Re: More KDE font problems
I found the official bug report here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=209378 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 Sep 2003 08:19, Ryan Thoryk wrote: I'm running Debian Sid x86 on my laptop and recently an update (kde i think) caused all kde applications to (including kdm) default to the first available truetype font, which looks almost unreadable. I tried fooling around with it and moving the font it uses, but it simply chooses the next available font. I moved the entire /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory and it still finds the next available font (this time non-truetype). Also the KDE configuration panel does nothing to fix this. Also I'm not using the XFS font server from my XF4 config file (should I?). It seems like the KDE font configs broke or something... Any suggestions? Downgrading libqt3c102-mt (and its dependencies) to 3.2.1-3 from 3.2.1-4 helps. - -- Amit Shah http://amitshah.nav.to/ http://audiolink.sourceforge.net/ Only the things which are illogical are interesting -- Ambarish Pathak -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/anzy6P2Pg05WEJIRAmocAKCpnpyRLSldjs6xCdOv/6tABhR4RQCePGQ7 WSId7AlxKElFMV2OVX66tVY= =sPdF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Ryan Thoryk Unix and Network Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Restoring Taskbar
If anyone answered this today would you mind resending your answer. I am being flooded with viruses and this account filled up. --- On Thu 09/18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Restoring Taskbar brI was trying to setup Mozilla Thunderbird in a new install of Debian Woody and I accidentally deleted the Internet Menu in my taskbar. Is there anyway of restoring the defaults? Please be specific. I am a newbie.brbr___brJoin Excite! - http://www.excite.combrThe most personalized portal on the Web!brbrbr-- brTo UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]brwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]brbr ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
Re: Again: Delays starting KDE apps after upgrade 3.1.3 = 3.1.4
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:41:22AM +0200, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:29, Doug Holland wrote: 2. /tmp/.ICE-unix/ missing or has wrong owner/group/permissions. To fix, execute following commands as root. mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix In sid, this directory is created at user login with the users username and users group, but with the same permissions as stated. I have tried creating these files as root in an init script which get executed on boot, and it doesn't make any difference in speed on my system. Not any that I can notice anyway. You'll notice the effect when you logout/login. With .ICE-unix chown root:root it takes here ~ 1 sec until KDE session is up and 2-3 sec until all KDE apps are restored. With .ICE-unix owned by a normal user the second login takes 3-4 times longer. Achim But I can't complain about the speed in any case. It's as snappy as bulky old XFree86 gets. Anders
Re: Again: Delays starting KDE apps after upgrade 3.1.3 = 3.1.4
On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:29, Doug Holland wrote: since upgrading KDE to version 3.1.4 on Debian Woody I experince delays when starting KDE applications. Don't had these delays on KDE 3.1.3. My /etc/hosts contains valid entries for localhost and the name of the machine. Here are a couple of the usual suspects that cause KDE slowness: 1. Out-of-date font cache. Fix by running fc-cache -f -v as root. I use Woody so I don't have fc-cache. 2. /tmp/.ICE-unix/ missing or has wrong owner/group/permissions. To fix, execute following commands as root. mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix chown root.root /tmp/.ICE-unix chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix Did that already long time ago (I'm doing this at bootup time). Again: Everything was fine with KDE 3.1.3 but changed with KDE 3.1.4. 3. I've also found that if you're on a non-permanent net connection such as a dialup, it helps to run your own DNS server, since many programs expect DNS service to be working at all times, otherwise they throw errors or sit through long timeouts before responding to user input. For a home workstation on a ppp connection, pdnsd is a good personal DNS server that gets the job done without creating too many hassles. It is regardless if I sit here at the end of a 100Mb connection or at home without external net. Nevertheless, thank you! Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ## pgp7vbHRs86mq.pgp Description: signature
Re: Again: Delays starting KDE apps after upgrade 3.1.3 = 3.1.4
On Friday 19 September 2003 09:23, Achim Bohnet wrote: I have tried creating these files as root in an init script which get executed on boot, and it doesn't make any difference in speed on my system. Not any that I can notice anyway. You'll notice the effect when you logout/login. With .ICE-unix chown root:root it takes here ~ 1 sec until KDE session is up and 2-3 sec until all KDE apps are restored. With .ICE-unix owned by a normal user the second login takes 3-4 times longer. Wow -- thats really fast! I have an Thinkpad T20 with 750 MHz an a pretty slow harddisk here and it takes about 15 seconds to start my KDE session (with bad permissions for .ICE-unix even longer). But I expect some improvement if I can someday move to Sarge (I'm waiting for it claimed as stable) which uses a more recent gcc than gcc-2.95. Hmm ... Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ## pgpxBnqmMmPlD.pgp Description: signature
Re: Ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix and KDE speed
On Friday 19 September 2003 09:23, Achim Bohnet wrote: You'll notice the effect when you logout/login. With .ICE-unix chown root:root it takes here ~ 1 sec until KDE session is up and 2-3 sec until all KDE apps are restored. With .ICE-unix owned by a normal user the second login takes 3-4 times longer. No matter what the ownership of that file is I get nowhere near that speed. On my ASUS A1300 with 650MHz celeron and 300MB SDRAM, KDE starts up in around 10-15 seconds on cold boot. It's a bit faster on relogin at somewhere under 10 seconds. So 1 second to start the KDE session sounds absolutely incredible to me. But the ownership of /etc/.ICE-unix doesn't make any difference at all to this, not here anyway. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.3 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Again: Delays starting KDE apps after upgrade 3.1.3 = 3.1.4
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:16, Frank Mehnert wrote: But I expect some improvement if I can someday move to Sarge (I'm waiting for it claimed as stable) which uses a more recent gcc than gcc-2.95. Hmm You are in for a treat. Especially if you use multimedia stuff like sound and video. After moving to gcc3.2 I have had a 20%-30% decrease in cpu usage on xine depending on the codec. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.3 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix and KDE speed
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:34:00PM +0200, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 09:23, Achim Bohnet wrote: You'll notice the effect when you logout/login. With .ICE-unix chown root:root it takes here ~ 1 sec until KDE session is up and 2-3 sec until all KDE apps are restored. With .ICE-unix owned by a normal user the second login takes 3-4 times longer. No matter what the ownership of that file is I get nowhere near that speed. On my ASUS A1300 with 650MHz celeron and 300MB SDRAM, KDE starts up in around 10-15 seconds on cold boot. It's a bit faster on relogin at somewhere under That's here the same on a cold boot because the disk access is the limiting factor and therefore your numbers are what I normally get too (one kde session until shutdown). In the case I login/logout/login (tests/reconfig ...), and verything is in RAM (_no_ disk access according to led here!) I see a big effect if ICE-unix is owned by root or not. With ICE-unix chown root, after login I almost immediately see the kdesktop ksplash on the first or second last item indicating that the apps are restored. That's on a laptop with 1.4 MHz Pentium, 512 MBRAM. I've seen the same effect on a 4 way sunserver via an X-terminal. As soon as disk access is involved the ICE-unix slowdown is hidden. Achim 10 seconds. So 1 second to start the KDE session sounds absolutely incredible to me. But the ownership of /etc/.ICE-unix doesn't make any difference at all to this, not here anyway. Anders
RE: Restoring Taskbar
Yeah my email account is getting around 200 150k messages/day, but at least I run my own email server so that space is not a problem (I've also got spamassassin running on the qmail backend). Where is all this coming from?! I'll try to investigate (sorry about getting a little off-topic from KDE) If anyone answered this today would you mind resending your answer. I am being flooded with viruses and this account filled up. --- On Thu 09/18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Restoring Taskbar brI was trying to setup Mozilla Thunderbird in a new install of Debian Woody and I accidentally deleted the Internet Menu in my taskbar. Is there anyway of restoring the defaults? Please be specific. I am a newbie.brbr___brJoin Excite! - http://www.excite.combrThe most personalized portal on the Web!brbrbr-- brTo UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]brwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]brbr ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Thoryk Unix and Network Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix and KDE speed
Is that trailing data at the end of your message one of the current viruses going around? Make sure you strip it from the messages because they enlarge the emails by over 100k. The email header said that you used Kmail, so at least you're immune to these insane viruses (I'm on a Sun computer, so I can't even execute x86 code) On September 19, 2003 07:50, Achim Bohnet wrote: I see a big effect if ICE-unix is owned by root or not. With ICE-unix chown root, after login I almost immediately see the kdesktop ksplash on the first or second last item indicating that the apps are restored. Is there some security issue with this. I mean, if it is such an improvement, why the ownership of ICE-unix is not root by default? Just curious, Slaven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] AA Ryan Thoryk Unix and Network Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kppp for dsl?
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(BWell, when I tried to compile the thing myself I experienced some
(Bstrange things I have no explanation for (maybe related to having
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(B Subject: "kppp" for dsl?
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Re: Ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix and KDE speed
On Friday 19 September 2003 13:50, Achim Bohnet wrote: I see a big effect if ICE-unix is owned by root or not. With ICE-unix chown root, after login I almost immediately see the kdesktop ksplash on the first or second last item indicating that the apps are restored. Maybe it's a couple of seconds faster at max, doesn't really feel like it though. The big stoppers are the second and third items. This is both on cold boot and relogin. The first item is finished before the splashscheen displays. The second item takes 2-4 seconds to complete. The third item takes at least 5 seconds. The rest follow after, at just under a second each. If the second and especially the third item could be speeded up, there definately could be a bit speed gain. It actually seems like it is just waiting for something that times out during that procedure, but I don't have any idea about if it is possible to get any more detail about what is going on. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.3 on Debian GNU/Linux
Nvidia Gforce
Hi, I need some help to make a correct config for my NVidia GForce2 MX 200 video Card. I have downloaded some modules from nvidia page, but I don't know how make them work and I need the DirectDraw and the OpenGL. Thanks for your Help. Marcelo from Argentina
