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**Linkmaster** · Dec 04, 2010, 04:42 PM

Re: Need help with several things

I forgot to put all of the information, sorry, here it is:

Kubuntu: 10.10
KDE: I believe it is 4.5.1 - Its the newest version, since I just got my Kubuntu OS
GRUB: I believe it is the newest version
Windows XP as a seperate OS

Laptop, its a Lenovo S10e
I have a 32 bit processor, believe its intel. Not positive
I'm currently working from my Windows OS, using the Yahoo! This is what my system says:
Intel(R) Atom(TM)
CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
1.60GHz, .99GB of RAM

Hope that helped

**oblivion** · Dec 04, 2010, 05:22 PM

Re: Need help with several things

Hi, and welcome

1] Kopete. I have no clue how to use it, and would like to work with my Yahoo! Messenger through the Kopete. Mainly so that I don't have to switch to my Windows OS to use it. If I could have directions on how to do this, it would be greatly appreciated. I use the texting feature a lot as well, so I hope that is supported as well.

1. Run Kopete

2. When Kopete main window appears, select "Configure..." from the "Settings" menu.
3. When Settings window opens, go into "Accounts" tab and create yourself an "Identity" (via "Add Identity" button). Note that you can use more than one identity AND have more than one communication protocol (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, etc.) under any identity.
4. Add an IM account (via "Add Account" button) to your identity. This will bring a dialog where you can pick the IM communication protocol. You should find the "Yahoo!" at the end of the list. Select it and follow the account wizard which will guide you through the process..
5. If you want to add another IM protocol AND/OR Identity, GOTO 1

6. Go online via either file menu->Set Status OR Main Window->Set Status button.
7. Enjoy.

P.S: Kopete is very flexible. You can examine and play with the other settings

2] Kmail. If I was told correctly, I could set this up to use through Yahoo as well? I'm not sure if my information was correct, and I cannot find where I saw it, so I couldn't get help that way either.

Yes you can. First you have to enable POP3 support via your yahoo web mail page via browser. Then Open KMail and Go Into Account Settings Page and set your pop/smtp servers via account settigns wizard or manually.

3] Amarok. How do you get .mp3 files to play with Amarok? Since I used the Zune software beforehand, I never had a problem, but now I can't get any music to play. The music comes from my own files, not the Zune marketplace, so you don't have to worry about the weird restrictions they put on the files.

This is because Mp3 is a restricted audio format. You have to install restricted codecs (mp3, wma, etc). To do this, open a Konsole (terminal) and install restricted packages (when it asks, type your password).

Code:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-addons

If you also want "Microsoft TTF core fonts" (Times, Arial, Trebuchet MS, etc.) and "Adobe Flash" installed on Kubuntu, run the below command too:

Code:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

4] This is not a major issue, but I used OpenOffice on Windows, and saved everything as .odt because I like the format better, but when I transfered the files over, it won't allow me to open the direct file. It insists that I either open a read-only or a copy. I'm not sure if I did an incorrect file transfer, or what, if that could be explained as well.

I'm not sure, symptoms show that it MIGHT BE that the owners of the files are different (??).

1. Open Dolphin, and Right click to the document file.
2. From the right click menu, select "properties"
3. A dialog should appear. Go into "permissions" tab. and try to change Read/Write permissions from there.

If this won't work, you can also try to change the owner, using the "chown" command. Template should look like this:

Code:

sudo chown username directory/filename.odt

username -> your actual username on kubuntu.
directory -> where you store the file, (eg. /home/Documents/openofficefile.odt)

Regards.

**Linkmaster** · Dec 04, 2010, 07:18 PM

Re: Need help with several things

I was able to get the Kopete to work, I'll have more fun with it later so that I can make it appear how I like, since it is flexible like you say.

Concerning the Kmail, it appears I need to pay money for Yahoo to enable POP support? I'm not sure if I'm being swindled here, or if I did something wrong..

Concerning the Amarok, I did what you said, and it works perfectly. I thank you greatly with that.

Concerning those retarded files, I tried the command's, and it didn't work -.- Somethign is funny about it, I'll just replace the files, because it does allow me to open up copies that come up as "Untitled 1" so I'll just rename it, then replace it.

You helped me out a TON and I thank you for all of it. Now, I have some more questions, if you don't mind xP

1] Applications? There is the little bar at the top right that says what your viewing, and the number of applications your running and such. Well, the first time I was using Kubuntu, when I clicked on this, it switched to a black screen that showed all the applications I was running and let me click between this. I LOVED this feature, and when I booted kubuntu up[I'm using it currently, of course]It just changed to a drop-down. I'm confused/slightly upset with this, any help on getting it back?
2] I'm using the Rekonq web browser, since its similar to Opera, but I like it more. There is only one problem: When I hover over a link, it pulls a bunch of script along the bottom of the screen, and since I use facebook, this covers up the chats and people and stuff. Making it a little frustrating to try and click on their names. Any way to turn this off? Or is it part of the program?

Thanks again for your help, you've been a TREMENDOUS amount of help so far.

**jglen490** · Dec 04, 2010, 09:07 PM

Re: Need help with several things

It's often been my experience that files created in a Windows environment are copied to a Linux environment with "root" ownership. Also, if a CD-R is used as an intermediary to bring files into Linux, the files are saved with no "write" permissions.

May as well exercise some command line skills:

You can open a Konsole and then "cd" into the directory where the files are saved. You can see the permissions on the files by entering:

Code:

ls -al <filename or filename with wildcards>

You can change ownership and permissions with chown, chgrp, and chmod, and where needed, preceded with the "sudo" command. See the "man" pages on chown, chgrp, and chmod.

**woodsmoke** · Dec 04, 2010, 09:43 PM

Re: Need help with several things

Concerning the Kmail, it appears I need to pay money for Yahoo to enable POP support? I'm not sure if I'm being swindled here, or if I did something wrong..

That is JUST SO WRONG!

I did not know this until you mentioned it. I went and looked at my account, I've used Yahoo since I started on the internet and this is the first time that I've seen it.

POP and IMAP are... WERE ........ummmm FREE........... up until now I guess... there used to be a setup page for IMAP and POP and you could hook them into your Kmail or any other mail account with a few copy and pastes and clicks and that was it. I hadn't looked at the setup page in probably ..... 6 years so... >

This is just a ripoff and is apparently one of the under the table agreements with Microshaft when they took over Yahoo this year:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10456118-265.html

To quote what is on my page for the wonderful "upgrade".

Upgrade to Mail Plus so you can:

* download your Yahoo! Mail in an email client, such as Outlook
* forward your Yahoo! Mail to a different address

what a load of @#$#$%%&*((()(

I'm just glad that the only thing I use Yahoo mail for is my throw-away stuff, I use gmail for my "business/friends/etc" stuff and the ISP mail for only family.

Excuse my rant!

woodsmoke

**oblivion** · Dec 05, 2010, 04:46 AM

Re: Need help with several things

1] Applications? There is the little bar at the top right that says what your viewing, and the number of applications your running and such. Well, the first time I was using Kubuntu, when I clicked on this, it switched to a black screen that showed all the applications I was running and let me click between this. I LOVED this feature, and when I booted kubuntu up[I'm using it currently, of course]It just changed to a drop-down. I'm confused/slightly upset with this, any help on getting it back?

As far as I understand from what you've described above, you are using a netbook and you want your "current application control" plasmoid back. Ok;

1. If workspace (the desktop you use) is locked, unlock it so you can add/modify panel and other plasmoids. This can be done via either by right click menu or cashew ( a cashew is workspace control button that generally sits on one of the corners of your screen.
2. Select "Add Widgets" either from the menu or from the cashew.
3. Find "Current Application Control" plasmoid there.
4. Drag and Drop the plasmoid into the rightmost (or wherever you prefer) of the panel.

2] I'm using the Rekonq web browser, since its similar to Opera, but I like it more. There is only one problem: When I hover over a link, it pulls a bunch of script along the bottom of the screen, and since I use facebook, this covers up the chats and people and stuff. Making it a little frustrating to try and click on their names. Any way to turn this off? Or is it part of the program?

I have no idea about that "scripts", are you referring to the urls that appears at the down-left of the browser? If so, I'm sorry I don't know how to disable them. It never annoyed me either

FYI, you can also use other browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Konqueror) on KDE.

Regards.

**Detonate** · Dec 05, 2010, 09:11 AM

Re: Need help with several things

I use POP to get my Yahoo mail, and I don't have a paid account. The POP settings for Yahoo are:
Server pop.mail.yahoo.com
Port 995
Security SSL/TLS
Authentication Method Normal Password

I'm using Thunderbird, but the settings for Kmail should be the same. At one time Yahoo did require a paid account to use POP/IMAP but that is no longer the case. It was costing them to many users switching to gmail and other providers. I had my yahoo account for years before gmail became available, and i use gmail now primarily, but I still keep my yahoo acoount because there are a few places I registered with that account and I am too lazy to go through and find and change all of them.

**oshunluvr** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:03 AM

Re: Need help with several things

@Linkmaster, First of I want to thank you for a very polite and well documented initial post. Nice to have new users to the forum that will take the time to ask and inform rather than jump right to the complaint department (see many other posts :P ).

The only suggestion I would like to make is in future posts - use a more informative Subject line, preferably as specific as possible. This does several things for all of us; attracts people knowledgeable in the area of your problem to your post, informs others with a similar issue that a possible solution exists, and allows those with no interest or knowledge to continue browsing.

Oh, and when your issue(s) are resolved, edit your first post and add [Solved] or something similar to the subject line for the same reasons as above. Thanks!

Welcome to Kubuntu and our forum!

p.s. re problem #4: sounds exactly like an ownership/permissions problem. If you've migrated a large number of files to your new install, you might want to check them all to prevent other problems. If dolphin won't allow a change of the files, you can open a terminal follow these steps (these are actual commands):

cd ~
sudo chown -R --preserve-root USERNAME:GROUPNAME *
sudo chmod -R --preserve-root og+rw *

Substitute your user name and group name where indicated. This also assumes you're using the default umask and all your files are in your /home directory.

**ardvark71** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:04 AM

Re: Need help with several things

Originally posted by Detonate

I use POP to get my Yahoo mail, and I don't have a paid account. The POP settings for Yahoo are:
Server pop.mail.yahoo.com
Port 995
Security SSL/TLS
Authentication Method Normal Password

What is the address, port and authentications for smtp?

Regards...

**Detonate** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:21 AM

Re: Need help with several things

Originally posted by ardvark71

What is the address, port and authentications for smtp?

Regards...

Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 465
Security: SSL/TLS
Password: Normal Password

**ardvark71** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:29 AM

Re: Need help with several things

Hi...

Thank you.

My mother has a free yahoo account and I'm wondering if she wouldn't prefer to use Windows Live Mail instead.

Regards..

**Detonate** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:41 AM

Re: Need help with several things

Originally posted by ardvark71

Hi...

Thank you.

My mother has a free yahoo account and I'm wondering if she wouldn't prefer to use Windows Live Mail instead.

Regards..

I consider Windows Live malware. Many times I get customer complaints about their computer running very sluggish. I will immediately notice that they are running Windows Live. Unless someone has a need for cloud computing, such as document collaboration, they do not need windows Live, and it uses a huge amount of resources. If they have a hotmail or msn email account they can still get their email without Windows Live. Take it off your mother's computer and see the increase in performance.

**Linkmaster** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:42 AM

Re: Amarok[SOLVED], Kopete, Applications[SOLVED], and KMail questions/issues

Concerning the application thing, I'm not positive what I did, but its back to normal. It appears that I went to the system settings, and fiddled around with the desktop[?] settings I believe, and it just reverted to normal. So that problem/question is fixed. Still not sure what I did though

@oshunluvr: I try to be as informative as possible when I post on forums, because I know that it makes things easier for those with experience to find things. I thank you for the advice about the subject, I changed it, and I believe that is what you are talking about.

Concerning the command, I will give it a shot. Last time I used Konsole, it didn't work. Which caused me to throw my hands up. Its worth a shot though

@Detonate: I did what I could, but I get an error notification whenever I try to connect, it looks like this:

KMail

Error while checking account Yahoo for new mail:
Could not login to pop.mail.yahoo.com. The password may be wrong.

The server said: "[SYS/PERM] pop not allowed for user."

I'm not exactly sure what this means, it could mean that Thunderbird could get around POP settings perhaps? I am not positive about this. And I saw a different post by Detonate, what does smtp stand for? Can I use that to access it through KMail?

@oblivion: Like I said earlier, I somehow managed to get the feature I liked back. Still not sure how though

and concerning the Rekonq, I'll do fine as it is, I was wondering if it could be turned off or not.

I have a new question about the Kopete though. I can connect fine and happily with Yahoo! now, and that is good. The problem/issue is, I can't text anybody? I don't know if Kopete supports texting or not, because I have a large amount of just numbers in my Yahoo! address book, and I cannot find them in the settings or stuff.

Once again, thank you for all your help.

**Detonate** · Dec 05, 2010, 10:52 AM

Re: Kopete, KMail, Amarok[SOLVED], and application[SOLVED] questions/issues

I left out a step. I forgot. You have to open your Yahoo Mail account in a browser, the click on Options, then click on POP & Forwarding, then select Allow your Yahoo! Mail to be POPed.

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