Re: Keyboard layout problem using Xephyr

2009-05-13 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 12 May 2009 18:53:48 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:38:44PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote: [...] I want to use Xephyr to be able to log into another user account without logging out of my user account. [...] It works very well except for the keyboard. It maps

Keyboard layout problem using Xephyr

2009-05-12 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I am running debian unstable with GNOME. I want to use Xephyr to be able to log into another user account without logging out of my user account. There is a menu option New Login in a Window which issues the command: gdmflexiserver --xnest It works very well except for the keyboard. It

Re: problems with font in epiphany-browser on sid

2008-09-22 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:14:13 +, Zoho Vignochi wrote: Hello: My problem is that when I open a page in epiphany that has a text input field. The text starts fine but after the first space gets inserted , all the text gets shifted downloads partially out of view. Subsequent spaces do

problems with font in epiphany-browser on sid

2008-09-21 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: My problem is that when I open a page in epiphany that has a text input field. The text starts fine but after the first space gets inserted , all the text gets shifted downloads partially out of view. Subsequent spaces do not affect the text position (does not go further down). Any

Re: encrypted swap causing me troubles on boot

2008-04-30 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:31:59 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:01:22PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote: Hello: I have one of the famous Eeepc's and I performed a hardware hack in order to expand internal drive storage space. So I have the internal ssd card (/ dev

encrypted swap causing me troubles on boot

2008-04-29 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I have one of the famous Eeepc's and I performed a hardware hack in order to expand internal drive storage space. So I have the internal ssd card (/ dev/sda) 4 GB and a usb stick soldered to one of the usb ports and held internally (/dev/sdb) 32 GB. So I used lvm to install. I have a

Newsreader question

2008-02-29 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I have a few computers in my home network and I am trying to consolidate shared data to avoid duplication and annoyance. So I have my addressbook on ldap available and I am running Tiny Tiny RSS so I can have a central place for my rss feeds. I am going to set up a daap server and of

fails to make a bootable initramfs

2008-01-21 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I have a root partition on lvm which is encrypted, setup during installation. When I installed a new kernel (2.6.23-1-686) from the repositories it fails to create a initramfs that recognizes my root partition. It fails saying Begin: Waiting for root filesystem After a few moments it

Virtual terminal fonts grabbled and unreadable

2008-01-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello: I am running Debian unstable on a ppc with a radeon 9250 pci graphics card. My problem is that the fonts on any virtual terminal become unreadable after I shutdown gdm (gnome display manager). For some setup: During the bootup process the fonts are fine and I can read all messages printed

Text focus

2007-07-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I have a problem with text/cursor focus. I use GNOME from unstable. Sometimes I will start my webbrowser, epiphany, and type in a url I am interested in. Once the page loads I click in a text box on the webpage and type but nothing happens. I have to go back and click on the url text box,

System freeze when copying files

2007-07-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the power button. The two computers in question

Soundcard issues

2007-04-11 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I have a IBM Thinkpad 770 which has a Cirrus Logic sound card. Getting alsa drivers to work has not been to difficult. I can load the appropriate driver with modprobe snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x538 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 isapnp=0 And all works which is great. So I went along and

Re: user defined mime types, source highlighting

2007-03-13 Thread Zoho Vignochi
gedit support already Syntax Highlighting of Sourcecode and if the syntax for those octave files is currently not supported, create a new syntax file and put it into your config directory. Yes, that's true but what I want is for gedit to automagically recognizes the source file as an octave

user defined mime types, source highlighting

2007-03-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting myself every time when opening an octave source file. I thought that creating

Re: Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
I tend to agree with you except, I think what the OP is referring to might be a monitor that might not be adjusted properly. I've seen this several times with monitors that have looked fine in windows may be off center it mis-sized in debian. usually a few minutes tweaking the monitor

Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I am not sure if this is the default behaviour or not but my mouse can move off the right-hand side as well as the bottom of the screen. The left-hand side and top are like a hard-edge where if you try to move off screen the mouse stays up against the edge. However on the other two sides

/dev/disk/by-uuid does not exist

2007-01-06 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I am running sid on a PPC (pegasos). After deciding to change my fstab to use UUID (but then on second thought to labels instead) I read many tutorials claiming that there should be a /dev/disk/by-uuid/ directory. My system has only a by-path and by-id. So I fired up my laptop which also