Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Wohler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be much appreciated. I used twm/awm back in the eighties. I've been using enlightenment for years now though. I tried wmaker and sawfish but they lacked features from enlightenment that I discovered I

Re: Top posting

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
David P James wrote: On Thu 9 June 2005 22:12, Paul Johnson wrote: The only time when top-posting is equal (not superior - equal) to interspersed is under the following strict set of circumstances: Even under those circumstances it isn't because most people don't naturally do

Re: Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Phil
At 03:40 PM 6/12/2005, Craig Russell wrote: Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be much appreciated. I'd say give XFCE4 a try. While I generally use KDE it wasn't practical on my laptop w/only 192Mb of RAM. I tried different WMs and found most to be either too bare bones, ugly

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

2005-06-12 Thread j Mak
--- Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: j Mak: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xfree89 is not installed Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes, 86 not 89). I am very sure it's on the first CD. Thanks Jochen The “aptitude install xserver-xfree86” command

Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch

2005-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
David Jardine([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:08:33PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: apt-cache policy base-files base-files: Installed: 3.1.2 Candidate: 3.1.2 Version Table: 3.1.4 0 300 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main

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Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread David E. Fox
On 12 Jun 2005 15:38:04 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs. They do take up more resources than lightweight window managers, but if your box has the capability of

Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch

2005-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: Etch, of course, has no version number. So there is no way to test a script that has version dependency until it is released into stable. In order to test your script you can make up a number and put it in there. The real version number will be assigned and new base-files

Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch

2005-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Jerome BENOIT writes: what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ? Whatever you want it to say. On this machine it says testing/unstable. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge: firefox: menu item turns blank when cursored over

2005-06-12 Thread john doe
You are right - after switching to another theme (I settled on SphereCrystal, not bad ;) , the problem disappeared. Thanks for the tip Sven! -jd On 6/12/05, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john doe wrote: After installing mozilla-firefox package, go into gnome desktop, launch

Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch

2005-06-12 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:28:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:53:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade of a spare box from Sarge to Etch. The contents of /etc/debian-version was 3.1 before the dist-upgrade and remain the same

sarge: post-install sata drive cause startup failure

2005-06-12 Thread john doe
Here is my installation procedure: 1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine; 2. after a success install, attached a SATA

Fourth Mouse Button

2005-06-12 Thread David R. Litwin
My mouse has a button where my thumb is. This, in Windows, is used to go back in a web-browser. In linux, it does not recognise this button. So: How do I make it recognise the button; and how do I set it to go back in a web-browser? Thank you in Advance.-- Moose Moose Jam Sausage Meow-Mix.My

Re: sarge: post-install sata drive cause startup failure

2005-06-12 Thread john doe
Sorry, I triggered the send button before finishing. Here is the full story: My installation procedure is as follows: 1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine; 2. after a successful installation, attached a SATA drive the machine, did cfdisk/mke2fs, added into /etc/fstab

Apache2/PHP permissions in ISP environment

2005-06-12 Thread Simon
Hi there, we are running debian sarge for a virtual hosting box. PHP safe mode is on for all users with a host of other php_admin_values etc. We are running name based virtual hosting for all hosts except SSL hosts which have their own IP... We are using pureftpd for our FTP server, with the

Ifconfig

2005-06-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0 connection. My ifconfig, when working properly, reads thus: ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:B8:AE:EA inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:feb8:aeea/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX

Re: what is using my swap

2005-06-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap usage? I have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or no swap, but at times it does and I need to determine what the cause is. Processes are

Re: Installing D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC on an Woody 3.0r5 after Install.

2005-06-12 Thread Siju George
On 6/9/05, Colin Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George wrote: The Installation of this module failed so now could someone please tell me how I ca install this NIC?? I assume you mean the sk98lin module that I suggested to use? Exactly what failed? Did you try the one which

Re: Ifconfig

2005-06-12 Thread john doe
I have no insight into this particular problem but the config file /etc/network/interfaces might give you some clue? -jd On 6/13/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0 connection. My ifconfig, when working properly,

can I use packages from dotdeb for Sarge???

2005-06-12 Thread Siju George
Hi all, Please let me know if it is all right to use LAMP packages from dotdeb http://dotdeb.org/ for Sarge?? Since it is a new distribution will it work properly?? Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was

On the use of deborphan (was: Re: woody-sarge failed: out pf disk space)

2005-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On 06/12/05 22:43, Tom Allison wrote: A thousand pardons. It found version 10 that was replaced by version 11. I was looking at version 11 being in use, not 10. You're right, I'm wrong. Sorry for the waste in bandwidth. No problems. BTW, here is the command that I use with deborphan: apt-get

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On 06/12/05 22:42, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: openbox -- it's very small, fast and configurable. Hi, J. I benchmarked the memory usage of openbox (which I installed given your suggestion here some time ago) and I didn't see any difference between it and fluxbox with the Minimal style.

Re: sarge: firefox: menu item turns blank when cursored over

2005-06-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 09:18:13PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's a bug in the Simple theme for GNOME, known already I think. Try changeing to a different one, gtk2-engines-clearlooks is my favourite at the moment :) No, it's a Firefox bug which, like most Firefox appearance bugs, they

Re: Ifconfig

2005-06-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I tried that sort of thing. It didn't work. I've tried quite a few things and none of the worked. I really do need some one to tell me. Sorry.

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