Strange Mice Behavior

2003-03-24 Thread Peter
Hi, I recently bought a new mouse since the old one is graying. Both ps2 mice behave properly under RH7.3 on the console and in X. In Slackware 8.0 each behaves differently. One, a Benq, functions correctly on the console, however, goes crazy in X, which then I have to abort with ctrl-alt-back

about cdrecord

2003-03-24 Thread ramzez
Hi friends. please, how do I import the last session of a CD-rw to write over it without blank it? tanks -- Linux User Registered #232544 ICQ : 337889406 my GnuPG-key at www.keyserver.net --- rm -rf /bin/laden --- signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje esta firmada

Re: switching window managers

2003-03-24 Thread Haines Brown
> > Hello Haines,AFAIK if you remove your ~/.gnome* dirs. then you > > will be able to restart a fresh gnome desktop... > > I presume that since gnome is set as my desktop manager, these files > would be regenerated without my having to restart gnome explicitly. You are right that the ~/.gnome* f

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-24 Thread whitnl73
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote: > Hello all, > > I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s), > since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some > mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved > now completely. It was somethi

Re: switching window managers

2003-03-24 Thread Haines Brown
Marco, Thanks! You've no idea how I've struggled to get this information. > Hello Haines,AFAIK if you remove your ~/.gnome* dirs. then you will be able to > restart a fresh gnome desktop... I presume that since gnome is set as my desktop manager, these files would be regenerated without my havin

Re: switching window managers

2003-03-24 Thread Marco Calistri
On 23-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote: >> Hello Haines,Im using IceWm as well from very few days and I simply run: >> >> xinit /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0 >> >> from terminal when I'am here on my RHL-7.3 box,or even run: > > Thanks Marco, but I managed to get myself into trouble. When runing > IceWM

safety/permissions

2003-03-24 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello all, I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s), since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved now completely. It was something with my fetchmail configuration. I don't fully

Re: switching window managers

2003-03-24 Thread Haines Brown
> Try reinstalling the ``gnome-panel'' RPM, or if that doesn't > work, uninstalling and then reinstalling it. This RPM > manages the Panel's basic stuff, including the desktop > switcher. > > You'll need (to specify the location of the) the RPM file, > of course. I tried that, but there was a la

reinstalling gnome2

2003-03-24 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running RedHat 8.0 with gnome2. I managed to damage the gnome pager (desktop switcher) so that gnome-panel crashes when loading, and I'm caught in a gnome-panel crash loop, which makes X useless for root and user accounts. However a spare test account is unaffected. How can this be? How can th