dead keys?

2002-09-09 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, can anyone tel\l me how to activate dead keys? I'm running KDE over Woody & Xfree4.1, using a standard ;Wondoze us keyboard on an amd-based machine. I checked under XFConfig-4 and the keyboard is NOT set to nodeadkeys. argh! so close..,. thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dead keys?

2002-09-09 Thread Matt Price
adkey arrangement, without having to relearn to type every time I switch keyboards. This is straightforfard to do on them ac, but I don't know how to do it on *nix. thanks again, matt On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:55:17AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > >Hi everyone

substitute for dreamweaver's template/link tracking

2002-09-09 Thread Matt Price
Hi, So I have a couple of small websites I'm trying to move over to linux. Up to now I've managed them with dreamweaver, which has two great features: -- templates that you can update, i.e. you can build a site around one set of templates, with one 'look', and then change all your documen

multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Matt Price
hi there, Is it really straightforward to configure my woody system to allow multiple X sessions on the same monitor? I'm trying to switch to gnome for various reasons, but I want to have the security blanket of moving back to kde really quick if things aren't working. Thanks loads, matt --

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Matt Price
> > Is it really straightforward to configure my woody system to allow > > multiple X sessions on the same monitor? > > To start another X session: > startx -- :1 > > It will end up running on the next available virtual console, and you > can switch between them by using Linux's virtual console

help with fonts / openoffice

2002-09-27 Thread Matt Price
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good how-to on fonts under Debian? I'm having some trouble understanding how fonts work... Here's my basic problem: for the most part, I'm not really that concerned about fonts -- I'm not a graphic designer and I often don't even really notice what fonts I'm looking

how does post-install ocnfig work with apt-get?

2002-09-27 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, so I just installed the TrueTypoe core fonts using msttcorefonts. now openoffice works! The post-install configuration was a little buggy (the configuration tool couldn't find the necessary downloaded files), and I wanteed to figure out what was goiing wrong -- and realized I have

OT? Change skeleton in emacs html-helper-mode

2002-09-30 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, can anyone tell me how to customize the default "skeleton" (what I think of as a template) for emacs html-helper-mode? I have three or four web projects with different looks& feels; I'd like to arrange to have a different template come up for each of them (or in any case, I'd like t

nfs -- can't mount.

2002-10-02 Thread Matt Price
hi, I Am trying to understand how nfs file systems get mounted. I run woody on a 386, a friend has just moved a box over to my office, and I want to be able to mount a directory from this box (which runs redhat 7.3, I think) on my own. I made sure the nfs daemon was running on his box, edited t

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Matt Price
hi there, rebuilding the kernel really isn't as hard as you might think. I'm a total newbie, and it was one of the first things I did (had to, didn't do it by choice). I've attached a couple of files that really helped me out -- I forgot who gave them t r Coin or Dman, I think, but in any case

anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread Matt Price
hey there, concerning file managers -- the one thing I really miss about Macos X is the NextStep-style file manager -- hierarchies of windowws that expand more or less indefiitely -- so not jus two frames, but four or five. I really love that way of getting around, but I haven't seen anything lik

Re: help with fonts / openoffice [solved]

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, I meant to post this to the list some time ago -- by accident I posted it directly to don. Hope this helps anyone having similar problems. matt Don, thanks so much for your help. This is a very satisfactory intermediate solution (ultimately I'd like to be able to use my favorit

emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-18 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I use emacs as my main text editor, but vastly prefer to run emacs in an xterm (emacs -nw) over xemacs (xemacs is quite ugly, to the point of unreadability, as currently configured on my machine; and also I often write mail via ssh with X forwarding enabled, so if Xemacs starts up in th

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:23:56AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:23, Matt Price wrote: > > That is, I'd like to have something along the lines of > > "emacsclient -nw" as my default editor. But as far as I can tell this > > opti

scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:54:48PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While this doesn't help your actual problem, you should probably be > aware that 'emacs' and 'xemacs' are separate programs, either of which >

xemacs colorless in xterm

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, some questios for emacs'ers just recently switched to xemacs from emacs (see recent thread I started, thanks to all for help). For the most part working well, but when run in a terminal (through xemacs-nw or gnuclient -nw) xemacs won't dispay colors. Anyone know if there's a simple

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:29:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can'

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Z Maze wrote: > > > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > The '||' operator does this, like:

building a tivo?

2003-11-24 Thread Matt Price
Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one of the big tricks is justtuningthe hcannel -- or am I wrong? look forward from hearing from y'a\ll. thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

xterm title bars

2003-11-25 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list archives properly; sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum. my .bashrc has the following code in it to set the title of xterms: # If this is an xterm set the title to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir case $TERM in xt

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-27 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:25:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list > > archives properly; sor

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-27 Thread Matt Price
> things you were interested in. That would probably be the hardest part. > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:57, Matt Price wrote: > > > Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of > > > cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one

umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
Hey everyone, I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs. I can't remember whether they ever worked for me in emacs. is there a trick -- something

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to > > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title. However, >

Xterm only -- umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed > that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, > openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:32:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:13:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Is there any functionality in mutt, or a good way to implement it in > > mutt, that allows you to killfile with roughly the same flexibility > > that tin gives you for ne

Re: games & wine/cedega

2004-11-22 Thread Matt Price
7;t say for sure)? Would love to know what y'all think! matt > > -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are

Re: Openoffice Bug

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Price
ntal, the debian-openoffice has I think been working pretty hard on perfecting 1.1.2 for sarge. matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, th

OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
ion. I'd love to hear some answers. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED

data-entry GUIs & python

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
it. thanks, Matt > > Good luck. > > -Mark > > -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PRO

world map or atlas?

2004-12-04 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I'm looking for a decent world map program, preferably with some flexibility about what information is displayed (political & physical features, etc). I find it hard to believe that Debian doesn't have this, but I'm not having much luck finding one with apt-cache, I guess partley bec

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-05 Thread Matt Price
Thanks to everyone who responded, I appreciate the help! Thx especially to Alex, I feel I understand wha I needed to a little better. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

kde apps crashing

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Price
lave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'. k3b: KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing... --- any poiinters? thanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

Re: kde apps crashing

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:34:43PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > >k3b: (K3b::cutToWidth) not able to cut text to 1! > >kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or > >higher. > >any poiinters? > > You have some portions of

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I tried out Ubuntu. I > > Have you tried Gnoppix? > er, no, is it much differentfrom th

Debian Neo? [was:Re: distro for novices]

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
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openoffice, mysql, odbc

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
WRITE DATA via odbc. bummer! Has anyone encountered this problem before? Or does anyone have a fully functional Openoffice/MySQL/ODBC setup? If so I wouldl ove to hear about it! thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `

[SOLVED] Re: openoffice, mysql, odbc

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:35:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > after a certain amount of pain and suffering I have achieved the > following: > > OOo 1.1.3 works fine. > MySQL works fine > unixODBC connects to MySQL without trouble using isql > Within O

xml viewer?

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of xml documents... thx,m matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'

Re: runit

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:09:07PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:26:12PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > do I have to be worried? are there big [dis]advantages to having this > > program installed? just wondering! > > I'd remove it (runit an

gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
I am looking for a way to set preferences for the file picker, but don't see any such options in the gnome-control-center. Anyone know a trick? If this can'tbe done, seems like a serious usability problem! matt ------ .''`. Matt Price

[SOLVED]Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the > > "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
viewer or text editor, for many XML files. An XSLT > stylesheet can be used to do the indentation and replacing character > entities for instance. > hmm, how does that work? run the xml file through a particular xsl stylesheet? (i'm v. iignorant about xml). m ---

runit

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
are there big [dis]advantages to having this program installed? just wondering! thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these a

distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
t PS: any suggestions as to which list this request really belongs on? -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EM

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:16:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:53 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > &g

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
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Re: kde apps crashing

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:06:26PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > >thx steve. so I tried installing kdelibs, kdebase, and kde... after > >which I am still getting this message. any idea which bits of kde I'm > >missing? > > No clue. I just kn

quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-09 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, what tools to people use to do quick drawing or modelling of molecules/chemical reactions/etc? I have tried ghemical and find it a little bit clumsy, didn't notice anything else with apt-cache. Thanks as always for the help! m -- .''`.

Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-13 Thread Matt Price
ogram for visualizing atomic and molecular systems > > > "chemtool" isn't too bad. > > > > > > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide w

Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-13 Thread Matt Price
tomic and molecular systems > > > > > > "chemtool" isn't too bad. > > pymol.org is in 3D.. and does crystals too and is a super good test > of your X11 config files and video memory transfer tests > ( how fast can you rotate the color molecu

openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-23 Thread Matt Price
don't know how to do this. any hints? thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Price
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Matt Price ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:46: any hints? thanks, You might try asking your question at the newsgroup gmane.comp.openoffice.general or else subscribing to the list: discuss@openoffice.org It's a good place for openoffice-related issues. Cheers, Jon

Re: MythTV

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Price
just curious -- how much do you figure on spending for this project? I'm interested in MythTV too, but it seems quite expensive to build one's own box compared e.g. to buyint a tivo. am I wrong about this? thx , matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-15 Thread Matt Price
nd not found much on this issue -- anzone have any ideas? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

making tk and wx(python) prettier

2004-10-04 Thread Matt Price
se programs. Anyone know whether I'm asking the impossible? thanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

set default paper size in firefox?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Price
user_pref("print.printer_gimp@:64.print_in_color", true); user_pref("print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_height", "279.00"); user_pref("print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_name", "na-letter"); user_pref("print.p

Re: set default paper size in firefox?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Price
Martin Dickopp wrote: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the default paper size seems to be set to "A4" in my version of firefox (0.9.3). Anyone know how to change that setting? I often forget to reset the print option and end up with slightly-wrong page lengths... I ha

web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo?

2004-10-07 Thread Matt Price
Anyone out there have suggestion? Thanks, -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started perhaps. I just ran ssh server env and saw no sign of $TERM, o

debian-el sender headers?

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) do I have to set a preference in exim4 (4.34-2), or somewhere in emacs? thanks as always! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don&#

removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
with -? thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price: > >?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > >?I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of >

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or "rm ./-0.pnf" w

procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
mes (evolution|evolution-hackers)@ximian.com), and have the string [(Evolution|Evolution-hackers)] in the subject heading. thanks as always for the help! m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
David Clymer wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:18, Matt Price wrote: I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote & they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone t

apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
hmm. I can't tell who's trying to load these files. It looks like php, but php and libapache-mod-php4 are both installed at the current (unstable/ttesting) versions. can anyone help? matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :&

Re: apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/li

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-21 Thread Matt Price
Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started perhaps. I just

greek characters...

2004-10-26 Thread Matt Price
terminal. I've installed rxvt-unicode-ml, but Greek text displays as nonsense there just as it does in xterm. this is true even if I set LANG and LC_ALL to a unicode-capable locale, like de_DE.utf8. thanks as always! matt -- .''`. Matt P

fdisk "unable to read /dev/hdb"

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Price
d in short read while trying to open /dev/hdb1 Could this be a zero-length partition? sooo... that doesn't look so good to me. How can I figure out what's going wrong here? And once I figure it out, is ehere any way to fix it? THanks much as always, Matt

adding custom kernel to iso?

2004-11-02 Thread Matt Price
this possible? I have no idea how to do it. Thanks much as always for your help, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PRO

delete news messages in thunderbird?

2004-11-02 Thread Matt Price
ay. I figure there must be some way to do this, right? But I don't see the delete option anywhere when I'm browsing mail groups. I assume I'm missing something basic, & thunderbird help is nonexistant... ... thanks forthe help, matt ------ .

user-friendly mp3/cd player combination

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Price
oo high, since the machine isn't super-powerful. look forward to hearing your suggestions! matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [

ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-10 Thread Matt Price
r should I file a bug? And is there a way to change keybindings in firefox? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these a

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-13 Thread Matt Price
-name = "Emacs" Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web, too, tried it but with no success! Would love to hear whether other folks are having the same issue. Matt -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :&

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Simon Huggins wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this

automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
is there a package that can probe for printer info & set up a new printer e.g. from CUPS or some other print queue manager? On reflection this seems like a pretty important feature to have, would be cool if it existed. m ------ .''`. Matt Pric

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have dis

Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-16 Thread Matt Price
erver and Xsecurity man pages but I'm still at a bit of a loss as to how to get Xvfb to read the authorization file, or maybe I'm using the wrong one. I tried this: Xvfb :86 -auth /home/matt/.Xauthority -screen scrn 800x600x32 & with no luck. anyone have any suggestions? thx, m

Re: Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hi, I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by Xvfb. I initiate the X session with: Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 & This used to work fine. But sometime in the recent past, presumably since an unobserved update or something, I get this error

slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
ld be fine, tho I guess usb 2.0 would be best. I'd also be willing to pay out a few more bucks for a combination wireless router/ print server, since our router kinda sucks. Look forward to hearing from y'all! matt -- .''`. M

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
x machines and OS X can print again. > Only 2 machines had to be configured to restore all the printing - the > windows machine and the print server. that is pretty cool, actually. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
hat helps. If that solves your problem, then you just need to switch your default font to something that displays properly. If you really like charter and want to keep it as your default, than that demands a proper fix I unfortunatley am not competent to tell you how to arrange. g&#

nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
Hey Folks, now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I'm trying to upgrade to 2.6.0 on my workstation. The instructions at the above link are quite clear and helpful, but I'm having trouble compiling the NVIDIA drivers nonethe

apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in OpenO

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 16:52]: > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord > > document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all > > op

diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > > hey folks, > > > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > >

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > KWord all open

make-kpkg modules_iimage error

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
I'm having a problem (described in the original post, but I'll repeat it below) compiling the nvidia modules for kernel 2.6.0 using make-kpkg. I'm beginning to think the problem lies with make-kpkg. so here we go: -running sid on an amd athlon with a self-rolled 2.4.21 kernel. -official sourc

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > > MSWord doc

Re: nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers > > (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) >

charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Price
Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states the following: Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 - As part o

OpenOffice crashes! was: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-02 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > Hi, > > > > ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main > > one I'm worried about is charter, whic

OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, here's something that ocmes up a lot for me: I use locate to find a bunch of files: % locate charter | grep -i font /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/bitstre

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font) this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm usin

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I can collapse these two steps now with: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) > > > > ... but is there a way to trace the

Re: Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:08PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > Josh Robinson wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but > >could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out > > > >- how to tell firebird to use evolution to

urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, came into work today and the computer was crashed dead; don't know what the problem was (I'll attach the last few lines of /var/log/messages from yesterday; they don't tell me much, though). Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I have to use the nonfree

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