Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-28 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 09/27/2007 06:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I haven't tried two distinct screens, so I can't directly compare them. I find the moving of the mouse from one screen to the other to be intuitive and natural for me, but in reality, I rarely use the mouse anymore. I probably don't need to use

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-27 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a tiling WM is a WM that "tiles" the windows. That is, the windows > don't overlap, but rather occupy as much space as possible and are > laid out on the screen like tiles. wmii is one of the many tiling > WM's. It works by assignin

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-27 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:44:32PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > > > >> You're probably right that the DISPLAY is always :0.0. You need another > >> way to toggle between 0 and 1. Try thi

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-27 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
You're probably right that the DISPLAY is always :0.0. You need another way to toggle between 0 and 1. Try this: #!/bin/bash swfile=/tmp/sw-file if [ ! -f $swfile ]; then echo 0 > $swfile ; fi echo $(( ! `cat $swfile` )) > $swfile echo exec switchscreen `cat $swfile` Note that I just echo-ed

bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-26 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I have a problem - basically with some bash codes. I have dual screen and one mouse, and I want to switch my mouse back and forth from screen 1 to screen 2 etc by pressing a keyboard. In order to do that, I did the following: 1. install switchscreen, then by typing "switchscreen 0" o

Re: Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

2007-07-26 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
. Someone, through another channel, suggested me to use /dev/sda1's > bootloader to boot into Windows XP, but seeing that /dev/sda1 contains > a crippled WinPE recovery application, I don't think it will really > work. > > > Suggestions would be much appreciated, > &

Re: Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

2007-07-26 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 7/26/07, Hamza Saglam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After reading dozens of GRUB tutorials for a good few hours and not getting anywhere, I've decided to post on this mailing list regarding my problem. If it has been covered before please pardon me, I really can't see it :( Now before I st

Re: Newbie, Video help

2007-07-25 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 07/25/2007 11:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: justin reeves wrote: heres the response Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the discussion and the answer will be available in the archive. If your mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use. If not t

Re: samba, cups and windows client

2007-07-25 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 7/25/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:08:00PM -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba I'm not really up on these things, but I was under the impre

samba, cups and windows client

2007-07-25 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba server. Everything seems to be fine when I use a Windows XP Pro Client to connect to the printer: the client can see the printer, I can add it to the printer list, and its status is ready. I also add the windows user to

samba, cups and windows client

2007-07-24 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I just set up a printer server on my Debian box using cups and samba server. Everything seems to be fine when I use a Windows XP Pro Client to connect to the printer: the client can see the printer, I can add it to the printer list, and its status is ready. I also add the windows user

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi John, Even fvwm not found in my system (install from the latest DVD downloaded from debian) :( Sorry, I only know that I am now using Gnome, so what is a windows manager then? Is gnome a desktop shipped with that windows manager? KC. John Hasler wrote: I do not have fvwm2 (not found wh

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
fix. Thanks, KC. On 7/20/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > I need to create one, but then I do not know what is the "official" > command(s) to pass off the process to gnome whenever the script is > implement. Tried gdm, xdm, /etc/init.d/gdm,

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
ECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/07 19:47, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debian Etch 4.0 and it is quite new to me. I want to customize > some scripts starting with Gnome every time when I boot up and log in, > and the method chosen

Re: Debian not auto mount my CDs / DVDs

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
googled and read some posts, and most of them concerned about hal. Anybody experienced the same thing as me? KC. On 7/15/07, Nguyen, Cuong K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I just switched from Fedora to Debian, so I am totally a newbie to Debian. Now I have one problem: my Debian

xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I have Debian Etch 4.0 and it is quite new to me. I want to customize some scripts starting with Gnome every time when I boot up and log in, and the method chosen is to use ~/.xsession file. The problem is I do not see that file in my home folder. I need to create one, but then I do n

Debian not auto mount my CDs / DVDs

2007-07-15 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I just switched from Fedora to Debian, so I am totally a newbie to Debian. Now I have one problem: my Debian (Gnome) does not automatically mount any of my inserted CDs/DVDs, even I installed *gnome-volume-manager* already, and the *Mount removable media when inserted* as well as *Bro