Maurice Batey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:05:25 +0000:
> As you may know, that Mandriva distribution installs 'new' Pan 0.119, and for > various reasons (e.g. I still use dial-up), I don't find the new Pan usable - > so I have replaced it with Pan 0.14.2. (This was from the SuSE RPM, and a new > Mandriva 'libgnet' library had to be installed first.) FWIW, you can probably find a Mandriva/Mandrake RPM of the old version on RPMfind.net, from an older version of the distribution. That should help rpm properly track dependencies, altho it's working for you now. Note that not all the rpmfind.net mirrors stay in sync, so look at more than one of them if you aren't finding what you want on the first one you look at. Back when I was on Mandrake, I used to use rpmfind all the time. (I'm on Gentoo now.) > 0.14.2 is working beautifully (having copied the SuSE '.pan' directory over) > EXCEPT that I cannot get the background colour changed. > Under SuSE I did that - as you suggested way back - via KDE's 'colour' > controls; no problem. > > However, under Mandriva that change will not take effect (even though I did > check the 'Apply to non-KDE programs' box), although it did affect other > programs... There's an environmental variable that you may need to set (and export) as well, to tell pan where to look for its gtk config. Here, it depends on how I launch pan -- from the menu it's set automatically, from the command line (and thus from the starter script I'm now using, to be able to run separate pan.bin and pan.txt instances of new-pan) I have to set it manually before launching the pan binary. export GTK2_RC_Files="path1:path2:path3" Here, the paths are /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 $HOME/$KDE_CONFIG_DIR/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 (Substitute values as appropriate for the variables.) You may not need all of those. I think I'm actually using the first and the last but not the middle one. For sure, you'll need to include the last one as that's where KDE puts its color settings, but you may want/need additional ones as well, to pickup system/user default settings other than those KDE provides. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
