noob needs help

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Bluecrest

Beginner

Posts: 3

Location: South Africa

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 8:19am

noob needs help

Hi,

I'm seriously new at this whole Linux thing and has taken me forever to get Gentoo installed, but managed that eventually. Then i installed X11. Then i first emerged kdebase, then kdenetwork, then decided to emerge the whole kde. (Thank goodness for bandwidth)

Ok, now after Gentoo boots, i use the command 'startx' which works 100%, then i use the command 'startkde' which gets kde up & running. Sweet, no problems there... However, that task bar at the bottom of the desktop, is just not there, unless i go to X and there it is, at the bottom of the screen, but cant get it to sit on the kde desktop. The other thing is how do i get kde to start automatically? I mean, so i just need to login at kde and not in the command line? The last issue i have, is that i can't browse the web, even though i put in the proxy details. Strange that i can use the command line to emerge or use links2 100%

Someone's help will be REALLY appreciated!!!

p.s. what else would i need to do to make sure i'm getting everything out of kde.

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SeanTater

Beginner

Posts: 3

Location: USA

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 11:55am

RE: noob needs help

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Originally posted by Bluecrest
I'm seriously new at this whole Linux thing and has taken me forever to get Gentoo installed

No offense intended, but Gentoo's intended audience is not focused on newbies..
I imagine a distro like Kubuntu or Suse would be much more friendly.

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Bluecrest

Beginner

Posts: 3

Location: South Africa

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 12:04pm

RE: noob needs help

Hi Sean,

Absolutely no offence taken at all. After all i went through to get Gentoo up & running, i would like to carry on with it...

But yes, you are right, it has been a hectic task for a beginner!!!!!! Anyway, i'll continue to try sort this out [in-between skipping breakfast, lunch & dinner]...

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Blues

Beginner

Posts: 19

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 2:53pm

If you decide to stick with Gentoo better bookmark this link now: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml

You may want to read following articles there

The X Server Configuration HOWTO
The KDE Configuration HOWTO
The KDE Split Ebuilds HOWTO

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Bluecrest

Beginner

Posts: 3

Location: South Africa

Thursday, July 27th 2006, 3:07pm

Thanks Blues, appreciate it!!!

(Loads of reading = loads of ginseng)

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