Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. Flashplayer-nonfree 9 is known to have some glitches, but 10.2 beta, downloadable from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html appears

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Michael Fothergill: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. Flashplayer-nonfree 9 is known to have some glitches, but 10.2 beta, downloadable from

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Michael Fothergill: Doug: Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably this one) that there are a couple of repos you can get to from Debian that hold proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat. I have the debian non free mulltimedia link set up in my apt

Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Peter Easthope: A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995. According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported. http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem How reliable is this capability? AFAICS, the only thing you need to do is 'modprobe hfs'. Or add the line 'hfs' (without the

Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
I wrote: Another option is to install hfsutils and use xhfs to exchange data with the hfs-formatted floppy. s/hfsutils/hfsutils-tcltk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Rico Secada wrote: I'll have to stick with Lenny or change the distro if quanta isn't part of squeeze. Before upgrading to KDE4, I just put quanta on hold, along with the other applications of kdewebdev: # aptitude hold quanta kfilereplace klinkstatus kommander kxsldbg I have Quanta Plus

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-23 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:04:05 + Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:05 -0400 Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Celejar, Thanks. Perhaps I'm just slow today, but neither under 'Conf/Common Prefs' nor under 'Conf/Prefs for current account' can I find

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: For me the problem is that etch default look and feel is totally out of date. Even those who doesn't have artistic training can sense that the artworks are amateurish. When I showed the artworks to my graphic designer friends they were

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:03:29 -0400 Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:47 -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:53:16AM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: For me the problem is that etch default look and feel

Re: windows download

2007-04-19 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Joe Hart wrote: Personally, I don't know why they both need to exist, but that's beside the point. What is the point is that one no longer needs to download and burn a CD if they want to convert from Windows to Debian. The more there exist, the better 8-)

xhfs

2007-04-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, New Etch installation. I use xhfs, part of hfsutils-tcltk, to get access to an Apple HFS formatted USB stick. When I open /dev/sda2 with it, which is where the HFS partition is located, then this error occurs, and the program aborts. *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal):

Re: Where's /dev/lp0 gone in Etch?

2007-04-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
jjgnu wrote: I just installed Etch on i386 (previously used Sarge). My printer, on the parallel port, has stopped working. I'm using LPRng with a custom print filter that sends lpd output to /dev/lp0. Unfortunately there is no longer any /dev/lp0, despite parport and parport_pc modules being

How to determine which filesystems are available

2007-04-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, I inserted a Mac HFS formatted USB stick, and to my surprise a window popped up in Gnome, displaying its contents. Debian handles the HFS filesystem by default?? Which makes me wonder, how I could determine which filesystems are available. Are HFS+ and UFS supported? Or, to put it more

Re: How to determine which filesystems are available

2007-04-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:59:19 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 4/28/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inserted a Mac HFS formatted USB stick, and to my surprise a window popped up in Gnome, displaying its contents. Debian handles the HFS filesystem by default?? Which makes me

Re: How to determine which filesystems are available

2007-04-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:13:47 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 4/28/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:59:19 +0530 Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 4/28/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inserted a Mac HFS formatted USB stick, and to my surprise

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrew Sackville-West: or b) you could install other dm's alongside gdm. try xdm or wdm. There is a way to specify which one is the default dm to use, though that escapes me at the moment and I don't have one installed to figure it out with. look in the /etc/init.d/*dm file of choice and you

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
somethin2cool wrote: Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing: bash: seamonkey: command not found The Debian version of seamonkey is called 'iceape'. You should install iceape-browser, e.g. with synaptic. A symlink will not be required, since /usr/bin/iceape will be there. -- To

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, and group info nscd is

Re: Please help - printing gone after upgrade to Etch

2007-05-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone. Reason: % ls -l /dev/lp* ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory I had something similar with my DeskJet 670C in Etch. It appeared that /dev/lp0 had not been recognized for some reason, therefore CUPS

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Manon Metten wrote: Hi Johannes, On 5/4/07, about unclutter you wrote: The following works fine for KDE: 11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/unclutter $ chmod u+x .kde/Autostart/unclutter It works fine, but how do I supply some args

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Manon Metten wrote: BTW: what's the first line #!/bin/bash in the script for? It is not really necessary, but it has some advantages. The 'file' command will recognize the file as a script, there are certain other programs (emacs?) that will treat it as such and here is where my limited

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-09 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:42:06 -0400 Eric d'Alibut wrote: I seem to recall a linux command line wave player -- wavp, or waveplay, or something like that? Does that ring any bells with anybody? It's called wavplay, I just don't see it in the Etch repositories. Googling for 'wavplay' and 'debian',

Re: fluxbox slit

2007-05-11 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
The slit is one of the many parts of Fluxbox that has been inherited from Blackbox. It is designed to hold WindowMaker Dockapps, (and anything that runs in that mode which is called 'withdrawn' or (less often) 'swallowed'). Such applications often have a -w option, but some are automatically

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-18 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Deboo ^ : cga2000 : Deboo ^ : And how do you incorporate the custom xterm options in the default fluxbox menu? Is there something to edit the menu commands? I wish I knew .. :-) Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with fluxbox? I already installed fbdesk

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:15 +0800 Ken Hu wrote: I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem really can work on both Linux and Mac OSx The purpose I need this is for my usb external harddisk, I wish I can plug it to mac and linux box. 1. Mac OSX uses the HFS+

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-26 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:37 +0200 JWS wrote: Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html (this uses ~/.Xresources). Using a unicode font in xterm this way appears to be working well, provided that you log in through a login

Re: Get Rid of Messed Print Jobs

2007-05-26 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
David Baron wrote: This is a problem we have all had, I think. Something goes wrong in a print job, paper jam or whatever. Instead of the printout, one will now get raw data numbers and stuff. So one turns off the printer and removes the job from the queue. Problem is that as soon as the

Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, During 7 years I have seen no other distro than SUSE. I think it's a pity that it is not a European distro any more. Much of its hype, its ideals and its friendly character has gone. And when its new owner went to collaborate with a company that clearly has far from noble intentions, it

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mumia W. wrote: I have no ~/.xinitrc, and when I type startx, the default Gnome desktop comes up. You can type startx /usr/bin/gnome-session to get Gnome. If you want KDE, you can do this: startx /usr/bin/startkde And type startx /usr/bin/windowmanager to start some window manager, e.g.

FYI: Debian as a desktop system

2007-06-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Interesting read? Very positive review of Debian Etch. Conclusion: I feel that Debian Etch is as good on the desktop as it is on the server. It has a long rich history, a strong community, is amazingly stable and is a great fit for both my servers and my laptop. I urge everyone to give it a go

Re: Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-12 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Kent West wrote: I'm currently running Etch, and just realized that the Hyphenation module in OpenOffice.org is not installed. So I've gone looking for it, and can not find the US English version. Google's not much help either. I've tried: sudo aptitude search ... snip Where's the

Re: Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: But the spelling on their wizard for the spell-check dictionaries is rather ironic: http://www.acu.edu/~westk/dict.jpg Humorous... It gets worse: try going along with the wizzard and progress bars fill w/o progress while

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I can't find package acroread in debian-multimedia. Is still there? AFAICS, there is nothing against downloading the .tar.gz from the Adobe site and install it according to the instructions -- since it is nothing more than a directory that you can put into /usr/local.

Re: any realaudio plugin?

2007-06-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying a few things but just can't get mozilla (unstable) to view the videos (realaudio plugin?) from the BBC web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm Any clues any body?? I've got mozilla-mplayer (MPlayer-plugin for

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Alan Ianson: j j: The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? I think tzconfig will setup your time zone. Or in KDE, right click on clock Show Timezone Configure Timezones... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand why opensource proponents always have to resort to some sort of derogatory name for something. Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment, and ice never has any positive connotations

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Douglas Tutty: to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text but collumns, tables, images, the works. I took Word Viewer 2003 from the MS site (View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunder- bird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. * audio player [

Re: Problem with system clock drift

2006-11-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:33 +0100 Franck PASSELEGUE wrote: I don't understand why the time (given by date() commande) is completly false. The drift of the system clock is about 10min after 2 hours !! Over the years I have seen this happen a few times. The last time was when I set the time 1 hour

Re: Typing characters with byte value greater than 0x7f.

2006-11-15 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:26:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:01:53PM +1100, James Steward wrote: I have searched for some time now for a method by which I can enter characters from (say) ISO 8859-1 in X applications. In essence I would like to insert a DEGREE SIGN

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

2006-12-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Just came across this site, explaining why you might consider using debfoster, deborphan and debsecan if not using aptitude: Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/17/2016215 Comments to this story: http://lwn.net/Articles/212148/#Comments -- To

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:56:53 -0800 (PST) j Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not able to find a debian logo with a transparent background. Could anyone point me to a link where I can download one? Well, one could take one of the logos from www.debian.org/logos/ and use Gimp to make the

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Today at 19:08 Nicolas Pillot wrote: 2006/12/3, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (Create new file with transparent background, copy the red curl into here using the 'Select contiguous regions' tool, Image Mode Indexed and save as .gif) You'd better to go into the Layer / Transparency

Re: Sylpheed: staying in thread upon deletion

2007-07-14 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:50 -0400 Celejar wrote: I'm using thread view (...) and sorting by date. When I delete a message, Sylpheed jumps to the next message by date, not to what I want, the next message in the current thread. Is there any way to change this? Yes, sorting should be switched

Re: Sylpheed: staying in thread upon deletion

2007-07-16 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:07:21 -0400 Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:26:41 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:50 -0400 Celejar wrote: I'm using thread view (...) and sorting by date. When I delete a message, Sylpheed jumps

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Rodolfo Medina: Claudius Hubig: nano, e. g., supports the MS-DOS-file format (or whatever it's called) and thus you can save your text files with nano (C+O, M+D) the way Windows users are able to read them properly. Thanks, this seems to work fine: I paste the text into nano buffer, then

Re: Fonts -

2007-07-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mathias Brodala wrote: Rick, 30.07.2007 04:27: Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian, that I can install extra. I'd like to mention Liberation Mono, one of the Liberation fonts provided by RedHat. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ (BTW, Liberation Sans is looking great as

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Nelson A. de Oliveira: Mumia W..: See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. We don't have control over the PDF. We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only missing thing is

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mumia W.. Sjoerd Hiemstra: Nelson A. de Oliveira: Mumia W..: See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. We don't have control over the PDF. We want to change all machines running Windows

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-10 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:00:50 -0500 Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/05/2007 02:57 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [...] The 'licensing limitations' concern the fonts themselves. Many fonts, including non-free, licensed ones, are allowed to be embedded into pdf's. Then there are fonts

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

2007-09-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:44AM +0530, Siju George wrote: Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the VLC player for Debian Lenny? You must be missing something. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list Yet, I do not see VLC in Lenny

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Anthony Campbell wrote: my .xinitrc contains the line: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap. which has worked for many months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not being run. [] Has no one else seen this behaviour? I saw this behaviour when I stopped using gdm, and went to use

Re: euro symbol in xterm (fvwm)

2007-09-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Steve Kleene wrote: I'm testing UTF8 performance on my Etch machine. Everything seems fine with one exception: the Euro symbol doesn't display in my xterms This was discussed in this list some time ago. JW Stumpel pointed to his site explaining how to do it: Configuring xterm for UTF-8.

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:22:09 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:46:03 +0200 Pál Csányi wrote: Could somebody explain how can I read debian-user list with pan? Pan is a news reader. It can't receive email, except where email is gated to a newsgroup. Well, d-u *is* gated to a

Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited

2007-10-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 Chris Brotherton wrote: I just recent got an old T20 and I am attempting to use Debian on it. I am using a PCMCIA orinoco wireless card. Here is the crazy part. The card is recognized by the installer. The installer asks me for my essid and my WEP key. After I input the

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited

2007-10-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Wayne Topa wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 Chris Brotherton wrote: I just recent got an old T20 and I am attempting to use Debian on it. I am using a PCMCIA orinoco wireless card. Here is the crazy part. The card is recognized

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited

2007-10-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
In an effort to get wireless on my IBM Thinkpad T30 laptop working, Wayne Topa wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: The installer saw three connection systems in the laptop: - wireless connection with interface wifi0 - wireless connection with interface eth0 - ethernet connection

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:10:21 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: Is anyone having any luck with WINE? Yes, I have a few programs running successfully with Wine on Lenny. MS's Word Viewer, for example. And ies4linux (www.tatanka.com.br), running a few versions of IE for testing purposes, while using the

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:22:06 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:10:22PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:10:21 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: Is anyone having any luck with WINE? Yes, I have a few programs running successfully with Wine on Lenny. I'm going

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited

2007-11-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:23:11 -0400 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:10:48 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Following the directions at [2], the entry for wifi0 in /etc/network/interfaces now looks like this: iface wifi0 inet dhcp wireless-essid wireless-key

Re: Mount HFS+

2007-11-11 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
webjay wrote: On Nov 11, 12:00 pm, Davide Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: webjay ha scritto: # mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk ^^^ Shouldn't this be sda1? Just a thought, I do not use HFS+. No, I tried that with the same result. I think mount

Re: [SOLVED] Mount HFS+

2007-11-12 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Webjay wrote: Christian Jaeger wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Note that Apple partitioning is different from PC partitioning. When mounting a hfs+ partition, it looks like you have 4 or 10 partitions, only one of them (possibly sda2 or sda4) is usable, all the others appear to have

Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-17 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, Running Sarge. What to install when you would like to give TeX/LaTeX a try? In Synaptic I see something named latex209-base, but it says: LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete. Use LaTeX 2e. But there's no package called latex2e or something, nor do I see anything else that looks like it could be the main

Re: X.org: manual fonts installation

2007-03-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:30:35 +0100 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) mkdir ~/.font 2) cp *.ttf ~/.font/ 3) cd ~/.font 4) mkfontscale ./ 5) mkfontdir ./ and under X: 6) xset +fp ~/.font which can be put into your ~/.xesssion or similar files which are

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Joe Hart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/19/07 16:16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [snip] And why are you arguing whether Debian is Ubuntu anyway? We're not. I am. It seems that some people are confused and think that it is the same distribution. As I see it, confusion

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-15 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19 + Stephen Allen wrote: There are Reader permissions to annotate but AFAIR only with the latest Acrobat v 1.7, which have to have been enabled by the author using the Arobat Pro application. But yes one can annotate with the free Reader, if a specific PDF is such

Re: Usermount

2008-02-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Starting usermount, I get this message: There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or

Re: Usermount

2008-02-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Frank wrote: Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ?? Well, using Synaptic to look for packages that have 'mount' in their names or descriptions, I see a few that look interesting. I'd suggest to have a look at all of them, and take the one you like best. mountapp A dock app

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts available as standard packages that just work. Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. There is ttf2pt1, a TrueType to

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-09 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Chris Bannister: Ron Johnson: Amit Uttamchandani: My question is, how do I go about installing [the Liberation fonts] and using it exclusively? They are at debian-multimedia.org as ttf-liberation. Not for Etch there's not. # apt-cache search ttf-liberation # Thanks to

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-11 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Whilst the package manager puts its fonts into /usr/share/fonts, the correct place for you to put yours would be /usr/local/share/fonts, or any subdirectory thereof, such as /usr/local/share/fonts

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:42:49 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: In /usr/local/share/fonts you could create any hierarchy you like. A few examples: snip Thanks for the detailed info. Probably worth mentioning this new

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Chris Bannister wrote: I think xmms is no more anyway. A number of distros have dropped xmms. As far as I vaguely remember, the reason is that it still uses gtk1, and there were certain problems preventing it from being upgraded to gtk2. Audacious is one of its successors, you could use that

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:37 -0500 Mark Grieveson wrote: I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. I've been using wvdial for many years. This command enabled it to be run as user: chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd I just did not have Debian at that time, so I can't check this. Not 100% sure

Re: Revive dark photos -- Debian gimp packaging question

2007-01-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
][ wrote: I remember that I revived some dark photos to normal look by simply choosing certain gimp menus. Now I want to do it again, but couldn't find the menu entry any more. As far as I think I know, in many photo editing programs, including Gimp, it usually goes like this: Tools Colour

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Dan H. wrote: After a sarge-etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 - oo2.0) upgrade I found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see http://www.nanoscience.de/group_r/members/dhaude/stuff/OO_hugefonts.png for a 1:1 screenshot. Well, there's that 'Scaling' entry in the upper left

Re: which package contains avisynth.dll

2007-11-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: With mplayer, it gives the following error $mplayer shoutcast-playlist.pls ... ... Playing shoutcast-playlist.pls. Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

Re: which package contains avisynth.dll

2007-11-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:38:45PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: With mplayer, it gives the following error $mplayer shoutcast-playlist.pls ... ... Playing shoutcast-playlist.pls. Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Serena Cantor wrote: I have used Linux for 8 years. I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can be a little easier. I use sarge and etch.

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mark Grieveson wrote: Also, I use kmix for a volume control, because this seems the only application that provides a small speaker applet on the fluxbox panel to control sounds. I'd like to get rid of it, and the kde libs that accompany it. So, is there a fluxbox-specific volume control that

Re: Local list archives

2007-12-20 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: How can I obtain archives of this list on my local machine? Just one idea: to download all messages of December 2007: wget -r -l 1 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12 Then use a browser to open ~/lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12/index.html. And get the

pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? Trying to install it, aptitude says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up... Abort.

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2007-12-21 20:47 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Apparently this is fixed in version 1.41 You just have to be patient until that version hits Lenny. Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). Hm,

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On 2007-12-22 00:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2007-12-21 23:41 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). Hm, I tried 'aptitude -t unstable install pdftk

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Well, when I did need it, I could reboot into etch which I've still got, and where it works fine. Since I used it only now and then, that was just a minor annoyance. If you have the etch install on a partition in the same machine, you can

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Ron Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: my memory of Netscape is always kind of unpleasant. I remember struggling to get it to work properly Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.5 for Linux has just been released. Works fine, looks good. Get it here:

Re: OOo window in fluxbox

2007-12-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mark Grieveson wrote: Whenever I open OpenOffice.org writer in my fluxbox setup, the window opens with the OOo bar on the top frame, with the OOo menu options (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc), rather than the window frame with the minimize, maximize, and close options in the top right corner.

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-11 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:12:06 +0100 Nigel Henry wrote: I have a separate mailbox for the Debian-user list, and when the spam flood was in full flow everything turned up in this mailbox, ham, and spam, so no spam from the Debian list was sent to the wastebin. I've got Sylpheed with bogofilter

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Jochen Schulz: Ron Johnson: Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader doesn't thread? No, and that's the way he prefers to take part in mailing lists. Am I the only one who dislikes this kind of gossip? It certainly does not comply with Debian's moral standards, I

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:50:41 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: A simple example is the ability to right- or left- align text. For Hebrew and Arabic users, this is a must. No other mailer provides that. In Sylpheed I see your Hebrew text right aligned. And the Virtual Identity extension makes the From

Re: last attempt with pan newsreader

2006-09-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:13 Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Arthur Marsh wrote: Has anyone persisted with the pan newsreader. I'm about to ditch it after a few reportbug submissions /-: for problems including lockups. There is a new version completely re-written, got it compiled/

Re: Recommend a file manager

2006-09-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
T wrote: Please recommend a file manager. FileRunner is the one I've been using for years. Fits especially well into WMs like Blackbox: simple yet powerful, and easily configurable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

In search of Helvetica

2006-10-16 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, Running Sarge. I'd like to use fonts like Helvetica and Lucida Sans Typewriter as menu fonts, editor fonts and the like. However, I can only do so in gtk1 applications, such as the version of Sylpheed that comes with Sarge. They do not show up in gtk2 and qt applications (except for

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-16 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:02:37 +0100 Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:52:59 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Sarge. I'd like to use fonts like Helvetica and Lucida Sans Typewriter as menu fonts, editor fonts and the like. However, I can

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-17 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Rick Thomas wrote: Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a crafted bitmap available. I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect, and they're definitely my favorite for this purpose.

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-18 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Liam O'Toole wrote: I used to use Helvetica as the application font, and quite liked it. What caused me to change was that it kept popping up in web pages at inappropriate sizes, looking --- as Rick puts it --- seriously ugly. I never found a way to alias Helvetica to a Truetype font in the

Re: Sylpheed vs. Claws (was Re: thunderbird - kmail)

2006-04-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:34:31 -0700 Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:18 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:09:44PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should give Sylpheed-Claws-GTK2 a try. I'm running unstable and it has

Re: Acroread, where are you my Acroread?

2006-04-17 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to install this lovely non-OS reader for my PDFs, and I hear their is one apt-gettable, but I know not where it lay. I have as my sources, stable main, updates main, contrib, non-free, and sarge-backports. Yes, I runneth Sarge! Thanks to you, I shall not

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:27 -0500 Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: gianni wrote: Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to convert to debian. [...] You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm file into a cpio file. From there, you

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