Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:04:34AM +, Dave Selby wrote: When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command

Re: Drawing graphs for use in Latex

2002-11-20 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:16:01PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote: I'm looking for a tool where I can draw mathematical graphs like y=3x^4+5x^3+9x^2+2 and save them so that I can use it in Latex. Which pack?ges provide those functionality? gnuplot --timball -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

nfs mounting and sharing of /usr/share

2001-10-11 Thread Timothy Ball
I would like to tone down repeative disk usage and would like to share /usr/share via nfs... can anyone think of reasons this would be a bad idea? --timball -- GPG key available on pgpkeys.mit.edu pub 1024R/CFF85605 1999-06-10 Timothy L. Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 8A

exim config for site

2001-10-03 Thread Timothy Ball
I now have several computers on a network and I would like for all of them to act smartly together on a network. I have a parisc box acting as the main email server to send and recieve email, it works properly rewriting the hostname and everything. The part that doesn't work is setting up all the

Re: [error] install mozilla-browser

2001-10-02 Thread Timothy Ball
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:44:17PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: Jack wrote: Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.4-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line 29: 1724 Segmentation fault regxpcom /dev/null 2/dev/null dpkg: error processing mozilla-browser (--configure):

X w/ framebuffer

2001-08-14 Thread Timothy Ball
I have linux working on an HP-712 but I can't get X configureed to use the framebuffer... anyone have a config that does this? (I have the relivent modelines for my monitor). --timball ps) I've done this a long time ago on my x86 box but it's been a while.. -- GPG key available on

PGP keys [OT]

2001-07-05 Thread Timothy Ball
I would like to generate a new keypair and revoke the old key I had, (I no longer have an account w/ that system and the subkey that's on it also to an account I no longer have access too) but I would still like to beable to decrypt old email w/ my old key... Anyone know the steps I need to do

HP-735 [slightly offtopic]

2001-06-21 Thread Timothy Ball
I have a cool HP-735 but no keyboard or HP-HIL-ps2 connector. I thought I could use a serial console to connect to this beast but when I fire up minicom no matter what speed or settings I get nothing. Does anyone know what I have to do to make this thing do stuff? --timball -- Send mail

Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Timothy Ball
I've been trying to understand the update-menu system. Perhaps the parsing bit of my brain is set to off... What I would like is a way to include a Custom user menu inside the generated blackbox menu. I find if I edit the menu in /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu w/ something like this:

Re: where to find ttmkfdir?

2001-04-24 Thread Timothy Ball
This is a side issue to this thread, but I have the nvidia drivers and qt w/ Anti-aliased font support on in my sid box and kde doesn't seem to acknowledge the presence of my ttf fonts. Does anyone know how to fix this? I made my fonts.dir w/ mkttfdir if it makes any difference. --timball --

correct fonts in console

2001-03-26 Thread Timothy Ball
It's not a big deal but I used to have correct ansi escaped fonts on my console so when I ran epic4 my scripts wouldn't look stupid. Since I've installed debian a couple months ago the fonts have never looked right on the console. I've searched around to try to find a way to fix this and nothing

antialiased fonts in kde

2001-03-16 Thread Timothy Ball
I'm using sid, so xf4.0.2, and qt2.3 are installed. I have a geforce GTS and have installed the NVidia driver and the glx module. How do I enable antialiased font support? Reading the changelog.gz file in /usr/doc/libqt2/ it seems to say that I have to set an envar QT_XFT='true' but the debian

Is there a way to unify gnome/kde menus.

2001-02-25 Thread Timothy Ball
I have both kde and gnome on my machine and I find that they work great... except for the menus. Moving apps like gimp and kword around on the different menus is kinda *annoying* then there's the debian menu. Argh. Has anyone tried to unify these ever? Could there be made a .deb that does this by