Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-21 Thread Nick Bailey
On Thursday 21 Feb 2002 9:34 am, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jens Benecke wrote: > > > > A) Preloading. Persuade Dell or Compaq to load Linux > > > > on *ALL* machines (and sell Windows as an optional > > > > upgrade). > > > > > > That helps for business machines. > > >

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread Nick Bailey
On Monday 12 Nov 2001 6:35 pm, fea wrote: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Any help appreciated. Try update-fonts-alias as root in the misc fonts directory (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc). That worked for me (or I think that was what fixed it -- I was thrashing a

Re: printing

2001-10-29 Thread Nick Bailey
John Batistic wrote: > I have starting using Kate and find that I cannot print. > > I use apsfilter and need to be able to output 'lpr filename' for > printing to occur. > > None of the messages make sense to me. Kde print manager seems to > be outputting a long complex string which I don't know h

Re: KreateCD package

2001-10-24 Thread Nick Bailey
Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > [Tim KelleyTuesday 23 October 2001 05:56 pm]: >| What's wrong with koncd? It seemed pretty excellent to me, aside from a >| few bugs, and also was a nice front end to mkisofs. > Nothing is wrong with koncd, actually it is being plugged in kde3/multimedia

Re: unknown problem

2001-10-10 Thread Nick Bailey
Edit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start (at least that's what it is on debian). It should say exec $REALSTARTUP (remove the "s) This was reported elsewhere, but I've forgotten where I saw it. Credits to original author... Hope this helps, N/ On Tuesday 09 Oct 2001 4:58 pm, Toomas

printing from kword had bad font substitution

2001-09-30 Thread Nick Bailey
Is everyone OK with printing from KWord in Sid? I have the following situation: * printing from the program fails becasuse the lpr command KWord cooks up contains both parts of the printer name I have in /etc/printcap (something like lpr -P"lp|HP Laserjet in the Lab" ...), but at least I can s