Re: Error starting second X session after Xorg upgrade

2006-07-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan'; McIntyre
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 2:34 pm, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > It's broken, with no trace in its server's config for how I ever had it set > up in the first place. > > I wonder how that happened? Because I'm an idiot. I was looking at the serve

Re: Error starting second X session after Xorg upgrade

2006-07-25 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan'; McIntyre
ou'd have to set up a new session for KDM to know how to run it. Sorry I have to be so vague. I had that working, but have inadvertently broken it, and don't have time to sift through the carnage at the moment. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL P

Re: No audio support

2006-07-24 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
his line of thought. If I'm totally full of crap, forgive me. I thought I'd throw this out, since nobody answered you yet. I don't know squat about the KDE sound system, but I've been involved with Linux for music making for years. It's a lot easier now than it u

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
;s so deliciously ironic about the suggestion of porting the GIMP to QT. :) As for the rest, I'd better shut up before someone screams at me for being off-topic. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; regist

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
estion, considering the number of times people have requested that we port Rosegarden to GTK2. Sure. Right after they port the GIMP to KDE/QT. It couldn't be that difficult, could it? *cough* -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic

Re: konqueror really slow

2006-07-16 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
a difference. This screwy localhost or whatever thing I'm thinking of, but can't quite remember, used to affect File->Open dialogs and such too, and was KDE wide, anytime KDE used KURL for something, which is frequently. I'm running 3.5.3 myself, and freebsd.org just came up in

Re: gtk apps lost antialiasing settings after upgrade

2006-07-09 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
tions, but I've been meaning to look into this myself for awhile. All my non-KDE apps look terrible. I am also using gtk2-engines-gtk-qt, so I bet that is indeed what's busted. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and

SOLVED - Re: can't log into SourceForge with Konqueror

2006-06-16 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ty then. I am an imbecile. Carry on. Nothing to see here. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSU

can't log into SourceForge with Konqueror

2006-06-14 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
s somehow broken compatibility with Konqueror. It's got to be something here. What might it be? I'm really at a loss what could have gone wrong, and about all I can think of to do is start blindly swapping out configuration files for clean new ones. -- D. Michael 'Silvan

Re: Changing konqueror menu font size.

2006-06-08 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
don't run GNOME. Haven't looked at it in years. I'm a real dyed in the wool KDE fanboy. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http:/

Re: could not find vim component configuration menu

2006-06-02 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
vimpart" package disappeared a long time ago. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-24 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
either. I can't wait for that one. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-24 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
#x27;t sound like it *is* because of the dpi change then, but I'll answer anyway. The easy KDE way is to use the KDE Info Center (kinfocenter), and click on "X Server." It's one of the several statistics reported. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <

Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-22 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ad it at 100x100 before. Just a thought. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: create a shortcut in the right-mouse-menue

2006-05-19 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
eloper.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/dot/servicemenus.html -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- T

Re: making fonts available for KDE

2006-05-10 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ler to find and install them manually. That's probably not a "real solution," but it gets me there today, without making my head hurt trying to read grossly out-dated font documentation. It's in the Control Center. System Administration -> Font Installer -- D. Michael 'S

Re: icons on desktop

2006-05-10 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
t looks like several different files have done this job over the years, and all of my old ones since 2001 are still lingering around. I think the correct current modern file is ~/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: kde, udev, hal and friends...

2006-04-30 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
who wound up in that same place. I decided to just let it sit there for a few package versions and see if the problems get sorted out for themselves without me having to get more gray hair. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, an

Re: Where is GMail Support for Konqueror?

2006-04-29 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
> I've only found a small number that really didn't work once tricked. One > of them was Google Maps. I have to use Firefox for that one. Or, rather, that used to be the case. It apparently works just fine now. Sweet! I don't like Firefox because it's too Windows

Re: Where is GMail Support for Konqueror?

2006-04-29 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
d a small number that really didn't work once tricked. One of them was Google Maps. I have to use Firefox for that one. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621

Re: unstable in temporal flux :)

2006-04-23 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
er remember Debian's own stuff working correctly. I used to keep KNOPPIX around just so I could boot it, and then go rip off the config file it came up with. This is a good thing to see. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and c

Re: Konqueror - Has the embedded media player ever played anything?

2006-04-10 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
On Monday 10 April 2006 4:31 pm, Felix Homann wrote: > OK, but have you seen it work as *embedded media player*, i.e. playing > media inside a webpage? That's what I've never seen working. Have you? Not since KDE 2.x I don't think. -- D. Michael 'Silvan'

Re: Korganizer's printed calendars do not fit on a page

2006-03-17 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ce. This is thoroughly good, sound, sensible advice. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: konqueror alphabets all over the place [DUPLICATE]

2006-03-12 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
rtunity for some whining user to step up and join the ranks of helpful open source contributors by sending them a patch to address this complaint. If it hasn't already been fixed in CVS, that is. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux f

Re: konqueror alphabets all over the place

2006-03-11 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
me) the little boxes will go away. That's pretty cool. I had no idea this feature existed. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden

Re: new KDE login does not work

2006-03-05 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
plied config file did not cure it that time. That's when I just hacked it out of service, to fix at some future point that never came. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #2

Re: new KDE login does not work

2006-03-04 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
;t see this now that I've done a clean install, and KDM is at least temporarily working normally again. Sorry if none of this was helpful. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #24

Re: Where do keyboard layouts come from?

2006-03-04 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
never got very far in my attempt to learn Greek then, isn't it? :) -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Where do keyboard layouts come from?

2006-02-28 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
like I just missed installing something-xorg or x-something, but I don't know what. I did have a weird X install initially, that caused GLX not to have direct rendering enabled. I had to install some missing bits. Clue? Feels like one of those things that only shows up on a new ins

[SOLVED] too thin, over-antialiased fonts...

2006-02-26 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
s-it-works thing like that. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

too thin, over-antialiased fonts...

2006-02-26 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
t forgot about some handy trick I employed to fix this last time. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ --

Re: kruler

2006-02-25 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
There's nothing in the source code, the man page or the docbook page to support this assertion. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://roseg

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ved, though, and went away as soon as I switched back to a KMail window. That was probably because of KDE getting in the way, I'd guess. I'm back in my normal environment at this moment, and KDE's language switcher is probably involving itself in this. I'll have to keep

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
quot; (**) Option "XkbOptions" "compose:caps,ctrl:ctrl_aa,lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:scroll,grp:shifts_toggle" (**) XKB: options: "compose:caps,ctrl:ctrl_aa,lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:scroll,grp:shifts_toggle" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device &

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
any KDE involvement. Oh well. I'm familiar with what I have to do to get the right characters to come out in the languages I write, even if it feels like it's probably broken. Thanks for trying, and I will stop hijacking this thread now. I hope the OP solved his problem once and

Re: How to get rid of notification after cd inserting

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
On Saturday 04 February 2006 6:42 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 23:29 schrieb D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre: > > If it ain't broke...  Hotplug is still working just fine here, thanks. > > Guess why udev replaces hotplug by now: hotplug kinda

Re: How to get rid of notification after cd inserting

2006-02-04 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
uot; I've got some HAL libs installed, but the "hal" package is not. I don't have "udev" or "dbus" either, and have no idea what the hell anyone is talking about. I figure this is probably a good thing. If it ain't broke... Hotplug is sti

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
confused if I ever used a Spanish keyboard setup that actually worked the way it normally does. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.s

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-29 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
ution LCDs are the norm now, rather than the exception, and I was rather hoping it would just work automagically. However, your point overall is well-taken. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux

Re: can't log out

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
n) seems to increase the probability that logging out will actually work. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutoria

Re: 1024x768 resolution assistance

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
-generated one. The Debian auto config bits always did the wrong thing no matter how many different "front door" tactics I tried. If all else fails, hack the thing and get it over with. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanati

Re: Window mini-icon (kwin)

2006-01-28 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
he > answer. I use several apps, Mutt in a xterm and xfte that I would like > to use their icons on their respective windows. > > Ideas? None that worked. It's not as obvious as it seems. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic

Re: KDE 3.4.3 font handling (Unicode)

2005-12-31 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
.1 (0xb77d3000) That settles that as far as whether it uses it or not. Uses it correctly, I have no idea. Fonts in X are one of the most evil things ever conceived by humankind. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek;

Re: KDE impossibly slow

2005-12-03 Thread D. Michael &#x27;Silvan'; McIntyre
aving problems with the DSSI synth plugins in Rosegarden for the same reason. You're about the fourth or fifth I've run into in the last week or so whose lo was broken. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certifi