Re: xfce4 and automount usb stick icons on desktop

2006-09-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:12:47PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > BTW, is gnome-volume-manager a must for this automounting functionality? > Isn't there any other application that does this? Just curious. If you're running testing or unstable then thunar will do this without any gnome dependencies. Simon.

Re: Openoffice and xfwm4

2006-08-26 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:51:06PM -0300, Vagner Pedrotti wrote: > The only clue I have are the following lines from .xsession-errors: > ** (xfwm4:4333): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite > extension. > ** (xfwm4:4333): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled. These aren't r

Re: Sound problems after recent etch upgrade

2006-02-14 Thread Simon Huggins
Hiya Patrick, On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:54:55AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > After a recent upgrade of my testing system, some sound apps work > (xmms, eg) and others (in particular, xfce4-mixer) do not, complaining > that there is no alsa device. My sound driver - for the ESS maestro > chip

Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4

2006-01-10 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:33:19AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote on Jan, 9: > > > With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in > > > gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is > > > ra

Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4

2006-01-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:45:24PM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in > gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is > raised but doesn't gain focus. I tried it with fluxbox, and it behaves > like KD

Re: Xfce question

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Huggins
Salut j! On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:02:24PM -0500, j Mak wrote: > --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:00:34PM -0500, j Mak > > wrote: > > > The other day, I installed enlightenment as a desktop on xfce. > > >

Re: Xfce question

2005-12-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:00:34PM -0500, j Mak wrote: > The other day, I installed enlightenment as a desktop on xfce. But > I didn't like the feel of it and removed enlightenment and all the > files I created during the installation. Now, xfce has no > window-manager and I cannot

Re: switchdesk question

2005-08-01 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:53:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2005 15:34, Eric Cheney wrote: > >On Sunday, 31 July 2005 at 10:56:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> No, I want to switch the desktop from gnome to kde. How is this > >> done in debian? > > > >If you have gdm instal

Re: xfce4 dependencies in stable

2005-07-26 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Paolo, On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:42:02AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I just installed xfce4 in stable version. i noticed that the package > xfce4 has not a dependecy requiring that a X server is installed, is > it a bug or a precise policy? > If it is a bug what should i do? I see you've a

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:10:41AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 7/4/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/4/05, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > >

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello Debian On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:07:47AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > | aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and > | nothing's different. The xfce i

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and > nothing's different. The xfce info tells me I'm still using 4.0.6. > There was no invitati

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:19:44PM -0500, Aarre Laakso wrote: > I run Debian unstable. I noticed today that I don't have a 'rename' > command in /usr/bin anymore, and /etc/alternatives/rename is a dangling > symlink to /usr/bin/rename-5.005 (the current version of Perl in > unstable is 5.8.7). D

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:59:47AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:56:46PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I need to compile up 4.2.2 packages for sarge and bung them on the > > alioth page at some point. > Mmmm, upgrades. I really should see if there

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:17:09PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > satisfies my requirements well. I wouldn't have put so much time > > into fixing up the packages for Debian if I didn't think it was > > useful. &g

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:09:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does that mean that xfce4 is a good compromise then between both of > > these concepts given you can install as many or as few of the > > components as you l

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Do you have a real name? I always like to know who I'm talking to. > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:56:46 +0100 > Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does that mean that xfce4 is a good compromise then be

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:35:23PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Educate me: what's the difference? > A Window Manager, on the other hand, does just that -- it manages > windows. It doesn't dictate a file manager -- if you want one, you > can use one. Th

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:25:08AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 12 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be > > > much appreciated. > > I'd say give XFCE4 a try. While I generally use KDE it wasn't >

Re: Upgrade to XFCE 4.2 now?

2005-05-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:17:57PM +0200, Matthias Kaeppler wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote: > >Xfce 4.2 won't make sarge. > I know. That's why I asked if it's worth waiting for the next shift, > because once Sarge becomes stable, it's likely that XFCE 4.2 will soo

Re: Upgrade to XFCE 4.2 now?

2005-05-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:43:23PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2005 the mental interface of > Matthias Kaeppler told: > > I guess XFCE 4.2 will not make it into Debian testing until Sarge > > goes stable? If that is the case, how long do you think it will > > /roughly/ take u

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:47:55PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:43 am, Alvin Smith wrote: > > No. You need a minimum of a Pentium 233 with 64 MB RAM to have much > > success running any GUI + Openoffice, even xfce. > And realistically on the user-side, you're l

Re: mutt alternates command

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? > > I used: > > # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ > > # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz > > # vi NEWS.Debian > > > > It worked but it seems there should be

Re: world map or atlas?

2004-12-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:05:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > ps -- I tried xplanet, but it doesn't seem to work with xfce4, my WM > -- or anyway, if it does, I'm missing them agic password. I believe this is because it defaults to using the root window which xfdesktop will be controlling. Try

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-05 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello Otto On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the > > gtk2-engines-xfce package too. > I have it installed (from Debian/sarge). My

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:06:54PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Once my application on XFCE changed their look when I switched the theme > but not anymore. Most of them still show the ugly GTK look. What's > wrong? How does XFCE switch the themes so the apps show the correct > scrollbars etc? What pac

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads > > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" > >Worked for me, anyway. > thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web, > too,

Re: xfce4 related questions

2004-10-12 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:07:45PM +0100, David Dorward wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:37:43 -0700 (PDT), Sergio Basurto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. The latest version is enough stable to install in a > > production server?, right now I have woody on it. > The "latest" version of XFCE is m

Re: Configuring kdm

2004-06-30 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:42:56AM -, Thomas Beresford wrote: > Well, I put that on .xinitrc but did'nt work, I still can't get the > xfce4 option to appear on my kdm window managers menu? Am I doing > something wrong? The best work around for KDM is to uncomment the line that says: #SessionsD

Re: Configuring kdm

2004-06-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:49:33PM -0300, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:17:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I recently installed xfce4 in my woody system. Now I want to have the > >>option to select the xfc

Re: Configuring kdm

2004-06-27 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:17:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently installed xfce4 in my woody system. Now I want to have the > option to select the xfce4 window manager in my kdm menu. How can I do > it? Anybody, could help me please? This is a still outstanding bug in kdm. See bug

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:13:47PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2004 16:00, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:40:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > >> On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > >> > I'm not sure but I bet on the GTK upgrade from a week

Re: Adding debian-menu to xfce4 panel

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:30:32PM +0200, Matthias Kraus wrote: > Simon Huggins schrieb: > >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:50:12PM +0200, Matthias Kraus wrote: > >>I want to add the debian-menu to the xfce4 panel, > >>but I had found no way to do this job. Can anyone >

Re: new X update screwing up xfce4

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:34:48PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > I updated with some package the other day, and my icons on my xfce > taskbar are all chopped off on the edges. sreenshot: > http://www.geocities.com/emperorrob Upstream are doing a new release to fix it. It's caused by the gtk 2.4

Re: Adding debian-menu to xfce4 panel

2004-06-20 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:50:12PM +0200, Matthias Kraus wrote: > I want to add the debian-menu to the xfce4 panel, > but I had found no way to do this job. Can anyone > help, show me an howto, etc. ? As far as I know there's no way to do this though someone asked on IRC today and there's a plugin

Re: aptitude farted?

2004-05-11 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 06:50:31PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > aptitude is trying to remove a bunch of stuff I most assuredly DO > need. I'm hacking on a KDE app. I don't want to remove these. WTF?? [..] > aptitude install checkinstall [..] > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: >

Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-12 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 04:49:04PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:30, Bob Schlärmann wrote: > > GDM recently switched to a new session file format based on .desktop > > files. There's a bug tracking this as well 241080. It'll be fixed in the next upload. (well if I ever g

Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

2004-02-27 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:17:21PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to > Mozilla Firebird? dillo is very lightweight but not very featureful. I guess it depends where your cutoff lies. -- Simon Huggins \ Cows turn them

Re: does moin wiki need Apache 2?

2004-02-18 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:30:48PM +0100, Boudewijn van der Drift wrote: > Does the moin-script perhaps expect Apache 2? I have Apache 1.3.29 on > this sarge machine. No, I have a locally installed copy of moin running on 1.3.26 > [Wed Feb 18 13:22:43 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature e