Xwindows in Sid

2004-02-23 Thread Curtis Howland
I've been running Sid for the past year or more, and have waded through a few nasty instabilities. Unstable is aptly named. However, I have hit a serious snag. I did the usual weekly or so update, and the Xwindows libraries were, ah, fixed after a dist-upgrade to correct for the file overlaps.

Re: X in Sid

2004-02-23 Thread Curtis Howland
Sorry I cannot quote, part of the no X problem. I don't have errors, because, as someone else pointed out, this problem leaves no errors in the log file. The problem is, I don't use an automatic manager, I always startx. So the fix mentioned in digest #660 won't work. Anyone who wants to take a

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-23 Thread Curtis Howland
Regarding the US constitution, I consider the most important word in that clause to be limited. This is not just to ensure that inventors and writers get their exclusive use. This is to ensure that wide scale use of those ideas is possible with the public domain AFTER the limited time the