[techtalk] "losing" mouse on virtual machine

2000-11-15 Thread Nicoya
I'm running RH6.0 on a VMware virtual machine on an NT4 box. Install went swimmingly (thanks to all those who recommended VMware btw...), but after I got X running and started trying to tweak stuff, it started locking up. Well, maybe it's X. maybe it's just my mouse. I'll be working along in a c

Re: [techtalk] "losing" mouse on virtual machine

2000-11-15 Thread Aaron Malone
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:00:50AM -0600, Nicoya wrote: > I'm running RH6.0 on a VMware virtual machine on an NT4 box. I believe VMware runs a news server for support and troubleshooting -- I'd recommend starting there. 'news.vmware.com', I think. -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Adm

[techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)

2000-11-15 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
The problem with RTFwhateveris that it's not always obvious what one needs to be reading. I'm running Debian. I've got two main issues here: - Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. I expect ther

Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)

2000-11-15 Thread -sjh-
"J-Mag Guthrie" wrote: > The problem with RTFwhateveris that it's not always obvious what > one needs to be reading. Eh, I hate it when someone says "RTFM" without telling you WHICH manpage to read ;) > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place fo

Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)

2000-11-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:28:31AM -0600, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on

Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)

2000-11-15 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-100 [techtalk] How do I ... ? (.. by J-Mag Guthrie@brokersys. > Issue 2: I really like Eterm but I want to train it to start with the big > font, and have a transparent, shaded background (and in my dreams, have it > pick a random tint). I understand that this is

[techtalk] "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Bek Oberin
I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table of contents, footnotes, page numbers, headings, etc. Hopefully also #include'd files (eg chapter1.doc, chapter2.doc and book.doc which includes all the chapters and chan

Re: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Lilly S.
How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord format? Would that work? L. On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with > included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table > of contents, footnot

RE: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Davida Schiff
Hi Bek, You may want to give ted a try. http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ Features ยท Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font. Ted is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are available

[techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Bek Oberin
Lilly S. wrote: > How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord > format? Would that work? Is WP available for Linux? Is it free? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A

[techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Lilly S.
Yup... I'm pretty sure it's open source. It came with my version of Red Hat 6.1. It was bundled in there.. You can download it from http://linux.corel.com/ On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Lilly S. wrote: > > How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord >

Re: [techtalk] "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Elaine Poulsen
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Re: [techtalk] Re: "MS Office" type software

2000-11-15 Thread Aaron Malone
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:25:23PM -0500, Lilly S. wrote: > Yup... I'm pretty sure it's open source. It came with my version of Red > Hat 6.1. It was bundled in there.. WordPerfect is NOT open-source or Free software. It seems to be available as a free download of a 90-day 'trial version', and o

Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themeswork)

2000-11-15 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on their boxen so they