Tweaking the KDE 4 Shutdown Menu

hi friends,
i'm messing around with kde4 right now and i really like it so far, there's just one issue i can't solve:
i'm starting my desktop from the command line after a normal login via the startx command without any displaymanager like kdm.
this means that the kde shutdown menu doesn't show any options to shutdown or restart the computer, so i just wanted to ask you guys whether it's possible to tweak the menu in some way to integrate own commands like "sudo shutdown -h now" or "sudo pm-suspend" etc.
thanks,
trx

Do you absolutely need to start kde this way ?
Try using 'startkde' (/usr/bin/startkde) instead of 'startx'.
Deej

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Kicking The KDE Habit

Below is a copy of a post from my blog detailing the apps I used to fully replace KDE. (If you want the hyperlink version you can also read it on my blog.)
A few months ago I dropped Kubuntu and KDE as my desktop and switched to Arch Linux with an Openbox desktop. I've used KDE for years and thought highly of it, but they lost me with KDE 4. But I still had quite a few KDE apps I used in Openbox. With the recent KDE 4.4 update, KDE went from bad to worse, making Akonadi truly required, Nepomuk more troublesome, breaking some of my apps, and other problems. So I decided to drop all KDE dependency. Despite some of the fine KDE apps I still think highly of, like Krusader and Kmail, I simply don't want all the overhead required to run them.
So for the last couple of weeks I've been finding replacements for the last of my KDE apps, particularly Kate, Kmail, Krusader, and k3b. I thought I would share what I found to replace these and other apps, and why I like them. I've written about some of these before but I'll try to make this a fairly complete list in itself. After trying various apps, these are the ones I chose.
Arch Linux
I already wrote about My Big Move To Arch and The Followup. Briefly, I really like the Arch way of doing things. Rolling release means there are no upgrades to do every year. Instead anytime you update packages you get the very latest. Occassionally this will break something. I find it's good to do an update when I'm prepared to spend a few minutes addressing any issues. It's also good to have a system backup. But in general I like fixing things a little at a time, instead of upgrading the whole system as is done with Ubuntu releases. I also like having access to the latest packages, and Arch has a great community build system for apps that aren't included in the official repos. So I'm very happy with Arch and I highly recommend it for anyone reasonably familiar with a distro like Ubuntu who wants to run a more customized, faster system.
Openbox and LXDE
LXDE is a great desktop which includes Openbox as its window manager, and some lightweight apps. You can also just use Openbox by itself and install other components to go with it. You edit XML files to construct your menu and add shortcut keys to do whatever you like, and add any components you want. For example, I use the excellent lxpanel as my taskbar in Openbox. It works and looks a lot like KDE3's taskbar.
Claws
After asking around, I decided to give Claws Mail a try as a replacement for the very capable Kmail. I am extremely pleased with it, and in some ways like it better than Kmail. It has most of Kmail's features. It handles HTML email a bit differently – can't send it, and converts incoming to text. This works pretty well. There is also a plugin that allows you to display HTML email but I haven't tried that – no need. It has very capable filtering, account handling, and a great UI.
Note: If you switch from Kmail, you can transfer your email as follows. Save a copy of your ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail folder. Rename all the mail files in it (using your favorite rename utility) so they have simple names like "001″, "002″, etc. Claws doesn't seem to like the semicolons and such that Kmail uses for filenames. Then, in Claws select File|Add Mailbox and specify the copy of your mail folder. All the mail will appear in Claws – look in the "cur" subfolders for the messages. Drag or copy the messages from there to your Claws mailbox folders. Then you can right-click on the mailbox you added and select Remove Mailbox. All done! Claws can also read the vcard address book format exported by Kmail, or saved in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc
PCMan File Manager
This FM, which is the default for the LXDE desktop, is the one I finally chose after reviewing a bunch of File Managers. It has support for multiple tabs which I find very useful. It does not have twin-pane like Krusader, but I find that less important, and I didn't care for the other twin-pane FMs I reviewed. One thing I missed in PCMan is user-definable functions. So I have written a mod for PCMan which adds these in a very flexible way, and also fixes a few other issues and bugs I encountered. With that mod in place, I'm very happy with this FM. It is simpler than Krusader, but I didn't actually use most of the functions in Krusader, so it's nice having a cleaner UI. This runs a lot like the Konqueror FM in KDE3. Thunar is also a notable mention – a simpler FM with a clean UI.
Bluefish
This a very Kate-like syntax-highlighting editor. I was very glad to find this editor, with a recently released version 2, because I wasn't sure what I'd find to replace Kate. It has some excellent features and some improvements on Kate as well. It's an almost perfect editor. You might also check out SciTE as another alternative to Kate.
GQView
Similar to Gwenview, GQView is a very capable image viewer. It's folder view is great – actually an improvement on Gwenview in some ways.
ePDFviewer
While not a full replacement for all the functionality of Ocular, I found ePDFviewer to be a nice lightweight app that does all I wanted – it lets me view and print PDF files.
XArchiver
I've already mentioned this replacement for Ark – it does the job.
XPad
A terrific replacement for KNotes – adds sticky notes to your desktop. Very similar to KNotes in functionality and appearance, and minimal dependencies.
ROXTerm
This was my choice to replace Konsole. Has similar features and appearance – came highly recommended on the Arch Forums.
SMPlayer and VLC
My multimedia players, these do the job!
Deluge
After reviewing a few of them, this was my replacement for KTorrent. A vast improvement!
GHex2
GHex is Gnome's hex editor, and it's one the best IMO as a general, easy-to-use hex editor.
gFTP
This gnome FTP client seems to survive on my system. Although I've tried others, I keep coming back to this because it 'just works'.
Speedcrunch
A simple yet powerful desktop calculator.
Graveman
I was planning to use Brasero as my replacement for k3b, but it couldn't use my DVD drive correctly. Graveman, once I gave it the device name "/dev/scd0″ in preferences, does the job. A nice lightweight burning app with almost no dependencies.
Import
Part of Imagemagick, the import command can be used to take desktop snapshots, similar to KSnapshot. It works great. I simply associated the following command with the "Print" key (Printscreen) in Openbox's rc.xml:
bash -c "import /tmp/screenshot-$(date +%s).png"
When I press the PrintScreen key, the mouse cursor changes to a target. I click on the window I want and a snap is written to /tmp. Very slick. Import can do other things like take multiple snapshots, etc.
Zim
I've mentioned Zim before as a personal desktop wiki. I still think its handy but a recent update messed up the theme handling and some other issues. I realized having my notes in plain text format is less volatile, so I've gone back to that. This was easy since Zim mostly uses a plain text format for storage. But Zim may still be worth checking out.
Zenity
Similar to the old KDialog but much more capable, Zenity lets you add GUI dialogs to your scripts. A good guide is here.
With these changes, I was finally able to remove kdelibs and all its junk – soprano, nepomuk, akonadi, strigi, phonon, etc. I am KDE free. To give you an idea of just how bloated and over-dependent KDE has become look what I would have to install just to install a simple file manager like Krusader:
Targets (17): clucene-0.9.21b-1 strigi-0.7.2-1 libiodbc-3.52.7-3
virtuoso-6.1.0-1 soprano-2.4.0.1-1 qca-2.0.2-2
polkit-qt-0.95.1-1 phonon-gstreamer-4.3.80-2 phonon-4.3.80-2
shared-desktop-ontologies-0.2-1 attica-0.1.2-1 kdelibs-4.4.0-4
oxygen-icons-4.4.0-1 rarian-0.8.1-1 libssh-0.4.1-1
kdebase-runtime-4.4.0-3 krusader-2.0.0-3
Total Download Size: 73.75 MB
Total Installed Size: 205.80 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] NO THANKS
So long KDE… have a nice trip becoming a Windows 7 clone.
ps: I'm still looking for a GUI replacement for Filelight, which was great for showing a graphical representation of disk usage. Also, I could use an audio CD ripping app since Graveman doesn't fully replace k3b. Haven't really looked yet but if anyone has a suggestion its appreciated. Thanks.
Last edited by IgnorantGuru (2010-02-23 19:00:51)

Labello wrote:i don't really get your point in arguing that some things in KDE changed
I don't mean to dis KDE for everyone - I'm just speaking for myself and my uses. I have a fast system and KDE runs fine in that sense. It has had some RAM and bug issues and certainly isn't lightweight, but that wasn't really my issue. I'm more troubled with their recent choices of servers (akonadi, soprano, phonon, nepomuk, etc), the security issues they introduce, the bugs and interoperability problems, and the wholly unnecessary drain on CPU and RAM. I like to run a leaner, lighter system not just to save resources, but also because I like to know what's running and why, and I like to have control of my system. To me KDE keeps going more toward the Windows direction of isolating the user from control of the system, dictating what has to be running, etc. Many of the so-called dependencies aren't required for most apps at all. Plus, my and other's bug reports are just not addressed in KDE - they've become sloppy, Windows-style, with their code. I see KDE heading in a direction I don't like, and fast. So I wanted to get free of dependency on it so as it goes deeper into that, I can go elsewhere. Took me a bit of work but I've accomplished that. Not only that, I've discovered some great apps in the process - my new system rocks.
You can check out the Library on my blog for my Big Move To Arch post and the followup, which gets more into some of the reasons, and also this thread.
If KDE still works for you and others, great. Lots of choices. I just advise people to be careful with KDE because I think it's getting sneaky and not very pro-user about things. Good to know when to abandon a sinking ship. I think the Ubuntu approach, Gnome, and KDE engender dependencies, in the sense of user dependencies. For example, it took me awhile to move off the KDE platform because so many of the apps I used were in it. I think stand alone apps are a better approach overall. KDE is becoming like a members-only country club - you've got to adopt their complete philosophy just to use any of the KDE apps, or God forbid, the desktop.
Oh and I loathe Plasma. It's everything I DON'T want in a desktop. So KDE just didn't fit me well anymore.

Is there any way to prevent the right click context menu from combining Stop/Reload?

Is there any way (about:config tweak, or something) to prevent the right click context menu from combining Stop/Reload?
Screenshot of what I'm talking about: http://picsend.net/images/873089StupidReloadSto.png

I did try the add-on ''Menu Editor'' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/menu-editor/ but even when I separate the navigation reload and stop icons and explicitly have both stop and reload set to be visible on the right click context menu I only get the one option showing.
Whilst there may be some way of changing this I do not know how to and I do not really see any use case for making such a change. Only one option of the choice: stop or reload, is available at any instance in time, but that is the option you are able to use, the other option is not active and so is not displayed.

Tweaking the performance of the PC

Hello i am a school student (in my final year) and i have some knowledge on tweaking the performance of the PC so i hope my way helps
Solution to Blue screen with error:
Hi that error is quite a rare error for windows 8.1 users who have their drivers up to date the most common cause is corrupted files in your hdd
if you have a backup of all your files and folders then it is recommended to do a full reinstallation of windows 8.1 and make sure u delete all your partitions including the system and recovery partition when you reinstall
once you have reinstalled download the latest drivers using Toshiba support page and also install latest windows updates as soon as possible once you have completely recovered your pc make sure to create a recovery media using the win 8.1 installation disk
and save that media then create a system image backup for the future
How to create system image backup: please follow this guide for images and videos
http://www.avoiderrors.net/create-system-image-backups-of-windows-8-1-and-restore-from-it/
and then once you have done that you should have a installation media and a system image backup then you can move to increasing the PC performance
PC performance boost tips:
Ok step one: creating a system restore point
(i): open your search tab in windows 8.1 desktop and type "create system restore point"(no quote marks) and select the system restore point option.
(ii): when the system properties tab open click on the button called create on the bottom on the tab
(iii): another tab will ask you to name the system restore point so you can identify it so type a name of your choice and click create
an thats all
Ok step two : remove unnecessary antivirus software (if you have any)
normally on a new PC you get a bunch of junk software along with a trail pack of an antivirus software usually it's McAfee so uninstall that and uninstall the other useless junk software if you have any problems with uninstallating then use Revo uninstaller
app to uninstall
since you did a reinstall of windows you will not have any of those so skip step two
Step three: Installing a good antivirus software
now the most recommended would be either Norton or Kaspersky but if you feel like going for free ones then i suggest
Avira or Avast as a good antivirus software also the renowned Malawarebytes is also quite good
i personally use malwarebytes free version since i can run it along side my main antivirus software without it conflicting with each other
once you have installed the software on your pc make sure you run a full scan for your first time
and move to step four.
Step four: System registry errors
to fix registry error you will need a third party software my personal recommendation is ccleaner and glary utilities
http://www.glarysoft.com/
http://www.piriform.com/
install either one and then run a maintenance on your PC the UI for both is quite user friendly so you won't have any problems
for glary utilities do the 1 click maintenance and for ccleaner do the cleaner option and then do the registry option
just analyze and click repair or fix error thats all once it does a repair do another analysis and if it shows 0 errors then your PC is clean if it shows errors then click repair again and repeat the process till you get 0 errors
then move to step five.
Step five: Startup speed
to speed up your start up just open glary utilities or ccleaner
for ccleaner click tools box and click on the "Startup" option then click on the programs that you feel are not needed on startup and click disable this option will not allow the programs to startup along with windows they will instead will
start up when you start them up
for glary click on the advanced tab and under the system control menu you will find the "Startup items" option disable the programs you feel are not needed during startup the bonus of glary is that it shows whether the program holds any relevance
to your PC if it is on startup or not so you will know whether it is needed or not once you disable your unwanted startup programs move to step six.
Step six: How to optimize your windows 8.1 paging file
watch this video and follow it's steps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ98T4Qt42M
once you have finished step six then move to step seven
Step seven: How to enable windows 8.1 Hard Drive Write Caching
watch this video and follow it's steps carefully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gye7Odj-Io
once you have finished this then time to tweak your visual effects which is the last step
Step eight: Adjust visual effects
ok this is the last step
(i): open search bar and type
"Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows" (copy paste without quotes if you like)
and the performance tab will open
(ii): now click on the option "Adjust for best performance" and this will remove all your visual effects now i know it can look a little bad but the more options you have the more resource your PC is going to use but since the fonts look bad click
on the checkbox in the custom tab that says "smooth edges of screen fonts" this should give your pc a good look while using the least amount of resource and that is all.
Ok that all for performance tweak i hope your PC speeds up a bit please tell me if you have any problems
PS:
i do not own the videos in the video links i merely recommended them since the steps in the video are quite easy to follow even for a complete amateur.

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The Right click context menu, and menu butons are all yellow?

The right click context menu, and the Drop down menus for the tool bar, all have Yellow Text.
Everything else is working normally, and the Yellow text is un related to windows itself, as Windows still has the standard coloring for the menus and Right click context. im stumped.
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setting check through windows shows no carry over from a botched windows theme setting.
its cosmetic issue mostly, not harmful.

Hmmm, that shouldn't happen. It's difficult to change the text colors in the interface without installing a theme or an add-on that lets you tweak the menus.
Can you try switching between the default theme and your current theme?
Do any of those extensions let you change display settings?

KDE logout/shutdown dialog does not appear

Hello, I am using KDE and the right click or the KMenu dialog for logout/shutdown/restart does not appear.
Also i have a startup script which doesn't load at all times. I have found sometimes the dialog appears for some sessions (randomly), and in those sessions the autostart apps actually work. So I guess they are somewhat related.
Please suggest me what steps should I take.

The fact that it sometimes works doesn't make it easier to find a solution.
However, I did search a bit, and found his -perhaps outdated-site
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi … on/Startup
it states
The KDE session manager also restores one of the previous sessions
I looked at my own ~/.kde4/share/config/ksmserverrc:
[General]
confirmLogout=false
excludeApps=
loginMode=restorePreviousLogout
offerShutdown=true
screenCount=1
shutdownType=0
[LegacySession: saved at previous logout]
count=0
[Session: saved at previous logout]
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clientId2=1041726368000137106177600000004810009
clientId3=1041726368000137303911200000004300005
count=3
discardCommand1[$e]=rm,$HOME/.kde4/share/config/session/kwin_1041726368000137260930800000004110000_1373044182_993937
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program3=pulseaudio
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restartCommand2=/usr/bin/nepomukcontroller,-session,1041726368000137106177600000004810009_1373044182_991176
restartCommand3=
restartStyleHint1=0
restartStyleHint2=0
restartStyleHint3=0
userId1=henk
userId2=henk
userId3=henk
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wasWm3=false
furthermore the site states:
For example, if ksmserverrc contains:
restartCommand1=kwin,-session,110a0a0002000106760689100000019360000_1083342151_608625
restartCommand2=konsole,-session,10378ac070000108334204700000277690000_1083342151_552722
Then the application specific state information for kwin and konsole can be found in
$KDEHOME/share/config/session/kwin_110a0a0002000106760689100000019360000_1083342151_608625
and
$KDEHOME/share/config/session/konsole_10378ac070000108334204700000277690000_1083342151_552722
respectively.
Perhaps you should have a look into it.

Can't get Wine menu in KDE tried editting menu

I'm a new Arch User. I followed a YouTube video to get me started and I read the beginners wiki afterwards. I've been using Ubuntu based distros for 1 1/2 - 2 years. I'm loving arch linux since it is very light and I've been able to get most of my packages from either the AUR or the official repos.
Info:
ArchLinux x86_64 Kernel 3.6.3-1-ARCH
QUESTION:
I installed wine like this
sudo pacman -S wine winetricks wine_gecko
I noticed when I opened the KDE menu, no Wine menu was in Applications like in Ubuntu. ?
I tried following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … Fix.5B1.5D
But it did not work.
Can someone help? Thanks
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faxmanloveswaffles wrote:bump?
Please don't do that. Please read the Forum Etiquette, in particular the section on bumping:
Posting a single word or useless message (bumping) to attract attention to your thread is not allowed. Do your own research, continue to troubleshoot, post the results, and be patient with the community. If people are reading your thread without answering or offering help, you may try supplying more details, or ask to be pointed in the right direction. Often, the reason for posts remaining unanswered is due in large part to the sparse details in the original post itself, or, the obvious availability of solutions in the wiki, on the forum or on the web, and the community's unwillingness to point out the obvious.
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There are two users in question, both running Firefox 36.0.1 on Windows 7. When one user right clicks on a frame in a website, they have a "This Frame" context menu option, which cascades out to provide various actions you can take (Print This Frame, etc). The other user does not have that option. To the best of my knowledge, both users are running similar installs: the default collection of plug-ins that are enabled in our enterprise environment, they have not tweaked any settings in about:config, etc. Why would the "This Frame" context menu not be available for one of them? Is there any way to force it be enabled?

For what it's worth, when I use OWA, the message body in the reading pane is in an iframe and does have the This Frame menu.
Do you allow users to install extensions? To rule out the influence of extensions on the problem Firefox, you could have the user test in Firefox's Safe Mode. That's a standard diagnostic tool to deactivate extensions and some advanced features of Firefox. More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
He/she can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using either:
* "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
* Help menu > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
Not all add-ons are disabled: Flash and other plugins still run
After Firefox shuts down, a small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Refresh).
Any difference?

Blank Shutdown menu

Hi, I have several DELL Precision T3600 with AMD FirePro 2270 video cards. This has happened on all of the PCs so far. After a user has been logged in for several minutes, the menu that flys out from the shutdown menu disappears, and also,
the right clicking in Outlook 2007 shows a blank area where the menu should be - you can see the shadow of the menu to the right of the red arrow in the screen shot below.
I've updated the drivers, and removed them (the issue still occurs), changed the theme etc. I'm really stuck as to what could cause this - all help appreciated. I have stopped any AMD services and this still does not solve the problem.
No events are written to the event log when this happens. If I log out and back in (not a reboot) then the issue is resolved, again for several minutes, until it occurs again! I'm flumuxed!
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Mail manager The Manager is looking for All mail from an network? cant find it
I would look at the startup folder see if any program is running at start up.
seems like a program is asking for a connection to ? network / internet / or file / or user / If you have several computers doing the same (( Network )) home network? private network ? look for network program "program could be in the
form of Office suite of some type or Banking /or Finance/ Cad (would be business software.

Gnome 2.26 shutdown menu

two quick questions:
1) i never see the shutdown button under "System" unless i start alacarte. after i start alacarte, the menu magically has the "Shutdown" item.
2) is there any way to not wait for 60 seconds?!
thanks

Are you using gdm at all?
On my laptop, when I decided to do away with gdm, I also started to have problems with shutdown menu. Back to gdm, and shutdown is working again!

[svn:bz-trunk] 11030: Tweak the deserialization of ASObjects to treat an empty string for the type of an object as null .

Revision: 11030
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-20 11:35:02 -0700 (Tue, 20 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Tweak the deserialization of ASObjects to treat an empty string for the type of an object as null. It appears that there is some logic in the LC remoting code that relies on a non-null class name to always exist. This change reverts to the old behavior of not allowing empty string as a value for the ASObject.namedType.
This should fix bug 2448442 and its duplicates caused by the recent serialization changes.
I don't think this is the perfect fix. Pending further investigation, a better fix would be either:
a. If it's OK to assume that empty string should always mean null for the type of the ASObject, the code that enforces it should be in the setter/getter inside ASObject and not in the deserializer.
b. ASObject doesn't guarantee that a named type exists or is valid. In that sense an empty string is as bad as some random characters that cannot be a valid class name in java, so depending on how disruptive it may be, the fix should be in any logic that uses ASObject.getType().
Modified Paths:
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Hi Pavan,
"In your payload there is no namespace prefix for the elements under PayloadHeader element."
Yes, you are right - but this message is standard AQ Adapter Header message - it's not defined by me. I just used message which was automatically added to my project when I have defined AQ Adapter.
"In your process is the default namespace is same as namespace value of tns ??"
Do you mean targetNamespace? If yes it's different as it points to process "targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/PF_SOA_jws/PF_APPS/APPS_PROCESS" (names of application and process have changed as I try different ways to do that)
ns1 is: xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/aq/PF_SOA/PF_APPS/PO_AQ"
"another thing is tns and ns1 should have same values.."
When I create a variable of header type, namespace ns1 is automatically created for it. I set it as property of receive activity. When process is instantiated on the serwer I get the error in which you can see that namespace is tns.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't see how I could fix this in my process.
You can see that the message I get on the server has nothing in common with the application/project/process names. Is it possible to define such variable?
Regards
Pawel
PS:
In Transformation xsl file, both variables (source and target) has tns namespace for Header and PayloadHeader, and no namespace for subfields.
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I currently have iTunes version 7 and I need to upgrade to version 10. I am afraid of losing all my music if I just download 10 and when I use the "Check for updates" in the version 7 help menu, it tells me the server cannot be contacted.

I currently have iTunes version 7 on my computer and need to upgrade to version 10 to sync my new nano iPod. When I tried the "check for updates" under the version 7 "help" menu, it said it could not contact the update server. I am afraid if I just download version 10 from the website, it will wipe out my music library. What should I do to upgrade?

Back up your music and install from the website. You probably won't need to do this, but if your library is erased, restore it from the backup.
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I'm running firefox on a Macbook Air 10.6.8, and the bookmark folders in the bookmarks drop down menu don't open when I mouse over them or click on them. How do I fix this?

I've run diagnostics on the mac air, reloaded firefox, and tried eerything I could think of. The 'show all bookmarks' page works perfectly- it's just the dropdown menu that has problems. All the folders have numerous items in them except for one- which only has two. That one works- the pop out menu for that folder comes out on the left side. All the arrows for the folders are on the right side (pointing right) of the of the drop down bookmark menu, pointing at the right edge of the computer screen. The dropdown menu appears on the right half of the screen, close to the edge. Strangely, my main computer is an iMac desktop, and my mozilla bookmarks dropdown menu folders open on top of the dropdown menu, not out on the side.

I figgered it out. The resolution of the screen was set at 600x800, so the bookmarks dropdown menu took up more space than usual. The pop out folder contents didn't have enough room to pop out. With a resolution for a slightly smaller display the drop down bookmarks menu functions perfectly.

Satellite M70-340: I cannot see the DVD schort cut menu after reinstallation

Hi,
I just recently bought Toshiba M70-340 2 weeks ago. Now I learn that there is better Toshiba comparing the my one.
My question is I cannot see on the screen the DVD schort cut menu. First time when I opened it it was on the rıght handside
of screen and my machine was Turkish Win XP Home edition. Than I reformat and change into English version of WinXP that comes with in Toshiba recovery CD. But I lost the screen menu for DVD I guess. Now ı don't know how to re-install that option.
Plus my machine is use the Intel Centrino 1.7 but I am not sure if this is a dual proccess. Secondly the ram is 512MB and I am trying to buy 2GB extened ram but seems still very very expensive (around $1100) Why is that 2GB ram so expensive?
I am using my laptop for software engineering as well as using Macromedia flash and Adobe Photoshop.
The both application and MS VS.NET 2005 as well as SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 application are very slow and sometime it takes more than 30
min. to compile or open it.
I have my home PC P4 3.2G with 1GB ram and it's faster than my Toshibe laptop.
Please be patien with me, after a 5 years later I bought my second laptop and first one was notebook from another manufacture.
I search in the internet and I find the M70-340 with Turkish Q type keyboard was the best option and it cost me $1450.
All I need how to overcome my problem and I need someone from Toshiba to explained to me carefully.
Can someone read my post and answer my question and worries?
I thank you very much and I looking forward to receive some help.
Kind Regards,
NTMS2006

Hello
I dont want to disappoint you but please dont expect someone from Toshiba will write to you because this is user-to-user forum. I will try to write some comments because I have the same unit as you.
This DVD shortcut is really not understandable for me and I really dont know what you are writing about. If the DVD drive is recognized and installed properly it should be listed in device manager and also shown in Windows explorer. If you want to discus about it please describe exact status of DVD drive in device manager and Windows explorer.
You are right about memory. This notebook is delivered with 512 MB Ram. According the notebook specification it can handle max with 2GB of Ram and if you want to use max please use 2x1GB module. Compatible one is DDR2-400/533 1GB (PA3411U-1M1G).
2GB modules are the newest and everything new is very expensive. I dont know how much it can costs but definitely not around $1100. For this money you can buy the whole notebook.
The list of used software is impressive and I am not wondering if the notebook runs slow. Upgrade it to max Ram and it will be much faster. Please dont compare your desktop with this mobile unit.
Pick up info how much costs PA3411U-1M1G memory module and use two of them for max RAM. You will see that unit will run faster and I hope you will be satisfied with performance.
Have a nice day!

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