gnome2 wallpaper changer

2002-10-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hey all, was tooling around and figured out a way to automatically change the gnome2 wallpaper. gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "foo.jpg" one could write up a small script and have this happen regularly with cron. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: whats better? xterm or a new console log on

2002-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:26:35PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > assuming that i am running X, is it better to open an xterm or is it > better to have another virtual console? what will take lesser memory, > resources, etc? Virtual consoles are slightly cheaper, because you don't have a sep

Re: what is /var/mail/sandip?

2002-10-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> most of biff, xbiff, etc programs point to Sandip> /var/mail/sandip directory. what is this? am i missing on Sandip> some powerful feature of linux way of handling mail? is Sandip> there a more elegant way of handling e-mail than

Re: What's the best music sharing/downloading software for linux

2002-10-12 Thread J.S.Sahambi
> > My favorite is giFT (http://gift.sf.net). People say that kazaa lite > works w/ wine, but it didn't work for me. > Kazaa lite works fine with wine for me in Debian. If some body wants to know, I can send the details and command line options for wine with which kazaa lite works. :) J

Re: Printing

2002-10-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"lameth" == lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lameth> Okay I've installed cupsys and cupsys-gimp-print. I lameth> pointed my browser to http://localhost:631 and set up my lameth> epson color stylus 600. When I print a test page it prints lameth> beautifully. My problem is no

Re: whats better? xterm or a new console log on

2002-10-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> its a small question. assuming that i am running X, is it Sandip> better to open an xterm or is it better to have another Sandip> virtual console? what will take lesser memory, resources, Sandip> etc? Hmmman xterm will take

Re: wysiwyg html editor

2002-10-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:38:02AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Incidentally, if you use XEmacs you get an HTML mode based on the > PSGML mode by default. This comes with all the DTDs for HTML, and the > editing mode is fully validating. You can use mouse clicks to figure Dude, that's pretty ba

Re: wysiwyg html editor

2002-10-12 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
> Incidentally, if you use XEmacs you get an HTML mode based on the > PSGML mode by default. This comes with all the DTDs for HTML, and > the editing mode is fully validating. You can use mouse clicks to > figure out what elements are allowed at any point, have emacs > normalize your HTML code, fi

Re: what is /var/mail/sandip?

2002-10-12 Thread Paul Johnson
(Please quote conversationally; http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html) On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:49:22PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > let me get it right. i have just now installed fetchmail-ssl. do i have > to run it as a demon or something as a root? No, you don't need t

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-12 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:41:41 -0700 From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:32:27AM +1000, David Pastern wrote: >> what i'm talking about. My former bosses opinion of Linux was that it was a >> piece of *hit and you couldn't get any support for it, and device driver

Re: Problems running a mixed stable/testing system

2002-10-12 Thread Shawn Willden
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:39 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:05:56PM -0600, Shawn Willden wrote: > > Apt::Default-Release "woody"; > > I don't find this as a valid configuration directive in > /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. I'ts mentioned in the apt-get

Xfree86 4.2.1 Server Problem

2002-10-12 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm running Debian 3.0 testing/unstable on my laptop with KDE 3.0.3. ATI Rage LT Pro graphics chip with 8Mb of memory. The hardware which is a Clevo 665 works fine with most types of Linux. www.clevo.com.tw Everything was fine until a few days ago when I downloaded the lastest Xserver upgra