Mandriva

[proyvind]

LXDE installs fine, haldaemon is present and running but the menu does not show the programs.
In short this is a KDE distro!

I will now reinstall KDE.
Installing flashplugin - not a valid singature there, but it works. To get java up and running I installed
java-1.6.0-sun and that works just fine. (This is all after I have removed the CD repos and added cooker repos)
Mostly this thing works just fine....

PS: java-1.6.0-sun* packages are obsolete, I'd much rather recommend using java-1.7.0-openjdk and icedtea-web for browser plugin.

[proyvind]

Yes, there's a screen very like that particular cross-eyed penguin graphic in the installer that dissolves to a penguin with clear eyes, which part seems new but I might just have overlooked it, before.

It's actually just the same graphics with some minor work done with gimp on it by me..

[rolf]

For my hardware, it seems, and using KDE, this is the least troublesome installation since all of my struggles with every variant of 2011. Good job!

[viking60]

PS: java-1.6.0-sun* packages are obsolete, I'd much rather recommend using java-1.7.0-openjdk and icedtea-web for browser plugin.

OK thanks - will do, but I have heard different things about banking not working with openjdk and icedtea.

[proyvind]

PS: java-1.6.0-sun* packages are obsolete, I'd much rather recommend using java-1.7.0-openjdk and icedtea-web for browser plugin.

OK thanks - will do, but I have heard different things about banking not working with openjdk and icedtea.

Yeah, I've experienced that myself in the past, but it does seem to at least work with dnb.no for me now, something which it didn't in the past.

[viking60]

What I miss on the login screen is the ability to pick a different DE. As long as I can install task-gnome I should be able to switch to it on the login screen.
(I tried to find it in inittab but I gave it up...)

[viking60]

I got Gnome3 working In the traditional KDE I installed task-gnome-minimal + everything else that looked gnome3ish from the 2012 repos.
I also installed gdm. Then I uninstalled KDE and kdm just to make sure....
Rebooted and was met by the good old gdm login screen. I only get Fallback mode in VB - that is normal - but it seems to work fine now.
And now I am re-installing taks-kde-minimal. In a really complicated way I have switched kdm with gdm.
With the gdm login you get to choose your DE.

So now I have both KDE and Gnome working (or I can access both of them).
If I can find a way to transfer my Virtual Machines from Sun version 3.1.8 to this then I guess I will move it to my HW when it is finished.

[dedanna1029]

1) Mandriva task-gnome-minimal is the most you want to start with to install Gnome. If you go any further task-gnome packages up in Mandriva, you will get mono and all sorts of ugliness installed by default. Do the minimal, then add the packages you want.

2) Re: haldaemon. Try in terminal as root (su -):

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/etc/init.d/haldaemon stop

Then, to be sure it's not running, run:

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pkill hald

Then:

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/etc/init.d/haldaemon start

Or:

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/usr/sbin/hald

I've actually started it with the /etc/init.d/haldaemon start command successfully, but I think it may depend on distro.

3) Again, agreed with rolf. I do not use vbox. There is too much variation that I've seen between running in it, and running as a full installation. vbox is an emulator, yes, but it only emulates to a point, then that's it.

hald info.

4) Oh, and also, you will not get anywhere with inittab for the login screen in Mandriva or any of its variants. That is more of an Arch way, and other bsd-type distros (and bsd itself). There is a drak in MCC for that, to choose what DM you want to use, and default WM (if you'll remember, you and I each tried the inittab way on Fedora and something else [can't recall the "something else" offhand], unsuccessfully). Once you choose to use gdm or kdm or whatever in MCC, you can then edit the login screen by editing its .conf file.

5) Very glad to see proyvind here. He never lets me down. Said he'd stop in, and he made it good.

[proyvind]

What I miss on the login screen is the ability to pick a different DE. As long as I can install task-gnome I should be able to switch to it on the login screen.
(I tried to find it in inittab but I gave it up...)

We should *really* add support for this to the default one used.
I haven't really looked into this myself, but I assume it's just a matter of adding support for this to the kdm theme used(?).

I'm gonna take a closer look at it when I get into work today.

[viking60]

and while you are at it - please put the inxi script in /usr/bin
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2091
That will work wonders for supporting users of Mandriva 2012.

[proyvind]

What I miss on the login screen is the ability to pick a different DE. As long as I can install task-gnome I should be able to switch to it on the login screen.
(I tried to find it in inittab but I gave it up...)

We should *really* add support for this to the default one used.
I haven't really looked into this myself, but I assume it's just a matter of adding support for this to the kdm theme used(?).

I'm gonna take a closer look at it when I get into work today.

I've added a session selector to the default theme now.

I certainly think it could look better, so hopefully someone will improve it or eventually contribute some new theme, but at least the functionality is now present by default if nothing else..

[proyvind]

:s and while you are at it - please put the inxi script in /usr/bin
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2091
That will work wonders for supporting users of Mandriva 2012.

Provide me with a package for it and I'll upload it.

I'm currently "too lazy" to package it myself. :p