Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> 2. As root, I do not have the authority to start or chang any SC> screensaver settings, however when I am an ordinary user, I SC> have the authority to start and change the screensaver SC> settings. The first time I used the screensavers I was an SC> ordinary user. Could that have anything to do with the SC> problem?
xscreensaver isn't terribly happy about being run as root; it assumes that most screensaver plugins aren't written with security in mind, which is probably a valid assumption. The man page suggests that xscreensaver will grudgingly accept the necessity of being root if you're trying to use it in combination with, say, xdm. But other situations aren't really relevant, since you don't really have a good reason to log into X as root (and generally want to avoid doing so). SC> A slight comment about my Debian system is that all file transfers SC> must be done by floppy, from another computer. After cat messed up SC> the ASCII tables for a terminal until rebooting, 'reset' will generally fix this sort of thing. SC> impossible to SC> find commands (I can only view man pages using a text editor), Did you not have the man-db package installed? The "base system" is intended to be just enough Debian to get everything else installed, not to be a useful end-user system on its own. SC> and other such difficulties, could it just be a few bad transfers SC> by floppy, as large packages (>1.4M) have to be made into a SC> spanning archive, transfered, reassembled, then installed. You really have no other way to move files between the machines? There are lots of options besides floppies; you could make Debian CD images if you had a CD burner (http://cdimage.debian.org/), or assemble a small Ethernet-based network, or even if all else failed attach the two computers with a parallel cable (see the PLIP-HOWTO off of http://www.linuxdoc.org/). Or if you're just trying to install, you could order a CD set; http://www.cheapbytes.com/ has Debian 2.2r4 CD sets for $10, plus shipping. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
