Re: mutt mucks up 'Subject'

2002-11-21 Thread Glyn Kennington
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: when to field is too large, mutt mucks up a lot of things on my computer at least. not all too addresses are shown in header. some flow into the message body. so does some other information like subject, etc. Can you show us a screenshot? (Not necessarily an actual

Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive

2002-11-20 Thread Glyn Kennington
Charlie Reiman wrote: If you just want to see all files and their sizes, try 'find . -ls'. Sorting this is left as an exercise for the reader. ls -l puts the size in the 5th columns, so piping the output through sort -n -k 5 will put them in ascending order. Which brings me on to another

xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Hello, I've just tried to view the PDF at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the rest. I left it running for a couple of minutes before

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Alan Shutko wrote: I had a PII 350MHz with both CD *and* CDR SCSI... I had a P60 (yes, original Pentium) with a SCSI 4x CDR... Speaking of such boasts, what's the best anyone's managed on a parallel port (non-SCSI) CD-writer? I managed 4x _once_, and I'd be interested in knowing if it's worth

Re: XF86 UK Keyboard setup

2002-11-17 Thread Glyn Kennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change the keyboard setup in the XF86 Config file? Im using Woody... Is there a configuration program that can do it for me or will I have to do it manually? If you're after a UK keyboard, as your subject suggests, then try this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-16 Thread Glyn Kennington
Jamin W. Collins wrote: However, vim will grab all mouse actions, and do something completely different if you shift-click (I think it performs some kind of search) unless you disable the mouse completely with :set mouse= Perhaps you are referring the vim gui? I have no problems using

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-16 Thread Glyn Kennington
Michael Naumann wrote: Has anyone found a way to make it ignore shifted mouse events but still process normal clicks? You can disable it via :map S-LeftMouse Nop Put this in your .vimrc and you're set. That does disable it, and prevent VIM from doing a search when I shift-click, but the

Re: Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-16 Thread Glyn Kennington
Crispin Wellington wrote: How do I go about putting program icons on the Blackbox desktop? What desktop? :) Blackbox is purely a window manager. You'll need to run a desktop. Something like the rox-filer, gmc desktop, nautilus, kde etc. I have a friend who runs rox-filer as a desktop with

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Pigeon wrote: And the `not an octal number' error suggest broken permissions somewhere. It does, doesn't it? That was Microsoft's fault for their LF/CR line break standard. In order to get my Linux box to boot again I had to manually copy in the files from

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Llies Meridja wrote: MessageNo it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! The ctrl+alt+del thing only works when you're on the console - X will not interpret it in the same way.

Re: Automated ad-hoc url extracting

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Drew Scott Daniels wrote: I'm looking for a program or some code to help extract url's from arbitrary file types. I imagine I could write such a program using bison, but I'd like to use an existing program to reduce the amount of research that I would have to do to figure out what is

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Hugh Saunders wrote: P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into mutt/vi when sending mail? could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in vi, middle click to 'paste'] -this works in vim, havent tryed with pure vi It'll work in pure vi,

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Osamu Aoki wrote: It'll work in pure vi, better even than with vim. Better in vi Are you serious. VIM is always better :-) Naturally. Though in this case, I have to say I prefer VIM's vi-emulation mode of ignoring the mouse. Add following to ~/.vimrc ---

Re: Weird and insecure su problem

2002-11-14 Thread Glyn Kennington
Pigeon wrote: If, however, I enter _no_ password, I get: : command not found ' is not an octal number from 000 to 777 : command not found : command not found and a somewhat mangled prompt; then whoami root - so I've su'ed to root without entering a password. WHAT? Wondering about

Re: pipe attachments in mutt

2002-11-11 Thread Glyn Kennington
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: now, i occassionally get pdf files as attachments. i thouht if i 'pipe' the attachment to xpdf, i will be able to see the attachment. so, while i am in attachments screen (by pressing v), i press | and for command, i type xpdf. the xpdf program opens up. but

Re: pipe attachments in mutt

2002-11-11 Thread Glyn Kennington
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: what do i need to do so that the desired application will open with the attachment? xpdf has the correct mailcap entries that it should start automatically if you ask mutt to ``view-attach''. This command is (by default) bound to Return when you're in the

Re: pipe attachments in mutt

2002-11-11 Thread Glyn Kennington
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: Things you can do: If you have any pdf files saved, type `see filename.pdf' and see what happens. works perfectly! opens xpdf and the file Well in that case, the problem almost certainly lies with mutt, because `see' is a program to call the appropriate mailcap

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-10 Thread Glyn Kennington
So what are your thoughts about this? Is there another good use I could put caps lock to? Experiences? If you're a vi user, you may find it useful to swap it with Escape. Glyn -- Can I buy a drink here, or are you just going to throw limes at me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: lynx, ncurses, gpm

2002-11-07 Thread Glyn Kennington
Morten Bo Johansen wrote: the ncurses FAQ makes mention of a problem with certain versions of gpm that has a bug in them that prevents libgpm from linking properly to ncurses. This could be tested by doing a 'nm libgpm.so' and see if wgetch is defined in it and not listed as an external. I'm

Re: lynx, ncurses, gpm

2002-11-05 Thread Glyn Kennington
Morten Bo Johansen wrote: I think you may need to recompile Lynx against the new gpm-enabled version of ncurses as well I've tried that, still no good. and then put this in your lynx.cfg: USE_MOUSE:TRUE And I had that from the start. It's been a while since I came upon this issue and I'd

Re: choice of software

2002-11-05 Thread Glyn Kennington
Levi Waldron wrote: On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote:   +xmms -- a winamp lookalike I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little more readable? It supports

lynx, ncurses, gpm

2002-11-04 Thread Glyn Kennington
Has anyone else managed to get ncurses' gpm support to work with lynx? That is, proper mouse support for lynx navigation, not just gpm copy-and-paste. I know that the default libncurses5 package doesn't come with gpm support, but even after recompiling it --with-gpm, lynx won't behave as I'd