Re: Bloat in desktop environments

On May 17, 10:10 am, "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB KDE does not require 512 MB of memory to run well. That URL yo

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:25:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:01:41PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > >> This is a function of y

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

On May 16, 10:00 am, "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them > installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop > or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I > would like to

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:04 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. Everyone has a right (at least in > the US) to the "pursuit of happiness." Not really. The phrase comes from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. There's no explicit right

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any way to get that? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xterm fonts

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with > fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. > But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able > to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the r

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:04 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. Everyone has a right (at least in the US) to the "pursuit of happiness." Not really. The phrase comes from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. There's no

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

On 05/17/2007 08:42 AM, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/deb

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". > > > (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) > > Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list? Thre

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > Given the current status of gay marriage in the U.S., we plainly do not > have an unambiguous right to the pursuit of happiness -- not when the > President, playing to the typically bigoted and intolerant Christian > base of the Repub

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:52:15PM -0700, pedxing wrote: > > > > I would like > > > > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > > > > wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy > >

Re: list running applications

On May 17, 6:00 pm, Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The wmctrl command with the -l option will list windows on your current > display, given a supportive window-manager. fluxbox is one such. Other > options _might_ get you the name of the command owning (a) window(s), > but that is

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

On 2007-05-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a look at the package "console-setup". It allows you to set up the > keyboard for the console in a way that is very similar to what you know > from Xkb. If you work on the console a lot you will probably also > appreciate that consol

Re: [OT, sorry] Re: keyboard tweaking without X

On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks I'll look into that. Now that you've inadvertently put me onto >> w3m.el (if a lit student can do it...) > > Hehehe...revealing my area of study does actually tend to make > people more receptive to computer-y suggestions, but *less

Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:24:36 -0700 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be > wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, > etc. What is the best tool for Gnome? > > -- > Raquel > I have gphoto2 working for downloadin

Re: xterm fonts

cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two > > other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them > > give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable > > fo

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alright, you've hit home, so I'm done ignoring this thread... On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:21:53 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > > > Given the current status of gay marr

Re: xterm fonts

> Also how to use the dektop icons that > DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > I already installed fbdesk but it > seems of no use at all or is it > buggy? ibid. What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such thing with apt. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm sub

Re: Really slow xterm

On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > For "large" scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines, > xterm has its own problems. Hmm... yes. I've tried with xterm using a 20,000-line scrollback, and zsh: for i in {1..3}; echo $i On my 400 Mhz PowerBook G4, Debian/testing, XTerm 22

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

The solution (okay, my solution) is to switch to one of the nifty new removable USB hard drives. Bigger than a flash drive, sure, but you can format it EXT2 if you'll never use it on a Windows box, and since what's in there is an IDE hard disk drive, syncing it won't hurt it worth mentioning. And

Where do you get beaver?

I have installed minimal X on Etch Stable. Nicely working. Copy/paste from firefox and in to vi/jed doesn't seem to work, nor the other way round. So I wanted a small and nice X text editor which I can use as a medium to save the clipboard text and then paste in to vi/jed sessions and vice-versa.

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 18:25, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:04 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. Everyone has a right (at least in >> the US) to the "pursuit of happiness." > > > Not really. The phrase co

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 18:58, pedxing wrote: > On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >>> Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". >>> (Web

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:29, Carl Fink wrote: > The solution (okay, my solution) is to switch to one of the nifty new > removable USB hard drives. Bigger than a flash drive, sure, but you can > format it EXT2 if you'll never use it on a Windows box, and since w

Re: Bug???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 piter_p_92 escribió: > Hello! > I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding hdd. I > heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is anybody who > reported about this bug so i'm writing. > Thx Hey, whick is you

Re: xkb options

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:46:16PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:44:12 -0400 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:49:15PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:51:35 -0500 > > > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/17/07 20:29, Carl Fink wrote: > > The solution (okay, my solution) is to switch to one of the nifty new > > removable USB hard drives. Bigger than a flash drive, sure, but you can > > format it EXT2 if you'll never use it on a Wi

Duplicate menu item

Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in 'Appearance'. How can I remove one of them? Regards, Alan. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Connect to Internet through

On May 17, 11:10 am, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would have to explain your setup more or we might give you all the wrong > advice. For example: > 1. Are you getting internet access through 'cable' (which requires a cable > modem, probably built into the cable TV receiver) OR > 2.

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:00:09AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I have installed minimal X on Etch Stable. Nicely working. > > Copy/paste from firefox and in to vi/jed doesn't seem to work, nor the > other way round. So I wanted a small and nice X text editor which I > can use as a medium to save the c

Re: Traffic monitoring in small office

On May 17, 8:10 pm, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rocky wrote: > > Hey, > > > In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts > > from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 > > ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The > >

Re: xkb options

* cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070517 21:28]: > > But where I am impressed most of all is that I cannot imagine Russell > spending a couple of hours writing this mini-tutorial of his. He will > in/con-firm this .. but I have a feeling that since he appears to be a > proficient typist it was just

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

Deboo ^ wrote: >> Does user postfix have access to the key file ? > > I chowned the postfix directory to user postfix and still it's the same > thing. Maybe you need to explicitly chmod/chown the key files to postfix user. Worth givving a shot. > > > Should I regenerate the keys? If the above

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:13:18PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > A few points: > > > > - There is no *scripture* that can be used in support of preventing > >interracial marriage. The words of the judge that you quoted are > >certainly *not* the words of God. > > So the Bible is t

Re: do anyone work on translating the maint-guide ?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:56:42PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello ,.. > i don't want to start working (translating ) on some thing that some > one allready started: > translating the package creation guide : debian new maintainer guide > into he

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:00:09AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I have installed minimal X on Etch Stable. Nicely working. > > Copy/paste from firefox and in to vi/jed doesn't seem to work, nor the > other way round. So I wanted a small and nice X text editor which I > can use as a medium to save the c

Re: Duplicate menu item

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:14 +0530, Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed > it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my > Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles and > Fonts' in 'Appe

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html > > Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any > way to get that? vbetool is supposed to do it.

Re: xkb options

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:05:52PM EDT, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070517 21:28]: > > > > But where I am impressed most of all is that I cannot imagine Russell > > spending a couple of hours writing this mini-tutorial of his. He will > > in/con-firm this .. but I ha

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On 5/18/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't seem to find any traces of a deb even though the Beaver download page[0] says that binaries exist for Ubuntu and Debian (It exists for neither), but I'll definitely look into making you a good deb; I've been looking for a small project

Re: Where do you get beaver?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: Canada? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTS1

Re: Duplicate menu item

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:14 +0530, Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles and F

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. > This > might mean you need to manually fix this package. > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? What do "apt-

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until > > either sync or umount. Yes, I wait. > > Yes, I also wait. Becau

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: Canada? No, India. Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! Nice one btw :-) Regards, Deboo -- Please don'

Re: xterm fonts

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two > > > other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them > > > give

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On 5/18/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are two ways to cut and paste, using the control-c and control-v and using 'select' and 'middle-click'. The latter should work. The former as far as I know does not work because it doesnt interact with the x clipboard. Both the methods do

Makefile for external module delete ALL my modules under /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686/kernel/

Hello, I am having trouble with a Makefile from the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com group, which makes a driver for my Linksys WiFi device. If anyone has some development experience, or just understands Makefiles, I'd really appreciate some help. The problem occurs when I get to the "sudo ma

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

Subject: Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard From: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:49:26 +0200 To: debian-user To: debian-user ... remove mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L remove mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift keycode 113 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift add m

Re: Where do you get beaver?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/07 00:03, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: >> >> Canada? > > No, India. This is a family list, so I won't ask what

feeds through e-mail

Hello!!! I need a way to let users interact with feeds through e-mail. Do you know how can I let then "list", "subscribe" and "unubscribe" from any feeds of my web through e-mail!!!???, maybe there is a plugin or a service, but I couldn´t find it yet. I will really appreciate your help. tnkx

Re: fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this happens after i accidently did something similar to `rm > -rf *' in $HOME(it's `rsync --delete'). I just fix Maildir by > `maildirmake ~/Maildir', but the problem still exists. maybe its permissions on the maildir? I

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

Hi, I use gkrellm with the default plugin systemfile. It allows you mount and unmount the drives you have specified with a button. The other advantage is that, if you mount the partition with another tool, gkrellm will detect it and still can be use to unmount it. Another information that can

Re: feeds through e-mail

Carlos Manuel GV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello!!! I need a way to let users interact with feeds through e-mail. Do you know how can I let then "list", "subscribe" and "unubscribe" from any feeds of my web through e-mail!!!???, maybe there is a plugin or a service, but I couldn´

Re: [debian] Re: feeds through e-mail

On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:59:10 +0800 William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos Manuel GV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hello!!! > >I need a way to let users interact with feeds through e-mail. Do > you know how can I let then "list", "subscribe" and "unubscribe" from > any feeds of m

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Canada? > > No, India. This is a family list, so I won't ask what kind of beaver you find in India... I didn't know what the word really meant, now I know. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

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