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 ac

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 lit

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-19 Thread Glyn Kennington
Gerald Livingston wrote: > Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" > notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be looking > at? I am usually in X now and always run apps maximized so changing the > root background with xsetroot won't work (had considered

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 wor

Re: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Michael Kahle wrote: > I downloaded the file locally, opened it with xpdf. > On page 12 it did take longer to show up than other pages, however it > only took about 2.6sec to display. The other pages about .3sec. > I used a stopwatch, so results are not exact. > > My system is a Xeon 933, 758MB.

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 ki

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: 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: [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 > 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 click-eve

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 problem

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: [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: 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 i

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 wa

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 > dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1

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? > > Wonde

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 e

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 > > when you're in the att

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.

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 PROTEC

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.

Re: newbie, what flavour for my old hardware?

2002-11-06 Thread Glyn Kennington
Colin Watson wrote: > installation manual for woody (Debian 3.0) says: > > You must have at least 12MB of memory and 110MB of hard disk space. > For a minimal console-based system (all standard packages), 250MB is > required. If you want to install a reasonable amount of software, > includ

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 suppor

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

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 expec