On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > It's saying no command found because Sofware/Xara is not in your path. You have to ./$command to get it to launch properly from the bin directory. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
