Re: X11 and fvwm2: how to set screen size

1999-02-02 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, BOHICA wrote: Currently the resolution is set to 800x600, but the display still thinks that it is in 640x480 mode. This causes a lot of dynamic scrolling to get to border bars, etc. When I had (*gasp*) Windows 95/98 on the laptop, 800x600 was small, but perfectly legible

Re: X11 and fvwm2: how to set screen size

1999-02-02 Thread BOHICA
Well I tried this, commented out the Virtual setting and indeed it kept me from panning to the extended screen, only problem was that the extended sections did not condense in to the physical limits of the screen. Went back and removed the comment mark and restarted X11, still had no ability to

Re: X11 and libc5 conflict

1999-01-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Major A wrote: I came across the same problem as some of you trying to run libc5 programs on debian. The problem is not solved by simply getting a libc6 version of the program, as for a number of programs such a version simply does not

Re: X11 'fixed' font error

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this

Re: X11 'fixed' font error

1999-01-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-01-01 20:52, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives

Re: X11 and Voodoo Banshee

1998-12-12 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with it in linux. http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/ I got it to work using the VESA framebuffer device (console and X server).

Re: X11 and Voodoo Banshee

1998-12-12 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with it in linux. Go to freshmeat.net and search for banshee. HTH Cheers Dave --

Re: X11 hangs after moving mouse

1998-11-30 Thread Mark Panzer
Ben Jorgensen wrote: After starting X11 the computer hangs (stone-dead) after a few seconds. Sometimes it just hangs right away.. I think it may have something to do with the mouse but I'm not sure. Today I changed some hardware in my computer (motherboard,ram,mouse). I used to have a

Re: X11 hangs after moving mouse

1998-11-30 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:52:56AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: hi ben, After starting X11 the computer hangs (stone-dead) after a few seconds. Sometimes it just hangs right away.. I think it may have something to do with the mouse but I'm not sure. Today I changed some hardware in my

Re: X11 hangs after moving mouse

1998-11-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Peter Berlau wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:52:56AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: hi ben, After starting X11 the computer hangs (stone-dead) after a few seconds. Sometimes it just hangs right away.. I think it may have something to do with the mouse but I'm not sure.

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-29 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Thank you fpr your reply! We've found the PCI-versions of the VGA card ATI Mach64 GT (Rage II) (rev. 154),ATI 3D-Charger 2MB in the most of the other of 12 PCs, which run fine. Just the AGP version doesn't, but we can live with it. Thank you again, Andreas Wehler Subject: Re: X11: HELP

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I also have had problems with an 'ATI 3D Rage II (DirectDraw)' card. It's on baord and I get odd mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q 16 messages, and the screen is garbled. Here's the output when I run X: XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor

Re: X11 installation problems

1998-09-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Cristov: You should be running dselect from the root account. If you are ignore the above sentence. I personally have to run dselect several times when performing a raw install. This is because some of the dependencies must be satistied before other packages can be installed ( I think ).

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded: [X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel] Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method optimisation that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version to compile them; this is why Debian

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2..

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jens == Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this Jens 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with Jens gcc 2.8.1. The gcc 2.8.1 is the culprit. kernel still needs gcc 2.7.2.

Re: X11 installation problems

1998-09-01 Thread Kent West
As Peter suggests below, you can run xf86config (as root) from outside of dselect to create the XF86Config file. Alternatively, you can run XF86Setup for a graphical routine to create the file. I've found that if one of these doesn't produce a useable XF86Config file, sometimes the other routine

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:01:48AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using the new compilers. I am not suggesting that you use the development kernels, however. Why not? :) I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :) My first development kernel :) I didn't want to be responsible

Re: X11 installation problem

1998-08-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! A few days ago I installed Debian 2.0 and today I tried to install X11R6 (3.3.2.3). When I started preinst.sh I get the message: You appear to have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Please help. I'm very new to this

Re: X11 fonts not installed??

1998-07-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Evan Van Dyke wrote: After installing all of the X11 packages(through dselect) on Debian 2.0, I've run into problems. when I try to run XF86Setup, It says that it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pc* So I ran xf86config... then when I ran startx, it can't find

Re: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-03 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hi Fellow users! I've encountered the problem too. It couldn't find a readme file in ../include if I'm not mistaken directory. It appears to be a bug, because when I looked into that directory I found that another dir was created inside the .../include .../include/include !! where the mising

Re: X11 problems on a new install...

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Evan Van Dyke wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually, I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, and

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I got the same error (Not all of the X keyboard extension programs are installed. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README is missing), so I just used /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config and it works fine. Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Tom Robertson
Same results here but would prefer to use XF86Setup because of the graphical interface. I know a couple of other people who have had the same problem. Any sloutions? I'm using Debian 2.0. Tom On Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:10:15 -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote: I got the same error (Not all of the

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread timothy
locate xkb/compiled/README returns it stored in /var/lib This may be a bug in the current X11 package since it seems to be looking in the wrong place. I copied the README file to /usr/X11R6/ and it gave some warnings, but otherwise worked fine. Tim On 02-Jul-98 Tom Robertson wrote: Same

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled and saw that there was a subdirectory called compiled there (is that an error in the package?) and it has the README in it. Simply copy the README from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/compiled/README to

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Tom Robertson
Eric, Thanks. That did the trick. Tom On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled and saw that there was a subdirectory called compiled there (is that an error in the package?) and it has the README in it. Simply copy the

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
Did anyone else get this problem? Perhaps it should be reported as a bug. Eric. On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Tom Robertson wrote: Eric, Thanks. That did the trick. Tom On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled and saw that there

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' When I go to the x11

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' This

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. You are using hamm, right? My guess would be that the programs you install are

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
I saw your message about libc5 and libc6 to another user. I've also had trouble with this. Everytime I try to install libc5, it says it conflicts with libc6, and disables libc6 and all other packeages that depend on it when running dselect. Is there a way around this? I'm still trying to

Re: X11 AGP Card

1998-06-08 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Brian, Thank for the information. Does the AGP card improve the graphics significantly and noticeable? Thanks! Brian Weiss wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if X11 on Linux support the AGP card? I'd like to in particalur which card

Re: X11 AGP Card

1998-06-08 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Thank for the information. Does the AGP card improve the graphics significantly and noticeable? Thanks! AGP is meant to significantly improve 3D performance, not 2D. There may be improvement in 2D performance but I don't think that it would be significant. I've got a Millenium II

Re: X11 AGP Card

1998-06-07 Thread aqy6633
Hi, I'd like to know if X11 on Linux support the AGP card? I'd like to in particalur which card makers are supported and if there is any special configuration/setup I need to do. Thanks! Latest Xfree86 supports at least #9 Revolution 3D and Matrox Millenium II AGP cards, may be a

Re: X11 AGP Card

1998-06-07 Thread Brian Weiss
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if X11 on Linux support the AGP card? I'd like to in particalur which card makers are supported and if there is any special configuration/setup I need to do. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest

RE: X11 S3 installation

1998-05-27 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
-Original Message- From: Doug Thistlethwaite [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: X11 S3 installation ... the docs you will need for x are in /usr/doc/x11... I was not able

Re: X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 21 May, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello help! I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and worse... I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe the window

Re: X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello help! I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and worse... I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe the

Re: X11 S3 installation

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
... the docs you will need for x are in /usr/doc/x11... I was not able to find the exact docs you were talking about, but I did find the program that creates XF86Config and X11 seems to work somewhat... Boy that script asked me some questions I had to dig pretty deep to figure out! ... I like

Re: X11 setup

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
Xlib5 setup in deselect ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping it did that when i installed a second time debian 1.3.1 (and basically

Re: X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

1998-03-31 Thread Eric Nystrom
Bob Brown wrote: I have a Pentium 120 with a Trident TGUI9680 card with 2mb RAM coupled to a HP monitor upon which I installed Debian 1.3.1 from a CD. I installed the SVGA server, because it was supposed to support my card, My problem is that when X loads, text (like in a menu or in an

Re: X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

1998-03-31 Thread Brian
My problem is that when X loads, text (like in a menu or in an xterm) is not entirely visible. It looks like it's missing an occasional verticle line or something. Have you tried 'startx -- -bpp 16' ? I have a tgui that did what it sounds like yours is doing...

Re: X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

1998-03-31 Thread tony mollica
Had the same problem. Your most likely operating in an 8bpp mode. Up the default color depth to 16bpp and this should get rid of the display problem. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

1998-03-31 Thread Jim Foltz
This is a known problem and is listed in the Xfree86 FAQ. Try adding Option noaccel to the XF86Config file. You can add this option using the XF86Setup where you choose your type of chip. On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 03:43:32PM -0800, Eric Nystrom wrote: Hello! I have a Pentium 120 with a

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, RUSSELL COOK wrote: Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. [can't get it to work, help, etc.] I've got one too. Xfree 3.3 from hamm works just fine for me! You'll need the SVGA server of course. I just used XF86Setup and it works fine. I

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Russ Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RUSSELL COOK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220 Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 9:23 PM On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, RUSSELL COOK wrote: Christopher, Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that your card is a Mystique 220 with the MGA-1164SG

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
RUSSELL COOK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my screen goes black,

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-01 Thread Florian Attenberger
RUSSELL COOK wrote: Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my screen goes black, and the

Re: X11 and mouse

1998-01-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Greg Norris wrote: I have bought a Debian Linux before Christmas (a CD-ROM in the Dream magazine) and I would like to have all the X11 features working properly. So here is a brief description of my problem : When startx is not launched, I can define with gpm a

Re: X11 and mouse

1998-01-03 Thread Greg Norris
I have bought a Debian Linux before Christmas (a CD-ROM in the Dream magazine) and I would like to have all the X11 features working properly. So here is a brief description of my problem : When startx is not launched, I can define with gpm a mouse on device /dev/mouse. In this case, a

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: That solution will certainly not work like you say it. First libc6 would have to be installed. Before that, libc5 would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'. And before that, lsdo would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'. Also, locales would have to

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems and I have seen that the

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
you card is supported (partially at least) by Xfree86-3.1.1 release. Debian doesn't have this release in stable. I would suggest you to install debian packages for xserver-svga and -vga16, download only SVGA server from xfree86 site and copy it over existing server installed by debian

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jeff Alami [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems and I have seen that the Matrox

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Alami [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems and I have seen that the Matrox Millenium-II is not compatible with XFree86,

Re: X11 Display permitions

1997-08-14 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
Hi, excuse me if my suggestion underestimates your X11 knowledge, but what is the contents of the environment variable $DISPLAY when you are logged in as root and as a normal user? Could it be, that this variable has no value when logged in as an user, so that your X11-applications fail to

Re: X11 Display permitions

1997-08-05 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: Hi, when I'm not logged in as root, I can start X but many programs I try to run give the following error: cannot open display. I can run the same programs as root, without any problems. Probably I have to change permitions for opening Xdisplay,

Re: x11 fontres setting

1997-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hallo Martin! Hier die versprochene Antwort: (Trans: here the promised answer:) On Aug 02, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! I dont know if this is really debian specific... how do I set the approbiate fonts for an resolution of 1152x900 or how do I set another resolution? I ask here cause

Re: X11 libraries do not load, link problem?

1997-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Britton: Many X11 programs (9wm, xmix) fail to execute complaining that they can't load library (libXaw.so.6, libXext.so.6). I think I heard at one point that one release of Debian (1.2 here) had a problem with a link in one of the X directories. If anyone has any idea about how to fix this

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
CTRL-ALT-F1 should get you to a character terminal even with X installed. There you will be able to sign on. The problem has to do with shadow passwords. Something to do with needing to with needing to use xdm-shadow instead of xdm. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Richard Harran. wrote: I have just

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
This is a known problem, I believe. Check the info under the disks-i386 directory -- I think there is a file in there that mentions this. FYI, you should try this, as root on the console: shadowconfig off shadowconfig on Richard Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed the

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Richard Harran. wrote: I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I have just rebooted my machine,

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-21 Thread Benjamin T. White
You can always type Ctl-Alt-F1 to get to a regular console. I don't know, however, if that will fix your problems. Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I

Re: X11 Permission denied

1997-03-19 Thread Marcia Takagui
I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob and then su, I can't get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server What I do is: (1) in my

Re: X11 Permission denied

1997-03-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:00:27 EST Rob MacWilliams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob and then su, I can't get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

Re: X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2

1997-01-12 Thread Alexander Gieg
... Det er faktiskt ret godt, hvor mange har sine egne metoder at sætte tastaturet paa under X. XFree86 kommer med et danskt symbol layout som default, saa du behøver faktiskt kun at vælge et danskt tastatur naar du kører xf86setup. Men ellers saa fylder du bare ind dk istedet for de i

Re: X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2

1997-01-12 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Please, don't do things like *that*! This list is in English! I *really* want to know what the guys here are speaking about, specially if the subject is X11! If someone here wants to speak in his/her natural language, please do this by private e-mail. I'm not very good in English, but

Re: X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2

1997-01-11 Thread Rainer Bawidamann
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However now, even though it still boots up nicely with a danish keymap, X now provides a US layout. I could of course fix it with xmodmap but that shouldn't really be necessary I hope. I had this problem to. It

Re: X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2

1997-01-11 Thread Orn E. Hansen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However now, even though it still boots up nicely with a danish keymap, X now provides a US layout. I could of course fix it with xmodmap but that shouldn't really be necessary I hope. # To disable the

Re: X11 is too secure, root cannot run xterm

1996-12-27 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, joost witteveen wrote: On my new 1.2 system root is not allowed to run xterm in a user's session under xdm. Is there a way to anable root and other user access to my display session typing xhost + will allow root (and anyone else on the net) to connect to your

Re: X11 is too secure, root cannot run xterm

1996-12-21 Thread joost witteveen
On my new 1.2 system root is not allowed to run xterm in a user's session under xdm. Is there a way to anable root and other user access to my display session typing xhost + will allow root (and anyone else on the net) to connect to your display. xhost +localhost will ensure that only

Re: X11 3.2

1996-12-09 Thread Klee Dienes
I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong? I'm too tired to think anymore tonight.. It's in xserver-vga16. I'm inclined to consider this a

Re: X11 3.2

1996-12-09 Thread David M. Cooke
Tim Sailer wrote: I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong? I'm too tired to think anymore tonight.. Tim I just installed 'frozen-rex'

X11 GUI Support (was Re: X11 bashing)

1996-11-21 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, good discussion everyone, a pleasure to read it. The lacks of weel integrated GUI tools in X is volunteers but who knows a Windows System that run on most Unix System (including Linux, A/UX, FreeBSD, AIX, Sun, WindowsNT) and are distributed (a very

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Larry == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry Martin Konold writes: - In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO. Larry Buzzword bingo. Just because it's written in C++ doesn't Larry mean it's better. - Qt comes with source. Larry My mistake. I was under

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-20 Thread Joseph Skinner
Personally having looked at Qt and KDE I am waiting to see what comes out of the Hyperion project. For those who haven't heard of it, it is a multi platform development system written at the NCSA as is going to be used in the latest version of Xmosaic among other things. It

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-19 Thread Joseph Skinner
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: --==_Exmh_2037100310P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Larry 'Daffy' Daffner: I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. It looks better than Athena widgets. :-)

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-19 Thread Buddha M Buck
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed their licence

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Martin Konold: So [Qt] is really free and can be well used for gpled sw. Well, yes, for some definitions of the word free. Free is one of those words that everyone likes to define for themselves. For Debian, the relevant

Re: X11 bashing and freeness

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will keep the GNU

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Martin Konold writes: - In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO. Buzzword bingo. Just because it's written in C++ doesn't mean it's better. - Qt comes with source. My mistake. I was under the impression that Qt was binary-only. Sorry. But the source distribution is a sham, since you can not

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Larry 'Daffy' Daffner: I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. It looks better than Athena widgets. :-) (I use xaw95 myself. I haven't tried Qt or KDE, nor am I interested in with the current copyrights.) --

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed their licence we would

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface. This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated from the stadart toolkit Motif (which

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Martin Konold writes: -!! There is a solution up and coming !! - - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-16 Thread Jim Pick
I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will keep the GNU

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-15 Thread Martin Konold
Hi there, This message was definetelly not appropriate for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I even do not know if it is for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there still a debian-talk list? I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is still such a completely inconsistent and painful user

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-15 Thread Martin Konold
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Martin Konold wrote: There is a nice screenshot of an already working kde (kool desktop environment) http://fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/kde/demos/kdescreenshot1.jpg.gz This link doesn't seem to exist. What should it be? Sorry! This URL

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface. This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware) Well, you have to understand

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface. This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware) Well, you have to understand

Re: X11 problems

1996-11-03 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote: Recently, I downloaded and installed Debian Rex. This was about 4 days ago. The installation seems to go Ok. Whenever I try to start X using startx it seems to start ok but the mouse pointer for some reason always moves to the lower left hand corner

RE: X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2

1996-09-20 Thread Volker M. Goebbels
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Rik Ling wrote: I have neither an Elsa card or a Phillips monitor, but I remember when trying to get my Daytek 17 to work with my ATI Mach64 under Windows 3.11, I had the exact same problem: worked fine at 640x480 but the higher resolutions just came up with a blank

RE: X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2

1996-09-19 Thread Rik Ling
-- From: Volker M. Goebbels[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 11:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2 Hi! I wonder if someone has experiences configuring a Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X with 2 MB

RE: X11 and LaTeX minimal install

1996-08-22 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
SNAP ON -- From: salwen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 1:23 AM To: billy.chow Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: X11 and LaTeX minimal install A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages, but most people either do not want X or want

Re: X11 and LaTeX minimal install

1996-08-21 Thread salwen
A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages, but most people either do not want X or want at least a minimal installation, right? So what are the justifications of splitting a minimal X and LaTeX the way it is? The developers may have their own reasons for breaking up

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