[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by ikthius

although I am stuck as to get the fonts correct

The problem is that the fonts that exist on your Windows system do not exist on your Mandrake system. What you will need to do is install these fonts on your distro, there's an easy guide here, if you don't have a Windows install, get the MS Core Fonts from here. There used to be/still are some patent issues surrounding truetype fonts and I'm not sure if Mandrake will have the full truetype renderer enabled so the fonts may still not look quite the same as in Windows (enabling the advanced renderer means rebuilding some libraries...this may be out of date, it's a year since I last looked at this).

Originally Posted by ikthius

because Xine keeps starting up when I double clikc a subdirectory in Konqueror

Are you sure it's a subdirectory and not a media file? I've no idea why that would happen but for a workaround try using Nautilus as an alternative.

Originally Posted by ikthius

not sure why? but still come up with the same message as in my first post.

Sounds like a syntax error in the xine config file, not in a posiition to check it at the moment as am at work (on a Windows machine ) but if I get a chance I'll check when I get home.

Originally Posted by ikthius

I am not sure what some websites mean when they say sign in as root, does this mean just sign in to a terminal as root, or something else?
if I sign in as root to a terminal, am I root everywhere else? e.g. the prog I have open like Konqueror.?

There's something seriously wrong if a website is asking you to sign in as root, what ae you doing/looking at when it asks you to do so? And what browser are you using? When you allow a program/process (like Konqueror) root access (to run as root), only that program and any programs that are started (spawned) by that application will run as root, all other running processes will run as the user that started them.