Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: I've updated to modular X and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? root: X11 pwd /etc/X11 root: X11 ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Sep 20 15:56

[gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
reply here), but it didn't make any difference. Does anyone have a helpful suggestion ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
060912 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:50, Philip Webb wrote: I also get equery depends evolution-data-server [ Searching for packages depending on evolution-data-server... ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 So it looks as if OO may have its own reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
, set in brackets? Not here : [ebuild N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \ USE=cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid 513 kB -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Bonehead mistake

2006-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
remerge pkgs only when you want to or dependencies demand it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole lost bold letters

2006-08-27 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] browsing browsers: was Active ?

2006-08-23 Thread Philip Webb
060822 Scott Lampert wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 060822 Lindsay Haisley wrote: Is this list up and running? I haven't received any traffic from it since Aug. 10. Lindsay Haisley | Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available

Re: [gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, eg esp during a package update. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
this. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
find this functionality in vim: is there anything like that? Do you mean ':set lbr' ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?

2006-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
060723 Philip Webb wrote: 060722 Mick wrote: I noticed in /tmp a rather large number of files of the type: prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697 It looks like part of the calculation of dependences. I have a long list roughly daily from 050213-611 , so it mb

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

2006-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
-r warnings. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?

2006-07-22 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
-click use it for apps I commonly use, but don't have restarted by KDE when it starts up. Apwal deserves to be better known. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
differently, though again I haven't noticed it. You don't have to put everything in the KDE menu: you can use the miniterminal ( Alt-F2 ), which has a history list. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
of weeks ago haven't done a mass recompile I have yet to run into any problem: yes, there's always tomorrow (grin). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
060719 Neil Bothwick wrote: 060719 Philip Webb wrote: I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago haven't done a mass recompile I have yet to run into any problem I recompiled glibc, to be on the safe side and KDE because it did have problems, but nothing else caused a problem. Yes, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060709 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/9/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; there is no problem with Firefox: see http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Randall Barlow wrote: Philip Webb wrote: do you know of a beginners' guide to style sheets anywhere ? W3Schools has good tutorials for this: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp Thanks: I've bookmarked it will investigate later. Any advice from anyone re the immediate problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/10/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes no difference when I select that: any further suggestions ? Perhaps I need to change the system font somewhere ? The 'system' font in this case should match the Menu font selected in the KDE Control Center

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
to have to use the latter simply to avoid an awkward problem when using OO . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Philip Webb wrote: 060709 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/9/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; Konqueror is honoring document-specified fonts instead

[gentoo-user] Konqueror Open Office : font problems

2006-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
able to find out why long ago accepted it was defective. It now has Mandriva 2005, as I couldn't see to install Slackware. Your best bet mb simply to buy another card. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FEATURES= ... confcache ... confcache has also been known to cause strange problems and in fact is currently package.mask'ed. Yes, as I now notice: it was testing when I set it up a few days ago. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060704 Philip Webb wrote: So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again. FEI I've successfully updated to GCC 4.1.1 , Glibc 2.4 KDE 3.5.3 . The only problem is that Krusader fails, but there's a thread on Forum it is predicted that a new version now in CVS will solve things

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular block (mozilla V. Seamonkey)

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
', then 'emerge seamonkey' worked for me. I then remerged Epiphany Galeon, which depend on one or other of them; I'm assuming that Firefox doesn't, but haven't rebooted yet. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ? Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N1? No: I have no MAKEOPTS (that line is commented). I thought KDE properly supported parallel builds

[gentoo-user] kdelibs : solved ! blame confcache !

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Philip Webb wrote: (2) I recently added confcache to FEATURES : might that affect things ? I removed confcache from FEATURES KDE 3.5.2-r6 emerged successfully ! I'll try 3.5.3 later after some sleep. Is confcache considered stable ? Should I file a bug about this ? (3) I still don't

[gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

2006-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
request on Gentoo Dev for people to test things prior to stabilising these items for the next profile, so I HTH (smile). Anyone else have experiences to share ? Any known-to-work solution ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

2006-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
060702 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:47, Philip Webb wrote: I thought I'ld try GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 update to KDE 3.5.3 . I tried to compile Kdelibs 3.5.3 got a long series of can't find msgs followed by failure: there are a number of similar reports in the Forum

[gentoo-user] big problem, small solution

2006-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
compiling GCC 4.1.1 . Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] net.ppp : speed improvement

2006-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
in net.example confirming this. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe connect problem : more

2006-06-05 Thread Philip Webb
060604 Philip Webb wrote: I've just spent several hours trying permutations to get ADSL to connect after updating to Baselayout-1.12.0 Ppp-2.4.3 . I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example copied what seem the needed lines : config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast

[gentoo-user] pppoe connect problem after updates

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Google getting evil?

2006-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
country may be targetted (grin)). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Email-based games

2006-05-30 Thread Philip Webb
, eg : http://www.diplom.org/ You should find some very challenging opponents there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Philip Webb
I call '/z' for making ISOs etc use /z/tmp as PORTAGE_TMPDIR . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
060517 Abhay Kedia wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: does anyone else experience this does anyone have a solution ? Have you tried reducing scaling in view settings. That ( 80 % ) reduces the menu(-bar) fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: does anyone else experience this does anyone have a solution ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]

2006-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
there never will be. A good excuse to install Linux on your mother-in-law's box (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] GCC info docs?

2006-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
start Gnome) for 'fluxbox'. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
060511 Zac Slade wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:14, Philip Webb wrote: I boot into a raw terminal, then 'startx' have 2 versions of .xinitrc There is no need to go through this trouble. To select a different WM/DE when you startx all you have to do is export XSESSION=name of wm. Well

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
to do those things easily). I don't like transparency other forms of intrusive eye-candy, just simple pleasing shapes, fonts colors I can go on looking at. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Philip Webb
or badly-written Javascript. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo

[gentoo-user] test: please ignore

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
This is a test following setting Fetchmail up as a cron job: ignore. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-05 Thread Philip Webb
-click is closing an open menu, which may well be a bug in the code: have you reported it to KDE bugs ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
links', which requires all the GUI stuff: 'emerge -C links emerge lynx' should solve your problem. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
060329 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:26 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX. There's abridge - http://www.abridgegame.org/ - for playing online or did you me something to play against the computer? Yes, I meant

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
not be supported, ie if you find a serious bug, you have to wait hope they'll fix it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE desktop icons

2006-03-27 Thread Philip Webb
checking right-button-mouse-click / Icons / Align to grid. Already tried!! No result. You might be interested in trying x11-misc/apwal as an alternative. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Philip Webb
' depending on how many bugs it's known to have. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
to /etc/make.conf the line 'PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs', which will store it all in that dir (you can clean it out when you want). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
. I've been using 3.5.1 since 060306 without any problems: simply make USE=~x86 for the packages you want. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-20 Thread Philip Webb
with an ugly font, whereas Kpdf 3.5.1 reproduces it very nicely. I suggest using Kpdf instead. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

[gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7 : solved

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
060318 Philip Webb wrote: I just updated to Rp-pppoe 3.7 encountered 2 problems. -- snip -- (2) The system is trying to set the clock from NTP before ADSL starts: Setting clock via NTP client 'ntpdate' ... can't find ... pool.ntp.org; of course, it can't find it, as there is not Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
instead ? Using the latter (3.5.1), I have a lot of separate KDE packages installed no 'libungif.la' but instead 'libgif.la', which comes from 'media-libs/giflib-4.1.4'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Philip Webb
follow View ditto or toggle with F8 . Generally, when you can't find something, R-click often brings up a list. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
in portage? Kpdf ; Kghostview is ok too. If you don't want to install parts of KDE, the Gnome equivalent is Evince or you can use the simple Xpdf. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 there is no choice to click nor submit button: yes, I logged in. Strange. Well, you should be able to find it near the top of the Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-24 Thread Philip Webb
have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-24 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:43, Philip Webb wrote: 060124 Jason Stubbs wrote: I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html 1) Create a login if you don't have one 2

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase-3.5.0 compilation error

2006-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
060120 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:51:40 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left mouse-button to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, Apwal looks rather neat. How did you tie it to the LMB in KDE? KDE Control Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] openoffice calc custom accountancy number format

2006-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
with varied units this way always use it when writing tables myself. HTH if no-one can suggest anything closer to your request. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] change the fonts of gtk application

2006-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
can't understand what the relationship is, but it did work. This is with a KDE 3.5 desktop apps + Gtk stuff when useful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 And a final word: I've finished installing the many parts of KDE 3.5 -- the ones I want : it took 3 h 57 m -- it seems to be working well after a couple of bits

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
have a fully upto-date environment which does just what I want it to do. Gentoo is probably suitable for a lot more users than realise it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
away. Exactly ! I really don't have over a week to spend updating a back-up box ! Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:42 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I really don't have over a week to spend updating a back-up box ! Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! What's wrong with using ssh and screen? I don't have a home network

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Philip Webb wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- got Kdelibs done, then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. Some of them went thro' ok, but then Kicker refused as below; I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
kB [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.0 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas -xinerama 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
051225 Ian Hastie wrote: 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 060101 00 . Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast adjust over a few

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
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