Re: No audio support

2006-07-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
squat about the KDE sound system, but I've been involved with Linux for music making for years. It's a lot easier now than it used to be, believe it or not. We still have some way to go before it can become a truly pleasant user experience though, I fear. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre

Re: Error starting second X session after Xorg upgrade

2006-07-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
I have to be so vague. I had that working, but have inadvertently broken it, and don't have time to sift through the carnage at the moment. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden

Re: Error starting second X session after Xorg upgrade

2006-07-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 2:34 pm, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: It's broken, with no trace in its server's config for how I ever had it set up in the first place. I wonder how that happened? Because I'm an idiot. I was looking at the server, not the terminal. The inittab in question

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
quite remember, used to affect File-Open dialogs and such too, and was KDE wide, anytime KDE used KURL for something, which is frequently. I'm running 3.5.3 myself, and freebsd.org just came up in no time flat. I hadn't been there before, so it wasn't cached. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
of times people have requested that we port Rosegarden to GTK2. Sure. Right after they port the GIMP to KDE/QT. It couldn't be that difficult, could it? *cough* -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
the suggestion of porting the GIMP to QT. :) As for the rest, I'd better shut up before someone screams at me for being off-topic. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion

Re: gtk apps lost antialiasing settings after upgrade

2006-07-09 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
meaning to look into this myself for awhile. All my non-KDE apps look terrible. I am also using gtk2-engines-gtk-qt, so I bet that is indeed what's busted. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author

SOLVED - Re: can't log into SourceForge with Konqueror

2006-06-16 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
on. Nothing to see here. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

can't log into SourceForge with Konqueror

2006-06-14 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
. It's got to be something here. What might it be? I'm really at a loss what could have gone wrong, and about all I can think of to do is start blindly swapping out configuration files for clean new ones. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic

Re: Changing konqueror menu font size.

2006-06-08 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
at it in years. I'm a real dyed in the wool KDE fanboy. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: could not find vim component configuration menu

2006-06-02 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
disappeared a long time ago. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
for that one. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-24 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
it *is* because of the dpi change then, but I'll answer anyway. The easy KDE way is to use the KDE Info Center (kinfocenter), and click on X Server. It's one of the several statistics reported. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-22 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
a thought. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: icons on desktop

2006-05-10 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
files have done this job over the years, and all of my old ones since 2001 are still lingering around. I think the correct current modern file is ~/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek

Re: making fonts available for KDE

2006-05-10 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
manually. That's probably not a real solution, but it gets me there today, without making my head hurt trying to read grossly out-dated font documentation. It's in the Control Center. System Administration - Font Installer -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux

Re: kde, udev, hal and friends...

2006-04-30 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
decided to just let it sit there for a few package versions and see if the problems get sorted out for themselves without me having to get more gray hair. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author

Re: Where is GMail Support for Konqueror?

2006-04-29 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
that really didn't work once tricked. One of them was Google Maps. I have to use Firefox for that one. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http

Re: Where is GMail Support for Konqueror?

2006-04-29 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
I've only found a small number that really didn't work once tricked. One of them was Google Maps. I have to use Firefox for that one. Or, rather, that used to be the case. It apparently works just fine now. Sweet! I don't like Firefox because it's too Windowsy. -- D. Michael 'Silvan

Re: Konqueror - Has the embedded media player ever played anything?

2006-04-10 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Monday 10 April 2006 4:31 pm, Felix Homann wrote: OK, but have you seen it work as *embedded media player*, i.e. playing media inside a webpage? That's what I've never seen working. Have you? Not since KDE 2.x I don't think. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: konqueror alphabets all over the place [DUPLICATE]

2006-03-12 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
and join the ranks of helpful open source contributors by sending them a patch to address this complaint. If it hasn't already been fixed in CVS, that is. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author

Re: konqueror alphabets all over the place

2006-03-11 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
will go away. That's pretty cool. I had no idea this feature existed. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial

Re: new KDE login does not work

2006-03-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
not cure it that time. That's when I just hacked it out of service, to fix at some future point that never came. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http

Re: Where do keyboard layouts come from?

2006-03-04 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
to learn Greek then, isn't it? :) -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: new KDE login does not work

2006-03-04 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
is at least temporarily working normally again. Sorry if none of this was helpful. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial

Where do keyboard layouts come from?

2006-02-28 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
enabled. I had to install some missing bits. Clue? Feels like one of those things that only shows up on a new install, vs. doing an upgrade. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden

too thin, over-antialiased fonts...

2006-02-26 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
trick I employed to fix this last time. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SOLVED] too thin, over-antialiased fonts...

2006-02-26 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
this now xserver-xorg-video-i810 Installing that pulled in libfontenc1 libxfont1 and those look familiar. I'm betting the crappy rendering I'm seeing has something to do with the bytecode interpreter, the hinter, or some arcane who-cares-as-long-as-it-works thing like that. -- D. Michael

Re: kruler

2006-02-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
in the source code, the man page or the docbook page to support this assertion. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial

Re: How to get rid of notification after cd inserting

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Saturday 04 February 2006 6:42 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 23:29 schrieb D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre: If it ain't broke...  Hotplug is still working just fine here, thanks. Guess why udev replaces hotplug by now: hotplug kinda _was_ broken because it had e.g

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
the right characters to come out in the languages I write, even if it feels like it's probably broken. Thanks for trying, and I will stop hijacking this thread now. I hope the OP solved his problem once and for all. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
in this. I'll have to keep futzing around with this, now that you've proven to me that it can be worth the effort to pursue this. Maybe I will crack open a man page. :) Thanks. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
it normally does. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to get rid of notification after cd inserting

2006-02-04 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
libs installed, but the hal package is not. I don't have udev or dbus either, and have no idea what the hell anyone is talking about. I figure this is probably a good thing. If it ain't broke... Hotplug is still working just fine here, thanks. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-29 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
are the norm now, rather than the exception, and I was rather hoping it would just work automagically. However, your point overall is well-taken. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden

Re: Window mini-icon (kwin)

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
apps, Mutt in a xterm and xfte that I would like to use their icons on their respective windows. Ideas? None that worked. It's not as obvious as it seems. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
. The Debian auto config bits always did the wrong thing no matter how many different front door tactics I tried. If all else fails, hack the thing and get it over with. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user

Re: can't log out

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
the probability that logging out will actually work. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KDE 3.4.3 font handling (Unicode)

2005-12-31 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
) That settles that as far as whether it uses it or not. Uses it correctly, I have no idea. Fonts in X are one of the most evil things ever conceived by humankind. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author

Re: KDE impossibly slow

2005-12-03 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
with the DSSI synth plugins in Rosegarden for the same reason. You're about the fourth or fifth I've run into in the last week or so whose lo was broken. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden