Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under X). Don't know about other keyboard layouts. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 10 April 2009 08:09:12 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under X). Don't know about other keyboard layouts. Thanks, Sven. A

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:09:12AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under X). Don't Not only under X :) know about other

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:51:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 08:09:12 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:51:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 08:09:12 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on

Special characters at the Linux console (was: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers)

2009-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-10 12:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:09:12AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under X).

Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kcontrol kicker libthunar-vfs-1-2 thunar thunar-volman xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to torture yourself. I understand that there is some kind of transition from Xorg 7.3 to 7.3, but if I

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to torture yourself. Thanks for the heads up. What is the best way to

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-09 22:11 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to torture yourself. Thanks for the heads up. What is the best way to manage upgrades on a Sid desktop? I have stuck to aptitude ever since I

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Bryce
Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kcontrol kicker libthunar-vfs-1-2 thunar thunar-volman xorg

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to torture yourself. Thanks for the heads up. What

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 13:11, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades?  IMO, that is a nice way to

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:01, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 13:11, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following:

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sven Joachim wrote: I have stuck to aptitude ever since I discovered it. The aptitude safe-upgrade command usually works very well, although I recently discovered a problem¹ with the kde4 transition. Note that aptitude has a curses interface like dselect, but a much better one IMO.

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 49de7e23.8030...@verizon.net, Nick Lidakis wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: problem¹ May I ask how you managed that superscript 1? It is character 185 in the iso-8859-1 character set he is using. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net