Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:25:39PM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > Thanks for all of the help from everyone - eh, I sounded quite > desperate, but I was really pissed off that day, returning from a 10 > hour shift with only a few precious hours to spend at home and my debian > giving me shit for no

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Klein
Thanks for all of the help from everyone - eh, I sounded quite desperate, but I was really pissed off that day, returning from a 10 hour shift with only a few precious hours to spend at home and my debian giving me shit for no reason. Due to all of the suggestions I've been given here, I've pla

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +1200, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you should just make a clean install of debian on a different > partition of your machine. That will leave you with a working system > with the least messing around with debian internals - and it's what > Windows

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. > > Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a > little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a >

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Adam Aube
Daniel Klein wrote: > First of all, I had the alt-tab bug for some time (see my other mails in > this list). That behaviour has stopped now. Alt-tab stopped working > altogether, I get the taskbox and NOTHING ELSE. I can close it with ESC. This is a reported problem (Bug #254973). You can go to b

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 08:54, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Daniel Klein wrote: > > > >> I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of > >> you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain > >> package is called? If there was a

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve > > this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux > > mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows > > for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +1200, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NB: Can anyone point me to a reference that describes what the flags on > the left of the "dpkg --list" output (eg "ii", "rc") mean? I know "ii" > means "installed".. On the first few lines of its output. ;-) Desired=

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Daniel Klein wrote: I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and I'm sure there is, I just can't f

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Kent West
Daniel Klein wrote: Also, I fail to remember what dpgk-reconfigure I have to run to do anything to my X Server. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and/or dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common It is absolutely foggy to me, why X runs KDE (I've looked around the X config files and found no mention of KDE

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 10:27, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. > > Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a > little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a > problem with

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:27:57 +0200, Daniel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you > have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package > is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and >

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Daniel Klein wrote: I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would

Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi, I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a problem with getting X to like my mouse (IntelliMouse Explorer).. I had to t