Re: Mandrake 8.1??

[Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com>]

Greetings James, Steven and Yawar and thanks for your input and
comments.. I'm still struggling with this plus researching my many
notes about X11R6 from months/years back.. I hit the Web for FAQ's,
etc including the Mandrake site and nothing similar yet..

The Desktop is maximized and the problem persists with the tool bar
slid up or down.. When clicking on the Mandrake Control Centre there
are no buttons in sight to do anything including maximizing..

I looked at /etc/X11/XF86Config and the default entries under
"Display" do NOT have the virtual entry.. I reconfigured another
machine running Slackware and find that with "virtual 640 480" the
screen is filled but if I happen to access a site that has drop down
menus I can't "get" to them.. This is a BIG problem because "WV" is
always at the "bottom" of the list. <grin> Commenting the virtual
entry permits the scroll all over the place as James mentioned, and I
can then select WV, etc...

It seems to me the problem may be the bad dialogue design mentioned
in that the Desktop itself, KDE, always fills the screen perfectly..
It's just when you want to manipulate other screens like the Control
Centre which is the worst of the lot.. Only half of it is viewable.
Some of the others are better in that you can actually see the very
top of the OK, Cancel, etc buttons.. It may be a non-compatible issue
with this one box only and it's BIOS/MB.. I'm sure there are
thousands of Mandrake 8.1 installs that are OK..

In summation I have to conclude that a default, "recommended" install
of Mandrake 8.1 is NOT for the M$ crowd especially since there are
some other problems I found making it very unuser friendly compared
to a Win95 or Win98 setup.. I will never change from Linux/Unix but
my neighbours wont buy what I can offer as of now.. Not that I'm
selling "anything." Of course we all know that once Linux is
configured you wont need the reset button much again.. :^)

I have ordered an updated book that may shed some light, at least on
X11R6.. All my present books are from the early/mid nineties.. Ugh.

Thanks again - appreciate!!

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0   (2.4.13)
                Proprietary  Formats  Unacceptable
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