Re: root console at startup?

thought I'd notice myself typing that. I must have done it in my sleep or something. Anyhow, the problem is solved, thanks. Yours sincerely, -- Jim Ottaway

Re: root console at startup?

g a root shell > always open is a security risk. Thank you. That seems to have worked; I did feel queasy seeing a persistent root shell running that I didn't know about like that. Any idea how I might have enabled the debug-shell service without my noticing? Perhaps it's an option in

root console at startup?

console and starting X with stumpwm manually. Thanks in advance. Yours sincerely, -- Jim Ottaway

Re: docx files

s that I have had to convert so far. Regards, -- Dr Jim Ottaway Research Officer: Translating Neurobiological Research BIOS Centre London School of Economics and Political Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starting letter in latex

o achieve it? > I looked for it into some latex guide but nothing... > > Thank you. You could use either the `dropping' or `lettrine' packages. I have used both, and I think that lettrine is better. There is more information in the TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/te

Re: changin XTerm colors

>>>>> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than >> XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in >> /etc/X11/app-de

Re: changin XTerm colors

rColorBackground: xtermbg *VT100*pointerColor: xtermfg and similar settings for XTerm commented out. I can't remember, though, if that was the problem that these changes was intended to solve. Regards, -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

It is quite well hidden, but look at Filters > Render > Gfig, for a simple vector graphics drawing facility. Regards, -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bit OT]: Latex Gurus?

watermark, and that lead me to find the eso-pic package, > but I couldn't get it to Compile when I used the > \AddToPictureShipout command. I am not a LaTeX guru, but does this do what you want? It does use the eso-pic package though. Regards, Jim Ottaway \documentc

Re: XEmacs TeX mode: Excessive syntax highlighting

can customize this variable. | | Defined in `font-latex'. ` Regards, -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default info browser

>>>>> Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What I'd like to do is force emacs to be my info browser, so that >> 'info foo', for example, will start up emacs, load up info, and >> open the 'foo' info page. Any ideas? >

Re: default info browser

g in a script with emacsclient, emacsclient --eval "(info \"(Emacs)Top\")" goes to the emacs info page in emacs info mode, for example, so something like emacsclient --eval "(info \"(${1})Top\")" ought to work -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Forms data entry software recommendations needed

d for the data enterer too. It is a Windows application, but it runs ok under wine too. Regards -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

ass, which is very flexible and easy to work with to get the layout you want. -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]