John....ok, I changed my three languages from default to American
English. I restarted X and I still get the error message. So, in the
spirit of trying everything before saying something didn't work, I'll
now reboot the system.....and now that I'm back I'll bring up 'Icon
Editor' which is the program that always gives me the KCharset error
message....and...rats!! It still gives me the error message!
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > Dear John:
> >
> > Thanks a million! At last, that dreadful error message is gone! I've
> > been seeing this error message ever since I switched to Linux early this
> > year. I won't say that it has driven me crazy. Not really. But it has
> > made me feel very uneasy, anxious just as the message about "You have
> > new mail" does (which I understand is another meaningless error message
> > generated by Pine in Linux). Look at it from a newbie's point of view:
> > Don't you agree that it would be wonderful if Mandrake, the
> > user-friendly distro (and, as someone who is very pleased with Mandrake,
> > I mean that sincerely), eliminated that anxiety-inducing error message.
> > If it were a real error message, that would be one thing. But it if is
> > an obvious bug, why not remove it in the next version and make a
> > newbie's life a little less difficult than it already is.
> >
> Ben...You sent me a private email stating that, although it APPEARED
> to be working, it wasn't really, and then followed that up a few
> minutes later with a message that you'd rebooted and it was now
> working. I just got to thinking about it... You probably didn't need
> to reboot, just restart X. :-) Oh, well... :-)
> John
