Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Philip Webb wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- & got Kdelibs done, >> then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. >> Some of them went thro' ok, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- & got Kdelibs done, >> then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. >> Some of them went thro' ok, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Philip Webb wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 And a final word: I've finished installing the many parts of KDE 3.5 -- the ones I want : it took 3 h 57 m -- & it seems to be working well

Re: [gentoo-user] change the fonts of gtk application

2006-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
hem (I remembered a previous Holly Hint : smile). I can't understand what the relationship is, but it did work. This is with a KDE 3.5 desktop & apps + Gtk stuff when useful. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] openoffice calc custom "accountancy" number format

2006-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
100.0054.7 265 500 1000.0067.8 143 200 I find it much easier to read tables with varied units this way & always use it when writing tables myself. HTH if no-one can suggest anything closer to your request. -- ========,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
cross the top of the screen (ugh!) & have never looked at it again ... -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
060120 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:51:40 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left mouse-button >> to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, > Apwal looks rather neat. How did you tie it to the LMB in

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase-3.5.0 compilation error

2006-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
1.1.15 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-24 Thread Philip Webb
choice > 5) Click the submit button I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 & there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Phili

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-24 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:43, Philip Webb wrote: >> 060124 Jason Stubbs wrote: >>> I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in >>> portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html &g

Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

2006-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
060125 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:47:29 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >>>> I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5 >>>> & there is no choice to click nor submit button: yes, I logged in. >>> Strange. Well, you should be

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr is full

2006-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
p: try 'man eclean'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-05 Thread Philip Webb
7; & you'll probably get some useful advice. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?

2006-02-14 Thread Philip Webb
d. I recommend using the individual packages, not the big metabuilds. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
ut of those in portage? Kpdf ; Kghostview is ok too. If you don't want to install parts of KDE, the Gnome equivalent is Evince or you can use the simple Xpdf. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox & OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Philip Webb
"show hidden files"; for OO, ditto & follow "View" & ditto or toggle with F8 . Generally, when you can't find something, R-click often brings up a list. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
of using the split ebuilds instead ? Using the latter (3.5.1), I have a lot of separate KDE packages installed & no 'libungif.la' but instead 'libgif.la', which comes from 'media-libs/giflib-4.1.4'. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-28 Thread Philip Webb
060227 David Corbin & Philip Webb discussed: >>> grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory >> Which version of Kdegraphics are you trying to install ? > * kde-base/kdegraphics > Latest version available: 3.4.3-r4 > Latest version installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
e Fluxbox installed too & could switch to that in an emergency. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
m trying the list. Has anyone else encountered any of this ? Should I simply report a bug ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Rp-pppoe 3.7 : solved

2006-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
060318 Philip Webb wrote: > I just updated to Rp-pppoe 3.7 & encountered 2 problems. -- snip -- > (2) The system is trying to set the clock from NTP before ADSL starts: > "Setting clock via NTP client 'ntpdate' ... can't find ... pool.ntp.org"; > of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-20 Thread Philip Webb
es reproduce an OO-created .pdf with an ugly font, whereas Kpdf 3.5.1 reproduces it very nicely. I suggest using Kpdf instead. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Ce

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
upstream but ebuilds not fully tested. I've been using 3.5.1 since 060306 without any problems: simply make USE=~x86 for the packages you want. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] libgnome wants to install sound

2005-04-30 Thread Philip Webb
e no sound card & no sound software installed in my system. why does it not obey my instructions not to install sound pkgs ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs executed as root cannot connect to X server

2005-05-08 Thread Philip Webb
out there? running a KDE 'root konsole', i have no problem starting Gvim . perhaps KDE takes care of the necessary authority & permissions. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread Philip Webb
in the folder list; > at least it's not some weird Thunderbird extension, or my ISP... i haven't seen this phenomenon with Mutt. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] []

[gentoo-user] Xpp "segmentation fault"

2005-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
eg fault is & realise it could be from a dependency. Does anyone have any helpful thoughts ? Upto-date stable Gentoo, KDE 3.4.1 , Xpp 1.5 , Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
va Linux her grandson installed for her, should be very kindly encouraged to go back to his personal support. Gentoo is for people who want to manage their own machine in their own way & the real bouncer at the door is the DIY installation test. -- ========,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

2005-08-06 Thread Philip Webb
yrealname" set in my .muttrc If you use Ssmtp as your MTA, change /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf like mine : # Set this to never rewrite the "From:" line (unless not given) # and to use that address in the "from line" of the envelope. # PP 050302 : uncommented to get '

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt question

2005-08-06 Thread Philip Webb
%d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s" set index_format="%4C %Z %D %-20.20n %5l %s" # PP 031015 for Gentoo -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban &

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
y or deceive that real questions arise. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
people ask or you want to give the figure in an article somewhere, the simple answer today is "more than 10 000 ". -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
you use 'emerge' to install things ... (grin). Apart from the basic media-libs/freetype , the other font packages are in /usr/portage/media-fonts . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELEC

[gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
d-only but it boots to a login prompt as usual. Replacing 'S' with 'single' doesn't work either. Does anyone have single mode set up satisfactorily ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//_

[gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Mariusz P?kala wrote: > On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: >> Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, >> ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? >> The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo >

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: > On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: >> Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, >> ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? > You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line This get

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
ference is for something I can use & look at day after day without being distracted by candy or hindered by awkwardnesses. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Ce

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
R=/var/log/emerge-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each emerge you do. NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PR

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
nfig options solved the problem, but I've just done that & it made no difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem or have any advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECT

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't show >> sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules >> are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
050902 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. >> There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . > I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, > th

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work : solved with comment

2005-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Philip Webb wrote: > 050902 Holly Bostick wrote: >> Philip Webb schreef: >>> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. >>> There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . >> I am also using GKrellm2, and while I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
"hdc is not a valid block device" I changed over a couple of days ago & have the correct devices in /dev . Are you using an upto-date kernel ( 2.6.12-gentoo-r ) ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//

[gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
y reference to Joe, but he doesn't seem to be anywhere. Can anyone suggest where he's lurking ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban &

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:30, Philip Webb wrote: >> Intending to unmerge Joe (I have Vim & E3 as non-GUI editors available), >> I encountered >>   "!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/joe'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
un, if you have the time. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says >> virtual/editor app-editors/nano >> there's no mention of Joe. > In the ebuild it specifies >

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
rks & sometimes -- probably here -- this uncovers strange activities which have been going on underneath some stone unnoticed by everyone. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
--nodepends' ? I've always used Xcdroast, so let's hope the problem is temporary, tho' for ordinary data back-ups, it's not too difficult to use CLI. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
050906 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> The problem with Gnomebaker, Graveman & K3b is that they all require >> a host of sound-oriented dependencies. Do they work with '--nodepends' ? > You might instead try controlling your USE flags: I do,

Re: [gentoo-user] new 2 gentoo

2005-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
masochist, Gentoo is not suitable for your machine. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---'

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
x27;t had need to use it, but it seemed a useful emergency aid. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O-

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

2005-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
nding software which really suits you is a lot like finding a lover/church. Aristotle describes the phenomenon in detail in books 9-10 of his Ethics. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 & revdep rebuild

2005-10-17 Thread Philip Webb
nts to remerge what I just merged, so I do '^c' & merge the other listed items by hand. It looks like a bug in Revdep-rebuild: report it, if you want. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
e data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? > app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools >> (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? >> they hold a lot more data, but is wri

Re: [gentoo-user] Old devfs files in /etc

2005-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
what's going on in your box, which is the real point of using Gentoo in the first place (smile). -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
ure if that would affect "restart" as well. That's just 1 suggestion: HTH. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

2005-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
iled Nvidia etc. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Petteri R?ty wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? >> I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : >> "can't initialise Nvidia module, no qualified screen available" >> (or words to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? >> I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module! >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** abor

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia [SOLVED]

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
|| echo "chmod \"$node\"" chown :video $node || echo "chown \"$node\"" This is simpler than NVmakedevices.sh , which also could disappear: in fact, someone claimed not to have it with some version combination. Thanks to everyone who offered advice

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
what you're not getting ... (smile) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
051109 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> I have 2.6.14 working ok (still ~x86), but am keeping 2.6.12 >> & 2.6.9 around in case something unexpected happens with 2.6.14 . >> However, if I want to use 2.6.12 , I will have to recompile Nvidia. > Why? Yes (

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
CPU is too slow for painless Portage & I update it only once/year. Newcomers to Linux should be advised to try something better than Linspire, but should not be introduced to Gentoo until they're used to UNIX methods & are prepared to invest a bit of their on-going time in sysadmin. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

2005-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
put into .bash_profile like this: 'shopt -s histappend' It's in 'man bash': search for 'histappend'. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
s original query will be (probably next week) to do a series of 'emergeu kdelibs', 'emergeu kjots' etc or perhaps put groups in lists in 'emergeu' commands. My list of installed packages tells me which ones I need to remerge. Linux is about choice

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo & never use it >> except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates >> before emerging some o

Re: [gentoo-user] A confession

2005-12-20 Thread Philip Webb
Exactly ! Back up often, try to understand what you're doing, incl ~x86, but if you do wreck your system, the best bet by far is re-installing Gentoo. And let's tell the devs how much we appreciate their donated time. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Philip Webb
051222 Tom Smith wrote: > What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? You could try 'app-arch/rpm2targz', then install by hand in /usr/local . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
heir lunar year miss out on this season, but we can remember to greet them when Ramadan next ends, a bit earlier each year. Greetings to Gentooists wherever whenever ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
ant a really simple editor, I recommend 'app-editors/e3'. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

[gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
he former, it could create problems for those running experiments; if the latter, does anyone know how it is done ? The last leap second was 1998/9 , before NTP was widely used. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
051225 Ian Hastie wrote: > 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . >> Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? >> Is it just left to the local machine to realis

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
p position. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie

2006-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
tten to somewhere ? add to /etc/make.conf the line 'PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs', which will store it all in that dir (you can clean it out when you want). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Philip Webb
. KDE 3.5.1 would belong in 'probation' at present, 3.4.3 might be 'stable' depending on how many bugs it's known to have. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
ware. Overheating ? Bad memory ? Mobo failure somewhere ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE desktop icons

2006-03-27 Thread Philip Webb
ter), with >>> no results. Any hints. >> Try checking right-button-mouse-click / Icons / Align to grid. > Already tried!! No result. You might be interested in trying x11-misc/apwal as an alternative. -- ,,==== SUP

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
tc, so it's not puritanism ... (smile) -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
060329 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:26 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX. > There's abridge - http://www.abridgegame.org/ - for playing online > or did you me something to play against

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
be cautious that the Linux version might not be supported, ie if you find a serious bug, you have to wait & hope they'll fix it. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...

2006-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
nce? It's clearer if you do 'emerge -etp links', which requires all the GUI stuff: 'emerge -C links && emerge lynx' should solve your problem. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip We

Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
essions/profiles/settings. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
Konqueror-file-manager (all 3.5.1). The effect seems to be that the 2nd R-click is closing an open menu, which may well be a bug in the code: have you reported it to KDE bugs ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [

[gentoo-user] test: please ignore

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
This is a test following setting Fetchmail up as a cron job: ignore. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Philip Webb
it's caused by heavy or badly-written Javascript. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---&

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
URL for further info. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
e (ok maybe I've never found out how to do those things easily). I don't like transparency & other forms of intrusive eye-candy, just simple & pleasing shapes, fonts & colors I can go on looking at. -- ,,======== S

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
Fluxbox, I can replace it with the latter by a simple copy; you would have 'gnome' (or however you start Gnome) for 'fluxbox'. HTH -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTR

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
060511 Zac Slade wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:14, Philip Webb wrote: >> I boot into a raw terminal, then 'startx' & have 2 versions of .xinitrc > There is no need to go through this trouble. > To select a different WM/DE when you startx > all you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC info docs?

2006-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
c-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man/man7/gpl.7.gz -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
oe installed, but I may test the new method soon. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
t;briefly", as you are requesting (smile). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]

2006-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
p; the latter's creator says there never will be. A good excuse to install Linux on your mother-in-law's box (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
you using the most upto-date KDE (3.5.2) ? BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: does anyone else experience this & does anyone have a solution ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb :

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