Re: [Gimp-user] Logitech Trackman
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:02 pm, Nigel Ridley wrote: Does anyone know if the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman works ok under Linux - especially with The Gimp (I can't afford a tablet :-()? I'm not sure how many buttons it has - looks like about 6 or 7. How does one drag and drop (ie. moving a graphic around inside a graphic) using a trackball - does the *lock* button work, or does one have to struggle holding the *left* button down whilst moving the trackball? Blessings, Nigel Ridley *** Nigel, I think you will find the trackball works just fine under Linux. I have used the Logitech Optical trackball before without problems, although it was not the cordless model. The mice work ok, so should the trackball. One thing I am not sure about though. You may not like the trackball for drawing and such. It is kinda cumbersome to use for such things in my experience. The mouse works better for drawing and of course, the tablet the best, if you can afford one. Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Logitech Trackman
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:27 pm, Nigel Ridley wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:11:37 -0500 PL O'Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:02 pm, Nigel Ridley wrote: Does anyone know if the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman works ok under Linux - especially with The Gimp (I can't afford a tablet :-()? I'm not sure how many buttons it has - looks like about 6 : or 7. How does one drag and drop (ie. moving a graphic around inside a graphic) using a trackball - does the *lock* button work, or does one have to struggle holding the *left* button down whilst moving the trackball? Blessings, Nigel Ridley I don't think you would say it is difficult and if the unit has a lock for the button, that could provide an easier extended move. I don't know that it will help with a one pixel move though any more than the mouse. If you have limited desk space, a trackball is nice and one can become accustomed to using it pretty well. I just have never liked trying to draw with one, just too eratic trying to draw precisely. Patrick ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Introduction and a cullour question
On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:42 am, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to get the iscan program from Epson to work. It is a frontend for sane with some changes to the sane library. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: Willem van der Walt @top.health.gov.za= wrote: . At the moment, i am also struggeling to get the new Epson perfection 1260 Photo scanner to scan. \ Have you tried www.khk.net for this? Andrew - Willem, According to what your RH7.3 set up the graphics card, you should have appropriate color capabilities. You might want to check your graphics settings. You should either run 16bit or 24bit, if you are not going to play any games on the machine. I have never had the need to run more than 16bit on anything as it provides all the colors and speed with that. Don't remember what kernel RH7.3 came with, I believe it was 2.4.18? If earlier than that, you might want to consider moving up a bit as the later kernels better supported and fixed USB somewhat. Next thing you should check are the USB, scanner modules to be sure they are loading. My Epson Photo 1650 scanner was as difficult as just plugging it into the computer. SuSE took over from there and it was ready to use. I also downloaded the IScan program from Epson, which works very well. Check the version of sane you are using to be certain it supports your newer scanner as well. Using the 1250 model should also work as there are only slight differences between it and the 1260. Good luck on your quest! Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hardware
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 04:20 am, Shawn Lindsay wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely take another look at dual Athlons. I still have some questions, though. Is Intel's 533 MHz fsb a real advantage? Or only with certain kinds of RAM? Some benchmarks show the Athlon is a real fast cruncher, so for most things it probably gives you the most bang for the buck. Btw did anybody see the review of AMD's Barton chip at Ace's? ( http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=5364 --yea! Pricewar!) . They used a Photoshop benchmark and the P4 3.06 GHz was best at most but not all filters. Ace's said that Photoshop had been optimized for SMP and hyperthreading. Would that be true of Gimp? I'd think stuff like Gaussian blur would be the same or similar. Dang I wish they'd use Gimp for some benchmarks. == Shawn, the only place you will ever see the 533mhz fsb an advantage is in the lab as Intel will not be releasing the chipset to fully utilize it anywhere else. That's the information I have gathered thus far. Those buying the faster Intel cpus will be disappointed when getting their new box up and running, because of the bottlenecks the motherboard provides, it's only going to seem as fast probably as what they replaced. The P4 from Intel, for the most part, has been a very bad joke played on the buying public, but there may be some hope for the newer Hyperthreading cpu, if things work as they should. I would still never consider it over a dual Athlon board though with scsi. --- Loading up on RAM I know is good, but which kind? RDRAM, DDRAM, DRDRAM, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM--ECC or not?--ack!--just give me speed, reliablity and let me keep my shirt. -- If you decide to go with the Athlons, then your DDR SDRAM will prove to work well for you and much cheaper too. Even with a couple gigs of RAM I'm going to be swapping. Is an SCSI drive worth the extra price? I'm thinking no because I can get a 7200rpm ide for $40, or a 10K RPM IDE drive at a fair price, but if somebody has good things to say about their 15K SCSI I'd like to hear it. Do better latency and seek time make much of a difference? Are the 15Krpm Cheetah's and Fujitsu's really as quiet as the reviewers say? What's the optimal balance between transfer rate and access time for working on large .xcfs? ---== Try to find a system with scsi drives working and then come back with your questions! You'll probably not have a question about scsi then, but wonder why you waited so long to use them! :o) Unix/Linux have been built around scsi for years, do you think that is just by chance? You'll also probably find in your research that some IDE drives are quite fast, but then you have the bottleneck of the motherboard controllers slowing them back down, making the added speed just a benchmark, nothing else. --- Finally, would a smaller main drive (with / /usr /home /tmp and swap) be faster? I was thinking it would be most efficient to have a small fast drive with a second, larger drive for storage. Am I wrong to suppose a large main drive would slow me down? Does putting the swap on the first sector still matter, or have advances in hard disk technology made this inconsequenstial? Thanks again. Peace, Shawn. I don't think the last thing will make a difference to you, except maybe slow both drives down on the same IDE chain. Realize the IDE for the most part is still 8 16 bit technology. That's a small part of PC hardware that is still dated, there are more. Remember also that the IDE system will adjust to the slowest drive attached to it and two hard drives on the same link causes a slowdown anyway. Two cdroms on a chain will work satisfactorily as their transfer rates are slow to begin with, but never add a cdrom to a hard drive chain, unless of course you just like waiting! Again, this goes back to the advantage of having scsi Ultra 160 or 320. More drives can be attached, true 32 bit transfer and noticable differences in speed. I think you will find many of the hard drive probs have been eliminated in Linux with those last points you bring up. Good Luck in your Quest! Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Justifying paragraphs.
* On Friday 24 January 2003 10:43 am, John Culleton wrote: I receive many MSWord documents which I then convert to plain text or LaTeX etc. Typically all the characters in a paragraph are crowded onto one line. This makes editing a bore. I can use: gqap to change an individual paragraph to a series of lines of standard length. But I haven't found a global way to do it to all paragraphs. There is/are one or more blank lines between paragraphs. Is there a colon command string that will accomplish this task? -- Why not just load the files in OpenOffice or StarOffice or Abiword and convert them to text before hand? Or even save them from MSword in plain text or rtf format? Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Copy/cut/paste to new folder
* On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:22 pm, zeus wrote: I notice that every time, i create new folder in nautilus. I can not directly mov/cut/paste/copy in to new folder (the one i created). In order to do that, i must refresh Nutilus to do that. Is this some kind lack of Nautilus?? --== zeus, Sounds like a bug in Nautilus to me. I know the file managers in KDE don't behave that way. I try not to use Gnome too much, so am not completely familar with Nautilus, except for the many complaints I hear on the SuSE list about it and it's behavior. :o) Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gif support
On Monday 23 December 2002 04:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:35:58AM -0800, Joshua Thorin Messer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, wait when you wrote Currently browsers do not support PNG widely enough to use PNG instead you might have meant Currently The striking majority of browsers, not only IE on Windows. And PNG can't do animations, which are very important. So GIF will need to stay around for some time :( Well Marc, Actually PNG does do animations and they are called MNG. So unless you have several thousand dollars lying around you want to use to pay the GIF owners for using those on your site, PNG pretty much takes care of everything now. Plus as Joshua mentioned all the really good browsers already support PNG stuff now. Netscape I believe mentioned they were dropping any further support for the 4.xx versions and I guess M$ will have to come around with IE if they want to continue peddling their junk to users. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
