Re: font size changed recently...why?

2007-08-17 Thread Mike Applebaum
Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > If I just knew how gdm picks what fonts it uses, I'd be well on my way > to figuring this out. In the olden days, I used to edit my xfs > configuration to select 100 dpi fonts over 75 dpi fonts, but my font > path (as shown with xset -q) does actually already have the 100

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Applebaum
> > I can sympathize with the OP, it's nice to get to the part of the man > page you want, then just dump out of less and have the relevant bit > still on the screen. > > A way to do this without opening a second xterm is to run screen in > your terminal session. Then it is even easier to flip

Re: after dist-upgrade gnome menu disappeared

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Applebaum
Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: I did a updade/dist-upgrade in my debian testing yesterday and, after restart my sustem, the menu bar dont start anymore! If when you click on the menu it immediately closes, then run update-menu as root. I had to do this yesterday after an update in testing. -

Re: x11-common upgarde error

2006-04-11 Thread Mike Applebaum
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade...Done The following packages will be upgraded: x11-c

Re: how to tell the refresh rate of current display?

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Applebaum
phyrster wrote: > Hi Debianers, > > I have already configured in xorg.conf a default entry of modeline line. My > question is: > > Which tool can tell me the refresh rate of current display? In other words, > how do I know this modeline is working? > > System configuration: xorg, fluxbox, sarg

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Applebaum
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 26 Jul 2005, Haines Brown wrote: > >>> >>>Editing /etc/hosts ? >> >> >>I bit the bullet, changed /etc/hostname, and rebooted; nothing >>else. As far as I can make out after a month, this procedure worked >>beautifully. I can think of ways it could lead to a problem or

Re: Server crashing (revisited)

2005-07-22 Thread Mike Applebaum
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Hopefully those people who replied to this issue earlier can respond. > > If you recall I had a problem with a server crashing (read below). I > started doing a memtest on the server itself while operating. It has > been running now 3 days. The server has not once crashed

Re: Kernel and compiler version?

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Applebaum
Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I just installed kernel-image-2.6.11-1 from ftp.debian.org. > > Is there way to find out what version of gcc it was compiled > with? 'uname -a' does not tell the gcc info. > > -ishwar > > cat /proc/version -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject