Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:46:37AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > 3) Demand dialing works. I have to do a 'pon' manually or through an > exising command script file. You can further automate this by doing this: mv /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot /etc/ppp/ppp_

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-26 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I would like to thank those who have replied to this thread and update you folks on how the various suggestions have helped. 1) Xwrapper.config has been fixed by reconfiguring xfree86-common. The interesting thing is that eventhough I specifed a 'nice' value of -10, the xdm log warned

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:49:57AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > Dosshell was more likely another example of Microsoft's way of finding > new features for Dos/Windows - find a feature/program that you like > and imitate it. It wouldn't surprise me if they

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 24 13:20:34 2003 > ... > Description: Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - normal > version Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It has mouse > support in a linux console and in an xterm. It started as a Norton > Commander clone but now i

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:31:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I think > > it looks better and is easier to use than a

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:31:49 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I think > it looks better and is easier to use than a GUI file > manager. You may be int

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config > because it was not found. This that a red-herring since everything seemed > to be working fine? Yup. Your

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > Hi folks, [Questions 1, 2 and 4 snipped] > 3) Font size of characters in text windows such as Bash, Xterm etc. are too > small. How to adjust them ? As far as an Xterm is concerned you could create (if it does not already exist) $

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi folks, > > This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got > Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re > some fine tuning to be done. > 4) Is there

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030722] Jianan Huang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2) I have to open a Bash window to 'pon' before entering Mozilla and leave > Mozilla to do a 'poff'. Can these be done from within Mozilla? Do : $ zcat /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz | more and find the lines about demand dialing. That

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Sounds like what you want is an autodialer. Not having to use dial-up > anymore (Yea! for cable modems! Woot!), I'm not familiar with them, but > the command "apt-cache search dial|more" turned up "diald" which looks > like it might be what you want. He just needs to run pppcon

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
John Foster wrote: Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwra

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread John Foster
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config because

First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config because it was not found. Thi