Re: evolution font too small

2002-10-20 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 12:17, P wrote: > Is there a way to change the font size used in evolution .. everything is > too small for me? > People who send HTML e-mails to the list will usually display with fonts that need a magnifying glass to read in Evolution. From the menu click View/message di

Re: changing the LANG setting so that man pages work

2002-10-21 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i already know that setting LANG=C will get me man pages in > an xterm that show the hyphens. the question is: is this the > acceptable hack for this, and where is the most appropriate > place for this setting? > > /etc/profile so everyon

No boot after updating to kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0.athlon

2002-11-17 Thread Jim Hayward
Hello all, Just a warning in case anyone else encounters this problem. After downloading and installing the new kernel update , kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0.athlon.rpm, on reboot I was greeted by a text prompt with just the word GRUB. It would not take any keyboard input at the prompt. I ended up booting

Re: Setting package manager to use local RPMs

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:50, Dusan Djordjevic wrote: > Few days/weeks ago I saw message how to set up redhat-config-packages > not to use CDs but local copy of them. Unfortunately i cannot find that > message. Can someone please answer me this. > redhat-config-packages -t=|--tree=PATH redhat-c

Re: No xinerama in 8.0?? ;-(

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:20, dana christiansen wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm trying to set up a dual head system in redhat 8.0. I have an MSI > G4MX440 with two video outs. I've read up a lot more on Xinerama but i > can't find libs in redhat 8.0. I'm pretty sure that psyche doesn't ship > with

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 11:37, Charles Griffin wrote: > I'm disappointed that it's not in any of the retail > stores today (Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City)... and > I live in Raleigh!! > I don't live in Raleigh, but there are not any boxed sets to be found here either. But I did finally manage to

RE: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:18, Todd Booher wrote: > Downloaded all three iso's at 220Kb gotta love fast > mirror's. By the way, nice job RH, best release yet, IMO. > > Todd > I wish my connection was fast. Guess I need to upgrade my DSL service. ;-) Regards, Jim H

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:23, Charles Griffin wrote: > > I read somewhere that the boxed sets of 8.0 were at > various Fry's locations in Texas this past Friday. > I read that too, but I don't live in any of the four states where there are Fry's stores. :-( Regards, Jim H

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 11:37, Charles Griffin wrote: > I'm disappointed that it's not in any of the retail > stores today (Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City)... and > I live in Raleigh!! > > --Charles I called Office Max and Office Depot. I know they used to carry some Linux boxed sets. Office Max

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:04, Jesse Keating wrote: > Try CompUSA. Already tried them. They don't have it and don't know when they might get it. :'( Regards, Jim H

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:14, John Kodis wrote: > ... or Best Buy. They didn't even know what I was talking about. :P Regards, Jim H

Re: Boxed set not available anywhere

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 15:10, Gregory Gulik wrote: > > Or at least for people like me who have been trying to download it all > day and not getting very far. If it was available today I would have > run out to the store and just bought it already. > I agree. I would also have already bought it

Re: Boxed set not available anywhere

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 15:50, Jesse Keating wrote: > You could have pre-ordered it from Amazon.com over a week ago. But would I be holding it in my hand right now. ;-) I also am not fond of Amazon's privacy (if you want to call it that) policy. I will just wait until I can buy it in town. IMO, I t

Re: Boxed set not available anywhere

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:01, Jesse Keating wrote: > Not to mention that the "Personal" edition of the boxed sets is almost > 1/2 the price it was for 7.x. Yes, I think that was great of Red Hat to reduce the price on the "Personal" edition. That by itself may encourage more people who are conside

Re: Boxed set not available anywhere

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 18:32, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > Is money really the issue? I've tried persuading a friend to use Red Hat > in any version for a couple years now. At his request I've given him CD > sets ever since versions 6.1 or 6.2. He still hasn't installed Red Hat. > I'll give him my

Re: Gnome2 menu editor?

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Hayward
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: > Gnome 1.4.x had a handy GUI menu editor. I can't seem to find one in > Psyche. Is there a menu editor? > No. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74885 Regards, Jim H signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: Has this Nasty Little Issue been fixed in 8.0

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Hayward
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:13, D. Nathan Cookson wrote: > I apologize for forwarding this. I originally asked about this on the > valhalla list. However, after my recent update experiences with the 2.4.18-3 > to 2.4.18-10.athlon kernel with Red Hat 7.3, I was curious if this had been > addressed in

Re: rsync to dulug.duke.edu

2002-10-05 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:01, Thom Paine wrote: > I'm getting an error while trying to rsync to dulug.duke.edu. Is anyone > else experiencing this? > > root@zeus root]# rsync rsync://rsync.dulug.duke.edu > rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data strea

Re: 8.0 Installation -- Graphical Network Configuration Broken

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:18, Pete Peterson wrote: > At this point, I tried to enter the host name and "Miscellaneous Settings", > but the mouse was not active in anything but the top pane of that window. > I could toggle the "Active on Boot" checkbox and I could activate the > "Edit" button, but co

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 30 Sep 2002 14:04:01 -0700 Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined: > > > On 30 Sep 2002 13:57:51 -0700 > > Jim Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > # I called Office Max and Office Depot.

Re: Ok, dumb question

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 15:48, Louis Garcia wrote: > How to I use the MD5SUM or the MD5SUMS to check the iso's I just > downloaded. Whats the difference between the to sums? > I deleted the MD5SUMS file. I don't know if there is a difference I just went with MD5SUM because it had a newer date. Put

Re: Gnome startup and TT fonts

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 18:16, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Not sure what you mean by 'compatible with'. AFAIK, X font > installation is unchanged for quite some time. If this rpm has not been changed since the 7.x release it will not work on 8.0. XftConfig, where Michael's old font installer addded the fo

Re: Gnome startup and TT fonts

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Hayward
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:09, Hal Burgiss wrote: > The xfs Fontpath (at least in 6.x and 7.x) was set in /etc/X11/fs/config. > XftConfig was more of a secondary configuration file for things like > anti-aliasing, ie: > Thats what I thought, but I thought the entry in XftConfig was also required.

Screenshots!!!

2002-10-02 Thread Jim Hayward
Hello all, For those of you who don't have 8.0 installed yet, I put up a bunch of screenshots. Everything except the wallpaper and Eclipse in the last three screenshots are from the 8.0 cd's I downloaded. I have not managed to get a boxed set yet. All the shots are of Gnome. Sorry KDE users. I d

RPMS to add limited menu editing

2002-10-06 Thread Jim Hayward
Hello all, Alright I made the rpms necessary to add menu editing support. Although it is a limited ability. I can add/remove launchers at will to the existing folders and subfolders. It works great. However, the only way to add/remove folders/subfolders is to still edit them by hand. I'm still t

Re: RPMS to add limited menu editing

2002-10-06 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 06:12, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > I *REALLY* would like to play with that; if you can e-mail them to me > that would be great... I can put them up on the webspace that I got with > the cable-modem and thought I'd never use, that way I don't have to > worry about traffic (assuming

Re: RPMS to add limited menu editing

2002-10-06 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 14:08, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > Were those rpms designed to do the re-arranging upon installation? or Yes, it loads the default Gnome menu layout instead of Red Hat's. From the code in the new gnome-vfs it appears that in the future a default menu layout will be selectable fro

Re: RPMS to add limited menu editing

2002-10-07 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:48, mike wrote: > > The issue with the menu layout is basically that RH hacked > gnome-vfs2.0.2 for their menu layout (looks in desktop-menus first > rather /etc/gnome-vfs-2) so the fixed menu editing reverts to original > (better IMHO) layout Yes, I saw Red Hat's patch t

Re: Further info on redhat-config-users

2002-10-07 Thread Jim Hayward
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 09:34, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Well we have progressed a little. The workstation install allows > redhat-config-users to work, as does a complete custominstall (install > everything). However, a custom install that includes the > redhat-config-users does not allow it to work. S