kpdf disable font smoothing

2008-11-25 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Hi Is it possible to disable font smoothing/antialias in Kpdf? How? Thanks Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On Oct 17, 4:10 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JoseC.Rodriguez writes: > > ...everytime the package and libraries get updated it'll have to be > > downloaded again and again (if you're on Sid). > > Why do you think you have to constantly update everything just because you > are runnin

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On Oct 17, 12:40 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use KDE 4 either. apt-get update + apt-get install okular offers > to install/upgrade 57 libraries and install okular. 113MB. That takes me > about 5 hours. If you have broadband takes you 5 minutes. > > Why don't you just d

OT: laptop keyboard broken

2008-06-01 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
I was in the vecinity of Saturn when suddenly Celestia crashed (not that surprising). Some futile attempts of raising elephants didn't help so I hard rebooted. To my consternation my keyboard wasn't working anymore. Damn Small Linux showed me that the touchpad was still alive, but the keyboard...It

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-20 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On May 19, 12:40 pm, "Dmitryi & Elf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually the problem is more straightforward. Quake locks key input when > [Control] is pressed. That key is bound to fire, so until the fire action > is released, the game won't recognise any new keypresses. Looks like > scancodes g

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On May 12, 3:40 pm, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of > it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have > my gnome p

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-05-02 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The laptop is XPS M1330. It's been configured with the > hibernate/suspend, wireless networking, cpu frequency scaling, >webcam, > and some other features working out of the box. I haven't tried the > fingerprint reader yet. I don't really want to spend time break

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-18 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
> Another good one is noscript,http://noscript.net/ > > After a while browsing you get to teach it which scripts to allow and > deny. It is surprising how many times google-analytics.com comes up! I learnt through this list to browse using privoxy and noscript. I totally agree with you, and it fee

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
> I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to > communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does > not even support Debian PPC (which I have). > > I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Hi, Amit I too want to find a definite solution for this.

Re: Something accessing hard drive

2007-12-03 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On 2 Dec, 02:30, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have set myharddriveto standby after a given time through laptop- > > mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a > > second or so after whi

Something accessing hard drive

2007-11-30 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Hi I have set my hard drive to standby after a given time through laptop- mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a second or so after which it spins up again. If I issue hdparm -y /dev/ hda the same behaviour is observed. I checked the logs inmediatly after this happens bu

Re: wpa, passphrase, and keys

2007-11-23 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Jesus Arocho wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:04, Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:01:11AM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: >>> I was trying to install wpa on a Dell inspiron 6000 and connect to a >>> Linksys WRT55AG and am now confused. I first updated the firmware on the >

how to maintain DRI packages built from git

2007-11-08 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Hi I built DRI from source since I needed some very recent fix. I don't know how long it takes for new code to reach debian unstable/testing repositories, which are the ones I'm using. The installation is as simple as copying the compiled libraries to the relevant places, so I couldn't (or figured

Sensible way to install packages from testing & unstable?

2007-06-19 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Hello I want to install the ntfs-3g driver, which I don't find in the Etch repositories. I read that I can add the "testing" and "unstable" distributions to my sources.list, make "stable" as the default in apt.conf and go for it. Is this perfectly all right or should I do something else? I remembe