Re: Remote X-term

On 16 Jan, Rick Jones wrote: > I beleive it's "startx -query remotehost" or "startx -- -query > remotehost" I forget which one. But the localhost has to be authorized > to login to the remote in the "/etc/X11/xdm/access" file first. > As far as I know, you can't use startx (or for that matter xi

Re: strange rvxt behaviour

On 15 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded to hamm and am having a peculiar problem: when I am in > X as a user and I su to root in an rxvt terminal window, I am no loger > able to open any rxvt terminal as a user. I get an error saying that > rxvt cannot connect to a pseudo tty. This do

configuring ftpd for anonymous access

Hi... I'm trying to set up anonymous ftp access (for no particular reason, truth be told - I just want to know how to do it) on one of my Debian boxes and I can't quite get it to work. I followed exactly the instructions in the ftpd man page, down to the file permissions, etc. What I get is - I c

Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

On 4 Jan, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd > would give such a deceptive error message? > > Kirk Hilliard > (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down) I got this message when I first compiled PPP as a kernel module. S

Strange XEmacs behaviour

Hi. I'm using xemacs19_19.16-1.deb from unstable (yeah, I know, I should be using the stable one... but I like living dangerously) and I've been having strange problems off and on, namely: 1) It can't find its info files when I do C-h C-c, C-h F, and so on. (I get "Info file xemacs-faq does not e

Re: XEmacs 19.16 - "Info file xemacs does not exist"

Argh, sorry to answer my own post - I'd recently migrated my installation to another hard drive and I didn't run makedev to fix the /dev special files; for some reason once I did that, XEmacs started to work fine... I have no idea why... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

Hi! I haven't seen any other messages on the list or bug reports about this, so maybe I'm overlooking something really basic... Anyway, the problem is: I have tried each successive version of xlib6 from unstable after 3.3-5, (the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work fin

gimp 0.99.14 - where are its dependencies???

Hi... I decided to upgrade my version of gimp 0.99 in order to fix the problem with the file selection boxes... when I ran dpkg on it I got these messages: Selecting previously deselected package gimp. (Reading database ... 19748 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gimp (from gim