Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-26 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
Hi, The way my box is installed, kpdf is showing really ugly, barely readable documents. I don't know enough of font-handling under X to correct this. Specifically, I have the following doubts: - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? - How do I discover which fonts are

Making kaffeine/xine play audio properly

2005-05-25 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
Hi, I installed kaffeine/xine to play audio CDs and some web radios but I just can't get them to work properly. I'm hitting the following problems: - Audio CDs play but there's a kind of cracking/scratching noise all along, like when you listen to scratched vynil records. There's no noise

Re: vim and regex construct [^...]

2005-05-21 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
s. keeling on 21 May 2005: [\n] matches \n as expected What does \n mean to you? Is it the newline character, or a literal n (sans shell interpretation)? A newline character. [^\n] matches \n ??? [^^M] doesn't match \n ??? OBS.: I got ^M typing Ctrl-V and

kaffeine messes up screen

2005-05-21 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
I've just installed kaffeine and it paints a sticky colored rectangle on the screen, which shows through all other windows, no matter which one is active. I searched the archives but couldn't find a solution. Has anybody bumped into this problem (and the solution !) before ? I have an up-to-date

vim and regex construct [^...]

2005-05-20 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
I have just observed that vim handles negated character classes [^...] in an apparently odd fashion: [\n] matches \n as expected [^\n] matches \n ??? [^^M] doesn't match \n ??? OBS.: I got ^M typing Ctrl-V and Enter The results look contradictory. vim's manual

Which JVM to install ?

2005-05-18 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
I need to have a JVM installed but I'm not sure which one to use. Could somebody share some recommendation ? Thanks a lot Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which JVM to install ?

2005-05-18 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:30:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Depends on what for. If you wan the best possible compatibility, get a Sun or IBM JVM and then use the make-jpkg command (in the java-package package) to create a .deb file that you can install on your system. Thanks for

Matching ltmodem driver and kernel version

2005-05-15 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
Hi Sages, I'm trying to find and install a pre-compiled driver for a WinModem. I have Sarge with 2.4.27-2-686 kernel. I looked at: http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/dists/debian/ but found packages only for 2.4.27-1-686 kernels. Can I use this one even though my kernel version