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Re: Dial-Up and KDE in Linux...

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 08, 1999
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On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> >From: Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Dial-Up and KDE in Linux...

> I use Kppp but when you leave the password blank, it says that
> you have to fill in a password first.

Select an account, click on the Edit button, then on the Dial tab,
unclick the "save password" box.
Type in anything for a password, it won't matter, because it won't save
it,  and will ask for a password each time.

> > > - How do you set permissions of a file via the prompt instead of using
> >the
> > > KDE Filemanager ?
> >chmod - type man chmod to get the parameters.
> >
> > > - Can you specify the protocols for a internet connection ?
> >eh?
> >
> > > - Anyone had the problem with KDE that you can only use ALT+F2 for 'run
> > > command' and nothing else is showed;
> >
> >alt-F2 just pops up a run box - like the run dialog in windows.
> >You can type just about any valid command in the window, as well as URLs,
> >etc.
> >It's not supposed to show a menu.
> >
> The K Desktop Eviroment exists of a taskbar and menubar, like Windows,
> and normally it displays, but somehow I gatched this stupid bug, I
> can't run anything on the menubar, except when typing ALT+F2: KFMSU2
>
> > >   no menu, no taskbar, no icons, even no Right-Mouse-Click-Menu.
> > > - The same as the above, but now with R-Mouse-Click-Menu and with
> >taskbar
> > > but that doesn't work, unless you run KFMSU
> >
You have botched your setup. You may have to reload the system, but first I
would try setting up a new user. That may be all that is necessary.

Irv