From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 11/30/2014 07:50 AM, tvorba.webu.havirov.karvina@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:33:57 UTC+1, Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
   >> On 11/30/2014 05:00 AM, wrote:   
   >>> On Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:59:54 UTC+1, Herman Viaene  wrote:   
   >>>>   wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Hello.   
   >>>>> 4 years ago I learned to use Mandriva 2010, and I used to use it for   
   >>>>> backing up system partitions and similar things. I installed KDE and did   
   >>>>> some settings on my account to have good looking environment. Today I had   
   >>>>> to reinstalled it because it crashed. I did not formated the Home   
   >>>>> partition, but connected to the old settings.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Are you sure you let the installer format the root partition?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What I would do is:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Forget about Mandriva 2010, it's way too old. If you have access to the   
   >>>> internet on another computer, download Mageia4, it is a descendant of   
   >>>> Mandriva, but it evolves better than the current OpenMandriva. And it   
   looks   
   >>>> and handles the same.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Or, if you want to stick to Mandriva 2010, install it again, make sure the   
   >>>> root partition is formatted in the process.   
   >>>> Now, if you still get stuck at the command line after that, you can login   
   as   
   >>>> root, and give the command MCC, that will allow you to control your   
   display   
   >>>> settings, and use startx to start KDE. If that works OK, logout root,   
   login   
   >>>> with your normal user and start KDE again.   
   >>>> If you still have issues with KDE, log out, and login again with the user   
   at   
   >>>> the command line and check with the command "ls -als" which folders exist   
   >>>> .kde and or .kde4 . Rename these with "mv .kde .kde.old" and or "mv .kde4   
   >>>> .kde4.old" and then startx again. That will give you a clean KDE.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Herman Viaene   
   >>>   
   >>> Hello,   
   >>> Thanks for your reply. I have reinstalled the Mandriva 2010 and formated   
   the   
   >>   
   >> root partition so now it successfully booted, however I still have the   
   >> problem   
   >>   
   >> with the characters in any aplication like Firefox so I can hardly do   
   >> anything.   
   >>   
   >> It would be very nice if you could gimme some advice how to correct this   
   >> problem.   
   >>   
   >>    I probably increased DPI years ago. All characters in menu and main bar   
   at   
   >>   
   >>    bottom are all right.   
   >>>   
   >>> I could not answer in google groups because my firefox version is very old   
   >>   
   >> FF 1.0 or something like that. I need to find out if curl works and if I   
   >> can   
   >>   
   >> import sources to install Midnight Commander. And were to find the   
   >> Firefox package.   
   >>   
   >>    But I cannot do anything now till the characters are too big so I   
   >> cannot use   
   >>   
   >> the MCC very well. I cannot even install programs at MCC.   
   >>>   
   >> `That is one of the problems of running from an old distribution and one   
   >> that is not well maintained at that.  I suggest you try PC Linux OS   
   >> which has similar features or else Mageia 4.1.  I stuck with Mandriva   
   >> 2010 until last year myself.  Either of those distribution are better   
   >> in current versions than in Mandriva 2010.1.  They are the ways that   
   >> a lot of the old team from Mandriva have chosen to move forward since   
   >> Mandriva is essentially dead to consumers like you and me.   
   >> There is Open Mandriva as well but I think Mageia is better.   
   >> 	Also get your data files backed up so that you can re-import 	   
   >> them after a fresh install of both home and root.   
   >> Renaming the folders mentioned might help.   
   >> 	Some of your problems are based in the old home directory with   
   >> your bad settings.   
   >>   
   >> 	You should be using Thunderbird for the e-mail and newsgroups.   
   >> 	Firefox by the way is up to 31.2.0 on security fixes alone and so is   
   >> Thunderbird.  Your version is mor like 10.   
   >>   
   >> 	bliss   
   >   
   > One of reasons why I still use the Mandriva 2010 with my old home directory   
   is that I configured the looks to fit my needs. So I used to use black styled   
   theme with white color of text/font. I use Mandriva just for very basic jobs   
   like backing up    
   partitions and possible recovering of them. The solution would be to format   
   the /home partition but in that case I would loose my configuration. I am   
   still not ready to test new Distribution when I just want to backup partition.   
   It seems to me most    
   simple in Mandriva which I already know how to use it. Probably I will format   
   the home and reinstall Mandriva. I just don't like the idea that when I would   
   do it I would lost my black theme.   
   >   
      
   	Yes well I have my Mageia with KDE 4.12.5 setup with transparent   
   docking/taskbar/panels.  White lettering on black   
   is easy to enough to do thru the System Settings and Plasma   
   Theme choices.  You might have to download more themes but   
   the system settings and plasma choices permit this if you   
   are connected to the net.   
      
         The thing is if you are connecting with an older distribution   
   such as Mandriva 2010.1 your computer in danger because the the   
   other distributions have corrected dozens of security holes while   
   you have been languishing with Mandriva 2010.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   	   
      
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