Re: Using libpdf.so from chrome with chromium [SOLVED]

2012-02-12 Thread David Purton
;s no need to enable anything, it should > just work. > Perfect! Thanks for your help, Camaleón. Curious it is detected but fails to load properly in the local directory. Oh well. I'm happy enough. David -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range th

Using libpdf.so from chrome with chromium

2012-02-10 Thread David Purton
em to be properly loaded. the Plugins page displays this: libpdf Name: Version: Location: /home/dcpurton/.config/chromium/Plugins/libpdf.so Disable Can anyone with it working offer any suggestions? Thanks, David -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > David Purton wrote: > >>Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does > >>smartctl say about the health of your drive? > >> > >> smartctl -H /dev/sda > > try smartc

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread David Purton
From: David Purton To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <2008181428.gb13...@hysteria.proulx.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 2D6A A66E F9DC E86A 876F 062D 16D7 EA32 EE08 09EC X-GPG-Public-Key

Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-06 Thread David Purton
sed. /home has only 44% used. Both are ext3 Any suggestions? Is it worth trying to convert to ext4? I do not want to reinstall if at all possible. cheers, David -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:48:47PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-08-30, David Purton wrote: > > [SNIP] > > The simplest solution I have found is to override the default consolekit > permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are specified > in th

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
session optional pam_ck_connector.so > > If I do not do this on i386, ck-list-session reports that > the session has no login-session-id, then it cannot be active. > Ha! Nice instructions. I'd tried similar combinations, but I think I hadn't been successful. I might try this agai

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07:18AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 11:22:07 +1000, David Purton wrote: > > > I have not been able to get consolekit working properly since version > > 0.4.1-4. > > > > I believe it is something to do with bug #59793

What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-29 Thread David Purton
nm-applet & skype & fbxkb & xbacklightd & exec awesome -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using Arial Narrow in OpenOffice.org

2010-07-22 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 06:31:00AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:15:57 +1000, David Purton wrote: > > > Is it presently possible to use the "Arial Narrow" font in Open Office > > under sid? > > > > It appears to be installed ok (along

Using Arial Narrow in OpenOffice.org

2010-07-20 Thread David Purton
Italic), Narrow (ArialNarrow-BoldItalic). Ironically the Narrow style with nothing in parentheses is Arial Narrow Bold...] cheers dc -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully c

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread David Purton
if I have done it in the most efficient way, but you're welcome to hack the code to do what you want - it is not complex code. http://marshwiggle.net/xbacklightd/ cheers dc -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen

Re: OT: strip hebrew vowels and accents from utf-8 text

2009-11-05 Thread David Purton
;) { > $_ = Encode::decode('utf-8', $_); > s/[\x{0591}-\x{05C7}]//g; > print Encode::encode('utf-8', $_); > } Perfect. Thanks, muchly. David -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whos

Re: Alternative to korganizer for gnome?

2009-10-01 Thread David Purton
offline, then have evolution synchronise when I reconnect to the net. Does anyone hae a solution to this? cheers dc -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

USB automount regression

2009-03-22 Thread David Purton
, it works ok again. I see a similar problem with a 3G wireless modem. Network manager can't connect through it using 2.6.28, but if I boot to 2.6.26, everything is fine. Any thoughts? David -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the ear

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-25 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:18:19PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get mlterm to work in the way I want for a mixed Hebrew > and English environment. > > These are the things that annoy me in no particular order: on more thing: - the hidden escape

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-25 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:13:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/25/2009 06:26 PM, David Purton wrote: > [snip] >> >> well - in fact I care about my editor (vim) and a program I have written >> to help me learn vocab. > > Maybe gvim would give you better result

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-25 Thread David Purton
Hi Mitchell, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 01:55:52PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 23:18 Sun 25 Jan , David Purton wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to get mlterm to work in the way I want for a mixed Hebrew > > and English environment. > > I am in

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-25 Thread David Purton
Hi Tzafrir, Thaks for your quick reply. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:24:20PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:18:19PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to get mlterm to work in the way I want for a mixed Hebrew &

help with mlterm

2009-01-25 Thread David Purton
ntrol this? My application should always work left to right and just insert Hebrew in right to left mode, but sometimes the lines start with Hebrew. Can anyone suggest solutions to these? cheers dc -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the ear

Re: SA-Exim and acls [solved]

2008-12-12 Thread David Purton
of course be spoofed. Thanks for your help. dc -- David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:34:57AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > acl_check_rcpt: > > warn hosts = : > >set acl_m0 = do-not-scan > > > > then in sa-exim.conf I have > > > > SAEx

SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread David Purton
eq {$acl_m0}{} {1}{0}}) Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? cheers, dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Tinyproxy + Iceweasel + HTTP/1.1

2008-09-08 Thread David Purton
wire, Tinyproxy uses HTTP/1.0! I only discovered this, because a broken webserver is returning HTTP/1.1 data even if HTTP/1.0 requests are sent. But there is clearly a bug somewhere on my side as well - either in what Iceweasel is telling Tinyproxy or in what Tinyproxy is doing. cheers dc -- David P

Re: [OT] tool to load file onto clipboard

2008-08-13 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:19:11AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Isn't there a tool out there that immediately loads a file onto the > clipboard? xclip looks like it might do what you want. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throug

Gnome power manager + custom suspend script

2008-03-28 Thread David Purton
will not suspend with whatever the default is. Beats me why. I use a script from here http://www.linux.com/feature/114220 It's pretty generic, so why the defaut gnome one can't do this seems odd. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread David Purton
a bit and tweaked it to do as much as it can for you, then try the leap to mutt. You could keep using pico to edit in mutt until you are ready to move onto something tastier. (Vim of course, not Emacs.) cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the e

Re: GUI programming

2008-01-20 Thread David Purton
oolkits in use. Windows users are less forgiving and are more easily confused if you do things in a non-windows way. And as for Mac users... They are hopeless with anything non-Mac, maybe with the exception of those who are prepared to play with darwin and fink stuff. cheers dc -- David Purton [E

Re: Weird gnome mount problem

2007-12-31 Thread David Purton
;d thought of this, but I hadn't tried a different machine. It works fine with my sid laptop, so I'll put it down to a bug in the etch version of Gnome. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen tho

Weird gnome mount problem

2007-12-29 Thread David Purton
y https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices but the only result is nothing rather than an error. Any theories, suggestions, tips, thoughts, or anything else that might be useful? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen tho

Re: How to specify primary display with intel and xrandr

2007-08-07 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:04:27AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:36:03PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:12:24AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:17:17PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > >

Re: How to specify primary display with intel and xrandr

2007-08-05 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:12:24AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:17:17PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > I have been playing with xrandr to get multi monitor support working on > > my intel i915 mobile card. I running unstable. > > > > It w

How to specify primary display with intel and xrandr

2007-08-05 Thread David Purton
the external vga screen? The current default behaviour seems really stupid and I can't believe that there isn't a way to do it, though google has only turned up people with the same problem and no one with a solution. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-01 Thread David Purton
Problem solved and people can talk about whatever they want. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: skype audio problem

2007-03-22 Thread David Purton
m to use Try setting it to OSS, since I think ALSA is the default for 1.3. If this works, the the problem lies with your ALSA config. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread David Purton
Arrrgghhh. Stop changing the subject line! That's what I add to my OT thread kill file! (No, I can't be bothered adding In-Reply-To and References to my checking ;) ) And don't bother replying to this, I wont get it... dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of

gnome & cups through ssh tunnel

2006-07-14 Thread David Purton
the gnome printer admin app. It does work work if I create the tunnel as root and bind to the privileged port 631. Does anybody have any suggestions? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully

Re: color management using free software?

2006-06-08 Thread David Purton
s. > > So, if someone from this list wanna contribute with links, i'd be most > greateful! > The best resource is the scribus wiki. There is a lot of info about colour management on this site. see wiki.scribus.net cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the ey

Re: Web only mode?

2006-05-29 Thread David Purton
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:48:37PM -0400, Zach wrote: > Is it possible to set list preferences to web only so that mail will > not be sent? You do not need to be subscribed to post to this list, so why not just unsubscribe? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes

Re: mozilla-thunderbird wont check for new mail!

2006-05-07 Thread David Purton
er now... I'm no longer using thunderbird in this way. I know that at the time, unix movemail was not even officially an option with tbird, and would have hoped that things had been sorted out by now. Sorry, I can't help more. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eye

Re: Converting from rgb to cmyk

2006-05-05 Thread David Purton
ed, you will likely be disapointed with the results. There is a colour separation plugin for the gimp which is probably the easiest way for you to do this. You can read about it, how to get it and use it from here: http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml You can ask your printer for a colour profile t

Re: escape a string literal for use with regex?

2006-05-02 Thread David Purton
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:22:34PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:34:19AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > I ended up using fgrep, which if I had read the grep manual I would have > > found does what I want (Blush). > > > > This

Re: escape a string literal for use with regex?

2006-05-02 Thread David Purton
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:09:30AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1146586566 past the epoch, David Purton wrote: > > How can I escape a string literal easily for use as a regex with grep? > > If you feed it through perl, you can enclose the suspect string with \Q > and \E. Here

Re: escape a string literal for use with regex?

2006-05-02 Thread David Purton
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:01:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > How can I escape a string literal easily for use as a regex with grep? > > > > e.g., > > > > Say I wanted to implement a procmail killfile, that might, say contain a

escape a string literal for use with regex?

2006-05-01 Thread David Purton
way to be able to do something like this: REGEXSAFESUBJECT=`$HOME/bin/regex_escape_string $SUBJECT` cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chro

treat iso8859-1 as windows-1252 in galeon/epiphany

2006-04-29 Thread David Purton
anybody know of a way to make Galeon assume that iso8859-1 is actually windows-1252 to work around these websites? Is there another work around? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed

Re: SCSI emulation of USB camera

2006-04-14 Thread David Purton
tly broken with gphoto2. See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=8874&atid=108874&func=detail&aid=1224783 You must force the camera to use PTP mode in whatever app you are using. I went and bought a card reader... cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For th

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles

2006-04-13 Thread David Purton
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:50:23PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > > > x-cursor-theme is no longer respected by xorg. You get the default X > > cursors no matter what. > > Quoted from a post earlier today: > > --- > > The easi

Re: undesired Volume icons on Gnome desktop

2006-04-13 Thread David Purton
emovable > media. I have been unable to find a way of fine-tuning the behaviour of > nautilus. > Yeah, I've seen this too. In my case, anything that is mounted from my second hard disk appears. Seems like a bug somewhere to me. dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles

2006-04-13 Thread David Purton
longer respected by xorg. You get the default X cursors no matter what. Gnome complains if you configure the keyboard differently to how it is cofigured in xorg.conf. Unlike you, I haven't yet found work arounds for these yet. Any clues appreciated. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTE

exim4 + saslauthd + pam_access doesn't work

2006-02-22 Thread David Purton
how to fix this? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-07 Thread David Purton
Hi, Thanks to all who answered. This dvd is not encrypted, so it is not a libdvdcss missing problem. $ xine *.VOB works, but is not quite perfect. See below for more questions. On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:20:59PM -, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Color Laser

2005-12-05 Thread David Purton
ress quality - even on glossy paper. m cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-05 Thread David Purton
VIDEO_TS.IFO And Totem gives this error message: Totem could not play 'dvd:///media/cdrecord/'. There is no plugin to handle this movie. I read this as totem is trying to access it as a UDF filesystem - but obviously it's not - it's iso9660 - so it fails. :( Any suggestions

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

2005-11-11 Thread David Purton
lly creating device nodes in /dev. The debian kernel package creates the /dev files manually when you install it, which is why it works until the next reboot. The experimental version (7676) at the time I got it works fine. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the

Re: Gimp and transparency in GIF images

2005-10-22 Thread David Purton
he contiguous selection tool without a tolerance. Clear you selection and save as a gif. This is as good as you can get with gif. It will look good on one background colour - but that is it. gif is a useless format. You just have to live with it. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For th

Re: Why don't I have /dev/inotify?

2005-10-22 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:31:16AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:23 +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I grabbed a 2.6.13.2 kernel off kernel.org and built it with these > > options: > > > > CONFIG_E

savagefb and acpi standby

2005-10-02 Thread David Purton
again. :( Any thoughts? Is it known that the savagefb does not play well with acpi? This is a stock 2.6.13.2 kernel. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him

Why don't I have /dev/inotify?

2005-10-02 Thread David Purton
Creating it by hand (mknod c 10 63 -- 63 seems to be the minor number that most sites give, but they say that the actual number should appear in dmesg) just creates a a handy "no such device" device. Any suggestions? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the ey

Re: mutt rocks: but how to...

2005-09-19 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > Hey David, > > On 2005-09-19T17:06:32+0930, David Purton wrote: > > What I want to be able to do is print the email - two pages per A4 > > page, with the picture tacked on the bottom of the email text at some >

Re: mutt rocks: but how to...

2005-09-19 Thread David Purton
cture tacked on the bottom of the email text at some suitable scale factor. So far this, I have failed in my quest to find a way of doing this. Any suggestions? (I know about muttprint, but I don't think it can do this) cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of th

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-13 Thread David Purton
nce enlightenment gives focus > to the window that the mouse is over, but without bringing it forward. > Not sure if what you mean, but it really annoys me that in gnome 2.10, when you open an app then, go back to a different app and keep using it while waiting for the new one to load, as

Re: Gnome 2.10: IMAP applet

2005-09-13 Thread David Purton
works quite well. The main downside is that IMAPS is not built into the debian package - there is some reason for this, see in the Readme file... You can get around this by using stunnel if you want. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the ea

Re: X.org Translucency Lockup: Should I file a bug?

2005-09-08 Thread David Purton
do have to shell in remotely and restart X. The problem is that I don't know where the problem lies: X.org or xcompmgr or nvidia drivers. I did manage to get things to be stable on a laptop with an S3 card, but without acceleration it's really too slow. cheers dc -- David Purton

Re: Gnome panel already running - error message

2005-09-04 Thread David Purton
my session matched the number I wanted running. Open up the gnome session editor and turn things off until they look like what you want. Then save your session. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen

Re: OT: GUI Develpment for C++ program

2005-08-23 Thread David Purton
to develop GUI apps using wxWidgets than many so called RAD languages. The more I use it, the more I marvel at it's cunning design features and time savning lbraries and classes. Plus, you get the immediate advantage of *native* cross-platform. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PR

Re: beagle only searches to a depth of 1 directory?

2005-08-20 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:36:57PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed beagle found it's way into sid, so I thought I'd give it a > whirl. > > It does work..., but not very well :( > > I can't seem to manage to get files to be indexed if the

beagle only searches to a depth of 1 directory?

2005-08-20 Thread David Purton
Also, is it possible to specify which extensions are indexed as plain text? e.g., how can I get beagle to index latex files? Or must I wait for (or write) a latex filter? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen thos

Re: OT: Wireless questions

2005-08-07 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:13:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, David Purton wrote: > > > I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway. > > > > I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my hom

Re: OT: Wireless questions

2005-08-07 Thread David Purton
Thanks for you answers Alvin and Others. Some more comments below. On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:13:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, David Purton wrote: > [SNIP] > > At present it looks like this: > > > > ++ > >

OT: Wireless questions

2005-08-06 Thread David Purton
raffic through to my server and block everything else between the wired and wireless networks - giving equivalent security. Again what hardware would you recommend? Most wireless routers seem to include a wired switch as well - which I don't really need. Thanks for you suggestions, dc -- Davi

using gui interfers with ALSA playback

2005-07-28 Thread David Purton
rnel. In other respects, I'm running an uptodate sid box with gnome as my DE - albeit on fairly old hardware: PIII, 550MHz, 256MB RAM, but the CPU isn't maxed out or anything. Any ideas? It's quite annoying :( cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the L

Re: Wmaker Nautilus (in only one window)?

2005-07-11 Thread David Purton
Maybe "naultilus --no-desktop" (or something like that - man nautilus for details) This will just let you use nautilus as a file manager. I think that it wont put any icons on your desktop either this way, which may not be exactly what you want. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROT

Re: gvm, pmount, loopback

2005-07-11 Thread David Purton
Hi, Thanks for the reply. On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:26:46PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:24:41 +0930 > David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I finally got around to installing a 2.6 kernel and got hald and > &

gvm, pmount, loopback

2005-06-23 Thread David Purton
. A penny for your thoughts. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: X slow to start after upgrade SOLVED

2005-05-17 Thread David Purton
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:40:39PM -0500, Paul Stolp wrote: > * David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-16 21:00]: > > > > > > Now everything is really slow to start - including the gdm greeter. > > > > > > CPU maxes out as a process starts and stay

Re: X slow to start after upgrade

2005-05-16 Thread David Purton
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:31:54PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > Hi folks, > > Did a dist-upgrade over the weekend on sid and a few gnome updates came > in. > > Now everything is really slow to start - including the gdm greeter. > > CPU maxes out as a process starts and s

X slow to start after upgrade

2005-05-16 Thread David Purton
slow using both methods. There is nothing out of the ordinary in ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/XFree86.*.log Any clues? It's rather annoying :( cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are

Re: starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-06 Thread David Purton
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:18:01PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > >The version in sid definitely does not have this problem. > > A long-shot, but maybe reading the changelog for the woody version to > the sid version will help you find out which

Re: starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-06 Thread David Purton
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:56:28PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:24:58PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just installed vim-gtk under woody and now when I run vim - it runs > > the gui version. How can I set things up so that cim r

Re: starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-05 Thread David Purton
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:24:58PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed vim-gtk under woody and now when I run vim - it runs > the gui version. How can I set things up so that cim runs the console > version and gvim runs the gui version? Under sid, it seems to wor

starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-05 Thread David Purton
s dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread David Purton
other > way out. It is ok to delete these files - there are a couple of ways to do it "the debian way": apt-get clean - this will delete all packages apt-get autoclean - this will delete all packages not currently installed cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eye

entering unicode chars

2004-12-29 Thread David Purton
à I would prefer if it went to Ä (a+macron), since ~a also gives Ã. It works for e: -e => Ä Can anyone help? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Re: gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-23 Thread David Purton
Usually development headers and import libraries are not installed by default. You want libc6-dev. dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to display CMYK tiffs correctly?

2004-12-22 Thread David Purton
ersion of debian are you running? Much stuff in sarge now includes LZW support. Use imagemagick to uncompress your image like so: $ convert -compress None compressed.tif uncompressed.tif cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OpenOffice exporting EPS files

2004-12-13 Thread David Purton
transparent objects? Do you mean say a closed curve with no fill that you see the objects behind? Or do you mean a translucent filled square that you can see through? The latter case is not supported by EPS. The former seems to work perfectly for me from oo.org cheers dc -- David Purton [EMA

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread David Purton
at program works) You can setup ghostscript printers really easily in windows - take a look at the redmon program on the ghostscript web site. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose h

Re: how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

2004-12-09 Thread David Purton
ssume that its not my fault right? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

2004-12-09 Thread David Purton
TY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;66-sds.glebeaust.com.au. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: 66-sds.glebeaust.com.au. 2995 IN A 202.59.19.66 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: glebeaust.com.au. 2995 IN NS ns02.glebeaust.com.au. glebeaust.com.au. 2995IN N

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-07 Thread David Purton
nt most USB keys but > not this one though it should be supported by Linux :( > make sure you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD also. dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread David Purton
ou sure sda1 is the right device? For some reason, my key uses /dev/sda try mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt and see if that works cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)

2004-11-11 Thread David Purton
ving spamc to a more beasty box is workng great. Scan times drop back to less than a second on a P4 2.6 Gig, 1 Gig RAM machine. Much nicer. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Description: Digital signature

OT: Raid0 Force Online

2004-10-21 Thread David Purton
sk to fall off the raid array? (FWIW, its running redhat 8) cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a signature.asc Descri

Re: usb flash drive fails on front ports

2004-09-25 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:35:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Does anyone have an idea why a usb pen drive would be detected and work > > fine using the usb ports on the back of my shuttle xpc SB62G2, but

usb flash drive fails on front ports

2004-09-25 Thread David Purton
the drive. Are there any other software problems that might cause this or must I just live with it? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2

Re: mozilla-tbird + xprint + fonts

2004-09-22 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 07:36:18PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > > Running unstable mozilla-thunderbird, recently printing has > > started to use the wrong font for plain text emails. > > > > The print preview on screen looks ok, but

mozilla-tbird + xprint + fonts

2004-09-16 Thread David Purton
too small. Is there anyway to configure what font is used for printing of emails from thunderbird? Postscript/default is a bit stuffed too, but in a different way. Any ideas what might be wrong or how to fix it? cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range

Re: restarting network connections

2004-08-09 Thread David Purton
t it works nicely. The main trap, is not to type "/etc/init.d/networking stop", from a remote location... d'oh Last time did that fortunately, someone was there to push the reset button when I rang up :) cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD

Re: Exim4 + ClamAV + Some Virii get through

2004-08-04 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:43:41PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:04:07PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I h

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