[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 > > d

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 succ

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 PROTECTE

[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 ctr

Re: [gentoo-user] linux in floppies

2003-06-30 Thread drewbian
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:19, Gëzim Hoxha wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a linux distro, that's contained in > floppies and that's installable, I don't care how many > floppies, as long as it works. > Note: it's gonna be installed in a laptop, that > probably (likely, if possible) has less than 16M

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 cl

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 di

Re: [gentoo-user] icewm background

2003-07-01 Thread drewbian
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 10:54, Meka[ni] wrote: > > try > > xsetbg -full /path/to/image.jpg > I don't have that command. Can you tell mi what package is it in? > > > Meka[ni] > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > qpkg -f /usr/bin/xsetbg x11-misc/xloadimage But if your going t

[gentoo-user] The age old question..

2003-07-02 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 di

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=a

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 t

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=5717&highlight=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 li

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

2003-07-05 Thread drewbian
c/en/gentoo-howto.xml but I'm 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
27;ll figure it out. > > > Thanks for that, I'll certainly give it a try ;) drewbian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo cursors

2003-07-09 Thread drewbian
ursors you 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

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

2003-07-14 Thread drewbian
; > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > g'day, I remember 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] emerge error

2003-08-04 Thread drewbian
you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web 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] 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 pref

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2003-08-14 Thread drewbian
PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/OWCcLr8z5XzmSDQRAtu0AJ0RzQyYFQ/e8Db4AXLMUlJvc7+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] IceWm config program

2003-08-22 Thread drewbian
Latest version available: 2.4.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] 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] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*

2003-08-24 Thread drewbian
ar/tmp/portage* today and i got rid of like 15 gigs of stuff > because of some setting in my make.conf (keepwrk,keeptemp, noclean) > Just a thought but if your typings anything like mine it's prolly safer to do rm /var/tmp/portage* -rf I have reoccuring nightmares about hitting e

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

2003-08-30 Thread drewbian
Howdy, I had a similar problem but a quick search of the gentoo forums had the answer. From memory I had 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] vmware wtf!???

2003-08-30 Thread drewbian
achine, any > attempt to run it will crash vmware. Dunno, I guess I'll build a new box from > spare pieces. > 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

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] 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 m

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 ar