Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
Hi Max, Maximilian Reiss wrote: Am Montag, 4. Februar 2002 04:52 schrieb Viktor Rosenfeld: Maximilian Reiss wrote: xawtv (or better motv) can use xv for fullscreen, without borders, no need for v4l. Max Sorry, this worked for XF 3.3.6 (xawtv -vm -xv), but not for XF 4.1.0. See /usr/share/doc/xawtv/README.xfree4 for this. BTW, I have a tdfx, support will only be there in XF 4.1.1 (not yet available in sid). Works perfectly here. Very odd, I haven't had any luck. And there is no X 4.1.1 release. The one following X4.1.0.1 (which is in sid and woody) is X 4.2. I know, I just quoted what's in the docs. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpWXdOcO1TsO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Sorry, this worked for XF 3.3.6 (xawtv -vm -xv), but not for XF 4.1.0. See /usr/share/doc/xawtv/README.xfree4 for this. BTW, I have a tdfx, support will only be there in XF 4.1.1 (not yet available in sid). Works perfectly here. Very odd, I haven't had any luck. Never mind, I was an idiot. I revisted my setup and noticed that I didn't have any modeline for the entry in .xawtv under the color depth setup I use. Do'h! Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpXwsLeMzY4z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
John Gay wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 01:41, Michael Hoodes wrote: I think the story of KwinTV is documented here. Myself? I run quite happily for years - xawtv. Yes, I've tried and used xawtv. As a plain X application, it is quite good, but I'm looking for the KDE version that fits in with the rest of my desktop. I don't know why kde is moving forward with KwinTV ?... I'll try it again like I have done in the past but I always go back to xawtv! Because xawtv is good, but it's still a plain X application, with the poor motif-type decorations and looks rather poor on a KDE desktop. Hmm, I don't get it. I also like the look and feel of my KDE desktop, but I think that xawtv fits in perfectly. In fact, I've tried both kwintv and zapping (GNOME tv application) and was disappointed by the interface. I've noticed that I don't really like any menus and toolbars and such for my tv application. With xawtv, I get a window with the tv image and once I get the remote working (I'm missing the infrared connector cable), it's exactly like a tv set. Which is exactly what I want! So xawtv is not only adequate, it's perfect! But then again, tastes differ, so it's no point arguing. :) Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpirMTAVumCQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
Hi Florian, Florian wrote: thanks to video4linux you can run xawtv in real fullscreen mode even under your high desktop resolution ... just add a: Loadv4l to your modules section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and you wont need to switch resolution anymore it will automaticly fit itself to your screen as soon as you go into fullscreenmode if you then set it always on top hop you got a teevee. I also have Load v4l in my XF86Config-4 file, but I always have black margins around the picture. Also judging the readme files that come with xawtv, this is perfectly normal, at least with XF4.1. Fullscreen in higher resolutions should only be available with XF4.2 or am I making something wrong? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgppCU9whciFY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
Maximilian Reiss wrote: xawtv (or better motv) can use xv for fullscreen, without borders, no need for v4l. Max Sorry, this worked for XF 3.3.6 (xawtv -vm -xv), but not for XF 4.1.0. See /usr/share/doc/xawtv/README.xfree4 for this. BTW, I have a tdfx, support will only be there in XF 4.1.1 (not yet available in sid). :( Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpy9zBbeBzef.pgp Description: PGP signature
Preferred e-mail client
Hi, is there a way to specify the To: address in `kcmshell email`? I currently have the string konsole --notoolbar --workdir ~/Mail -T [mutt] -e mutt which works pretty well, but doesn't copy the address when I click on an e-mail link. Also, is there a way to encode spaces in that string? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgptNT6caohxT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kapm-idle
Hi Tom, When ever I check 'top' this thing is cranking away like crazy. Especially when I first resume my notebook. What is it? kapm-idled -- kernel apm idle daemon What does it do? Showing how much your CPU is doing nothing. IE real load = 100% - whatever kapm-idled shows It's not slowing your machine down, at all. Why do I care? How do I know? Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpZr6UAe5teJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Secret Feature
Hi, This is cool. Especially since it works with other KDE apps, including the one I wrote myself. Yey! (Then again, I think they didn't tell anybody because it might not work properly yet. I dunno.) Makes sense, because, it doesn't seem to be saved over sessions. Ie, you settings get lost when quitting the app. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpvD2hpxvLRM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: compiling qt tutorials
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: /home/sheldonl/development/learnqt/learnqt/lcdrange.cpp:23: undefined reference to `LCDRange::QPaintDevice virtual table' /home/sheldonl/development/learnqt/learnqt/lcdrange.cpp:23: undefined reference to `LCDRange virtual table' I think you missing the `moc` run and/or don't link the moc*.o files with your executable. See the text Using the Meta Object Compiler of the QT reference documentation (file:/usr/share/doc/libqt2/doc/html/moc.html), especially the usage methods at 25% of the document. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpHLiKc8mSB5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Remove System Tray Applet
Heidelinde Meier wrote: Because many of my clients should use KDE - there should be no ability to lock the screen (I know that with: strg + alt + Backspace you can loggin as a new user although somebody is locking the screen!), but this seems to be not the best solution. This might be overkill, but it sounds like KDE kiosk mode would be a good thing for you. See the KDE Kiosk Mode HOWTO http://www.brigadoon.de/peter/kde/t1.html. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: KNode sorts incorrectly by date
Volker Schlecht wrote: I noted that starting Sunday September 9th, KNode fails to sort posts by date correctly - can anyone reproduce this behavior, and is it possible that this is connected with the New Unix Billenium? Yep, that seems to be the case. -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howto auto-enable artsd
Hi folks, I'm using the latest KDE2.2 beta from unstable. I've mentioned before that some kcontrol modules stopped working among them the arts module (kcmshell arts). Well, the problem is that artsd is not loaded automatically when KDE starts and unfortunatelly xmms is unable to load it on demand. So, can anybody point me to the relevant rcfile I have to edit in order to get artsd started automagically? Thanks, Viktor PS: RTFMs welcome. Just tell me what FM to R. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Howto auto-enable artsd
Achim Bohnet wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 21:01, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the latest KDE2.2 beta from unstable. I've mentioned before that some kcontrol modules stopped working among them the arts module Do you use ALSA, OSS, what driver, what graphics card? Any error msg from kcmshell arts, etc, etc? The only error message I get is not helpful: There was an error loading the module. The diagnostics is: No diagnostics given. By the way, this started with an unstable upgrade, about four weeks ago, back then still KDE 2.1.1. I had no hardware changes nor did I change the kernel at that time. It just stopped working silently. After the upgrade to KDE2.2 beta, some other modules stopped working to, as I already posted /me smacking my head or something. Sound and artsd themselves are working as usual, I think this is a bug with kcontrol. Erasing ~/.kde did not help (but was an enlightening experience nonetheless). So I guess that 'kcminit arts' does not work too. AFAIK this starts artsd. No, that doesn't work either. I start artsd with `artsd -F 16 -S 4096` from the KDE command line. After this everything works fine, but obviously it's not part of the KDE session management, because I have to do that everytime I log into KDE. (I turn my machine of every night, and doing this every single day is annoying. This is not Windoze after all. :) So, can anybody point me to the relevant rcfile I have to edit in order to get artsd started automagically? Options are in ~/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc Doesn't exist on my system unfortunatelly. Makes sense though, because I erased ~/.kde and `kcmshell arts` can't create this file, because it's broken itself. :( Can you send me your file as a sample? In case above does not work: (untested) put an arts.directory file to ~/.kde/Autostart/. Check /usr/share/autostart for templates. Hmm, looks ugly. I'll give it a spin. Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: many error apt-get install kword
Shih Lin wrote: apt-get install kword Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 158 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Looks like your config is broken from a previous apt-get run. Need to get 1820kB of archives. After unpacking 1080kB will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main kword 1:1.1-beta2-3 [1820kB] Fetched 1820kB in 40s (45.2kB/s) tar: ./shlibs: time stamp 2001-05-16 06:39:19 is 43083053 s in the future tar: ./postinst: time stamp 2001-06-02 13:43:02 is 44577276 s in the future tar: ./prerm: time stamp 2001-06-02 13:43:02 is 44577276 s in the future tar: ./postrm: time stamp 2001-06-02 13:43:03 is 44577277 s in the future tar: ./md5sums: time stamp 2001-06-02 13:44:44 is 44577378 s in the future tar: ./control: time stamp 2001-06-02 13:44:38 is 44577372 s in the future This is not really an error, but a warning message. Your clock is probably skewed, try date. (Reading database ... 120789 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kword 1:1.1-20010404-1 (using .../kword_1%3a1.1-beta2-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kword ... Setting up postfix (0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-5) ... Postfix configuration was untouched. If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(8). After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'. Running newaliases newaliases: fatal: My hostname lshih is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf This is the first error. Something is broken with your hostname lshih. I know nothing about postfix, you might want to ask what to do on debian-user. dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 From here on everything is broken, because of the problem with postfix. You see, postfix is a MTA (mail transport agent) and the other three packages you want to set up (mutt, elm-me+, vm) need an MTA to work properly. Because postfix is not configured properly, they stop working. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mutt: mutt depends on exim | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of elm-me+: elm-me+ depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing elm-me+ (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vm: vm depends on smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent; however: Package smail is not installed. Package sendmail is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing vm (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up lprng (3.7.4-4) ... Starting printer spooler: dpkg: error processing lprng (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This is funny, because there is no real error message here. Try dpkg --configure lprng and see what it does. Setting up kword (1.1-beta2-3) ... kword is actually configured properly. You should be able to use it without problems. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: /me smacking my head (KDE2.2beta1 experiences)
Stephan Jaensch wrote: On Friday 06 July 2001 03:24, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: - As I said konq crashes in file-manager mode. First I suspected it was the integrated terminal emulater, but that's not the problem. Erasing ~/.kde actually did help, but after changing some options in kcontrol, konq crashes again. I'm investigating this. Could be the new i18n bug. Try changing your language to C (english), this should help. Yes, this helps. I hear, a new i18n-de is in incoming, let's see, if this works for me. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: /me smacking my head (KDE2.2beta1 experiences)
Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: I know how this feels: Two days ago I copied my Win98 C:\ drive backup from hdd1 to hda1 once again because some Windows stuff whichI hardly need any more anyway did not work any more. Did not consider to backup C:\windows\Desktop where I keep some important recent work in a few folders, symlinked to from /home/mylogin/Desktop. Argggh. Thanks for alerting me to the necessity of backing up .something folders before experimenting! Not all is lost though. I grepped through the strings output of the device file, and found some names that I'm certain, I haven't saved anywhere else. So I made an image of the harddrive and am now digging through it with a hexeditor. I'm quite confident, that I can save most of the data and with a little luck, I can rebuild the address file automatically. The summer weather is splendid now where I live though. ??? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: /me smacking my head (KDE2.2beta1 experiences)
Hi, just a quick update Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: I issued `rm -rf ~/.kde`. Yeah! Now, my bookmarks are gone. Okay, I never go back to them anyway and I know all important sides. But wait, what about my address book, that's in .kde, too, isn't it?! $:_$§)(!§§$° I was able to recover *all* of my address book and most of my bookmarks with a disk editor. Hurray! - As I said konq crashes in file-manager mode. First I suspected it was fixed in the latest dist-upgrade (*-4) Now I can have my German locale again. - kcontrol crashes, when I try to change fonts (appearance - fonts?). fixed, too. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
/me smacking my head (KDE2.2beta1 experiences)
Hi there, I went the `apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade` path today, mainly to check out the new KDE beta. Very stupid idea. Konqueror keeps crashing in file-manager mode and kcontrol crashes on some modules. I read on the list, that erasing .kde might help, and putting years of unix experience aside, I issued `rm -rf ~/.kde`. Yeah! Now, my bookmarks are gone. Okay, I never go back to them anyway and I know all important sides. But wait, what about my address book, that's in .kde, too, isn't it?! $:_$§)(!§§$° Oh well, that must have been the most stupid thing I've done on a Unix machine this year. Which, of course, means, that for this year I've done my fair share of being a luser. Life goes on. Of course, since the new KDE definatelly is an improvement, I'm willing to just put this episode aside. Here's my two hour roundup with 2.2: - As I said konq crashes in file-manager mode. First I suspected it was the integrated terminal emulater, but that's not the problem. Erasing ~/.kde actually did help, but after changing some options in kcontrol, konq crashes again. I'm investigating this. - kcontrol crashes, when I try to change fonts (appearance - fonts?). The anti-aliasing checkbox works, but when I try to change a font and ok the dialog, kcontrol barfs. Luckily KDE uses text files! - A lot of kcontrol modules stopped working: They just say: Beim Laden des Moduls ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Die Diagnose lautet:, in English something like Loading of the module failed, the diagnosis is: No diagnosis is given. This happened with an earlier 2.1 upgrade in unstable about two or three weeks ago, I wrote to the mailing list back than. Now the following modules also fail: kcmlayout, kcmnotify, arts, midi, audiocd. - The audiocd:/ ioslave stopped working. artsd is working, but won't start automatically (this problem is actually three weeks old) - The blinking of the program icon with the mouse cursor is annoying, because it looks butt-ugly. I like the visual feedback, so I just stopped the blinking Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Netscape - KMail
David Grill Watson schrieb: On Monday 25 June 2001 04:27 pm, Chris Howells wrote: Does anybody have any experience with importing Netscape Messenger e-mails into KMail? KMail import does not seem to deal with Netscape Messenger messages, and I haven't been able to turn anything up with a web search. I have messages (sent and received) going back a few years that I'd like to import). As far as I know, the mailbox format is the same - just copy over your folders from ~/nsmail. I'm quite sure, that this will break, if you have subfolders. Last time I checked, Netscape uses a folder-name.sdb file whereas KMail used a .dot-file. However, both use the mbox mail format, so if you don't have that many folders with subfolders you can always do the renaiming yourself. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su Capability Needed In Konqueror
csj wrote: Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. But I'm worried. What sort of magic does kdesu do? As console (konsole, xterm) root, I can't run konqueror. I'm guessing here, but it's probably just forwarding connections to the X server with some kind of fake authentication data a la sshd(8). alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server konqueror: cannot connect to X server :0 See what Marc wrote in this thread (export XAUTHORITY=~USER/.Xauthority ...). Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: su Capability Needed In Konqueror
Robert Tilley wrote: Too many times I have needed to perform file manipulation using Konqueror and found I needed to have root's access permissions. So I out of KDE -- log back in as root -- do what I need -- and log back in as a normal user (myself). Way too complicated. First of all, there should be a menu item K - System - File manager (Superuser). And then you can start any program as any user with kdesu. Just press Alt+F2 and hit the Settings button, where you can specify which user should be used. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
KDE is behaving too Windowish
Hi folks, I'm running an up-to-date unstable, and artsd is not starting automatically with KDE. When I run 'kcmshell arts', I get the very meaningful error message: There was an error loading the module. The diagnostics is: Come on, this is not the way we want to go! Does anybody know what's wrong, and if there's a workaround? TIA, Viktor PS: artsd itself is working just fine, when started from the commandline. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Packaging WM themes - question
Casper Gielen wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Don't tell me, that you absolutely have to install Debian on a 386. No one has to do that, you can always use a bigger machine for the initial setup. Hell, back in the old days people were suggesting to compile the kernels on another machine, so you wouldn't have to wait all day long. Unfortunatly large parts of the world still consider a 386 a fast computer. Well, it all depends of the work you have to get done. E.g. I outfitted my 386 to be a firewall and it serves that purpose very well. Having said that, a) where in my post did I say that I don't consider a 386 to be a fast machine (which, is true, I don't think it's a fast machine), and b) what kind of bogus arguement is that anyway? It's obviously not fast enough to install Debian, so you get a bigger machine for the job. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Packaging WM themes - question
Ben Burton wrote: ... so you get a bigger machine for the job. I suspect the point of Casper's post was that this is not always possible. I really have a hard time believing that. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Running dockapps from other window managers
Hello, I think I remember hearing, that KDE is able to run applets from other window managers in its task bar. So I've installed the wmusic dockapp for xmms remote control and I'm now wondering about registering it with my KDE installation. When I run wmusic on the command line, nothing happens, I have to press ^C to exit. When I run `wmusic -w` (windowed mode for AfterStep support) I get a normal application window with a working wmusic. But how do I get this into the task bar? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: kdm exagerates!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After automatic updating via dselect and the official site of kde2 from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1, now my new kdm manager shows not only the users I have directly defined but also ALL the other users defined by the system itself such as fax, postgres and so on. [Please wrap your lines at 72 chars.] Go to the KDM page in KControl, select the user page and check your No-Show settings. You want the system accounts (as opposed to the user accounts) to be in the No-Show users list and the radiobutton All but no-show selected. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: KDE Font sizes
Putz Ákos wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:46:58PM +0200, Stephan Jaensch wrote: Hi everybody, I normally start KDE via gdm. The font sizes in konqueror for web browsing are too small, and if I set the size to huge normal text is OK but the headlines on Slashdot/Linuxtoday etc. are way too big. If I start KDE via startx /usr/bin/kde2 however, all fonts are way bigger. Where can I adjust the KDE font size when started via gdm to that bigger size? Only guessing : gdm starts X in 75dpi, startx starts it with 100dpi. [Yeah, that's probably the case, but I think Stephan would also like a fix to this situation.] Stephan: There should be a file /etc/X11/gdm/Xservers with a line resembling the following. :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -dpi 100 Be sure that the value after -dpi reads 100. This assumes that startx actually starts with 100dpi. You can verify that by looking at the file /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. There should be a line like exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp $* Note, again the -dpi 100. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: No luck with audiocd:/-kioslave -- SOLVED
Never mind, I didn't have generic scsi loaded + missing files in /dev. Got it working now. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: No luck with audiocd:/-kioslave
Ivan E. Moore II wrote: I'm *really* confused. For the following reasons: 1: audiocd:/ is a KDE2.2 feature No. I don't want to disrespect your authority, but I remember reading about audiocd:/ back in January. In fact, here is a post from the dot from last year regarding audiocd:/ Now, it looks like mp3 and ogg vorbis encoding is KDE2.2, because I have libvorbis installed and there is no Ogg Vorbis directory under audiocd:/ :( 3: Why would you need packages from kde.debian.net if your running woody. Ahem, that's just my lazyness. I've never commented that out in my sources.list. Anyway, I solved my problem [sg.o module not loaded, missing files in /dev/]. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Koffice bug - still open?
Rogerio Brito wrote: On May 01 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: A packaging problem. I did a `dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/k*20010404-0*.deb` to install all the KOffice packages. This is the Wrong Thing(tm) to do. Any kind of --force-* is Nasty(tm) in a stable distribution (with development distributions it is OK and, AFAIK, the default). Of course, in a hurry, it works. But it is wrong. Well, in this case (man page is packaged twice), the only thing that can go wrong is, that the man page is removed, when I e.g. remove kchart. Not exactly a Big Deal(tm). But I guess you're right, nonetheless. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Howto set LANG for KDE
Karolina Lindqvist wrote: On Wednesdayen den 25 April 2001 17:33, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: So my question is: How do I set LANG globally for KDE. My experience is that if I set lang, debian stops working. I have tried LANG=sv_SE and LANG=sv, and even setting the individual LC_XXX environment variables. It gives various interesting results, but all gives a non-working system. Even 'ls' aborts with an error message. I'm purely guessing here, but could it be, that those locales are not actually there? See /etc/locale.gen for what I mean. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Howto set LANG for KDE
Hello folks, gnucash is supposed to adapt its locale to the one specified in the $LANG variable. In my ~/.bashrc file I have export LANG=de_DE and when I run gnucash from Konsole, it will show German menu entries (and more locale specific features). However, when I run gnucash from the ALT-F2 command line, it will load the English locale. So my question is: How do I set LANG globally for KDE. TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
Switching in sessions in Konsole
Hi folks, is it possible to switch in Konsole sessions via the keyboard? Like you can switch VTs with ALT-Right or ALT-Left. If not, I would suggest this for the wishlist, along with with a key short-cut to create a new session (e.g. ALT-Up). Where should I file this request? TIA Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
