Re: Fonts and BLFS
On 7/31/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the fonts installed by X and the TrueType fonts mixed in /usr/share/fonts, or Fontconfig is set up to use the X fonts. This is not good, and has been changed in the development book. Basically, the X fonts are ugly, and you don't want Fontconfig to even know about them. Have a look at this page, hopefully it will clear up a few I would disagree with this statement. For text editors like gvim, where the font has to be in fixed width, fontconfig has to provide it (gvim compiled with GTK normally). And X fonts are the best for that. So far I couldn't find any TTF with fixed width that would compare to fonts provided with X. Well, fontconfig makes everything to make font selection very hard and inconvinient. In this situation of course it's better to keep things simple. But nevertheless, the fonts are needed and simply hiding them is not a solution. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
gnome-volume-manager 2.15.0 not starting
Hi all.. Attempting to use the latest g-v-m version (2.15.0), which was released today. Unfortunately, it terminates immediately after start, limiting it's use somewhat. I've traced this to their method for determining whether the user is logged in locally to the machine (which in 1.15.0 was covered by the --disable-multiuser config parameter). Basically, they're looking at the utmp records, for an entry where the tty name (the ut_line column) contains something like :0 (i.e a local X display). Problem is, the utmp records on my machine don't contain such rows - they include entries only for terminal windows, not for the X login itself. Is this something LFS should be doing, or is this some horrible hack used by the distros? It doesn't make a difference whether I login to console and run startx, or login via gdm. Simon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Fonts and BLFS
On 7/31/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/31/06, jeeva suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This helped a lot, and most pages look better, but still, the > anti-aliasing of fonts on a few pages look dodgy, > slashdot being a major example. > > I was wondering which of my package(s) I may need to upgrade to fix > this problem, or even what new fonts I may need to install. This is a common problem that can be overcome with configuration. No upgrade necessary, but possibly a rebuild. If I had to guess, you have the fonts installed by X and the TrueType fonts mixed in /usr/share/fonts, or Fontconfig is set up to use the X fonts. This is not good, and has been changed in the development book. Basically, the X fonts are ugly, and you don't want Fontconfig to even know about them. Have a look at this page, hopefully it will clear up a few things. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.html#fonts Probably the best fix would be to rebuild Xorg and dropping the #define FontDir or changing the location to somewhere else. You can try just moving the X fonts out of /usr/share/fonts and just changing the paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but the location for these fonts are hardcoded to some libraries and utilities during the Xorg build. Another quick fix would be to move all the TrueType fonts to a separate directory and changing the paths Fontconfig will look for fonts to only be there in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Hey guys I tried all the suggestions and some pages still look crap in mozilla. I havn't tried re-compiling and installing Xorg yet as I don't have the time, But i'll post back on this list with the results when I do. Guess I'll have to live with it for the time being, and do a bit more research into fonts and linux. Cheers and thanks for the help anyway! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: XMMS and autofs - I can no longer play audio cd's
On 7/31/06, rblythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not want to give up the functionality of autofs, unless there is another alternative (I did not research alternatives to autofs). Sounds like you fixed your problem, but I'll just mention the alternative that you already have on your system. HAL can handle automounting, but won't do anything on its own. A HAL event listener like gnome-volume-manager or ivman can tell HAL what to do when new volumes like CDs are presented. The main use for autofs these days (I think) is for automounting NFS volumes like user home directories. But if you like the way it works with CDs, no need to change. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Exim - Dspam config
Hi, I have made my Exim - Dspam config file available if anyone is interested. http://www.openmail.cc at the bottom of the page. Ian Armstrong. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
long file names in Samba
I'm running Samba 3.0.21c; I keep upgrading because I keep hoping the default file naming behavior will change but I've had the same problem since 2.something and it hasn't changed, so I have to assume I'm doing something wrong. Feel free to laugh at me derisively if this is somewhere in the docs and I just haven't found it. On a Winduhs server, long file names are truncated to DOS 8.3 style by taking the first six letters (without spaces) of the original name and adding ~ followed by some number, so I can change to \My Documents with the command CD \MYDOCU~1 and so forth. Samba isn't doing that. It makes up some totally random collection of unrelated letters when I store long file names to the Samba shares. The same thing happens regardless of whether I save the file from the Linux console or across the LAN from a Winduhs workstation; the same thing happens whether the file is saved to my FAT32 formatted share or my ext3 share. Is there some configuration option I'm missing in smb.conf? I used to think I know what I'm doing, but now I realize I'm just as clueless as I was when I started using Linux 7 years ago. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: gnome-volume-manager 2.15.0 not starting
On 8/1/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've traced this to their method for determining whether the user is logged in locally to the machine (which in 1.15.0 was covered by the --disable-multiuser config parameter). Basically, they're looking at the utmp records, for an entry where the tty name (the ut_line column) contains something like :0 (i.e a local X display). Problem is, the utmp records on my machine don't contain such rows - they include entries only for terminal windows, not for the X login itself. Is this something LFS should be doing, or is this some horrible hack used by the distros? It doesn't make a difference whether I login to console and run startx, or login via gdm. Do you have the X utility sessreg? It's run by gdm (if it's found) and I believe it updates /var/run/utmp. I'm remote right now, so I can't check. Look at /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default. Also look at ~/.xsession-errors. BTW, what's the best way to read utmp? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
aRts vs libarts
I'm preparing to install KDE-3.4.3 on my new LFS-6.1.1 system. The KDE website has a requirements page that says it needs libarts>=2.3.8. I've found & downloaded a tarball for libarts-2.3.11. Unpacking kdelibs, I find it's asking for aRts. I know from a prior installation aRts creates a libarts of its own in the KDE branch. I'm confused. Do I need both or just one? Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: aRts vs libarts
Paul G Rogers wrote: I'm preparing to install KDE-3.4.3 on my new LFS-6.1.1 system. The KDE website has a requirements page that says it needs libarts>=2.3.8. I've found & downloaded a tarball for libarts-2.3.11. Unpacking kdelibs, I find it's asking for aRts. I know from a prior installation aRts creates a libarts of its own in the KDE branch. I'm confused. Do I need both or just one? libarts *is* part of the arts package. I don't see where on the KDE website it mentions "libarts" (the "Compilation Requirements" page just mentions the arts package) and I can't seem to find a separate "libarts" package. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: aRts vs libarts
Paul G Rogers wrote these words on 08/01/06 22:17 CST: > I'm preparing to install KDE-3.4.3 on my new LFS-6.1.1 system. The KDE > website has a requirements page that says it needs libarts>=2.3.8. I've > found & downloaded a tarball for libarts-2.3.11. Unpacking kdelibs, I > find it's asking for aRts. I know from a prior installation aRts creates > a libarts of its own in the KDE branch. I'm confused. Do I need both or > just one? Why not try following the instructions (including the listed dependencies) shown in the BLFS book? Then, after that, if things aren't working properly, feel free to mail the group with your new issues (if there are any). -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 22:39:00 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.29, 0.16 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
