[techtalk] "losing" mouse on virtual machine
I'm running RH6.0 on a VMware virtual machine on an NT4 box. Install went swimmingly (thanks to all those who recommended VMware btw...), but after I got X running and started trying to tweak stuff, it started locking up. Well, maybe it's X. maybe it's just my mouse. I'll be working along in a couple different terminal windows, suddenly I'll be unable to use my mouse. I can move the pointer icon around, but it will not select, resize, etc. Basically it's like it doesn't exist. I can still type, and if I escape out of the vm to my NT desktop my mouse is working fine there, but is still "lost" when I get back to my vm. So far in VMware I haven't (bothered) to figure out how to swtich between virtual terminals so that I might see any pertinent errors. ctrl+alt+ - (or is it + -- I've tried all those combos) does not seem to be letting me get out of X either. So basically this message is a cry for hints on where to start troubleshooting! (or, depending on responses, a sign from a higher power that I need to forget X and stick with the beloved CLI.) ~~~Nicoya... ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] "losing" mouse on virtual machine
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:00:50AM -0600, Nicoya wrote: > I'm running RH6.0 on a VMware virtual machine on an NT4 box. I believe VMware runs a news server for support and troubleshooting -- I'd recommend starting there. 'news.vmware.com', I think. -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "It's easier than thinking!" Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc. -- Rick Moen http://www.semo.net ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)
The problem with RTFwhateveris that it's not always obvious what one needs to be reading. I'm running Debian. I've got two main issues here: - Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the stuff and what other folks' do on their boxen so they can mount the shared stuff. I am running smbd (because we share the printer) but I have no clue how it was set up (by someone who is not available). - Issue 2: I really like Eterm but I want to train it to start with the big font, and have a transparent, shaded background (and in my dreams, have it pick a random tint). I understand that this is a themes thing, but as I can't even figure out how to use a downloaded theme, I'm totally lost on how to make this work. - -- J-Mag Guthrie/"\ "Even Microsoft's product managers privately Brokersys\ / concede that this new version, with its 281-580-3358 (voice) Xwarm-and-fuzzy nickname of Windows Me, 281-586-0628 (fax) / \ is not for everyone." -- Dwight Silverman ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)
"J-Mag Guthrie" wrote: > The problem with RTFwhateveris that it's not always obvious what > one needs to be reading. Eh, I hate it when someone says "RTFM" without telling you WHICH manpage to read ;) > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on their boxen so they can mount the shared > stuff. I am running smbd (because we share the printer) but I have no > clue how it was set up (by someone who is not available). To understand permissions, read the chmod manpage. It is pretty thorough in its explanation. Once your permissions are set correctly, your users can mount the shared directory very easily using smbmount. I am not sure on the syntax but the smbmount manpage should have that. -Sally ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:28:31AM -0600, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on their boxen so they can mount the shared > stuff. I am running smbd (because we share the printer) but I have no > clue how it was set up (by someone who is not available). This response is quite detailed - apologies if you know an assortment of this stuff already. And I'm not even answering all of it :) The first part is creating a place that all users can write to and read from. The place is totally up to you. We do this exact thing at work and have created a /mp3 directory. Then you need to set the permissions so that all users can read/write. This means finding a group that all the users are in, or creating one. (Use the command 'id [user]' liberally and look at /etc/group .) Since Debian's default behaviour is to have a user in a group with their name, you'll probably have to make one. Call it the mp3 group. Use the command 'groupadd [name]' to add a new group. The entry in /etc/group would look like: [name]:x:[groupid]:[usernames,comma,separated,like,this] Manually adding usernames works, but people will have to relogin/remount samba shares to get the permissions. Also keep in mind that every time you add a new user you (or something automated) needs to add their name to /etc/group Now you need to change the group ownership of the directory using 'chown .[groupname] [directoryname]' and modify the group permissions so that the group can read and write. I have written an FAQ for a uni message board which is basically a guide to having a UNIX account on that system - the section on file permissions is universally relevant (feel free to critise everyone :) ) - see http://www.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~mgardine/faq.html Now as samba there are two options: 1) The cheat option. Create a symbolic link in everyone's home directory to the mp3 directory 'ln -s [mp3directory] ~[user]/mp3'. Again this is something that has to be added for all new users. Provided their whole home directory is shared, this will appear in their samba share. I *believe* - have nowhere to test - that samba follows symlinks. 2) Edit the samba config to make mp3 a share. I don't know much about samba so someone else will have to field that. Note that there are of course security issues with this, as with allowing users to do anything. There's quite a simple attack on the system which can be done, deliberately or not, by filling up an important partition so that the system suddenly can't read or write to it anymore. If you have separate partitions on the drive, put the mp3 directory on a non-system partition - /home is an example (that way people will not be able to write to their home directory and will be inspired to delete some mp3s'). Also the setup described above lets people delete other people's mp3s. If you don't want this to happen, you'll have to do something like our work setup: 1) Create a separate mp3 directory. 2) Let each user have their own mp3 directory, user writable, group readable. 3) Have symlinks to all the user mp3 directories from the main mp3 directory. 4) Create a samba mp3 share to the main mp3 directory. Anyway if you do want to RTM, an assortment of commands needed to do the above described (and all have man pages): mkdir, groupadd, usermod (another way to change user's group membership - careful it can nuke their existing memberships), chmod, ln Mary. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-100 [techtalk] How do I ... ? (.. by J-Mag Guthrie@brokersys. > Issue 2: I really like Eterm but I want to train it to start with the big > font, and have a transparent, shaded background (and in my dreams, have it > pick a random tint). I understand that this is a themes thing, but as I > can't even figure out how to use a downloaded theme, I'm totally lost on > how to make this work. To use the basic transparent theme, I use: Eterm -t trans (the -t means you want to tell it what theme to use.) I have also modified this theme slightly. I copied the files in the transparent theme (which I found in /usr/share/Eterm/themes) to the directory ~/.Eterm/laurel (~/ is as it means in the shell, my home directory), then trial-and-error-ly edited those files. So now, I can also do: Eterm -t laurel to use that theme. My set up and eterm could be different, however, especially since Eterm likes to change a lot between releases. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] "MS Office" type software
I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table of contents, footnotes, page numbers, headings, etc. Hopefully also #include'd files (eg chapter1.doc, chapter2.doc and book.doc which includes all the chapters and changes if I change chapter1.doc) It probably eventually needs to come out in MS Word format. But I'm trying to avoid actually MAKING it in MS Word. Hopefully I can avoid booting into Windows at all. I hate it. It drives me nuts. I don't suppose I can do it in LaTeX and convert it across later? I don't know of any conversion software that'll take complex LaTeX and convert it to MS Word or RTF or anything word'll read. How does the Office-type software for Linux go at this sort of a job? I've never used any of it before ... never needed it. .. I always mark stuff up in HTML or in LaTeX. *sigh* a whiney bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to : get Perl. Horrors. :-) -- Larry Wall ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software
How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord format? Would that work? L. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with > included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table > of contents, footnotes, page numbers, headings, etc. Hopefully > also #include'd files (eg chapter1.doc, chapter2.doc and book.doc > which includes all the chapters and changes if I change > chapter1.doc) > > It probably eventually needs to come out in MS Word format. But > I'm trying to avoid actually MAKING it in MS Word. > > Hopefully I can avoid booting into Windows at all. I hate it. > It drives me nuts. > > I don't suppose I can do it in LaTeX and convert it across later? > I don't know of any conversion software that'll take complex > LaTeX and convert it to MS Word or RTF or anything word'll read. > > How does the Office-type software for Linux go at this sort of a > job? I've never used any of it before ... never needed it. .. I > always mark stuff up in HTML or in LaTeX. > > *sigh* > > > a whiney > bekj > > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software
Hi Bek, You may want to give ted a try. http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Features · Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font. Ted is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are available on Motif systems and in all postscript printers: Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. Other fonts can be added with the normal X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and italic are supported; so is underlining and are subscripts and superscripts. · Ted uses Microsoft RTF as its native file format. Microsoft Word and Wordpad can read files produced by Ted. Usually Ted can read .rtf files from Microsoft Word and Wordpad. As Ted does not support all features of Word,some formatting information might be lost. · In line bitmap pictures. · PostScript printing. Saved PostScript files contain pdfmarks to keep links when they are converted to Acrobat PDF. · Spelling checking in twelve Latin languages. · Directly mailing documents from Ted. · Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications. · Find/Replace. · Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line, Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler. · Page breaks. · Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width of tables with their ruler. · Symbols and accented characters are fully supported. · Hyperlinks and bookmarks. · Saving a document in HTML format. HTH, Davida -Original Message- From: Bek Oberin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table of contents, footnotes, page numbers, headings, etc. Hopefully also #include'd files (eg chapter1.doc, chapter2.doc and book.doc which includes all the chapters and changes if I change chapter1.doc) It probably eventually needs to come out in MS Word format. But I'm trying to avoid actually MAKING it in MS Word. Hopefully I can avoid booting into Windows at all. I hate it. It drives me nuts. I don't suppose I can do it in LaTeX and convert it across later? I don't know of any conversion software that'll take complex LaTeX and convert it to MS Word or RTF or anything word'll read. How does the Office-type software for Linux go at this sort of a job? I've never used any of it before ... never needed it. .. I always mark stuff up in HTML or in LaTeX. *sigh* a whiney bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to : get Perl. Horrors. :-) -- Larry Wall ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software
Lilly S. wrote: > How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord > format? Would that work? Is WP available for Linux? Is it free? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A 'Friend' is someone I'd die for. A 'Love' is someone I *Live* : for. -- Jim Baranski ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software
Yup... I'm pretty sure it's open source. It came with my version of Red Hat 6.1. It was bundled in there.. You can download it from http://linux.corel.com/ On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Lilly S. wrote: > > How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord > > format? Would that work? > > Is WP available for Linux? Is it free? > > > bekj > > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software
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Re: [techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:25:23PM -0500, Lilly S. wrote: > Yup... I'm pretty sure it's open source. It came with my version of Red > Hat 6.1. It was bundled in there.. WordPerfect is NOT open-source or Free software. It seems to be available as a free download of a 90-day 'trial version', and only for non-commercial use. If use of proprietary, closed-source software is acceptable for you, be sure to at least read their End User License Agreement before you bind yourself to it: http://linux.corel.com/products/wp8/download_eula.htm -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "Never tell the truth to Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.those unworthy of it." http://www.semo.net-- Mark Twain ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themeswork)
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on their boxen so they can mount the shared > stuff. I am running smbd (because we share the printer) but I have no > clue how it was set up (by someone who is not available). Do you know what version you're running? Each version has different options. I wholeheartedly agree with the previous answer to configuration of the samba server. Setting up a seperate group and placing a seperate partition from necessary system files are good precautions. But I don't think there was any mention on how to set up the samba permissions. The easiest way to change the smb.conf file is to use the provided program called 'swat'. It's very easy to use and it helps configure all the sections such as global setup, particular user directory sharing, printers, and other stuff. Here's a really basic example section for mp3 sharing in a smb.conf file: [mp3_share] comment = MP3 Files path= /path/to/mp3s writeable = Yes #other options > Issue 2: I really like Eterm but I want to train it to start with the big > font, and have a transparent, shaded background (and in my dreams, have it > pick a random tint). I understand that this is a themes thing, but as I > can't even figure out how to use a downloaded theme, I'm totally lost on > how to make this work. Depending on our version of Eterm -- it will vary. I can give you an idea about the latest version v0.9 . What you need to find out is how Eterm is being called like if you're calling it from within Gnome or just regular Enlightenment window manager. You'll need to edit the file(s) by hand or through a configuration manager. To change the font, add the -F . Or go through the standard fonts that are available by using --font1, --font2, --font3, --font4 or you can specify different effects on the font using --font-fx . Or if you just want to make your current font bigger use --bigger-font-key but I've never really used this option, so I don't remember exactly how that works. To make transparent, add -O or --trans . To change the tints (brightness, contrast, gamma) use --cmod. To change just certain ranges of the primary colors use --cmod-red, --cmod-green, or --cmod-blue. Look at the FAQ for informaiton on the trick on how to use them. As for random tints, I have no idea. =) Beverly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chno2.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
