Hi,
I'm getting a boot error message as follows:
xfs: Path "X11 path/100dpi" incorrect
xfs: Deleting path entry
Where can I delete the font path entry and/or change the entry?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
I upgraded to the new Gimp 1.2 but I get Script-Fu crashes, especially
on the Puzzle plugin. Gimp itself is fine. Anyone else has this?
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Hi,
Is there anyway of getting xearth in a terminal window and not the
default root window?
The man pages has nothing but I was wondering...
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>
> your pal dave
>
While the version of xearth which cames with potato only works on root,
the new 1.1 does windows! Yes, xplanet looks nice. Straight compiling?
You have an url handy?
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rnel build. I build all modules. What is
going on? I can't fix it until I know what is wrong...
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David Wright wrote:
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> > I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know
> > of an applet capable of showing times in different places?
>
> It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like.
>
> TZ=US/Eastern swisswatch &
I don't need another analog clock
ne names.
>
Perfect!! Exactly what I was looking for. BTW, you know the US codes for
Central and Pacific time?
Thanks,
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Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable?
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Richard Taylor wrote:
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> There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect
> and so forth.
>
On Linux? I didn't know. Same name?
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Hi,
Ok, scanning archive and src files I know what a binfmt ewrror is.
Question, aside from looking at the daemon log everytime I click on a
mouse or issue a command is there a way of finding out what is calling
what file with 0 bytes?
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d xlogmaster on daemon log open almost continuously but have
missed catching it in the act...
Any ideas or suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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mt-support package in unstable, which should make
> things a little easier to manage. :)
What is this? And will it work on my potato system or do I have to get
souref and compile
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Feb 20 23:34:37 palatine init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Feb 20 23:34:44 palatine apmd[146]: Exiting
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Hi,
I found it in unstable and wondered why it wasn't included in potato.
Any particular licensing reason?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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trivial, but I just hate
having unexplained error messages floating around...
Thanks,
Jonathan
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log for this is still named xdm.log and I wondered if that was normal?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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using appreciated.
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Jonathan
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s the entire windows filesystem.
Great. Thanks for the help. Given I load Windows, which is coming in now
at 300MB plus, what space does VMware itself take up?
Alos, I've seen downloads available. are they limited time/feature
demos?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> I keep my important data files on the Unix side so that they can be
> backed up and not nuked if you have to reinstall Windows. I access
> them from VMware via samba.
Got you. thanks for the advice.
Jonathan
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Martin Marconcini wrote:
> They Are for 30 Days.
Thanks for the info.
Jonathan
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Bob Nielsen wrote:
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> A bit less than 20 MB.
Great. Thanks for the info. I think I have everything now.
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ard nothing but good things abot it. the three month key is new
and will look into it.
Thanks for the info.
Jonathan
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Hi,
Someone just posted a msg about removing the splash screen on vim as:
shortmess=I
and it doesn't work on vim or gvim potato here. Vim starts asking me to
hit a carriage return everytime i want to do something. Is there a
command? is this the only one?
Thanks.
Jonathan
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and
BANG it started up all the cron jobs. So in my case, the answer is just
load the package and watch it go.
It would have been nice to have known this 24hrs business earlier...
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> should work better.
I had seen that and it didn't work. By starting with nothing i found out
it was:
set nocompatible
which was stopping it. That removed and shm=I worked fine.
A vi thing. I don't know why.
Thanks for the help.
Jonathan
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before. I had actually just turned it on earlier in
the day so I'm used to having it off.
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?
Thanks.
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Hi,
I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until
I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are
loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one
another?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
>
> It isn't a full-time daemon. It has to be executed from boot
> scripts, from cron-jobs, or explicitly [...]
>
Thanks. I'll research some more. So much to learn .
Jonathan
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Hi,
As it is I use Mutt as a front end. Is there any way to point Mozilla's
mail folders at the one's used by Mutt and/or allow procmail/fetchmail
to do their stuff and then hand to Mozilla as it does to Mutt now?
I didn't think so, but you never know...
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Hi,
I have KDE 2 in potato debs in a directory on a cdrom I got from a
magazine. It's all debs with a few task debs. Is there a way of getting
apt-get to recognize this directory as it does my origibal potato disks
so as to select from them?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Hi,
Curious as to what they've done there. Anyone know of a good list where
they're talking about it?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Glyn Millington wrote:
> KDE
>
> The prog you you need is. wait for it...
>
>
> apt-cdrom !
apt-cdrom add...
No?
But the q is will it read a non-debian cdrom and find the debs in the
/potato directory?
Jonathan
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the talk version.
> As a long-time Mac diehard and a developing unix geek, I am excited about
> OS X. (But I've found I really like Debian...)
I love Debian but I have a must have app that runs under Mac. With mac
OSX it could mean adding a little notebook to my present Debian syste
o as to select from them?
>
> Just 'dpkg -i pkg0.deb pk1.deb ... pkgn.deb' or 'dpkg -i *' for all of
> them!
>
I wanted to grab one or two but get dependencies... Since there's 30 or
so, any way to do that and not individually or all?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Hi,
I've tried apt-get source foo and everything goes fine. When I try to
build the binary/deb using debian/rules build or dpkg-source -x foo.dsc
I get:
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: clean error 127
Any help on what is missing?
Jonathan
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mike polniak wrote:
> >
> > Any help on what is missing?
>
> dh_testdir is from the pkg debhelper.
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That was the one. Thanks a lot to all who responded. Sylpheed still
kicks up tons of error messages, but that's another story. Great program
though.
Jonat
o mount it
> beforehand, or you can copy them all to your hard drive (KDE isn't
> that much of a monster).
Now this is interesting. Thanks a lot. Will try it...
Jonathan
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the answer.
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>
> better yet,
>
> set shortmess+=I
>
That works as well. Thanks. Didn't know that operator.
It's appreciated.
Jonathan
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Hi,
I've made the move to Linux a while back now and intend to stay. I have
some vimrc F-Keys set up to duplicate script formatting. I just miss my
Final Draft and wonder if anyone has done anything along those lines...?
Hoping against hope, but worth a shot.
Jonathan
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icewm. :-)
Hi,
I caught your post. I'be tried BB O61.1, which for the original poster
is the modern equivalent of TWM, but have trouble with Gnome and its
session management. Do you need to run the patch and I thought it was
for 0.5x... What do you do or do you have similiar problems?
Thanks
get the two to
work...
Thanks,
Jonathan
PS What do teht mean by gnome support anyway? Lack of certain advanced
features i could live without, error messages, can't live with...
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rt? I thought I just wouldn't get advanced features. Is there a
loadind preference in the xinitrc file and if so, what? I know there's
a patch but it's for 0.51...
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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ver, decorate the applications using Gnome
> correctly.
Yes I saw that and ok on the sessions. I was hoping to get rid of the
error msgs...
Thanks,
Jonathan
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I'd love to use it, so any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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on a web page worked...
It's still sluggish though. But better than the last M18 I looked at.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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the web page rendering is nicer. I
just on't know when it's going to suddenly be gone ...
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get the debianised mozilla 0.8 from
> <http://www.debian.or.jp/~kitame/mozilla/> and have all this dealt with
> for you.
Will keep this for future reference. Nice to have
Thanks again,
Jonathan
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4.76.
>
> It's working beautifully for me.
Once I gave rw to everyone then it's stopped crashing. Still very
sluggish in opening up dialog boxes, etc. But good enough to finally
switch over again.
Thanks again for the help.
Jonathan
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brary loaded
on my system. Cosidering where I found it, is it needed for Mozilla?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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=grey
This works for me, whether in gvimrc or vimrc:
hi Normal guibg=MidnightBlue guifg=White
hi Visual guibg=Black guifg=White
hi Cursor guibg=red
Jonathan
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wo versions, One with Mozilla and the other where dpkg
put it in /usr/lib. That mean I can delete the package?
Thanks.
Jonathan
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on the recommended on the site but they seem a
> little dated.
It comes with a manual. Look around in docs. That and the list were all
I needed. I wasn't impressed with the book either. The list is really
good.
Jonathan
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made on the desktop and moved over.
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t; no programmer.
Thanks for taking the time for a reply, including specific models. I
hadn't considered them and so it's particularly useful. I'll pop on
their web pages and have a look around.
It looks like a whole new field out there...
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a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a
> visor or palm.
How does it use Linux. If it's to present the same front end as the
others, then it's of limited interest. If it's to give you a command
prompt and run vi, that's another story...
Thanks.
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No, straight text is enough...
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> The nice thing about the Agenda is that it is really a pretty standard
> Linux system in a small package. The VR3d has a 66 MHz MIPS
This sounds very interesting. Does it run Linux default and I can
install Vim? I'll pop on the url.
Thanks.
Jonathan
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Hi,
I'm on a fresh Debian 2.2, attempting to compile my first kernel. Everything
goes ok until the final make when I get get an error and no .deb. I've read
all the info and tried to follow the steps. What did I miss? Help
appreciated so I can have some sound and apm support!
Load packages:
kerne
Hi,
I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so noted
in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any idea
how to change its config?
Much thanks.
Jonathan
Hi,
I'm on a fresh Debian 2.2, attempting to compile my first kernel. Everything
goes ok until the final make when I get get an error and no .deb. I've read
all the info and tried to follow the steps. What did I miss? Help
appreciated so I can have some sound and apm support!
Load packages:
kerne
Hi,
I just installed XCalendar-i18n off the Debian 2.2 distro. I like the
application and wish to use it, but when I click on a date or the help
option I get the following warnings:
Cannot convert string "False" to type scrollMode
and: Cannot convert string "False" to type ResizeMode
Only once.
Hi,
I thought the new Debian 2.2 came on 3CD but someone or other is selling one
version with a 4th; calling it non-free. That the case?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
I've narrowed it down to CheapBytes, LCs and LinuxCentral. All offer the 3CD
set, only CheapBytes
offers another 3 source. Any help appreciated as to quality, CD-R or not,
etc.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so noted
in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any idea
how to change its config?
Much thanks.
Jonathan
Hi,
Thanks for all those who put in their 2 cents worth on moving the default
/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and getting apt-get to work. I read the three msgs
(response was controlled but quality and not quantity is what matters), and
the man pages, and it finally came down to typing assorted commands and
Hi,
I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the
console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line,
then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to
filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity.
Thi
Hi,
Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc,
75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
> > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
> > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found
miscc,
> > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?
>
> Are you sure it's the X fonts that are missing? What's the error
message?
> gs fonts should
Hi,
Thanks for the help and suggestions. I can take it from here. It's
appreciated. My initial impresions of Debian and the Debian Users group,
after 8 months of Mandrake, is what the hell took me so long to get here? As
for Debian's proverbial difficulty, Mandrake and Red Hat are both harder if
Hi,
The advice on loading the gsfonts worked and I loaded up ghostview docs.
Question, unlike gv, it doesn't seem to read *.ps.gz files. I had to turn
them into *.ps files. That normal?
Thanks.
Jonathan
Hi,
I've seen Oracle 8i on a CD ROM in a Magazine and was wondering if this was
a Linux version of the Lite or Personal edition? I looked on their web site
and found no mention of Linux for eiether and don't see them giving away the
Standard.
Anyone know what version and/or limitations it has?
T
Hi,
Very. But for us poor miserable slobs here in 56k land, what's the dl size?
No limitations on use, ie 60 days?
Thanks.
> I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to
> http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free
> version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6
Hi,
I changed the default Message of the Day in Linuxconf and the MOTD file and
yet every time I reboot it defaults back to the same GNU/Linux Debian etc.
Where can I find a way to stop this?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
Is the 3 CD source set the sources to the 3 CD binary apps? I assume so.
Just checking. If I want to recompile apps, I would need them?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Great, thanks for the feedback!
> I just had this same problem minutes ago, but by doing a grep on /etc
> for motd, I noticed that there is a variable called EDITMOTD in the
> file rcS of /etc/default that is set to yes automatically.
Jonathan
Hi,
Thanks for the advice. Someone posted having a look at /etc/default/RcS and
changing the MOTD to no. I did and that solved it. Having changed the
/etc/motd first, of course.
But Linuxconf should go anyway...
Jonathan
Hi,
Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file
for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and
not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing
.Xdefault setups with a simple Bash script.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
This is trying to give something back to the Debian community which has
already helped me a great deal. It's a small Bash script which allows you to
easily switch backgrounds (root window/desktop). It's obviously for
non-experts such as myself. It works, but if there's suggestions from the
pro
Hi,
I was told recently that real men don't use linuxconf. Well, since I don't
want to want to fool around with something so fundemental as my masculinity,
I figure I had better try without. I've a new install anyway and I was only
using linuxconf for two things:
1. To change my default group fro
Hi,
Back. Ok. The advice was for switching off a service such as inetd. I did
the stop and had a look at the conf files, etc. But what finally stopped it
was just removing the link to the /etc/init.d/inetd file in all 6 of the rc
directories. This wasn't particularly clean in my eyes. Or is it,
co
Hi,
Looking at top I see everything running smoothly. I have two xset items in
my initrc, one for mouse, and another for dpms. I see that while both are
working fine, top shows them as >defun. I didn't hink mandrake did that and
was wondering what it means. It can't be not functioing, they are. It
Hi,
Posting a lot, but getting great help and the system is finally coming up to
where I was prior to the move to Debian. I'd like to replace xosview and
have seen the nice cpu, etc, tracker bar used in Enlightenment. Is this
strictly an E applet, or is there an X version?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
I have no trouble reading *ps.gz files using hghostview and gv under
Mandrake, but loading ghostview and gsfonts under Debian I find myself
unable to open *.gz ending files. I have to uncompress them to read. Any
thoughts? Maybe a default config Mandrake used but Debian doesn't?
Thanks,
Jona
Hi,
I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas
with tabs. I tried using:
sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing
the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving
the rest of the fields with commas.
Any s
Hi,
>Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview.
Ok, thanks on the gs/gv stuff.
> PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm
> back to
> Ghostview for the moment...
>What do you mean by "don't know how to remove its effects"? Does xaw3dg
>interfere
Great. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.
Jonathan
Thanks to everyone who helped me out on the comma to tab replacement. A lot
of grat suggestions and funny enough, not two alike!
Jonathan
Hi,
When I loaded Debian 2.2 I gave it the stable distribution. I see on the
package list on their web site that there's also unstable and non-free. I've
looked with apt-get and can't see them. Are there other sources on the CD I
should have apt-get ackowledge? Is non-free in fact on the cd?
If t
Hi,
I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following:
Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46
What is this and should I worry? I have the right timings in my XF86Setup
file for the monitor and it works fine.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi,
Any comments on the most stable, fastest of the browsers? Any other options
other than Opera?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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