printing

2001-10-29 Thread John Batistic
I have starting using Kate and find that I cannot print. I use apsfilter and need to be able to output 'lpr filename' for printing to occur. None of the messages make sense to me. Kde print manager seems to be outputting a long complex string which I don't know how to change and console error

Re: printing

2001-10-29 Thread Nick Bailey
John Batistic wrote: I have starting using Kate and find that I cannot print. I use apsfilter and need to be able to output 'lpr filename' for printing to occur. None of the messages make sense to me. Kde print manager seems to be outputting a long complex string which I don't know how to

Re: Setting environment

2001-10-29 Thread David Fisher
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oswald Buddenhagen wr ites: heck, you're right. the search engine at lists.debian.org is somehow broken; i didn't find anything, although i knew quite well what to search for. (bug the web admin with it. :)) Could someone PLEASE set me straight on this, or at

Re: Does KDE Multimedia Need Improvement?

2001-10-29 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:10:42AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: Do I need to ditch KDE and use a lightweight wm for for multimedia? I would use noatun (KDE Multimedia Player) but that program doesn't allow display-window size-changing. Try mplayer. It outperforms WinMediaPlayer both in

Re: Save Link as... in ftp-mode

2001-10-29 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Saturday 20 October 2001 00:49, Jens Benecke wrote: in the same way as in ftp mode: Following a link, going up one directory and so on. FTP is basically a 'stripped down shell' which allows data transfers. HTTP is a protocol that only allows single document retrievals. You cannot do a

Re: KMail and PGP

2001-10-29 Thread Franz Keferboeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 October 2001 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: snip That is, if I close the dialog box, then reopen, the setting has reverted to Don't use encryption When I compose a message, the buttons for either encrypting or signing a message are

KDE: mouse problems

2001-10-29 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello, I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several times), but then the mouse

Re: KDE: mouse problems

2001-10-29 Thread Ax
Dne po 29. jen 2001 13:40 Stephan Mueller napsal(a): On Monday 29 October 2001 13:26, Roland Wegmann wrote: How does the system recognise the Mouse during boot? With gpm? If yes, disable gpm when using X! Both do not work well together. Stephan Huh? I always use gpm in repeater mode

Re: KDE: mouse problems

2001-10-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 14:26, Michel Loos wrote: On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 12:26, Roland Wegmann wrote: I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it

Opening Xsession for User-Login failed!

2001-10-29 Thread Heidelinde Meier
Dear Debian Group! Perhaps you have any good idea to find out what the problem of my trouble is: I bootet a diskless client via network and: from one machine, where the root-fs lies everything works fine: every user can log into the desired Xsession. Now the problem: I copied the same root-fs on

Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot

2001-10-29 Thread exa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Check it out at http://orion.exa.homeip.net/~exa/kde-snapshot1.png Happy K'ing, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F

problems with åäö letters in kde

2001-10-29 Thread wunder surf
Hello, I have problems with getting the swedish å, ä and ö letters to work in kde2.2.1. It works as normal in some applications like konsole, kate and kword, but in the text editor, konqueror and kmail it doesn't work unless i hold down the ctrl key when i type it. Does anyone know the reason

Re: Using apt_preferences?

2001-10-29 Thread John Gay
To get your pref's working, I think taking the white space lines out of your pref's file, I think that white space in this file should only separate sections. I have 0 blank lines in my pref's, and it works fine. I'll give this a try. But KDE from unstable has jsut finished loading so I'll

automatic screen blanking

2001-10-29 Thread Russell Coker
In KDE 1.x there was a kscreenblank process which I could send a sigusr1 to when I wanted the screen blanked. I used to have a script called from apmd on suspend to do killall -USR1 kblankscreen to lock the display on my laptop. Is there any way of doing this for the latest KDE? --

Re: Kwork/Koffice

2001-10-29 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Em Seg 29 Out 2001 17:36, Bob Koss escreveu: Would TeX (LaTeX) be a suitable replacement for PowerPoint? Weird question for debian-kde.:-) To use latex/tex to produce highquality slides that may be viewed in full-screen mode in acroread you may use prosper. (apt-get install prosper should

artsd does not start

2001-10-29 Thread P. de Vicente
Hello, I am running woody + kde 2.2.1 and have problems with arts with a couple of computers. These computers have different sound cards (chipsets since they are in the main board) and they work well since kscd plays music from a CD. The chipsets are Maestro3 (HP Omnibook XE3), and Intel

Re: automatic screen blanking

2001-10-29 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 07:29 schrieb Russell Coker: In KDE 1.x there was a kscreenblank process which I could send a sigusr1 to when I wanted the screen blanked. I used to have a script called from apmd on suspend to do killall -USR1

Re: artsd does not start

2001-10-29 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know about the maestro, but the intel i8* crap has known issues. I have one in my computer, and finally ended up bringing in a soundcard from home to use instead. I tried the kernel driver, the oss (non-free) driver, and the alsa driver

Re: KMail and PGP

2001-10-29 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Oct 2001 21:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: Identity. Under security, if I select either PGP 2.x or Automatically detect, the selection will not stick. That is, if I close the dialog box, then reopen, the setting has reverted to Don't use

Re: killustrator

2001-10-29 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 12:09, Tom Allison wrote: I was trying to export something to a web image (jpg, gif, png) I didn't see it. Kontour (the successor to KIllustrator) can save as SVG, which may be quite useful. It can also export as XBM, whihc

Need help fixing KDE

2001-10-29 Thread John Gay
After the serious problems of last nights attempts to install KDE2.2 I've now found myself stuck with a broken KDE and no apperent way to fix it? Everything I try insists on removing ALL of KDE! I can't install KDE from unstable due to missing packages, but I can't fix my previous set-up

Re: Need help fixing KDE

2001-10-29 Thread Fabian Jansen
John Gay wrote: progeny:/home/jgay# apt-get install kde/unstable Hi! Try apt-get -t unstable install kde and apt-get will resolve the dependencies properly! bye, Fabian

Re: Need help fixing KDE

2001-10-29 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While I can't wade through all the dependency problems, if apt or dselect isn't doing it for you, try downloading the packages by hand and using dpkg. To see the options to override dependencies and whatnot, man dpkg. HTH. On Monday 29 October

Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot

2001-10-29 Thread Dan Born
That's rather impressive. I have a bunch of true type fonts, and anti-aliasing turned on in kde, but the only font available for a fixed width font under the control center is the fixed font, and fixed is the only thing available in konsole. This is ugly looking... how do I fix it? Thanks,

Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot

2001-10-29 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dan Born wrote: That's rather impressive. I have a bunch of true type fonts, and anti-aliasing turned on in kde, but the only font available for a fixed width font under the control center is the fixed font, and fixed is the only thing available in konsole. This is ugly

Re: Using apt_preferences?

2001-10-29 Thread Bruce Miller
John, This was my fault. I too am in a learning curve; in my case, how to migrate cleanly from drafting in a word processor to clean HTML. The ``blank lines'' in my draft apt guide are default HTML line leading, not actual blank line separators. Sorry for the confusion. On 28 Oct 2001 at

Re: Need help fixing KDE

2001-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 October 2001 02:02 pm, John Gay wrote: After the serious problems of last nights attempts to install KDE2.2 I've now found myself stuck with a broken KDE and no apperent way to fix it? Everything I try insists on removing ALL of KDE! I

Re: Need help fixing KDE

2001-10-29 Thread John Batistic
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:02:26 + John Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the serious problems of last nights attempts to install KDE2.2 I've now found myself stuck with a broken KDE and no apperent way to fix it? Everything I try insists on removing ALL of KDE! I can't install KDE from

Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot

2001-10-29 Thread Daniel Robert Franklin
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dan Born wrote: That's rather impressive. I have a bunch of true type fonts, and anti-aliasing turned on in kde, but the only font available for a fixed width font under the control center is the fixed font, and fixed is the only thing available in konsole.

Font madness again

2001-10-29 Thread Storm Linux User
I had real strange problems with fonts. Similar to what some have described elsewhere. I would open preferences-lookfeel-fonts, and the selection would be very limited. Konsole would have unreadable fonts. If I deleted kdeglobalsrc, things would get back to relatively normal, then all of a