Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Providing BLFS in info format does not require dumbing down *LFS or making >> any other major changes to its content. All that's required is to put aside >> what one likes or dislikes and conside

Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Yes, I could probably do that but chrooting while running the host and using >> the host's browser to read BLFS would be easier. Either way, it does not >> make sense to me that regardless of wha

Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Providing BLFS in info format does not require dumbing down *LFS or making > any other major changes to its content. All that's required is to put aside > what one likes or dislikes and consider that Texinfo is a part of LFS so why > not p

Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I could probably do that but chrooting while running the host and using > the host's browser to read BLFS would be easier. Either way, it does not make > sense to me that regardless of what it lacks, you can at least read info > pages

Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
It happened again! D'oh! Resending, sorry >From: Trent Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:22:26 pm Walter Barnes wrote: >> After completing LFS and knowing that it includes Texinfo I fully expected >> BLFS to be available as an info page; I was very surprised to find tha

Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
For some reason this went to Trent instead of the list so I'm resending >From: Trent Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tuesday 09 October 2007 07:57:35 pm Walter Barnes wrote: >> That looks good but the problem is that the prerequisites include things >> that are not a part of LFS (a working unprivle

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>>From an earlier post on this thread: > >> > >> I don't really understand why BLFS is not available in > >> info format so you can easily read it in a fresh LFS > >> > >> Walter > >>

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:22:26 pm Walter Barnes wrote: > After completing LFS and knowing that it includes Texinfo I fully expected > BLFS to be available as an info page; I was very surprised to find that > this is not the case. It's simply a matter of taste. Personally I don't like info/ema

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Walter Barnes wrote: >>> From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> First thing to note is that what's in LFS isn't supposed to be a >>> feature complete system. It tries to create a general development >>> system for you to build on. So, if links needs

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 07:57:35 pm Walter Barnes wrote: > That looks good but the problem is that the prerequisites include things > that are not a part of LFS (a working unprivledged user acount and an > internet connection). I haven't looked at the program, but I'm assuming it converts to a

Re: menu & toolbar fonts

2007-10-09 Thread Randolph D Dach
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:48:46 -0500 david567 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randolph D Dach wrote: > > > > Is there any way to change that font or do I have to rebuild the > > GTK packages??? > > http://plasmasturm.org/code//gtk-chtheme/ > > works for gtk+-2. > > David Jensen > -- Tks That w

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: rblythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Take a look at this: >http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/unhtml.html > >It is called unhtml. It turns html pages into text. I used it when I >built the BLFS system I am using now and I also included it in this hint: >http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/f

Re: menu & toolbar fonts

2007-10-09 Thread david567
Randolph D Dach wrote: > > Is there any way to change that font or do I have to rebuild the GTK > packages??? http://plasmasturm.org/code//gtk-chtheme/ works for gtk+-2. David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.htm

menu & toolbar fonts

2007-10-09 Thread Randolph D Dach
Hi everyone I'm having a little problem trying to find an answer to a slight problem I have. I am using the latest LFS/BLFS build, Xorg-7.2, WindowMaker, Gtk+2. I am trying to get all my GTK applications to show a different font on the toolbar(file,edit,view,etc). It is stuck on sans which is

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Staub
Walter Barnes wrote: >> From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> First thing to note is that what's in LFS isn't supposed to be a >> feature complete system. It tries to create a general development >> system for you to build on. So, if links needs to be part of your base >> install, you shoul

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >First thing to note is that what's in LFS isn't supposed to be a >feature complete system. It tries to create a general development >system for you to build on. So, if links needs to be part of your base >install, you shouldn't feel like you're doing somet

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread rblythe
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> From: Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> Installing one or two tools like Links isn't exactly a major change to >>> the system - it's a trivial build that'll take a minute or two of your >>> time to perform. W

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Installing one or two tools like Links isn't exactly a major change to > >the system - it's a trivial build that'll take a minute or two of your > >time to perform. Would you really prefer to spend

Re: Error message from "find" && 2.6.23-rc8(-mm2) kernels

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Melville
> > find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/net: this may be a bug in > your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. > Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been > searched. > > There have been instances in the not too di

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:09 -0700, Walter Barnes wrote: >> Well that's a shame. I'd really like to be able to download whatever >> packages I need, put them on a partion reachable with my LFS system >> along with BLFS then boot into LFS and start working on

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:09 -0700, Walter Barnes wrote: > Well that's a shame. I'd really like to be able to download whatever > packages I need, put them on a partion reachable with my LFS system > along with BLFS then boot into LFS and start working on BLFS without > making any making any major c

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Barnes
>From: Simon Scheiwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:59 -0700, Walter Barnes wrote: >>> Is there a tool in LFS that I can use to convert HTML/PDF to another >>> format? >>> >>> I'm a Linux newbie so I don't know if the base LFS has this >>> capability. Any help will be greatly