Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 08:51 pm, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:24:14PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:20 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > What's a login-manager? > > > > Maybe x-display-manager is a better choice of wording? > > We've alrea

Bug#169308: xserver-xfree86: LCD blanks and won't unblank

2002-11-15 Thread Jerry Quinn
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal The machine is an IBM Thinkpad T30 with a fresh install of Debian 3.0 on it. The LCD on this laptop will blank after about 5 minutes. If you are at the X display when it blanks, it cannot be unblanked again except by doing a suspend and

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 08:51 pm, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:24:14PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:20 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > What's a login-manager? > > > > Maybe x-display-manager is a better choice of wording? > > We've alrea

Bug#45216: maybe it should be closed ?

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Why ? I am sure it is _not_ because of the reasons listed in the bug i > sent you, which was against 3.3.4, and was just a missing mach64 > makefile thingy, easily fixed. So the bug is already fixed? > But then, maybe we should close

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:20:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Imagine you misconfigured X, eg. wrong monitor settings You see the > problem and type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace quickly. Fine. Now, you continue the > installation and work without X. Next morning, you boot the box and see > some X thingie s

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:24:14PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:20 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > What's a login-manager? > > Maybe x-display-manager is a better choice of wording? We've already got that. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who doe

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:22:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Bla. Come down. Did you never learn to separate personal things from the > work? You first, when you write your mails. -- G. Branden Robinson| The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux |

Bug#169308: xserver-xfree86: LCD blanks and won't unblank

2002-11-15 Thread Jerry Quinn
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal The machine is an IBM Thinkpad T30 with a fresh install of Debian 3.0 on it. The LCD on this laptop will blank after about 5 minutes. If you are at the X display when it blanks, it cannot be unblanked again except by doing a suspend and

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
I'm still waiting for an explicit recommendation. -- G. Branden Robinson| Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too [EMAIL PROTECTED] | difficult for the computer http://people.debian.org/~bran

Bug#169239: xbase-clients: The xbiff should display hostname as "hint"

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:16:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to run xbiff remotely more then once. Please include "hint" style (or > something similar) hostname (or FQDN) displaying. It would be useful when > running > more than one xbiffs on different servers remotely. > > Thank

Bug#45216: maybe it should be closed ?

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Why ? I am sure it is _not_ because of the reasons listed in the bug i > sent you, which was against 3.3.4, and was just a missing mach64 > makefile thingy, easily fixed. So the bug is already fixed? > But then, maybe we should close

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:20:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Imagine you misconfigured X, eg. wrong monitor settings You see the > problem and type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace quickly. Fine. Now, you continue the > installation and work without X. Next morning, you boot the box and see > some X thingie s

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:24:14PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:20 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > What's a login-manager? > > Maybe x-display-manager is a better choice of wording? We've already got that. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who doe

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:22:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Bla. Come down. Did you never learn to separate personal things from the > work? You first, when you write your mails. -- G. Branden Robinson| The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux |

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
I'm still waiting for an explicit recommendation. -- G. Branden Robinson| Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too [EMAIL PROTECTED] | difficult for the computer http://people.debian.org/~bran

Bug#169239: xbase-clients: The xbiff should display hostname as "hint"

2002-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:16:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to run xbiff remotely more then once. Please include "hint" style (or > something similar) hostname (or FQDN) displaying. It would be useful when running > more than one xbiffs on different servers remotely. > > Thanks:

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Chris Waters
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:40:46PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Why not explicitly say --color=no? Because that introduces a dependency on GNU ls, and may break things on BSD or odd Debian ports (Debian Solaris, for example). And it has no corresponding benefits to make up for the lack of porta

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Chris Waters
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:40:46PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Why not explicitly say --color=no? Because that introduces a dependency on GNU ls, and may break things on BSD or odd Debian ports (Debian Solaris, for example). And it has no corresponding benefits to make up for the lack of porta

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 08:42 am, John Lenton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:40:46PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote: > > I have found the cause of this problem and its solution. The problem is > > in the file /etc/Xsession (global Xsession file -- used by display > > managers and xinit (startx)

Bug#169239: xbase-clients: The xbiff should display hostname as "hint"

2002-11-15 Thread nil
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: wishlist Hi Developer! I used to run xbiff remotely more then once. Please include "hint" style (or something similar) hostname (or FQDN) displaying. It would be useful when running more than one xbiffs on different servers remotely. Thanks:

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread John Lenton
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:40:46PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote: > I have found the cause of this problem and its solution. The problem is > in the file /etc/Xsession (global Xsession file -- used by display > managers and xinit (startx)) supplied by the xfree86-common package. So > please forward i

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 08:42 am, John Lenton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:40:46PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote: > > I have found the cause of this problem and its solution. The problem is > > in the file /etc/Xsession (global Xsession file -- used by display > > managers and xinit (startx)

Bug#169239: xbase-clients: The xbiff should display hostname as "hint"

2002-11-15 Thread nil
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: wishlist Hi Developer! I used to run xbiff remotely more then once. Please include "hint" style (or something similar) hostname (or FQDN) displaying. It would be useful when running more than one xbiffs on different servers remotely. Thanks: N

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread John Lenton
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:40:46PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote: > I have found the cause of this problem and its solution. The problem is > in the file /etc/Xsession (global Xsession file -- used by display > managers and xinit (startx)) supplied by the xfree86-common package. So > please forward i

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 01:40 am, David Lawyer wrote: > for F in $(command ls $1); do > > The "command ls" insures that ls is not a shell function but the real ls > command. The following may be another solution for F in $(ls --color=no -1); do Also, the following will allow spaces in filenames

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread David Lawyer
I have found the cause of this problem and its solution. The problem is in the file /etc/Xsession (global Xsession file -- used by display managers and xinit (startx)) supplied by the xfree86-common package. So please forward it to the maintainer of that package. In the above file there is funct

Bug#45216: maybe it should be closed ?

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:53:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Branden, i was looking at the list of bugs i filled searching for one in > > particular, and found this one. It is more than 3 days old, applies to a > > package vers

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:20 pm, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > What's a login-manager? Maybe x-display-manager is a better choice of wording? Warren -- Treasurer, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org

Bug#169170: xserver-xfree86: sporadic system lockups running xscreensaver with ATI Radeon QD

2002-11-15 Thread jeff
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal When I come back and find the machine locked up the display is usually blank but a couple of times it has had nerverot from xscreensaver frozen on it. This has been going on since 4.2.x entered unstable (and hence my machine). The freque

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 November 2002 01:40 am, David Lawyer wrote: > for F in $(command ls $1); do > > The "command ls" insures that ls is not a shell function but the real ls > command. The following may be another solution for F in $(ls --color=no -1); do Also, the following will allow spaces in filenames