Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread drewbian
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:47, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. I know a couple of folks who are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim MSN

2003-10-13 Thread drewbian
Looks like Microsoft is set to break third party clients real soon anyhows http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:29, SMS WebMaster wrote: I am in Saudi Arabia and I can't login to MSN by Gaim like you The problem is from Gaim because I can login with Kmess The

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from WM

2003-10-11 Thread drewbian
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:08, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm installing at this moment xfce4, but my question is how do I switch from gnome to xfce ? Patrick if your using a console login you can just type startxfce4 cheers drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware wtf!???

2003-08-31 Thread drewbian
. strange, I've been using Vmware 4.0.1 (build-5289) on Gentoo and it works fine.. cheers drewbian Thanks for your reply! Norberto signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot

2003-08-31 Thread drewbian
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 17:36, Dave Naylor wrote: On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 8:25 am, Andrew Farmer wrote: At 30 August, 2003 Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: Is there something more terrible then a dialup connection? No connection? Celine Dion? Celine Dion streamed over a dialup connection?

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware wtf!???

2003-08-30 Thread drewbian
to run the vmware-config.pl then remove the file /etc/vmware/not_configured (or somethin like that). cheers Drewbian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread drewbian
reoccuring nightmares about hitting enter after typing the first rm -rf / bit ;) cheers drewbian I think it is safe rac told me how to do it on IRC Scott Jones -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] IceWm config program

2003-08-22 Thread drewbian
] Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage:http://icecc.sourceforge.net/ Description: Convenience package for IceWM control center and tools Cheers drewbian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread drewbian
+fuwCdGdcP UOzs2OCDcR/AHYeN65d2rIo= =RPIA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hiya, check out the man page for xhost, that may help cheers drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb issues

2003-08-07 Thread drewbian
Hi, Not exactly a fix but I have found gqview to be a suitable alternative to gthumb. drewbian On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 07:16, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: Is anyone else having issues with gthumb? No matter what I try, gthumb refuses to show its image preview window. I have the preference selected

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2003-08-04 Thread drewbian
site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com The fix for this was covered in the previous? Gentoo weekly news letter - should be an archive of them on the gentoo site. cheers drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Background in gnome...

2003-07-14 Thread drewbian
this behaviour back when I was using gnome-session. iirc when I unticked draw_background in gconf-editor (/desktop/background) it fixed it somewhat, never know, might be worth a shot. cheers drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo cursors

2003-07-09 Thread drewbian
would then just change maccursers to the theme of your choice and restart X. There are a small number of cursor themes at http://themedepot.org (where I got my current theme of choice maccursors..) hope this helps drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] making an ebuild - version naming question

2003-07-05 Thread drewbian
still a little confused on how to go about it.. Help greatly appreciated cheers drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] making an ebuild - version naming question

2003-07-05 Thread drewbian
it or should I just place ctwm-3.7-alpha4 whereever ${P} is defined? [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage $ find /usr/portage/ -name *_alpha*.ebuild | xargs grep SRC_URI Take a look at how they do it. It's a little odd, but you'll figure it out. Thanks for that, I'll certainly give it a try ;) drewbian

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting back to the comand line

2003-07-05 Thread drewbian
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 03:01, Miguel M. wrote: Hey everyone I was trying to find out what NIC card I was using ( i really know just wanted to make sure) for it can load the module at boot time. Well something happened and then instead of getting: cdimage linux # I get: and I

[gentoo-user] The age old question..

2003-07-03 Thread drewbian
Hi all, Any one here have a nice stable yet fast CFLAGS= section suitable for a duron 1.3ghz they could possibly paste? (pretty big ask I know ;)) After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as to what the hey to put in

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread drewbian
sorry I should have had a more descriptive subject.. Hi all, Any one here have a nice stable yet fast CFLAGS= section suitable for a duron 1.3ghz they could possibly paste? (pretty big ask I know ;)) After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted on the

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread drewbian
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 17:42, MAL wrote: drewbian wrote: Hi all, Any one here have a nice stable yet fast CFLAGS= section suitable for a duron 1.3ghz they could possibly paste? (pretty big ask I know ;)) CFLAGS=-march=athlon -O3 -pipe ... is safe and fast. Don't forget to set

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread drewbian
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:28, Eric Ball wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:42 pm, drewbian wrote to gentoo-user: After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as to what the hey to put in there. Particularly as most

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread drewbian
Owen Gunden wrote: Did you read this yet? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5717highlight=cflags+central Most certainly, I had mentioned in my origional email as the basis for my confusion as it contains a number of conflicting posts. but thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

2003-07-01 Thread drewbian
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:19, Alberto Bert wrote: On Jun 30 at 01:20PM-0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Monday 30 June 2003 09:18 am, drewbian wrote: Hi, Hope I'm not duplication someone elses post but I havn't been following this thread very closly, Just in case no one has mention

Re: [gentoo-user] icewm background

2003-07-01 Thread drewbian
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:19, Meka[ni] wrote: I know that there is icewmbg for this purposes, but it only works with .xpm files. It used to work with any kind of images, but in 1.2.9 it changed. I've tried gqview (image browser), and it has the option for making any image it can

[gentoo-user] how to change the monitor resolution?

2003-06-30 Thread drewbian
Hi, Hope I'm not duplication someone elses post but I havn't been following this thread very closly, Just in case no one has mention it if your using Xfree 4.3 take a look at the xranr command.. e.g xrandr -s 1024x768 changes the resolution to 1024x768 etc as an alternative to zooming in with

Re: [gentoo-user] rtc_?

2003-06-29 Thread drewbian
You could try recompiling your kernel with real time clock support, i.e CONFIG_RTC=m On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am getting the following messages: modprobe:Can't locate module /dev/rtc.../dev/misc/rtc How do I fix it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] total nautilus

2003-06-28 Thread drewbian
hiya, try launching it with the command nautilus --no-desktop On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:46, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm using KDE, but emerged nautilus, because konqueror doesn't allow me to arrange icons manually (and thus is totally useless for me as a file manager). Nautilus compiled

[gentoo-user] E17

2003-06-21 Thread Drewbian
Hi all, I am interested in trying e17 and was wandering if it would be best to emerge e or enlightenment-cvs ? thank you in advance drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] E17

2003-06-21 Thread Drewbian
cheers On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 08:25, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Drewbian wrote: Hi all, I am interested in trying e17 and was wandering if it would be best to emerge e or enlightenment-cvs ? thank you in advance drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list emerge