Re: problem with xterm -- doesn't logout

1998-04-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Debian's lastest hamm packages, kernel 2.0.33 (pre34-5), etc.. > > xterm doesn't logout upon exiting.. the user/host still shows up in > the who and users commands. This problem occurs on both of my Debian > systems, each with similar setups.

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Brian White wrote: > Hmmm... As long as we're talking about features... Is there a way to > cycle through visible windows? I have a virtual desktop (as opposed to > multiple desktops) and it would be wonderful if I could cycle between the > visible windows without cycling t

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Brian White wrote: > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > move the mouse to that window. I don't think so. You can give focus to any window easily, but the c

Re: Pine and fvwm under hamm

1997-10-26 Thread Austin Donnelly
Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > with fvwm2 (i assume this is where the issue lies) when i try to drag a > window across desktops, there is some very strange activity. the window > i'm dragging flickers around a lot, and the pager doesn't show that it's > moving until i let go.

Re: .fvwm2rc question

1997-10-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > > Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep > > > -v grep | awk '{print $2}') > > > > > > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ? > > > > Becau

Re: .fvwm2/ hook problems

1997-05-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my > old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem > to be missing something - I added the line > + "I" Module F

Re: fvwm2: don't get window outline when resizing window

1997-04-23 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I keep up-to-date with unstable. A few weeks ago I rebooted my machine > for the first time in ages (had to go to dos/win to do my income tax). > > When I started up X, I found that I can still resize windows by dragging > the corners or edges, but I n

Re: Linux fvwm1.24r-25 vs Sun fvwm1.24r

1997-04-03 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > > Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun > > system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't > > expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which

Re: fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2

1997-03-17 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Austin Donnelly wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > > > > > I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might > > > convert a > > > .fvwm

Re: fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2

1997-03-16 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > > > I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might > > convert a > > .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? > > It comes with the fvwm2 package, and autom

Re: llseek error & large partitions

1996-09-17 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I am encountering an error formatting large partitions (2.8 gb). >Equipment is a pentium 100, Adaptec 1542CF, DEC DSP5300. > >The drive partitions just fine, then when the debian install program >tries to read past around 2.1 gb I receive a message "badb

Re: linux2.0

1996-06-11 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)? Yes, Debian 1.1 will ship with a 2.0 kernel. (In fact, the latest available kernel will generally be made available as the kernel-image-2.0.xx-0.deb). Austin

Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade

1996-06-03 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Ian Jackson said: >> Scott Barker writes ("Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade"): >> > ok. So what happens when I install the new cron, and /usr/bin/savelog >> > isn't in >> > it? Won't dpkg remove it, since /usr/bin/savelog has been removed from >> > /var/

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: >> >> > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page >> > by using "b" or "^B". >> >> more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like p

Re: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1340)

1996-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi, > >on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the >following. > >koko:/root>>> ping us1by-6 >PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes > >--- us1by-6 ping statistics --- >5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet

Getting 'less' to do the right thing (was Re: xterm subtleties)

1996-05-30 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I'm trying to configure xterm so that, for example, the screen isn't >restored after exiting less. > >>From reading the manual page, I'd expect that a resource of the form >*titeInhibit: True > or >*TiteInhibit: True > >would do the trick. How

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: [...] > >This raises a question with me. If I understand how debian works, even when >a fixed base pkg gets updated on a debian system, this error with user nobody >will still be there since it won't overwrite the passwd file. This isn't the >best example o

Re: Mixing and matching ELF and a.out

1996-05-19 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > I've just installed 0.93R6, and it appears that everything is in > a.out format. Is this correct? Yup, Debian 0.93R6 was a.out, and the Debian 1.1 that's currently available for beta testing is all ELF. > I've downloaded some packages from non-free,

Re: which

1996-05-16 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Is the command "which" available in any of the debian releases? >I haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything >installed so I may have missed it. 'which' is in debian-utils-1.0-1. In general, you can find programs by doing: zgrep pro

Re: fvwm2: button functions missing...

1996-05-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I am using fvwm2-2.0.42-beta-0 on debian 1.1. >I have just discovered that there are some button functions missing. >The menu from the top-left corner does not appear when I click on the >top-left button. Also no list of windows when I click on the right

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They >don't happen on the console. > >One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses >is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer >wrap. This happen