Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-27 Thread Riccardo
Hi, On 2007-06-25 16:48:17 +0200 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. all gnustep applications (e.g. GWorkspace Terminal) start frozen. Solved by switching to 24-bit color mode in xorg.conf, at the cost of turning of DRI (my video card driver only support DRI at 16-bit color mode);

new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list I am a new user of gnusteps, this is the 4th time I decide to try use gnustep as my daily desktop, last 3 times all failed with this or that problem, mostly because not everything is pre-configured very well for most Linux/BSD distributions, at least not pre-configured as well as

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2007-06-25 22:48:17 +0800 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6. Is there a good way to run a gecko browser in GNUStep way? I mean, firefox doesn't look like a GNUStep application when I run it in GNUStep. I have read on the web that work is in progress to build a framwork for web

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Stefan Bidigaray
If I remember correctly, Ubuntu uses Debian Sid's packages, which are generally outdated with regards to GNUstep. They were updated a few months ago, but since the most resent release it's now outdated. Other packages, including GWorkspace, GNUMail and others are also outdated. Unfortunately,

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2007-06-25 23:40:10 +0800 Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, Ubuntu uses Debian Sid's packages, which are generally outdated with regards to GNUstep. They were updated a few months ago, but since the most resent release it's now outdated. Other packages,

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2007-06-25 23:40:10 +0800 Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, Ubuntu uses Debian Sid's packages, which are generally outdated with regards to GNUstep. They were updated a few months ago, but since the most resent release it's now outdated. Other packages,

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2007-06-26 00:28:56 +0800 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-06-25 23:40:10 +0800 Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, Ubuntu uses Debian Sid's packages, which are generally outdated with regards to GNUstep. They were updated a few months ago, but

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Jun., 17:22, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read on the web that work is in progress to build a framwork for web rendering for whole GNUStep including building a browser (vespucci). I am glad GNUStep developers are working on a GNUStep browser. But as a novice user I have a

Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

2007-06-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2007-06-26 02:14:00 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Jun., 17:22, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read on the web that work is in progress to build a framwork for web rendering for whole GNUStep including building a browser (vespucci). I am glad GNUStep