Re: How to resize mouse pointer in X ?

2002-02-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Am Fre, 2002-02-22 um 15.58 schrieb Matijs van Zuijlen: > On 2002.02.21 22:53:26 +0100 Martin Emrich wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > Some time ago, after doing my weekly apt-get dist-upgrade, I started X > > and my mouse pointer was much bigger than usual. Since then, I

How to resize mouse pointer in X ?

2002-02-21 Thread Martin Emrich
working fine (no glitches, no hangups), but this huuuge mouse pointer is really annoying. Btw., how does X draw the mouse pointer ? Is it a pixmap somewhere, or is it a special font with mouse pointers as glyphs, or are the pointer graphics somehow compiled into a driver ? Any Ideas ? Thx Martin Emrich

XFree86 hangs / How to use Xfree 4.2.0

2002-02-03 Thread Martin Emrich
blem, too, and found a cure ? Thx for any help... Martin -- /****/ /* Martin Emrich*/ /* [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ //

Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi All ! When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional documentation usually installed ? Or do you know a good "getting-documentation-howto

Re: X freezes System ? [SOLVED]

2001-12-23 Thread Martin Emrich
I finally mad it. It didn't like neither the kernel-framebuffer-device nor the APIC stuff. One Kernel-compiling and several XF86config hacks later, it finally works... Martin Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Martin Emrich wrote: Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for

X freezes System ?

2001-12-23 Thread Martin Emrich
onfigured the X server to use the "nv" driver. what to do now ? I have to be fast to press CTRL-ALT-F1 before gdm tries to draw the login window, or I have to reboot the machine via telnet... Any Ideas ? Martin Emrich (=Newbie)

Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?

2001-12-19 Thread Martin Emrich
Craig Dickson wrote: Martin Emrich wrote: I was writing some tex file in emacs, and suddenly, a little blue Fish swam over my Display (no, I dont work underwater ;) It looked similar to the one in this Fish-Applet for GNOME Panel. Sounds like the GNOME panel's easter egg. Ok

Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?

2001-12-19 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi All ! Today, something _really_ weird happened on my computer: I was writing some tex file in emacs, and suddenly, a little blue Fish swam over my Display (no, I dont work underwater ;) It looked similar to the one in this Fish-Applet for GNOME Panel. After it stopped halfway between the up

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread Martin Emrich
If anyone is interested - This is my Script to do this job (I've linked it into rc2.d/): (Sorry for the german messages) it detects if my LAN PC Card is plugged in, and if it is, is sets up the network to my Linux Router at home. It also restores the resolv.conf file, because dhclient overwrit