KDE & X broken in unstable

2001-10-16 Thread Robert Tilley
I have just installed a fresh unstable system following a disk reformat caused by development of bad sectors. (Hint: A tool that would check and lock out these bad sectors would be good, kinda like Norton for Debian.) X is broken after upgrading to unstable from stable. Is this that most rece

Re: Hosed KDE

2001-10-16 Thread Shawn P. Garbett
On Monday 15 October 2001 03:12 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > there is a but in this package. take a look at had the same problem last > evening. take a look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html > from 6 Oct, 01. > This worked. I'm up and running now (almost!). O

Re: Hosed KDE

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:00, Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2001 03:12 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > > there is a but in this package. take a look at had the same problem last > > evening. take a look at > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html > >

Re: Hosed KDE

2001-10-16 Thread Shawn P. Garbett
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 02:23 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:00, Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2001 03:12 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > > > there is a but in this package. take a look at had the same problem > > > last evening. take a look at > > > http

kde 2.2 errors and konqueror crashes

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Koss
I couldn't leave well enough alone. I had to upgrade my perfectly useable kde 2.1 system to 2.2. Here's what happens: I start kde, no problem. I bring up an xterm - no problem. In the xterm I start a konsole and I'm greeted with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ konsole& [1] 1339 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ QPix

Strange behaviour in KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-16 Thread P. de Vicente
I have also come into the problem described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html which has been discussed in this list several times. I fixed it according to the message and it worked. However I get a strange behaviour in KDE. if I launch an application whi

Re: missing text

2001-10-16 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
I found that it works if I have font antialiasing turned off. If I have it turned on then I cannot see Courier and Helvetica fonts. Anyone know about this problem? ALso, Mike, are you using antialiasing? If you are can I please see your Xftconfig file? Thanks. Sheldon. On October 15, 2001 09:50 p

woody - bug came w/upgrade anyway - no X

2001-10-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetz, I did apt-update/upgrade and was unpleasantly surprised to see x was now failing to start. Two oops found locally: had to change exec "$REALSTARTUP" to: exec $REALSTARTUP in the file: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start Next I found an error on my mouse going from PS/2 to Im

Windows get out of bounds

2001-10-16 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there any known way to tell X to make the screen place, where the panels are, _not_ available to apps? May exact problem: I can grab e.g. a konsole and move it with the mouse to the top. and drop it there. The problem is that there is also t

Re: Strange behaviour in KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-16 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 16 October 2001 14:49, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:34:28PM +0200, P. de Vicente wrote: > > However I get a strange behaviour in KDE. if I launch an application > > which takes some time to load (for example kpackage), the windo

Compiling Qt 3.0 and kdelibs 3.0alpha in sid

2001-10-16 Thread Pere CastaƱer
hi people, I'm trying to compile kdelibs for kde 3.0alpha1 but I have a problem locating qt3. I compileda qt3 from source and I've made all thata kde people prints on http://www.kde.org/kde2-and-kde3.html but I made someone mistake. When I run ./configure in kdelibs source it don't find the qt3

Odd copying/pasting question

2001-10-16 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey I want to some how disable the ability to copy text just by highlighting it. IMNSHO this is an old and out dated, and I am hoping (more like wishing) that KDE has some sort of mechanism to simply prevent or prohibit the copying of text by highlighting it. An example below is what I would

Bad disk blocks

2001-10-16 Thread Bill Leach
Take a look at the badblocks program (man 8 badblocks) and the e2fsck program (man 8 e2fsck) [particularly the "-l" option. On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:52:09AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: > I have just installed a fresh unstable system following a disk reformat > caused by development of bad s

Re: Odd copying/pasting question

2001-10-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 17:53, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey > > I want to some how disable the ability to copy text just by highlighting > it. IMNSHO this is an old and out dated, and I am hoping (more like > wishing) that KDE has some sort of mechanism to simply prevent or prohibit > the copying of

Re: Compiling Qt 3.0 and kdelibs 3.0alpha in sid

2001-10-16 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
hey...I got an easy fix for you. apt-get install libqt3-dev then kdelibs4 builds just fine..in face I have debs for kdelibs4 up on people.debian.org/~rkrusty ...still working on kdebase Ivan On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:51:38AM +0200, Pere CastaƱer wrote: > hi people, > > I'm trying to compil