On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:41:29PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I mentioned previously that I had recently switched back to starting
> X from level 3, instead of going via level 5 (i.e. now avoiding
> using graphical login and xdm/gdm or whatever).
>
> I *t
By the way wmctrl has a -c option to 'delete windows' as if you
pressed the 'x' button.
I did not find this feature in xdotool, or xwit
though xdotool does have a kill or 'destory window' function, xwit had
neither.
I am CC'ing this to the xdotool mailing list as it has active developeme
First the DSA key no longer working...
Yes I had that problem too. Basically DSA (ssh-dss) is now considered too
weak.
You can enable it on the new machine. or you can just create new keys
(such as ecdsa), and distribute a updated "authorised_keys" file. That is
what I did, I later plan to r
Olaf wrote:
> I have found a few times that if you close the Firefox window, it
> forgets all the tabs in it (optionally it warns you for that with a
> pop-up). But if I Quit firefox (via the menu or Control-Q) it remembers
> them.
>
> I am guessing from this that exiting X will do the equivalent
On Mon 12 Sep 2016 at 10:21:52 +0100, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> It turns out that if I manually kill firefox then later restart it, it does
> restore its state. So I've now altered my .xinitrc so that just before it
> exits it kills firefox ('killall firefox'). Presumably simply exiting X
> does someth
I have discovered how to launch gnome-control-center so that it has the
right appearance. The solution was simple: merely use 'sudo'. So that's now
in my ctwm menu.
Aaron
Thanks for your suggestion
Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> I normally avoid the whole problem and just use the
> package xorg-x11-xinit-session to let me launch a ".xsession" script.
> That sets up my environment and then called ".xinitrc".
I've installed the package and will now find out how to use i
I normally avoid the whole problem and just use the
package xorg-x11-xinit-session to let me launch a ".xsession" script.
That sets up my environment and then called ".xinitrc".
Though my ".xinitrc" script does get more complicated. It sets up my
display, sets up a logout control button (which can
