GB, better 20 or 30GB. My suggestion is to backup your personal files to an external disk and start with a new clean install as described in the Installation Help on desktop 6 of the FullMonty liveDVD.
regards,
-p.

[ebvt]

Thanks much, pinoc, I guess I had forgotten that I have to delete some partitions before I can create new ones The new system works like it should - I love it!

ebvt

[j-retired]

Thanks pinoc, for the instructions on restoring the fm desktop after updating. (Reply 27)  Works perfectly!

j