Key press + mouse press shortcuts
This is more general than just KDE, but there might be a KDE specific solution I don't know about, so I'll go ahead and ask. I just bought a Genius NetScroll+ Superior mouse today, which comes with (count 'em) 10 buttons. It works well with Linux--only the application switch button doesn't work. Doesn't even register in xev. I can live with that, though. What I would like to do is add a little chording functionality to it. Four of the buttons are actually keys--that is, they return keyboard presses, rather than mouse button presses. So I thought I could make the play button (keycode 162) act as a modifer key--probably mod_3, since that's not assigned to anything. So far, so good. Here's the meat of the question: is there some way so that by pressing play + left mouse button to get a keystroke? I would like play + lmb to return enter, and play + rmb to return delete. I checked out khotkeys and keyboard shortcuts in KControl, but didn't see anything that would let me do a combination key press + mouse press. Thanks, :Peter
Re: Key press + mouse press shortcuts
On Saturday 08 January 2005 17:41, Hendrik Sattler wrote: man xmodmap Care to be a little more specific? I went through it before I posted, but perhaps I missed something. What section should I look in? All I saw was how to switch around the order of the buttons. :Peter
Re: Key press + mouse press shortcuts
On Saturday 08 January 2005 18:42, Hendrik Sattler wrote: I refered to that part of your posting: Four of the buttons are actually keys--that is, they return keyboard presses, rather than mouse button presses. So I thought I could make the play button (keycode 162) act as a modifer key--probably mod_3, since that's not assigned to anything. So far, so good. Yes, this part I already knew. However, a modifier key + a mouse key is probably application spezific. Pity. :Peter
Re: Unicode in Konsole
On Thursday 19 August 2004 20:37, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Unfortunately, even after restarting X, this did not work. (Since I already had an appropriate /etc/environment file, I substituted that instead of one in $HOME.) Strange, because this works here just fine with Debian Sarge. Create a file (touch /xsession-test) in that script and see if it gets executed... Problem solved: I took a closer look at /etc/environment and realized that it didn't properly export the $LANG variable. Since $LANG is also set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, I got it after the fact, so to speak. Stupid oversight, but everything works fine now, thanks for your help. :Peter
Re: Unicode in Konsole
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 22:22, Hendrik Sattler wrote: You have to set the environment variable _before_ starting KDE. Sadly, Debian does not do this. However, you can manually do it: $ cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10local_userenv USERENVFILE=$HOME/.environment if [ -f $USERENVFILE ]; then source $USERENVFILE; fi also source this file where you normally write your environment stuff (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Now set the environment in ~/.environment and your problem is gone. As already stated here, KDE3.3 will make this a bit easier (maybe they finally realized the problem). Unfortunately, even after restarting X, this did not work. (Since I already had an appropriate /etc/environment file, I substituted that instead of one in $HOME.) I also tried to make a menu entry with 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 konsole' per Frans Pop's suggestion, but that also did not work. What does KDE3.3 do differently? I'm planning on upgrading in the next few days, so if it works there, I can wait a bit. Thanks, :Peter
Unicode in Konsole
I'm scratching my head over this one: I'd set my console environment to UTF-8, but it didn't show up correctly in Konsole. Instead of Unicode characters, I got a lot of two-byte characters, like Á¶ and all that. I was using a Unicode-capable font, and everything should have worked fine, but didn't. Then I discovered by accident today that if I start Konsole from Konsole, Unicode worked, without changing any other settings. That is, I can have two Konsole windows open, the second started from the command line of the first. The first is unable to display Unicode, while the second does. 'ps ax' shows that both instances were started identically, i.e., not by kdeinit. (The first one is launched by clicking on an icon in a SuperKaramba theme, if that somehow makes a difference, although launching it through Alt-F2 or K-Menu-System-Konsole still does not display Unicode.) So, how can I get Konsole to display Unicode without having to launch a second instance and close the first? TIA, :Peter
Re: POP filters in KMail
On Monday 26 July 2004 07:24, David P James wrote: The problem with filtering on the server is that KMail has to download the headers of *every* message that is over the specified size. This means that the headers of messages that don't get deleted (ie the good stuff) gets downloaded twice. Since a lot of spam is as small as a kilobyte, this results in a massive duplication of downloading if you set the threshold at something small. If most of your mail is junk this might not be a big deal, but if you're on mailing lists it can slow things down quite a bit. It's probably best to use a local filter instead, and this also allows you to check for false positives anyway. Thanks for your help; it (sorta) worked. However, my expectations were far greater than what was actually delivered. Hmm. I just looked at the Python docs for poplib and decided that I could whip up a compact Python script that would do exactly what I want. I don't know if anyone else is interested in this, but maybe I'll submit it to the bugs database as an example of what I had in mind for POP filtering... :Peter
POP filters in KMail
I'm running KMail 1.6.2 with KDE 3.2.3, and I am unable to get the POP filters working. What I want to do is filter out messages that have been flagged as spam; the POP server I connect to nicely runs SpamAssassin, but leaves it up to the user to decide what to do about it. It appends a header X-Spam-Warning: This message may be SPAM to every email that it decides is spam, and what I would like to do is just delete every email with that header. So, under the POP3 filter dialog, I create the following filter: o Match all of the following o any header - contains - This message may be SPAM o Filter Action: Download mail later o Global Options: Always show matched 'Download Later' messages in a confirmation dialog. But it does nothing. I set it to Download later to simply double check that it was working, but that spam keeps coming in even when I change it to Delete mail from server. As an extreme example, I created another rule, that should download all mail later and show a confirmation dialog for all emails larger than 1 byte. This too does not work, since all messages (spam and otherwise) continue to be delivered. Are the POP3 filters simply there for show, and should I be looking into other means of filtering out spam? TIA, :Peter
Knotes, part 2
Following the advice Joan Tur gave (http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/debian-kde-200403/msg00285.html), I purged knotes, removed the configuration files, and reinstalled it. Unfortunately, the two bugs remain: knotes adds at least two notes every time it quits, and the background color is not preserved. The two notes are either [Actions] or [Display], or one of each, and are small and black. When I change the background color for an individual note, or when I change the default background color for all new notes, after restarting the program all notes, old and new, are yellow again. I checked bugs.kde.org and it looks like these bugs have been reported several times and closed, but I'm running the latest KDE packages from Sid and I can definitely say these bugs exist. Should I even bother reporting this upstream, since it looks like upstream hasn't ever really fixed the problem? Does anyone have any other suggestions for getting knotes to work properly? Again, `apt-get remove --purge knotes`, `rm ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes`, 'apt-get install knotes` does not fix these bugs for me. Thanks, :Peter
Bug#237924: kdeprint: Print dialog and kprinter crash silently
Package: kdeprint Version: 4:3.2.1-1 Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable Whenever I try to print something, or bring up kprinter from the command line, the window appears for a couple of seconds, and then closes, without any error messages (occasionally I get an error saying Alarm clock. but I have no idea what that's from). I have tried deleting ~/.kde/share/config/kprinterrc, but that doesn't solve anything either. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux Chekhov 2.6.0-test9 #9 Sat Jan 24 10:36:01 MSK 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Versions of packages kdeprint depends on: ii enscript1.6.3-5 Converts ASCII text to Postscript, ii gv 1:3.5.8-30.1 A PostScript and PDF viewer for X ii kdelibs44:3.2.1-1KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-22.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-1 client library to control the FAM ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-2GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-2The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-64.3.0-5 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext64.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii poster 20020830-2 Create large posters out of PostSc ii psutils 1.17-17 A collection of PostScript documen ii xlibs 4.3.0-5 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-1compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
Bug#237924: kdeprint: Print dialog and kprinter crash silently
On Sunday 14 March 2004 16:00, Dominique Devriese wrote: A SIGALRM most of the time means that the app crashed so badly, that it was not able to launch the kdebugdialog. Can you try the suggestions from http://www.kde-debian.org/~domi/debugging-kde-crash.html ? I am stuck with a dial-up connection, so at this point I am unable to get the debug-enabled KDE packages. However, I did run valgrind; attached is the results of running 'valgrind kprinter valgrind-crash-output.txt 21'. After running valgrind, I reran kprinter again, and when it crashed, it managed to launch the crash handler. Apart from the (no debugging symbols found) business, here's what it reported: 0x4108330e in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #0 0x4108330e in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x4080af54 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 Anything else I can try? :Peter ==26044== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux. ==26044== Copyright (C) 2002-2003, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward. ==26044== Using valgrind-2.1.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux. ==26044== Copyright (C) 2000-2003, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward. ==26044== Estimated CPU clock rate is 2395 MHz ==26044== For more details, rerun with: -v ==26044== ==26044== Invalid read of size 1 ==26044==at 0x400118C4: (within /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x400062B3: _dl_map_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159D869: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044== Address 0xE210 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd ==26044== ==26044== Invalid read of size 1 ==26044==at 0x400118C4: (within /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x40006A46: _dl_map_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159D869: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044== Address 0xE210 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd ==26044== ==26044== Invalid read of size 1 ==26044==at 0x400118C4: (within /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000D050: _dl_check_map_versions (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE50: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044== Address 0xE210 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd ==26044== ==26044== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==26044==at 0x400093CA: _dl_relocate_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE25: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159E0A8: _dl_open (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044== ==26044== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==26044==at 0x40009FDC: _dl_relocate_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE25: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159E0A8: _dl_open (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044== ==26044== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==26044==at 0x4000A030: _dl_relocate_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE25: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159E0A8: _dl_open (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044== ==26044== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==26044==at 0x40009520: _dl_relocate_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE25: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159E0A8: _dl_open (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044== ==26044== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==26044==at 0x40009575: _dl_relocate_object (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159DE25: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4000BF15: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x4159E0A8: _dl_open (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044== ==26044== Syscall param ioctl(generic) contains uninitialised or unaddressable byte(s) ==26044==at 0x415670B4: ioctl (in /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x447D7DCC: (within /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so) ==26044==by 0x447D182F: (within /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so) ==26044==by 0x446D3A3A: __driUtilCreateScreen (in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so) ==26044== Address 0xB0D4 is on thread 1's stack ==26044== ==26044== Syscall param writev(vector[...]) contains uninitialised or unaddressable byte(s) ==26044==at 0x4156737E: (within /lib/libc-2.3.2.so) ==26044==by 0x41322E6F: (within /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2) ==26044==by 0x41323A5E: _X11TransWritev (in /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2) ==26044==by 0x41304176: _XSend (in /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2) ==26044== Address 0x4452E451 is 141 bytes inside a block of size 2048 alloc'd ==26044==at
Managing the universal sidebar with DCOP
I just upgraded to KDE 3.2 and overall I have been pleased. I tried out the universal sidebar and would like to bind it to a keypress using khotkeys, but I cannot find the relevant command in kdcop. As far as I understand, it should be under 'kicker:Panel (default)', since restart() restarts not only the main panel, but the sidebar as well. Also, are there any tutorials on how to add custom services to the sidebar? And, while we're on the general subject of the sidebar, I would like to try out the CVS version of the sidebar newsticker (found at http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdeaddons/konq-plugins/sidebar/newsticker/) without having to pull everything. Being unfamiliar with CVS, what's the command to pull just this program? Thanks, :Peter
Bad toolbars
First, apologies for the binary attachment. I just updated my system, and suddenly the toolbars are just a pixel or two too short. I tried every style, and they all had the same problem, except for Keramic. The pic is of kmail's toolbar, and as you can see, the bottom black line is broken. I tried changing the icon size, adding and removing text, etc., but with no luck. Has anyone run into this before? :Peter attachment: bad_toolbars.png
SuperKaramba debs
I've run into a small problem while trying to install the SuperKaramba debs. I'm running XFree 4.3 (Daniel's packages), and libxcursor-dev (which was fetched when I apt-getted superkaramba) contains /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h, which is also in xlibs-dev. The error message: Unpacking libxcursor-dev (from .../libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h', which is also in package xlibs-dev Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Suggestions? :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Sharing mail in KMail
My wife and I have a 'joint' email account and we would like to both be able to read it from KMail. What's the best way of setting it up? A symbolic link in her ~/Mail directory that points to the mailbox file in mine? I'm on several mailing lists under another email address that she has no interest in, so we don't want to open everything up. Would she be able to download new mail that way, assuming that the permissions were set to group 'users' (to which we both belong) and g+rw?
Re: Gkrellm settings not restoring
On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:29 am, Jeff wrote: I'm running Gkrellm (version 2.1.1.4) in KDE 2.2.2 (sarge) and I've set it to show up on all desktops. However, when I log out and log back in, Gkrellm is only on the first desktop. I've tried saving the session by selecting to restore it at logout and I've done the Store Settings for the specific window, by doing Alt-F3 with Gkrellm selected. Easier way is to configure gkrellm to be sticky: bring up its configuration dialog (right-click on a border or F1) - General - Properties - Set sticky state (I also check Do not include on a taskbar/pager). Restart gkrellm, and it should now be present on all desktops. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Konsole and Unicode
I'm trying to enable Unicode on my system, but ran into a little trouble with konsole. I have a file that is UTF-8 encoded, but when I view it with 'less' in konsole, I see the two-character representation, rather than a single glyph, even with konsole's font settings set to Unicode. Also, while I'm at it, would someone kindly point me in the direction of more recent documentation for enabling Unicode? The Unicode HOWTO over at tldp.org is apparently out of date, since its advice for 'less' makes mention of LESSCHARSET, which others have said is depricated (but fail to mention how to do it now). Thanks, :Peter
KDM hangs
I'm having a minor issue with KDM on my shiny new laptop; I've got it set up so that I loads on both vt7 and vt8. /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers looks like this: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt7 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt8 However, whenever I start the laptop, kdm stops loading on one vt until I switch over to the other. Only then will both load. When I say, stops loading, I mean that the black and white fuzz appears, plus the mouse cursor, and then...nothing. Once I switch over, then the wallpaper and login window appear. My desktop has the same setup, but doesn't have an problem loading them separately. (Although it won't start a kdm session until I switch over to the other vt, at which point I have to wait for it to load before continueing. It would be nice if it loaded in the background, but first things first.) Is there anything I'm missing here? :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: Terminals - Comparison ?
On Thursday 08 May 2003 03:52 pm, John Gay wrote: Konsole is the standard shell for KDE. It's very useful, including the ability to open several terminals in one window using tabs to access them. Eterm is a very pretty terminal with lots of extra eye candy. You can set images for the background and even set transparency if you likt that sort of thing. Not to be pedantic, but konsole does this too. Of course, some people like to have borderless consoles (usually monitoring /var/log/messages or something) sitting on their desktop; for that, aterm is usually the best, in that it offers the transparency and image control of both konsole and eterm without the extra weight. Eterm does have themes, so that you can change the menus and whatnot, but the only advantage I can see for this is with IRC or ssh sessions, in which case konsole has its bookmarks. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Friday 28 February 2003 02:02 pm, Robert Tilley wrote: On my unstable box with KDE 3.1 installed, root can properly play sound. All other users receive the message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Can any suggest a reason for this? Permissions perhaps? For the future, may I recommend that you first search the archive? This question has come up several times in the last two-three weeks, and inevitably the answer boils down to: 1. Check to make sure that the users belong in group audio. 2. Check to make sure that the permission on /dev/dsp has read-write access for group audio. 99.9% of the time, this will solve your problem. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: Sound Problem -- More Info
On Monday 24 February 2003 06:00 pm, Robert Tilley wrote: Root can properly access sound. My user cannot access sound and is a member of group:audio. Any ideas? I solved this once but cannot remember the solution. What are the permissions for /dev/dsp? :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these programs to have sound. You don't _necessarily_ need to change anything in KDE; the problem is that KDE's sound server, arts, is hogging /dev/dsp. Solution 1: for XMMS, use the xmms-arts plugin available at http://www.xmms.org/plugins_output.html; to enable it, go to Preferences - Audio I/O Plugins and for the Output Plugin select aRts Driver once you have installed it. For mplayer, in ~/.mplayer/config, write '-ao arts'. Note that I think you may need to specifically mplayer for arts support, but it's been a while since I've compiled mplayer. Solution 2: if that sounds like too much work, go to Control Panel - Sound - Sound System and change the value for Autosuspend if idle for: value to something smaller, like 10 seconds. Note that the problem with this solution is that any KDE sound event will be stalled until after XMMS or mplayer quits. So if you're listening to some music but have set up KMail to beep whenever you have new mail, you won't get any notification until you close XMMS. In my opinion it's better to make XMMS and mplayer play nice with arts, rather than the other way around. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
More kstart fun
Well, after my last inquiry regarding borderless windows (it looks like kpager spawns a child process of itself, which is why it doesn't honor the --type Override request), I thought that kstart might still have the answer with the --window command. From the (sparse) documentation, it looks as though --window [regexp] will apply the specified settings to any window that matches the regexp. So I tried 'kstart --window pager.* --alldesktops --type Override kpager' (with variations on 'Pager' for the regexp string) but no luck. Any suggestions? Am I correct about the --window option? I tried this on the Gimp but I wasn't able to make all the child windows borderless, either. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
POP filters in KMail
I just discovered the POP filters in KMail, except that they don't seem to work. I set the filter to 'size is greater than 1' (thought I would give an absurdly low value to test it) and the filter action to 'Download mail later' and 'Always show matched in confirmation dialog'. I then sent an email to myself and then checked my mail, expecting to see a dialog box. Nothing. Instead, it just lands in my inbox. Is this feature working yet, or is there something else I need to do? I like the idea, since I tend to get a lot of viruses and I'm on a dial-up connection, so I would like to get it working. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: POP filters in KMail
On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:59 pm, Michael Peddemors wrote: Subscribe to an ISP that protects you at the server :) But yes, filters work, you just have to assign the correct actions to the filter. Well, then what am I doing wrong? I thought I _had_ assigned the correct values and actions. Once again, my setup: o Match all of the following size is greater than 1 o Download mail later x Always show matched Download Later messages in confirmation dialog. Now, unless I am greatly mistaken, this ought to stop every single message; instead, every single message floats blithely by. :Peter
Re: Borderless windows?
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:30 pm, Robert wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:49, Peter Clark wrote: Does anyone know how to specify that a certain window should be borderless in KDE? I looked at kstart, but there was nothing there about making borderless windows. Google revealed that kstart once had a '--decoration None' option, but that seems to be no longer the case in 3.1. Thanks, :Peter try: kstart -type Override app_name Interesting; the app I was trying to run was kpager. This works for just about any other program, but not kpager. Any ideas why? :Peter
Slightly OT: Debian + ext3 - Sid
Forgive the slightly off-topic nature of this post, but I am in the process of building a computer for a friend and was planning on installing Debian (Sid) on it. As I understand it, I first need to download the Woody boot disks, do a bare minimum installation, change the lines in sources.list to unstable, and apt-get -dist-upgrade away. However, I have two questions: does the default Woody installation support ext3, or do I need to get some special ISOs for that? I found some older documentation that suggested the latter, but more recent information would be appreciated. Secondly, has anyone used PGI to install Debian? I would be interested in comments, since I would prefer to have some automatic hardware detection and PGI seems (in theory) pretty decent. And yes, I will install KDE3 on it! :) :Peter
Re: Global settings
Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are many things that are common, and that they would hardly ever change, such as the name and configuration of the POP-servers in KMail. I've been tweaking /etc/kde3/kmailrc but it had no appreciable effect. Do these files only mean something for new accounts? In addition to configure things now, I expect to need to fix things at some later point, like when there is a application/ogg MIME type. OTOH, they should be allowed to override my default settings if they want to. So, if anybody could tell me where to edit, I would be very happy, and my parents would probably too! :-) My suggestion would be to create one account, and then make all the changes that you want to it (such as typing in the names of the POP servers, etc.), and then copying the entire .kde (and .mozilla) directory to /etc/skel/. Then, you can create new accounts that will be perfect replicas of the original, requiring only minor tweaking for individual preferences (like email address and the like). Or did I misunderstand the question? :Peter
Re: ugly x background when starting kdm
Quoting John Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do know that there are patches available to remove this, but this would mean getting the proper version of source code to apply the patch to, patch it and re-compile and install. Not a difficult task, even for a non-programmer, but a lot to down-load and you would then be running a celf-compiled X rather than the Debian packaged version. Several people have tried to submit this patch for inclussion in X, but the existing pattern is too useful to the developers so it will never be applied. I have trouble believing that they would refuse a patch that made it an option somewhere. A simple IFDEF and a line in a config file would satisfy everyone. :Peter
Re: Gkrellm Dockapp
On Thursday 08 August 2002 16:58, Michael Montagne wrote: I can't seem to get Gkrellm to dock in my application dock bar. Starting it with -w doesn't show anything at all. I have no problem starting it normally but I'd like it to be docked. The dock bar only accepts 64x64 dockapps; if you really want to, kappdock will accept it, but you'll have to guess the height (trial and error). :Peter
Re: Sick and tired of the little font boxes
On Saturday 13 July 2002 14:04, Andy Saxena wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:26:26PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: I don't understand this at all: I cannot get the fonts to display properly in KDE. Most of the TrueType and all of the Type1 fonts come out as boxes. I'm running KDE 3.0.2 and xfs-xtt 1.3.0 (i.e., the latest). Anti-aliasing is enabled. (Although disabling doesn't help anything.) There are only an odd handful of fonts that work, all of which are the MS fonts. The odd thing is that everything looks fine under GNOME. I've tried nuking my ~/.kde directory, but to no avail. What gives? :Peter Are you using version 4 or later of X? Yes; I'm using the very latest from sid. (Not the 4.2 experimental ones, however.) What does Section Module say in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? Section Module Loadddc Loaddbe Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection If you are using version 4 or later of X, you could try disabling xfs-xtt to see if the font display changes. To disable xfs-xtt just remove the 7110 FontPath entry. Instead of using xfs X will use the FontPath entries directly. I just tried this (again). First I just commented out the 7110 FontPath part, exited KDE, hit Alt-E in kdm to restart X, logged back into KDE, opened up the Control Panel, looked at the fonts: little boxes. So then I entered '/etc/init.d/xfs-xtt stop', verified that it was stopped, exited, restarted X, logged back in--and still got little boxes. I've similarily played with turning anti-aliasing on and off, but nothing works. What's driving me mad is that all the fonts work just fine in GNOME, so it _should_ work in KDE. For the record, here also is the Files section of my XFConfig-4 file: Section Files # FontPath unix/:7110 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thryomanes FontPath /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled # FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType # FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo EndSection (Note that the I just commented out the last two entries for TrueType and Type1 fonts; I've tried those paths as well, and all that happens is that I get duplicate fonts that are displayed as boxes.) :Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sick and tired of the little font boxes
I don't understand this at all: I cannot get the fonts to display properly in KDE. Most of the TrueType and all of the Type1 fonts come out as boxes. I'm running KDE 3.0.2 and xfs-xtt 1.3.0 (i.e., the latest). Anti-aliasing is enabled. (Although disabling doesn't help anything.) There are only an odd handful of fonts that work, all of which are the MS fonts. The odd thing is that everything looks fine under GNOME. I've tried nuking my ~/.kde directory, but to no avail. What gives? :Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
