Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-10 Thread Tyler Smith
"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: > >  alias shib='pkill firefox ; sudo hibernate' > > > The executable you need to kill is "firefox-bin" and not just > "firefox." Give that

Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
Mike Viau writes: >> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 16:06:13 -0400 wrote: >> >> > >> > Is there a way I can politely ask firefox to quit, less traumatically >> > than pkill? >> >> I think I answered my own question: >> >> wmctrl -c firefox >> >> appears to do what I need. >> > > Does that work (to exit grac

Re: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > > Is there a way I can politely ask firefox to quit, less traumatically > than pkill? Hi again, I think I answered my own question: wmctrl -c firefox appears to do what I need. Sorry for the noise, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I want firefox to quit every time I hibernate my laptop. I've tried doing this using the following bash alias: alias shib='pkill firefox ; sudo hibernate' However, firefox doesn't close cleanly, and I often have problems when I open it again, with ff complaining that it can't recover my ta

Re: mouse speed too fast [Solved, sort of]

2011-04-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > > I did have a xorg.conf, but I made a new one with Xorg -configure, and > modified the mouse section to read: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option &quo

Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Chance Platt writes: >> That looks helpful, but how do I actually make the changes? I assume >> that I should edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, and I used the >> code provided in your link as an example. Do I have to restart X to get >> the config re-read? Your link suggest I can stop ha

Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Smith
Chance Platt writes: > On 04/03/2011 05:58 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> I've tried using xset to change the sensitivity, but I have only >> succeeded in making it even faster (for instance, using xset m 10 0). My >> attempts to slow the mouse down (xset m 1/1

mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using Debian testing with Fluxbox for my window manager. I've just bought a new optical mouse, and it's so sensitive that it's very difficult to select small bits of text. I've tried using xset to change the sensitivity, but I have only succeeded in making it even faster (for instance, us

Re: [SOLVED] fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith writes: > Javier Vasquez writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: >>> [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 >>> >

Re: fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Javier Vasquez writes: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: >> [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 >> >> and now the window decorations don't show the mi

fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 and now the window decorations don't show the min/max/close buttons. It doesn't matter which style I use, my own custom style or any of the packaged styles. The only exception is the graphics wi

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-16 Thread Tyler Smith
Bob Proulx writes: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Doesn't the 'ALL=(ALL) ALL' line give the user unlimited authority >> anyways? > > It isn't about restricting privilege. Both have superuser privilege. > It is about the invocation environment. > I hadn

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-15 Thread Tyler Smith
Kelly Clowers writes: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:20, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> On Du, 14 nov 10, 20:54:42, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> And if 'sudo' isn't configured for you then that is the first thing >>> that you will want to do. :-) >>> >>>   # visudo >>>   rob     ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> What

Re: Attaching vs. pastebin for big outputs

2010-11-01 Thread Tyler Smith
Klistvud writes: > > Personally, I would urge every submitter to edit their logs/files and > expurge anything irrelevant. Ideally, they should do enough > troubleshooting as to be finally able to only leave one line, the one > which the bug/problem is located in. Thus, the dilemma of whether

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-10-13 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón writes: >>> >>> >> Sorry, I should have mentioned I also found that with Google, and tried >> restarting avahi-daemon without success. > > How did you setup the printer? > > Try by using a "socket://" or "ipp://" URI and the IP address of the > printer/machine instead using its name to

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, >> everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer >> results in the printer reporting (via localhos

Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I irregularly have a problem when trying to print to a network printer from my Debian Testing laptop. Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer results in the printer reporting (via localhost:631/pr

wireless button works for bluetooth, not for wlan

2010-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, One of the recent updates appears to have altered the behaviour of the hard ware wireless switch on my HP Elitebook 6930p. It never used to work at all. Now, it works for bluetooth, but not for regular wireless. With the wireless turned on, I get this: /home/tyler# rfkill list 4: phy1: Wirel

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Francesco Pietra writes: > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on > debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more ex

Re: OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
"Wayne " writes: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my >> window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the >> undocked window it provides when you click on the "

OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the undocked window it provides when you click on the "more" option quite a lot. However, no matter how many times I manually resize the undocked window, or set my p

Re: Aptitude message stops install..

2010-01-25 Thread Tyler Smith
Jimmy Johnson writes: > I keep getting this message and it stops the install, upgrade or removal > of packages, how can I continue, fix the problem and/or get rid or the > message? It looks like you've got apt-listchanges installed. This displays changes to packages using less as the pager. q sh

Re: iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Alex Samad writes: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:07:55PM -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop >> all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing >> requests. >&g

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Cameron Hutchison writes: >>Tyler Smith writes: >>>Cameron Hutchison writes: > >>>> Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin >>>> (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? > >>>

iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing requests. However, When I check with Shields Up! https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 I see that port 0 and 1 are listed as 'closed' instead of 'stealth

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin > (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testing on a 32 bit machine. We're not alone, when I tried to trouble shoot this I found a bunch of

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

2009-11-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Michele writes: > Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: >> I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze >> with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but >> worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^...@^@^...@^@ in VC

unloading sound modules on hibernate

2009-11-23 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got some strange issues with sound when I hibernate. After resume, the internal laptop speaker doesn't mute itself when an external speaker is plugged in. I thought I'd try unloading the sound modules during hibernate to see if that would fix it, but I'm not sure which modules I need to u

Re: hibernate and hp docking station/external monitor

2009-11-16 Thread Tyler Smith
e cycle if possible. Any ideas? Thanks, Tyler Tyler Smith writes: > Hi, > > I've got a problem with hibernate and resume on my HP Elitebook 6930p. > It works fine for the laptop on its own, but if the laptop is connected > to its docking station, sometimes (but not alw

hibernate and hp docking station/external monitor

2009-11-12 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got a problem with hibernate and resume on my HP Elitebook 6930p. It works fine for the laptop on its own, but if the laptop is connected to its docking station, sometimes (but not always), on resume the color is quite distorted - all pinks and greens. The only solution I've found is to a

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-03-20, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One that I warn you away from, Peter, is slrn. It'd a hyper-GUI POS > that breaks all the RFCs and makes everyone else's lives miserable. > If you think ncurses is hyper-GUI you're going to throw fits when you find out about xorg, tk/tcl a

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-24 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-23, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 18:17:28 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>=20 >>

Re: lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-17, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +, Tyler Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --pfTAc8Cvt8L6I27a > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >

proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] sedgenet is just a made-up domain I picked when I set

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-22 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively using > something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do anything > like this. This is what I did when I found out that my RAM size is larger > th

Re: lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: >> >> from ~/.fluxbox/keys: >> None Menu :RootMenu >&g

lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-17 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: from ~/.fluxbox/keys: None Menu :RootMenu Until recently this worked just fine. However, it has now stopped working. I checked with xev, and now the menu key comes up as: KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x121, r

Re: advanced power management for non-existent /dev/hda

2008-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-11, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/11/08 08:20, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm getting some strange errors at the end of the boot-up process. >> This is what it looks like in dmesg: >> >> hda: drive_cmd:

advanced power management for non-existent /dev/hda

2008-02-11 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm getting some strange errors at the end of the boot-up process. This is what it looks like in dmesg: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef The thing is, I don't have a /dev/hda. My single ha

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-12-31, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, probably the previous chapter ("she-bang") was of more use > but a useful ref. However, I'm still trying to understand why it's > not usual to have a she-bang for the .bash_profile and .bashrc files. > That documentation reads as i

Re: Digital Camera

2007-12-26 Thread Tyler Smith
> Robert Thompson wrote: >> >> Hello All, >>I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB >> to >> connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with >> Debian? >> I'm just getting started with my new digital camera, and I've found gthumb to be

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > audio player: > * amarok > cd-ripper: > * cdparanoia > desktop OR window manager: > * fluxbox > development: > * emacs, gcc, bash,

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 10:19 AM, Emre Sevinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): >> gcc, tex, latex > > Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing? > More or less. LaTeX is a (large) set

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-06 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-05, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to work on both Windows and Debian, and Vim works in both > places. Getting Emacs to run on Windows is a pain in the neck. > It used to be that Xemacs was easier than Emacs to get running on Windows, but the new Emacs22 is supp

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-01, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to run a Windows program or two for work, so rather than powerup my > laptop for 30 minutes of work per day, I thought I'd try to install the > programs on my Debian tower using WINE. > > Is anyone having any luck with WINE? I tried to t

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-28 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-10-27, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's so frustrating.=20 > > So, maybe skip the ssid method. instead use iwconfig's "ap" option > with the MAC address of the ap you want. Grab the mac address from > windows and just use it. > > A > Thanks. I'm working from ho

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-10-25, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can >> successfully connect to my home wireless using: >

wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can successfully connect to my home wireless using: iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794 dhclient ath0 and to unencrypted public access points using: ifconfig ath0 down iwconfig ath0 key off ifconfig ath0 up iwconfig

Re: naive bind question

2007-10-21 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-10-20, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Oct 2007 19:09:06 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not so good at dns, but that looks good. I think you do have a working > caching name server. > > For dig try: > "dig

Re: naive bind question

2007-10-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-10-20, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Oct 2007 17:20:16 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several >> pages of instructions on installing

naive bind question

2007-10-20 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and without any additional effort I think it's working. ps aux shows the named daemon, and I can

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-10 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-09-10, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:42:32AM +, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> If using exim4 and it's necessary to use a smarthoast where can that be >> configured? I find sendmail less complex than exim4 and all other mail >> transport agents I've t

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-03 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-08-03, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't suppose that, while it has to be in .doc format, it doesn't have > to be editable? Could you make each page an .eps (or other graphic > image) and plonk it down on a page in OO and then save it in .doc? It > would then _loo

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-03 Thread Tyler Smith
-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> over in OpenOffice only to find that when the same document is opened >> in Word the formatting is screwed up. > > And you are, of course, aware that .doc format is NOT c

MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX and BibTex, but in the course of my work I have to deal with WYSIWYG documents where formating is critical. latex2rtf is mostly adequate for this purpose, but I r

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig6620D8D79CB50A9B1AFF7AB2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi Douglas. > > Douglas Allan Tutty, 29.07.

Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the general rule of thumb, is if you dont use it, turn it off. I'd turn > off almost every thing. You can leave exim and famd on. > to turn auth off, you can edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line > that starts with ident. > > for port

essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm working through the security quick start how to, and I'm not clear on what services are required and which ones I can safely remove. I'm running a single laptop, which I connect to the net via wireless at home or at cafes, and via an ethernet cable at work. 1) I never login remotely, so

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That's what I was thinking. But is there any way a rootkit could >> interfere with my downloading and compiling from source? I was hoping >> that doing things 'by hand' would limit the possibilities for >> compromising the result. > > In theo

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:48:16PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran rkhunter again, and then for good measure I aptitude --purged >> it, re

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>From the looks of it, it could have just been a false positive. ive seen > rkhunter report a few, not very often though. I'd run rkhunter again, > install chkrootkit, run that, see if the two match up. > > As far as debsums reporting back on

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-28, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, what version of debian are you running? Is this machine behind a > firewall or do you have a firewall running on it? You may also I'm running Lenny on a laptop, usually connected to various wireless routers. I recently noticed that firest

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-28, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening > > Normally /bin/login shouldn't be listening. A couple things you could do > to see if it is listneing is: > lsof -i -n | grep LISTEN Here's what I got - no sign of /bin/login: lsof -i

/bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, rkhunter has turned up a new warning for me: > Found warnings: > [16:37:42] Checking for packet capturing applications... Warning > [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening > [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888) listening > [16:37:43] Warning! Process /bin/login (3888)

[SOLVED] Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-23 Thread Tyler Smith
Correction to my previous post, it looks like 1.0rc3-3 actually does fix all my problems - I don't lose the first key press on switching windows now either, so all's well that ends well. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

[PARTIALLY SOLVED]Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-20, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-07-14, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kelly Clowers([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> > >>> >Further to these issues, I've now noticed that on switching >&

[OT] general mail questions

2007-07-20 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I have a few questions about how mail works. I'm using mutt with exim on Lenny, which I use to access my pop mail account. I've noticed that my messages sometimes are a long time getting from the server to mutt. For example, if I check my email via the webmail webpage without starting fetchmai

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-14, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kelly Clowers([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> > >> >Further to these issues, I've now noticed that on switching >> >windows, the first keypress is ignored. e.g., when I switch into an >> >xterm window and press enter, nothing ha

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-13 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-12, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just > hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt > keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching wi

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-12 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-13, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those are external tabs, which I believe Fluxbox had a long time > ago and where recently brought back. I don't care for them myself. > To switch back to internal tabs, bring up the menu and select > Configuration > Tab Options > Tabs in T

fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-12 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching windows and switching desktops. None of the alt combinations appear to work, although Mod4 does,

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-07, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 6, 12:40 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Presumably, >> if you just let apt handle all the upgrades you will probably find >> that you no longer have tetex by the time Etch g

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee > future performance, but what has the experience been like for > non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that > Lenny is ready for a de

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-06, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070706 14:21]: >> Tyler Smith wrote: >> > On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If you search the list you'll find several threa

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any changes going on in Latex packages in Testing these > days? Do I need both tetex and texlive packages? And, finally, > what's the relation between these two kind of packages? Tetex is not longer maintained upstream, so Debian, and eve

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-30, Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I was going to to a configure --prefix=/usr/local as you suggested, but > I made the mistake of looking through the configure file and seeing that > perhaps exec_prefix was the variable I wanted to change. I then figured > that hey, t

Re: script not working, cl works

2007-06-28 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-28, L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the same lines if I run in command line, works without problem as desired. > Any suggestions why lines in script is not working? > First, determine what shell you are running: echo $SHELL Then, make sure that program gets put into the first

Re: emacs: too fast scroll speed when selecting region with mouse

2007-06-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-26, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In emacs, if I start selecting a region in a buffer by clicking the left > mouse button and dragging the mouse, the buffer scrolls extremely fast > if the mouse moves beyond the lower end of the buffer window. > > Any idea how to solve this one? >

Re: screenshot

2007-06-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-21, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I use imagemagick for this: >> import -frame ~/Images/Screenshots/image_of_the_window_or_frame.jpg > > >What a great bunch of knowledgable and helpful people - I'd say > Imagemagick and scrot are the handiest - I'm glad you asked,

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-06, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm glad I could help :-) > > There is no advantage in using "sh." I just wanted to skip the step of > making the script executable. > BTW, a previous message got lost in the tubes. I tried reset with no effect, for what it's worth. Tyler

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can create a script that starts X for you and resets the terminal > after X is done: > > ~/bin/mystartx-- > #!/bin/sh > startx > consolechars -f Uni3-Terminus14 > --end--- > > Execute it by

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I copied >> the one from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to my home directory, and added >> the line as follows: >> >> ++ >> #!/bin/sh >> ## comments snipp

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't answer the question regarding base causes, but to get a program > to run after you quit X, add the command to the end of your .xinitrc > file in your home directory. > I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I c

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to > the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the > active prompt is not visible. ... > The only thi

console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the active prompt is not visible. This seems to also effect any other virtual consoles that I was logged into before starting x. Exiting from the console an

[SOLVED] Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-31, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think that in the end console-setup uses the definitions in >> /etc/default/console-setup, which have a syntax similar to the keyb

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that in the end console-setup uses the definitions in > /etc/default/console-setup, which have a syntax similar to the keyboard > section in xorg.conf, e.g. > > XKBMODEL="" > XKBLAYOUT="es" > XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" > XKBOPTIONS="

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, S

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An alternative action would have been to move bash-doc, emacs and > other packages that are going to be altered by this decision to > non-free rather than removing the documentation and leaving us with > none. > emacs21-common-non-dfs

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I fully accept the ramifications of Debian's democratic process. But > Debian has made a big mistake here; tearing useful stuff out of > packages because of a political decision without providing an > automatic upgrade is stupid. It *w

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About a year ago, there was a GR (general resolution) that Debian had > and it said 'GFDL without invariant sections' are DFSG-free while 'GFDL > with invariant sections' is not. Read info on the vote. That's all fine and good, and I've been

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-30, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/30/2007 11:26 AM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> [...] I copied the custom keymap to /etc/console-setup/ and >> rebooted, but it still doesn't load. It works when I run >> /etc/console-setup/boottime.k

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved > several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it > was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated > > Are there any debian app's which can handl

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-30, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> sets the appropriate keymap, so whatever is going on during boot up, >> /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz is *not* getting loaded. > > I never actually tried to play around with this myself, but I think the > keymap should be loaded from >

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
I wrote: +--+ Ok, so I ran install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/custom.kmap and then rebooted. The keymap was not installed, and I got the same problems as usual. However, I then ran loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/custom.kmap and got the proper keymap goi

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-30, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before "dvorak-classic" became a standard offering in Debian, the > approach which I used was to execute the command: > > # install-keymap dvorak-classic.kmap.gz > > sometime during installation and configuration of the system -- >

console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm a little confused as to how to set my console keymap. I've got a custom keymap that suits me, and running loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/custom.kmap gets it installed and running just fine. I tried to modify /etc/init.d/keymap.sh to load it automatically, but this fails. I thi

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-27, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code runs in Emacs. If I comment out the line > "(transient-mark-mode -1)", it also runs in XEmacs. But in both > cases, it aborts with an "unbalanced parenthesis" error after finding > about ten footnotes (about 25 percent of

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-26, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would >> like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy >>

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