Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-09 Thread Doug Reich
ber having lots of strange behavior (particularly, NO file dialogues whatsoever) when upgrading in the 1.0.x's. My solution was to start with a clean profile, and then import my preferences one-at-a-time; for whatever reason, my something in my preferences was messing everything up

Re: start menu items

2006-01-03 Thread Doug Reich
To have stuff automatically added to the start menu, open the start menu, choose Settings, then choose Menu Updating Tool. You can probably figure it out from there. Out of curiosity, what kind of file would one put where to make it automatically added to the menu without this tool? This has al

Re: [OT] Sending 'clean' mail

2005-11-16 Thread Doug Reich
It's not essential. You could try Mozilla Thunderbird. It's built in junk mail filtering works quite well. Aside from the mail reader being a matter of preference, your solution isn't always applicable. Personally, I check my mail from at least 4 different mail clients, which aren't all even T

Re: Problems mounting media

2005-11-08 Thread Doug Reich
Andrew Benton wrote: randhir phagura wrote: How does one convert music to mp3 in blfs? Use cdparanoia and lame. Read their man pages for more details. A script like this does the job for me. There's also a nice perl program that runs in the console called "rip" -- http://www.freshmeat.ne

Re: extra-prompt.sh

2005-10-27 Thread Doug Reich
Simon Scheiwiller wrote: Ian Armstrong wrote: Hi, I am working on 'blfs' at the moment, and have a question about the 'extra-prompt.sh' script. If I include the 'extra-prompt.sh' script, I get two prompts, one after the other. I must assume, therefore, that the 'extra-prompt.sh' script is

Re: GraphViz can't find java headers

2005-10-03 Thread Doug Reich
Jeremy Herbison wrote: I'm trying to install GraphViz for use with Doxygen... I have the JDK installed in /usr/jdk. Java is confirmed to be working fine, paths are all correct etc. Running ./configure --prefix=/usr gives the following: checking for java... java checking jni.h usability... no

Re: GraphViz can't find java headers

2005-10-03 Thread Doug Reich
> Going so far as to filling in the empty JAVA_INCLUDES line in the configure file doesn't even work. I absolutely cannot get this darn thing to go! Sounds like you should delete the "config.cache" file; the configure script is not actually recalculating this dependency, just recalling what i

Re: catting a file whitespace in a for loop

2005-09-26 Thread Doug Reich
Pass it through sed? $ for ... do cat `sed -e 's/ *#.*$//' >> largefile ; done Alternatively, you could do this without 'for': $ cat `cat filelist.txt | sed -e 's/ *#.*//'` You can throw in any other separators into the sed statement, as well. -Doug benjamin stathos wrote: It seems I spoke

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Doug Reich
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:34:48PM -0400, Doug Reich wrote: Since we're already off topic... No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as the public_html directo

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Doug Reich
writability is needed. Perhaps there is a public_html dir. 0700 on /home/username would kill it. Since we're already off topic... No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as the public_html di

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 9/6/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the .mozconfig file, then runs

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong OK, I'll give that a try. However, I am confident that my method works, for two reasons: 1) When I run ./configure, I am presented with a list of options pulle

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
Randy McMurchy wrote: Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST: That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root. I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install T

Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension manager, click "install", locate the extension and click "open", nothing happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens both as root and as a regular user. Extensions that were already installed from a di

No Thunderbird RSS Feed Menu Option - SOLVED

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
this kind of thing another resource when you are having problems with your programs. -Doug Reich -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page