Re: CUPS hosed again?

2006-09-06 Thread Geoff Bagley
PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: it seems as if in the last few days CUPS has been changed (broken!) again. After an apt-get dist-upgrade in etch I get Dear Chris. On my dual-boot machine (Sarge + Etch) CUPS works fine on Sarge, but not so on Etch. I guess it's a rights problem again, alth

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Geoff Bagley
Thank you Matej. I tried it the KDE way, and it worked first time. However, when you have a choice of two, as I suppose you do, do you have to go through the same procedure each time you wish to swap alphabets ? Best regards, and thanks to the list. Geoff. Then there is KDE-way. Go to C

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Geoff Bagley
correct UK English locale with the appropriate keymap still ? I wonder how bilingual people get on. Can they switch between differing alphabets ? I'll keep looking ! Thanks for your help. Geoff Theo Schmidt wrote: Geoff Bagley schrieb: ... Although the KDE set-up wizard asked me

American keyboard

2006-02-03 Thread Geoff Bagley
I have just set up Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge using the DVD off September Linux Magazine. There are a few small details to learn, but I have a problem with the keboard map. Although the KDE set-up wizard asked me what language I use, it would only offer American English (in spite of showi

Postscript printing.

2005-07-04 Thread Geoff Bagley
I have two machines, both running Debian Sarge, both using KDE, and each having a HP laserjet printer. The first machine has a Postscript-compatible printer - an LJ1300 - that works fine for .PDF and .PS files, and I can recommend it. The other machine, has a HP LJ1100 printer. This does

Re: KGhostView

2005-06-28 Thread Geoff Bagley
My thanks to those who offered help. I eventually fixed the problem using the Defaults in the configure menu, which had not been needed before. I now have the full functioning for both .ps and .pdf files. With reference to the Adobe option I don't use any proprietary software. Mine is all

KGhostView

2005-06-27 Thread Geoff Bagley
I have been using KGhostView for some time now, testing and printing out home-spun postscript mapping programmes, and also down-loaded .pdf files. Recently however, either after an apt-get upgrade or perhaps one of my very infrequent re-boots, an annoying fault has appeared. The first pha

Re: kde 3.4 in sid

2005-04-05 Thread Geoff Bagley
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 16:27, C. Hurschler wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2005 11:44 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * David Pastern [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:15:01 +1000]: > > > > If you see it necessary, then please be 100% sure they're thick _and_ > > uncaring before addressing them like this. This mai