Here's another anomaly with my new SuSE 7.2 professional installation: I was able to configure and test a screensaver in the KDE control center. However, when the system sits idle for the specified 5 minutes, and the screensaver should activate, it does not appear to. Instead, when I return to the machine, I find the KDE desktop 'frozen' at the moment the screensaver should have activated. With a keypress or mouse movement, the clock is instantly up-to-date and the logtail window is current. It's a default 7.2 install, using an nvidia Geforce2mx video. I'm using the SuSE-supplied driver. I don't know if this is relevant, but I did some experimenting with anti-aliasing, installing the font server rpm, the two suse-supplied ttf rpms, and I ran fetchmsttfonts. I didn't like the look of console windows, so I turned off antialiasing, but I haven't removed any of the other ttf-related rpms. Anybody got a clue for me? Rick Green P.S. I'm still struggling with fetchmail also. See my post yesterday. Looking closer at the debug messages, it appears that it's sendmail that's refusing to deliver it to my mailbox, not fetchmail that's refusing to get it. I've compared and updated sendmail.rc.config to match my 6.4 and 7.1 systems, but I haven't yet found the solution to this behaviour.
On Saturday 01 September 2001 4:31 pm, Rick Green wrote:
Here's another anomaly with my new SuSE 7.2 professional installation:
I was able to configure and test a screensaver in the KDE control center. However, when the system sits idle for the specified 5 minutes, and the screensaver should activate, it does not appear to. Instead, when I return to the machine, I find the KDE desktop 'frozen' at the moment the screensaver should have activated. With a keypress or mouse movement, the clock is instantly up-to-date and the logtail window is current. It's a default 7.2 install, using an nvidia Geforce2mx video. I'm using the SuSE-supplied driver. I don't know if this is relevant, but I did some experimenting with anti-aliasing, installing the font server rpm, the two suse-supplied ttf rpms, and I ran fetchmsttfonts. I didn't like the look of console windows, so I turned off antialiasing, but I haven't removed any of the other ttf-related rpms.
P.S. I'm still struggling with fetchmail also. See my post yesterday. Looking closer at the debug messages, it appears that it's sendmail that's refusing to deliver it to my mailbox, not fetchmail that's refusing to get it. I've compared and updated sendmail.rc.config to match my 6.4 and 7.1 systems, but I haven't yet found the solution to this behaviour.
Are you running KDE 2.1.2? There is a bug, which is fixed if you run YOU and update the packages for KDE. You need to turn off antialiasing if you want to use the original fonts. I had this "problem" too - things are much better now with the Microsoft TT fonts. M
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Martin Webster wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2001 4:31 pm, Rick Green wrote:
I was able to configure and test a screensaver in the KDE control center. However, when the system sits idle for the specified 5 minutes, and the screensaver should activate, it does not appear to. Instead, when I return to the machine, I find the KDE desktop 'frozen' at the moment the screensaver should have activated. With a keypress or mouse movement, the clock is instantly up-to-date and the logtail window is current.
Are you running KDE 2.1.2? There is a bug, which is fixed if you run YOU and update the packages for KDE. I haven't run YOU yet. I seem to have a mixed system. `rpm -qa | grep kde` tells me that mostly I'm running kde 2.1.1, but kdelibs is at 2.1.2.
You need to turn off antialiasing if you want to use the original fonts. I had this "problem" too - things are much better now with the Microsoft TT fonts.
Yeah, the microsoft fonts are better than the supplied ones, but they still are horrible in a terminal window, where I want a good old-fashioned fixed-pitch font. I seem to remember a post here a month or so ago about editing the font paths, re-inserting all the old fonts as well as the TTF ones. I can't for the life of me find it now that I need it! An acquaintance once told me that he 'mines' all the various demo CD's he gets at work for font files. I've got quite a coaster collection here. Can someone let me know how I might go about it? Rick Green
* Rick Green (rtg@mich.com) [010901 16:24]: -> ->> ->> You need to turn off antialiasing if you want to use the original fonts. I ->> had this "problem" too - things are much better now with the Microsoft TT ->> fonts. -> -> Yeah, the microsoft fonts are better than the supplied ones, but they ->still are horrible in a terminal window, where I want a good old-fashioned ->fixed-pitch font. I seem to remember a post here a month or so ago about ->editing the font paths, re-inserting all the old fonts as well as the TTF ->ones. I can't for the life of me find it now that I need it! -> -> An acquaintance once told me that he 'mines' all the various demo CD's ->he gets at work for font files. I've got quite a coaster collection here. ->Can someone let me know how I might go about it? It also appears to be broken in the newest 2.2 RPM's. The only screensaver that works is Science and if that runs to long it appears to lock X up tight. Anyone else run into this? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org cat CE|ME|NT|XP > /dev/null
On Saturday 01 September 2001 07:23 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Rick Green (rtg@mich.com) [010901 16:24]:
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It also appears to be broken in the newest 2.2 RPM's. The only screensaver that works is Science and if that runs to long it appears to lock X up tight. Anyone else run into this?
-- I highly recommend you try xscreensaver. It has a lot more choices than KDE, even when the KDE screensaver works, and I think some of the xscreensavers are really nice. It's not hard to set up or use. Rich
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