Re: switching between keyboard layouts in gnome 2.6

2006-02-20 Thread Leonid Grinberg
It is a Gnome Panel widget... I myself use USA and Russian Phonetic. Just create a Keyboard Indicator widget, right click, add whatever keyset, you want, and then change the key. I know for a fact that you can use Alt and Shift (although on one of my computers, it is a little faulty and refuses to

Re: switching between keyboard layouts in gnome 2.6

2006-02-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
at doesn't explicitly get in the way - but I don't generally use gnome so I can't vouch for it... Regards, DigbyT On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:24:13PM -0500, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > How can I switch between keyboard layouts under Gnome 2.6. using a > keyboard combination. > I&

switching between keyboard layouts in gnome 2.6

2006-02-19 Thread Martin Paraskevov
How can I switch between keyboard layouts under Gnome 2.6. using a keyboard combination. I'm using the Key Indicator tool but currently I must click on the layout icon to change it.How can I settup the alt-shift combination to do the job? -Martin

Re: Re: Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

2004-09-29 Thread Greg Pierce
Hello Josh, Did you ever get this problem fixed, because I am having the same problem since I re-installed debian on my desktop. The gnome volume control was working fine before on this very same system machine. Any help would be mightliy appreciated. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Subject: Re: CDROM permission problems Gnome 2.6

2004-09-04 Thread David Abernethy
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:20:25 +0200 From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CDROM permission problems Gnome 2.6 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (david abernethy's me

Re: CDROM permission problems Gnome 2.6

2004-08-28 Thread Wim De Smet
brw-rw 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2004-06-05 20:05 /dev/scd0 > here is the relevant line from my fstab > /dev/sr0/cdrom autoro,user,noauto 0 0 > symlinking /dev/cdrom to scd0 did not help > > I'm using progeny component linux kernel 2.6.7 and Gnome 2.6 > any suggestions? >

CDROM permission problems Gnome 2.6

2004-08-28 Thread david abernethy
linking /dev/cdrom to scd0 did not help I'm using progeny component linux kernel 2.6.7 and Gnome 2.6 any suggestions? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X11 Mouse Cursor in gnome 2.6 (SOLVED)

2004-07-16 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:12:58PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's an odd problem I haven't found a work around for: > > HP Laptop > S3 Savage/IX-MV video card > Sid > X SAVAGE video driver using the MobileSavage engine > Gnome 2.6 > Lo

Re: Gnome 2.6 file associations broken in unstable?

2004-07-11 Thread Bryan Traywick
After doing an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this after noon, the planner package was updated which after checking the bug reports for planner, seems to be the culprit of this problem. It is now fixed. If you are experiencing the same thing then upgrade to the latest version of planner and it

Gnome 2.6 file associations broken in unstable?

2004-07-11 Thread Bryan Traywick
Hello, All file type associations in gnome 2.6 seems to be broken. I'm using the most up to date version in unstable. I logged out of gnome and when I logged back in all file assocations are broken and clicking on a file such as a pdf brings up a dialog that says "There is no action

X11 Mouse Cursor in gnome 2.6

2004-07-03 Thread David Purton
Hi all, Here's an odd problem I haven't found a work around for: HP Laptop S3 Savage/IX-MV video card Sid X SAVAGE video driver using the MobileSavage engine Gnome 2.6 Login using GDM When I login, a black cross X11 mouse cursor appears in the middle of the screen in addition to the w

Re: Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Smith
%% Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ss> I had the same problem. Check out bug #250393 at ss> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250393 ss> The solution is to install one of gstreamer-alsa, gstreamer-oss or ss> gstreamer-esd. Actually I had all those installe

Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-24 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently updated my sid box to all the latest stuff for the first > time > in a month or two, which got me from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6. Once I > Except one thing: the volume control applet on the panel doesn't work. > It > won't find any of the channels; like it ca

Re: Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
%% David Mesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dm> It didn't work for me either until I installed dm> gnome-media. Specifically I think it might be dependent on dm> gstreamer. Thanks for the note. I checked and gnome-media is already installed, and it's the latest version. I also looked and

Re: Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-23 Thread David Mesler
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:36, Paul Smith wrote: > Except one thing: the volume control applet on the panel doesn't work. > It won't find any of the channels; like it can't find the audio > devices. But, they're there! I've tried removing it from the panel and > re-adding it and it still doesn't wo

Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
I recently updated my sid box to all the latest stuff for the first time in a month or two, which got me from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6. Once I discovered that I had to kill the old services like gconf (which doesn't happen normally when you log out) it seems fine. Except one thing: the volume control app

Re: Debian menu on gnome 2.6

2004-06-21 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:05:10PM +0800, Thomas Beresford wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know how to generate the debian menu on gnome 2.6? I've installed Gnome > 2.6 in my woody debian system through apt-get -t unstable, but the debian menu is > blank. Is there a way

Re: Debian menu on gnome 2.6

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:05:10 +0800, Thomas Beresford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know how to generate the debian menu on gnome 2.6? I've installed Gnome > 2.6 in my woody debian system through apt-get -t unstable, but the debian menu is > blank. Is there a way

Debian menu on gnome 2.6

2004-06-21 Thread Thomas Beresford
Hello, Does anybody know how to generate the debian menu on gnome 2.6? I've installed Gnome 2.6 in my woody debian system through apt-get -t unstable, but the debian menu is blank. Is there a way to generate the menu? Thomas Beresford -- __

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
> Those are great, thank! I may try the first and I completely > forgot about the second. You reminded me that this is how > I used to do this in the past. Thanks! You are welcome! Now if I could find a way of doing something like xkeycaps and xmodmap in the consoleâ -- Leand

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
X so that it uses the > same keyboard map as the console does. > > You can use Option "XkbOptions""ctrl:swapcaps" in > /etc/X11/XF86Config or something the like. > > You can use an ~/.xmodmap file, probably created with > xkeycaps. &

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
es the same keyboard map as the console does. You can use Option "XkbOptions""ctrl:swapcaps" in /etc/X11/XF86Config or something the like. You can use an ~/.xmodmap file, probably created with xkeycaps. You can use the Gnome 2.6 Control Pane

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Thanks! I'm using Sarge and I only have two tabs in the "keyboard preferences" window. Thus still not sure how to remap my keys. Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Nicholas Lativy-- > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > I've checked this 10

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Nicholas Lativy
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I've checked this 10 or so times. I must be missing something. How do > I remap the keys? When I go to Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard, > a window labeled "Keyboard Preferences" emerges. There are two tabs, > "Keyboard" a

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
n Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:02, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems > > should be) a quick answer. > > > > How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to > > switch C

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Patrick Lane
Menu/Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:02, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems > should be) a quick answer. > > How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to

gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems should be) a quick answer. How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to switch Caps Lock and Control and have done this for the console but it gets unswitched when Gnome (gdm) is started. How do I s

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-15 Thread Ed Sutherland
Thanks. I don't want to get a flame-war started, but is Gnome 2.6 comparable to KDE in the following areas: CUPS support (using a CUPS printer from within Gnome), address book and configurability? The reason I ask, is that I prefer the Gnome 'look' and would like to have

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:54, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Here is an example of one of the reviews of Gnome 2.6 from LinuxPlanet: > > Gnome 2.6: Two Left Feet? > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5428/1/ All this review points out is how much Slack

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Here is an example of one of the reviews of Gnome 2.6 from LinuxPlanet: Gnome 2.6: Two Left Feet? http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5428/1/ Benjamin -- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:12, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Ed: > > I don't use Debian. I use the Debian-based Xandros Linux. But I would advise > you very strongly to read some of the reviews of Gnome 2.6. They are > horrendous. Just look for them at LinuxToday. The cons

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Ed: I don't use Debian. I use the Debian-based Xandros Linux. But I would advise you very strongly to read some of the reviews of Gnome 2.6. They are horrendous. Just look for them at LinuxToday. The consensus is that if you really want Gnome 2.6, you should wait till your distr

How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-14 Thread Ed Sutherland
Can I apt-get gnome 2.6 for the ppc? If so, what's the filename and/or do I need to add a source to my apt sources list? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread josh
Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 06:38, josh wrote: After upgrading to Gnome 2.6 in unstable, the volume control applet no longer works. if I click on the slider, it just jumps back to the original position. If I open the volume applet's preferences dialog, the text area suppo

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread glenn
assuming you've started gdesklets per your earlier question). Best of luck - I have lots of troubles with nautilus and gnome 2.6 freezing, and these little cuties just increase the frequency of this Glenn On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 22:45, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > hi there, > > rea

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi there, > > reading your mailling list, i am interesting to give > it a try. Unfortunetly, after apt-get install finished > and I run the gdesklets, nothing happen. > > During the starting GANOME desktop,

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Shawn Hansen
You need to actually run a gdesklet. What is running on your system now is basically just the engine to allow the gdesklet monitors to run. Hope this helps you out. Shawn Hansen On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 07:45, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > hi there, > > reading your mailling list, i am interesting t

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
hi there, reading your mailling list, i am interesting to give it a try. Unfortunetly, after apt-get install finished and I run the gdesklets, nothing happen. During the starting GANOME desktop, I can see that gdesklets is running (the splash screen shows what are packages runing) How to activat

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Steven Yap told: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:51, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > Not with the standard Gnome panel. gdesklets does have a panel which > behaves that way. Give a spin. The starterbar works like expected ;-) Thanks a lot Elimar --

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Steven Yap
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:51, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > Elimar Riesebieter told: > > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > > Mark Roach told: > > > > > > Check out gdesklets. That's probably what you've seen. > > > > Nice features ;-) But

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > Mark Roach told: > > > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I regognized some screen

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Mark Roach told: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. > > How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in O

Re: Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 06:38, josh wrote: > After upgrading to Gnome 2.6 in unstable, the volume control applet no > longer works. if I click on the slider, it just jumps back to the > original position. If I open the volume applet's preferences dialog, the > text area supposed

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-12 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. > How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in OS X as well? Check out gdesklets. That's probably what you've seen. -Mark --

Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in OS X as well? Thanks for hints Elimar -- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread josh
After upgrading to Gnome 2.6 in unstable, the volume control applet no longer works. if I click on the slider, it just jumps back to the original position. If I open the volume applet's preferences dialog, the text area supposedly containing the available audio channels is empty. If I selec

XKB-Error Message on logon after upgrade to Gnome 2.6 in SID

2004-06-01 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, after having upgraded to gnome 2.6 on sid yesterday, I now get an error message when logging in: Fehler beim Aktivieren der XKB-Konfiguration. Vermutlich liegt ein internes Problem mit dem X-Server vor. Versionsdaten des X-Servers: The XFree86 Project, Inc 4031 Sie verwenden XFree 4.3.0

Since Gnome 2.6 upgrade, no option for us international map in gnome keyboard applet

2004-06-01 Thread Jerome
As with other Debian unstable users, I've moved up to Gnome 2.6. It's great, BUT, I can't get the gnome keyboard applet to switch to us international (I like to use accents for other languages sometimes). I see maps for Us and US iso as well as foreign options, but

Log out in Gnome 2.6 hangs PC

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
After running upgrading to Gnome 2.6 also X got upgraded my PC hangs after I click on logout in the gnome menu. Any ideas how to get this fixed?? Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X resolution changed by upgrading to Gnome 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I just upgraded to gnome 2.6, also X got upgraded. Problem is that resolution of X changed from 1024x768 to 800x600. Running xf86config does not seem to help and in desktop preferences / screen resolution in gnome the 1024x768 resolution is not even listed. Any ideas?? Jaap I'm running S

Re: KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.6 , Xfree86 4.2

2004-04-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 April 2004 05:21 am, Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi, i did search on the internet for these three "packages" and > installation notes, i found them all KDE 3.2 install &packages, Gnome > 2.6 install & packages and XFr

KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.6 , Xfree86 4.2

2004-04-16 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i did search on the internet for these three "packages" and installation notes, i found them all KDE 3.2 install &packages, Gnome 2.6 install & packages and XFree86 4.2 install & packages. I just want to know if anyone did it before.. And if i need to have these 3 &q

Re: Gnome 2.6

2004-04-02 Thread Jaime Soriano Pastor
Alexander Schmehl escribió: * Philip Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040402 22:56]: Is it possible to add gnome 2.6 to the sources.list for Debian (sid) ? As far as I know are gnome 2.6 packages avaible in experimental. Yes, i have tryed it with: deb http://ftp.debian.org ../p

Re: Gnome 2.6

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Philip Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040402 22:56]: > Is it possible to add gnome 2.6 to the sources.list for Debian (sid) ? As far as I know are gnome 2.6 packages avaible in experimental. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Gnome 2.6

2004-04-02 Thread Philip Pinkerton
Is it possible to add gnome 2.6 to the sources.list for Debian (sid) ? Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]