Kmail date
Under debian testing kde in the messages pane I see the following columns: Subject Size Sender Date of arrival COMPLETELY EMPTY, no date in the field. How can I tell kmail to show the date in the right field? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At a loss for PATH....
Pentium, debian testing I have just installed the java stuff from SUN site as a plugin for mozilla. The installation instruction requires that the directory in which I've installed the java libs and programs be part of the PATH variable. My question is: Where the PATH variable is first set: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc.bash ? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At a loss for PATH......
Context: Pentium 4, debian testing, boxed KDE I have just installed the java stuff - downloaded from SUN site- as a plugin for mozilla. The installation instruction requires that the directory in which I installed the java libs and programs be part of the PATH variable. My question is: Where the PATH variable is first set at boot time: in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc.bash or where? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hot to install a different Xserver
Il Saturday 24 February 2001 08:04, Rick Commo ha scritto: Newbie Debian user... I accidentally installed the wrong Xserver. During the install I thought I would be given a choice so I said No to when asked if I wanted to install XF86_VGA16. The one I need is XF86_MACH64 for my ATI Expert 98 PCI card. How do I install XF86_MACH64? I think once I get that installed I can figure out the rest. thanks, -rick I had the same problem! Here's how I solved it! First of all install the XF86_Mach64 server issuing: apt-get install xserver-mach64 (debian potato 2.2r2 CD's) then start XF86Setup and answer that you don't want to use the existing configuration file Finally go on with your configuration. Vittorio
rc.local
Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find it? Vittorio
Tailoring a window manager
I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. I'd like that when starting up the window manager, automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? What should I do? If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I configure it? Vittorio
netscape 4.76
What files from the www.debian.org stable download should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and running? Vittorio
Why do they don't work?
I've just installed potato 2.2r2 and flooded this list with questions and problems. Now, I'm trying to use Gnome dialup utility and it just doesn't work as I noticed many other ppp programs under X. Why does it happen? It's my fault or there's something wrong, uncomplete with the programs given in the official distro? Vittorio
Choosing the Window Menager
I installed Debian potato 2.2.r2 with X and Enlightenment and Wmaker. Upon startup X chooses the former while I'like like to start with the latter. Where can I tell X to start with Wmaker instead of Enlightenment?
Re: Choosing the Window Menager
IThank you for your help
Re: Color monitor
Ihanks Rob, it worked. Vittorio l Monday 05 February 2001 21:28, Rob VanFleet wrote: Look in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. In one of them you will find the aliases for colored ls output, just uncomment them and you should be set up. If there is nothing there, then just add: alias ls=ls --color to your ~/.bashrc -Rob
Color monitor
well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation with success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic system, I'd like to fix the appearance of the screen. Having an SVGA color monitor I want it to appears in colors as it actually is when you start the installation CD. Instead, at the end of the first part of the installation, all I got is a flat B/W screen. What should I do?
Re: Color monitor
Il Monday 05 February 2001 18:33, hai scritto: To quote Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED], # well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation with # success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic system, # I'd like to fix the appearance of the screen. Having an SVGA color monitor # I want it to appears in colors as it actually is when you start the # installation CD. Instead, at the end of the first part of the installation, # all I got is a flat B/W screen. # What should I do? Please describe more thouroughly(sp?) what you mean. Generally, after one has completed the installation, you're presented with the login prompt. If that's your case, then there are no colours to be displayed anyhow, it's just text. Log in, and do 'ls --colors'. If everything is still in grey and black, then you might have a problem. If you're using XFree86, and it refuses to display colours, try running 'XF86Setup' or 'dexter' to configure X. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) Yes, I'm presented with the login prompt, then I key my root password in and all I have is a B/W screen. I cannot distinguish, e.g., if what I'm listing is a directory or a file, because it's all white on black screen. I know that it is possible to set a color screen even working under bash. At least, under RedHat I have that screen , where for instance directories are blue, executable files are green and symlink are highlighted red. Even at boot time the screen is colored with the various [OK] green and [failed] yellow, Is now my point clear? Any help to get such a result?
Re: Potato with USB support
Il Friday 02 February 2001 15:05, ktb ha scritto: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:31:48PM +, Vittorio De Martino wrote: I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what flavor of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supported by default? Vanilla is that the right flavor ? If not ,what should I do? First off this is your third post regarding this subject. One is sufficient. kent Sorry Kent, but I actually posted this very message twice in the newsgroup linux.debian.user but it looked as though there were no effect at all, none answered. Therefore I thought that to partecipate to the list it was compulsory being subscribed to this mailing list (and being flooded by mail). So I posted my third message on the same subject in this mailing list. A Debian's Newbie Vittorio
Potato with USB support
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what flavor of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supported by default? Vanilla is that the right flavor ? If not ,what should I do?
Installing the right kernel
I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. My question is as simple as that: needing the scanner, what flavor of kernel (as I read in the installation instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supported by default? Vanilla is that the right flavor ? If not ,what should I do?
Debian potato KDE
While I've being working with RedHat 7 for 8 months I'm an absolute beginner with Debian 2.2r2 potato which I'd like to install first on a spare PC just to have a go at it and then to substitute Debian for RH7 on my PC's in view of its well known stability and real open source nature (II'm just waiting for the CD's that I've bought as your site suggests). Being in love with the KDE desktop I wrote the following message to the KDE people of www.kde.org and got the following answer. My question is as simple as that: where can I download KDE files for Debian potato or what should I do step by step to have it on my PC? Thanks and ciao Vittorio -Messaggio originale- Da: Kalle Dalheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 29 gennaio 2001 15.14 A: De Martino Vittorio (GRTN) Oggetto: Re: And Debian KDE? On Monday 29 January 2001 14:02, you wrote: Both in the list of Linux distros supporting KDE2 and in the Download section of your site I can't see Debian 2.2. potato, one of the most known and used. I simply do not understand. Why is that? What can I do? The Debian people did not want to make KDE packages so far. I don't know exactly why that is, but it might be because they receive financial contributions from our competitor, the gnome project. We do not make binary packages ourselves (for no distribution), that's up to the distributors. The best thing you can do is to build and upload Debian packages yourself, the second best thing is to bugger the Debian people to include KDE. Kalle -- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer President CEO/VD Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Fax +46-563-540028 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailing list or newsgroup
As a new subscriber of this mailing list I've noticed that the newsgroup linux.debian.user replicates the same messages of this mailing. I wonder if it's possible to subscribe to the newsgroup only and partecipate at the list actively (in order to avoid my mail box from being flooded with 150-200 messages per day) OR it's compulsory to subscribe this mailing list. Ciao Vittorio
Debian Newbie
I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian stability and real Open Source nature I put the following straightforward preliminary questions: Migrating to Debian potato can I have a USB working support (for an Epson scanner) as I have now automatically set up under RH7? Is there any user-friendly utility to setup X (I'm using KDE2 at this very moment)? Thanks and CIAO Vittorio
Re: Debian Newbie
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:59, kmself@ix.netcom.com ha scritto: on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian stability and real Open Source nature I put the following straightforward preliminary questions: Migrating to Debian potato can I have a USB working support (for an Epson scanner) as I have now automatically set up under RH7? Check your kernel configuration and USB support included there. Are you running 2.4 or a 2.2.x series kernel? RedHat 7 comes with kernel 2.2.16-22 which includes an activated USB support by default; I had a chance to have a look at the kernel tailoring it to fit my hardware. I wonder whether it's the same for Debian kernel, I mean is there a USB support included whether activated or not? If there isn't what should I do? Is there any user-friendly utility to setup X (I'm using KDE2 at this very moment)? XF86Setup works for me. Thanks for the suggestion Vittorio
Re: has debian-user dried up?
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:22, Joris Lambrecht ha scritto: 400 over the weeken :) Nothing wrong with your mailfilters i hope ... -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:44 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Re: has debian-user dried up? On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:36:39PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: :Hello: : :Since Friday, I've seen 5 messages on this list. During the previous :week, there seemed to be about as many! It was VERY ACTIVE until quite :recently. : :What's happened? something at your end I suspect, I'm still getting 100's per day -Jon Yeah, as a new subscriber this morning at 8 o'clock I had 103 messages since my subscription on yesterday at around 8 p.m.; now, after 5 hours and a half I've received 39 messages! Bye
