Root can use AA TrueType & T1 fonts, users get garbage

2001-10-21 Thread Troy Telford
I'm somewhat stumped on this one; I've seen it before, and I'm not quite sure what fixed it... But, root is able to use AA TrueType and Type1 fonts. However, when logging in as a 'regular' user, for the first login to KDE (meaning no .kde folder in $HOME), the AA TrueType & Type1 fonts are fine.

Re: Liquid Theme

2001-10-21 Thread Norman Jordan
You need to install the package kdebase-dev to compile it. On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:24:07PM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: > I found Mosfet's Liquid Theme last night (he seems to have scoured it from > the web) and tried an install. No theme. > > tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosfet-liquid0

Re: Liquid Theme

2001-10-21 Thread Maximilian Reiss
Am Montag, 22. Oktober 2001 00:24 schrieb Robert Tilley: > I found Mosfet's Liquid Theme last night (he seems to have scoured it from > the web) and tried an install. No theme. > > tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosfet-liquid0.6# make -f Makefile.cvs > > tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mos

Re: Liquid Theme

2001-10-21 Thread Ben Burton
> liquidclient.h:5: client.h: No such file or directory > liquidclient.cpp:15: kwin/workspace.h: No such file or directory > liquidclient.cpp:16: kwin/options.h: No such file or directory First thing to check is that you have /usr/include/kde/kwin/workspace.h, etc. If not, make sure you have pac

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I understand what startx is. [...] > hehe, heck, i stopmed into the ambiguity trap. or my understanding of the english language is just that bad. :) > Under xfree 3.?, I believe that the server was specified in > XF86Config. > nope ... XF86Config is the server's config file, not the file whic

Re: Mosfet's Liquid Theme & Compilation Problems

2001-10-21 Thread Volker Schlecht
> I am most anxious to use this theme as I have heard much from the people who > have, and say it's a high caliber theme. It is and some kind soul even created a Debian Package for it: http://www.area57.de/harlekin//linux.php4 regards, Volker -- "I'm a mean green mother from outer space" -

Re: Mosfet's Liquid Theme & Compilation Problems

2001-10-21 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some questions for anyone who has successfully used Mosfet's > Liquid theme, before he tried to remove it from the web. That's a somewhat inaccurate characterization. He removed it from his site, and announced that he wouldn't be developing it

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:57:56 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Which configuration file would cause kdm to use a different server >> than startx? >> >startx is not a server. it's a wrapper to xinit, which starts the server >specified in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. but that has

KDE Printer drivers

2001-10-21 Thread Franz Keferboeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 XAIPETE! I'm running testing with the KDE2.2.1 debs from unstable. Now I just wanted to make use of the KDE Printing System, but unfortunately some errors occured! First of all I configured the printer by hand, but whenever I wanted to print via KD

Liquid Theme

2001-10-21 Thread Robert Tilley
I found Mosfet's Liquid Theme last night (he seems to have scoured it from the web) and tried an install. No theme. tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosfet-liquid0.6# make -f Makefile.cvs tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosfet-liquid0.6# ./configure tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosf

Mosfet's Liquid Theme & Compilation Problems

2001-10-21 Thread Robert Tilley
I have some questions for anyone who has successfully used Mosfet's Liquid theme, before he tried to remove it from the web. I'm using version 0.6 of it and have the following errors on the last step of installion (make install): tillarium:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/mosfet-liquid0.6# make -f Mak

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Gordon Tyler
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:18:50PM -0400, Daniel Jones wrote: > With kdm debugging enabled, I'm now getting an error in > syslog to the effect that "can't start > /urs/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA" I've uninstalled XF86_SVGA and > reconfigured xfree. Manually starting xfree with "startx" > works fine, usi

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Which configuration file would cause kdm to use a different server > than startx? > startx is not a server. it's a wrapper to xinit, which starts the server specified in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. but that has _nothing_ to do with kdm. kdm's x-server config file is /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers. possibly

Re: killustrator

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:20:44 -0500 (CDT), Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kontour is the new name of killustrator. No idea why killustrator is still in >> sid. > >It's not. :) The version of koffice in testing is old enough that testing >has killustrator, not kontour. Sid has kontour,

Re: killustrator

2001-10-21 Thread Ben Burton
> kontour is the new name of killustrator. No idea why killustrator is still in > sid. It's not. :) The version of koffice in testing is old enough that testing has killustrator, not kontour. Sid has kontour, not killustrator. Btw, you should be able to install kontour without the rest of the k

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:20:09 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apt-get --reinstall xfree86-common kde kdm >> >> fails to correct the problem. Perhaps xfree86-common >> doesn't contain the lib or module that kdm is mis-linked >> with? >> >xlibs is supposed to contain the rig

Re: killustrator

2001-10-21 Thread Maximilian Reiss
Am Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2001 16:07 schrieb Daniel Jones: > Can anyone explain why > > apt-get install killustrator > > tells me that the following packages will be uninstalled: > > kde koffice kontour > > Doesn't killustrator require kde? kontour is the new name of killustrator. No idea why kill

Re: killustrator

2001-10-21 Thread Chris Howells
On Sunday 21 Oct 2001 15:07, Daniel Jones wrote: > apt-get install killustrator > > tells me that the following packages will be uninstalled: > > kde koffice kontour > > Doesn't killustrator require kde? A few issues here: a) Killustrator is now called Kontour b) Kontour is part of KOffice, and

killustrator

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
Can anyone explain why apt-get install killustrator tells me that the following packages will be uninstalled: kde koffice kontour Doesn't killustrator require kde?

Re: Install KLyX

2001-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:41:47AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > Isn't KLyX esssentially dead? I would look at the Lyx homepage (www.lyx.org); > I seem to recall that Klyx is more or less abandoned, and you will get far > more mileage out of the current version of Lyx itself. From my reading of the semi

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Nespor
In reply to Daniel Jones: > Running XF86 4.1 and KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable with kernel > 2.4.12. > Oct 16 19:45:59 corwin kdm[2505]: Found new display: :0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp ^ did you have X 3.3.x insta

Re: Finally get to see what KDE2.2 looks like?

2001-10-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 October 2001 07:18 am, John Gay wrote: > My main reason for the upgrade, besides the death of Progeny, is to see > KDE2.2. Since this is not in woody yet, I'm not sure if I'm going to chance > installing the Sid packages or just wait for it to hit testing. FWIW, I tracked unstable

Re: KMail and Outlook?

2001-10-21 Thread Sunny Dubey
> - I have Word 97 which doesn't read Word 2000 stuff (after all, this is > Microsoft). Staroffice does > Thats pretty much BS. I hate seeing FUD spread around ... so the following should clear everything up. http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov/msfc/metro/msoffice00_97info.html http://www.ust.hk/it

Re: Finally get to see what KDE2.2 looks like?

2001-10-21 Thread John Gay
On Sunday 21 October 2001 06:26, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have been running woody with no stability complaints for quite a while; I > am running woody with those packages from sid that I have a good reason to > install, such as KDE 2.2.1 (i.e., the sid version has fixed some glitch, > of

Re: kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Oct 16 19:45:59 corwin kdm[2505]: GenerateAuthorization XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 > shit ... one more of this sort. pls have a look at kdm.log. does it say something about missing symbols? also, try changing kdmrc [X-*-Core] AuthNames to "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1". > As you can see, the first log entry was

kdm dies

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
Running XF86 4.1 and KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.12. kdm starts on boot up but then dies. Passing kdm -debug 255, I get tons of stuff in my syslog but nothing that appears to be an error: Oct 16 19:44:18 corwin kdm[2501]: Forked helper /usr/bin/kdm_config, pid 2502 Oct 16 19:44:18

Re: KMail and Outlook?

2001-10-21 Thread Franz Keferboeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 October 2001 22:35, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Franz Keferboeck wrote: > > a possibility to share the mail-folders between lin & win. It would be > > best to be able to do this with KMail and Outlook (E

Re: Finally get to see what KDE2.2 looks like?

2001-10-21 Thread Bruce
I have been running woody with no stability complaints for quite a while; I am running woody with those packages from sid that I have a good reason to install, such as KDE 2.2.1 (i.e., the sid version has fixed some glitch, offers a new feature, etc.). Going from potato to woody should be painle