from debian to salix

[conta]

so, i came from debian ;]

there are some observations i need to say,

first: I am newbie

well, i like the fast installation, but here comes the first problems: i have wifi connection, and with that connection i cant install Basic, casue no way for me to download packages I wanna... i read some discussion on the forum about that, and my piece is that wifi is something that should be in Basic ;] i have no wired connection, as a lot of people

after install: why in lilo windows is default?? big surprise for me...

debian vs salix

ouu, i miss debian, kinda... number of packages is huge! ;]

anyway, what is better for salix is .... number of packages ;] ohh, its bad and also good side ;] i mean eg skype: in debian i needed to install maybe 5 packages to get skype work, in salix all was in one package... but in debian it installed on its own, in salix i had to do it... so so...

so there are some packeges I need for my happy life, that are not in salix

eg. pidgin: i dont know how about you, but pidgin is for me pidgin, guifications and pluginpack... in salix its only pidgin, i miss those 2 pack-s

also i would love to have some totalcommander-like file manager in repos: ... eg mucommander ;]

and a lot of anothers [i am gonna realize them after some use of salix, that i miss them] -- aahh, i need to find my way to get picasa, havent looked yet

and some problems to be complete:

i cant get my printer work, in debian it was no need to do anything, it just worked .. and its canon ip3000

and sure after some time I am gonna bring more problems ;]

thanks for ideas and criticism ;]

[Shador]

well, i like the fast installation, but here comes the first problems: i have wifi connection, and with that connection i cant install Basic, casue no way for me to download packages I wanna... i read some discussion on the forum about that, and my piece is that wifi is something that should be in Basic ;] i have no wired connection, as a lot of people

You can. All packages you need are included on the installation media for full. If you don't know how to use them, I surmise you're probably better off with full.

also i would love to have some totalcommander-like file manager in repos: ... eg mucommander ;]

mc?

i cant get my printer work, in debian it was no need to do anything, it just worked .. and its canon ip3000

Nobody will be able to help you without any effort from your side.

and sure after some time I am gonna bring more problems ;]

Awesome! What makes you so sure?

BTW you're message is extremely exhausting and annoying to read. It would be great if you could at least improve your orthography (punctuation, upper-/lower-case, ...) and some structure and more complete sentences wouldn't harm either.

[conta]

Yep, I've tried to install wifi-thingy from CD, with support from your IRC, but I didn't managed to get wicd to start ;[

mc is from console, I personnaly don't like ;]

printer: I don't know what should I add, I have never had any need to config or do anything connected to printer and as I said I am newbie. The only one more thing that come to my mind is that I have 32, xfce. Usually, when I ask for support somewhere, they ask me to try something, or to give some output, so I was expecting this here, too. I don't understand why see "no effort" from my side.

And how can I be sure that more troubles will come? Troubles comes with using something. Noone can expect all troubles to show up in the beggining ;]

thanks

[thenktor]

printer: I don't know what should I add, I have never had any need to config or do anything connected to printer and as I said I am newbie. The only one more thing that come to my mind is that I have 32, xfce. Usually, when I ask for support somewhere, they ask me to try something, or to give some output, so I was expecting this here, too. I don't understand why see "no effort" from my side.

Usually I'm using the CUPS web interface to configure my printer: Open http://localhost:631/ and see what you can do there...

[conta]

yep, i did that before from system menu- manage printing , but I gave up when using option Find New Printers haven't done anything...

but i managed it somehow now- option Add Printer need to be used. Then login as Root and pswrd from SU. Normal Username and paswrd don't work.

thanks for pointing me back there ;]

[conta]

so as I promised the troubles are here:

I installed wine, and since then, I have one big problem: a lot of file types [xml or whatever] are defaultly opened by something called: winebrowser or wine core exe or whatever wine. And it is causing troubles: cause it makes a lot of wine windows to open, and i mean I can't stop them from opening and killall winethingy is not doing anything. After maybe minute everything starts to blink and I am forced to shut down my PC hard-way [manually].

[gapan]

Right click on one of those files -> Properties, select the application that you want to have them opened with.

[conta]

Right click on one of those files -> Properties, select the application that you want to have them opened with.

yes, I know about this possibility, but it is nearly for all files i have: most of image formats, audio, video. It looks like wine made itself default for nearly everything, and changing nearly "everything" manually is not very good way, uninstalling wine neither.

[laprjns]

yes, I know about this possibility, but it is nearly for all files i have: most of image formats, audio, video. It looks like wine made itself default for nearly everything, and changing nearly "everything" manually is not very good way, uninstalling wine neither.

You could try editing ~/.local/share/applications/default.list.

[conta]

yes, I know about this possibility, but it is nearly for all files i have: most of image formats, audio, video. It looks like wine made itself default for nearly everything, and changing nearly "everything" manually is not very good way, uninstalling wine neither.

You could try editing ~/.local/share/applications/default.list.

my default.list looks ok:

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[Default Applications]
image/png=viewnior.desktop
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop
video/x-msvideo=smplayer.desktop
application/xml=mousepad.desktop
application/pdf=evince.desktop

but look at this:

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conta[applications]$ ls
defaults.list			    wine-extension-htm.desktop
mimeinfo.cache			    wine-extension-html.desktop
wine				    wine-extension-ini.desktop
wine-extension-EPUB.desktop	    wine-extension-jfif.desktop
wine-extension-UBK.desktop	    wine-extension-jpe.desktop
wine-extension-UMD.desktop	    wine-extension-jpeg.desktop
wine-extension-application.desktop  wine-extension-jpg.desktop
wine-extension-appref-ms.desktop    wine-extension-png.desktop
wine-extension-chm.desktop	    wine-extension-rtf.desktop
wine-extension-enx3.desktop	    wine-extension-txt.desktop
wine-extension-exb.desktop	    wine-extension-wri.desktop
wine-extension-gif.desktop	    wine-extension-xml.desktop
wine-extension-hlp.desktop	    wine-usercreated.desktop

i might delete all that wine* things, right?