Re : [SUSE] Re-installation oddities
Probably all you canny chaps out there know about these things, but I found them decidedly peculiar. 1. When the install froze, it had already reformatted both hard-disks. It left me, as reported, with a login screen I have never seen before and what I think must have been a German keyboard lay-out. After some fiddling, I discovered that it had somehow retained my old root login password - difficult to get it right on an unknown keyboard, but trial and error, plus a deep belief in the goodness of angels, got me there. How,and why did it do that? 2. When I got into the programme, it had set up a minimal system, which I was able to complete from the CD - although it still kept complaining about read errors. I was then able to install StarOffice 6.0. This time, the screen fonts are acceptable. Why would they not have been on the full install last time, and yet work on the wonky install this time? 3. When I log out of a KDE session, it returns me to that khaki coloured login again. If I log back in, I automatically find myself in KDE. At no time am I offered the choice of another window manager. How do I get the old KDE login back. 4.The version of Mozilla that has been installed from the SUSE CDs has no mail client. Is this normal? I don't miss it in the ordinary way, as I use another mail programme, but it means that there's no way of responding to web-page mailtos. Best wishes Timothy Mason
On Monday 21 April 2003 12:04, Timothy Mason wrote:
Probably all you canny chaps out there know about these things, but I found them decidedly peculiar.
1. When the install froze, it had already reformatted both hard-disks. It left me, as reported, with a login screen I have never seen before and what I think must have been a German keyboard lay-out. After some fiddling, I discovered that it had somehow retained my old root login password - difficult to get it right on an unknown keyboard, but trial and error, plus a deep belief in the goodness of angels, got me there. How,and why did it do that?
2. When I got into the programme, it had set up a minimal system, which I was able to complete from the CD - although it still kept complaining about read errors. I was then able to install StarOffice 6.0. This time, the screen fonts are acceptable. Why would they not have been on the full install last time, and yet work on the wonky install this time?
3. When I log out of a KDE session, it returns me to that khaki coloured login again. If I log back in, I automatically find myself in KDE. At no time am I offered the choice of another window manager. How do I get the old KDE login back.
4.The version of Mozilla that has been installed from the SUSE CDs has no mail client. Is this normal? I don't miss it in the ordinary way, as I use another mail programme, but it means that there's no way of responding to web-page mailtos.
I noticed that there was a mozilla-mail RPM installed with 8.2. Since I use a later mozilla I never checked to see what got installed but you might have to invoke 'mozilla with mail' in a different way than mozilla without mail. There were two mozilla RPMS: mozilla-1.2.1 .... and mozilla-mail-1.2.1
Best wishes
Timothy Mason
* Bruce Marshall (bmarsh@bmarsh.com) [030421 09:10]: ->> ->> 4.The version of Mozilla that has been installed from the SUSE CDs has ->> no mail client. Is this normal? I don't miss it in the ordinary way, as ->> I use another mail programme, but it means that there's no way of ->> responding to web-page mailtos. -> ->I noticed that there was a mozilla-mail RPM installed with 8.2. Since I use ->a later mozilla I never checked to see what got installed but you might have ->to invoke 'mozilla with mail' in a different way than mozilla without mail. -> All the components of Mozilla are broken up into seperate pkgs. It's been this way for several releases. Just fire up YaST2 go to the add software second and you'll be able to add them. :) Or you can right click on the mailto's and select copy target then paste the email address into your mailer which is what I do since I use Mutt. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
On Monday 21 April 2003 17:04, Timothy Mason wrote:
4.The version of Mozilla that has been installed from the SUSE CDs has no mail client. Is this normal? I don't miss it in the ordinary way, as I use another mail programme, but it means that there's no way of responding to web-page mailtos.
Except telling Mozilla to use your preferred mail client, of course... Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
--- Dylan
Except telling Mozilla to use your preferred mail client, of course...
IIRC, the ability to configure Mozilla to use third party mail clients for purposes of mailto: links has not yet been implemented in the current development tree. I do recall reading somewhere that it's scheduled to be added in the future, however. Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
On Monday 21 April 2003 17:39, Charles Griffin wrote:
--- Dylan
wrote: Except telling Mozilla to use your preferred mail client, of course...
IIRC, the ability to configure Mozilla to use third party mail clients for purposes of mailto: links has not yet been implemented in the current development tree. I do recall reading somewhere that it's scheduled to be added in the future, however.
Yet another reason not to use it, I see. Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
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