Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well reload th

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:57:09 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, my machine has better uses for its time than a DE -- so I > utilize blackbox, have ROX-Filer throw some icons on my workspace, and > try and utilize applications that don't require KDE or GNOME (

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0800 "Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is > > on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left > > open. If the computer is not used for a while it

Re: Controlling swapping

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:53:17 -0800 Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0On February 18, 2003 11:25 am, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > What's your machine configuration? I've used Linux with Kernels 2.4.18 and > 2.2.17 on a Penti

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Roy Pluschke
On October 19, 2003 10:43 am, Tom wrote: > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like > > > are no option to me... > > > > What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menus, icons, cut&paste > > with the mouse, mouse control of

Re: UI font size in OpenOffice

2003-11-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 11, 2003 06:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. > > > > See bug #218585. > > So there's no re

CDRW UDF file system scripts

2003-01-29 Thread Roy Pluschke
Greetings, I recently patched my kernel so that I could use a CDRW as a regular file system for backup purposes. Right know I manually run: pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scd1 and then mount the drive with the following options in fstab: rw,user,noatime,noauto everything works well b

Re: CDRW UDF file system scripts

2003-01-31 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:02:57 +0300 Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:38:14PM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I recently patched my kernel so that I could use a CDRW as a > > regular file system for backu

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a > gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. > > About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 > minutes slowing everyth

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:25:37 +0100 Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kdemultimedia packages weren't installed yet, I thougt this was a standard > package, Set aRts soundserver, sound runs well now and indeed, XMMS crashses > :( That's a pity, it looks better than noatun. > > Is ther

Re: Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-12 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 11, 2003 11:34 am, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I have a friend that want to ditch windos, worm/virus/daily reboot > routine. > > He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a > replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to > the debian way.

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 20, 2003 02:15 am, Thomas Baumann wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm tring to install my new Debian-System (my first one). Everything is > going quite fine, except that I am not able to compile any QT-Application > (KDE as well). I searched the web all over for a couple of times, but I > canno

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 20, 2003 04:23 am, Thomas Baumann wrote: > I did try --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, > --with-qt-includes=/usr/share/qt3/include, > --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib in any combination, but without > success ;(( > > I am not new to comiling stuff. I did it a thousand times (on RedHa

Re: Simple terminal question

2002-10-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
doesn't seem to have such an option, and if I remember > correctly, xterm doesn't either. > Hi, the 'script' command should do what you want. Roy Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nedit troubles

2002-11-05 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I am having problems with 'nedit' behaving strangely lately :( When I open a second file the window created does not accept keyboard or mouse input except for the window manager decorations. Could this be caused by the debian practice of renaming "nc" to "nedit-nc" to avoid a name conflict wit

X priority warning

2002-11-23 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I'm getting the following warning on starting X: X warning: process set to priority 0 instead of the the requested priority -10 I start X using the 'startx' command and while everything works fine messages like this really bug me. How do I get X to start at the proper priority or failing tha

xauth or xhost no longer required?

2002-11-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, Since the upgrade of X in testing I have noticed that I don't have to use xhost or xauth to run X programs after I su to root. Is this the way its now supposed to be, or has something been set incorrectly during the upgrade? Thanks in advance RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?

2002-11-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:20:25 + "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:27:38AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Since the upgrade of X in testing I have noticed that I don't >

Re: Sylpheed spellchecking help

2003-08-21 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 21, 2003 10:11 pm, Russ Pitman wrote: > I tried for several times to sub to the sylpheed mail list to ask this but > no go so far, probably my error, however perhaps someone using sylpheed can > help. > > Briefly I installed a debian woody system for a elderly friend to use as a > browser

open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids. I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas? thanks in advance R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 29, 2003 10:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:12, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let > > me select the spell checker under Options -> Language Settings -

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 30, 2003 01:56 am, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > >>>I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even > >>>let me > >>>select the spell checker under Options -> Language Settings -> Writing > >>>Aids. > >>>I'm running unstable. Anybody have a

openoffice in testing

2003-06-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
that it is completely empty!! I will file a bug report but in the mean time would some please send me the contents of their /etc/openoffice/ Thanks in advance Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla Font Madness

2002-12-22 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I'm having a strange problem with mozilla fonts in testing. I have two users on a particular machine. One uses windowmaker and one uses gnome(1.4). The fonts in mozilla for the windowmaker user look relatively good whereas the gnome user's fonts look horrible!! Both users have exactly the same

Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-15 Thread Roy Pluschke
I need to set up a hot-mail clone -- is there anything out there deb or otherwise or do I have to roll my own solution. Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help: green smail and hamm

1998-06-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
n during the uploading or downloading of mail will it cause problems and if so how can I avoid them. Lastly would like to thank the debian volunteers for their time and effort, it is greatly appreciated!! Thanks again, Roy Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

re: wdm keyboard lock-up

1999-01-08 Thread Roy Pluschke
-- evrything is back to normal but I was to give a demonstration for an employer next week and dont want them to see the scary looking command line. Does anybody have any idea why this might happen ?? Thanks in advance! Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

X depth and truetype font sizes

2002-09-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
to add symlinks manually to get them back. Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OFF TOPIC: x-country-manager

2002-09-25 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I just reloaded the stable branch onto a new partion since the "Quebec" package wanted its own partion. I was suprised to find that the "x-country-manager" in stable was still set to "Chretien" when everybody has known for years that this x-country-manager causes file system corruption. In o

Re: python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

2003-11-25 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 25, 2003 12:54 pm, Norman Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running > unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. > > # apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependen

Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian

2004-11-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 24, 2004 14:21, H. S. wrote: > I discovered today that for some reason my xcdroast had been removed. I > was a bit surprised since I never removed it myself. > > Anyhow, I reinstalled it using dselect and tried to configure it. During > installation I told it NOT to use SCSI emulation a

Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian

2004-11-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 24, 2004 18:13, Adam Aube wrote: > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > There appears to be a problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 kernels and cdrecord. > > This problem is well documented -- see for example: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3644 > > This bug existed in 2

Re: How to display CMYK tiffs correctly?

2004-12-17 Thread Roy Pluschke
On December 17, 2004 03:42, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone managed to display correctly CMYK tiffs on screen  using > any of Debian programs? I tried gimp, display, pornview and it seems > they all think it's RGB. > > Thanks in advance Try "tifftopnm" a part of the netpbm package. Yo

contract bridge program

2004-12-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
Has anyone ever found an open source contract bridge program. Thanks in advance R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue

2005-05-22 Thread Roy Pluschke
On May 22, 2005 00:27, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote: > > Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them. > > Ah. I get it now. I was confused about the actual problem here. > > The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom driv

modules.dep is older than modules.conf

2000-02-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
ot scripts don't set the my system to local time (pst) before depmod is run. Should this be considered a bug and reported?? As a temp solution I set the time stamp for modules.conf to a earlier date. Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Quake all messed up

2000-02-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
s when I quit. It runs but the screen is very dark. attempting to save a game give a permission denied error. There are no man pages ??? What options does the program take (if any) where are the config files stored? Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: second X

2000-02-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
Dietmar Block wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to run a second X and indeed I succeded by using > > xinit -- :1 > > but only as root. As soon as I use the same command as normal user > the system tells me that I am not authorized to run the Xserver. > As the same command run well on other linux

dselect busted

2000-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
-around? Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
John Stevenson wrote: > > There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please > downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. > Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade with or are they archived on the debian site somewhere ? Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

yawmppp (not a debian package)

2000-03-25 Thread Roy Pluschke
Has anybody managed to get this working under Debian?? I have tried everything in the included faq but still no luck! Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

1999-12-13 Thread Roy Pluschke
9-*,\ -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*=BOLD,\ -*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*=ITALIC Good Luck, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

1999-12-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
Albert Hurd wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Albert Hurd wrote: > > > > > > Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the > > font > > > size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the > > message > >

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

1999-12-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
Albert Hurd wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Albert Hurd wrote: > > > > > > Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the > > font > > > size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the > > message > >

ldconfig and libwine.so

2000-01-17 Thread Roy Pluschke
tion of libwine in the output so I gather the cache is not being updated??? I have fumbled with the various options to ldconfig from the man page but have failed to come up with the correct combination :( Thanks in advance Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

hang at syslogd

2000-01-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
normally. This is reproducable -- that is if I incorrectly shut down the system apon reboot it always hangs at loading syslogd -- but never happened before. I am running potato updated as of yesterday. Is this a problem with the init scripts? has anybody else noticed this? Roy Pluschke <[EM

Re: lm-sensors setup for an Abit BH6 Mobo

2000-01-27 Thread Roy Pluschke
(I just rebooted as I have the auto option in /etc/modules) 10. type "sensors" to test. It worked for me :) YMMV Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: lm-sensors setup for an Abit BH6 Mobo

2000-01-27 Thread Roy Pluschke
Roy Pluschke wrote: > > Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > > I'd like to setup lm-sensors for my system which has an Abit BH6 > > motherboard. The last time I tried this on my system was when I was > > running RedHat-5.2. I remember having a really hard time getting >

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On October 1, 2004 20:29, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > > > > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. > > > > Mistake du jour! You'll only spend more on the nVidia for even > > crappier driv

Re: printing black & white on a colour printer

2004-10-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
On October 24, 2004 15:26, Levi Waldron wrote: > I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C, > on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend > to replace it, as I only want to print in black & white. > Unfortunately, > whenever I print something wit

Re: Please help: Sarge+KDE terribly slow!?

2004-11-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 14, 2004 05:16, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Mirek Stefanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But one day I decided to upgrade to Sarge - after one day battle it was > > done. Now I have to wait about 10 minutes to start KDE desktop, and > > This is normal for KDE. > No its not! I have a si

stopping resolution switching with xdm, gdm etc.

2004-06-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
I recently tried installing a graphical login screen after years of just typing startx. Is there a way of stopping the ?dm family of display managers from resetting the display resolution as it goes from the login screen to the persons desktop and back. On my box it shows a jumbled graphics sc

arts problems

2004-07-02 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I'm running sid with a 2.6 kernel and recently have noticed that the sound quality through juk is horrible. I investigated further and it seems to be an arts problem (all other apps which don't use arts sound fine). I've tried modifying everything possible in the kde sound configuration p

Recent alsa midi problem

2004-07-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. Both soundfonts loaded with sfxload and timidity started as a soft synth (timidity -iA -Os -B2,8 &) have stopped functioning. Starting noteedit and attempting to config a synth says that no sequencer is available. Sound ot

Re: Recent alsa midi problem

2004-07-08 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 7, 2004 19:14, Erik Steffl wrote: > Silvan wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: > >>After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. > >> > >> > >>Which leads me to believe that

Different sized gnome fonts in KDE

2004-07-15 Thread Roy Pluschke
Sorry about starting a new thread but I deleted the mail and now remebered how I fixed this problem. Gnome fonts where using a different dpi than kde was. Under gnome-font-properties there is a "details" or "advanced" button, I forget which. Press this and the new dialog will allow you to set

Re: problems using JACK

2004-07-16 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 16, 2004 10:33, rich lott wrote: > First, is it right that you pretty much have to run jack (and therefore all > audio apps) as root? I can't get it started as any other user - it starts > but the clients can't find it. > > Second, is there anyway to get Arts to use Jack? (and then, any way

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 28, 2004 20:19, Aaron B wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from > apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to > find /usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then > attemp

Re: Blopping

2004-07-30 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 30, 2004 13:45, Tim Raats wrote: > Everytime I play a song in programs like Noatun, JuK, Amarok I hear a > strange 'blopping' sound. With is the cause if this problem and how to > solve it ? I don't know exactly what you mean by blopping but about a month ago after an update (I'm using si

Re: Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?

2004-08-04 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 4, 2004 21:41, Scarletdown wrote: > > export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt, I went ahead and did a > > export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt and tried .configure again, but got the same > error. I also tried export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3, and again got the > same error when I did ./configure even though qt a

Re: sid Tetex upgrade fails

2004-08-06 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 6, 2004 00:53, David Baron wrote: > Fmutils returns an error. This affects lyx as well. > Any fix or wait for next upgrade. Not using this anyway. I have this as well, which has unfortunately also broken lilypond a program that I use a good portion of the time. The good news is that it

Re: sid Tetex upgrade fails

2004-08-06 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 6, 2004 13:51, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I have this as well, which has unfortunately also broken lilypond a > > program that I use a good portion of the time. The good news is that > > it usually only takes a day or two for problems like this to be > > fixed. > > You can fix it in the me

Re: strange virus warning

2004-08-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 7, 2004 09:34, frank coldewe wrote: > Hi, > > I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a > virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend > award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or > reboot the system with a emp

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
> > I am running a 2.6 kernel (2.6.7-k7-1) which is supposed to automatically > include ide-scsi without the need to load a module. > > I have set up udev to create /dev/hdc and also a symlink /dev/cdrw to point > to it. > > I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs > (fore

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2004-08-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 10, 2004 00:34, Scott G. Hall wrote: > I am not sure I recall an answer to this question. I too am looking for > a screen capture utility for a Debian-based system. Text captures are > easy -- I am a long-time UNIX user and sys-admin. In Solaris there is an > xgrab utility that allows

kate kwrite printing problems

2003-07-02 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I recently upgraded from testing to unstable and after a few minor glitches got everything working well except printing from kate and kwrite. They both hang on a dialog box saying generating print data. Printing from other kde based apps that I have tried ie. konqueror and kmail works fine

Re: via-rhine & dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread Roy Pluschke
just added the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces and my cable modem works automagically after turning on my computer :) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp note that you may have to change the eth0 to eth(whatever) if you have more that one nic. Hope this helps Roy Pluschke -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer?

2003-07-02 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 1, 2003 05:18 pm, Jake Johnson wrote: > I am in the market for a printer and was wondering what people are happy > with. > > Regards, > Jake Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __ > Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Pluto

Re: MIDI Converter

2003-07-04 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 4, 2003 05:17 pm, Bill Webster wrote: > I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi > format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. > > Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? timidity can covert from midi to wav which can then be bur

sound recording - sid

2003-07-29 Thread Roy Pluschke
Greetings, I recently installed gnome-meeting in sid and noticed that in the installation wizard I wasn't getting the delayed recording played back. I have since tried to record with other applications (gnome-sound-recorder, audacity, krec) also without luck or useful error messages. I am run

Re: Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 14, 2004 17:04, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:55, Simon Kitching wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 06:14, Pete Clarke wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst > > > playing on a test box > > > Is there an easy way of re-

Re: Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 14, 2004 22:40, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I have to say that this is one area where windows really shines -- it is > > much, much easier to remotely set a root/admin password in windows than > > in linux ;) > > You mean, Windows boxes are easier to root remotely? > Yes > Most, reasonab

X application keyboard snooper

2004-08-19 Thread Roy Pluschke
I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window on the screen. The utility would have to handle shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations well since the app makes heavy use of them. Does anyone know of s

Re: X application keyboard snooper

2004-08-19 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 19, 2004 15:47, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) > > and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window > &

Re:

2004-08-23 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 23, 2004 01:11, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Is there a Debian -- or free -- equivalent of MATLAB. try octave RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 26, 2004 00:21, David Wright wrote: > Thanks for the tip! It works. > > Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a > slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the > Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could

Re: Recording the screen

2004-09-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 9, 2004 18:56, Victor Munoz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:18:24PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > > I am preparing a presentation and I'd love to be able to make a movie > > out of a session at the computer, i.e. I'd like to capture the screen > > repetitively and then be able to

Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
To those that are interested I noticed that noteedit has found some people to take over the project see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/noteedit. I'm hoping this will mean that debian will continue to package it in future releases. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: upgrade to linux 2.6.3 causing strange behaviour

2004-02-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 28, 2004 10:36 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > I just installed the standard debian package kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 and > booted from it, after previously running 2.6.1 > > For the first few minutes it seems to have real problems with cpu loading. > Starting up KDE causes the soundserver to

kde3.2 and startx

2004-03-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
Now that kde3.2 is coming into sid I have been unable to start kde from the command line with startx. X starts up and then just quits back to the command line. My ".xsession" file contains the line "exec kde3" which worked for kde 3.15 but not now. Note that exec gnome-session and exec wmaker

Re: Mozilla 1.6 shuts down in composer

2004-03-08 Thread Roy Pluschke
On March 8, 2004 07:26 pm, Ben Wehrspann wrote: > Am using Mozilla 1.6-1.he-1. > > When I go to Composer and start to type it completely shuts down mozilla. > > Not sure whether this is known or not, or whether its just local to me, > but perhaps somebody else would like to try this and verify on t

mkisofs - unstable

2004-03-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I am running unstable with a 2.62 kernel using the native ATAPI support in favour of the deprecated ide-scsi for my cd writer. All works fine using k3b to make music cd's but I get the following error when trying to burn a data cd: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Resource temporarily unavailable. cannot

Re: kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
On March 10, 2004 12:56 pm, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > la2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I compiled subject. Now i cannot install and compile NVIDIA > > drivers 1.5336, it says: "I cannot find nvidia.ko". Also I > > cannot compile alsa-drivers for my AC'97 codec (I always use > > Intel810): at f

Re: Ever heard of Brief?

2004-03-22 Thread Roy Pluschke
On March 22, 2004 01:35, Shot wrote: > Hello. > > Please don't start a new thread by replaying to > a previous message from list, or at least delete > the In-Reply-To: headers; it's messing up threading. > > Anil Gupte: > > One particularly neat feature was the ability to cut and paste > > columns.

Konqueror and mp3

2004-01-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
Is there a way of configuring konqueror so that mp3's can be ripped like ogg files currently can via audiocd:/ -- the mp3 player in my car can't handle ogg. (I am using sid - if that matters) Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Konqueror and mp3

2004-01-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 26, 2004 07:29 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Yup. You need lame installed. Go check out http://www.apt-get.org/ > to find a source for it. > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have lame 3.93 installed from ftp://

Re: Konqueror and mp3

2004-01-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 26, 2004 09:40 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:20:55PM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > I have lame 3.93 installed from > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main> > > Eh. Works in kde3.2. > > - -- > .''`.

Re: Konqueror and mp3

2004-01-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 26, 2004 10:28 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > # KDE > deb http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/debian/ unstable/ > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Paul, thanks for all your help R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: music maker

2004-01-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 28, 2004 02:58 am, Stephen Turner wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have search the debian webpage. Not completely, as there is a load of > stuff. I am looking for a program, for debian. To make music, without > the need to have some kind of input device for sounds. Is there such a > thing? > > If

Any wink or qarbon clones?

2004-01-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
Are there any open source equivalents to wink or qarbon for creating animated tutorials ? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: music maker

2004-01-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 28, 2004 04:31 am, Stephen Turner wrote: > > i tried the options ( timidity -0s -iA -B2,8 & ) but it doesn't work. > That i should check the timidety.cfg file. I read the file, but it does > not make anything clear. > > How do i start imidity in server mode? > That is the letter "O" no

Re: music maker

2004-01-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 28, 2004 09:12 am, Stephen Turner wrote: > Hi R.J.P, > > I got the message:- > > midia.cfg no such file or directory > > timidity can't read any configuration file > > pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg > > I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the > meantime. > It see

Re: music maker

2004-01-29 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote: > Hi R.J.P, > > Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but > i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list > of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should > i do ne

k3b and wav files

2004-02-04 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi, I am running unstable and I have several wav files that I would like to burn to an audio cd. According to the k3b documentation this should just be a drag and drop process however I am getting an unspported format error. Note that I can drag and drop ogg and mp3's without any problem. I hav

Re: k3b and wav files

2004-02-05 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 4, 2004 07:46 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Hi, > > I am running unstable and I have several wav files that I would like to > burn to an audio cd. According to the k3b documentation this should just be > a drag and drop process however I am getting an unspported format error

Re: problem with X

2004-02-07 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 7, 2004 11:45 am, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: > I have done some reading and I have commented out the lines in my > XF86Config file load GLcore and load dri. It solved the problem with the > errors I got in my XFree86 log. I am still having a problem with getting X > up and running. I

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 9, 2004 04:42 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004, Rick Macdonald wrote: > >> Searching the web and Debian site uncovered that I may need to load > >> "sound > >> fonts" with sfxload, but it's not clear to me if this is still required >

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 9, 2004 05:53 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Roy - thanks for all the info! I've had timidity installed and working for > years, but I gather it does more than I thought. I might be able to get by > with it after all. Am I correct in assuming that with ALSA my MIDI H/W > ports are probably

Re: music mixing

2004-02-09 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 9, 2004 07:10 pm, techlists wrote: > Hey guys, I'm looking for something I can use to edit and mix music. > Under Winblows I used Reason. But I have yet to find a linux > equivalent. > > I looked on freshmeat, and found a program called Veejay, but I can't > seem to get it to compile u

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
On February 9, 2004 11:35 pm, Conrad Newton wrote: > From Roy Pluschke on Monday, 2004-02-09 at 18:50:36 -0800: > > On February 9, 2004 05:53 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Roy - thanks for all the info! I've had timidity installed and working > > > for years,

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