Re: KPP always dies

2002-12-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matt Sheffield wrote: On my Libranet Woody system, KPP will faithfully connect to the Internet but proceeds to disconnect after about 2 seconds. I am able to connect with Libranet's LPPP app as well as wvdial so there isn't a hardware problem. Can anyone guess what's wrong after looking at the l

Re: Fonts on KDE

2002-11-21 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Charlie Reiman wrote: I've got Debian sid (2.4.18 kernel) with kde 2.2.2 installed on my Omnibook 500. I'm having a hard time getting fonts to behave. Is there a decent FAQ covering font installation? I'd really love something with a troubleshooting diagram. I have anti-aliasing working. My problem

kpackage 2.2.2-7 problem & work-around

2002-11-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I know everyone is focused on getting KDE 3.X up & running, but I thought I would pass this along for those of us who are sticking with KDE 2.2... This problem will probably only affect those few like me who are using KDE 2.2 and "testing". I know this probably isn't the "best" or even a "corr

Re: KDE2.2.2: Ctrl-S kills konsole input

2002-09-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Hendrik Sattler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, sometimes I accidently hit Ctrl-S instead of Shift-S. This seems to disable the ability to do any keyboard input to that session. So what's wrong? How can I reenable input without closing the window and opening a new one? H

Re: Anti-aliased fonts just broke - how do I fix?

2002-09-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Warren Dodge wrote: This one time, at band camp, Miguel said: (Sunday 22 September 2002 11:35 am) Where can I find all that information about defoma? Sorry, I haven't been able to find any docs on defoma at all. That was just what I have picked up from various Debian mailing lists. Perhaps a quer

Re: KDE changing system time

2002-08-15 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jay Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My KDE workstation awhile ago would suddenly jump head 4 or 5 hours, then back. It generally did this within a few seconds, but it was long enough for the screen saver to start up. As per company policy, my screen saver has a password. As it would do this so

Re: KDE changing system time

2002-08-15 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's a discussion on the OxLug mailing list where people are saying that KDE messes with the system clock and Debian developers know about this. What is it? I've been running the latest Debian/unstable for the last 6 weeks with SE Linux banning such ti

Re: Problems printing from konqueror using cups+gimp print.

2002-06-03 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Welland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I get the error: /usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' /home/foo/.kde/tmp-xena/kdeprint_650PUnl: execution failed with message: lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found --SNIP-- < This set of messages says to me that KDE is NOT setup to use CUPS, but instea

RE: status of KDE PIM software

2002-05-26 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Thomas E. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently figured out how to get evolution (GNOME) to work with my USB Handspring Visor, and I am thinking of moving over to evolution from mutt because our company will soon have Exchange 2000 servers, which can talk with the proprietary Ximian Connect

Tips on CUPS + KDE + Debian Testing NOTE: long msg!

2002-02-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I recently decided to install CUPS on my main linux box with the eventual goal of making it a print-server for the rest of my home LAN. I was sucessful in getting it going on the single machine because of questions asked by others on the Debian-KDE and Debian-Users mailing lists. Getting it go

Re: How pull packages from unstable to a Woody system? (kghostview bug fixed)

2002-01-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The subject of "pinning" has been discussed several times late last year on this list and on the Debian-Users list. There were several different alternatives offered, and I don't have any idea if one is better than the other. I chose one and implemented it here

Re: Postscript & PDF view & print with CUPS - howto?

2002-01-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
David Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> et. al. wrote: >--snip--< > > So, I install kghostview, run it, select "file - Open", select the file > > in the directory that has been created by Xpdf, and the page shows up > > perfectly in the "preview" window of the file selection window. But > > when I click

Re: KDE Is Eating My CPU

2002-01-24 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When other people responded to my posting concerning system usage, I knew it was a possible issue. Specifically, it is the fact that gkrellm shows an average of 50% CPU usage when KDE is running, and about 3% when Blackbox is running which seems to indic

Re: quick question (shot in the dark)

2002-01-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
John Magrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: im not sure if kde can do anything about this, but it doesnt hurt to ask. i have already asked on the Xfree mailing lists and the advice they gave me was that the driver needs to be coded better. situation: im using a KVM to switch between debian and windo

Re: Problem with Flash plugin in Konqueror

2002-01-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Jeppe Buk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Flash doesn't work in Konqueror on my Woody installation. Scenario: o I have the Flash plugin in ~/nsplugins o ~/nsplugins is the only directory for plugins in my Konqueror setup o Konqueror finds the plugin and lists it in the Plugins tab o When open

RE: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The libpng[23] screwup in unstable is now more or less resolved with kde{base,graphics,network} in incoming. Now, the only packages that need rebuilding are kdeaddons, kinkatta, kmerlin, koffice, and maybe kdetoys (not sure on that one - Ben?). kdelibs was in

Re: Fresh install of kde from woody

2002-01-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, With all this talk about people falling back, and pkgs being slow to move from sid to woody, what would happen if I made a complete woody install to a blank disk? Would kde work? Or, is it broken because of the libqt2/libpng2 problem and take 14 days

RE: Lord, Love-A-Duck! My Icons are back!

2002-01-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
GRIN! libqt2 version 2.3.1-19 from unstable seems to have done the trick here. A coursory check shows missing icons in the kdecarddeck and package manager programs are back! Now for a more in-depth check... Cheers, -Don Spoon- Whoops! I just exited and re-started KDE, and it seems like those

Lord, Love-A-Duck! My Icons are back!

2002-01-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
GRIN! libqt2 version 2.3.1-19 from unstable seems to have done the trick here. A coursory check shows missing icons in the kdecarddeck and package manager programs are back! Now for a more in-depth check... Cheers, -Don Spoon-

HELP! - NFS Browsing in KLISA

2002-01-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I just started playing around with the NFS browsing section in KLISA and have run into a problem. The other sections of KLISA work fine (SMB, FTP, HTTP). I am using KLISA 2.2.2-11 from unstable. I have setup a NFS "export" on another computer (legolas), and am trying to access it using KLISA.

Re: libqt2 - 18 Works

2002-01-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:26, Robert Tilley wrote: I recently had problems with lost icons and downgraded to libqt 2.3.1-17 from 2.3.1-18 which seemed to solve the problem. In a recent system update, libqt was again upgraded to -18 and icon problem recurred.

RE: Severe periodical hang up on KDE 2.2

2001-12-28 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > My system with KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable is demonstrating some quite > irritating behaviour: > > It works very well except that periodically, about after two hours of use or > so, it suddenly starts crunching the disk as if swapping heav

Re: klisa

2001-12-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --snip-- < > > I did modify it. from lan:/ to lan://localhost/ > > Ivan My appologies, Ivan! I spoke without checking it out fully. I just removed and re-installed the new version, and indeed the change IS in the /usr/share/apps/konqueror/dir

RE: klisa

2001-12-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok..klisa should be fixed now... lisarc should be only looked for in > /etc/kde2 now. > -- > > Ivan E. Moore II Confirmed! It now reads and WRITES lisarc to /etc/kde2/lisarc with klisa 2.2.2-3. Thanks! The "problem" with clicki

RE: ok folks...let's talk freeze...

2001-11-29 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --snip-- < > is there any pressing things that needs to be done to the packages that > are currently in sid? Patches, submissions, last minute simple changes? > > Speak now or forever hold your piece. In a few weeks it will be RC bug > fixes o

Re: Shockware Plugin for Konqueror

2001-11-24 Thread Donald R. Spoon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering, what I am doing wrong with the Shockwave Plugin in konqueror. > In netscape plugins > > $ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > ShockwaveFlash.class jre-image-i386 libflashplayer.so libjavaplugin_oji.so > libnullplugin.so > > is enabled, an

Re: Kde metapackage

2001-11-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after my previous, erroneous, message to the list, i did install the kde > metapackage, with the same results you did. after the first failure, i did > an apt-get -f install, allowed it to "remove" the as yet-uninstalled > packages, configure and install

Panel Icons?

2001-11-05 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where are the icons stored which are displayed in the taskbar of the panel? > > I recently added komba2 to my panel and want to give it a nice, > "network"-style icon but do not know what parameters to change. > -- > Comments and information are appre

Re: trying to upgrade KDE - now nothing works!

2001-11-04 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 03 November 2001 11:27 am, Rachel Andrew wrote: > snip > > Then where do I find the KDE2.2 binaries? In unstable? How do I just > > get those and not end up upgrading accidentally to the unstable > > version of Debian? (I'm still struggling a bit with apt-get so >

Re: Upgrade to Woody, Sucess!

2001-10-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
John Gay wrote: > >--snip--< > > The only other problem I have is no sound. I can su to root in a terminal and > play midi files with timidity, so it's obviously just a simple config problem > like not being in the audio group or some such but this is minor. > That is EXACTLY the problem...Wood

KLISA problems again

2001-10-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I just upgraded two different machines (and archs) to KDE 2.2 from unstable. Generally a great job...especially on my DEC ALPHA!! I have been waiting a long time for KDE to show up for it. Thanks!! The other machine is a i386 "upgrade" from KDE 2.1.2. I am running Debian "testing" on both mach

Re: KLISA in Testing/Woody

2001-09-24 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jason Boxman wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2001 07:58 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > > The problem is that the LAN is NOT displayed on the Konqueror "Network" > > panel, like it used to be displayed. Samba is installed and working on > > all my Linux machine

KLISA in Testing/Woody

2001-09-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I have been happily using klisa to browse my network Samba shares in KDE compiled for Potato for over six months and have become somewhat addicted to it. Recently I upgraded to Debian Testing/Woody on one computer using apt-get dist-upgrade and klisa stopped working. I initially thought it was so

RE: Updated KDE on Progeny?

2001-09-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andy Zbikowski \(Zibby\) wrote: > > > For the past few days I've been trying to build an updated version of KDE > for Progeny. Until recently, the only box I had to do this on was my p266 > laptop so progress has been slow. But now I have a new Progeny install at > work. Yay! :) > > So anyway, I

RE: Shockwave flash in Konqueror

2001-07-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Mark wrote: > Hi All, > > Try as I might I haven't been able to get the flash plugin to > work in Konqueror. Has anybody here seen it working? > > My main concern actually is that without it a visit to a flash > site causes Konqueror spawn a number of windows going to the > flash download page.

RE: DCOP communication error!

2001-06-12 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I am running a similar software setup here...the only difference is that I am running the "stock" 2.2.18 kernel that came with the Progeny iso file when I got it back in April. I initially installed the KDE 2.0 that came with Progeny, and subsequently upgraded to the latest & greatest via kde.tdyc