Re: question fonts Xorg

2010-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:29:00PM +0200, sacarde wrote: > > > but how do I do to select the font in X ? > You don't, it's done automatically. I think fontconfig does it all now [but perhaps NOT for xorg core fonts], so if you want to override something to cause a particular font to be preferr

Re: question fonts Xorg

2010-09-10 Thread sacarde
Alle venerdì 10 settembre 2010, linux fan ha scritto: in xorg.conf I substitute in dir fonts: /usr/lib/X11/font with /usr/share/fonts/X11/ but how do I do to select the font in X ? thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: question fonts Xorg

2010-09-10 Thread linux fan
On 9/10/10, Ken Moffat wrote: > Ah! The book expects these to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts, and then > makes symlinks for the OTF and TTF fonts. How old-fashioned! My > fonts have been in /usr/share/fonts since the days of LFS-6.4. ISTR fontconfig finds all fonts in /usr/share/fonts. In some cir

Re: question fonts Xorg

2010-09-10 Thread TW
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:41:58AM +0200, sacarde wrote: >hi, > I have a question: > >after step xorg7-font , I found: > >in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ >I have dirs: 100dpi 75dpi cyrillic encodings misc OTF TTF Type1 util I have the same thing: drwxr-xr-x 2 root ro

Re: question fonts Xorg

2010-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:41:58AM +0200, sacarde wrote: > hi, >I have a question: > > after step xorg7-font , I found: > > in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ > I have dirs: 100dpi 75dpi cyrillic encodings misc OTF TTF Type1 util > > > but in /usr/lib/X11 > I have: > drwxr-xr-x 7 root roo

Re: question on qt/avifile

2008-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
b-vol wrote: > Greetings > > I am about to try and install avifile. I notice it needs qt3. I have > already > installed qt-4.4.3 and enabled qt3 compatibility. Does anyone know if this > is suffcient for avifile or if qt-3.3.8b MUST be installed? I don't know for sure, but I suspect that

Re: Question on users and groups

2008-04-14 Thread Andrew Barnes
OK, thanks. I can usually figure out how to get an application working, but when messing around with users and groups, I always have this haunting fear that I have unwittingly opened up a giant security hole :) So it is good to have some confirmation :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

Re: Question on users and groups

2008-04-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Andrew Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, thanks for your advice. As I understand it then: > > (i) It is important to distinguish between what the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group file formats allow, and what the useradd utility can do, > the first being more g

Re: Question on users and groups

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Barnes
OK, thanks for your advice. As I understand it then: (i) It is important to distinguish between what the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file formats allow, and what the useradd utility can do, the first being more general than the last (ii) It is possible to create groupless users, by editing the /e

Re: Question on users and groups

2008-04-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Barnes wrote these words on 04/11/08 12:30 CST: > [snip explanation and questions about users and groups] (My explanations below assume you use shadowed group and passwd files.) = A user must have a default group assigned to be of any value. In

Re: Question about compiling gcc (f77 in particular)

2007-12-19 Thread rblythe
Randy McMurchy wrote: > rblythe wrote: > >> I am going to be installing f77 based on the information from the blfs >> wiki on compiling gcc-3.4.6 with c and f77 compilers only. My questions >> are: >> >> 1) Is it possible to only install f77 (--enable-languages=f77) ? >> > > If I remembe

Re: Question about compiling gcc (f77 in particular)

2007-12-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
rblythe wrote: > I am going to be installing f77 based on the information from the blfs > wiki on compiling gcc-3.4.6 with c and f77 compilers only. My questions > are: > > 1) Is it possible to only install f77 (--enable-languages=f77) ? If I remember correctly, you must install the 'C' langua

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-28 Thread Michiel Faber
Simon Geard schreef: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:06 -0600, Archaic wrote: Nautilus doesn't display $HOME on the desktop, but it does display $HOME/Desktop, which is close enough for me. Actually you can put your $HOME on the desktop. With the configuration editor you can set in /apps/nautilus/p

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-23 Thread Alan Lord
The whole point of the discussion was to avoid those 2 bloated DE's. :) Nautilus doesn't display $HOME on the desktop, but it does display $HOME/Desktop, which is close enough for me. Better, even, since $HOME tends to be a lot more cluttered than I want my desktop to be. I tend to use it to ke

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:22:42PM +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > You could install Gnome :) The whole point of the discussion was to avoid those 2 bloated DE's. :) > Nautilus doesn't display $HOME on the desktop, but it does display > $HOME/Desktop, which is close enough for me. Better, even, si

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-23 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:06 -0600, Archaic wrote: > I've found a few different things that allow you to put application > icons on the desktop. However, this isn't what I want. I want to put > files/dirs on my desktop. It's the one sinful little desire ;) where I > actually like the flash and dash

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-22 Thread Archaic
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 05:12:11PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I think there is a way to edit the context menu, but I'm not sure. At > the very least, you can add nautilus scripts. They can be shell > scripts or whatever. See here: I've found a few different things that allow you to put ap

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-21 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: I think there is a way to edit the context menu, but I'm not sure. The context menu seems to be hard coded in nautilus-2.14.1/src/file-manager/fm-directory-view.c Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-21 Thread TheOldFellow
Archaic wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:48:21PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Openbox is worth a look too. http://icculus.org/openbox/ It looks nice, but it suffers from the same problem that caused me to leave fluxbox: no panel or taskbar. I use pypanel for this with openbox3. -- http://l

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/20/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know. It may be possible I've not looked into it, I learnt to live without seeing stuff on the desktop. I launch rox from the right click menu and then navigate into the Desktop folder to see what's there. I install most of gnome and l

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-20 Thread Andrew Benton
Archaic wrote: It looks nice, but it suffers from the same problem that caused me to leave fluxbox: no panel or taskbar. I'd have to install a large chunk of gnome or KDE to get them. Hrmm. I may be talking myself into staying with Xfce afterall... ;) Fluxbox has a toolbar Now to side-track t

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-20 Thread Archaic
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:48:21PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Openbox is worth a look too. http://icculus.org/openbox/ It looks nice, but it suffers from the same problem that caused me to leave fluxbox: no panel or taskbar. I'd have to install a large chunk of gnome or KDE to get them. Hrmm

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-20 Thread Andrew Benton
Archaic wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:11:31PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: But no, you will not be missing out any any major functionality that I can think of. It's cool eye candy and not much else. That's what I figured. I'm not a big fan of eye candy. I'm also not a big fan of complex wi

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:59 -0600, Archaic wrote: > I've never had a desire to build this, but I'm messing around with the > beta xfce and it has it as an optional dep. The stable xfce does, too, > but I've never used it. From what I can tell, it simply allows xfce to > use svg icons instead of png

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-19 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:11:31PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > But no, you will not be missing out any any major functionality that I > can think of. It's cool eye candy and not much else. That's what I figured. I'm not a big fan of eye candy. I'm also not a big fan of complex windowed envir

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/19/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've never had a desire to build this, but I'm messing around with the beta xfce and it has it as an optional dep. The stable xfce does, too, but I've never used it. From what I can tell, it simply allows xfce to use svg icons instead of png icons. T

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:54:47AM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > /begin nag Well some would say that you are being mean/rude/whatever. I, however, think you stated exactly what needed to be said in a manner is strong enough to stand out and make people take notice. Well done, sir. -- Archai

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 10/25/05, Rainer Peter Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:39 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Probably because *nobody* here knows anything about libc5. > or nobody wants to admit that s/he is that old that s/he knows anything > about libc5 Grazie Luca -- http://linuxfro

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:39 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Luca Dionisi wrote: > > > I was just wondering: have I said something wrong in my previous > > post in this thread? > > Why no answers from anyone in ten days? > > > > Luca > > Probably because *nobody* here knows anyth

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Luca Dionisi wrote: I was just wondering: have I said something wrong in my previous post in this thread? Why no answers from anyone in ten days? Luca Probably because *nobody* here knows anything about libc5. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > I was just wondering: have I said something wrong in my previous > post in this thread? > Why no answers from anyone in ten days? > Ok. Take as much from the list below as fits. /begin nag This list works by people volunteering personal time to h

Re: Question about libc5 libc6 incompatibility

2005-10-25 Thread Luca Dionisi
I was just wondering: have I said something wrong in my previous post in this thread? Why no answers from anyone in ten days? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Re: Question

2005-09-03 Thread dag
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Re: Question about Fcron-2.9.5.1

2005-07-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Jean-Philippe Mengual wrote: > Hi, > Could someone explain to me why, in the book blfs, is Fcron-2.9.5.1 > replace cr¨ontab I used on Debian? Cannot I install crontab? Why > replacement? I'm not sure of the original reasons, but I use fcron because it seems better than Vixie Cron at handling machi

Re: Question about packages

2005-07-23 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 16:43 +0200, Jean-Philippe Mengual wrote: > Hi, > When I have finished everything, I'll want to install pdftotext, which > is in the package xpdf-tools. But this package contains a lot of > useless tools for me. So, is it possible to extract pdftotext only, > and to install on