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On Sunday 09 August 2009 05:40:07 Stroller wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode |
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> on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a |
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> headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine. |
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> Unfortunately, the fonts are pretty large - I would prefer to |
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> configure these on a KDE-wide basis, as the "Location, Edit, View, &c" |
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> is equally large in Konqueror, which opens if I click a link in a |
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> usenet posting in knode. |
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Did you just install knode, or more than that? knode gives you knode, not the |
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other 50 packages that make up a basic KDE session :-) |
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I suspect you might not have the control centre and it's modules at all, so |
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you don;t have the background settings daemon thingy that controls the look |
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and feel of all of kde. |
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Edit ~/.kderc to set defaults you like |
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Or you could install the kdebase-meta to get everything for a basic session. A |
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bit of a waste just for knode... |
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> Version of knode: |
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> $ eix knode |
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> [I] kde-base/knode |
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> Available versions: |
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> (3.5) 3.5.9 3.5.10 |
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> (4.2) ~4.2.4 |
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> (4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t |
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> {aqua arts debug elibc_FreeBSD handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix |
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> kontact xinerama} |
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> Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(13:07:37 25/06/09)(-debug - |
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> elibc_FreeBSD) |
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> Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ |
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> Description: A newsreader for KDE |
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> It appears that `kcmshell` is provided by kde-base/kdelibs, but I |
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> don't know what the "!t" in the below means: |
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The eix man page is written in Martian. You don't understand it, I don;t |
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understand it and the developer has no clue what he is doing - if he did, this |
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question would not arise. He is making the fatal flaw of "exposing the |
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implementation in the interface or documentation" But having said that, "!t" |
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means that knode is subject to |
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RESTRICT="test" |
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This fact is hidden deep in the man page, in section "OUTPUT", subsection |
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"Slots", 4th example. Line 647 of 709 on my box (terminal 100 chars wide) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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