The IBM keyboard customizer thingy (I think you can dowload it somewhere from the IBM support page) allows you to assign some other key to act as the windows key. I mapped it to the right alt key, so for me it's right_alt+R to open the Run dialog.
Mandrake menus:
If you don't like it why don't you switch it off (hint: menudrake).
I actually like the menu system (it's not a Mandrake's invention, it comes from Debian). To create a menu entry you just need to add a simple description of it to ~/.menu or/usr/lib/menu and update-menus creates the menu entries for all installed GUIs (KDE/Gnome/WindowMaker/IceWM...., see/etc/menu-methods). As a Linux developer I don't need to worry about all possible GUIs. I just need to create one simple entry and update-menus takes care of the rest. (It is also much easier for Mandrake packagers to maintain one set of menu entries than to have to manage entries for all GUIs in the distribution)
So, if you decide to keep Mandrake menus then don't create "symlinks all over the place" but just simply add one entry to ~/.menu (man menufile).
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The IBM keyboard customizer thingy (I think you can dowload it somewhere from the IBM support page) allows you to assign some other key to act as the windows key. I mapped it to the right alt key, so for me it's right_alt+R to open the Run dialog.
-Dusan
Mandrake menus: /usr/lib/menu and update-menus creates the menu entries for all installed GUIs (KDE/Gnome/WindowMaker/IceWM...., see /etc/menu-methods). As a Linux developer I don't need to worry about all possible GUIs. I just need to create one simple entry and update-menus takes care of the rest. (It is also much easier for Mandrake packagers to maintain one set of menu entries than to have to manage entries for all GUIs in the distribution)
If you don't like it why don't you switch it off (hint: menudrake).
I actually like the menu system (it's not a Mandrake's invention, it comes from Debian). To create a menu entry you just need to add a simple description of it to ~/.menu or
So, if you decide to keep Mandrake menus then don't create "symlinks all over the place" but just simply add one entry to ~/.menu (man menufile).
Mosfet's Liquid theme:
Get a Liquid Mandrake rpm from PLF.