Re: default X font sizes
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, nate wrote: > John Batistic said: > > I have just completed a Woody install to XFS file system. > > > > My default X font sizes are way too big. > > /etc/X11/fs/config used to control font size, but now has no effect. > > Renaming fs makes no difference, so default font size is under the control > > of something else. > > > > Where will I find the default X font size setting? > > one place to look: > > /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc > > I believe the default is 100dpi, which looks like: > exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > you can try to change this to 75 dpi by doing: > exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp > > be sure you have the 75dpi fonts installed(apt-cache search 75dpi) > > then restart X, hopefully the fonts will be smaller, if your > using a display manager I reccomend logging out, then hitting > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X I don't know which of the 3 suggestions (/etc/X11/fs/config, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, or XF86Config-4 Fontpath:) in this thread did the trick - I tried them all but I think it was just the fs config file in the end - but I did notice that no changes took effect until I poked the fontserver as well as restarted X. i.e. if xfs was process 314, kill -HUP 314 -r -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie: apt->x11 only?
I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, without success i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn't get it to not update a lot of things, even with 'Directly requested' mode. thanks for help! MOTIVATING PROBLEM (in case someone has a direct solution): X on ATI Rage LT Pro in an Inspiron 7000 1024x768 I've used steve hsieh's patched Mach64 (X3.3.6, http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/) in the past, but it fails with potato for some reason. However, his suggested XF86Config works with the "ati" driver in X4.0 from redhat7. I'd really rather use Debian than Redhat, but I also want Xwindows. thanks
Re: StarOffice installation. - related problem?
> > I'm trying to install Star Office 5.2 on Potato (2.2r2). I had ... > > setup: permission denied. > > As best I remember, the setup script is not executable out of the box. > You need to either make it executable, chmod u+x, or run it from a > shell. I think the README says something to that effect. Any of these > ought to do it. > > # . ./setup /net > #sh ./setup /net > #bash ./setup /net dunno about ./setup, but i had to make the big file i downloaded (so-5_2.-something-.bin) executable as bud says. then it installed happily. one installed, i can only run the thing as root - as a user it complained about not finding /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc so i made that file world writeable and now it just fails to start w/o any error. thx ------ |Remy Indebetouw303-492-5835 | |CASA/ARL, APS, University of Colorado at Boulder| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://casa.colorado.edu/~indebeto | --
emacs site file
excuse me if slightly off-topic, but where do i stick an emacs site-start.el file (if that's even the right thing - i want a global .emacs) /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp don't work. thx in advance. ------ |Remy Indebetouw303-492-5835 | |CASA/ARL, APS, University of Colorado at Boulder| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://casa.colorado.edu/~indebeto | --
partial upgrade confusion
I have potato but libc6 (and a couple of other things, I think binutils) from woody. I need lib6c-dev, but want as little else as possible. I tried pointing my sources.list at woody, running apt-get upgrade, and apt-get install libc6-dev. It wants to do a lot of things that I didn't think would be related (see below), like remove gnome. Can i do this in a simpler manner, without so many other changes, or does all this depend on each other? Why do all these other packages depend on libc6-dev? (as opposed to libc6) Or should I try to downgrade my libc6, hoping that I don't have much else from woody that will break? Thanks in advance for any help. >apt-get install libc6-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf debconf-utils debhelper dialog dpkg-dev esound esound-common freeciv gnome-games-locale html2text imlib-base libart2 libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcapplet1 libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libesd0 libfreetype6 libgnorbagtk0 libgpmg1 libgtk1.2-common libncurses5 libperl5.6 libpopt0 libreadline4 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libzvt2 locales mc mc-common perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-suid perl-base perl-modules perl-suid whiptail xfree86-common The following packages will be REMOVED: alien balsa eeyes freeciv-gtk gedit gftp gimp gimp-nonfree gmc gnome-admin gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-mahjongg gnome-media gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pim gnome-print gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomehack gnomeicu gnosamba gnotepad+ gnotes gnumeric gps gqview gtkglarea4 gtop guitar gxanim libcapplet0 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgtk1.2 libgtkxmhtml1 libobgnome0 libobgtk1 python-gtk rpm ssh-askpass-gnome task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-net task-science xchat-gnome xcontrib xsm The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-utils html2text libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libc6-dev libcapplet1 libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libfreetype6 libgtk1.2-common libperl5.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 perl perl-modules perl-suid The following held packages will be changed: guitar task-gnome-apps 27 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 74 to remove and 336 not upgraded. Need to get 21.0MB of archives. After unpacking 26.4MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Re: partial upgrade confusion
Thanks for the reply; The thing I don't understand is if all the other upgrades are tied to upgrading libc6, how I got libc6 on there in the first place without upgrading the rest (I've got libc6-2.2.5-3 according to dselect). Given that everything seems to be happy with libc6-2.2.5-3, can I just force it to install libc6-dev and leave libc6 and associated dependencies alone? Perhaps my understanding of dependencies is faulty? Attempting to get the newer apt has the same problem of libc6 showing up as needing to be installed/upgraded, and then all the other packages as well. Thanks, -remy On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Also, if you get only one thing from woody, let it be apt. You should > set yourself up with a nice /etc/apt/preferences to make running a > hybrid (potato/woody) system MUCH easier to maintain. > > > Why do all these other packages depend on libc6-dev? (as opposed to > > libc6) > > Not the case; see below. > > > >apt-get install libc6-dev > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > debconf debconf-utils debhelper dialog dpkg-dev esound esound-common > > freeciv > > gnome-games-locale html2text imlib-base libart2 libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 > > libc6 > ^ > there's the rub. > > dpkg -s libc6-dev | grep "Version\|Depends" > Version: 2.2.5-3 > Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-3) > > The -dev depends on the libc6 package, which in turn wants to upgrade > *everything* else.
Re: x-forwarding with ssh
The default doesn't do X-forwarding. ssh -X remote.machine does. I never bothered to track down the config file where -X could be made default but I'm pretty sure there is one. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nick Wright wrote: > Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: > > Is this a problem with ssh and my x-forwarding? > if so, how do you change the x-forwarding options in ssh? > if not, what is the problem and how do I fix it? :)
Re: backlight off w/o suspend
Apologies for any protocol breach; I started this question on debian-laptop, but thought there might be a few more kind people to help on the higher-traffic list. Original question: > I'd like to turn off the backlight when I'm away for the day, but leave > unsuspended so I can connect back from work via the cable modem. > > There was a similar question last summer and the suggestion to switch to > CRT; something like that would be fine with me, except that the fn-f8 that > would appear to accomplish this on my Dell I7K doesn't do anything. A couple of people suggested having the bios do the job, but my bios power settings seem to be ignored in linux. This raises a question i've had for a long time - does APM even pay attention to the bios settings, or does it do its own thing? I was under the impression the latter. More original question: thanks to two people who suggested noflushd, which appears to have taken care of most of this (it wakes up occasionally even when not using the machine, but not very often) > Also, the Battery-Operated mini-HOWTO seems dated and not always > applicable to debian (e.g. no update call in /etc/inittab), so any > suggestions for better advice on reducing syncing and flushing intervals > w/o a full suspend would also be appreciated. Thank you, -r manually input useful .sig per 'suggestion' thread: i'm running mostly potato with some woody
another potato/woody X3/4 question
I've got a potato/woody pinned hybrid, and my main reluctance to just dist-upgrade is related to this: I appear to have both Xfree 3 and 4 (see apt-cache output below; I didn't purposefully do this, parts of X4 came along with libc6-dev, I think. BTW thanks to those who convinced me that apt would not lead me astray in a hydrid system. deb packaging rocks once again). I used a patched Mach64 server on my Dell I7K laptop (ATI Rage), so what I'd like to do is configure and try X4 without trashing X3, or at least know how to get back, so -how do i tell if I have all parts of X4 (I thought this was x-window-system) -how would i get back if it doesn't work? restore the old /etc/X11/XF86Config and what else?? -once X4 works can i just purge task-x-window-system to wipe X3? Thanks in advance. agave:~> apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common task-x-window-system xbase x-window-system xserver-xfree86: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.1.0-14 Version Table: 4.1.0-14 0 50 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages xfree86-common: Installed: 4.1.0-13 Candidate: 4.1.0-13 Version Table: 4.1.0-14 0 50 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages *** 4.1.0-13 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.3.6-11potato32 0 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages task-x-window-system: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.1 Version Table: 2.1 0 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages xbase: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.3.6-11potato32 Version Table: 3.3.6-11potato32 0 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages x-window-system: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.1.0-14 Version Table: 4.1.0-14 0 50 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages
Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:38:54PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > Can you please explain what do WV and bwy stands for ? I know this is > > way off-topic, but it's funny anyway and don't want to miss a thing :) > > WV = West Virginia, home of (among other things) Sen Robert Byrd, who > has made some really hilarious speeches from the Senate floor (for > instance, he mops the kitchen floor for his wife). interesting place for this thread to wind up, since it was Byrd got congress to build one of the best new radio telescopes in the country. dunno how much it'll get used for SETI, but probably some. one of the other biggest new projects in radio astronomy, the Allen telescope (yes, the same Allen of the evil empire, he's paying for it) will be primarily used for SETI. whatever we're listening for, we're soon to start listening even more carefully (and do some good astrophysics on the side)
