Questions repeated because I didn't get answers...
It's possible I missed the answers to my questions for one reason or another, including a problem I'm having with Kmail (mentioned below) or nobody being sure of the answer to all my questions. Even if you can only answer one of the questions, though, I'd appreciate it... * Selecting the Knode icon for the shortcut I added to the KDE taskbar doesn't work; it shows the Knewsticker icon instead. It looks right when I'm selecting it, but not on the bar. Selecting other icons works fine; for instance, I can select the Smiletris icon for it. Why isn't this working? * Why does it take so long for icons of programs I've installed/uninstalled to appear/disappear? Is there anything I can do to speed things up? * What determines which fonts are offered as fixed-width fonts under the Look and Feel -> Fonts menu? The selections seem to be, uh, bad and wrong, leaving out fonts I know are fixed-width and including fonts that are obviously NOT fixed-width. * I can't see the bodies of some mail I receive. Some of it comes from Yahoo Groups, so I can visit them and find out what I'm missing. Looks like it may be multipart MIME and/or HTML mail. I'm using Kmail; how do I see the hidden text? * What's a good DVD player for Linux? Being an ex-Windows user, ease of installation is important to me, but feature-richness is important too. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, and merry Christmas!
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 07:43, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
It's possible I missed the answers to my questions for one reason or another, including a problem I'm having with Kmail (mentioned below) or nobody being sure of the answer to all my questions. Even if you can only answer one of the questions, though, I'd appreciate it...
If you have several questions start several threads, one per question. You're much more likely to get answers that way.
* What determines which fonts are offered as fixed-width fonts under the Look and Feel -> Fonts menu? The selections seem to be, uh, bad and wrong, leaving out fonts I know are fixed-width and including fonts that are obviously NOT fixed-width.
Fonts under X have a "spacing" property of "m" for monospaced. I would presume that's how they are selected under KDE's control panel. Run the old 'xfontsel' utility and set the "spc" to "m". That restricts it to showing you the fonts which match that critera (i.e. which are monospaced). It isn't the most usable utility around, although it might be useful in this case. At least you'll be able to see which monospaced fonts X has; whether KDE correctly recognises them as such you'll have to work out.
* I can't see the bodies of some mail I receive. Some of it comes from Yahoo Groups, so I can visit them and find out what I'm missing. Looks like it may be multipart MIME and/or HTML mail. I'm using Kmail; how do I see the hidden text?
Sounds like the HTML display isn't working for those emails. You should, of course, have that turned off anyway for security reasons.
* What's a good DVD player for Linux? Being an ex-Windows user, ease of installation is important to me, but feature-richness is important too.
Ogle is probably pick of the bunch. Other folks might recommend others. Check the list archives. You won't find anything to feature-match WinDVD under Windows though. -- Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://www.linux.conf.au/ Explain to your boss the benefits of you going...
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:53, Derek Fountain wrote: (In response to my question:)
* I can't see the bodies of some mail I receive. Some of it comes from Yahoo Groups, so I can visit them and find out what I'm missing. Looks like it may be multipart MIME and/or HTML mail. I'm using Kmail; how do I see the hidden text?
Sounds like the HTML display isn't working for those emails. You should, of course, have that turned off anyway for security reasons.
Well, I've since received some messages of which I can only see: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. So how do I see the rest (the text portions, anyway) of messages like this in KMail? I can't find the relevant button.
On Friday 27 December 2002 00:00, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
Well, I've since received some messages of which I can only see:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
So how do I see the rest (the text portions, anyway) of messages like this in KMail? I can't find the relevant button.
To answer my own message, in case anyone was curious: apparently, I needed to change my incoming email transport from AUTO to POP3. I dunno why this worked, but it did. (scratches head)
The 02.12.30 at 15:39, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
So how do I see the rest (the text portions, anyway) of messages like this in KMail? I can't find the relevant button.
To answer my own message, in case anyone was curious: apparently, I needed to change my incoming email transport from AUTO to POP3. I dunno why this worked, but it did. (scratches head)
Just a guess: perhaps you were using imap folders without local copy, and perhaps in that case atachments are not downloaded (by default) till you request them. If that is the case, it is a nice "feature". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:53, Derek Fountain wrote: (In reply to me asking:)
* What determines which fonts are offered as fixed-width fonts under the Look and Feel -> Fonts menu? The selections seem to be, uh, bad and wrong, leaving out fonts I know are fixed-width and including fonts that are obviously NOT fixed-width.
Fonts under X have a "spacing" property of "m" for monospaced. I would presume that's how they are selected under KDE's control panel. Run the old 'xfontsel' utility and set the "spc" to "m". That restricts it to showing you the fonts which match that critera (i.e. which are monospaced). It isn't the most usable utility around, although it might be useful in this case. At least you'll be able to see which monospaced fonts X has; whether KDE correctly recognises them as such you'll have to work out.
Hm. Well, that explains some of the bad choices: they're Chinese, Japanese, et cetera. (Their spacing is 'c', whatever that means.) I don't see Lucida Console at all, though (I installed it from my Windows partition), so I don't know if it's correctly set as monospaced or not. Any suggestions on how to get it to show up as a fixed-width font? It shows up in the other menus, so KDE knows where it is...
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 08:43, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
* What's a good DVD player for Linux? Being an ex-Windows user, ease of installation is important to me, but feature-richness is important too.
There are several choices with each one having it's supporters who swear that the one they like is much better than the others. You short list would probably be: - MPlayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ - Xine http://xinehq.de/ - Ogle http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ For all-in-one players I would suggest you take a look at Mplayer or Xine. Pick the one that suits you. My preference is for MPlayer mostly because I could get it to work very easily and Xine was a bit too much for my limited patience. MPlayer is included with SuSE8.1. Be aware that this is a severely limited version due to licensing issues etc. If you want a fully functioning version download the source and build a new version. The latest MPlayer even handles Quicktime Sorenson3 now. I think it actually handles all video formats available now... I can't find one it cannot play. Hope this bit helps. C.
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