On 9/19/13, Bob Proulx wrote:
> And if it doesn't help you then it still might help someone else so
> the investment is often useful multiple times. The rule is see one,
> do one, teach one. If you want to pay it back then help someone else
> out in the future.
*Rather* well said. Another way
On 9/19/13, Bob Proulx wrote:
> This behavior is why this is happening with both mutt and mc. Try
> less. Is it happening with less too? I think it should be.
Thank you for your encyclopedic response -- way above the call of duty!
I will try to get your suggested experiments. I'm sorry but
I have a gnome-terminal profile configured with a black background.
However, running mutt in it changes the background to gray, a much
lower contrast situation. In all the other terminals I have tried
(xterm, rxvt, urxvt), black stays black in mutt. (This
background-goes-gray also happens with midn
On 9/18/13, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Either would suggest to me a lost/corrupt file...
Your careful (quite impressive, actually) reply encouraged me to
inspect my collection of font files. I noticed a discrepancy between:
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
and
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.
On 9/16/13, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Why does the fact that you have failing eyes necessitate having a font in
> the form above?
It doesn't. That was the form in which the recommended font was
specified to me by an online friend.
> I have failing eyes and I find Bitstream Vera Sans much the best, h
The subject line is a failure message from tightvncserver, running on
squeeze. For a reason unknown to me this package began to fail to
launch two days ago, AFTER LITERALLY YEARS OF UNINTERRUPTED,
completely hiccup-free, performance!
Time spent on google reveals that this is not an uncommon error
On 9/15/13, green wrote:
> Eric d'Halibut wrote at 2013-09-15 20:57 -0500:
>> The following was suggested to me for use as a fairly big font for my
>> failing eyes.
>> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--33-240-100-100-m-200-iso10646-1
> Several Courier-style font
The following was suggested to me for use as a fairly big font for my
failing eyes.
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--33-240-100-100-m-200-iso10646-1
Is there a method that would backtrack me to the deb containing that font?
Best as per usual!
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I have been floundering around the web looking for whatever plugin or
plugin(s) are needed to make GEdit useful as an editor, say, with
mutt. I thought this info would have leapt off the screen at me, but
here I am asking my patient deb-user friends yet another OT question!
What I expect mostly fr
On 6/6/13, Kailash wrote:
> Hi, if you go to the top left corner of your screen, you enter
> "Activities". You should see a panel on your left which has some
> default favorite apps.
Thank you for your response; you are much too kind.
I pursued some researches of my own, and after man-handling
Yes, I just dist-upgraded to wheezy. I was so baffled by the gnew
Gnome that I launched "Help" from the Accessories menu. Help tells me
I am supposed to have the items I listed in my Subject: heading, i.e.
if i may repeat myself, Activities, Dash, Hot-corner.
None of these entities seem to exist o
On 12/29/11, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Look for files with a .dpkg ending.
Aha! Copying those into place and then adding my custom stuff fixed
everything up.
Thank you!
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No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am
not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet l
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade to an old lenny, bringing him to squeezy.
apache 2 now refuses to start, with this message found in
/var/log/apache2/error.log
[Wed Dec 28 22:10:21 2011] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open
transfer log file /etc/apache2/${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ot
On 11/5/11, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> unset nowrap
Ah. Thank you!
Strangely, just overnight too, they seem to have magically modified my
copy of 'man nanorc' to include that dubious option!
:-)
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not a looney! Why should
I just dist-upgraded from lenny to squeeze and find that nano, my
editor-of-choice for use with mutt, no longer honors its .nanorc file:
set autoindent
set cut
set fill 68
set multibuffer
set smarthome
set speller /usr/bin/ispell
set tabsize 4
set tabstospaces
set tempfile
"set fill 68" appears t
SOLVED!
On 6/27/11, William Hopkins wrote:
> Anyway, what does `netstat -nlp |grep vnc` output?
This was just the debugging tip I needed! I've lost the output, but it
contained an entry '127.0.0.1:5901' which brought to mind the strange
(to me) presence of the argument '-localhost' in the serve
On 6/26/11, William Hopkins wrote:
> try dpkg-reconfigure locales
Thank you again. That command (above) clued me to the fact that the
packages 'locales' was not even installed. Who knew?
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On 6/26/11, William Hopkins wrote:
> x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just want
> a VNC server: look into tightvncserver.
Yes, that is what I have running now, I think
>From 'ps ax':
27765 pts/1S 0:00 Xtightvnc :01 -desktop X -auth /home/bob/.Xauthor
I"m getting these pesky messages when I run certain commands (e.g.
apt-get) as root:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.utf8"
are supported and installed on you
On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all!
> Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your
> purpose.
My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a
"virtual private server" up and running -- root access and all th
On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> The other alternative is XDMCP, which is designed for this sort of thing.
I don't think so. It -- XDMCP -- afaik requires a running X, and X
requires a video device. I learn that even X.org's "dummy" driver is
itself a dummy!
I am going to try x11vnc. Thank
I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X
doesn't want to configure itself on a "virtual private server" that
has NO PHYSICAL VIDEO CARD, or so it seems to me at present.
But surely all the computing horse
On 6/18/11, Brian wrote:
> Have a play with:
> folder-hook . 'exec last-entry'
Bingo. Give that man a cigar!
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No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am
not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely
because I have a pet halibut?
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To U
What can I put in my .muttrc to tell mutt to open on the very last
message regardless of whether it is new or old or read or not?
Best regards in advance!
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