gaim and downloader for x

[jb]

Fantastic,
It worked great and was very easy to do. Thanks...
John

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

> The way we do fonts:
>
> $ cp /PATH_TO_NEW_FONTS/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
> $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
> $ chmod 444 *.ttf
> $ mkfontdir
> $ mkfontscale
> $ cd ~
> $ ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ .fonts
> Restart X
>
> That will make a symbolic link in your home called .fonts to read your 
> font directory. That's the way we've done it since RedHat x, and every 
> program does fine. Try that, -Jesse
>
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 22:42, jb wrote:
>
>>/I fixed the downloader for X by forcing a downgrade so the downloader 
>>lockup problem wasn't related to the GAIM problem. The Gaim problem I 
>>may have fixed but I haven't tested it out yet. I got a new screen name 
>>and password. AOL may have had a block of some sort on my old screen 
>>name? I was reading that AOL doesn't specifically target users of non 
>>AOL IM users but they have done it on occasion? So I figured I would try 
>>a new screen name and see if that does the trick.
>>
>>I have a new question if anyone wants to take a stab at it.
>>I added a bunch of True Type Fonts and ran ttmkfdir and chkfontpath then 
>>did an xfs restart. Everything went without a hitch but the only thing 
>>the new fonts show up in is Open Office. I was hoping they would be 
>>system wide as well as for Kword and Abiword. Is there a way to make 
>>them usable system wide? I moved my new font folder to the top of the 
>>list in /etc/X11/fs/config so they would override the old fonts.
>>Any thoughts?
>>Thanks in advance,
>>jb
>>
>>jb wrote:
>>
>>> I've been having problems with GAIM. It connects fine but when I IM 
>>> someone it locks. Everything else like browsers and such work fine. 
>>> I've upgraded and forced downgrades but the same conditions exist. I'm 
>>> also having a similar problem with the downloader. I can start a 
>>> download but the window locks and it still downloads but I can't stop, 
>>> close or see progress of the download. I can see that it is still 
>>> downloading by viewing the kppp stats. Both Gaim and the downloader 
>>> worked in the past so I think maybe it has something to do with my 
>>> firewall? I'm using RH9 with the latest Kernel. Has anyone seen a 
>>> problem like this before or is there anything else I can check or do 
>>> to fix it? Any Ideas or things I can check would be appreciated, thanks.
>>> John
>>>/
>>