Chris Jenks wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to cause a specific window to move to the
foreground when a shell script is run. My googling is returning very
little signal to noise! I'm running pretty much stock Gutsy ubuntu.
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Chris
Here is some c++ code
Richard Burkhart wrote:
Anyone have suggestions on a set of shell commands I can pipe together to:
- Batch transfer multiple files directories from a windows (server
2000) machine onto a Linux machine
- Maintain as many of the original file permissions as will make it
across the samba link
hajhouse wrote:
I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few
years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a proprietary
driver. Now I am faced with a problem: basically the only
high-performance video available on laptops is NVIDIA. I know about the
proprietary
You might look around for settings in your desktop environment. In
KDE's control center you can choose the num lock to be 'on', 'off', or
'unchanged' when logging in.
Jonathan
Tim Coddington wrote:
On my new 'puter, E4300 Intel CPU, 2Gb, SATAII, AsRock ConRoe945G-DVD
motherboard (Yea, I
I've got a ps/2 mouse on a desktop that makes the pointer move too
quickly in Linux: the pointer moves too far for a corresponding
physical movement of the mouse. I've turned acceleration off, and it is
still too fast. By googling, I've found two things to try. The first
is to set the
Pete
I use Octave all the time for numerical work
(http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/). Although it is meant to be used
as a command line interpreter, I believe many or all the routines can be
called from within C++. Here is a FAQ that says something about this:
I made a symlink /dev/lp0 - /dev/usb/lp0 and it seems to be working now.
Jonathan
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Has anyone used a printer with a usb to parallel cable? Although I see
that /dev/usb/lp0 exists, CUPS does not show any USB or parallel devices
when I try to add a printer. Printing
In my haste to replace my blown computer
(http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2007-01/msg00045.html),
I bought a no-frills Compaq desktop (Presario SR1917CL) for cheap. I
also wanted a Nvidia graphics card to play some games, and chose the PNY
GeForce 7600 GS, mainly because it
Bill Broadley wrote:
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
...
Anyway, I am wondering if there is still any hope in recovering the
data on the hard drive. From what I can tell, the drive is not even
spinning
There is no fuse that I know of, and if it's not even trying it sounds
pretty
bad.
up
I went to turn on my 3 yr old custom built desktop on Friday, there was
a load crack sound, and the computer would not boot. After spinning
the dvd drives, it would immediately reboot; no bios display or
anything, even after clearing cmos and unplugging all the drives. I
eventually traced it
It looks like I have a failing hard drive. I've never experienced this
before; I guess I have been lucky. The hard drive is a 160 GB Maxtor
ATA drive purchased and installed in a custom built desktop pc a few
years ago (2003?).
The first partition is NTFS with winXP installed. I have
Dylan
I did not use the ucthesis class. Instead, I used the book class and
added formatting commands to force the document to follow the UC
requirements. I can send you a template file offlist if you like.
Jonathan
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Greetings,
I am attempting to use the
short: You can run a virtual machine via VMWare using a raw drive on SATA.
long: I have a laptop with a SATA drive. The first partition is NTFS
running corporate windows xp. Later partitions are for gentoo Linux. I
have a dual-boot setup using grub. Inside Linux I run a VMWare virtual
Jimbo wrote:
I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time. Bought
new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b) and am worried about starting
debian on old monitor settings. Will things auto detect? How bout the
nvidia video card I just installed?
If no auto detect can I edit
Chris Horsting wrote:
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Chris Horsting wrote:
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Chris Horsting wrote:
Hi,
I was having problem accessing website from fedora 4.0 box, so I
thought it might be a user permission problem. When I tried to
login as root, Fedora did not let me login
Chris Horsting wrote:
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Chris Horsting wrote:
Hi,
I was having problem accessing website from fedora 4.0 box, so I
thought it might be a user permission problem. When I tried to login
as root, Fedora did not let me login. Also, regarding the Internet
connection, I am
I saw some of your emails about k3b, but didn't have time then to
respond. Did you ever just try using it as root?
Jonathan
Chris Horsting wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for everyones advice on how to solve my k3b problem. However, it
did not work. I guess I try the 1.0 version. So, What are the
Have you looked at ImageMagick's convert utility? It is a fairly
powerful tool with many options. As a brute-force method, converting to
some format that doesn't support transparency, and then back again,
might work for you.
Jonathan
Bill Kendrick wrote:
So I've got 355-and-counting PNG
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Tue 31 Jan 06, 1:37 PM, Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:28:15PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
In cygwin, I'd like to type vi /etc/profile and have gvim come up,
editing /etc/profile without necessarily running X. That means I
Mark K. Kim wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
[snip]
have the most experience with xfig. I just realized, though, that xfig
does not seem to support connector lines: lines that connect objects and
stretch appropriately if those objects are later moved. This web
article
As part of my new job I will need to make engineering drawings. My
coworkers are using M$ Visio for this. Naturally, I wanted to see if
free software could work as well for me. Dia seems a good choice, but I
have the most experience with xfig. I just realized, though, that xfig
does not
I just started a full-time job as a scientist/engineer at a very large
international company. For networking and personal computers, everyone
gets the same thing and everyone does the same thing. This means
Dell, Windows, Lotus Notes, and no alternatives. I didn't even get
admin privs on my
I've had success with this tool (a perl script).
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop
I notice there is an updated version from the one I've been using.
Jonathan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
I recently discovered psnup, which allows me to print 4 pages of postscript
to 1 page of
Hi Pete; nice to see you on the list again.
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Posted to vox-tech since this is a CS topic. I'd like to verify some things
which I think are true.
Consider the set of all square matrices of rank n. The determinant of M,
det(M), forms an equivalence class on that set.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jonathan,
Answering your questions, we did have a dual-boot on RHEL and windows at
the install fest. I did try to upgrade to fedora with the fedora disks,
and it hasn't worked since.
My specific question was whether, during the Fedora upgrade, everything
seemed to go
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to dual-boot Linux and Windows. When I try to open the Linux
partition, I get GRUB, and I don't know what to do. I am attempting to
save my prior partition (Redhat).
Windows is currently working on the computer.
What exactly is the problem when you try to
On my gentoo box I have a file /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Kernel modules
in there are not loaded when hotplug runs. If I had your problem, I
would put eth1394 in that file.
HTH,
Jonathan
Marc Elliot Hall wrote:
My little mini-ITX Via-based Debian box is giving me spasms today. It
seems that,
Bill Kendrick wrote:
So, last night I went to remind myself how fast Melissa's Thinkpad T20 was,
and when I did cat /proc/cpuinfo I saw ~204MHz, which is about 500MHz
slower than I remembered it being. :^)
I also saw stepping: 3, so I guess the thing had kicked down a few speeds
for power
Chris Horsting wrote:
Jay Strauss wrote:
Chris Horsting wrote:
I used a script.
Chris, take it from someone who has learned the lesson first hand,
provide detail to your questions. Including (but not limited to):
Distro and version
an accurate description of the steps you took and
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Hi everyone,
I a wondering if anyone on the list has used some open source software to
locate local maxima in a data set. would something like octave do this?
It would be easy to write a simple Octave function to find your local
maxima. All local maxima would be
Someone else may have a better answer, but one thing you can try is to
directly edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (or xorg.conf) and set your desired
resolution there. After editing the file you will need to restart X for
the changes to occur. Not as dynamic as your previous method, but it
should
Chris
Your linux distribution, if you keep it up-to-date, should provide a
recent version of Firefox. That is the best way to upgrade.
If you want to use a downloaded tar.gz, first expand it. In konqueror
you can do this by right clicking and choosing extract. I forget the
command line
Richard Harke wrote:
My wife has an external USB DVD reader/writer which I
thought I'd try. I get some lines in dmesg when I power it up
but I can't find it with dvdrecord -scanbus
I have an ATAPI CD burner which works fine. I suspect that its
presence may interfere with the USB model. I've
That message usually results when someone logs into XP, logs off but
leaves their session open, and then someone else logs in. If he is the
only one using the computer, that does sound suspicious. Regardless,
from the control panel - users he can turn off fast user
switching or whatever it
Mark K. Kim wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote:
[snip]
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:31:04PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote:
R/S+ is multiplatform (the various Unixes, Windows, Macs).
So, anyone want to do a talk on this language at LUGOD some time!? :)
Seems like this question
I just came across yet another ps/pdf viewer called Evince
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/). I'm pretty excited about it
since it comes close to acroread in rendering and behavior. Plus it
reloads documents with a keystroke; in acroread you must close and open
documents to reload. It
It works for me, probably because I've configured Firefox to use
Thunderbird by adding the line
user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.mailto, thunderbird);
to the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/user.js.
Jonathan
Bob Scofield wrote:
Firefox on Windows comes all set up so that one can
Stanley
I'm sorry you didn't get everything solved at the Installfest. If you
must use Peachtree, it does look you will need to run Windows.
While the other two responses are correct and helpful, for beginner
users of Linux I am going to recommend a brute force method:
1) back up your
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
New install.
Grub seems to work for my Debian kernels:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686
savedefault
boot
But not for a home compiled kernel:
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Fri 20 May 05, 11:27 AM, David Hummel @comcast.net said:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Fri 20 May 05, 11:03 AM, David Hummel @comcast.net said:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:45:32AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Grub seems to work
I'm an amateur when it comes to emacs hacks, but I suspect you'll need
to add appropriate lines for each mode to your ~/.emacs file. Probably
cut and paste will do much of it, though.
Jonathan
Charles McLaughlin wrote:
Hello,
I am hoping someone can point me in the write direction. I want to
Bob Scofield wrote:
Here's one final question. As part of my missionary work I'm taking my SuSE
CD's. But it just dawned on me that while I have set up dual boot systems
several times in the past, it has always been with Windows 98. Are there any
special difficulties in setting up a dual
Bob Scofield wrote:
Here's a painful question, but I feel justified in asking it for two reasons:
(1) it's not for me, but for my sister; and (2) I'm doing some Linux
missionary work directed at her.
My sister has a relatively new (one year or so) Dell computer running XP. It
has always run
Alex
If at some point you upgraded any of those packages via apt-get or
synaptic, the downloaded rpm file might reside in
/var/cache/apt/archives. Then again, maybe not because apt-get will
delete them once they get uninstalled.
Otherwise it sounds like you need to recover from a self-booting
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
I need to vent frustration.
Xfig has got to be the single most un-user friendly piece of software I've
ever seen. I experience physical pain everytime I use it.
It's NOT a hyperbole to say that I can do most diagrams faster by coding the
picture environment by hand than
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Fri 29 Apr 05, 10:46 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My hat is off to anyone on this list who is actually handy with this
monstrosity.
Well, I think I'm rather handy with Xfig. It certainly does have a way
of doing things that is quite different from most
Richard Crawford wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 09:02, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
I like Kmail.
I do, too. I used to use Evolution, but switched back in January when I
switched from GNOME to KDE. I haven't looked back since.
I am sure Kmail is a fine choice, but I've been using Thunderbird for
Bob Scofield wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 10:12, Micah Cowan wrote:
One thing that is nice, though, is that I can configure it to share the
same mailboxes between Windows and Linux.
I use Thunderbird for my business email, and Kmail for my personal email. I
love Kmail.
But I have a question
Haven't been following all the details, but I'd like to add what I do
with image files (e.g. jpeg) in LaTeX. I simply convert them to .eps or
.pdf and then include those instead, which are scalable (within reason).
How you do the conversion greatly dictates the final quality, of
course.
Bob
I think you are on the right track. I've noticed also with Fedora that
it automatically edits /etc/fstab when usb storage devices are attached
or removed (cameras sometimes behave as storage devices). I'm not sure
what daemon does this, but I don't think it is submount. It might be
Troy Arnold wrote:
BTW, this is my preferred solution:
/etc/fstab:
\\dubhe\pub /pub smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/smb.dubhe.pub,uid=troy,gid=troy
where /etc/samba/smb.dubhe.pub looks like:
user=smbusername
password=seKret
This has the added advantage that the credential file does not have to
be
Donald Greg McGahan wrote:
Dmitriy wrote:
On Monday 21 March 2005 10:35, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Ah, you must be using Fedora 3. Fedora 3 has someone neat deamon
running that detects when a usb mass storage device is plugged in,
creates a mount point in /media, AND automatically edits /etc
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Hi,
Just started using bibtex to help with the organization of citations in
papers and the like... i am currently using the bibtex style called
named with the command:
\bibliographystyle{named}
... as suggested on this website:
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting myself:
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.)
at the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any
recommendations, especially in regards to distribution? For new
users
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting myself:
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at
the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations,
especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with
Fedora
Richard Harke wrote:
On Friday 18 March 2005 16:12, Karsten M. Self wrote:
The history of secure applications development is largely divided into
two groups:
1. Those who anticipate hostile environments, design for scenarios in
which no two components trust one another, and correctly implement
Richard Harke wrote:
On Friday 18 March 2005 18:12, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Richard Harke wrote:
When I first installed firefox it refused to run. After googling about I
found the advice to do xhost +. Based on this thread I should have
rejected the advice leaving me with two alternatives:
1
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:33:06PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon 14 Mar 05, 9:31 AM, Bob Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course I do not expect much sympathy from Debian users for this type of
computing. But after Ken's answer to my
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Datapoint: I have tried, and failed, to install Gentoo twice. I never
failed to install Debian.
Yep, I know, everyone is shaped by their experiences. I've tried, and
failed, with Debian about 3 times. The last time was about the time I
first tried Gentoo... which
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at
the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations,
especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with
Fedora. I see that the test version of Fedora 4 is out with a version
for PPC. I'll
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Debian's installation process is difficult and requires intimate
knowledge of how linux works.
Which of the couple of dozen installers for Debian are you referring to?
Please see: Installers on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian
See
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Tue 15 Mar 05, 11:13 AM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:46:15AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
It bothers me that Fedora turns sshd on by default.
A naive user could set a silly root password, and
they'll be cracked in a few hours
Bob Scofield wrote:
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the use of Debian for newbies and
bewbies. Bill's directions to Pete on how to set up My Computer on KDE
takes care of one thing. Something like YAST would take care of another.
And something that partitioned as easily as YAST and
(but is not in the /home partition, if you get my drift).
I didn't tell him to delete the directory because /home was already mounted
at that point, and I didn't want him to change anything until his homework
is safe and sound on another machine.
On Fri 11 Mar 05, 9:13 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL
I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It
seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system
check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my
expertise. Is someone able to help him?
Jonathan
Michael Siminitus wrote:
1- Michael
All theses suggestions are great, but is someone willing to give him a
call since it is urgent? Email me offlist, and I will give you his
phone number.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Ken Bloom wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:13:10 -0800
Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just called Mike to see if I
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Fri 11 Mar 05, 10:27 AM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:11:30AM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote:
All I know is that I was overwhelmed by aptitude. I'm told to put a + or -
next to a package, but I'm given 14,000 plus packages to look at. I
Micah Cowan wrote:
Henry House wrote:
[Inkscape's] native format is a subset of SVG.
[] indicates modificiation of original quote.
IIRC, sodipodi, which I found out a few days ago became Inkscape(?),
could read in any SVG and would preserve markup it didn't fully
understand, even through
Henry House wrote:
På tisdag, 01 mars 2005, skrev Jonathan Stickel:
snip
I just installed inkscape to check it out. It looks really nice; more
inuitive editing than xfig. However, I primarily make vector drawings
to import into latex documents. Xfig supports that very well, including
ways
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Well, after a little bit of googling, it looks like there was a rather simple
solution. Since ps2pdf14 and epstopdf were just sending some pre-defined
parameters to ghost script, it is possible to setup the gs environment, and
then call epstopdf:
export
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 12:46 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Well, after a little bit of googling, it looks like there was a rather
simple solution. Since ps2pdf14 and epstopdf were just sending some
pre-defined parameters to ghost script
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Hi all,
My computer at work is a WinXP system. Yesterday I used a Debian Sarge
official installer to make the system into a dual boot system. Everything
went fine until the reboot. When the system reboots, I see:
Grub loading stage 1.5
Grub loading, please wait...
While Linux can produce quality sound fairly easily, applications that
run on Linux do not like to share the sound. Your type of problem is
quite common and drove me crazy for a long time. I suspect that arts
(KDE's sound server) is competing with XMMS for the use of ALSA (actual
hardware
FYI, there is also epstopdf, part of tetex, which does well for me.
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
Hi everyone,
ps2pdf normally produces nice PDF files from an EPS document... however, some
of the time it produces a PDF that is on its side, or partially off the
printable area... but the results seem to
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Thu 03 Feb 05, 12:10 PM, Matt Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:01:50AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
These have been some interesting discussions about FireFox. One thing
Pete originally complained about that hasn't been discussed
These have been some interesting discussions about FireFox. One thing
Pete originally complained about that hasn't been discussed is the
opening of new windows when you would rather they would go to another
tab. This often frustrates me as well. From what I can tell, this
occurs when some
There are two things that should be simple and standardized in linux,
but definitely are not: sound and printing! Both are getting better if
you know what to do...
From my experience, cups is the way to go for printing. I highly
recommend the web interface for configuring, testing, and
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Thu 13 Jan 05, 11:26 AM, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:16 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Can you post the output of:
mount
and:
hdparm /dev/hda
hdparm /dev/hdb
hdparm /dev/hdc
hdparm /dev/hdd
hdparm /dev/hde
hdparm
Very likely you burned a data cd, since that is one of the selections
in the initial k3b window. Instead, you need to burn the iso image to
the disk. In k3b you can do this by selecting tools - cd - burn cd image.
Jonathan
Robert G. Scofield wrote:
I've been reading about the Debian network
Don't panic because of a kernel panic!
Your system should be recoverable. From what I can tell, the module for
reiserfs in your new kernel is bad. The simple solution is to use your
previously working kernel. Most linuxes keep old kernels around by
default until you manually uninstall them.
Robert G. Scofield wrote:
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Jonathan's suggestion is the most economical and likely to succeed.
Let's
see what's inside of /boot. I'm hoping there will be more than one
kernel.
Pete
Okay, with the duplicate system I had a hard time figuring out which was
the working
Rod Roark wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 11:01 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:54:50PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
It seems to me that I remember being able to use Open Office in Linux to write
to Windows files. But maybe it's my memory that is failing. Does anybody
Are you wanting to boot Linux off the external drive? I don't believe
that is an easy thing to do. You probably want to dual boot linux and
windows on your internal drive. If you need more space, you can
subsequently set up mount points on the external drive for things like
/home, /opt,
Can I assume you've googled about your particular hardware? Maybe your
CD/DVD just won't play nice with DMA. One thing worth trying is to see
how your computer behaves with KNOPPIX. When booting knoppix, do:
knoppix dma
to enable dma support of your drives. If everything works, then you
I just looked at my CUPS web interface settings for an HP printer I
have. Photo/4x6 is a choice of page size for me. My guess is the
printer driver you are using is lacking in this area. I'm not sure
about a solution.
Jonathan
Rod Roark wrote:
OK my wife has a Canon i860 printer on a
I use rsync to keep the entire root filesystem of several computers
identical. See this post:
http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2004-03/msg00252.html
You could do similar to backup your entire root.
Jonathan
Ken Herron wrote:
You could use rsync to backup and restore. Rsync has
I use Octave for 99% of my numerical work lately (www.octave.org). It
has functions to produce histogram/bar plots. By default it uses
gnuplot as its external plotter.
Jonathan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of.
It appears that OO
Robert G. Scofield wrote:
Rod Roark wrote:
Just in case you were thinking of trying a different
distribution. ;-)
What level of expertise does one need in order to install Gentoo? It's
not like installing Mandrake or SuSE, right? I'm somewhat familiar with
the Debian install. Is it like
Bryan Richter wrote:
To me, a web browser is a mystical device that lets me see pictures from afar,
like some palantir. When it breaks, then, I don't know the first place to start
looking for a fix.
My problem is when I try to access a UC Davis Restricted Document. There are
two times I run into
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I detest programs designed to behave this way... from helpful cpu status
displays to Did you really want to quit this program? dialog boxes to
Your Windows resources are running low to We are backing up your
data... please wait dialog boxes... they all suffer from either
What's a double buffer? Really, until 2 days ago I've never even
thought about how X is programmed. Is there a good web reference?
Thanks Mark!
Jonathan
Mark K. Kim wrote:
Can you double buffer the output and save the buffered image?
-Mark
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Jeff
What distribution are you using? In gentoo I have to edit
/etc/modules.d/alsa for my specific sound card. Maybe you have a
similar config file.
Jonathan
Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
list,
I have been trying to get the sound to work in my computer. At boot when
the ALSA mixer settings would be
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
snip
Jon, your xlib calls are:
XRaiseWindow(Display *display, Window w);
XLowerWindow(Display *display, Window w);
Finally got around to trying this, and it does work directly in simple
windows managers (tested in openbox). However, it doesn't quite work in
KDE.
Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Finally got around to trying this, and it does work directly in simple
windows managers (tested in openbox). However, it doesn't quite work in
KDE. Rather than the window coming to the top, the window's
Henry House wrote:
snip
On a related note, I have also been having a frustrating time working with
graphics in OO. I have about 20 plots of economic data. I generated these
using gnuplot --- perhaps you saw my previous messages about that. Despite
gnuplot's quirky interface and documentation, its
Henry House wrote:
På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Jonathan Stickel:
[...]
The fact that OO.o does not display imported EPS graphics on-screen is a
PITA. However, you can export to pdf where the graphics do show and are
high quality.
Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks
Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:48:41AM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote:
No, but have you tried using -ofps on the mencoder command line yet?
I tried -fps (trying to say 'this is the fps of the original'),
-ofps, and combining the two. :)
Didn't follow too closely, but it seems like you
Jay Strauss wrote:
Can anyone suggest a route for installing on my laptop that will help me
detect/identify all the components on my laptop (network card, wireless
card, ir port, monitor, sound card...), give me a nice slim install, and
ideally use APT for software administration
Other than an
Jay Strauss wrote:
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Other than an unusual bug when trying to dual boot winXP, I've been
impressed with Fedora Core 2. Use apt-rpm type tools to maintain it,
and you should be happy.
I'll download Fedora Core 2 tonight and try it. When you say apt-rpm
type tools do you mean tools that are
Is there a command I can run from commandline, say from an xterm
(actually konsole), to select a certain window in an X-session (actually
KDE) and push it to the top? I'm doing some scripting and have a
command which essentially seems to do a screen capture. I want it to
capture the contents
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