Re: KDE 3.1.1 on woody keyboard shortcuts

2003-04-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
You could not find the options in KControl|Regional & Accessibility|Keyboard Shortcuts? On Tuesday, April 8, 2003 2:24 am, Neven Rodinis wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:27:29AM -0700, Matt Sheffield wrote: > > Are you trying to access the shortcuts from the Preferences menu? I

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix and all of the mcop and dcop directories need to be recreated each time you start your machine up from scratch. But once these things have been set up

Re: Strange colors on display

2003-04-08 Thread Matt Sheffield
It sounds like you have sub-pixel hinting turned on. Go to Control Center|Appearance & Themes|Fonts. Uncheck the box "Use sub-pixel hinting" On Monday, April 7, 2003 3:14 pm, Petr Simon wrote: > Hi, > I have woody and sid on different partitions. Sid is OK, but in woody I > got strange shadows be

Re: KDE 3.1.1 on woody keyboard shortcuts

2003-04-07 Thread Matt Sheffield
Are you trying to access the shortcuts from the Preferences menu? If so, you won't be able to as there is a bug in the menu structure. Did you try using the KDE Control Center? --- Neven Rodinis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I instaled KDE3.1.1 from KDE site on woody, but didn't install all > pack

Re: KDE Log Viewer

2003-03-27 Thread Matt Sheffield
How about kiowa? On Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:11 am, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote: > Can anyone out there suggest a good KDE-based log file viewer? > > Sincerely, > Jon D. Irish > BAE SYSTEMS > Analytical Solutions > (Lower Tier Project Office)

Re: icons on the desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
You cannot drag those icons from your ~/.kde/share/applnk directory because the KMenu icons are actually stored in more than one place. Some are in /etc, others are in /var. But you don't need to use Konqueror to create shortcuts to menu items. Just simply navigate in the K Menu to the program you

Re: kde/kmail and gpg-agent

2003-03-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
You could also put it in your ~/.kde/Autostart directory On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:44 pm, Benoit Mortier wrote: > Le Mardi 18 Mars 2003 21:37, Henning Moll a écrit : > [..] > > > (gpg-agent outputs a little shell script that sets the environment > > variable GNUPG_AGENT_INFO). You may want to a

Re: gtk2-engines-geramik

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Sheffield
I'm guessing the error is being caused because there is no package "gtk2-engines-geramik" on Ralf's server? On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 06:33 pm, Matt Sheffield wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:56 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 1

Re: gtk2-engines-geramik

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Sheffield
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:56 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote: > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:52, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > > Can you send me these error messages? I don't see a reason why it > > shouldn't build on Woody. > > I don't even see the problem exactly, it works fine (didn't hear any other > c

Re: Funky konsole font

2003-03-05 Thread Matt Sheffield
He may also have antialiasing enabled with KDE 2.2. Perhaps our friend could be more specific: * Which version of KDE? * Which version of X? * Which font are you using? --- Ralf Nolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mittwoch, 5. März 2003 1

Re: how to change "normal" sized font in konsole

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Sheffield
Choose Settings|Font|Custom then pick whichever of your favorite fonts you'd like to use. Make sure to save your settings before closing the Konsole window. On Friday, February 28, 2003 04:46 am, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > i am using sid's kde 3.1 and the "normal" sized font in konsole > is rathe

Is it possible to switch languages for one app only?

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Sheffield
I'd like to be able to make an applnk or a command alias which would allow me to use some KDE apps in one language, different from my system language. Is this possible?

Re: Antialiasing in KDE3.1

2003-02-24 Thread Matt Sheffield
Make sure that you have XFree86 4.2 installed if you want antialiasing. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello there, > > I've got one question to the new KDE3.1. > Does Font-Antialiasing now work with Woody? With KDE3.0.5, I think, > there was to be some update for xfree86 installed (it didn't w

Re: Koffice spellcheck in other language

2003-02-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
I've got ifrench installed. --- Steffen Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooops, just misread the "spellcheck" thinggy. > AFAIK koffice uses ispell. apt-get install ifrench > > ~sth __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's

Koffice spellcheck in other language

2003-02-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
I'd like to check my documents' spelling in French but KOffice refuses to run in anything other than English. I downloaded the proper internationalization packages for the rest of KDE. There also doesn't seem to be a package for krita, the KDE raster image editor. Are there any more up-to-date

KDE PIM in sid?

2003-02-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
I've looked on Chris's unofficial packages as well as the official sid ones but there doesn't seem to be a kdepim metapackage or any of its components. Has someone compiled it for sid? I need my sticky notes! :-P

Re: Transparency with Konsole

2003-02-14 Thread Matt Sheffield
It's probably something to do with backgrounds which have partial transparency. Try it with some other images and if it's still messing up file a report. Filipe Sousa wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 15:14, Joel Alexandre wrote: hi, i was playing around with kde3.1 when i found that the konsole

Re: How to delete mail off the POP server after retrieval?

2003-01-28 Thread Matt Sheffield
in 1995, to say nothing of the other major clients. Obviously it's no showstopper but still :) --- David Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:13 am, Geert-Jan Hut wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 09:51, Matt Sheffield wrote: > > >

How to delete mail off the POP server after retrieval?

2003-01-28 Thread Matt Sheffield
KMail is a very nice program, however, I have not figured out if there is a way to delete messages off my POP account once I have deleted them locally. It seems every email program has this feature, does KMail? Of course, I may have not poked around sufficiently...

Re: I'm starting to feel totally dumb... but...what's up with kwintv?

2003-01-28 Thread Matt Sheffield
In case you don't remember that CLI way, you can also simply look at the .deb in KPackage and you can see where all of the package's files are to be placed. Another command way is to type which kwintv On Monday 27 January 2003 04:40 pm, Ray Dougharty wrote: > Try qtvision > $dpkg -L kwintv > wi

Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report

2003-01-27 Thread Matt Sheffield
--- Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I just assumed KDE's own screensavers are independent of > xscreensaver. > > Certainly nothing I've installed from Ralf's Woody KDE3.1 site > > required me to install an xscreensaver package of any kind .. > > kde's

Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report

2003-01-25 Thread Matt Sheffield
I'm experiencing the same problem w/the same RC. But I have a fully accelerated nVidia card as well as the xscreensaver-nognome and regular xscreensaver. The vanilla xscreensaver works but not the KDE integration. It used to work for me around RC 5 (IIRC) but hasn't worked during the latest rel

Re: Kwrited

2003-01-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
I looked through the debian-kde archives and found a script you wrote which is supposed to work around that. However, it appears it doesn't work for KDE 3.1, or at least on my setup. #!/bin/bash ## kdewall: simple wall for Debian/KDE ## ## KDE KDE users which use only konsole

Kwrited

2003-01-19 Thread Matt Sheffield
>From what I understand, kwrited is supposed to allow the user to receive write messages from ttys or from other users logged in in X sessions. But I've never been able to get it going. There doesn't appear to be a man page for it, either. How do I get it working?

Re: TT fonts & Sarge + Ralfs KDE

2003-01-18 Thread Matt Sheffield
What is the nature of the problem? Anti-aliasing, glyph shape, etc? On Saturday 18 January 2003 06:42 am, Marco Laverdière wrote: > Hi to all, > > I've upgraded to Sarge from Woody and to Ralfs KDE 3.1 packages from KDE > 3.04. Before the upgrade, TT fonts were working fine in KDE. Now, it > does

Re: Remote sessions

2003-01-17 Thread Matt Sheffield
That did the trick. Thanks for your help, everyone. On Thursday 16 January 2003 04:16 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:44, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: > > > > X11Forwarding no <-- set this to yes > > You need to edit the following files: > > /e

Re: Remote sessions

2003-01-15 Thread Matt Sheffield
I tried everyone's suggestions but none of them works. Telnet doesn't work and ssh -X didn't work, either. The error message was: Error: Can't open display: Here's the output of the xhost command: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect INET: host2.domain.suffix I thought the

Re: Liquid debs

2003-01-01 Thread Matt Sheffield
Thank you. It works nicely. On Tuesday 31 December 2002 09:25 am, Sergio Rodriguez de Guzman Martinez wrote: > I made a deb of liquid for 3.0.8 but it also works for 3.1. You can > download it from here: > > http://coyote.asoc.euitt.upm.es/mud/debian/mosfet_liquid0.9.6pre1-1_i386.de >b > > > It i

Liquid debs

2002-12-29 Thread Matt Sheffield
Has anyone made any debs of the KDE 3.1 version of Liquid?

Re: fixt font problem

2002-12-20 Thread Matt Sheffield
You can change the font used underneath the clock. Simply right-click on it and choose Configure Clock (or Clock Preferences). Then click over to the General tab. Then click on the Choose Font button. On Friday 20 December 2002 06:25 am, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > hello, > > on my kde desktop ther

Karolina's debs

2002-12-20 Thread Matt Sheffield
I just downloaded them yesterday and everything installed flawlessly. Thanks for making the packages, Karolina!

Re: Konq slows in long sessions

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
ay 09 December 2002 05:51 am, Matt Sheffield wrote: > I recently upgraded to KDE 3.0.5 and am now finding that after my KDE > session has lasted about 2 or 2.5 hours, Konqueror begins halting for about > a half-second when I navigate to directories or refresh the display of a > direc

Konq slows in long sessions

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
I recently upgraded to KDE 3.0.5 and am now finding that after my KDE session has lasted about 2 or 2.5 hours, Konqueror begins halting for about a half-second when I navigate to directories or refresh the display of a directory. I notice no inordinate processor use and all my other apps seem to

Re: KPP always dies

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Sheffield
I don't mind wvdial one bit, however, I cannot expect my users to run it. KPPP is much more like what they are accustomed to with Windows. _mws_ On Sunday 08 December 2002 07:15 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:33:42 -0500, Matt Sheffield wrote: > >On my Libranet Woo

Konq and Novell FTP servers

2002-12-07 Thread Matt Sheffield
I'm having problems browsing FTP shares on my university's Novell-based server. Konqueror is trying to use the ugo method of permissions but Netware uses its own permissions system. Is there any way to make Konqueror browse the shares? Or is this just a feature that is lacking? Naturally I'd pr

Re: KPP always dies

2002-12-07 Thread Matt Sheffield
Thanks, that did the trick. On Friday 06 December 2002 09:28 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Matt Sheffield wrote: > > On my Libranet Woody system, KPP will faithfully connect to the Internet > > but proceeds to disconnect after about 2 seconds. > > > > I am able to conne

KPP always dies

2002-12-06 Thread Matt Sheffield
On my Libranet Woody system, KPP will faithfully connect to the Internet but proceeds to disconnect after about 2 seconds. I am able to connect with Libranet's LPPP app as well as wvdial so there isn't a hardware problem. Can anyone guess what's wrong after looking at the logs? I'm thinking it

Re: Constant trouble with swf/flash

2002-12-05 Thread Matt Sheffield
Future editions of Mozilla will likely not support Flash <6 on Linux. On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:52 pm, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > You will find a feature to 'pipe the plugin sound through aRts'. > > > > Yes, thanks, that solves it. Also thanks to the others who suggested > > this in private

Re: How compile Keramik?

2002-12-01 Thread Matt Sheffield
That would be nice if I had the pipe to download it. However, I'm still stuck on dialup :( On Sunday 01 December 2002 06:08 pm, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Sunday 01 December 2002 23:41, Matt Sheffield wrote: > > I don't use the unstable branch. What about getting it for

Re: How compile Keramik?

2002-12-01 Thread Matt Sheffield
I don't use the unstable branch. What about getting it for 3.0x? On Sunday 01 December 2002 03:12 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 01 December 2002 3:17 am, Matt Sheffield wrote: > > I've downloaded the .deb fo

How compile Keramik?

2002-11-30 Thread Matt Sheffield
I've downloaded the .deb for keramik but it's getting a little stale by now. How can I update to the current version? I haven't used CVS before, is there another way to get the source like there is for Mosfet's Liquid? I don't mind the CVS route if that's what's necessary, however. TIA

Re: Xine won't play WMV audio

2002-11-26 Thread Matt Sheffield
That did the trick. Thanks! On Tuesday 26 November 2002 07:11 am, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Matt Sheffield wrote: > > This somewhat OT, but I am attempting to play some Windows Media files > > from Konq with xine 0.9.13 but keep getting the me

Xine won't play WMV audio

2002-11-25 Thread Matt Sheffield
This somewhat OT, but I am attempting to play some Windows Media files from Konq with xine 0.9.13 but keep getting the message "No audio plugin available to decode 'DivX audio (WMA)'. I understand one can use the Windows codecs so I linked my /mnt/c/windows/system to /usr/lib/win32 but it still

Re: Quanta Debs?

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Sheffield
Thanks! On Thursday 21 November 2002 03:47 pm, Ben Burton wrote: > > I haven't been able to find any debs for Quanta and I seem to have hit a > > snag in the compiling. Can anyone tell me where to get some? > > http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3/ for KDE 3.0 under gcc2.95, or > http://people.debia

Re: Possible bug?

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Sheffield
You need more RAM than that to effectively run KDE. Unfortunately, the majority of developers have decided to focus on features before speed. Perhaps if you ran a lighter-weight window manager such as xfce or Windowmaker. _mws_ On Thursday 21 November 2002 02:43 am, Laura Rudmin wrote: > Hi, >

Quanta Debs?

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Sheffield
I haven't been able to find any debs for Quanta and I seem to have hit a snag in the compiling. Can anyone tell me where to get some?

Disabling Qt's link following

2002-11-18 Thread Matt Sheffield
Does anyone know if Qt can be compiled with flags to stop it from following symlinks? I want it to behave like a normal Unix program so that when I push Up after clicking on a symlink, I am taken to the parent directory of the symlink, NOT the parent of the target.

Re: Konqueror question

2002-11-17 Thread Matt Sheffield
k's target rather than the parent of the symlink. This is a rather irritating "feature" which I'd love to be able to disable. tia On Saturday 16 November 2002 03:47 pm, Paul Cupis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 16 Novembe

Re: Font degradation viewing Web pages in Mozilla under KDE 3.0.3

2002-11-17 Thread Matt Sheffield
I can't stand the default font rendering under KDE which is why I use, alternatively the Xft and FreeType 2 modifications found at http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/ Be careful about installing his Freetype2 since it messes up aliased fonts quite badly. But anti-aliased fonts look better,

Konqueror question

2002-11-16 Thread Matt Sheffield
On other distros, I have a bunch of menu options on the Tools menu which let me choose to ban images, change browser ID for particular sites. What package do I need to install in order to get this to work on Debian?