Re: Understanding Font Paths

2003-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 03:31:45PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am running kde under debian unstable and something weird has suddenly > happened to the fonts in konsole. Heh, I wrote all the below before even seeing this actual question! Which font are you trying to use? the xfonts-konsole on

Re: qt-3.1.1 out

2002-12-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Ralf Nolden wrote: > Hi, > > anthing known how long it takes to have qt-3.1.1 in unstable now that it's > out > ? :-) I imagine it will not happen until GCC-3.2 becomes the default, which should be Real Soon Now. -rob pgpHHxNeWd3Dt.pgp Description: P

Re: SOLVED: kdevelop again...

2002-12-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:42:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Ray Dougharty wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:11:33 -0800 > > From: Ray Dougharty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > > S

Re: Build times?

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:50:29AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote: > Also, I didn't do a plain "make", but rather "debuild -us -uc binary" I > expect the later to take longer considerably longer as it creates > packages for everything. I'm fairly sure that the packaging time would be a very small

Re: The red light under the mic level on KMix

2002-11-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:55:36AM +, David Goodenough wrote: > What does the red light under the microphone level on KMix mean? > > I tried to run krecord but nothing seemed to be happening, so I > started kmix and noticed that this light was on. So I tried the > help, but all I got was hel

Re: threaded view of html projects

2002-11-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:00:38PM +0100, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > hello to everyone, > > i just have installed the konq-plugins and found a really good feature. > konqueror is able to show html code in a threaded way to me. this option > is calles DOM-Baum in german. > i wondered if this feature c

Re: kde won't start in woody

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:25:26PM -0800, Kevin Wortman wrote: > > > The KDE session manager echoes error messages to > > "~/.xsession-error". > > Try checking that first. > > > > -- Ian. > > Magic is always the best solution -- especially > > reliable magic. > > Here's the contents of ~/.xsessi

Re: Gecko in Konqueror

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > > There used to be a packages called kmozilla which provided this > > KMozilla : That's the keyword ! > I've found that it was removed a year ago as mozilla was removed from > unstable due to non-building on ARM (or somethin

Re: Recent Reformat -- Was It Necessary?

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:45:36PM +0100, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > lördagen den 16 november 2002 22.01 skrev Daniel Stone: > > > See http://www.debianplanet.org. The gcc-2.95 maintainer fucked > > libstdc++ up. Badly. > > So lucky I am - I stopped updating to unstable level except for some >

Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:35:52PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > try adding the user(s) to the group (in /etc/group) that owns the device > > (e.g. (/dev/hdc), and re-login the user(s) for changes to take effect. > > All user permissions on my system are set correctly. > I am a seasoned

Re: KDE3.1, qt3.0.5 and GCC3.2???

2002-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:59:38AM +, John Gay wrote: > I realise this is not exactly Debian related, but I know that quie a few of > you are working on building KDE and QT with GCC3.2 and just wanted to ask > some experts. > > I am getting ready to wipe my Debian Woody system and replace it

Re: Browser Rendering Uncovered

2002-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:39:10PM +0100, Miguel wrote: > > freetype (2.1.2-8) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * CVS updates as of 2002-10-07 > > * Applied David Chester's ft-slight patch. Thanks to Roger So > > for the suggestion. (Closes: Bug#163900) > > * Turned off the bytecode interprete

Re: Browser Rendering Uncovered

2002-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > > Are you seriously telling me that FreeType (which I _only_ have for support > > of my TTF fonts), as delivered by Debian, doesn't support anti-aliasing, > > and I have to recompile it? > > It's not a que

Re: Not able to connect to my system at home from work

2002-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:03:30PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > The version in Debian is GPL, though newer upstream versions are no > longer free. Interestingly, the Java source is also installed within your web servers document root to comply with the GPL. -rob pgpTF0vix4gCB.pgp Description: P

Re: [debian-kde] List configuration & usability

2002-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:19:56AM +1000, Nigel A. Chapman wrote: > The list does not prefix its postings with the list name, eg. > [debian-kde] (as in my subject line). This makes the postings very > difficult to visually distinguish from the couple of dozen spam messages > in my inbox. I adm

Re: disabling portmap with KDE

2002-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:57:07PM -0400, Alexei Kaminski wrote: > so installing KDE leads to installation of portmap. I wonder what is the > proper way to disable portmap while still keeping KDE. I edited > /etc/init.d/portmap so that it never starts. Is it a proper way? Does it > cripple KDE anyh

Re: kde3, xinerama, and xfs (x font server)

2002-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:13:17PM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > > Not having to fiddle around with font servers (at least with TT fonts) > > was one of the coolest things about X4. The downside (as far as I have > > been able to figure) is that you have restart X to take advantage of any > > new

Re: kde3, xinerama, and xfs (x font server)

2002-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:06:39AM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > don't use xfs. seriously. There is no reason these days to run a font server > if you just have a single machine. AIUI, you can't use XRENDER with font > servers, so you will be able to get anti-aliased text if you use one of the >

Re: kppp & non root users

2002-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:20:27AM +0200, Craig Main wrote: > I have changed the auth to noauth before I tried to connect...? still no > luck...:( Are you in the 'dialout' group? Or is it the 'dip' group...? -rob pgpndF8nk9Tlb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: quick question (shot in the dark)

2002-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:43:42AM -0500, John Magrini wrote: > when i switch back to my debian box, my mouse movements are all scrambled, > the mouse driver basically eats it. the fix is to switch to a console and > then back again, i suppose this resets the driver. Now, can KDE reset the > dri

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: How install KDE with Woody/testing?

2001-08-06 Thread Rob Weir
> What is the best way to install Debian testing/(woody packages) & KDE, when > the install is to 2001 HW, and is done entirely through a 56K modem? (So, > an important consideration is minimizing the ammount of data DL'd.) (Also > important is getting the X drivers for the video HW.) > > Should

KDE Freezes

2001-07-16 Thread Rob Weir
I've got a pretty standard woody box, and I recently upgraded to the KDE2.2beta1 packages from unstable. I can log on through KDM fine, but once I'm in KDE and try to run a KDE program, my machine locks hard. Real hard. I can sync, unmount and reboot using the SysRq key, but ctrl-alt-bkspc out o

Re: AA, KDE, and archives.

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
I posted a message about how I got AA working under potato with Ivan's KDE2.1.1 debs and cpbotha's XFree86 4.0.2 packages. It's archived here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0105/msg00161.html It might be of some use to you.

Re: 2.2 packages

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
To use these debs under testing (aka woody) you'll need to get libldap2 and libxml2 from unstable first.

QTCups Comilation Problems

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Weir
I've been trying to compile kups under potato with Ivan's packages, but first I need to get qtcups working. Unfortunately, when I try to compile it, I get the following errors: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/qtcups-2.0' Making all in qtcups make[2]: Entering dir

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Weir
" Load"glx" I have heard that if you mess up your XftConfig file it will cause any programs that use it to crash tho. I did post me XftConfig before, but here it is again in case its useful to you: # # XftConfig from http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/XftConfig #Messed wi

Konqueror and WebCT

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
My university uses WebCT to distribute much of the online course material. Basically, you login in to the system, and you get access to a bunch of material for each of your university units. It seems to use a system of CGI scripts disguised as directories, like Freshmeat. Konqueror however, ca

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Rob Weir
> You can only do antialiasing if you do NOT use the NVIDIA drivers (the > commercial ones). They cannot do it yet. I'm using the binary NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA, with a TNT-1, under X4.0.2 w/AA with no problems at all. Is this what you mean?

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Rob Weir
I don't know if this is any help, but this is what I did to get AA working under potato with my Riva TNT. Also, this is just based on my incomplete memory if the long and painful process, so anyone has a clue feel free to correct me... Firstly, I got the XFree86 4.0.2 potato debs from http://p

Re: Updates to kdelibs3 or Aha, I knew something was wrong!

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Weir
> This memory leak also seems to have evidenced another memory > leak: it *seems* that Linux 2.4.4 also has a memory leak > (memory which was allocated on swap after the Konqueror thing > didn't get back even *after* I went to the console using > single user mode!). I'

Konqueror and WebCT

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Weir
Has anyone else tried using Konqy with WebCT? I can login, and get to the 'Home' page, but Konqy never seems to be able to load any of the pages linked off Home. It's really annoying to have to go back to Netscape just so I can get my coursework...

Sounds Errors

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Weir
When starting up KDE, I get the following errors in /var/log/syslog: Apr 29 18:38:02 thebox modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Apr 29 18:38:02 thebox modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 I have a Creative SBLive Value, with fairly new drivers from opensour

Re: Long application startup time

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
I'm not sure if this is related at all, but since upgrading to X4.0.2 and KDE2.1.1 with QT2.3.0, on my machine (P3-450, 128MB), I've had a problem with everything taking much longer to load. While AA is supposed to cause some slowdown, should it really take 1:15 (mm:ss!) to load up a new instan