Re: Brahms for Debian?

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
So, if someone is working on a Brahms .deb package, what is the progress? If not, could I interest someone in getting started? I'd love to try it myself, but I'm still new to Linux and Debian and have just started a programming course, so it's beyond my abilities. After all, if I can't get

Re: Brahms for Debian?

2000-12-17 Thread John Gay
KEWL! Thanks for the quick answer! I'll have to get my sound working again and give Brahms a good try. If it is everything I think it is, I'll wipe both my hard drives and do a fresh install of Potato with KDE2 and arts and Brahms! At the moment I've got a slink system upgraded to potato with

Re: Brahms for Debian?

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Thanks for the quick answer! I'll have to get my sound working again and give Brahms a good try. If it is everything I think it is, I'll wipe both my hard drives and do a fresh install of Potato with KDE2 and arts and Brahms! At the moment I've got a slink system upgraded to potato with KDE1

startupsounds

2000-12-17 Thread Jo
Hello, is there any way to turn off these startupsounds in kde? It looks like a stupid question. I turned them of in the control panel, but kde keeps playing these sounds. When i delete the wave-files, i can't start any application anymore under kde. As temporary solution, i made empty wav's. It

Re: Konqueror with Netscape Plugins and SSL Won't Work

2000-12-17 Thread Jo
Hello, On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape plugins are being recognized by Konqueror. Also, SSL isn't working for me (although I just read on an archive list message that I may just need to install kdelibs3-crypto). Can anyone help? Maybe I You gave the answer yourself.

Re: kbabel?

2000-12-17 Thread Pablo de Vicente
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Hasso Tepper wrote: Pablo de Vicente wrote: Do you have any plan to debianize kbabel?. If so, it could go in kdebase-dev since it is a tool to help on the translation of PO files. I made package for myself. I haven't time to work with it at the

kde 2.1beta1

2000-12-17 Thread Philipp Schmid
will kde.tdyc.com provide kde2.1beta1 packages or do i have to compile them by myself ? greets philipp

Re: kde 2.1beta1

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
will kde.tdyc.com provide kde2.1beta1 packages or do i have to compile them by myself ? you don't read this list do you? -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD

Re: Unable to create io-slave: unknown protocol file

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
No, I don't have a partial woody. But the dist-upgrade was some time ago. Maybe I should do one again, are the perl 5.6 problems solved? I'm not even suggesting you upgrade to woody. :) All I was saying is the person who was having the problem had a mixed woody/ potato install. but yes, you

Re: Unable to create io-slave: unknown protocol file

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Am Sunday 17 December 2000 13:27 schrieb Ivan E. Moore II: No, I don't have a partial woody. But the dist-upgrade was some time ago. Maybe I should do one again, are the perl 5.6 problems solved? I'm not even suggesting you upgrade to woody. :) All I was saying is the person who was having

Where is task-kde?

2000-12-17 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
Hi, I'm trying to install KDE2 on my Debian potato. This is the KDE line I got in sources-list: # KDE deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps Nevertheless, when I try to apt-get install task-kde I'm told it's nowhere to be found: debian:/home/gpa# apt-get update

Re: Where is task-kde?

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
oops...it's there now I also tried to change the order of the sections (potato main qt1apps optional crypto), but the result is the same. Last week I read in the debia-user list that this setup worked nicely. Has anything changed since then? just me forgetting to put the links in for

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 17 December 2000 10:50, Nick wrote: Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but how do I get KDE to start as the default system window manager? It's been working fine for weeks, and then after an upgrade a few days ago it has gone back to a blank grey twm desktop when I log in ... :-(

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Nick wrote: Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but how do I get KDE to start as the default system window manager? It's been working fine for weeks, and then after an upgrade a few days ago it has gone back to a blank grey twm desktop when I log in ... :-( I just have

AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
FYI - I'm building a new QT 2.2.3 package with the Xft extension support. This is of course just for woody as it requires the latest X4. So hopefully we'll be able to see AA support functional soon for KDE and other's... Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Nick
On Sun 17 Dec, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: If your using startx you need to manually add kde2 to your alternatives update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager x-window-manager /usr/bin/kde2 the package will not do that anymore as it's against policy...we are working on getting a

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
update-alternatives 1.6.15 (potato) needs a 'priority' argument as well - I chose 50 and it all works lovely again :-) update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager x-window-manager /usr/bin/kde2 50 oops...yea..forgot to finish the line out. :) -- Ivan E.

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: if you use kdm just log in using kde2 ..dont' use default. (this is just a tip: I'm sure Ivan already knows this ...) unless you want to have your ~/.xsession executed: then you _have_ to use default; important if you want to have some environment

Konqueror + web auth question

2000-12-17 Thread Nick
Can someone explain to me how Konqueror works with website passwords (HTTP_AUTH stuff) ? Every version I've used pops up multiple auth requests (one for the page, plus one for each image on the page) and doesn't seem to remember the damn things. Since I spend most of my life working on

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Am Sunday 17 December 2000 18:31 schrieb Ivan E. Moore II: FYI - I'm building a new QT 2.2.3 package with the Xft extension support. This is of course just for woody as it requires the latest X4. So hopefully we'll be able to see AA support functional soon for KDE and other's... Ivan

Re: Konqueror + web auth question

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:54:05PM +, Nick wrote: Can someone explain to me how Konqueror works with website passwords (HTTP_AUTH stuff) ? Every version I've used pops up multiple auth requests (one for the page, plus one for each image on the page) and doesn't seem to remember the damn

keystone - Silly but whatzit?

2000-12-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Keystone was just update - didn't know I had it - but it runs and has absolutely no docs - man pages etc. what is keystone? -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ#

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Whoooha! This would be a true christmas present :)) A question: There is the Xft extension necessary, which is in the XF4 CVS, only, but not in an official distribution and therefore are no debs available - right? the Xft extension is necessary and is part of the 4.0.2 strain of

Re: keystone - Silly but whatzit?

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:04:33AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, Keystone was just update - didn't know I had it - but it runs and has absolutely no docs - man pages etc. what is keystone? A VNC client. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
hmmm kdm should tag the /etc/X11/Xsession file for all chosen options... it seems to be doing it in part at least (I don't use a .xsession file so I have no clue)... because it is using the .xsession-errors file for logging. the Xsession file is supposed to be what actually launches the

Re: Konqueror + web auth question

2000-12-17 Thread Nick
On Sun 17 Dec, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:54:05PM +, Nick wrote: Can someone explain to me how Konqueror works with website passwords (HTTP_AUTH stuff) ? Every version I've used pops up multiple auth requests (one for the page, plus one for each image on the

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Bart, Or anyone for that matter - can you suggest a site for reading up on what kdm/xdm does. Why one would load this. what it does, what it's for etc. I have never had a firm understanding of any of it and I would like to learn much more about it, but never found any place to learn about

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 17 2000, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Am Sunday 17 December 2000 18:31 schrieb Ivan E. Moore II: FYI - I'm building a new QT 2.2.3 package with the Xft extension support. This is of course just for woody as it requires the latest X4. So hopefully we'll be able to see AA support

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Gordon Sadler
AA = Anti-aliasing There was a news byte at kde.org regarding it. I didn't look too deeply myself but most of the comments seemed to applaud the efforts as being great for the visuals. On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:08:00PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: On Dec 17 2000, Christian Mayrhuber wrote:

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Am Sunday 17 December 2000 20:08 schrieb Rogerio Brito: What is this AA support? I'm curious about it after these comments. :-) Really. Please enlighten me. :-) Thank you very much, Roger... Antialiasing smoothens fonts on your display, especially on higher resolutions.

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 17 2000, Gordon Sadler wrote: AA = Anti-aliasing Oooh, how silly of me. :-) That is indeed a true christmas present. And also a motivation to start playing with woody. Now, with so many attractive things in Woody, I'm truly tempted to start using it. The

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: hmmm kdm should tag the /etc/X11/Xsession file for all chosen options... it seems to be doing it in part at least (I don't use a .xsession file so I have no clue)... because it is using the .xsession-errors file for logging. the Xsession

Re: Konsole and pam-solved

2000-12-17 Thread Mircea Luca
Mircea Luca wrote: Hi Everytime I try to su from konsole I get a pam_authentication error.su from kterm or a vt works fine.Does anybody experience this or is just something Storm specific and what may it be ? Thanks -- Well ,the latest upgrade from yesterday solved this

Re: Brain dead question!

2000-12-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Or anyone for that matter - can you suggest a site for reading up on what kdm/xdm does. Why one would load this. what it does, what it's for etc. I have never had a firm understanding of any of it and I would like to learn much more about it,

Re: AA support

2000-12-17 Thread Jesse Goerz
I believe the problem was copyrighted fonts. Something which proprietary OS's just pay for to include in their OS's. On Sunday 17 December 2000 14:32, Nick wrote: On Sun 17 Dec, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Am Sunday 17 December 2000 20:08 schrieb Rogerio Brito: What is this AA support?

Re: Konqueror + web auth question

2000-12-17 Thread Trevor Phillips
Nick wrote: Well it has never worked correctly for me (even within a single session), a bug report weeks ago gave no response... I have also had this problem on and off for a while. As of the latest update, though, it seems to be working again (ie; not opening dozens of Auth boxes).

task-kde, task-kde-devel not installable

2000-12-17 Thread John Dalbec
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-kde: Depends: pixie but it is not installable Depends: kformula but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages --- Sorry, but the following packages have unmet

Re: task-kde, task-kde-devel not installable

2000-12-17 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
potato? On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:37:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-kde: Depends: pixie but it is not installable Depends: kformula but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages