Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan McGhee wrote: This is the other problem that I have with livecd. I must use twm if I don't want to be able to take a nap each time I refocus the xfce terminal after I've worked in Firefox. Sometimes it's so bad that the screen won't respond to CTRL-ALT-Backspace and I have to use the

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-23 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 13:38 +0100, thorsten wrote: Perhaps my setup is different, but I can copy and paste into a XTerm using the middle mouse button. It works between two XTerms, between eg. firefox and one XTerm etc. Useful tip - Shift+Insert does the same thing from the keyboard. Works in

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/23/05, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 13:38 +0100, thorsten wrote: Perhaps my setup is different, but I can copy and paste into a XTerm using the middle mouse button. It works between two XTerms, between eg. firefox and one XTerm etc. Useful tip -

Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Dan McGhee
This seems so basic that I'm almost afraid to post it. Additionally, it could go on this, the LFS or the LiveCD list. I chose this one since it deals with configuration and can apply to just more than LiveCD. Please let me know if I should take it elsewhere. I've started building LFS using

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan McGhee wrote: I discovered that as user lfs I couldn't copy and paste from Firefox. I'm running Firefox from an xterm (using twm) as root and building lfs in an xterm as lfs. I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread thorsten
Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. Andy Perhaps my setup is different, but I can copy and paste into a XTerm using the

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
thorsten wrote these words on 12/22/05 06:38 CST: Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. Perhaps my setup is different, but

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:51:23PM +, Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. Wow. Of course you can paste into an

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Michiel Faber
Archaic schreef: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:51:23PM +, Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. Wow. Of course

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Chris Staub
Dan McGhee wrote: This seems so basic that I'm almost afraid to post it. Additionally, it could go on this, the LFS or the LiveCD list. I chose this one since it deals with configuration and can apply to just more than LiveCD. Please let me know if I should take it elsewhere. I've started

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. This problem is finally solved on the 6.1.1-1 and later LiveCD's. Since we use

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Chris Staub
Justin R. Knierim wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: I can't copy and paste into an xterm either. I have to use a gnome-terminal to do that. I don't think it's possible to paste into an xterm. At least, I don't remember ever being able to. This problem is finally solved on the 6.1.1-1 and later

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Benton
thorsten wrote: Perhaps my setup is different, but I can copy and paste into a XTerm using the middle mouse button. It works between two XTerms, between eg. firefox and one XTerm etc. Yes, you're right! It works with the middle button (in my case, the wheel). Well you learn something new

Re: Struggling with Init, Login, X and LiveCD

2005-12-22 Thread Dan McGhee
Something strange has happened and I don't know where. The original message I sent didn't come back to me and I received none of the responses. Also I've been getting some of the same posts over and over like Where to go with BLFS--or whatever the thread is--I've received for the last three