Enabling num lock on startup (Mepis 7.0)

Open Control Centre>Peripherals> Keyboard then click the button for Number Lock on at Startup.

Click Apply

WINE Pre-launch warnings - Enable/disable

After turning off the Pre-warnings In WINE, to get them to come back on again, simply delete the "no_prelaunch_window_flag" file from /home/*name*/.wine.

Installing WT CD-ROM Using Wine

To install the WT CD-ROM in Linux, follow these steps.

1. Install WINE. The recommended version is 0.9.47, although I've gotten it working with the bog standard Mepis repo supplied 0.9.25-2.1. If the repo version however doesn't work for you, uninstall your version of WINE, delete your .wine folder (found in "home" folder), and then install the recommended version.

2. Make sure you have "msttcorefonts" installed. Presumably the WT Library uses Microsoft fonts and the world will explode without them.

3. Download Microsoft Visual C++ from here http://tiny.cc/8FeNA

4. Install it by right clicking on the downloaded file, choose "open with", and then manually type "wine" in the top box. It will then install.

5. Put WT CD-ROM in the CD drive and navigate to the setup.exe file. Right click on it, and again, choose "open with" and type "wine" to run the install. It should then start to install. Change the path from the "C:/Windows" path to one within your home folder. Apart from that, install as usual.

At this stage, for me anyway, everything should run fine. Try running it from the shortcut which should now be on the desktop. If it doesn't run, try the following steps.

6. Set up wine by typing "winecfg" into a terminal.

7. "Add application" under "Applications" by navigating to the newly installed "WTLibrary.exe" file in your home folder (follow the WT directory until you find it). Make sure "Windows 2000" is highlighted under the "Windows version" option.

8. Under the "Libraries" tab, from the drop down menu, choose "comctl32" and set it as "native, builtin".

9. Copy the comctl32.dll from your Windows installation/disk to "/home/melchizedek/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32" (or /home/melchizedek/MEPSCommon). This may need adjusting, depending upon installation tree location etc. The file can be found in windows at...... C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.0.0_x-ww_1382d70a

10. If the desktop icon is missing try http://mr.mepis.googlepages.com/icon24bit_32x32.png

Sources List

# See sources.list(5) for more information

# This file should be edited through synaptic

# MEPIS improvements, overrides and updates--the MEPIS magic
deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-7.0 main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free

# Some Debian Multimedia software might be illegal in some jurisdictions
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

# The VirtualBox non-free binary edition
# deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian etch non-free

deb http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main
deb-src http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main

Installing Beryl (Mepis 7.0)

Firstly, add the following lines to your repo's by going to /etc/apt/sources.list and opening with "Kate".

deb http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main
deb-src http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main

Then download the gpg key by typing into a console.

wget -O - http://debian.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Reload Synaptic or apt-get, then choose all Beryl packages, apart from beryl-dev, and install.

N.B. See link on fixing graphical glitches in Beryl after installation.

http://my-linux-installation-files.blogspot.com/search/label/Beryl

Firefox Fonts

Default Font - Times New Roman
Size - 16

Proportional - Serif........Size 16
Serif - Times New Roman
Sans Serif - Arial
Monospace - Courier New.....Size 13
Minimum Font Size - None

Default Character Encoding - Western (ISO-8859-1)

Remove the Trillian opening splash screen

Go to Program Files/Trillian/users/default and open the file "trillian.ini" (only shown as "trillian" if you have the "hide extension for known file types" option ticked in folder options) with a text editor.

Change the text.....

show loading=1

to....

show loading=0

If you'd like to remove the closing splash screen too, simply change the 1 value in "show closing" to 0.

Getting Encoders To Work In KAudioCreator

To prevent the "Selected encoder was not found" message in KAudioCreator on ripping, do the following.

1. For Ogg Vorbin encoding, simply install the "vorbis-tools" package through synaptic or apt-get, which installs the "oggenc" encoder needed to rip to ogg vorbis.

2. For MP3 encoding, install the "lame" package through synaptic.

3. For FLAC encoding, install the "flac" package from synaptic.

"System Locale Charset" error in KDE

As root type in.....

dpkg-reconfigure locales

.....and make sure only the "en_GB" option is enabled before pressing ok.

Type in.....

Locale

....as both root and user. You may further need to type in.....

export LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"

Hit ctrl, alt, backspace to log out of KDE. Log back in again the problem should be solved.

Problems booting up the Live CD

Codes to try if booting from the live CD fails for some reason

noapic
acpi=noirq
pci=noacpi
pci=noirq
nolapic
irqpoll
xdrvr=fbdev
xdrvr=vesa
ide=nodma

Use with Mint

Stop Bouncing Mouse Cursor (Mepis 7.0)

Go to System Configuration/Appearance and Themes/Launch Feedback and change the busy icon setting to "no busy cursor".

Removing Mouse-Over Effects

Simply go to Configure Panel>Appearance and untick "Enable icon mouseover effects"

Playing DVD's (Mepis 7.0)

First you need to install the "libdvdcss2" software. To do so type into a console (as su).....

kate /etc/apt/sources.list

and unhash the line which reads.....

# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

so that it reads......

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

Reload your sources, either via Apt with the "update" command, or via Synaptic with the "reload" button. Then search for and install the libdvdcss2 package. DVD's will now play in Kaffeine, KM Player etc.