Any Scribus users on this list?

2018-04-13 Thread John Culleton
I can get an overnight version of the latest version of Scribus if I have a Ubuntu partition. But I hate Ubuntu. Also I want to help modify the program. So I am wondering if anyone on this list has compiled Scribus from source using this or any other Debian version?If so what do I need to add t

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread John Culleton
> 0447667468 > > keithrbaugro...@gmail.com > > Sent from my APad > > On 11 Feb 2017 07:40, "John Culleton" wrote: > > > All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is this available > > with Debian? > > > > -- > > John Culleton

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-03-22 Thread John Culleton
have come > > in > > > to my inbox. Finally, I find that I have a > > > hard time deleting or moving messages. The > > > messages will gray out in the folder I am > > > in, but never get moved. Then i have to > > > restart akonadi, and it seems to have

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-08 Thread John Culleton
IMAP account > > with about 3-4 mails, both some more > > small POP3 accounts). > > > > Brad, what is the exact behavior you see? > > > > I see pretty much the same behavior. I can > restart akonadi, though, honestly, sometimes, I > have to rest

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-02 Thread John Culleton
vim. I wish KDE4 were better, but wishing won't make it so. My advice: look for alternatives. The developers of KDE are enamoured of the boy scout knife approach for application development. A boy scout knife combines many apps, but none of them are as good as independent single purpose tools.

Re: Vertical scrolling in KDE text editors

2015-01-02 Thread John Culleton
don't know if this is some recent change, but I > just hate it. Does anybody know if it's > possible to change this behavior? > > Thanks a lot, > > Adriano > > You may be happier using the non-Kate editor Gvim. KDE has its moments of weirdness. -- John Cullet

Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

2014-10-13 Thread john Culleton
ssic virtue of *nix, that of separating functions into discrete programs. Another permanent casualty of the move from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4 was the excellent web design tool Quanta Plus. It has been replaced by a general purpose IDE given the same name of Quanta Plus. I won't even try to use it.

Re: kmail search and email completion problems

2014-06-18 Thread john Culleton
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:30:49 -0700 prad wrote: > john Culleton wrote: > > > If available consider using the email client > > Claws Mail. It doesn't use virtuoso, nepomuk > > or strigi. I switched a few years ago and > > never looked back. > > > thx j

Re: kmail search and email completion problems

2014-06-18 Thread john Culleton
what can be done to solve these two issues? > > (crossposted to debian.user, debian.kde.talk, > debian.user.kde) > If available consider using the email client Claws Mail. It doesn't use virtuoso, nepomuk or strigi. I switched a few years ago and never looked back. Here

Re: Two Graphics Cards, Wayland, and KDE?

2014-06-18 Thread john Culleton
59.9 I use XFCE instead of KDE most of the time but xrandr works with either. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.

Bugs in openssl and gnutls

2014-06-10 Thread john Culleton
versions have been added to the repositories. This is the only Debian mailing list I am a member of so I am asking here. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" availab

Re: I look forward to Baloo :)

2014-04-23 Thread john Culleton
ith mail indexing and in general > > interaction with KDEPIM as well. > > > > > > I hope this will get in for Debian Jessie! > > > > Ciao, > > -- > > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - > > http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 > >

Re: How to clean up Kontact calendar mess?

2014-01-27 Thread john Culleton
ne program for email, another for maintaining my calendar, and my own creation (TeX based) for addressing envelopes. -- There are a few exceptions, but very few. I use Okular because installing Acroread gets harder all the time. But I use Claws Mail for email and Libre Office for most other "

Re: KMail2 quirks

2013-08-24 Thread john Culleton
e you had similar experiences? Has anyone > > got > some > > ideas what might be the problem? > > Lucky one. Just a little slow. > Kmail2 is very flakey. Claws-mail is a decent alternative. Haven't bothered with Kmail for a few years now. -- John Culleton Wexford Pr

Inkscape 0.48.4 for Debian

2013-05-02 Thread john Culleton
Trying to get a working copy of Inkscape 0.48.4 without getting too deep into library hell. Does Wheezy have this version? Alternatively will a version intended for Ubuntu also work on Debian? Squeeze only has 0.47. I am a Debian novice, but a Linux user since about 1996. -- John Culleton

Re: booting Wheezy from lilo.

2013-02-18 Thread john Culleton
d read-only for checking # Linux bootable partition config ends -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -

Re: Getting started in the Debian world.

2013-02-14 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:59:07 -0500 john Culleton wrote: > Newbie to Debian (actually a hard disk install of Knoppix.) I wonder > if these features are available on Debian-family systems: > 1. multiple desktops. > 2. The xrandr ability to have a virtual screen larger then the >

Getting started in the Debian world.

2013-02-12 Thread john Culleton
x27;t seem to have this feature. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: KDEPIM & Cal-/Card-DAV

2012-11-26 Thread john Culleton
mail servers from > China, the problem will probably go away, but gmail's spam filter is > the best I've ever seen so I keep using it anyway and just gave KMAIL > the boot. > > The only reason I end up using IceDove or KMAIL is because gmail.com > won't even load m

Re: kmail + kwallet

2012-11-09 Thread john Culleton
ns. Click on the (already > >open) wallet > > 8. the kmail GUI will show up immediately > > > > Using current Debian/sid. Does anybody else observe this behavior? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Frank > > I solved all my kmail problems by switching

Re: Web development package (was something else)

2012-07-13 Thread john Culleton
also Quanta Plus, which is my all-time favorite for web development. Which raises the question, what do the rest of you use for web page development? Am I missing out on another such package? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Pr

Re: kde daemon crashes

2012-07-09 Thread john Culleton
BTW KDE has gone down hill of late. It gets as many complaints as Vista it seems. My solution is simple. I use Trinity which is a clone of KDE 3.5. Try it, you might like it (or not.) -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Proc

Re: kde daemon crashes

2012-07-07 Thread john Culleton
ty. Thet gives you a cloned version of KDE 3.5 with no Amorak, no Neopemuk hooray! Your KDE4 is still a choice for those few things like Okular not supported by KDE 3.5. I find Trinity more reliable than XFCE, which is my other alternative to KDE4. -- John Culleton Free list of books for se

Re: kdebug defaults/build options

2011-08-12 Thread john Culleton
et the thing to nodebug messages. I will see if this kills all those stupid messages at the start of Kmail issued by Akonadi. If so, I will discovered the answer to a persistent --- John Culleton 2401 Haight Avenue Eldersburg, MD 21784 410-795-1159 problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: dolphin as the file manager

2011-04-13 Thread John Culleton
ckware 12.2 partition. In short a version of KDE that looked, worked and was in all other respects compatible with 3.5 but had the latest Qt 4.4.x libs would be the best of both worlds. The only time I need plasma is in the emergency room :<) I don't use a file manager. The command line

Compiz Fusion

2010-06-03 Thread John Culleton
Is this the package that gives "exploding" windows when they are closed? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Placing icons on bottom bar.

2010-04-28 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

How to get unstable version of inkscape

2009-09-12 Thread John Culleton
repository should I look in? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: X crashing?

2009-08-07 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 07 August 2009 07:13:44 pm Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On šeštadienis 08 Rugpjūtis 2009 02:10:16 John Culleton wrote: > > I don't know what the disease is but the cure is simple: revert > > to KDE 3.5 until the dust settles. > > Good luck with th

Re: X crashing?

2009-08-07 Thread John Culleton
is simple: revert to KDE 3.5 until the dust settles. I see nothing but complaints about 4.x. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Current problems (ie. help sought from the brains trust)

2009-08-02 Thread John Culleton
mmand line and then free up some permissions in /dev. Whether this helps or not on your dissimilar system I have no idea. I use KDE 3.5 or when on a KDE 4 system I revert to the classic 3.5 layout. The KDE 4 layout verges on the silly IMO. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribu

Re: Images in Kmail

2009-06-28 Thread John Culleton
omposer such as Quanta, Bluefish or Amaya to get an email formatted in html. Visit: Settings>Configure Kmail>Composer>General and at the bottom check "Use external editor" and specify which one. I like Quanta which comes with Slackware but can be downloaded for Debian AFAIK. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Images in Kmail

2009-06-27 Thread John Culleton
apidly and I can delete 98% of items just by title alone without opening them. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: replacement for kpdf for kde 4.X?

2009-02-18 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 08 February 2009 07:56:13 am Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I had problems with lack of working help tool-tips > and information about copying text from encrypted pdfs in > kpdf 0.5.9 using kde 3.5.10 in Debian unstable (bug > #514238) and was told that nothing would be done as "KPDF > is froz