[SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'

Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had some trouble with the latest dist-upgrade. > > My Xserver went but creating the symlink This is a common problem over the last couple of days; see debian-user. People have fixed it different ways. It's caused by the font and module path (among

Re: [SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'

On Monday 17 April 2006 14:42, Jonathan Wheelhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've had some trouble with the latest dist-upgrade. > > > > My Xserver went but creating the symlink > > This is a common problem over the last couple of days; see > debian-

[SLUG] VMware on Linux question

Sluggers, Just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour. As per the Title, installed VMWare on Linux (FC4). Software starts Ok and gets to the point where I can power on the virtual machine. At this point the host machine is rebooted. I.E the power on action which is supposed to be that of

Re: [SLUG] Moving multiple files....

Charles Myers wrote: Thanks for all the help guys. You have saved my life ;) Coming in a bit after the fact but just a couple of thoughts, *if* you had .jpg files in different directories of the same name, then obviously by moving them all into the one directory you will have lost some of th

Re: [SLUG] VMware on Linux question

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:38 am, Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > Just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour. As per the Title, > installed VMWare on Linux (FC4). Software starts Ok and gets to the > point where I can power on the virtual machine. At this point the host > machine is rebooted.

Re: [SLUG] VMware on Linux question

I had a problem on my HP nc6230 panicing with similar symptoms. The fix (for me) was to disable bridging in VMware's network configuration. thanks for the tip but that wasn't it. :-( I disabled networking altogether but it still crashes the host on guest startup. The search continues

Re: [SLUG] VMware on Linux question

On 4/18/06, Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sluggers, > > Just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour. As per the Title, > installed VMWare on Linux (FC4). Software starts Ok and gets to the VMware Workstation 5 or VMware Server beta 2? > point where I can power on the virtual mach

[SLUG] Xorg word selection

Hi I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have FC5 on a machine and running Xorg X server, now when I double click on a word in a xterm or rxvt term the word selection is different to what I am used to. for example if I had a path /opt/oracle/staging/10.2.0.1/db/database/sta

Re: [SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'

Hi Jonathan, Nice easy fix for this (thanks Terry Dawson). The latest fonts packages seem to want to live in /usr/share/fonts/X11 now, so my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file wasn't pointing at the right places. The fonts section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf was changed as per below, and everything is ha

[SLUG] Graphics library

Hi all, I'm in need of a graphics library callable from C or C++ that will allow me to open an image, write text to that image and then save it again. I also need to have pretty find control over font, font size, font colour and so on. Does anyone have anything to suggest? Cheers, Erik -- +

Re: [SLUG] Graphics library

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/04/2006 03:56:40 PM: > Hi all, > > I'm in need of a graphics library callable from C or C++ that will > allow me to open an image, write text to that image and then save > it again. I also need to have pretty find control over font, font > size, font colour and so on

Re: [SLUG] Xorg word selection

On 18/04/2006, at 1:45 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have FC5 on a machine and running Xorg X server, now when I double click on a word in a xterm or rxvt term the word selection is different to what I am used to. for example if I

Re: [SLUG] Graphics library

Scott Ragen wrote: > You don't mention what format the images are in, I'd prefer PNG, but just about anything else would also be ok. > and I am not sure I > understand what you mean, Err, load image, draw text (varying fonts, sizes colours etc) on actual image, save modified image. Basically

RE: [SLUG] Graphics library

GD is also quite ubiquitous - certainly for CGI and other dynamic web image creation http://www.boutell.com/gd/ Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-