On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:41:23 -0800 drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > > 2) Can't figure out how to install Xara Extreme. I found the > > instructions on the Xara website, but I didn't understand them and I'm > > sure I never went through all that stuff when I installed it on Ubuntu. > > Again, luckily, I rarely use it. > Did you download the auto package file or the tar.bz2 file? If you > downloaded the tar file, tar -jxvf will untar it and you can cd into the > directory and execute bin/xaraxl to run it. I'm sure you can create a > launcher for this task as well. Just now I downloaded the tar.bz2 file and untarred it to ~/Software/Xara/. From within the ~/Software/Xara/xaralx/bin folder ls says the xaralx file is there, but the command "xaralx" says there is no such command. Double clicking on it from Nautilus nothing happened at first, but then I discovered that I did not have permission to execute the file. After giving myself (and everyone else) permission to execute it via the Nautilus Properties dialog box, double clicking on it launches the splash screen, but that's as far as it gets. From the command line I still get "no such command." Nautilus describes xaralx as an executable file, but I'm not always convinced that Nautilus knows what it's talking about. From the command line its attributes are -rwxrwxrwx 1. I think that means that it is readable, writable, and executable by me, by anyone in my group, and by root. But I'm far from an expert on chmod. > > 5) Most important - I still haven't figured out how to get my bluetooth > > mouse working. I think the problem is in Debian because several of the > > buttons in the GUI do nothing at all. Like click on Setup New Device > > and nothing happens. I can find it from the command line with hcitool, > > but the connect command fails to connect it, even though the command > > executes without error. > I can't help with this since I don't have any bluetooth meece to use on my > laptop right now. I have two of them, and I can't get either one to work. When I turn them on a popup appears under the bluetooth icon in the gnome panel asking if I want to give it permission. But the only button on the popup is "OK," and clicking on it just makes the popup disappear. The mouse still does not work. From the command line "hcitool scan" finds whatever mouse(s) are turned on, but "hcitool cc <address>" just executes without error and without actually connecting the mouse. I think bluetooth in testing is seriously broken. The same thing happened when I installed testing the first time a month ago. At that time I installed Blueman, an alternative bluetooth manager. After installing it I was able to get the bluetooth mouse working, but after doing so I lost my window manager. I was never able to get the window manager working again. I'm not going near Blueman this time around. :( If I click on the bluetooth icon in the Gnome panel and then on Setup New Device a window is supposed to pop up with Forward/Back buttons to step you through finding the device and pairing it. But when I click on Setup New Device nothing happens. I suspect there is a missing package, but it seems strange that no one else on the Debian user list seems to have a problem with bluetooth. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
