[NEWBIE] About KDE and Sawmill+Gnome

2000-12-15 Thread Ernesto Domato
Hi everybody. I've allready installed Sawmill+Gnome sucefully on my Debian, then I've installed KDE on the same machine with no problem but it seems that both systems can't live together on the same machine. I'm using the GDM but I don't know how to do that both configurations don't mess each o

Re: Still no startup - Woody

2000-12-15 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, > > Installed the latest Woody packages (2.1?) and Kde still refuses to > > startup fully. > > it is starting up fully. oh... > > It appears only kwin and kdesktop are running at startup. > > that is all that is launched at startup. > > ( -- from changelog -- ) > >* Removing kde2 from x-

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread David Everly
option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: Still no startup - Woody

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:03:23AM +1000, Rick Van Ruth wrote: > Hi, > > Installed the latest Woody packages (2.1?) and Kde still refuses to startup > fully. it is starting up fully. > It appears only kwin and kdesktop are running at startup. that is all that is launched at startup. ( -- from

Still no startup - Woody

2000-12-15 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, Installed the latest Woody packages (2.1?) and Kde still refuses to startup fully. Error message is: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Trying to launch kdeinit. kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 I can get some semblance of normality by manually running (from t

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Marcin Landowski
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:03:11PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: >option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs this option! :-) best regards -- ~~~ /* | QLIVER / | / | ~ ~~/| / | ~Marcin Landowski

Re: Qt 2.2.3

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:48:51PM +0100, Thibaut Cousin wrote: > Is there a .deb for Qt 2.2.3, or a debian source available ? working on it -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 81

Re: Packages from different versions at the same time

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> I have been updating a couple of machines at my work from kde 1.1.2 to kde > 2.0.1 in potato this morning. I find that some packages which should conflict > among them appear twice resulting in different size icons o duplicate icons > in the desktop and K menu. > > For example the system ha

Re: Kdm broke after recent update

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > yes...upgrade. :) > > I guess that Scott is using Potato, just like me. The bug is still > existant in the current binary of kdm, I have the very same problem, so > apt-get upgrade doesn't fix the problem. ok...thanks for jogging my memory. :) I'm actually building new packages for potato ri

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
In case the polls are still open I vote for 2. KDE is the best work environment I can have. I feel that option 2 will leave me with a working system more likely than 3. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Jesse Goerz
option 1: upgrade potato .deb's to 2.1-beta1+ (ie..move from stable to cvs snapshots as I am doing with woody)

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Patrick K Notz
Ivan, I agree that Option 3 seems most fitting (in accord with the stable status of potato). Option 2 would certainly be acceptable though it would be more demanding of your time -- a quantity with which you are already all too generous. By the way -- add my name to the list of folks who greatly

active borders?

2000-12-15 Thread Pascal Hos
I was wondering if and when the active desktop borders are going to be activated again? Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Ivan, I think we have been test dummies for kde as it is now - so I guess I would vote for option 1 as long as it doesn't complete wipe out kmail - :) Thank you On Thursday 14 December 2000 22:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give

Fwd: Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Myles Green
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: vote Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:05:52 +0100 From: Pablo de Vicente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> El Vie 15 Dic 2000 07:39, Myles Green escribió: >On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: >> ok...

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Oops! I sent this to Pablo, sorry! Pablo de Vicente wrote: > El Vie 15 Dic 2000 07:39, Myles Green escribi: > >> On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: >> >>> ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give >>> you) :) >> >> >> >>> so..your choice. >> >> I

Qt 2.2.3

2000-12-15 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Is there a .deb for Qt 2.2.3, or a debian source available ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr --- Teach me passion for I fear it`s gone. Show me love, hold the lorn. So much more I wanted t

Re: Ae and konsole

2000-12-15 Thread Jérôme Bertorelle
As a workaround, use the "vt420pc" keyboard scheme (right button menu, "Keyboard" submenu): it works and I never had arrow key problems with it. And then "Save Options" not to have to do that each time. Thibaut Cousin wrote: > Sorry if this is a known problem, I'm a bit new to the list... >

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread James D. Freels
I vote for option 3 because the other two would not be stable. Potato implies stable (I think *is* very stable). Would be have 2.0.1 maintainence? >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:03:11 -0700 >Resent-from: debian-kde@lists.debian.org >From: "Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Resent-sender: [EMA

Ae and konsole

2000-12-15 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Sorry if this is a known problem, I'm a bit new to the list... I usually use the small text editor called ae (installed by default on Debian systems) when I want to quickly edit something. If I launch ae in konsole, the arrow keys do not work, they send unknown keycodes. Ae is the only appl

problems with accents in konsole (again)

2000-12-15 Thread Pablo de Vicente
2 days ago I upgraded one of my machines with potato with kde 2.0.1, and accents in konsole were working fine (from spanish keyboard), I was really pleased, but today I have upgraded again and the bug is present again. I have read in this list that this bug does not exist in Woody. I only men

Re: Kdm broke after recent update

2000-12-15 Thread Pablo de Vicente
El Vie 15 Dic 2000 16:36, Hanno Mueller escribió >> > The 2nd problem is when logging out >> > to reboot or shutdown kdm exits but the user is then left at the >> > console. The machine never boots or shutsdown. Does anyone know how >> > to fix this? >> >> yes...upgrade. :) > >I guess that Scott

Re: Kdm broke after recent update

2000-12-15 Thread Hanno Mueller
> > The 2nd problem is when logging out > > to reboot or shutdown kdm exits but the user is then left at the > > console. The machine never boots or shutsdown. Does anyone know how > > to fix this? > yes...upgrade. :) I guess that Scott is using Potato, just like me. The bug is still existant i

Re: Packages from different versions at the same time

2000-12-15 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Vendredi 15 Décembre 2000 14:15, Pablo de Vicente a écrit : > I have been updating a couple of machines at my work from kde 1.1.2 to kde > 2.0.1 in potato this morning. I find that some packages which should > conflict among them appear twice resulting in different size icons o > duplicate icon

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Hanno Mueller
My choice: > option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs Thanks & greetings, Hanno

Packages from different versions at the same time

2000-12-15 Thread Pablo de Vicente
Ivan I have been updating a couple of machines at my work from kde 1.1.2 to kde 2.0.1 in potato this morning. I find that some packages which should conflict among them appear twice resulting in different size icons o duplicate icons in the desktop and K menu. For example the system has kd

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Walter
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:03:11PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give you) :) > >option 1: upgrade potato .deb's to 2.1-beta1+ (ie..move from stable to > cvs snapshots as I am doing with woody) > >option 2:

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 15 December 2000 00:39, Myles Green wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give > > you) :) > > > > > so..your choice. > > I would prefer option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs,

anyone using designer?

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
ok...if noone on this list knows answer to this then I'll bump it upstream... This is really a question on how I should prepare the qt packages... primary qt package is built without kde support...this because in order to build kde you have to already have qt built...so for a distribution this is

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Pablo de Vicente
El Vie 15 Dic 2000 07:39, Myles Green escribi: >On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: >> ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give >> you) :) > > > >> so..your choice. > >I would prefer option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs, but >would s

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread jortega
I vote for option 2, out of conservative fear. Quim On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jan Warnking wrote: > > If I have a coice, I prefer stable packages over new features (within > reasonable limits - I guess you could argue that I really should be > running KDE1 then...). After all, that's why I'm runni

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> >option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs I'm actually going to go with Option 2...2 archives (both 2.0.1 and 2.1) > If I have a coice, I prefer stable packages over new features (within > reasonable limits - I guess you could argue that I really should be > running KDE1 then...)

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Jan Warnking
>option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs If I have a coice, I prefer stable packages over new features (within reasonable limits - I guess you could argue that I really should be running KDE1 then...). After all, that's why I'm running Potato, not Woody. I'd vote for option 2, if

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > > I would prefer option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs, but > > > would settle for otion 2. > > > > I vote for this too. > Anyway I think 2.1 is not going to include things 2.0.1 (like kde pim for > example) so I think it would be a good thing, in any case to not blow away > 2.0

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Vie 15 Dic 2000 08:04, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Vie 15 Dic 2000 07:39, Myles Green wrote: > > On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give > > > you) :) > > > > > > > > > so..your choice. > > > > I w

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Vie 15 Dic 2000 07:39, Myles Green wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give > > you) :) > > > > > so..your choice. > > I would prefer option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs, but > wo

Re: vote

2000-12-15 Thread Myles Green
On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give > you) :) > so..your choice. I would prefer option 3: wait for 2.1's release to do potato debs, but would settle for otion 2. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada http

Re: Kdm broke after recent update

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> I use kdm for a screensaver/locker and to allow easy access to both kde > and gnome. This week I got a update when using deselect that broke kdm > on 2 machines. The first problem was show-only selected users started > showing all available users instead of selected users. I used the KDE > con

2.1 updates and the like

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
ok..so some info about the new packages... some things are changing and I want to let people know before I get bug reports. :) task-kde and task-kde-devel are the only task packages that will exist as of the 2.1 packages. If anyone has been keeping up on the task pacakge debates and whatnot you

vote

2000-12-15 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
ok... Potato users be heard (woody users are stuck with what I give you) :) option 1: upgrade potato .deb's to 2.1-beta1+ (ie..move from stable to cvs snapshots as I am doing with woody) option 2: create a seperate repository on kde.tdyc.com for kde 2.1 potato