kde 2.2 on alpha

2001-06-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
guess what...it builds & works now. Happy...uhh...4th of July..yea..that's close enough. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
Yep, I do know that... Which is why when I thought it was my personal conf, I 'mv .kde .kdebackup'ed instead of 'rm -fR .kde'. When that didn't fix anything, I moved it right back. I can test software *and* keep my config :-P David On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:40:22PM -0500, Tom Joseph wro

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Tom Joseph
That's true but part of the territory when testing software - I just assumed everyone would know that... --Tom Joseph On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > On Friday, 29. June 2001 20:41, Tom Joseph wrote: > > Um, couldn't you just remove ~/.kde ...? Does KDE keep per-user config >

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Andre Alexander Bell
On Friday, 29. June 2001 20:41, Tom Joseph wrote: > Um, couldn't you just remove ~/.kde ...? Does KDE keep per-user config > stuff anywhere else? Sure, but then you might loose some data you want to keep. (Knotes, Kab-Adressbook, Some programm configurations...) Andre

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Stephan Jaensch wrote: > No, my history is also set to 1000. When hitting PageUp/PageDown/Home/End, > all I get in konsole is a system beep and this symbol: ~. I've tried all the > available keyboard layout options in konsole, but the problem persists. > Deleting my ~/.kde

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Ben Burton
> Since I am obviously the only one experiencing this it could well be a bug > associated with my local configuration. Just tried it out, I'm getting your behaviour also (with English settings). Ben. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:24:15PM +0200, Stephan Jaensch wrote: > On Friday, 29. June 2001 20:32, David Bishop wrote: > > > The konsole now defaults to having no history, so it's not the keys, you > > just need to go into the settings and set the history from "1" to whatever > > (usually 1000 for

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Stephan Jaensch
On Friday, 29. June 2001 20:32, David Bishop wrote: > The konsole now defaults to having no history, so it's not the keys, you > just need to go into the settings and set the history from "1" to whatever > (usually 1000 for me). I don't remember exactly which menu it's in, and I > just finished u

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:07:58PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:01:34PM -0600, David Bishop wrote: > > > > All ready tried that, didn't help. But I also have a lot of left-over > > packages from ald versions of kde lying around, and want to make sure that > > ever

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:01:34PM -0600, David Bishop wrote: > > All ready tried that, didn't help. But I also have a lot of left-over > packages from ald versions of kde lying around, and want to make sure that > everything is "latest and greatest", which apt-get normally handles really > we

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
All ready tried that, didn't help. But I also have a lot of left-over packages from ald versions of kde lying around, and want to make sure that everything is "latest and greatest", which apt-get normally handles really well, but doesn't cover all possible bases (for instance, I still have obs

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Tom Joseph
Um, couldn't you just remove ~/.kde ...? Does KDE keep per-user config stuff anywhere else? --Tom Joseph On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, David Bishop wrote: > > The konsole now defaults to having no history, so it's not the keys, you just > need to go into the settings and set the history from "1" to what

Re: KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
The konsole now defaults to having no history, so it's not the keys, you just need to go into the settings and set the history from "1" to whatever (usually 1000 for me). I don't remember exactly which menu it's in, and I just finished uninstalling everything having to do with kde in an attemp

KDE 2.2beta1 impressions

2001-06-29 Thread Stephan Jaensch
Hi, first of all, great work with the 2.2beta1 packages, Ivan! Keep up the excellent work! Now, for the bugs I have found... :-) arts alsa support seems to be linked against alsa 0.5. If I try to start artsd with alsa support it just segfaults. Since this is unstable, I think artsd should be

kdm preinst

2001-06-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
ok...if I don't get a fixed package up in time of today's install run this is a workaround for the preinst bug in kdm. rm -rf /etc/X11/kdm/authdir that *should* take care of it...if you have already installed it and it failed just rm -rf /etc/X11/kdm everything is under /etc/kde2/kdm now..the

Re: kdm beta1

2001-06-29 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
ack... On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:38:19AM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > It's just my week to discover bugs :-) This is what I get while trying to > install the latest kdm from incoming. I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong, > and since I'm always right/perfect, it must be your fault *grin*.

Re: Create new users in a special way

2001-06-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Hello! > tach auch! :) > Now I want to create /home/directories in the way the programm "adduser" > create /home/directories /copying files from /etc/skel and copy them in > user's home directory, and so on. > for user in `cut -f1 -d:

kdm beta1

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
It's just my week to discover bugs :-) This is what I get while trying to install the latest kdm from incoming. I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong, and since I'm always right/perfect, it must be your fault *grin*. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david/tmp# dpkg -i kdm_2.2.0-0beta1-1_i386.deb (Readi

Re: kde2.2-beta1

2001-06-29 Thread Ben Burton
> Hm, I was too slow. Just tried to get kdelibs3 and kdebase from > http://incoming.debian.org, but they are not there anymore! They also are > not in ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kdelibs, so where are they now? Oops, ignore the last post. It seems Ivan has simply uploaded newer versions;

Re: Create new users in a special way

2001-06-29 Thread David Bishop
I would suggest debian-user, as I don't see how KDE relates to your question. Have fun! On Friday 29 June 2001 02:45 am, Heidelinde Meier wrote: > Hello! > > Perhaps my question is not too difficult for you to answer: > I want to create more than 5000 new users on my system. > Because there are

Re: kde2.2-beta1

2001-06-29 Thread Ben Burton
> Hm, I was too slow. Just tried to get kdelibs3 and kdebase from > http://incoming.debian.org, but they are not there anymore! They also are > not in ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kdelibs, so where are they now? They got picked up by the server yesterday afternoon and should show up after t

Create new users in a special way

2001-06-29 Thread Heidelinde Meier
Hello! Perhaps my question is not too difficult for you to answer: I want to create more than 5000 new users on my system. Because there are 5000 users who already got their password, that means for me: I already got the complete files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on my system. Now I want to creat

Re: kde2.2-beta1

2001-06-29 Thread Stephan Jaensch
On Friday, 29. June 2001 01:16, Ben Burton wrote: > > Well, I'm wondering how you did this. :-) I'm running Debian unstable too > > and when I update I get a whole slew of dependency problems because > > kdelibs3 is still 2.1.2-3 on my system (other packages like kmail are > > already 2.2-cvs). Sin