Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Wireless USB Support

2006-07-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
John Brewer wrote: This Project Proposal: Wireless USB Support should also include wireless support for SDIO (newer Wireless newer type i.e: Spectech 802.11g and of course SDIO devices 802.11b the N / Nimo standerds as well), and as well as the legacy PCMCIA PC Card slots this could be also

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Rich Teer wrote: Hi all, Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I have been trying to use it more often (the photo previewer in Nautilus makes this easier to do!). The trouble is, as a long-term CDE user, there are several major road blocks to my doing this.

[osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Corlett
Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be knocking around.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be knocking around.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am just using GNU dialog linked with libncurses

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dave Miner
Dennis Clarke wrote: Agreed (as a lapsed sysadmin). It makes a lot of sense that the program do the right thing in the context of the menu presented to the user. That just means keypad 8 2 are up and down, keypad 1 and 2 are the entries. Belenix have managed it after all, so the code must be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Dave Miner
Dennis Clarke wrote: If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am just using GNU dialog

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: Or, failing that, is there a way to cajule gnome-terminal to use the same font as dtterm? I'm currently using Lucida Sans Typewriter at 9 points, but I find the interline gap too wide. I'm pretty sure that getting gnome-terminal to use the same font as dtterm will fix this,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal: JDS Single System Administration

2006-07-11 Thread lianep
Ghee Teo writes: It seems that this is already covered bby the Visual Panels project; I do not believe we should have two competing projects except in cases where there are very compelling reasons. These may have been replied before in a similar vein, but it seems to be th

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I have been trying to use it more often Well done (: It's an uphill battle. GNOME certainly does NOT make it easy for users coming from CDE--something I think ought to

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: Why not migrate to gnome-terminal then. I uses the same multi threaded Maybe one day, when gnome-terminal supports all I want (including the ability to have terminals open 132 columns wide without having to manually resixe them, and to be able to use

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Even if you got them to use the exact same font, the software they use for drawing text is so different it will still not look the same. If it's a bitmap font it will be closer, but TrueType fonts won't even have the same appearance, much less

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Stephen Lau
Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: Why not migrate to gnome-terminal then. I uses the same multi threaded Maybe one day, when gnome-terminal supports all I want (including the ability to have terminals open 132 columns wide without having to manually resixe them,

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Stephen Lau wrote: gnome-terminal --geometry=132x40 Good to know... I prefer the shift behaviour since it lets me use apps that map PgUp/PgDn properly Also good to know. Methinks that this is one of those things that ought to be configurable... -- Rich Teer, SCNA,

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:01 -0700, Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I have been trying to use it more often Well done (: It's an uphill battle. GNOME certainly does NOT make it

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:25 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: I prefer the shift behaviour since it lets me use apps that map PgUp/PgDn properly Indeed, that's precisely why they were chosen (ditto all the other Shifted shortcuts in gnome-terminal). In fact, in JDS we changed it back for a while,

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Calum Benson wrote: FWIW, we've started CDE user transition/migration projects at least twice in the six years we've been shipping GNOME, and they've been dropped due to perceived lack of demand :/ Hmm. Perhaps those determining the demand were asking the wrong people...

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: Does the latter point about Bitstream fonts also apply to the xorg X server? Yes - we've replaced the freetype-based code used in the Xorg open source release with Bitstream code in the Solaris Xorg. (This is in the libbitstream.so which is currently the only piece of our

[osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.4 now available

2006-07-11 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Thanx. I am posting this test reply from the 0.44 LiveCD, will try to do a HD install this weekend. BTW, will I be able to install BeleniX in an extended partition? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.4 now available

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Thanx. I am posting this test reply from the 0.44 LiveCD, will try to do a HD install this weekend. BTW, will I be able to install BeleniX in an extended partition? Not yet. Extended partition support in OpenSolaris is being worked on currently. Regards, Moinak.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: the grubby looking install process

2006-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: If the code is not yet open then how did the Belenix people get this going? As far as I can see Grub background graphic (XPM) is a feature that is already I meant the keyboard mapping during the locale selection. Oh I misunderstood. I am

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: CIFS client

2006-07-11 Thread Mark Sweeney
Hi, and thanks for your excitement. :) The project is being set up as we speak and should be available very soon. Once we are set up we will do some project management, see how many interested contributors there are, set up some discussions and post up some stuff that needs to get done, then

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot and Install Opensolaris Project Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Lori Alt
John Brewer wrote: Support for Jumpstart to include the ZFS Boot options would be needed as well! Yes, this will be part of the Install support. Lori Alt This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: Why not migrate to gnome-terminal then. I uses the same multi threaded Maybe one day, when gnome-terminal supports all I want (including the ability to have terminals open 132 columns wide without having to manually resixe them,

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Ian Collins
Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: Why not migrate to gnome-terminal then. I uses the same multi threaded Maybe one day, when gnome-terminal supports all I want (including the ability to have terminals open 132 columns wide without having to manually resixe

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ian Collins wrote: Ah, so you prefer the IE way of opening windows to Firefox :) I've been using tabs in a browser for years. I actually use a combination of windows and tabs for my browser. I get tabs for browsing but not for terminal windows - I can't really justify to myself why but

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Ian Collins wrote: Ah, so you prefer the IE way of opening windows to Firefox :) Them's fightin' words, mister! :-) Seriously, gnome-terminal has improved significantly in the latest JDS, so if (like me) you were disappointed with its performance in earlier releases,

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:51, Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:25 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: I prefer the shift behaviour since it lets me use apps that map PgUp/PgDn properly Indeed, that's precisely why they were chosen (ditto all the other Shifted shortcuts in

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:32:52PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: Indeed, that's precisely why they were chosen (ditto all the other Shifted shortcuts in gnome-terminal). In fact, in JDS we changed it back for a while, but that patch seems to regressed (or removed, I don't know which), and

[osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.4 now available

2006-07-11 Thread John Brewer
Will this end up in b43 or b44? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: CIFS client

2006-07-11 Thread LiuFeng
looking forward to that. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.4 now available

2006-07-11 Thread Ashok Kumar
Hi Moinak, what else is you planned to make Belenix as a complete distribution?. is there any TO DO list available in belenix web site? just curious to know that and i will see,if any is possible for me to contribute, i will approach you accordingly thanks Ashok On 7/12/06, John Brewer

[osol-discuss] DHCP JumpStart

2006-07-11 Thread tyw
Hi all, I've configured a DHCP server on Solaris 10 u1 x86 and it works fine when tested with another Solaris box as a client. dhcp start / renew / whatever. However, when trying to use it for jumpstart, it doesn't seem to pick up an IP. It just tells me no boot filename received. the packet