Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Jeff Frasca wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > > Somewhere there is a default GNUStep directory, that windowmaker uses > > whenever you run it for the first time. One option is to find where > > this direc

Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > I mean, they're *gone*. I have to kill wm to quit (mostly, I just don't > start it, as I know better). I remember that I was trying to customize it > and it gave me an error message about the menu, but as

Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Are you using the debian menu utility or do you build your own from scratch? I will have to dig up the name of the package but the utility makes it so your window manager's application menu is always up to date with what's installed (every time I install a new package it updates itself and rebuild

Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > Somewhere there is a default GNUStep directory, that windowmaker uses > whenever you run it for the first time. One option is to find where > this directory is (I would start looking in /usr/share/, but

Re: [techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 0.16.4

2000-08-06 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Malcolm and everyone else, > > Oh dear! I would have thought (hoped?) it was harder to mess up the rpm > database using gnorpm than using the command line. I didn't even think of > mentioning it in my previous post because I tend to always use the command > line for installing stuff, but had I

Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:53:02AM -0500, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > I mean, they're *gone*. I have to kill wm to quit (mostly, I just don't > start it, as I know better). I remember that I was trying to customize it > and it gave me an error message about the menu, but as this was multiple > days a

Re: [techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 0.16.4

2000-08-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:31:44AM -0700, colin parr wrote: > Right on both counts! I was doing the install thru gnorpm and was messing > it up royally, the dot files bit was needed too. Oh dear! I would have thought (hoped?) it was harder to mess up the rpm database using gnorpm than using the

Re: [techtalk] XDM and xinitrc

2000-08-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:47:14PM +, Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:44:47PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote: > > > > > > I use XDM to start my X-Window sessions. My window manager is FVWM2. > > > I have $HOME/.fvwm2rc which is be

Re: [techtalk] XDM and xinitrc

2000-08-06 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:44:47PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote: > > > > I use XDM to start my X-Window sessions. My window manager is FVWM2. > > I have $HOME/.fvwm2rc which is being read when FVWM starts. I have my > > .xinitrc in $HOME, which is

[techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-06 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
I mean, they're *gone*. I have to kill wm to quit (mostly, I just don't start it, as I know better). I remember that I was trying to customize it and it gave me an error message about the menu, but as this was multiple days ago, I have no idea what it was. I tried to build a simple menu (after

Re: [techtalk] Goodby Windows, hello Linux!

2000-08-06 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:35:04AM -0400 or thereabouts, Katie Rauss wrote: > Yay, a fellow Mandrake user (one of my friends is in love with Debian and > abuses Mandrake to no end)! Fun fun fun :) > The partitioning process in Mandrake (I use 7.0, but I'm assuming 7.1 is the > same or bette

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Okay, I've d/loaded the Beta KDE2

2000-08-06 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Carol, This thread is probably best moved to the techtalk list to get you the maximum number of responses. I've taken the liberty of crossposting it to both lists in case you aren't subscribed to techtalk yet. (If you're not, I highly recommend it. Nothing but lots of friendly help.) >

Re: [techtalk] Protocals for this list

2000-08-06 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:58:59AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought... > Thanks to all who answered my initial post "Goodby Windows, hello Linux." > Which brings up a question. I don't see any easy way to respond on the list > directly. That is, there is no wa

Re: [techtalk] Kleopatra -- what replaces kmenuedit?

2000-08-06 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:45:59AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Caitlyn M. Martin thought... > Hi, Conor, > > > > What's KOffice anyhow? Where can I get it? Is it Open Source or free or > > anything? > > KDE2 (actually KDE 1.91 beta), QT 2.1, and KOffice are all available from > ftp

[techtalk] Protocals for this list

2000-08-06 Thread MSYBlood
Thanks to all who answered my initial post "Goodby Windows, hello Linux." Which brings up a question. I don't see any easy way to respond on the list directly. That is, there is no way to respond except by clicking on an individual's e-mail address. Does sending a reply this way automatical

Re: [techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 0.16.4

2000-08-06 Thread colin parr
Right on both counts! I was doing the install thru gnorpm and was messing it up royally, the dot files bit was needed too. But now it works! Hurrah, and I'm impressed - like the voice - very Star Trek. Thanks a lot for your help Colin (feeling much better now!) >From: Malcolm Tredinnick <[

re: [techtalk] Goodby Windows, hello Linux!

2000-08-06 Thread Katie Rauss
> 1. I believe the best plan for me is to install Mandrake on a second hard > drive rather > than to dual boot it from the same drive that now runs windows. That way, I > can learn to use Linux without screwing up my Windows OS and applications. > As I understand it, all I need to do to mana