Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-12 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Andrew Perrin heard to yodel: I run fvwm2 on two slower machines: a P200 with 96MB of RAM and a P90 with 16M. Works great on both! I've been happy with Windowmaker on a Pentium 120 notebook with 32M RAM. -- I'm not advocating that anyone take up emacs. Not even me: at my age,

Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Joerg Johannes heard to yodel: Well, I know how to use tar in general. Zipping the .debs is not necessary because they are already zipped. What I meant is: The .tar file takes the same amount of space as the .debs themselves. So after having tarred them , I need twice the space as

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-28 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: Just to clarify only ebrowsing.desktop, crypto.desktop and nsplugin.desktop are loaded. The rest fail with 'The diagnostics is:' where there is unfortunately no diagnostic information. Hmmm, I'd start looking closely at the system:

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-27 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: On Sat, 26 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: Hi, I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some modules for konqueror configuration. Particularly those under the directories: /usr/share/applnk/Settings

Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-26 Thread Matthew Gibbins
Hi, I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some modules for konqueror configuration. Particularly those under the directories: /usr/share/applnk/Settings/WebBrowsing /usr/share/applnk/Settings/FileBrowsing -- I'm not advocating that anyone take up emacs.

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-26 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: On Sat, 26 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: Hi, I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some modules for konqueror configuration. Particularly those under the directories: /usr/share/applnk/Settings

Upgrade problems...

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Gibbins
Hi folks. In spite of best intentions I experienced corruption of a Reiserfs partition. This was particularly noticable while running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on a woody system. To put it briefly apt couldn't remove certain files during install and halted at the point. I rebuilt the