On Saturday 23 November 2002 00:15, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:53:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On Friday 22 November 2002 23:48, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > > hello all!
> > >
> > > is there a way i
On Friday 22 November 2002 23:48, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all!
>
> i have a dual boot system. it is a compaq machine.
>
> when i select shutdown in windows, the power indicator also goes off.
> when i do similarly in linux, it shuts down everything, finally says
> Power Down and stays ther
On Thursday 21 November 2002 00:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 00:18, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > At 2002-11-21T05:06:49Z, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not
> > > just tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:30, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >dpkg --purge package
> >
> >If this is failing, give us more info.
>
> argus:/etc/exim# dpkg --purge exim
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of exim:
> at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
> Package mail-transport-agen
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:19, Jan Johansson wrote:
> Tried a "customized" deb of a package (Exim), decided that it wasn't
> "all that I wanted" so I want to replace it with a stock Exim.. But I
> cant seem to make apt-get and/or dpkg to understand that?
dpkg --purge package
If this is fai
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 22:05, Michael Kahle wrote:
> Interesting. I am going to have to do some reading on this.
>
> Does the fact that they control the "standard" prohibit others from
> implementing the language with other standards if they see fit? Forking
> the project so to speak?
>
I
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:06, Kent West wrote:
>
> I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not just
> tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a similar problem with Java, or
> have I just been channeling too much RMS lately?
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> Kent
Many o
On Saturday 16 November 2002 06:03, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> -- lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 12:57 AM -0500):
> > How do I go about putting program icons on the Blackbox desktop?
>
> I've used both ROX-filer (there are debian packages listed on its
>
On Sunday 10 November 2002 08:53, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-10 17:36]:
> >> So what are your thoughts about this? Is there another good use I
> >> could put caps lock to? Experiences?
> >
> >If you're a vi user, you may find it useful to swap it wi
On Friday 08 November 2002 19:08, David Z Maze wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> >> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a
> >> specific version of window manager?
> >
> > Not that I kno
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:44, John Joe wrote:
> sorry, this is not Debian-specific question,but i
> desparately need help. could you explain "wire-level"
> in the following?
>
> In this world, the answer is to rely on the business
> data and communication protocol headers that define
> the wir
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:56, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Thanks,
> I tried to put a DefaultDepth line in my XConfig file before and X just
> wouldnt start at all, I'll try it again tho.
> Is there another file I should be making these changes in? maybe Im looking
> in the wrong place.
> Ive tr
On Monday 04 November 2002 08:15, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Thanks, I'll give that a go and let you know,
>
if -depth allows you to run in 16 bit mode then the section you hilighted
below is your problem. If it fails to start in 16 bit then either a) X won't
run 16 bit with your card or b) the
On Monday 04 November 2002 07:12, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Hi all,
> How do I set up X to default to 16 bit color depth?
>
> Im running Debian Potato 2.2 and am running the version of XFree that
> shipped with it. (sorry dont remember xf86 version #). I've tried to add
> the line "DefaultColorDep
On Saturday 02 November 2002 15:00, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> There is a menu item under exit/restart
> in wmaker that I use a lot. Does
> anyone know what the actual command this
> is using?
>
> Lance
it creates a menu item which window maker calls internally. There is no
direct access to this.
On Friday 01 November 2002 13:38, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I recently installed spamassassin on my testing/sarge box and I am
> fairly happy with the results. However, my main box still runs
> stable/woody and I am wondering if the stable version of spamassassin
> works as well as the testing..
On Thursday 31 October 2002 09:50, Soul Computer wrote:
> It would seem to me that Debian could have a
> Shell that looked and acted an awful lot like a
> MUD created, with applications representing
> spells and objects being added with processes
> representing the player characters. The
> directo
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 22:40, Dan Hunt wrote:
> Hi! Bad interpreter?
> I did edit the top of the script with the Midnight Commander edit
> program to remove those pesky M$ spaces or carriage returns.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for CHAIN in INPUT OUTPUT FORWARD POSTROUTING PREROUTING
> do iptables -P $CH
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:39, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
>
> In blackbox, there's two tools, bblaunch and bbappconf, that can
> configure which workspace (note: *not* virtual desktop) a program starts
> on. A patch for bbappconf, located at
> http://xor.orodu.netbb/bbappconf.move_resize
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:29, ben wrote:
>
> colin, thanks for the response, but given that a huge majority of the spam
> that makes its way through the list filters emanates from .cn, .tw, and .kr
> domains, where there are obviously huge relay holes, what does it take to
> have the list's spa
On Monday 28 October 2002 19:14, Miles Bader wrote:
>
> However, I don't know whether the problem lies with the them or with
> buggy apps (I've encounted many apps before that use the wrong fg color,
> which is only noticable if you've got a theme very different from the
> default), so I'm wonderin
On Sunday 27 October 2002 16:16, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:43:02PM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number
> > > of things.
> >
> > This is true for applications in the following wording "you get
On Sunday 27 October 2002 20:16, Justin Ryan wrote:
> > you are also assuming Debian devels have access to such hardware. I am
> > personally still using a pII 400. Our users tend to have better hardware
> > than we do these days.
>
> IANAD, but afaik all source packages are/can be built on all a
On Sunday 27 October 2002 08:49, Oleg wrote:
> Hi
>
> Why doesn't Debian add two more architectures: P4 and Athlon4? A bit more
> space will be used on Debian mirrors, but the bandwidth will not increase
> (unless more people start using Debian) and the extra maintenance in most
> cases will be lim
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:16, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have been looking at what source version control system I could use to
> sync with a repository on my home network but also work offline on my
> laptop whilst on my travels.
>
> Arch looks a good bet - but I am nervous. Although debian un
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:16, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have been looking at what source version control system I could use to
> sync with a repository on my home network but also work offline on my
> laptop whilst on my travels.
>
> Arch looks a good bet - but I am nervous. Although debian un
On Saturday 26 October 2002 07:29, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying out the jack cd ripper program and using oggenc as the
> encoder. It reads music tracks at 5.0x but encodes at 0.1x. Is that normal
> for ogg? Jack is set to use one encoder at a time.
>
> My machine:
> 475 Mhz AMD
On Friday 25 October 2002 11:06, Kent West wrote:
> I understand that one of the the reasons that Microsoft's "Open Source"
> program has had few takers is because Microsoft's license is "viral" (to
> borrow MS's term for the GPL); once you see their code, there's a risk
> that any code you develop
On Friday 25 October 2002 09:21, Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> I know the G400 AGP works fine in a workstation using X in Xinerama,
> which is my current setup, but I'd like to be more confident it'd work
> with a G450 PCI in a docking-station application before I recommend.
>
I am using one of these i
On Friday 25 October 2002 07:58, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can
> accomodate?
>
> I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I
> just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use
> 'easily'.
>
>
On Thursday 24 October 2002 13:53, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
>
> > - How to store the files (on disk I guess, but in some kind of
> > hierarchy with category etc?)
>
> I do \Artist\Album\tracknum-trackname.ogg
>
> > I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this?
>
> Yep, did it for a
On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:08, Rodney Green wrote:
> Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts
> to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the
> e-mail address and the username to download mail.
>
> Thanks,
> Rod
that's pretty mu
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:22, csj wrote:
>
> So, is there a shell command sequence which I can type into an xterm to
> replace Ratpoison with another WM, while keeping my other X clients
> still running? I need the equivalent of a re-startx.
while I hack on blackbox what I usually do is star
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 09:17, Robert Kratky wrote:
> hi,
> i'm probably missing something. could you please direct me to a place in
> the documentation where it is explained how to update your kernel using
> the prepackaged images.
> my situation is this:
> i installed woody using the bf2.4 k
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 17:48, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> i have some .deb kernel images, can i back them up and then just dpkg -i
> them after a big reinstall?
>
> thanks,
>
> iain
why not (-: The kernel deb is not tied to any other piece of the system
except maybe the support programs (modut
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:17, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results
>
> Sorry, I know this is offtopic, but does anybody know where (apart from
> spam) you can find out about travel to China? I'm lo
On Monday 21 October 2002 19:11, Kevin Coyner wrote:
>
> I've tried both blackbox and fluxbox and like them both, but for now am
> using xfce for one simple reason: I have dual monitors and use
> Xinerama, and BB and FB bring up new window/apps/dialog boxes right
> between the two screens, whereas
On Monday 21 October 2002 16:03, Peter Nyhan wrote:
> I just recently switched from FreeBSD to Debian 3.0 and transported my
> current C project
> over to this platform. My project crashed today and did not generate a
> core file.
> Ulimit -a reports that cores are set to 0. When I type ulimit -c
>
On Friday 18 October 2002 15:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Java really is a poor choice for Debian as the implementations of Java
> by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian.
>
this is a very valid argument and really the clincher for me. Java IS owned
by Sun and whoever uses i
On Friday 18 October 2002 14:47, Richard Kimber wrote:
>
> Thanks, but this doesn't work. I.e. pointing the remote client at
> "kimber" (or the equivalent) doesn't allow the remote pc to retrieve mail.
> From Outlook, I get:-
>
> Connection was unexpectedly terminated by the server. Yet I can ha
On Friday 18 October 2002 10:23, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> I've put together a Live CD for the Sony VAIO C1VN that I would like to
> release to the public, and would like to make sure that I'm not doing
> something wrong. I don't think I am, but I would like to be sure.
>
> The areas of concern tha
On Thursday 17 October 2002 21:32, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> good job... one question... should it be "$@" instead of $@? ie. what
> if he had spaces in the filenames... you could add a
>
> mv "$file" "`echo $file | tr " " "_"`"
> to turn all spaces in the filename into underscores as the first line
>
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:33, Alvaro Figueroa wrote:
> It's probably a bit too soon, but does anyone knows if there are debian
> packages for the recently gpl'ed Blender?
>
> Even non-free packages won't do me mutch good... I'm a debian-sparc
> user.
not just yet. Compiling it is a real he
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:58, deFreese, Barry wrote:
> Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one.
> :-)
>
> Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I
> promise to send big checks to Debian and Samba!! :-) ) what is the best way
> to
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:25, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 16/10/02 Larry W.Irwin Sr. did speaketh:
> > I did an apt-get install Gnome2 today and wish that I had not. It
> > appears to be far too large and slow for my 475 Mhz 96Mb system.
>
> Gnome is too large and slow for most supe
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 18:37, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I've recently took a college level course in beginning C, and then a
> follow-on course in C and C++. I enjoyed learning the basics of the
> languages and now want to pursue it further.
>
> One of the things I'd like to be able to do is put
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 14:07, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've got an Athlon XP 2000 system running as my desktop machine. I've
> also got a PIII 850 laptop and a p133 mail server. While recompiling the
> kernel on the laptop isn't too time consuming it still takes almost
> twice as long as it do
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:25, john gennard wrote:
> I'd like to try using IRC. There seems a wide variety of programs
> available and I wonder what is the one most commonly chosen
> by list members. I'm running Woody.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John.
depends on how you like them to look (-: Some people
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 07:19, Price, Erik wrote:
> I installed Debian a few weeks ago, then installed SuSE on top of it
> (keeping the partition setup I had created during the Debian install).
> SuSE installed a boot loader for me, so that whenever I start the computer
> I get to choose betwe
On Monday 14 October 2002 19:52, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:39:23 -0400
>
> Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does
> > debian-user get trolled/web-botted a lot?
>
> No problem here. I've been subscribed for o
On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C',
> > i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the
> > repository?
>
> At least from exp
On Monday 14 October 2002 10:04, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> | > is there a method of knowing that packages that can be safely removed?
> | > typically, these will be packages on which no other packages depend.
> |
> | install deborphan and run it.
>
> I'm a fan of de
On Friday 11 October 2002 02:28, Claudio Bley wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:22, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote:
> > I am tired of having to redimension abiword Xemacs and the like each
> > time I run them. I know I can specify the applications to start
> > maximized using Window Maker but that
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:26, Walter Tautz wrote:
> even if I'm on a pentium machineI would like to do this in
> a config file not on the command line. Actually looking iat
> gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
> gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerele
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:18, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> Is there a shell utility that can take stdin and put it into an X
> clipboard. The 'current selection' clipboard would be ideal, but any of
> the X Clipboard's would suffice. For example
>
> ls | someutility
>
> and then middle mouse c
On Thursday 10 October 2002 09:47, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I use a Happy Hacking Lite keyboard with my Debian/sid system. In the last
> week, Emacs 21 quit responding to the left and right diamond keys as meta
> and started treating them as super. From my ~/.Xmodmap, which hasn't
> changed in ove
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 15:01, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few
> small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly
> messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...)
>
> However, I have been unable to import my Fold
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:23, Kent West wrote:
>
> I am beta testing an application, and I need an easy way of recording (and
> timestamping) everything I do. Any ideas?
store the config/source code/etc in cvs. Lets you roll back a version, give a
special name to a version, etc.
--
To
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:36, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me.
> I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them
> and I was hoping that some one can answer my question.
> It seems that debian has three
On Monday 07 October 2002 19:55, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them?
> I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to
> locale issues... there's a man entry for "setlocale", which I would
> have thought to have been t
On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00, Soul Computer wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone would know where I
> could find "MUD" game engines for Linux.
>
> Please "Reply All" when you reply to make certain
> I get any information you send my way.
>
> Thank you very much for any help you can give me.
>
by
On Monday 07 October 2002 07:41, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am concerned about the future of UnitedLinux (UL). The idea of
> Conectiva,
> SuSe, Caldera and TurboLinux is to define new standards trough UL. How
> this will affect the rest of the Linux world, the non commercial one?
>
On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:07, lameth wrote:
> I remember reading that most experienced linux users believe that
> programs run best if you download the source code and compile the code
> on your own machine. Is this true, do programs you compile on your own
> machine run best? Or is it just a m
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:54, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:17:57 +0100
>
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would advise filtering on the X-Mailing-List: header, not To: or Cc:,
> > if the latter is what you're doing. This should be reliable.
>
> Thanks, but ther
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:18, Michael Olds wrote:
> Something that works like Windows Explorer, with full details in the right
> hand window (permissions/users/groups). Actually Gentoo looks very good, if
> I can get the thing installed.
>
gentoo is packaged, just apt-get it.
--
To UNSUBS
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:45, Kent West wrote:
>
> In other words, perhaps some day the developers can say "Here's the
> interface specs; make your hardware work with it if you want to sell
> your cards."
>
> Pipe dream? Fantasy? Stupid innovation-stifling idea? Good idea? What?
>
> Kent
Al
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:12, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > > Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other
> programs like xmms or mp3blaster or freeamp just hang.
>
> I'm current on testing (sid). Sound used to work properly so some
> upgrade changed something but I have no clu
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:31, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>
> Does the left Alt key work and not the right Alt key? Is it possible
> that the "Window" keys work in place of the Alt key?
>
> You may want to look at the configuration for the x keymap in
> /etc/X11/xkb, such as /etc/X11/xkb/keycode
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 15:45, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > it is too bad some of the corporate "customer comes first" mentality
> > didn't get into Debian. I donated $4 to Debian, more then many can
> > claim, I guess I got EXACTLY what I paid for. Good luck to all of you,
> > and thanks again
On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote:
> #include
> #include
> #include
>
> then you should be able to compile with:
>
> g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp
>
> Note also that the usual (proper?) way of naming C++ source is *.cc or
> *.cxx, not *.cpp like M$ do.
>
> Tom
actually
On Monday 30 September 2002 16:55, John Batistic wrote:
> I am unable to compile the KDE2 helloworld.cpp example
>
> error message from make:
>
> g++-c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp
> helloworld.cpp:2: qapplication.h: No such file or directory
> helloworld.cpp:3: qlabel.h: No such file or dir
On Monday 30 September 2002 08:54, Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hello,
> My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as
> rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the
> preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to
> tell apt-g
On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:06, Oleg wrote:
>
> Building is not the problem. I have been using GCC 3.2 that I built from
> sources, and I was successful in building STLport recently, however, I can
> not run programs that I compile using them together: either static linking
> fails, or if I l
On Saturday 28 September 2002 00:44, Russell wrote:
>
> Why is ./ in the path bad? If someone hacked in, couldn't they
> set the path to anything they wanted?
mostly because you just never know what you will find in '.'. Being forced to
type ./foo helps you be aware of where you are and what yo
On Friday 27 September 2002 22:08, Oleg wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 11:40 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On Friday 27 September 2002 17:57, Oleg wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Are there any compatible debs for GCC 3.2 and STLport that I ca
On Friday 27 September 2002 17:57, Oleg wrote:
> Hi
>
> Are there any compatible debs for GCC 3.2 and STLport that I can use on
> Woody? I tried installing using the sources, but apparently there are some
> issues (perhaps the ABI change)
>
Why do you need STLPort? The STL in the 3.2 library is
On Thursday 26 September 2002 23:12, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't quite understand the complexity of the process to move Debian to
> gcc 3.2. It seems there's an issue about programs compiled with 3.2 not
> being able to work with libraries compiled with 2.95. Without going into
> too much
On Friday 27 September 2002 02:50, Klaus Imgrund wrote:
>
> I just got rid of an installation I compiled with 3.2
> IMHO you don't really need gcc 3.2 just jet.Didn't see the 'great' speed
> increase in apps but got a lot of broken apps that don't work right with
> gcc 3.2. Plus the thing is reall
On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:30, Mark Roach wrote:
> Konqueror takes an extremely long time to load pages on my system
> compared to mozilla/galeon. Has anyone had a similar problem?
>
> I went to theregister in konq and then while it was loading, I lanched
> galeon, loaded the site and came b
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:56, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Just remember that fax spamming is illegal EVERYWHERE and you are easily
> > traced. Being sued by a spammer would suck.
>
> I hate to use a spammer&#x
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:27, Mike Dresser wrote:
> Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if I start
> faxing dumb spammers like the one that just hit debian-bugs?
>
> I faxed him a nice STOP SPAMMING YOU STUPID SPAMMER.
>
> I should have done it white text on black ba
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 22:51, Koen Niehof wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do I get to the screen where I can login as root? Now I get the
> graphical login screen and I can't login as root. When I try to setup my
> ADSL connection to the internet the pppoeconf program tells me I have to
> become
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:11, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I want to set up a rescue/administration filesystem on an extra
> partition, but I would like to be able to install packages without
> rebooting into that filesystem. I already found that dpkg will handle
> that with the --root option, b
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 08:54, Ramon Kagan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have three monitors working at the same time?
>
> Can you have
>
> Screen "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen2"
> Screen "Screen2" LeftOf "Screen3"
> Screen "Screen3"
>
> in XF86Config-4?
>
yep. Should work just fine.
--
T
On Monday 23 September 2002 08:37, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
>
> There are at least two major factions of thought on how a mailing list
> should be set up. One suggests that lists should munge their headers so
> responses are forced to the list and the other suggests that MUAs should
> be updated.
On Saturday 21 September 2002 08:15, christophe barbé wrote:
> I forgot to say that on the left button of the window, in the menu there
> is a "Put on all workplace". But gkrellm has fortunately no decoration.
> Also metacity doesn't memorize this property.
> I hope there is a way to set it up per
On Saturday 21 September 2002 07:53, christophe barbe wrote:
> I am trying metacity and find it very nice.
> One thing that I find missing is the ability to set an application as
> sticky so I can see it on all desktop (It's for gkrellm).
>
> Is it possible with metacity ?
>
> Christophe
At least
On Friday 20 September 2002 14:10, nate wrote:
> debian, traditionally has been very strict with what new packages are
> available in the new revisions of stable.
>
basically unless it fixes a security hole, hard drive corruption, or complete
package breakage it will not happen.
You need to int
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:35, Andre Berger wrote:
> I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html;
> charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work.
> You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is
> this, and where can I find a list
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 06:52, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I wonder if any of you know of a grammar checker available for
> linux in English. A Google search didn't give me anything for english,
> neither did www.linux.org Have any.
>
there are not a lot of options unfortunat
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 16:08, Tom Allison wrote:
> Is there anything that will find unused / zero dependency libraries
> and the like and prompt them for removal?
>
> Here's the problem. I install one package, which brings in 12
> dependencies.
> I uninstall the one package, but the 12 depe
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 14:40, Cameron Matheson wrote:
>
> I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too
> long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz,
> (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go
> about this?
>
two
On Sunday 08 September 2002 21:44, Gib Bogle wrote:
> My Debian system is 2.4.18, which was built with gcc 2.95.4. I want to
> compile some software which apparently requires gcc 2.96 or later. What
> should I do? My first thought was simply to install a later version of
> gcc, but it occurs to
On Friday 06 September 2002 10:56, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote:
> Hi Gang
>
>
> Why can't I do
>
> apt-get install cal
>
>
> It tells me there is no cal
>
> I thought calendar was a standard function???
>
> TIA
>
> Marvin
$ auto-apt search bin/cal
usr/sbin/callback comm/mgetty
usr/X11R6/bin/calc
On Friday 06 September 2002 06:48, John Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am nervous about the removal of modutils and modconf and the update
> of binutils libc6 libc6-dev libgcc1 locales. Will this mess up my
> current testing development enviroment or are the dependencies such
> that things will just
On Thursday 05 September 2002 23:09, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and
> all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits
> the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone
> know
On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:44, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily
> power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody
> configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's
> some cleaner program that is going to come
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 19:50, Brian Nelson wrote:
> But note that, as stated in xfonts-100dpi description field,
> "xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large
> screen resolutions (over 1024x768)."
>
> In that case, you'd be better off just changing the font size ma
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am planning to run dual-head when I get this working. I _don't_ want to
> use a distro other than Debian, although I may be forced to, if I can't
> solve this.
>
I have a G450 which I use in dual head mode. Once the card is wo
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