Re: sawfish and mozilla

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:29:56 +0100, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Does anybody else notice that sawfish (1.0.1-6) keeps resizing the > Mozilla window immediately after Mozilla (2:0.9.8-2) is started? It > doesn't happen with other window managers, so I am fairly sure it is > sawfish' fault not Mozilla'

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #19

lly needed to quote the whole digest in order to point that out ?? Additionally, it would've been nice changing the subject to a more appropriate one. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against

Re: using xpdf to open pdf files from galeon

ed? Are the appropriate mime-types listed and enabled? I'm not sure which setting gets the higher priority - so, I would try to remove all the settings regarding pdf documents in galeon. Last but not least, xpdf does not support an -err switch, remove that in pluggerrc-4.0 or replace it with -q

Re: persistent windows in gnome+sawfish?

ot;What do I want to say here?" Well, this list just specifies what group ids exist in a persistent way. ;-) It is definitely not what you're looking for. These are just group *identifiers* which exist also if there are no application running that are part of such a group. HTH -- C

Re: A question about X 4.2.1-1

before. See 'man Xsession', "DEFAULT STARTUP PROCEDURE", Step 3). Maybe your .xsession file never got run before? -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.c

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

ion is executed by sh and hence you have a shell process running which is unused but uses some of your memory. If you run "exec x-window-manager" in these files the shell gets replaced by the window manager process which is going to be a bit more efficient (resource-wise). -- Claudio

Re: Signed messages

ve" in your > ..gnupg/options file, gnupg will try to grab the key automatically. There needs to be a dash between the first two words: "keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve" Is it just me or is it normal that your message can't be proven to be authentic? -- Claudio B

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

rg/distrib/packages#search_contents all the times :). Just install apt-file. Then just run 'apt-file search cu' (make sure you ran 'apt-file update' at least once before). You may also want to check out grep-dctrl which should do something like that also, but I haven't us

Re: using locate properly

ad the special characters you've used throughout your last paragraphs - so, I can't help you there. Probably "&pi0;" is a quoting character and you forget to end the string with the same character. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debi

Re: getmail replacement

ion. To avoid losing mail, use this option only with MDAs like procmail or sendmail [...] > I would prefer something that is already debified, but I would say no > to something that fits my needs that wasn't. I guess you meant you "would *not* say no" to someth

Re: zsh globbing

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:01, Johann Spies wrote: > In bash I can do this: > > js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* > In zsh: > > zsh % dpkg -l zsh* > zsh: no matches found: zsh* > > Why? In zsh: setopt NO_NOMATCH -- Claudio Bley ASCII rib

Re: floppy sized packages

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:23, Michael R wrote: > Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need to > download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies onto > my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for Windows > that will ma

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

>>>>> "Marcel" == Marcel Fehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcel> At 15:41 08.10.2002, Claudio Bley wrote: >> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:09, Marcel Fehr wrote: > And is it >> possible to shapen the scope so that it looks > into all

Re: Ext3 and Reiserfs

List) support within the file system which provides fine grained control over file permissions. xfs uses a special data structure to store file information which (should) also increase(s) the file system performance. I'm using xfs (2.4.18-xfs-1.1) now since Aug

Re: files contained by a package that is not installed

a file is to be found. apt-file list RTFM -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: installation cds

t you can use CD 2 to boot your system with the vanilla kernel flavor. You'll need at least also CD 1. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/

Re: floppy sized packages

in the archive are just distributed over several floppies then, but without splitting them apart. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/

Re: floppy sized packages

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:41, Seneca wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:56:18AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:27, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > What about zip archives that span disks? You won't get much compression > > > (if any) o

Re: WindowMaker Menu Crazies

just drop on appropriate menu definition into /etc/menu (just read the README in there) and re-run update-menus. HTH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~

Re: Make applications remember their positions and sizes

s an option to remember its position) or the window manager (sawfish <= 1.0.1 has a history function) should provide this ability. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X h

Re: unix.o module

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 06:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:09:51PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > Uh, was that a question? > > Context, man! What context? Here's no context. Weird. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg02223.ht

Re: Setting gnome up

nd > then "settings session- save session". Unfortunately when I've quitted > I've found the following message: > /bin/bash: save-session : command not found. > And, needless to say, nothing has changed. Just put 'gnome-session' instead of 'panel' i

Re: Debian Linux Compatability

to time :-|) it also shuts down your linux OS. So, Linux would be just as stable as Windows ... -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/

Re: Make applications remember their positions and sizes

[sorry, for replying so late] On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 16:44, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2002 02:28, Claudio Bley wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:22, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > > > I am tired of having to redimension abiword Xemacs an

Re: problem with \n and variables in bash script

is in ONE line > but the one with subject "directly" is display correctly. > > > So my question is how to get \n processed with variables. You need to set the IFS variable. Read 'man bash'. Just put IFS=' \t' at the front of your script. (no need for the -

Re: kernel need to be reconfigured for Zip drive ?

zip/ > mount: /dev/sdd is not a valid block device > > Any ideas ? Usually, only the 4th partition on a Zip disc is formatted. Try /dev/sd?4. Replace the ? with the appropriate letter. Just run 'fdisk -l /dev/sd?'. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon camp

Re: Simple HTTP Server Recommendation

ecure, simple to configure and its memory footprint is very small. It would even do CGI if you want. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/

Re: locales and terminal

locale. The menu dialog comes up, but there > are no choices. Weird. Did you choose to generate the desired locales then? -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-ma

Re: Galeon Mail/News ?

website. The Galeon motto is "The web. only the web". So, *no*, there is no Galeon Mail/News - and there most likely never will be. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X h

Re: XMMS and ogg

gt;Preferences:Audio I/O Plugins). -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and ogg

o run 'ldd libvorbis.so'. Any missing libraries perhaps? Maybe running ldconfig as root might help? -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/

Re: Mailing list software for debian.org

there's a backend (called "Major Smart") at [EMAIL PROTECTED] which accepts majordomo commands in the message body and translates them to SmartList commands. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - ag

Re: F*****g locales ....

uot;en_GB@iso-8859-15" LC_CTYPE="de_DE@iso-8859-15" export LANG LC_CTYPE See 'man locale' for a list and description of other variables. Just run `locale' to see your current settings. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon

Re: wget logging

. Can I make this a bash alias somehow? Like > > alias wget='wget -c $ -a $HOME/.wget.log | tail $HOME/.wget.log' > > where I would have to figure out $ You can't use aliases like that because there's no variable expansion done on them. But

Re: Why is there no german installation manual? (was: Unidentifiedsubject!)

t; > mfG Fritz As the subject says, his question was why there's no german installation manual. I already sent him a private mail redirecting him to the german debian-user list and pointing him at the german potato install manual. Just so there's no co

Re: looping ogg123 file

$n -ne 0 ]; do ogg123 "$@"; if [ $n -gt 0 ]; then n=n-1; fi; done; } Usage: loopOgg N-TIMES ARGS A positive value for N-TIMES means play it that many times. A negative value plays ad nauseam. 0 doesn't do anything. Example: loopOgg 3 -q -b 128 -d oss file1.ogg

Re: script to search ebay?

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 07:07, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Anyone have any idea how I can create a script that will search > ebay and put the results in a text file? > > I thought of starting with links > > links http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPI > Command=GetResult&query=Fernandez $

Re: programming in linux

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 16:13, Irvin Temp wrote: > > Ive just been exploring programming in linux. I want to install all > teh headers for c and c++, but im not sure what are the packages > needed to be installed? Just run 'tasksel' and select "C and C++" in the Development section and you're set

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:50, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I have ugly fonts used in gnome-terminal and some other places. It isn't > consistent: gnome-terminal uses an ugly font in its menu bar, but > control centre's menu bar is OK. (See the screen picture at >

Re: Compiling OpenGL on Debian

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:10, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > I am trying to compile opengl code and have the following errors > > gcc -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include/ -o cube -L/usr/X11R6/lib cube.o -lX11 > -lXi -lXmu -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lm > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glxext.o): In function `__glXGetCurrentConte

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 07:17, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 06:00, Philippe Marzouk wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:21:06PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:50, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > Also, sawfish's opti

Re: Abwesenheitsnotiz: Running IDE-SCSI on both drive

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 10:20, Zafer Dündar wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:05:19 +0200 > Bonk Sascha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ich bin vom 2. Septemper bis 13. September nicht im Haus. In dringend > > Fällen kontaktieren Sie bitte Herrn Konnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Vielen Dank > > Sa

Re: Alt Tab no longer cycles windows

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 23:43, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Alt Tab is no longer cycling through the windows in Gnome on Woody Gome > with Sawmill. I have checked the configuration and it looks OK. Alt > continue to work. Sawmill? Oh man, it has been renamed to sawfish a looong time ago ... > Any i

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:15, Eric Richardson wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >>>"Eric" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > > > > Eric> I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom > > Eric> kernel .deb file from a kernel source package

Re: Controlling the list?

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 17:28, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > How do I get a list of commands for this list server? It seems to be a rather simple list server (actually, it's driven by SmartList which is based on procmail). Try to send a message with a body of "help" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

Re: missing modversions.h

You need to configure your kernel and you need to run 'make dep' before trying to compile the module. PS: Please, no HTML mails. See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html. -- Claudio Bley_

Re: download

CTED] with a subject of "archive help". Remember that if you want access to the archive you have to have "archive" as the first word of your subject, commands are written in

Re: connect two computers with USB

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 16:23, Olivier Esser wrote: > To be more precize, I would like to be able to transfer files from one computers > to another using a USB cable. I have no idea how to configure this. You probably should have a look at http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ -- Claudi

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

; > Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. If you want to install the package just make sure to move the locally installed version of ssh-keygen out of the way. HTH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate

Re: Gnome Themes

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 03:02, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > I can't find which package to install to have more Gnome themes. Which > package is it? Try the gtk-engine-* packages. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GN

Re: pine compilation woes

mime-support Just run 'apt-get build-dep pine'. This should install the necessary packages. The packages above are needed for the binary version, but when you want to build it yourself you need the appropriate -dev packages too (such as libssl-dev). -- Claudio Bley

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

t; > > oh well - tried this also. in fact, logged in as root and tried to play > music - still it wont. What's the error message? What does 'dmesg | tail' say? In case there's no error message most likely the channels of your sound device are just tu

Re: gdm login does not appear under "who"

there should be an option somewhere in konsole that let's you specify to write to /var/log/wmtp when opening a new term. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-ma

Re: Mounting SCSI Emulated CD-RW

rives: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd1 /cdrw HTH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: update-inetd and vsftpd

comment string which is prepended to a service line when disabling a service is "##". So, I think you need to use --comment-chars "##" on the command line to have it effect your entry. HTH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon cam

Re: getting Sawfish

ish? apt-get install sawfish-gnome -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Gnome and Sound

nter). > I guess I have missed something. > > Any idea ? What does 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' return? -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeb

Re: Gnome and Sound

>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jerome> 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' return nothing. Claudio Bley wrote: >> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:39, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> Bonjour, >>&g

Re: X Windows Wont Accept New Font Path

o but I'm also still using xfs. Just needed to add the fontpath to /etc/X11/fs/config instead. > I then tried xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts and gor Error 82. > Does anyone know what this means and/or how to fix the problem? Just a shot in the dark:

Re: Problems with esd

er in order to attempt re-routing sound output through esd (instead of the real device which esd already occupies). -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.

Re: esd: naive question

tyle to Settings, hit OK and save the session now or when logging out. As a workaround, you may just add it (esd -nobeeps) to the startup programs (Settings->Session->Session Properties & Startup Programs). The difference may be that it is not killed when you log out. HTH -- Claudio Bley

IO::Seekable::getpos missing

Hello, since a few days I always receive this error when I'm upgrading my system for a few packages: Setting up alsa-source (1.0.6a-5) ... IO::Seekable::getpos missing at /usr/share/perl/5.8/FileHandle.pm line 59. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN

Re: /etc/modules after a new kernel compile

ust comment out the lines or simply remove them if you don't need to load these modules. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux user - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ &

Re: Changing the name of my computer

know what > this process is called. Have a look in /etc/hostname :-) -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux user - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards /

Re: Woody: Remembering Desktop Assignment?

figurator, select the "Matched windows" tab and add an entry for gtm (e.g. match on its "Class" or "Name" property and just "grab" the property from a gtm window you've currently running), then set the workspace property for the entry to whatever workspa