Re: vim & kde questions SOLVED

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Neidorff wrote: Thanks. That solved 2 annoyances. Its too bad about the vim install. Another of those things about Etch that doesn't make sense to me. I think it is because of the minimal install. I may be wrong but I think at some point in the past they replace nvi with vim-tiny.

Re: vim & kde questions SOLVED

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:18 pm, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > > Mark Neidorff wrote: > >> First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and > >> I want to navagate up/down/left or right. If I press an arrow key, a > >> new line is

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 21:19 Tue 14 Aug , John K Masters wrote: > On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second > > computer > > to try things on

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer > to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move > everything

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Shuler
On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote: >> First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and >> I want to navagate up/down/left or right. If I press an arrow key, a >> new line is opened and a character ("B" or "D" or ...) is put in the >> first po

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've

vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've got two annoyances tha

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:11:15AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Are you sure you're accessing the same way? Yes, by http://slashdot.org/ every time. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to f

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-17 Thread Brian McGroarty
> 2) What's with konqueror not hanging on to cookies between sessions on >some sites (namely, slashdot)? Are you sure you're accessing the same way? SlashDot's cookie configuration is a little strange. www.slashdot.org and slashdot.org have different cookie sets for some things, and if you ac

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-16 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > OK, having gotten tired of dealing with nautilus, I gave KDE a shot. > ... > I've started to get curious about a few things, though... > ... > 3) How do you say "drawer" in KDE? Having all the icons on the panel >without being able to drawer s

KDE questions

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, having gotten tired of dealing with nautilus, I gave KDE a shot. At first it was kind of strange and constricting (first impressions quite overwhelming), but after a while it sort of became a part of me. Feels strangely like CDE but actually good. I was wrong: Neither KDE nor Gnome suck. The

RE: Some kde questions

1999-05-25 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
oblem with version 1.1.1? -Dinesh -Original Message- From: Joel Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Some kde questions My kde is semi-working. My backspace key acts the same as a delete key should. If i change s

Kde questions

1999-05-25 Thread Robert Rati
I've recently switched to KDe to see what all the fuss was about. It's not bad, although I have a few questions. First, I right clicked on the clock at the lower right of the panel and clicked undock, to see what it would do. Well, the boarder around the clock disappeared and I can't get it back

Some kde questions

1999-05-25 Thread Joel Keating
My  kde is semi-working.  My backspace key acts the same as a delete key should.  If i change some things in Xmod keymap it doesn't work at all.  Another thing is that I don't get color when i set backgrounds that are .jpg or .gif images.  Any help would be great. - -- Joel Keating [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: KDE Questions

1999-03-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession > file I do: > > if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults > fi > > before I start KDE but these resources don't seem to b

KDE Questions

1999-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've just upgraded to KDE 1.1 and have a couple of questions. I should probably ask on the KDE mailing lists, but I'll try here first. 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession file I do: if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults fi before I start

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > 2 - When I start the editor application, it opens 3 times. The first 2 > times it pops up an error message for a directory I have not loaded a file > from previously but from a directory I used in bash prior to running KDE the > first time!? Does any

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Cristov Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find | an answer in the documentation. | | 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can | KDE be started from other window mangers? Yes and yes. Kill kwm

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find > an answer in the documentation. > > 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can > KDE be started from other window mangers? Don't know sorry.

KDE Questions

1998-10-26 Thread Cristov Russell
I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find an answer in the documentation. 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can KDE be started from other window mangers? 2 - When I start the editor application, it opens 3 times. The first 2 ti

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-24 Thread Adam Shand
Hey Bruce, > You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, > which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, Yes I saw your post the other day regarding the alternatives. Is GNOME usable as a day to day solution yet? I noticed that there isn't a Debi

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on > 'our' hands... and I mean that seriously) but it seems to me that by > choosing against something like KDE (which to all intents and purposes > *is* free software to the end user) we

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-23 Thread joost witteveen
> Hey Bruce, > > > You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, > > which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, [.. lots removed ..] > Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on > 'our' hands... and I mean that serio

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-23 Thread Adam Shand
> The problem with this is that, if we were to embrace KDE now, > we implicidly also say "Programming for Qt is good", and thus > more people start programming for Qt. Then when GNOME/Berlin/WhatEver > comes out, we cannot switch anymore. Hmmm... not sure I buy that... but it's an interesting twis

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, we are looking very hard at several upcoming replacements for KDE, and will probably designate one as our preferred graphical desktop when it is ready. If I had

KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-22 Thread Adam Shand
Well I spent the day upgrading my system to libc6 so I could install KDE Beta1. First off thanks to the KDE team who look like they make have the beginnings, and more, of a decent X interface... YAY! (and of course the debian packagers) Everything went smoothly but I am left with a couple quest