[gentoo-user] Blackdown Java weirdness

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Nolan
I'm having a problem with Java (Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.01). Basically, in GUI apps the buttons and tabs are much too tall (around twice what they should be), leading to annoying layout problems with widgets disappearing until the window is stretched right out. I'm not sure if this is a Gentoo-speci

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackdown Java weirdness

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Nolan
On Tuesday June 14 2005 1:02 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > See this thread at their ML: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.linux.general/706 > > There, I asked about this. Answer: > | Does it get better if you comment out all lines containing '.1' in > | jre/lib/font.properties? > > For me, t

Re: [gentoo-user] change firefox's icon

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Nolan
On Monday June 20 2005 2:56 pm, Qiangning Hong wrote: > The Firefox browser's app icon (i.e. the icon displayed in the taskbar) > is a blue global. But under windows it is a red fox around a global. I > prefer the latter for it's cooler. How can I change the app icon? Try replacing the icons in

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface issue

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Nolan
On Monday June 20 2005 3:36 pm, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Well, we have to take in count that we're all Linux users, and that we > all know that firefox navigates the internet, and thunderbird reads your > email. Or in my case Konqueror and Kontact (such is the beauty of choice ^_^) > Now,

Re: [gentoo-user] More Netbeans emerge woes

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Nolan
On Monday June 20 2005 11:22 pm, Justin Hart wrote: > Upon emerging Netbeans 4.0, portage tries to emerge xalan, which > complains that it cannot find package xerces-2, which causes the build > to fail. I remember something like that scrolling past when I installed it, but it just kept on going,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Nolan
I would /really/ recommend switching to the amarok-svn ebuild (it's not an official package and I can't remember where I got it - try google). I'm not usually one for running CVS/SVN software (some programs segfault enough when they're supposedly stable), but I made an exception for this and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-07-02 Thread Paul Nolan
On Thursday June 30 2005 1:46 am, Paul Nolan wrote: > I would /really/ recommend switching to the amarok-svn ebuild (it's not an > official package and I can't remember where I got it - try google). I'm not > usually one for running CVS/SVN software (some programs segfau

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok

2005-07-03 Thread Paul Nolan
On Saturday July 2 2005 4:44 pm, Paul Nolan wrote: > I knew as soon as I said that 'out loud' something would happen. Now it's > started segfaulting on startup. Bollocks. Update: works fine again (after I removed all config files and the database and re-emerged). I stand by m