Sawfish crash -> window titles missing

2002-10-23 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi ! Sawfish carshed on me the other day (I use Woody & Gnome 1.4 BTW). All window borders just disappeared. Got it started again via the terminal: #sawfish ... everything back to normal ... Almost. Only some apps seem to have a title in the window titlebar (it seems to be only the apps which

Re: installing NetBeans IDE

2002-10-23 Thread Andrew Fowler
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:03, rhodri lo wrote: > Netbeans binary, it says > > "A suitable Java Virtual Machine could not be found. Please > run the installer again using the option -is:javahome " I can see the following differences to my setup: JDK_HOME env. In your case: # export JDK_HOME=/usr/

Re: locales ....

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew Fowler
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:19, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I used the language-env package to configure for French. It handles all > shells and > X windows too. I don't know about the howto's, I found information > specific to > French in the French Debian documentation. I don't know if there is simil

F*****g locales ....

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew Fowler
Is it just me, or are locales and their setup a serious afterthought on Linux. I havn't yet met a single distro which can sensibly set up locales the way I want them. Considering Linux was started by a Fin, you'd think this would have been sorted by now ... calm down, calm down. Ok that's the sh

man / xterm display quirk - repeating chars

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi all ! I get strange display problems in xterms using commands like man and info. Here's an example from #man man: sion, but [...] compile time. Also, by default, any cat pages[...]ip. Each `global' manual page hierary chy such a[...]n may have any directory as its cat Notice end line

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Fowler
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 11:27, ben wrote: > On Monday 17 June 2002 12:27 am, Andrew Fowler wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 02:22, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > IMO there's more to it that just psychology. There used to be (still is > > ??) a saying that you wouldn

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Fowler
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 02:22, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > I think there's also some psychological thing that goes on here. People > think that with the help desk, they'll get an answer within a certain > time, while nobody guatrantees that they'll get an answer on a mailing > list. IMO there's mor

THANKS Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Fowler
That did the trick, thanks, Andy On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 23:20, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 13 Jun 2002 23:14:20 +0200 > "Andrew Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where is maildirmake ? Even dpkg -S maildirmake says it's not found > > (does d

maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi ! Half way through installing getmail. Docs mention that the maildir dir to which mail is delivered must already exist and that maildirmake should be called in order to create one. Where is maildirmake ? Even dpkg -S maildirmake says it's not found (does dpkg -S search non-intalled packages

RE: Gnome/X setup problems

2002-06-08 Thread Andrew Fowler
, 2002 at 08:31:42PM +0200, Andrew Fowler wrote: > Just started with Debian (woody). I'm by no means an expert so need the > online help. Unfortunalty, Gnome help doesn't seem to be installed > (Clicking on the ? in the Gnome panel just brings up a browser with the > msg: Coul

Re: Gnome/X setup problems

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Fowler
uot;. A. On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 21:11, Glyn Millington wrote: > Andrew Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi ! > > > > Just started with Debian (woody). I'm by no means an expert so need the > > online help. Unfortunalty, Gnome help doesn't s

Gnome/X setup problems

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi ! Just started with Debian (woody). I'm by no means an expert so need the online help. Unfortunalty, Gnome help doesn't seem to be installed (Clicking on the ? in the Gnome panel just brings up a browser with the msg: Could not load default TOC). I've installed all gnome doc packages I can f