Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> On Monday 19 September 2005 20:06, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> > > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories.
> >
> > Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I o
On Monday 19 September 2005 20:06, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories.
>
> Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I once accidentally stapled
> my thumbs together. Beat that
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:08 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> Yep, the painful screwups stick in your mind for a very long time and
> teach you a lot!
Plus they make great stories. "You ran rm -rf / on your PRODUCTION
system???" Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider"
stories.
--
Peter B
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:09:16AM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
>
> Being too carefull might prevent you to do something stupid, but
> sometimes it is faster to scew up your system and restart from
> scratch :-)
Haha! So true!
> If you never screwed up your system while trying to improve it
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:36 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> That was a rhetorical question used as a continuation in explaining the
> search process. IOW, I am trying to teach him *how* to search which is
> the best thing a new person can be taught.
That is right, but you could have been nicer.
On the othe
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:43:25PM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
>
> > Still not fully convinced -g and -geometry are the same?
> I am not the one to be convinced, but may be other are to be less
> iritated ...
That was a rhetorical question used as a continuation in explaining the
search pr
Archaic wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
>
>>On the line "xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &", what is "-g" for? TIA
>
>
> This question troubles me. In your massive bombardment of the lfs and
> blfs support lists for several weeks, has no one mentioned the use of
> "man"
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:31 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
> >
> > > On the line "xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &", what is "-g" for? TIA
> > same as "xterm -geometry 80x40+0+0 &"
> > and yes it is not documented ...
well not directly, and when y
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
>
> > On the line "xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &", what is "-g" for? TIA
> same as "xterm -geometry 80x40+0+0 &"
> and yes it is not documented ...
Sure it is. It may not be jumping out at you, but it isn't something
that one cannot fin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
>>
>> On the line "xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &", what is "-g" for? TIA
>
> This question troubles me. In your massive bombardment of the lfs and
> blfs support lists for several weeks, has no one mentioned the use o
--- Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The file .xinitrc is simply a list of shell commands that X will run
> > on startup.
>
>
> Is there a way to start X-window without popup Xterm. It has to be
> evoked later when necessary?
Sure. Just remove the "xterm &" line from your .xinitrc
Hi Brandin,
Tks for your detail explanation.
> The file .xinitrc is simply a list of shell commands that X will run
> on startup.
Is there a way to start X-window without popup Xterm. It has to be
evoked later when necessary?
TIA
BR
SL
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--- Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want Firefox
> > run when X starts up, add firefox into .xinitrc
>
> xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &
> xclock -g 100x100-0+0 &
> firefox
> twm
> - END -
>
> (without &)
>
> On running "startx" after login as "root", Xterm won't start. That is
> wha
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Stephen Liu wrote:
Besides editing /root/.xinitrc only affected "root" not other users. I
have to edit /home/user/.xinitrc for each user.
Any suggestion? TIA
I'm puzzled - why would you not want to have each user edit their own
.xinitrc for the programs they wish to
Hi Kevin,
Tks for your advice.
> If you want Firefox
> run when X starts up, add firefox into .xinitrc
performed following tests;
edited /root/.xinitrc
as
1)
xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &
xclock -g 100x100-0+0 &
firefox &
twm
- END -
On running "startx" after login as "root", Xterm started as well
--- Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As you mentioned, another way would be to launch the application
> > without an
> > xterm. How exactly are you launching the application? An xterm is not
> > required to run X programs such as firefox.
>
> I haven't figured out how to do it. Firefox
On 9/14/05, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Brandin,
> > As you mentioned, another way would be to launch the application
> > without an
> > xterm. How exactly are you launching the application? An xterm is not
> > required to run X programs such as firefox.
>
> I haven't figured out h
Hi Brandin,
> Try this instead:
>
> chaotic ~$ firefox &
> [1] 16800
> chaotic ~$ disown
> chaotic ~$ exit
Your advice worked here. Tks.
> As you mentioned, another way would be to launch the application
> without an
> xterm. How exactly are you launching the application? An xterm is not
> re
--- Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TWM - window manager
> I can't close the Xterm window otherwise the corresponding
> application will be closed simultaneously.
This is not specific to a window manager. But if I start an xterm and then
load an application such as firefox, you're righ
Hi folks,
TWM - window manager
Whenever starting a application on Xterm, there are 2 windows displayed
on the screen, the application's window and the Xterm window. If
starting 2 applications there are 4 windows displayed on the screen and
so on. I can't close the Xterm window otherwise the cor
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