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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Monday, December 1, 2003 10:28:27 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 7 | Last edited on Friday, October 17, 2003 8:17:11 am | by MattBrown | Revert |
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Much like the old XD 1.4, XD2 has a very clean menu structure - a great relief after the mess which is Red Hat's menu structure. The Programs menu has "Applications", which contains the OpenOffice.org components and other useful parts (such as MrProject). The "Games" menu has a handful of Gnome games like Iagno (I didn't get it at first, but think "Othello" -- it's a Reversi/Othello implementation) and SameGnome. The mess of games that Red Hat installs by default are shunted into the "More" menu at the bottom.
At the bottom of the Programs menu is [Evolution] and "Web Browser". The default web browser is Galeon, which is a bit cleaner than Mozilla but isn't what I'm used to, so I might change back to Mozilla as the default. I realise that Evolution is a Ximian product, but you should either say "Evolution" and "Galeon" or "E-Mail/Groupware" and "Web Browser".
-The desktop has a link to your home folder, a trash can and "My Computer", which takes you to a Control Panel-like configuration pane instead of your folders. These icons cannot be removed from the desktop."My Computer" gives you a better interface to SMB shares ans NFS shares. However one gripe that I found was though I mounted my XP partiton as /mnt/win it showed up as CDROM(1) in "My Computer". I am also looking for additional themes for the XD2.
+The desktop has a link to your home folder, a trash can and "My Computer", which takes you to a Control Panel-like configuration pane instead of your folders. These icons cannot be removed from the desktop."My Computer" gives you a better interface to SMB shares ans NFS shares. However one gripe that I found was though I mounted my XP partiton as /mnt/win it showed up as "
CDROM (1)"
in "My Computer". I am also looking for additional themes for the XD2.
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!!Changing the default web-browser for Ximian Evolution.
I wanted to change the default browser that fires up when I click on links in Evolution. If you'd like to do the same all you have to do is type the following command:
- #
gnome-default-applications-properties
+ $
gnome-default-applications-properties
And enter mozilla "%s" in the Custom Web Browser box. (or whatever you want your browser to be). To make the link open in a new mozilla tab, try ''mozilla -remote 'openURL(%s,new-tab)' ''
Additionally, if you find you aren't able to run Galeon after upgrading to XD2, and instead, you get this error:
-INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
-System error?:: Success
+
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
+ System error?:: Success
I fixed this issue by removing the /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/ directories, leaving only /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3.1/. I guessed that the problem was caused by the Flash plugin, but from what I read: " the problem is in the Java plugin by Sun. You need to remove it and install the blackdown java plugin" instead.
(From [The Linux Pimp|http://www.thelinuxpimp.com/main/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=492&mode=flat&order=0&thold=0])
