Re: This years format.
Ok guys, I was there at 7:20 last night. Asked around, and everyone looked at me like a crazy man when I asked about Linux. Unless I missed it, at least one person was going to be early having a bite to eat. You guys met at the Twisted Hop, on Poplar St, right? sV
Re: This years format.
Roy Britten wrote: Maybe we need a secret handshake or something to identify ourselves. The Kent LUG (in the UK) has a stuffed penguin on the table; which makes them easy to spot.
Re: This years format.
On 18 February 2010 09:41, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote: I was there at 7:20 last night. Asked around, and everyone looked at me like a crazy man when I asked about Linux. Unless I missed it, at least one person was going to be early having a bite to eat. You guys met at the Twisted Hop, on Poplar St, right? Sure did. We were there for a few hours, although probably only three folks there when you turned up. I would have arrived probably a few minutes after you. Sorry to miss you. Maybe we need a secret handshake or something to identify ourselves.
Re: This years format.
Dan Wallis wrote: Roy Britten wrote: Maybe we need a secret handshake or something to identify ourselves. The Kent LUG (in the UK) has a stuffed penguin on the table; which makes them easy to spot. Club purchase :-) ? http://www.antarcticshop.com/shop1.asp?Category=31SubCategory=48 or an actual Linux Tux on trademe for $10 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Books/Textbooks/Computing-info-systems/auction-272074970.htm -- --- Peter Glassenbury Computer Science department p...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz University of Canterbury +64 3 3642987 ext 7762 New Zealand
Re: OT: Dreaming of O'Reilly manuals
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:40:03 Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: I had a dream on Sunday that I found the O'Reilly In A Nutshell manual on child raising written by Linus and Tove Torvalds. I was strangely disappointed when I woke up. Has anyone got thoughts on this odd event? Yes I'd like to know what the cover picture is? Perhaps this would be appropriate? http://www.icanhasmotivation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/parenting-520 x416.jpg Like most O'Reilly covers it was white and pink with a picture of some animals. Possibly stalks. -- Quote of the login: My reason tells me that land cannot be sold - nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away. Black Hawk, (Saulk) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Filesystem and replacing the window manager
If you don't want any of the gnome environment, then you may be able to select failsafe with xterm or similar. This will drop you into a plain xterm where you can run your WM of choice. I'd recommend putting a copy in your home folder since your usb drive won't work nicely without gnome/dbus/etc. Cheers, sV On 17 February 2010 07:48, Aidan Gauland aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote: Solor Vox wrote: The problem is (gnome|kde)-session is the parent that spawns all sub-processes, including metacity/compiz/etc WM that you want to replace. Furthermore, the login manager, usualy gdm, spawns the session inside an xinit process. So you'll most likely end of up killing your X server and everything else after login. What you can do is use --replace to gracefuly replace the WM instead of killing the session. If your window manager supports that it of course, but many do. With which program do I use --replace? On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:36:45 Solor Vox wrote: Your WM of choice. So it would be something like compiz --replace , metacity --replace , twm --replace , etc. Adding the to run in the background. Be aware if you close the shell it will kill the WM. To prevent this you should run disown %1 after running your WM command. That way the shell doesn't kill your WM when if close the terminal window. Check the WM's manual for the --replace option first however. If you're trying to run blackbox for instance, the above won't work. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
