Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

On Thursday 28 June 2001 3:35 pm, Nikki Locke wrote: --snip-- > Interesting definition of fun :-) I don't find configuration much fun, > particularly when I have to spend days finding out stuff I don't really > want to know. I'd much rather get on with some work. I like Debian because > its packag

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

> My advice: look for a silent fan or a silent power supply. http://www.quitepc.com never got round to using their stuff but heard couple of good things from a mate who has. adam

Re: reiserfs

--snip-- > Peter Kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am new in debian. What is reiserfs --snip-- http://www.google.com/linux is quite a good place to search for information on linux adam

Re: SMP in default install?

you could also cat /proc/cpuinfo and will show if the sys is using the (second) cpu and some details about it adam On Friday 13 July 2001 4:29 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm sure someone will correct me if this is wrong, but: > > cat /boot/config-2.2.19 |grep SMP > > should tell you if your bo

Re: XWindows library

On Monday 16 July 2001 11:52 am, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: > I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't > seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place. what program are you trying to compile? which library is it failing on? adam

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 3:53 pm, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play > VCD? > I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using > unstable right now. pretty sure with a few extra bits xine

Re: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

Sounds like a caching issue either with the browser or a caching sever which browser are you using? adam On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:27 am, Guenter Millahn wrote: > Dear Debian guys, > > probably this is a FAQ. Apologize in that case. > > I have a WWW server running (Debian woody on i386, Apach

Re: install debian with GUI

Ondolan wrote: hi all ... i want to make installer debian with GUI like in Mandrake which i can put image, button image, logo, etc. first i think i will use Qt, or maybe Java but then i realize that the-X isn't installed yet, can someone help me how to make this GUI installer ???. and does s

Re: MySQL question

Aaron Traas wrote: I currently have a database-driven web site up, with a PHP front end and MySQL back-end. The problem I'm having is that the login for the database is root and my root password. How do I change this? Also, I plan on having multiple web sites and thus multiple databases. Can I

Re: xterm or rxvt

harsha wrote: hi, I was install Xwindow on my system and setting it up as per the instructions in Xwindow-USER HOWTO. The documents suggests usage of rxvt in case of a low memory card. I have good card with 32MB ram. It also says that xterm is quite bloated. I would like the opin

Re: install x

Markus Hansen wrote: hi guys i have a debian with a command line display. network is ok (broadband contact) can someone tell me how to set up x server and xwindows or kde 2.2? thank you i have a diamond viper 550 (tnt) a logitech mouse (black logo) and an iiyama a701g monitor. markus xf86cfg

Re: File Manager for wmaker

The verion on testing/unstable appears to be a couple of revisions behind, prehaps the new verion has fixed this not sure if this is the offical site http://www.kaisersite.de/dfm/ adam Christian Jaeger wrote: I use dfm. It's very Mac-like (or OS/2 like but I don't know OS/2) and I like it (

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

On Wednesday 28 March 2001 07:42, Mark Devin wrote: > Nate Amsden wrote: > > its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get > > a broken system at one point or another. it may not require expert skills > > but it may be a pain. ive been using unix and linux for almost 7 y

Re: vi: backspace and delete key

Steve Dondley wrote: I've heard of problems with emacs and the backspace and delete key not working properly. Now I'm wondering what the correct behavior for vi is. My keys seem to be acting a funny. Backspace: Behaves the same way as left arrow key but it keeps you in edit mode. Delete: Very

Re: kde in woody

http://kde.debian.net/ there is links from debian.org and if you search the mail archive there are several references adam Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: Hello linuxfriends: I have installed woody (upgraded from potato) and now I would like to install Kde. My question is what is the magic apt

Re: debian on abit be6

james terris wrote: I have an Abit BE6 motherboard with a Celeron 300A CPU and 6 hard drives and I was wondering if there was a way that I could install debian and have it automatically recognize all four ide channels. I was able to install it and have it recognize the first two channels but I'm

Re: Don't allow incoming telnet

On Friday 01 June 2001 10:52 am, Ilya Martynov wrote: > RC> Hi. > RC> How do I stop telnet sessions coming IN? > RC> (I only want users to use ssh) --snip-- would 'apt-cache search telnetd' 'apt-get remove telnetdpackagename' be a better solution if you only want to use ssh ? adam

Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!

On Thursday 07 June 2001 4:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing > list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of > the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told > me th

Re: fish swiming through desktop...

gt; Sawfish? Gnome? Nautilus? Galeon? > > Thanks > > --Florian Its an Easter Egg :/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnome&m=99095944628544&w=2 [ Right triple-click at the bottom of the panel control capplet for just one of the many Easter eggs in GNOME. ] smokez