Re: Restart option in KDE

2009-04-08 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 06 April 2009 09:54:40 am Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I've been using a KDE environment for a while now (KDE 3.5, I think, on > a LFS pre-6.3, and an according SVN-BLFS), and I have an annoying > problem : when I click on "exit", I'm only proposed the "End session" > option, not the

Re: where is pmount?

2008-12-14 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 14 December 2008 10:17:25 am Ralph Porter wrote: > Craig, > > I see nothing accusatory in my post. A preparatory clarification that > I ment no disrespect, followed by a statement of fact. > > I'm not sure how much clearer I could have been. I said "the book > says follow this link to

Re: where is pmount?

2008-12-14 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:19:39 pm Ralph Porter wrote: > Ken, > > No disrespect sir, but I know how to use google... > > If you review the past history of this mail list, you will find > several cases where the helpless noobie is thrashed by the LFS gods > for venturing off the established pa

Re: Cups-1.x Configuration (Security)

2006-10-02 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 02 October 2006 17:18, Jim McConville wrote: > Problem: Unable to administer "cups" because it will not accept root > password. > > I have reviewd "help" at www.kde.org and reviewed several "Googled" sites > for information. > I have reviewed the Cups Software Administrative Manual, sev

Re: Gutenprint vs HPLIP for photo printing

2006-04-09 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 09 April 2006 14:59, Miguel Bazdresch wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is not deemed OT for the list... I've a question about the > relative merits of two packages, not about any problems making them > work. > > I'm trying to decide which brand of photo inkjet to buy. I could go with > HP (I'

Re: Questions about cups and printers

2006-02-02 Thread Craig Colton
On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:38, Ken Moffat wrote: > So, now for the questions: I've got exactly one physical printer (an > epson stylus), and in cups I have to configure output mode, resolution, > media size, media type, and I can play with colour settings for the > gimp-print driver, and

Re: Firefox icon in upper right window corner

2006-01-15 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:56, Norman Urs Baier wrote: > All KDE Applications have there their typical icon. For example the orange > E for kmail and so on. With firefox 1.0.7 there used to be the red fox on > the blue globe without me doing something consciously, now after having > installed 1.

Re: Problem with samba and a printer

2005-11-14 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 14 November 2005 02:23 pm, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. I've been using for quite a long time now a LFS 6.0 system, with BLFS > 6.0. I installed a (very) basic Samba system, to drop documents to my > wife's computer, which runs window$98. This does work allright. > > On this computer is

Re: Window maker, major font problems

2005-10-23 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 23 October 2005 01:24 pm, David Lockwood wrote: > > Questions: > Does Xorg use xfs as set up in the book? > Should xfs be running if X is running? (It doesn't seem to be) > Should I have xfstt if i want TrueType fonts? > > Running X as root makes no difference and I've checked the permis

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 30 September 2005 12:34 am, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Although, due to all complexity associated with SAMBA printing, I prefer > configuring Windows 2000/XP clients to print directly to CUPS, without > any need for SAMBA. I have an XP Pro machine configured here as an LP client

Re: Window Manager Transparent Move/Re-size

2005-09-21 Thread Craig Colton
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:29 pm, Brandin Creech wrote: > > > > Do you mean the "Show window contents when moving" or similar setting > > that most window managers have? I've never had this setting effect > > running programs on a KDE desktop whether switched on or off. > > Exactly. The "show

Re: Window Manager Transparent Move/Re-size

2005-09-20 Thread Craig Colton
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:07 am, Brandin Creech wrote: > This is a general question about the move/re-size behaviour of every window > manager I've seen under Linux. Most of them support "opaque move/re-size" > in which the contents of the window is updated continuously during a move > or re-

Re: hotplug problem

2005-09-17 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:15 pm, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to get firmware loaded for my ADSL Speedtouch modem. I've > installed hotplug and made the necessary options in the kernel. I get the > following errors at boot time: > > /etc/hotplug/pci.rc: which: Command not f

Re: Mass storage devices, hotplug & udev

2005-07-31 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 31 July 2005 04:17 pm, Declan Moriarty wrote: > I currently have udev-062 and Hotplug-2004-09-23 running in lfs-6.0 and > I'm looking at trying to get my camera noticed. I get 6 pages of usb > messages on startup (makes a mental to uncheck VERBOSE_DEBUG in the > kernel) and all host modul

Re: Forged Helo (was KPlayer ...?)

2005-06-02 Thread Craig Colton
> I had the forged HELO problem with SourceForge's SpamAssassin, until I > configured my box (I think I had to edit /etc/hosts) so that Sylpheed only > uses my computer's name "buddha" as HELO, with no domain. Yes, I think you are right. Kmail has a configuration for "Send Custom Hostname to Serv

Re: Forged Helo (was KPlayer ...?)

2005-06-02 Thread Craig Colton
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 01:24 pm, Declan Moriarty wrote: Oops. Should have made things were set back right before I sent the last one. Think I got it now. Regards, Craig -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: Forged Helo (was KPlayer ...?)

2005-06-02 Thread Craig Colton
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Re: Forged Helo (was KPlayer ...?)

2005-05-31 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 30 May 2005 09:02 am, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > If your mail identified as being from bellsouth.net, there would be no > issue. That's your email address. It identifies as www.ccolton.com. FIX > THAT! You don't have to change hostname, or domain name. Just tell your > mail software that

Re: KPlayer not appearing in menu?

2005-05-23 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:35 am, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > This whole thread lands in the spam every time because someone is using > a 'forged helo'. I take it to be this > > Rceived: from [24.148.198.211] (helo=www.household.com) This is my external IP number - but "household" is an internal ne

Re: KPlayer not appearing in menu?

2005-05-22 Thread Craig Colton
On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:36 am, John Gay wrote: > > Thanks for the info on where the local items go. Do you know where the > system-wide items end up? KDEdir/share/applications/kde > I just added NoteEdit to my box, which is > something I can't live without for too long, and am seeing the same

Re: KPlayer not appearing in menu?

2005-05-21 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 21 May 2005 07:55 am, John Gay wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2005 19:31, John Gay wrote: > > I'm running LFS-6.0/BLFS-6.0 with KDE-3.2. I've recently added some new > > Kprograms to my system, KGuitar and KPlayer. Now KGuitar added it's entry > > and icon directly to my Multimedia menu a

Re: Error while compilation of kdelibs-3.2.3

2005-04-30 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 30 April 2005 04:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello , > Thanx for the suggestion. > So as per suggestion i have removed all the installed libraries and > restart again. > And now i got such error message as per screensshot attached below > > Now I am waiting for some more useful su

Re: Error while compilation of kdelibs-3.2.3

2005-04-29 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 29 April 2005 04:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > I am following BLFS-5.1 strategy top create my LINUX.I have successfully > installed Xorg.Now I want to use KDE as desktop environment.But I m > trying from last week and using various versions of it. But I got error > mesa

Re: QT 3.3.4 hello example fails to render fonts

2005-04-05 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 04 April 2005 09:33 pm, Devan Lippman wrote: > Hi, > > I installed QT 3.3.4 on my system recently and in testing to see if it > ran properly I executed the hello example. The problem is the label > text did not appear to render correctly, rather it replaced all > letters with squares (I'

Re: FISH (was: Re: Browse a local network?)

2005-04-02 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:34 am, Uli Fahrenberg wrote: > There's a protocol called FISH, so I guess this is what KDE is using. > Googling for it is not easy, but I found > > http://www2.codegnome.org:59321/geeklog/2004/04/ > > uli > I think you're on to something. It would pretty much an

Re: Browse a local network?

2005-04-01 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:07 am, Simon Geard wrote: > > Incidentally, why does KDE use a fish: url? That's hardly an obvious > choice... > > Simon. It's probably to make you think that KDE is doing something real fancy-shmancy - when in fact they're just using plain old ssh (I think). Just for

Re: Browse a local network?

2005-03-31 Thread Craig Colton
On Thursday 31 March 2005 06:17 pm, Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello list, > I've recently wired together our computers with crossover cables. As part > of working out how to get xbox live to work through a masquerading linux > box I first did it with the PC's so I could take it one step at a time and

Re: Digikam & USB permissions

2005-03-25 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 25 March 2005 05:59 am, Simon Geard wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0500, Craig Colton wrote: > > I see. I'm not familar with this, so I probably can't help. However, I'm > > not sure how Linux can use a piece of hardware without first having a >

Re: Digikam & USB permissions

2005-03-24 Thread Craig Colton
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:46 pm, Ron Keller wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >Shane Shields wrote: > >>usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 00 > > > >That's for LFS 5.x. There is a "usb" group in LFS 6.0 and it looks like > > you want to add yourself into it for n

Re: Digikam & USB permissions

2005-03-23 Thread Craig Colton
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 03:05 pm, Ron Keller wrote: > *First, a bit of history. I used Gentoo (kernel-2.6.8.1 with udev) as > the host system for building LFS-6.0. One of the packages I emerged on > the Gentoo system was digikam-0.7.1; and using the information ion the > following link, I was a

Re: kdelibs-error

2005-03-21 Thread Craig Colton
On Monday 21 March 2005 08:23 am, Beatriz Botero wrote: > I forgot to mention that with "startx" kde works, eg. it shows up, but > only with the titles of the icons, and no icons at all. It seems that > there are no graphics at all. > Beatriz > > Beatriz Botero wrote: > > I am compiling Blfs ver

Re: local network

2005-02-23 Thread Craig Colton
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 07:10 pm, Richard Molton wrote: > Hi. > I'm using two Linux machines. One is running Suse Linux and the > other is LFS. Both are pretty standard Athlon 32 bit hardware. > > The Suse machine can access the /tmp directory of the LFS box, > using the URL 'smb://192.168.1.2

Re: couple of problems?

2005-02-19 Thread Craig Colton
On Saturday 19 February 2005 05:09 am, tom wrote: > first cups hangs when in boot and it gets stuck there starting cups server, > Cups takes awhile to start the first time. Does it finish with an "OK" eventually? > #2 I having a problem with KDE saying it cant find kdeinit which I dont > understa

Re: gimp-print and gimp

2005-02-18 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 18 February 2005 04:09 pm, Richard Molton wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to set up my new LFS system so I can print photose using > gimp. I have installed gimp 2.0 and gimpprint 4.2.7 as listed in > the BLFS book svn 20050204. > > Although my setup can print text using lpr commands and print