Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-22 Thread Bob Arendt
Or you can lie, and it should make fonts larger or smaller than intended by the font designer. -Bob Arendt

Re: Creating ones own keyboard shortcuts

2002-10-25 Thread Bob Arendt
ation for it to have automatically have effect. Looking in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, it looks like if you have a /etc/X11/Xmodmap or $HOME/.Xmodmap file it will load that during session startup. Read the xmodmap man page for more. Haven't been able to test this with metacity - gnome doesn't support multiscreen until gnome 2.2. But I hope this helps. Cheers - Bob Arendt

Re: sound dropouts

2002-10-25 Thread Bob Arendt
ith renice, it still belongs to the user. If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Even if X were running with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the realtime audio processes to avoid skips. Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root? Cheers, -Bob Arendt

Re: xev, xmodmap and the Windows key

2002-10-25 Thread Bob Arendt
key. The xmodmap man page has an example of swapping control and caps-lock that illustrates the modifier key syntax. -Bob Arendt

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Bob Arendt
c/X11/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) , usually something like: Option "AutoRepeat""500 5" In the "InputDevice" section. Hope this helps, -Bob Arendt

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Bob Arendt
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Bob Arendt wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating keys. Any idea why and how to fix? For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended

Re: X error, user session ends abruptly

2002-10-11 Thread Bob Arendt
glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface # Load "v4l" # Video4Linux Then the OpenGL stuff can't crash the Xserver. Hope this helps, -Bob Arendt Robert L. Cochran wrote: This is not consistent. It seems to happen perhaps half the time. The other

Re: PGI compilers not working on RH 8.0, 2.4.18-17.8.0

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Arendt
which are in different places than the scripts expect them. I recommend you deinstall the product (or just rename the directory), then reinstall the latest. Keep track of your license keys. PGI's download page is here: http://www.pgroup.com/downloads.htm Hope this helps, -Bob A

Re: Skip/Lag Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Arendt
;d as well. Even if X were running with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the realtime audio processes to avoid skips. Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root? Cheers, -Bob Arendt Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks

Re: Skip/Lag Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Arendt
e xmms The process still owned by joe, not root. A crude way would be to have a cron job periodically run to zap the priority of xmms. This only affects the processes scheduling and doesn't interupt the process while running. Maybe you could script it and use sudo? (I've neve