[e-users] Funny window placement. Cause?

2003-06-10 Thread Paul E. Johnson
Hey, guys. I was running e 16.6pre2, which I compiled myself, and it ran mostly fine. THen the pre3 was announced, and they provided an RPM, and I installed that. Then I started to see many of the problems people were complaining about. Windows would pop up on other workspaces, sometimes they

Re: [e-users] weird behavior of Eterm when reading man pages

2003-06-10 Thread Didier Casse
Thanks dudes. Yeah I'm using RH9. Problem solved now. On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Daniel Stonier wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:34, Didier Casse wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > I just noticed that when I use Eterm to read man pages: e.g man > > > perl. I get some funny characters in the

Re: [e-users] weird behavior of Eterm when reading man pages

2003-06-10 Thread Daniel Stonier
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:34, Didier Casse wrote: > > Hi there, > > I just noticed that when I use Eterm to read man pages: e.g man > > perl. I get some funny characters in the man pages. But when I use xterm > > to view the man pages... wel I get the normal English characters. Anybod

Re: [e-users] weird behavior of Eterm when reading man pages

2003-06-10 Thread Andy Grimberg
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:34, Didier Casse wrote: > Hi there, > I just noticed that when I use Eterm to read man pages: e.g man > perl. I get some funny characters in the man pages. But when I use xterm > to view the man pages... wel I get the normal English characters. Anybody > have a

Re: [e-users] e su command?

2003-06-10 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 10 June 2003, at 22:34:36 (-0400), Karl B wrote: > You could use a little C program like the following to gain access to > root: > > /* roo.c > * Quick access to root > */ > > main(argc, argv) > int argc; > char **argv; > { > setuid(0); > if(argc == 1) execl("/bin/bash", "

[e-users] weird behavior of Eterm when reading man pages

2003-06-10 Thread Didier Casse
Hi there, I just noticed that when I use Eterm to read man pages: e.g man perl. I get some funny characters in the man pages. But when I use xterm to view the man pages... wel I get the normal English characters. Anybody have a clue of how to get rid of these annoying characters? --

Re: [e-users] e su command?

2003-06-10 Thread Karl B
You could use a little C program like the following to gain access to root: /* roo.c * Quick access to root */ main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; { setuid(0); if(argc == 1) execl("/bin/bash", "-bash", (char)0); else execvp(argv[1], &argv[1]); } Compile the Program Gain root a

Re: [e-users] e su command?

2003-06-10 Thread Zro
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:17, Bryan Simmons wrote: > OK, so us n00bz are used to the kdesu command to allow us to call a > graphical su authentication for launching a single application with > root privs. Does E 0.16.5 have that ability? I hate using kdesu in > E. I'm a n00b and here's how I do t

Re: [e-users] Very weird stacking problem & possible bug when compiling

2003-06-10 Thread Kim Woelders
Kim Woelders wrote: Viktor Kojouharov wrote: I'm currently having 2 problems with enlightenment 0.16.6 pre3. 1) (this one existed before) I'm having a very weird stacking problem with some programs with enlightenment. Actually, it's only with mplayer, but there may be others. It runs just fine, bu

[e-users] e su command?

2003-06-10 Thread Bryan Simmons
OK, so us n00bz are used to the kdesu command to allow us to call a graphical su authentication for launching a single application with root privs.  Does E 0.16.5 have that ability?  I hate using kdesu in E. Regards, Bryan Simmons ---

Re: [e-users] Very weird stacking problem & possible bug when compiling

2003-06-10 Thread Kim Woelders
Please at least cc the list with questions like these. Others will be able to answer, and others may be interested in the conversation. Viktor Kojouharov wrote: I get that too with old gnome/kde hints enabled. If I configure/compile with --disable-hints-kde --disable-hints-gnome the problem goes

RE: [e-users] How to disable E menu?

2003-06-10 Thread Komp, John
The brute force way in E15 was to modify the theme. Just delete everything in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/yourThemeName/menustyles.cfg except the #include statement. The next time you start enlightement it will update your theme. I recommend making a copy of your present theme and then modi

[e-users] How to disable E menu?

2003-06-10 Thread Bogdan
Hi! I'm using E as wm for KDE, and I have kickers's menu on left button on desktop, so how could I disable E menu? Because I it not good idea to have 2 menu on 1 desktop.. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The