On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:05 +0100, Peter Onion wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:18 +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
System Suse 9.3 Pro, on KDE and Gnome when opening home folder View/Show Hidden files, I have .evolution with mail folders There was an lot of bugs in the when I first got it (Apr.) so maybe updates have cured it? I Regards-Nick Daniels
FANTASTIC ! ! ! Well done Nick, you have won first prize. View Hidden Files revealed everything in the home folder, including .evolution
What is this "View Hidden Files" you speak of ?
"ls -al" is what you need when looking for things in a directory, not some browser thing-a-ma-bob ! Next you'll be telling us you used to use windows ! ;-)
As a 'novice' I have no idea what 'ls -al' is all about, but I certainly would like to know, maybe you would explain it for me. Whilst on the subject of command line instructions, a little while ago I picked up a book "UNIX The Complete Reference". Knowing that Linux is based on UNIX, can I assume that this book will help me with Linux, or are the two separate?
Let us know what's good in 9.3 when you get it.
Peter
Well, it is all installed and working really well. With Gnome it is almost like using OS X on the Mac.
One major problem though, and one miner 'niggle'.
The big problem first: When I boot the system (or re-boot), once it's all loaded I get an error box on the screen that says: "Failed to load image ximian - openoffice - writer.png" Details: icon not found. I click ok and the box goes and never comes back. Open Office loads okay (it's OO02) and everything about it 'seems' to be working. So what do I need to do to stop that error message, and, HOW do I do it?
The other problem is another iconic fault. This is with Evolution. If I click the evolution icon on the task bar at the top of the screen, I get an error message box that says: "Cannot Launch Icon" Details:Failed to execute child. Process "evolution-2.0" (no such file or directory). However, if I click Applications, Internet, E-mail, Evolution, everything works just fine. prove of that is the fact that I am sending this email.
Sorry, whilst I am at it, there is one more. I tried to re-install my backups from the CD I burned. But I cannot mount the CD or DVD drives as I don't have permission (as a user). I can re-boot the machine and log in as root, and then mount the drive and copy the files over, and then re-boot as user. But if I do that I still can't access fy info (address book etc.) as they 'belong' to root! So, how do I mount the drives as user?
Lots there to ponder, sorry.
Thank you in anticipation
Peter