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Please either write in English or Urdu. Don't torture us with this

The Good one, You don't need any special tools to write Urdu text on this site apart from those that your OS already provides. As far as I know, the admins do not have to enable anything. So go ahead write in Urdu. If you need any help, please check: http://geocities.com/jessbody2000/ The only thing...

Urdu text already works on this forum. Only the subject header does not take Urdu. I can easily post in Urdu from my Linux box using FireFox, as I am sure everybody else can. Only problem is that most of us can type faster in english. I have compiled some tips for Urdu use under Linux, which maybe u...

[font=Nafees Web Naskh] مدثر، آپ نے صحیح نکتہ نظر بیان کیا ہے۔میرے خیال میں کم از کم گپ شپ کالم میں اردو میں لکھنا چاہیے۔ کچھ بہت زیادہ تکنیکی باتیں شاید اردو میں لکھنا اس وقت مشکل ہو۔ آپ کو اردو میں گپ شپ کیلئے نیچے گروہ میں حصہ لینے کی دعوت دیتا ہوں۔ http://groups-beta.google.com/group/urdu وسلام۔...

Anjum, I understand what you have said. But FREE is always good. It is not just the money, it saves the hassle of going through money orders and post offices. On the spur of the moment, you can fire an email and get CD's. Not everyone starts with high motivation. It always helps to ease the first st...

A fair warning to newbies that Gentoo is not for beginners. Beginners need a gentle introduction to Linux. Also many people install Linux on aging machines on which Gentoo may take days to install. For technically inclined, Slackware may be the easier first choice. This is not a flame bait, merely m...

From the name, it appears that it would be part of the nvidia driver. Check nvidia.com
Check in /usr/X11/lib, you might already have it.

Apparently config cannot find the path to the Qt library. Read INSTALL to see what prefixes can be passed to ./configure If the above does not work, check in "config.log" where it is looking for the Qt library. You can make a soft link from the actual lib path to where it is looking ln -s ...

The newer version of Mplayer claims to handle AVI

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

If you have KDE, you must have Qt. Can check the version with

$ kde-config --version

Just
1) delete the file /etc/libcwait.so
2) Edit the file /etc/ld.so.preload and delete the last line "/etc/libcwait.so"

What the bold line is doing is compiling (gcc) the code fragment assembled by the cat command.

For resolution, you need to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf First make a backup copy of this file. Find and edit the section ---------- Section "Screen" .... Modes "1024x768" .... ----------- You can also try to change the resolution in KDE/control center/Peripherals/Display For...

You can use CRULP fonts (Nafees web Naskh). The fonts can be installed in KDE control center. Also the keyboard. The CRULP site is down, but you can download the fonts from the JANG site http://jang.net/urdu When crulp.org is up again, you can find the Urdu phonetic keyboard there along with install...

Slack appears to be installed correctly on your computer for floppy boot. When you login, as you did, type # startx to start X (normally KDE). You can make user accounts, in a console, by typing # adduser Also you will need to configure your network by running, # netconfig For booting from HD, try t...

Can you guys make it into a kopete plugin?