Kmail Timeout Settings
Hi, I'm running KDE 3.1.5 in a testing/unstable system. I'm connecting to the internet with over ADSL and pppoe in demand mode. I've checked the log files and there is less than a 5 sec delay between the first ppp entry and the authenticated message after I try to check my mail with Kmail. I've set all the network timouts to over 30 seconds in the Control panel - Internet & Network settings - Preferences. But I still get an "unknown host" error very quickly, I'd say in less than 5 seconds, when I try to check mail or access the internet (from Firebird) the fist time. How come? How can I set the timeouts longer? I found nothing in Google, only a couple of posts with the same question, can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks, Chris
Humorous Contradiction
I think it rather funny that KDE 3.2 is undergoing more testing to enter the "experimental"/"unstable" branches than it has to enter "stable". If this was a joke in bad taste...no offense was intended. -- Comments are appreciated, Bob
Re: Humorous Contradiction
Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2004 19:05 schrieb Robert Tilley: > I think it rather funny that KDE 3.2 is undergoing more testing to enter > the "experimental"/"unstable" branches than it has to enter "stable". > > If this was a joke in bad taste...no offense was intended. KDE3.2 never enters current stable (aka "Woody"). I think that the intention to give Debian testing a chance be upgraded to KDE3.1.5 is a very good idea. However, we'll see how the next major upgrade to XFree86-4.3 and KDE-3.2 will work. :) HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org pgpIZUT3yqH2Z.pgp Description: signature
KMail Progress?
Versions of KMail prior to version 1.5.4 would display a small progress indicator in the lower right-hand corner of the main window. This would indicate the status of the current mail download. It is not present in current versions of KMail. Am I mistaken or is there no way to visibly determine the progress of mail fetch operation? -- Comments are appreciated, Bob
kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid
I have installed the un-released kde3.2 packages as recommended on http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE for Sid users who are impatient. These packages are very good indeed and thanks to those who have made them available. Here is a couple of problems I have had: 1) kdm does not work. The symptoms appear to be Xauthority related. There is a temporary Xauthority file getting created in /var/run/xauth/. After logging into kde using the kdm front end, the system just does nothing. Nothing appears to be running inside of X. I can get out with a cntrl-alt-backspace. 2) individual logins at the console and an "exec startkde" via the .xinitrc file and xinit works fine as usual and expected. 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! 4) My xmms-arts package had to be removed, so I have problems running xmms under kde3.2 using the arts sound server. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KMail Progress?
On Saturday 21 February 2004 20.04, Robert Tilley wrote: > Versions of KMail prior to version 1.5.4 would display a small progress > indicator in the lower right-hand corner of the main window. This would > indicate the status of the current mail download. > > It is not present in current versions of KMail. Am I mistaken or is there > no way to visibly determine the progress of mail fetch operation? kmail 1.6 (KDE 3.2) shows this progress bar all right, together with an 'abort transaction' button. I'm using IMAP - perhaps this is missing for local and POP accounts? cheers -- vbi -- featured product: SpamAssassin - http://spamassassin.org pgpoyD6nsf4md.pgp Description: signature
Re: KMail Progress?
On Saturday 21 February 2004 20:33, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > I'm using IMAP - perhaps this is missing for local and POP > accounts? Nope, works here for local and POP (though I'm not using IMAP)... -- --- Magnus von Koeller --- email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] address: International University Campus 9, App. 13 D-76646 Bruchsal / Germany phone:+49-7251-700-659 mobile: +49-179-4562940 web: http://www.vonkoeller.de pgpfDUjKtyVbW.pgp Description: signature
Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid
On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. > YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! > I've had menu problems as well. For me, all the Debian standard menus disappeared. I deleted everything in .kde/share/applnk & restarted, and that put all my menus back together, but instead of having debian subcategories under each category, we have one big top-level Debian category. I liked it better the old way, though that was suboptimal. Maybe the KDE standard menus and the Debian menus should simply be mixed together or otherwise reorganized so I don't have to look in ten places or dig six levels deep in the menu hierarchy to find stuff. pgp1V0LjA3zyj.pgp Description: signature
Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:52:52PM -0700, Doug Holland wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. > > YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! > > > > I've had menu problems as well. For me, all the Debian standard menus > disappeared. I deleted everything in .kde/share/applnk & restarted, and that > put all my menus back together, but instead of having debian subcategories > under each category, we have one big top-level Debian category. I liked it > better the old way, though that was suboptimal. Maybe the KDE standard menus > and the Debian menus should simply be mixed together or otherwise reorganized > so I don't have to look in ten places or dig six levels deep in the menu > hierarchy to find stuff. Once Debian adopts the freedesktop.org specs for its menus it will be easy to merge the two, when Bill is going to do that I don't know. Chris signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid
> 1) kdm does not work. The symptoms appear to be Xauthority related. > There is a temporary Xauthority file getting created in > /var/run/xauth/. After logging into kde using the kdm front end, the > system just does nothing. Nothing appears to be running inside of X. I > can get out with a cntrl-alt-backspace. Make sure that you told KDM to load KDE. The first time I logged in it loaded twm. The option for which environment to load is hiding in the menu. > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. > YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! There is actually an icon for it at the top of the preferences menu, which isn't enabled by default. Having an icon in the system menu would be nice though. > 4) My xmms-arts package had to be removed, so I have problems running > xmms under kde3.2 using the arts sound server. Read the link below for a full description of what's going on with xmms-arts. The short version is that xmms and KDE 3.2 use incompatible versions of glib. So don't expect this to be fixed anytime soon. http://www.xmms.org/plugins.php?details=22 James
Re: Humorous Contradiction
From: "Robert Tilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think it rather funny that KDE 3.2 is undergoing more testing to enter the > "experimental"/"unstable" branches than it has to enter "stable". > > If this was a joke in bad taste...no offense was intended. There are a surprising number of people here who don't have a clue how Debian works. KDE 3.2 is available _for_ Debian stable, but not _in_ Debian Stable. Anybody can package anything to run with a specific version of Debian. If KDE 3.2 makes it into Sarge before Sarge becomes stable, it'll only be because there's every appearance that Debian is never going to have a new stable release...
