Re: [gentoo-user] starting kde

2011-02-16 Thread William Kenworthy
Actually, not a problem - found the gdm switch user can start new sessions with whatever desktop needed. I was trying to do it via a console login for each session type. BillK On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 14:57 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: My laptop normally runs gnome but T want to demo some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
110215 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently put some files at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents using SSh or Krusader, but which is not

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 just died... why?

2011-02-16 Thread lists
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:47:12 +0100, Jarry wrote: Hi, Today I found my web-server does not respond to http-requests. All other services kept running, only apache (2.2.16) just died. For the first time, in nearly year... In /var/log/apache2/error_log I have found these messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 110215 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently put some files at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible

[gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread James
hello, Sure, I found this page page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde4_6 But, I'm just curious as to when kde 4.6.x will go stable. for amd64? Any insight is most welcome. James

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:53:05 + (UTC), James wrote: But, I'm just curious as to when kde 4.6.x will go stable. for amd64? As for future stabilization, 4.6.1 could be a possible candidate. An as yet unreleased version may possibly be stabilised. I think that makes it fairly clear that there

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 21:53:05 James wrote: hello, Sure, I found this page page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde4_6 But, I'm just curious as to when kde 4.6.x will go stable. for amd64? Any insight is most welcome. The answers are in the page

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before then. AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled for March 1

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before then. AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled for March 1 I'll add this. KDE 4.6 has

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:12:40 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before then. AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled for March 1 Which means a possible stabilisation date of April 1. I won't be emerging anything that day

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com  wrote: Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before then. AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
110216 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently put some files at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents using SSh or Krusader, but which is not

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Which means a possible stabilisation date of April 1. OK, just a ballpark figure, but that's good enough for me. With too many systems to admin, I stick with stable and just use testing on a few key packages. I won't be emerging anything that day

[gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

2011-02-16 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Terminator is a nice app that allows you to have multiple terminals in a single window, paned, tabbed, searchable, grouped to receive a single input, etc etc. It also advertizes that it allows you to show/hide window with a global shortcut key, essentially making it a quake-style terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Now that Nokia is going darkside (Microsoft) it seems that KDE (QT) has been promoted on my list of things to watch(worry) about. http://conversations.nokia.com/nokia-strategy-2011/ I hope QT survives Microsoft's