Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it seems not to be directly based on xdm, so it would be much work. There is something that I always asked myself about the differnet display managers. Why do they not handle the login window as an external application ? I would love to be able to configure the display manager so that it calls an external application that would return a user name on its standard output. That way the external app could easily be customized to do whatever I want - the default choice would be to just display a window to ask for a login and password, and then check the validity of the password, but any other scheme could be doable, like displaying icons for each user, or an autologin, or anything else. Ideally the interface with this login app could even be a bit more extended, so that the login app could also return the name of a remote display to log on, and it could also return a set of environment variables to pass to the Xstartup script, so this interface would allow the login app to also work as a chooser for remote X11 sessions, or to choose between different window managers or sessions as wdm does, or whatever. basically this means all the functionality of wdm/gdm/whatever could be implemented in the login app and the startup scripts. I'm sure there is a good reason why things were not implemented this way, but I just cant see it :) -- Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Development Engineer at Wind River Systems Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them.
Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)
On 5 Apr 2000, Kirk Hilliard wrote: infocmp must not be telling the whole story. The END key does not work in emacs20 -nw in an xterm with TERM=xterm, but it does work with TERM=xterms and infocmp xterm xterms returns no differences at all. I'm not even sure that [x]emacs looks at the info files for keyboard mapping... It uses terminal-specific lisp init files in /usr/lib/*emacs*/lisp/term/* though. probably the difference comes from there (I can not check because I do not have a xterms description in my xemacs21 installation) -- Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Development Engineer at Wind River Systems We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: I couldn't make my Emacs work yet. Anyway, the problem is with Emacs (in Xterm) and not with XEmacs. I don't know but do you have any other idea? (I already contacted the Emacs maintainer but I didn't get any answer so far). I hacked this yesterday in the evening so I can as well post my config here. I also contacted the xemacs maintainer about this but no answer either. I fixed the home/end problem by adding this in my .emacs file : ;; better xterm support (defun xterm-setup-hook () (define-key function-key-map \e[1~ [home]) (define-key function-key-map \e[4~ [end])) (setq term-setup-hook 'xterm-setup-hook) We have to do this because the terminal definition in /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.8/lisp/term/xterm.elc is apparently wrong - it defines [find] instead of [home] and [select] instead of [end]. To get the delete key to work as it should, I also have to add : ;; delete key (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) I still have another problem with xemacs running in a text VT. when I exit, I get a blinking block cursor instead of the usual blinking underline. I dont know why xemacs changes my cursor size and how to avoid it - if you happen to know this, please tell me :) This is on a current potato system. -- Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Development Engineer at Wind River Systems We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: It worked! I looked at /usr/share/emacs/20.5/lisp/term/xterm.elcand noticed that \e[4~ goes to [select] key. Is it a normal behaviour to beep when it gets this key? Branden, is that a problem with some configuration of mine in X or is it only a matter of Emacs? I know I solved this problem but I'd like to understand what's going on and why it was working before some packages updates!! ;-) I dont know what your previous config was, but (supposing you did not upgrade your emacs package) one possible explanation would be that your xterm still generated the ^[[H and ^[[F sequences for home and end. This is now considered bogus by the debian as well as upstream X maintainers so this has changed, but I know debian used the old mappings at some point. I dont know when the switch occured exactly. As for the beep problem, I was getting exactly the same thing with xemacs21. I *think* it is because the xterm.elc uses the [select] key, while other parts of [x]emacs dont know about select. I would not bet too much on my explanation though :) -- Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Development Engineer at Wind River Systems We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Re: Stupid unix
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote:
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple
way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would
like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be
lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would
simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't
4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it.
I use the following macro command in zsh (it might be portable to other
shells, or maybe not) :
lower() { for i in $*; mv -f $i ${i:l} 2/dev/null }
usage is : lower filenames
ex. lower *
or lower *.C
etc...
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Re: sdram and linux
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: anyway memtest86 boots on its own anyway... quick Q: does memtest86 work on SDRAM ? I know it doesn't work on ECC or Parity ram? I will dfind out tonight...I am trowing 64 MB od SDRAM in my machine (nice upgrade from 32 MB of old SIMMs) Well, I've had a few problems when I installed some new sdram on my computer, too. memtest86 didnt saw them, but i had a few wierd problems, programs segfaulting and all. Apparently part of the reason was that some memory access patterns can't be reproduced with just the CPU : you may also have some other chips accessing memory, and the problems may happen only when the different accesses happen in some particular order. Thus, your memory will only fail if you have, say, a disk access and a network access at the same time as a compile. The way I tested my bad sdram was to use this script : tar czf linux.tar.gz linux mv linux linux.orig for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do for k in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do echo $i$j$k tar xzf linux.tar.gz diff -U 2 -rN linux.orig linux rm -fr linux done done done mv linux.orig linux I had one of them running on each of my disks (1 IDE with triton busmatering, 1 SCSI). Then I compiled kernels in the background. I had both some sig11 problems, and some differences output by the diff in the script (btw, there was a strange pattern in these differences). problem went away when I exchanged my sdram at the store. They said it wasnt the reason, and that their sdram was okay, but I know this wasnt true. I guess they must have sold my faulty sdram to some win95 user who wont see the difference anyway - he'll just get a few more crashes than average... Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Student at Ecole Centrale Paris (France) www email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o)www : http://www.via.ecp.fr/~walken/ --oOO--(_)--OOo-- C0 9B E8 D8 44 43 D3 63 5A B4 BA 55 57 5B 19 6D Just say know finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for complete PGP key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Curt Howland wrote: I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package available internationally, but not on the US site. Anyone know if a U.S. PGP package for Debian will be created? You can find both the us and the international versions of the PGP package on nonus.debian.org This is a pgp 2.6.3 package, and I'm not sure if pgp5 will ever be packaged, because of some serious thrust problems. (pgp got bought by some company which is pushing very hard towards key escrow schemes, I heard) Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Student at Ecole Centrale Paris (France) www email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o)www : http://www.via.ecp.fr/~walken/ --oOO--(_)--OOo-- C0 9B E8 D8 44 43 D3 63 5A B4 BA 55 57 5B 19 6D Just say know finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for complete PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
screen blanker
in my previous setup I used to have setterm -blank 15 -powersave on launched in my init scripts. in the debian 1.1beta distribution, setterm does not seems to support such options. (the -msg option dissapeard, also). Is this because the setterm included in debian is not up-to-date (in which case I think it would be worth upgrading it before the release of debian 1.1), or is it because there is now another way to enable console power saving ? Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Student at Ecole Centrale Paris (France) www PC demo coder official LiGNUx support (o o) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --oOO--(_)--OOo--
