Re: No Debian Menus in Kicker (Debian Unstable)

2004-05-30 Thread Paul Scott
Jerome wrote: I followed the suggestion for bug #246561 to no avail. A while back I removed the menu package from Debian. I may or may not have manually deleted the shell menus after that, but I'm not sure. I've since re-installed the menu package. Gnome and xfce4 show debian menus. How do I get t

No Debian Menus in Kicker (Debian Unstable)

2004-05-30 Thread Jerome
I followed the suggestion for bug #246561 to no avail. A while back I removed the menu package from Debian. I may or may not have manually deleted the shell menus after that, but I'm not sure. I've since re-installed the menu package. Gnome and xfce4 show debian menus. How do I get the Debian

Re: Web-URL annoyances

2004-05-30 Thread Antiphon
On Saturday 29 May 2004 5:53 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > When I highlight a URL the Web-URL thingy pops up on the lower right > of my screen. For quite awhile it's been misbehaving, though somewhat > erratically. > > The worst problem is that sometimes after I click on it my session > gets completely

Re: KDE 3.2.2 slow in starting applications

2004-05-30 Thread Michael Montagne
Try killing famd. That is giving me consistent problems with konqueror and I'm not even sure what it does. >On 05/31/04, Adeodato Sim? busted out the keyboard and typed: > * Xaveer Leijtens [Mon, 31 May 2004 00:38:42 +0200]: > > > Any other suggestions? > > you could try strace and/or ltrace

Re: KDE 3.2.2 slow in starting applications

2004-05-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Xaveer Leijtens [Mon, 31 May 2004 00:38:42 +0200]: > Any other suggestions? you could try strace and/or ltrace with -r or -c options, to see if that gives a hint what is making gvim take so long to start. also, does the problem happen when you log with a newly created user? -- Adeodato

Re: KDE 3.2.2 slow in starting applications

2004-05-30 Thread Xaveer Leijtens
Ralf Liebig wrote on 29-May-2004: > Xaveer Leijtens wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When I start gvim from konsole in KDE (3.2.2), it takes between 2 > > seconds and sometimes over 1 minute(!) to start. Most of the time it > > takes around 7 seconds. I have a laptop 1.2 GHz, 512 ram and this > > happens

Re: OpenOffice dialogs are enormous...

2004-05-30 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 30 May 2004 05:44 pm, Mark Niven wrote: > Not a KDE issue but... I know. I posted it to the wrong list by mistake, and was just now debating whether it would be even *more* obnoxious to repost it somewhere else. Oops. > Try Tools/Options - Scale and Icon Size size Ah. Much better.

Re: XF86Config and restarting X

2004-05-30 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Sunday 30 May 2004 23:51, Robert Tilley wrote: > I have edited my /etc/X11/XF86Config file to include "1280x1024" wherever > screen sizes are mentioned. When accessing KDE RandR or the KDE Display Ehm.. You didn't change all of them did you? I would guess that the right way to do this would b

XF86Config and restarting X

2004-05-30 Thread Robert Tilley
I have edited my /etc/X11/XF86Config file to include "1280x1024" wherever screen sizes are mentioned. When accessing KDE RandR or the KDE Display control panel, the only modes available to me are 1024x768 and lower. How can I restart X to reflect my new sizes? Bob -- You will be run over by a

Re: OpenOffice dialogs are enormous...

2004-05-30 Thread Mark Niven
On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:58, Silvan wrote: > I used to run OO.o from a tarball because I had already downloaded it, and > it worked. I couldn't see spending the hours necessary to get the Debian > packages after I switched to a real distro. > > I've just recently gotten a bigger pipe, and have don

Re: Web-URL annoyances

2004-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is a "Web-URL thingy?" Klipper. > Your description is so vague it seems you must expect everyone to > understand immediately what you're talking about. You might want to take a job working tech support, you'll understand newbies after a while. -- Paul

Re: Downgrading KDE?

2004-05-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Theo Schmidt wrote: Dear KDE-Debian list, I´ve been using Debian installed by Knoppix 3.2 sucessfully for some time, with KDE, but recently I installed digikam 0.6 with aptitude and this updated KDE at the same time to version 3.2.2. Now KDE has several problems: - Its all in E

Downgrading KDE?

2004-05-30 Thread Theo Schmidt
Dear KDE-Debian list, I´ve been using Debian installed by Knoppix 3.2 sucessfully for some time, with KDE, but recently I installed digikam 0.6 with aptitude and this updated KDE at the same time to version 3.2.2. Now KDE has several problems: - Its all in English although I have the Geman versio

OpenOffice dialogs are enormous...

2004-05-30 Thread Silvan
I used to run OO.o from a tarball because I had already downloaded it, and it worked. I couldn't see spending the hours necessary to get the Debian packages after I switched to a real distro. I've just recently gotten a bigger pipe, and have done a clean net install of Sarge. I got the latest

Re: Web-URL annoyances

2004-05-30 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 29 May 2004 06:53 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > When I highlight a URL the Web-URL thingy pops up on the lower right > of my screen. For quite awhile it's been misbehaving, though somewhat > erratically. > Is anybody else seeing this? I'm on KDE 3.2.2 from the Debian > packages. I'm run

Re: KRandR and Limits?

2004-05-30 Thread David Pye
We heard you the first time. Never used RandR, but you can always edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. David On Sunday 30 May 2004 12:16, Robert Tilley wrote: > xserver-xfree86 is configured to display modes of 1280x1024 and above. > When I click on the RandR KDE applet, the three modes available are >

KRandR and Limits?

2004-05-30 Thread Robert Tilley
xserver-xfree86 is configured to display modes of 1280x1024 and above. When I click on the RandR KDE applet, the three modes available are 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480. How can I switch my display to a higher resolution? Bob -- Commitment, n.: The difference between involvement and

Re: [OT] kde-i18n-ar?

2004-05-30 Thread Tom
* [Sunday 30 May 2004 05:10] Paul Johnson: > > And if it is, does that mean even if someone would package it, it > > wouldn't be included in Debian? > > Have you tried googling for unofficial sources? Have you tried > looking at apt-get.org (and backports.org if you're using stable)? Yes I did.