Re: Mail tool for X

2000-10-04 Thread Peter Malewski
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:11:11AM +0300, Debian User wrote: >Does anybody know a mail tool under X for pick up the mail form the > mail server. Like the one in Netscape but another one ? Under Debian > Potato, of course. fetchmail is the standard tool for this, fetchmailconf builds a .fetchm

Re: ?? .Xdefaults ??

2000-09-28 Thread Peter Malewski
Thanks to all who answered. Actually I checked the hole thing with xrdb -merge and then renamed my .Xdefaults to .Xressources. Additionally I learned another command "xrdb". Thanks. Peter -- P.Malewski, Maschplatz 8, 38114 Braunschweig, Tel.: 0531 500965, At work: (MH-Hannover): 0511 532 3194

?? .Xdefaults ??

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Malewski
Some time ago I used a file ".Xdefaults" where things like emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray emacs*Foreground: White emacs*pointerColor: Orchid emacs*cursorColor: Orchid emacs*bitmapIcon: on etc. stands. I found in the initial .Xsession that the default place is usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources so

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Malewski
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:00:30PM +0200, QBA wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to turn off beeping in linux. It comes from the inner speaker > (not from my sound card and portable speakers) when I press arrow keys > in vi (it's just an example) and the cursor can't go any further. > How am I to do it?

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-11 Thread Peter Malewski
Thanks to all who answered my question. The solution was really easy, but i doesn't came into my mind.. thanks -- P.Malewski, Maschplatz 8, 38114 Braunschweig, Tel.: 0531 500965, MH-Hannover: 0511 532 3194 / Fax: 0511 532 3190, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
Dear Vee-Eye, On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. > > Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. >

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > The keymap that should be loaded is > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz it is there: Uranus:/home/peter# ls /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de* /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz /usr/sha

German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply-To: I just installed debian, potato, on a new comp. Now I cannot use the German keys "a "u "s (latex-babel notation) neither on the console nor with X. I've choosen qwertz-nodeadkeys at installation and several time with "kbdconfig". Curiously the "z" and "y" key

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Malewski
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome > (using > Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I > booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome > is really suppos

Re: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Malewski
It's also the first time I installed debian, previously I used a RH - box. Every dist. has pro and cons, I think, the cons of debian are the relatively large amount of knowledge to master the system. The pros-for me is the estaunishing- "bug-freeness" and the elegance thinks going to work. One is t