Re: font size changed recently...why?

Jay Berkenbilt wrote: If I just knew how gdm picks what fonts it uses, I'd be well on my way to figuring this out. In the olden days, I used to edit my xfs configuration to select 100 dpi fonts over 75 dpi fonts, but my font path (as shown with xset -q) does actually already have the 100 dpi

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

I can sympathize with the OP, it's nice to get to the part of the man page you want, then just dump out of less and have the relevant bit still on the screen. A way to do this without opening a second xterm is to run screen in your terminal session. Then it is even easier to flip back

Re: after dist-upgrade gnome menu disappeared

Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: I did a updade/dist-upgrade in my debian testing yesterday and, after restart my sustem, the menu bar dont start anymore! If when you click on the menu it immediately closes, then run update-menu as root. I had to do this yesterday after an update in testing.

Re: x11-common upgarde error

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade...Done The following packages will be upgraded:

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

Anthony Campbell wrote: On 26 Jul 2005, Haines Brown wrote: Editing /etc/hosts ? I bit the bullet, changed /etc/hostname, and rebooted; nothing else. As far as I can make out after a month, this procedure worked beautifully. I can think of ways it could lead to a problem or two, but I don't

Re: how to tell the refresh rate of current display?

phyrster wrote: Hi Debianers, I have already configured in xorg.conf a default entry of modeline line. My question is: Which tool can tell me the refresh rate of current display? In other words, how do I know this modeline is working? System configuration: xorg, fluxbox, sarge

Re: Server crashing (revisited)

Curtis Vaughan wrote: Hopefully those people who replied to this issue earlier can respond. If you recall I had a problem with a server crashing (read below). I started doing a memtest on the server itself while operating. It has been running now 3 days. The server has not once crashed

Re: Kernel and compiler version?

Ishwar Rattan wrote: I just installed kernel-image-2.6.11-1 from ftp.debian.org. Is there way to find out what version of gcc it was compiled with? 'uname -a' does not tell the gcc info. -ishwar cat /proc/version -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of