firefox printouts have added space after special characters, why?

2004-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't know how to solve this annoying problem: when viewing pages with certain characters, such as s or z with carons, they look fine. But when I print them, those characters are added some space on the right (for at least another character's width). Does anyone know how to solve it?

junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. What can I do to get rid of this annoying problem? Thanks, andrej --

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you mean you want to surpress the output that startx produces, do: startx /dev/null 21 If you'd rather keep it for later: startx ~/.startx-output.log 21 Or am I not understanding

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: I would suggest (after X bombs) running: ~ %% sudo lsof /dev/tty11 Yes, I've tried that: nothing! I can do setterm -reset /dev/tty11 all right, but the problem doesn't go away. I can even switch to that tty and type some

OT: how to send a keystroke to another program

2003-08-01 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to do this -- I'd like to write a program that would make another program behave as if a certain key was pressed, e.g. PgD. Thus I could implement something like moving down in a pager when I press a button on my mouse or something. As far

forcibly unmounting and bash history

2003-07-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, it's happened many time to me that I couldn't find a way to forcibly unmount a CD if the fact that it was broken caused my screen to be filled with some drive-seek errors or something. Further more, it seemed impossible if, say, mplayer hung because of that. Getting rid of the messages is

[SOLVED] Re: forcibly unmounting and bash history

2003-07-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
First of all, why didn't post it to the list? Do you think it's too OT? But, on the other hand, both your mails were no help and also misleading. I'd like to elaborate on that. On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 06:51:29AM -0400, Robert August Vincent II wrote: history is a bash built-in. Bash runs

how to tell which key was pressed to execute a script?

2003-06-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, I'd like to be able to call a script with multiple keys in a way that it would know how it was called. The main reason I want to do this is to gain more flexibility and make it a little more elegant: changing the keymaps so that F2, for example, starts mutt is handy, but less elegant than

Re: how to tell which key was pressed to execute a script?

2003-06-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:05:10PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: So use command-line arguments, or write a separate script for each key. They're cheap. :-) No, that won't go. Suppose you'd want -- as do I -- to press only the F1 key every time you'd like to check your mail. You'd do it with

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:26:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to

Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. My less attractive alternative was to add all packages on my CDs into my preferences file. What I got was an unreasonably long file,

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-25 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:21:22AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to turn off kernel messages from getting spit out on the active tty. I keep getting this error message; I have no idea what it means; I don't see any problem (I can still mount netware drives just

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: That still doesn't work for me ... # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 # Package: ruby* # Pin: release a=unstable # Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin:

Re: regexp help

2003-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:09:28PM -0500, Dave W wrote: I'm using animail and spamassassin on my mail now, with -some- success on spam, but need help with animail's ~/.animail/filter file. It can be filled with regexps for mail blocking, but I'm a regexp newbie and can't find how the heck to

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so long that you have

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt or use * and repeat [0-9] and space: grep '^1[0-9][0-9]* *K' phonelist.txt =Why, in the first example, has the author prefaced the char 'K' with the one or more times multiplier? He

Re: need some readline tricks [my part is SOLVED!]

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:08:15PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: 20.12.2002 22:26:16, andrej hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, how do I represent function keys? I think, they are represented just like cursor keys. Unfortunatly (to my knowledge, which may well be incomplete

Re: framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:27PM -0500, R Ransbottom wrote: I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using the framebuffer device or not. I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work on various machines.

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:12:33PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: grub configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st menu.lst, not first!!! :) andrej -- echo ${girl_name} /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT: RE madness

2003-01-08 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:55:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: [...] slight rewording needed -- black comes back as true BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MATCH, and that's what you're looking for with !~. it might seem like a small distinction until you realize how easy it is to be misled! :) Right, sorry

Re: Real Text-Mode

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:30:08AM +0100, Harald Wopenka wrote: However: It uses 80x50 textmode. - My aim is the 80x25-textmode. I tried to find a list of possible parameters for video in the internet, but didn't find them. Do you know a source? Use vga= for that. You can try it out with

OT: RE madness

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I've been playing around with these two REs in Perl with no success. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? This works: !~ /^(?:red|blue)$/ and will match everything except any of the two fixed strings red or blue or any combination thereof. black matches, as does blu, because it's neither red

Re: apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-27 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:26:25PM -0800, Jeff wrote: andrej hocevar, 2002-Dec-26 08:49 -0200: in sources.list but apt seems to prefer CDs, no matter what comes first in the list. How could I change that without removing the As I said ... From 'man sources.list': The source list

apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-26 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. If there is the same version of a certain package fetchable from different sources, which one is preferred? Right now, I don't have my CDs here so I would like apt to use only ftp. I have both entries in sources.list but apt seems to prefer CDs, no matter what comes first in the list. How

problems with mail-filtering/forwarding

2002-12-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't seem to be able to get either filter or sortmail working with postfix, if that could cause problems. But I think the problem is in the permissions: both would deliver mail only to files, owned by nobody:nogroup. Isn't this silly? filter won't even read the configuration unless I put

some considerations regarding mail delivery

2002-12-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, until recently, I've lived happily with a getmail/postfix combination for gathering and sending mail. It wasn't until the thread here about postfix and open relays that I've started thinking about security issues. Which is good, but it's kind of giving me a headache. :) The problems

Re: killing the penguin (framebuffer)

2002-12-21 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 07:49:23PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: On bootup, I simply want to boot into a text console. I've turned off gdm, and that gets rid of the graphical login. Unfortunately, it seems that I boot into a VESA framebuffer. At the console there is a penguin on the top left

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: If you mean readline in bash, you can add \M-[A: history-search-backward to your .inputrc. A newly started bash should then handle CURSOR-UP the way you like. But if I add sequences that already have a meaning (like \C-s)

new key bindings?

2002-12-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Is there a way to map the, say, F1 key to some command like poff or whatever else? And how can I change the behaviour of key bindings like C-s? I've added something to my .inputrc but it only affects combinations that have had no function before, like M-s. Can I add function keys to those

monitoring a file over nfs

2002-12-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Inspired by console-log, I've set up a simple script that monitors a log from my local server (in another room :) ) that's mounted over nfs. It gets started from init. The problem is that when switching to the specified console, I see only Permission denied messages. So the first time I

what memory?

2002-12-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I've been thinking about this: dmesg | grep ^Mem gives the following: Memory: 127264k/131008k available (k kernel code, 3360k reserved, 345k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Now what does it all mean? How much is really available to me? procinfo says: Memory: Total Mem:

correct gpg/pgp signatures (why reject a .changes file?)

2002-11-22 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently, I was trying to upload a package of mine to a server and got this message in return: PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on sumo_1.0-5.2_i386.changes ERROR: Header line added to ASCII armor: Hash: SHA1 ASCII armor

Re: Windows modem and Debian

2002-11-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:25:45PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote: I have just had Debian V3 installed as a dual boot system along with a pre-existing Windows 98 OS. Both operating systems work fine. However, Debian is unable to do anything with the Windows modem on my system and so I cannot access

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:45:04AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: could you be more specific here? which file, etc? As I said in my previous response, you use your bootloader for that, since it's an option for the kernel. Thus if you use lilo, stick it to your append= line in /etc/lilo.conf og

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: With LCDs, you can specify vga=317 with the bf2.4 kernel to get 1024x768 resolution for the installation. I compile my own kernels. But the problem was that it wasn't sharp. The resolution was no problem, I've tried many different

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:46:28PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: now, where do i get these different fonts and wehre do i put them? Look for them when you compile your kernel. Using menuconfig, they're in Console drivers - Frame-buffer support - Select compiled-in fonts - Sparc console ... or

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:07:06PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device what is the advantage of this mode? By that you probably mean the advantage of using frame buffers in general, right? Well, I have the

What's an X2 modem?

2002-11-13 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently, someone's gave me an older internal USR V.90 modem, supposed to work at 56k. However, all I got were speeds at about 33k. That was when I noticed the modem uses some X2 technology. Can I make such a modem useful? I've read some sites saying it depends on the ISP -- so does it

Re: What's an X2 modem?

2002-11-13 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:17:48PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: Hopefully, you can get a flash or firmware update to v.90. Thanks to all of you, I did it! I've found a page with a link to sume Russian's guy flasher for my modem: it's V.90 now and working like a charm. Our little network finally

Problems with routing

2002-11-01 Thread andrej hocevar
There are three computers in this LAN: two with Linux and the other one with Windows. Things got a little complicated when the Windows-box replaced another Linux-system and I had to buy a second ethernet card for the central server. Now the configuration is as follows: 192.168.65.72 [L],

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:44:38AM -0800, nate wrote: you need at least CONFIG_FB compiled into the kernel, chances are more stuff as well, I don't use framebuffer on my systems but Well, certainly not that much! :) Enabling (almost) all options doesn't seem to be a good solution, or am I

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:39:11AM -0700, Dale K Dicks wrote: I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7. I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get: cat: /dev/fb0: No

OT: change toolbar colours (in galeon)

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
Is it possible to change the colour of the (main) toolbar in galeon? I've been using it lately a little more than mozilla but I miss the cool blue theme! Sure, one can get similar buttons, but they're still on a grey background. Is this a more gnome-specific setting? Thanks, andrej --

Re: [SOLVED] Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-08 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 01:53:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: How do you detect pppd's failure to connect because of a busy signal with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Take a look, here: as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or anything else, no information would be

[SOLVED] Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-05 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:04:31PM -0400, Jason McCarty wrote: as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or anything else, no information would be written to the file. Can I do it in a script? Yes, indeed you can! I've found the answer. :) Forgive me for being so

Re: NFS on Woody!

2002-06-26 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:08:40PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Did you start portmap? And did you compile it into your kernel? There's a NFS-HOWTO that helped me back then, I don't remember everything exactly. But you definitely need it in your kernel plus the hosts-allow/deny files. When I

Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread andrej hocevar
Lately I've been playing a little with sending mail to myself (great fun, that!:)). I'm using postfix and it works perfectly. I've found out that if I send mail using sendmail -f foo -F bar root to rewrite headers there's an effect I didn't plan: Here a sample header. sendmail -f [EMAIL

/etc/aliases problem

2002-06-22 Thread andrej hocevar
For some reason, I cannot send mail to root directly anymore -- and I know the cause; I've set up postfix to rewrite the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my real e-mail address, thus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since this rewrites *all* occurrence of the above, writing mail root results in mail to [EMAIL

SOLVED: Re: /etc/aliases problem

2002-06-22 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:35:32AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: Surely there's another way to solving this but I'm new to postfix and couldn't find a simpler/more advanced solution. Sorry for that, I've found the answer -- obviously there *was* another solution! :) I've been doing it wrong

fbset for all ttys?

2002-06-20 Thread andrej hocevar
I thought I was clever and added an init script for setting the concole with fbset. I've figured that fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 136 6 yields the best results. But it affects only the first console -- I have to run the script every time I log in. Is there a way to make it permanent for all

Re: fbset for all ttys?

2002-06-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: Just an idea - can't test it at the moment. What happens if you put something like this into your script? for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do chvt $i fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 136 6 done Unfortunatelly, not much. I get bounced

Re: fbset for all ttys? SOLVED

2002-06-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:35:13AM +0200, Karoly VEGH wrote: #!/bin/sh echo /dev/tty2 echo /dev/tty3 echo /dev/tty4 echo /dev/tty5 echo /dev/tty6 fbset -a 640x480-100 echo's u need, cause fbset works only on consoles on which there is already something... lanc Hey, thanks.

console=/dev/ttyN

2002-06-20 Thread andrej hocevar
This was posted a little while ago here by Vineet but I don't have the mail anymore. The idea was to add the line append=console=/dev/ttyN to lilo.conf. I've tried to add it to grub (the right way, I suppose, without quotes and the append) but the results were a little different: at boot up there

Re: console=/dev/ttyN

2002-06-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:17:10PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: You didn't show us your config, that's what 0.5 wink. Clearly you didn't configure it correctly. Sorry, it's here. I was sure it must have been something else, but take a look at it. Here's the relevant section: #2.4.17

Please help with postfix -- local mail

2002-06-19 Thread andrej hocevar
I've just migrated from masqmail to postfix and it's working fine as far as I can tell, the only exception being local delivery. I can send mail to myself but not to any other computer on a small home LAN, consisting of three alltogether. I obviously can't handle the transports file. Here's my

PS1: Lost in quotes!!!

2002-06-18 Thread andrej hocevar
I'm losing my temper here -- why did the first prompt work normally and the second looks fine, yet if I try to type more than one line, it doesn't start a new one but starts overwriting the very same one instead!? andrej ### NC='\e[0m' BLUE='\e[1;34m'

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:07:28PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: I had the strangest problem tonight. There are new versions of many GNOME 2 packages, but apt-get does not offer to upgrade them. For Maybe you have a preferences file lying around in your /etc/apt directory? -- echo

Re: Using both CDROM and Apt-get

2002-06-11 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:30:01AM +0800, Willy S wrote: What happen if I decide to use my CDROM again, that means the apt source-list will be replaced with CDROM? I mean, what happen to the program that I have in You can have as many sources listed as you like -- they will be added, not

Re: updating jigdo raw file

2002-06-11 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Francois Chenais wrote: Is it possible to update this raw file with the new netinstall package without downloading everything ? Yes, in fact it is. Using jigdo-lite, you just pretend to be downloading the image from scratch. This way, you'll

ps broke!?

2002-06-11 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, suddenly -- after a kernel upgrade, it's 2.4.18 with atyfb now -- ps stopped working. This is the output: Signal 7 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But top still works. What's wrong here? andrej -- echo ${girl_name} /etc/dumpdates --

Alt-UpArrow not working and a framebuffer question

2002-06-08 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I'm using vesafb and have just noticed that pressing Alt-UpArrow doesn't echo the usual Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab ... but instead behaves as if there were no Alt key pressed. Obviously there's a link between (vesa)fb and this problem. What do I do about it? I run a 2.4.16 kernel

Re: jigdo-easy /woody

2002-06-05 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:12:34PM +0200, jfcarvajal wrote: I have a problem when trying to download a woody iso image with jigdo-easy. It always says oops! some file missed. First I followed the readme intructions but i had always the same message. I don't know about jigdo-easy (I assume

fatal error: writefb: virtual res doesn't equal physical res

2002-06-05 Thread andrej hocevar
This is the error dvifb gives me. Here's what fbset says: mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 4096 8 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 rgba 6/0,6/0,6/0,0/0 endmode What does it mean? If I try to change it, the console gets messed up,

help with fb, please

2002-06-04 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently I've switched to framebuffers in order to get good results with my new Sony lcd monitor -- and almost everything is fine! I'm using the vesa framebuffer with an ati all-in-wonder card. And here is the first problem: when booting a kernel with aty128fb, I get a blank screen -- but

How to apt-get upgrade from files only

2002-05-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Some days ago I've apt-get upgraded my system and saved all the downloaded files, ie packages, that were to be upgraded. I saved them in order to give them to a friend with a slow connection -- so, I thought, he can upgrade the packages we have in common. Somehow, we were puzzled: what does one

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it? andrej -- echo ${girl_name} /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: masqmail problem

2002-05-13 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 04:55:49PM -0700, Brian Schramm wrote: trouble getting my email. So much so that I have set up the family on yahoo. I decided that I need to get Haven't I heard the rumours yahoo won't support POP3 access anymore? A friend of mine migrated from yahoo mail to something

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. Yes, I have one, works well with the dj690c filter.

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: You could try to use CUPS Could someone tell me why use CUPS instead of lpr/lprng? Based on my experience one can configure and adjust some programs more easily than others -- so you use those you can figure out, right? Unless of

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-06 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:54:30AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: That's all very nice, but, as I read it, that allows you to specify that 'font 3 = Helvetica Runic 72' or whatever, but what I (and, I suspect, the OP) am looking for is a way (.Xresources would work for me, but I suspect the OP

Some windows do and some windows don't (in sawfish)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, how do I force some windows (e.g. wmMoonClock and an xterm) to always open without a frame in sawfish? Or, maybe, open them without a frame only the first time? The best would be if there were a way to do it with some option in my .xsession, like xterm --no-frame. :) andrej -- echo

unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
Can I start xterm in unreadable mode by default or with a certain option? I mean unreadable as when chosen with ctrl+right click Unreadable. andrej -- echo ${girl_name} /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:29:45AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: sure. But it got me interested: Why is this desirable behaviour? Because you get a tiny window, approximately 3 cm long, literally unreadable. But removing any frames the wm normally applies, you get virtually a black square

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-04 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:09:51PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Errr, kernel-pppoe and pppoe (aka rp-pppoe) are completely different implementations. You do not need kernel 2.4.x for Debian's pppoe. Thank you, that's what I wanted to know. I suspected it. -- echo ${girl_name}

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-03 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:49:56PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: pppoe. I don't think a 2.4 kernel is required (although it is a good idea in any case). Unfortunately I'm not at my friend's computer right now, but I'd like to prepare a little for the next seance -- the last time, of course, I

how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf, ...). Is there basically anything else? Thank you,

jigdo-lite and resuming?

2002-04-27 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't really understand the jigdo method yet. In fact, I know nothing about it -- what I'd like to know is about its resume-capabilities. I've started downloading but in the morning my brother will want to boot windows and this connection's not that fast. So how will I be able to resume

how do I enable a plugin for mozilla?

2002-04-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently mozilla suggested (or rather, a page requested) that I download and install a plugin (jre131_02.xpi for some java). So a page opened and asked me what I wanted to do -- after clicking on install or something, I checked for the file's size with lftp -- approximately 15M, so I

Is there a way to continue a process elsewhere?

2002-04-16 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, suddenly, all my consoles went blank after trying to open a file with bmv (this is not normal behaviour!) but I could still enter X. Since I wasn't using screen at that time, would there be a way of continuing a process in X? Or sending a command to it; whatever, just to avoid going through

trouble unmounting

2002-04-02 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello -- I'm having trouble unmounting a drive. In order to do some administrative work on a newly set up server on a little local network, I had to install some programs from a cd. Since the server doesn't have a cd drive I mounted the cd onto my own computer and then mounted the /cdrom directory

Re: two printcap entries for the same printer?

2002-03-29 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:37:11AM -0600, dman wrote: | echo $(girl_name) /etc/dumpdates Two problems here (I think) : '' will overwrite the existing file, use '' instead $(...) executes the command '...' in a subshell; don't you mean ${...}? (:--- A cynical note follows

two printcap entries for the same printer?

2002-03-27 Thread andrej hocevar
Can I have more entries in my /etc/printcap for one printer? I wanted to be able to chose which filter to use for a certain job -- so I simply added one more entry with a different spool directory and a different magicfilter. Unfortunately, it didn't work; is it only because I've overlooked a

Re: simple exim questions

2002-03-26 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +1030, David Purton wrote: You could run a pop3 server on your main box and then use whatever mail client to get mail that way We run this sort of setup at work - with exim and cucipop. Our various windoze boxes then just use the linux box as an smtp server

simple exim questions

2002-03-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Please, I'm migrating from masqmail to exim and need some help. My computer is on a small local network of three (bibla, antea and liz-christina; the first one is my own) and so I want to be able to send mail to the other two (193.1.1.1, 193.1.1.2 -- If I understand it correctly, I want to deliver

Re: Shift+PageUP and DOWN

2002-03-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:43:28AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: ok!!! the ls i fix it! was a alias to --color option... but now, the question is: why my Shift+PageUP and PageDOWN don't work??? thanks again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Please help me find a font with outline shape

2002-03-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Could anyone tell me which font does have the outline shape available for use in latex and where to find it? Please, I need it quickly. The manual (info latex) only says this much: _ `\fontseries{series}' Select font series. Valid series include:

one more sed q

2002-02-15 Thread andrej hocevar
In file file, each section (paragraph?) begins exactly with start and ends exactly with end. How do I print only those sections that include the string string? Thanks, andrej -- echo $(girl_name) /etc/dumpdates

a sed question

2002-01-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, can someone please tell me how to instruct sed to make an empty line before a certain pattern? For me, the same would be to make a new line every N lines. Thank you. e.g. NEWLINE Package: foo Pin: bar NEWLINE Package: ... etc ...

multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the recipient and the second the message or similar? Thank you, andrej

Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
? Even if it was a mistake -- is there no other way then quoting? A quick look at some manuals gave me the impression that this problem might not be just a silly mistake of mine, can it? On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:58:04PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:49:54PM -0100, andrej

more on apt -- what preferences?

2002-01-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Lately I've added some cds (woody from linuxiso.org) to my sources.list. I'm running woody installed from the net; the ftp sources are also in that file. Since quite a few packages I wanted to install were grabbed off the net, I assume that those weren't on my cds -- following some previous

Re: grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-19 Thread andrej hocevar
be found. David On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: Hello! I updated grub to 0.9 and it totally amazes me! So many new commands, great! I've also found a document that describes my situation in detail. The solution is to tell grub the first partition be hidden

a latex-widths question

2002-01-19 Thread andrej hocevar
I've seen some LaTeX discussions here, so just a quick question: how do I tell LaTeX that a box should have the width of a certain word? (Precisely, I mean a real box; a rectangle of given dimensions.) Thank you, andrej

a question on grub/windows and one on woody upgrade

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
1) I have to install windows on my computer and I don't want to change more than is really needed to do so (especially concerning my disk organisation). But the problem is that windows want to be installed only on the first partition of the first disk which I don't want to give away. Here comes

grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello! I updated grub to 0.9 and it totally amazes me! So many new commands, great! I've also found a document that describes my situation in detail. The solution is to tell grub the first partition be hidden and then boot from a windows floppy. What simplicity. I haven't tried it out yet! :)

filesystem oddities

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Something strange has happened to my file systems: I've resized a partition (ext2) with parted, installed windows on another. On my other disk I have woody which I mostly use. But now parted says /dev/hda1 is ext2, whereas fdisk says it's amoeba. What's wrong?! I can't boot potato anymore!

cursor style

2002-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an underscope vs. a solid block? Thanks, andrej

Re: INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:23:32PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Hi, I recently installed kernel 2.4.14 on hdb, fixed up a minor LILO problem - and for a while it worked. I was impressed with the boot speed and the number of drivers... Yesterday, however, when I tried to boot

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf, meaning, as far as i know

Re: /proc permissions and other things

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: Andrej Hocevar wrote: did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten is often brusque

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