Re: afterstep

1997-06-10 Thread Brad Bell
-brad On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > I believe that /usr/X11R6/bin/X needs to be suid root. > > no, that wasn't the problem. note that there are no problems with any > other wm i've tried (fvwm/2/95, olvw

Re: afterstep

1997-06-09 Thread Brad Bell
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > > > hi, i am having some trouble (with permissions?) starting up afterstep. > > if i start it as root, there are no problems. > > if i start as a normal user, i get this: > > > > velcro# cat /home/brad/.xsession-e

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > and put it in /etc/menu. anything that starts with 'local' is installed, > regardless of what debian packages are installed. this is an inadequately > documented feature of menu (buried in a changelog file... hmpth :P ) whoops! i

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > Oh boy. I've downloaded and installed StarOffice. I can't believe > they're giving this away. > > Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time > creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes > properly when I j

afterstep

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
hi, i am having some trouble (with permissions?) starting up afterstep. if i start it as root, there are no problems. if i start as a normal user, i get this: velcro# cat /home/brad/.xsession-errors sh: /tmp/steprcX: Permission denied Cannot open m4-processed config file : No such file or di

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 > > > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes > > > with Debian. I tried the following - > > >

Re: Connecting terminals

1997-06-04 Thread Brad Bell
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Pilon wrote: > : How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials > : ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? > There is only a hardware limit if you're using standard devices. And you > should configure

Re: Several stand-alone boxes

1997-05-08 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a > > common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr > > filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on > > the net.

Re: make-kpkg

1997-03-08 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote: > What exactly does this do? Does it make a package or does it > make a new kernel? both. it makes a .deb package of your customized kernel. > If either where does it put it? i ran: make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image from the director

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote: > So, is it true that there is nothing newer on the space shuttle and other > spacecraft newer than a 286? did we not all just hear about debian being on the shuttle? whatever it's running on must be newer than a 286... or h

Re: menu

1997-02-20 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > > > i've got the menu package installed and working great (with fvwm2/95). i > > was wondering if anyone out there knows how to add a menu item for > > something

menu

1997-02-20 Thread Brad Bell
i've got the menu package installed and working great (with fvwm2/95). i was wondering if anyone out there knows how to add a menu item for something which is not part of a debian package. i.e. stuff i've manually installed, like x48 or doom or amaya. -- i could just add them to a totally unrelat

list archives! Re: where/what is libdl1 ?

1997-01-19 Thread Brad Bell
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Riku Voipio wrote: > On 18 Jan 1997, Tom Fawcett wrote: > > Any clues? It occurred to me to search the linux-user archives but both > > search systems are down. > > Do you mean the debian-user archive? If they still aren't working, I'm > left wondering... not many people see

16bpp in X

1997-01-11 Thread Brad Bell
i can make X run with 16bpp, no problem, by typing (as someone has noted) 'startx -- -bpp 16' the question is - how do i make 16 bpp the default (i.e. xdm starts up when i boot, but only in 8 bpp) thanks, brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~maximill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH