mallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> >
> > Do I have to go KDE?
>
> No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa '
> switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use;
Works well in AbiWord, netscape and mozilla don'
mallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> >
> > Do I have to go KDE?
>
> No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa '
> switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use;
>
> xterm -fa 'lucida console' -fs 7
Going ba
Robin Houston wrote:
> My advice is not to remove or replace the shipped perl, but to install
> a newer version as well if you want.
Solaris >= 9 (or was it 8?) is like that, too, isn't it?
ISTR reading that it ships with several utilities which depend on the
shipped version of Perl, but that y
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> I still want to see a "mainstream" os that included something like BeOS's
> task bar.
Gnome call this "grouping". turn on "Enable task grouping" in deskguide
(it's in misc in the first tab in properties) and you get one button per
a
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> > I still want to see a "mainstream" os that included something like BeOS's
> > task bar. It could be configured several different ways, but the general
> > idea was that each running appli
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:33:05PM +, mallum wrote:
> on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> >
> > I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by
> > the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it to aa
> > TrueType fonts yet.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> I still want to see a "mainstream" os that included something like BeOS's
> task bar. It could be configured several different ways, but the general
> idea was that each running application got a slot on the taskbar, and you
> could c
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:29:52PM +, Nic Gibson wrote:
> And on a vaguely related perl related topic... has anyone upgraded Perl
> on OS X? I want to do it but I've blown up os X too many times recently
> and want to know someone else has made it work first.
Yes, I have.
My advice is not
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Nic Gibson wrote:
> And another newbie delurks.
>
> hello
Hey there, welcome :)
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:08:35PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching
on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by
> the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it to aa
> TrueType fonts yet. When aa is switched on the available font selection
> dwindles to
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> Do I have to go KDE?
No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa '
switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use;
xterm -fa 'lucida console' -fs 7
So my xterms have the nice old NT lucida font in 7 point.
Obvi
And another newbie delurks.
hello
Enough mac users round here aren't there?
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:08:35PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> > It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching between windows of the
> > same
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> > It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching between windows of the
> > same app - I want to cycle between all my Terminals and my Omniweb windows
>
> At least with Terminal y
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching between windows of the
> same app - I want to cycle between all my Terminals and my Omniweb windows
At least with Terminal you have Command-1, 2, ... which, if you can
remember
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Hmm, Aqua could IMO be greatly improved by simple things like Alt-Tab
> switching back to tasks rather than always in one direction, ability to
> perform common operations with the keyboard (e.g. launch programs!) and
> having the d
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> > Do I have to go KDE?
>
> Can any of the X-Windows based systems do it well these days? It's been a
I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by
the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get
In message <1007322237.7865.8.camel@camel>,
Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 18:54, Chris Ball wrote:
> > It occasionally looks awful.
> .. for evidence of this, see http://printf.net/gdkxftevo.jpg - you can
http://plig.net/~rjp/pictures/transparent.jpg for an Aqua p
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 18:54, Chris Ball wrote:
> It occasionally looks awful.
.. for evidence of this, see http://printf.net/gdkxftevo.jpg - you can
give a list of fonts to be anti-aliased and fonts to be untouched, so I
might have a play with '!courier-*' later on. You can disable it
altogether
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Much as I love my 6x13 font in an xterm, I'm rapidly coming to the
> conclusion that anti-aliased fonts are the way to go for more
> comfortable webbing and word processing.
Well, duh... :)
> Any opinions about this?
Yes. Welcome to the 21st century
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 18:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Much as I love my 6x13 font in an xterm, I'm rapidly coming to the
> conclusion that anti-aliased fonts are the way to go for more
> comfortable webbing and word processing.
>
> Any opinions about this?
It occasionally looks awful.
> Do I ha
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> Much as I love my 6x13 font in an xterm, I'm rapidly coming to the
> conclusion that anti-aliased fonts are the way to go for more
> comfortable webbing and word processing.
>
> Any opinions about this?
>
> Do I have to go KDE?
>
What is this 'xterm
Much as I love my 6x13 font in an xterm, I'm rapidly coming to the
conclusion that anti-aliased fonts are the way to go for more
comfortable webbing and word processing.
Any opinions about this?
Do I have to go KDE?
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