Re: Fwd: Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:33:41 -0800, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started over with Sarge this morning a bit more slowly. As I get > things > setup one at a time, I see some missing packages. > > At this time, I am setting up kdevelop. The first thing that happens > is that

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:23:36 -0800 (PST), alireza faryar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There must be something with my X setup! I can not > find xrdb, xstart, xinit, etc. > > /usr/bin/X11 in my PATH, points to ../X11R6/bin, which > does not seem to be there. Any idea? Is x-window-system-core insta

Re: Fwd: Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: I started over with Sarge this morning a bit more slowly. As I get things setup one at a time, I see some missing packages. At this time, I am setting up kdevelop. The first thing that happens is that the terminal displays a myriad of nags aobut missing icon

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread alireza faryar
:41 +0100 > From: Dani Belz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Startinf fvwm > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:57:55 -0800 (PST) > alireza faryar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to run it from the console. Wi

Re: Fwd: Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Dani Belz
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:57:55 -0800 (PST) alireza faryar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to run it from the console. Will > appreciate info on how to get fvwm up and running. > > farid Hi Farid, you first need to start an X server. Put the following line into your

Fwd: Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread alireza faryar
I am trying to run it from the console. Will appreciate info on how to get fvwm up and running. farid --- Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:36:42 +0100 > From: Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Su

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:02:48AM -0800, alireza faryar wrote: > When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. > What am I missing, X !! You can't run fvwm from the Linux console, you have to start X first, and then fvwm. There are several ways to make sure fvwm gets r

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
alireza faryar wrote: I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Be more specific: how do you run fvwm? You have it set as the default window-manager and start gdm or xdm? Or how do you do i

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
alireza faryar wrote: I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Thanks farid Are you running that from xdm or gdm or what ? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread alireza faryar
I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Thanks farid __ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good.

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-05 Thread bing yu
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:12:24AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > I wasn't referring to anything XFS specific. XFS implements standard > unix permissions, so you want to look at the man pages for chmod and > chown. Thank you, Problem solved by simply chmod of the mounting point. > > > -- > To

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-04 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time bing yu said... > > As Cameron Hutchison's reply to the list, I will check the docs of XFS > to see the permissions. I wasn't referring to anything XFS specific. XFS implements standard unix permissions, so you want to look at the man pages for chmod and chown. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-04 Thread bing yu
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:30:33PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > can't you setup your /mnt/media so that you don't need root? > something along the lines (one of the following): sorry I did make my problem stated clearly I want mount /dev/hda6 to /mnt/media(the date on hda6 is mostly some vide

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Steffl
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:02:19 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. > > in my .fvwmrc > > Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb > > so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal > > Afte

fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread bing yu
I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(let alone the

Re: Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm | package: | | ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 Yes. Although I didn't have any old config to migrate. | Upon upgrad

Re: Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040602 13:27]: > Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm > package: > > ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 I just did this: cp /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc WF

Re: Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Andrew Perrin: > Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm > package: I can only say that this was hashed out on the list a few months ago. A search of lists.debian.org should turn it up. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuffic

Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm package: ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 Upon upgrade, it stopped paying attention to the .hook files in /etc/X11/fvwm, and even though there are vague reference to new configuration tools

Re: Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Reid Priedhorsky: > > Reid Priedhorsky writes: > > > > I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. > > I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going > > At the risk of being a do

Re: Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Reid Priedhorsky writes: > > Hello all, > > I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. > I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going At the risk of being a doofus, a little more tinkering and I discover

Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hello all, I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going on for a while, but suddenly it is driving me crazy. :/ Here is the problem: if there is not room for a window to be placed wi

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-16 Thread Kirk Hilliard
more is called for. As an immediate workaround I, like you, copied cp /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc.dpkg-old ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc Then, to get the main-menu-pre.hook read back in, I edited /etc/menu-methods/fvwm, adding a few lines back in: -

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing lists could help me with a > > problem of the packaging of the latest Debian FVWM package. > You know for sure that it is packaging problem and not an upstream > change? Yes

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Stefan Bellon said... [snip] > > I copied the old contents of /etx/X11/fvmw/* to my ~/.fvwm so that > > I maintain the state that I had until two days ago. But somehow > > this is still unsatisfying. > I went into /etc/X11

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Stefan Bellon said... > > Oh, the new version of FVWM has an impressive configuration "wizard". > It's really not bad. But you cannot configure everything. And the > configuration files it produces are split over a dozen files in > ~/.fvwm/. So, if

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] Unless someone knows this, my only solution is to subscribe to the mailinglist and ask :-( Which mailing list? http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] > >>Unless someone knows this, my only solution is to subscribe to the > >>mailinglist and ask :-( > > > > Which mailing list? > http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ I don'

fvwm for sid: a problem

2004-04-08 Thread Alexander Verbovetsky
Hello, Up to yesterday, I used fvwm 2.5.10 from fvwm.ord -- I have produced deb package with the "make deb-dist" command. Yesterday I moved to the current sid package (2.5.10-2). I changed nothing in my ~/.fvwm/ And the following code stopp

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is,

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some > > reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it > > didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm > > 2.5.10

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a fi

fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread Stefan Bellon
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a file ~/.fvwm/post.hook

Re: FVWM: FvwmButtons: swallowed clock applet with xft capabilities?

2004-02-01 Thread Alex Fitterling
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 07:55 schrieb Alexander Fitterling: Excuse me. I was answering too quick. Of course I've seen the screenshot. This is looking nice. I was trying to use it as swallowed applet like this: *FvwmButtons-Panel: (35x1, Swallow "FvwmClock" `FvwmScript $[HO

Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:08:17PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. > > Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a > good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. > Afraid that AFAIK there is none. The big sho

Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC

Re: How to get debmenus with fvwm ?

2003-12-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:08:58AM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Hi! fvwm seems to have improved a lot recently and is at least > colourfull and fast. But in the default debian package install (at > least on my system) I don't see any debmenus. > > Advise and / or pointers

How to get debmenus with fvwm ?

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! fvwm seems to have improved a lot recently and is at least colourfull and fast. But in the default debian package install (at least on my system) I don't see any debmenus. Advise and / or pointers to specific parts of docs welcome. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete i

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > until recently, I have been using > <http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian> for debianing the latest fvwm > packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I > cannot acces

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > until recently, I have been using > <http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian> for debianing the latest fvwm > packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I > cannot acces

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
You can get DEBs created by Mikhael Goikhman (one of the FVWM maintainers) at the fvwm-themes site: http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/ -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds &

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-16 Ãs 11:03, Lukas Ruf escreveu: > For this reason, I would like to ask you whether there is another > location around where I can find the respective packages. Try asking at http://apt-get.org./ -- Leandro Guimaraes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prefeitura do

fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, until recently, I have been using <http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian> for debianing the latest fvwm packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I cannot access this directory anymore. For this reason, I would like to ask you whether there is another lo

Re: removing menu icons in fvwm

2003-12-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031205 13:24]: > How do I lose the icons in the auto generated debian menu in fvwm ? > Its nice to have a few icons, but they are too big, probably to memory > intensive and make it harder in general to find what I want. See /usr/share/doc/menu/

Re: removing menu icons in fvwm

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Micha Feigin wrote: How do I lose the icons in the auto generated debian menu in fvwm ? Its nice to have a few icons, but they are too big, probably to memory intensive and make it harder in general to find what I want. You mean in /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook they all look like so: DestroyMenu

removing menu icons in fvwm

2003-12-05 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I lose the icons in the auto generated debian menu in fvwm ? Its nice to have a few icons, but they are too big, probably to memory intensive and make it harder in general to find what I want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 17:05]: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:02:49 +0100, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > can I simply update to the new packages by inserting the > > deb-statements into my /etc/apt/sources.list ? I'm running > > unstable. > > That's the wa

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:02:49 +0100, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 09:58]: >> >> Hi, >> >> The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, and has >> had a huge number of new fea

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 09:58]: > > Hi, > > The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, > and has had a huge number of new features. The maintainer has been > very reluctant to package this branch, even in a people.deb

Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, and has had a huge number of new features. The maintainer has been very reluctant to package this branch, even in a people.debian.org repository, so I decided to package FVWM 2.5.8 for myself; and I have decided to share

Re: advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:42:20PM -0400, Daniel B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone have any advice for using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 (on woody)? > > The initial problem I'm having is that something in Gnome, apparently > the file manager, is creating a full-screen wind

advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody

2003-09-07 Thread Daniel B.
Does anyone have any advice for using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 (on woody)? The initial problem I'm having is that something in Gnome, apparently the file manager, is creating a full-screen windows named Desktop; when I lower some other window, it disappears because it gets lowered to behin

Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:45:55AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Well, I installed libdb3-dev and now it will install libgnome-dev. > > But, that is the dev package for Gnome 1.4. I know, because APT wants > to install a whole boatload of other 1.4.2 Gnome libraries when I ask > for libgnome-dev. >

Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-15 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:45:55AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Well, I have the libgnome2-devel package installed, but there's no > >> gnome-config in there so the FVWM configuration doesn't recognize

Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Smith
%% David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, I have the libgnome2-devel package installed, but there's no >> gnome-config in there so the FVWM configuration doesn't recognize >> that it's installed. >> So... what next? Any ideas whe

Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:45:07PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Hi all; > > I want to build the latest FVWM development version (2.5.7) for Debian > testing with support for Gnome 2. > > I've got the configure almost working with everything I want properly > configured,

Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-14 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; I want to build the latest FVWM development version (2.5.7) for Debian testing with support for Gnome 2. I've got the configure almost working with everything I want properly configured, except that it can't find gnome-config so it can't enable Gnome support. I've

Re: hot keys under fvwm

2003-06-10 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:28:27AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > > > I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform > > some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my > > question is when

Re: hot keys under fvwm

2003-06-10 Thread Jon Haugsand
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform > some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my > question is when I use emacs, I want to screen out those hot keys, as > there are some conflicts betwee

hot keys under fvwm

2003-06-07 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my question is when I use emacs, I want to screen out those hot keys, as there are some conflicts between them and emacs's definition, how can I ma

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:14, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tell me what i

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:14:05AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tel

quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a screen shot of fvwm and it had something running in the lower left corner of the screen. I have never seen it before and I was hoping someone might be able to tell me what it is called. It looks like a neet pager/utility bar.. the link to the

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi (scroll down), On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > > > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > > .bak file with the

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > .bak file with the config before the change - to see what it did. > I compared the settings. They have b

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Mar 2003 4:29 pm, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. > > Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and > xclock changed. Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread David Z Maze
Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. > > Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and > xclock changed. FWIW, I've noticed something similar: my laptop, having been relatively off the network for a week, spontaneously changed i

Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and xclock changed. Is there any easy way to select/specify the fonts to be used there? I make use of latest XFree86 with fvwm as available on sid. Thanks for any h

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 16:51, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I > have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after > starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on >

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
, they don't. They are currently written only for blackbox. They will be ported to netwm/ewmh soon. However, last I checked fvwm did not support ewmh yet and instead still used its own protocol. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 29 October 2002, 04:51 PM +0100): > I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I > have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after > starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time,

Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on the first virtual desktop. My question: Is there a way to specify for startup

fvwm: Lowering a window does not show the icons behind it.

2002-10-13 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: fvwm Version: 2.4.10-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/doc/fvwm With previous versions of fvwm, when I lowered a window I could see the icons that I had behind it. However with the latest versions the icons are not revealed most of the time. The exception is that the `first' at

Re: fvwm leaving defunct processes?

2002-10-02 Thread Paul Smith
%% Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> Maybe you should review the manual at http://www.fvwm.org, because r> there's a *lot* of config file changes compared to earlier versions. Heh. I'm a FVWM developer (anyway I have cvs access although I've not had time

fvwm leaving defunct processes?

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Smith
Has anyone else noticed fvwm leaving defunct processes? Ever single application I start from fvwm, either modules or with Exec, is left as after it exits. It doesn't seem to matter whether I use "Exec foo" or "Exec exec foo". The parent of the defunct processes is, c

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and >> the autogenerated menus will appear? > > Of course you can: > > , > | Read /et

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and > the autogenerated menus will appear? Of course you can: , | Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook Quiet | | Mouse 1 R A Menu /Debian ` This will bind the De

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use three of the hook files: Thanks for these! >> Can anyone point me to a full sample configuration ? Or maybe share >> their own ? > > I'd be happy you to send you my config files if you still want them. If you could that might be very h

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Glyn Millington said... > > I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely > grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration > is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not > c

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> but instead to add user customizations via hooks in the ~/.fvwm >> directory. Then the packaging system can update menus and the system >> .fvwm2rc if it so wishes without codging up your customisations. > > Witch i

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
mending, Not true: ,----[ /usr/share/doc/fvwm/README.sysrc.gz ] | If a user is not completely happy with the environment set up by | system.fvwm2rc, they could make any modifications they wish by copying | system.fvwm2rc to ~/.fvwm2rc, and then changing the file. ` This should read ~/.fvwm/.fvwm

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
bz2 (It is my > complete X setup, of which fvwm is a part). I essentially create my > own .fvwmrc file, and load system bits as I see fit. Many thanks - will study with care!! Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/ For the chil

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Glyn" == Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glyn> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely Glyn> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration Glyn> is done in "hook" files called from

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely >> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration >> is done in

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely > grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration > is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not >

Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings. I'm running Woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. Window managers - I've toyed with Windowmaker, stayed with Blackbox a long time, but have come back to Fvwm - currently have the latest unstable installed in /usr/local and it is wonderful!! I want to do this in the Debain

Re: [: fvwm font problem]

2002-05-13 Thread Martin A. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d# locale LANG=da_DK LC_CTYPE="da_DK" LC_NUMERIC="da_DK" LC_TIME="da_DK" LC_COLLATE="da_DK" LC_MONETARY="da_DK" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="da_DK" LC_NAME="da_DK" LC_ADDRESS="da_DK" LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK" LC_MEASUREMENT="da_DK" LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK" LC_ALL= On Mon,

fvwm font problem

2002-05-13 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi after an upgrade my fvwm dont work anymore. x works. i get this error when trying to start fvwm: [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: ERROR -- can't get fontset '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xlsfonts | grep 'fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-10 Thread Simon Hepburn
xucaen wrote: > > I would purge all of your X3.3.6 packages and install > > x-window-system-core to ensure you have the essential X4 packages. > > quick question; is there a simple way to purge my X 3.3.6 packages or will > I have to remove them all one by one? and does X4 still use the same file

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. > >> XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing > >> happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. > > >

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup >> no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no >> errors no screen flashing, nothing. >You seem to have started more than one thread on this,

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup > no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no > errors no screen flashing, nothing. You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I&

questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-08 Thread xucaen
Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. My fonts are different. I think some font packages didn't get installed. What are the names of the default

sort-of-rfc: fvwm and auto-raise (on mouse focus)

2001-12-23 Thread Erik Steffl
the standard debian menu for fvwm contains item for FvwmAuto that does auto-raise of window that receives focus. Unfortunately the current menu entry is IMO basically unusable, I was wondering what others think (to see whether I should file a wishlist bug or just ignore it). here'

Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?

2001-10-15 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:17:43AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone point me in the right > direction to finding out how to use a .gif or .jpeg file as a desktop > background in fvwm? For added benefit, and those that like variety, my friend

Re: Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:51:00PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Other suggestions were display, wmsetbg, esetroot, and chbg. These > might work, as well, but, since I already have xv I will stick with it. Bear in mind that xv is being removed in the next release of Debian, as it turned out that w

Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jussi, Thank you. Your method, using xv, works just fine. I had looked into xsetroot, but it seems to only work on bitmaps. When I tried xloadimage, it wanted to convert my .jpeg files to B/W. Since I already have xv I tried your method and it does just what I need it to do (now that I found t

Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?

2001-10-13 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone point me in the right > direction to finding out how to use a .gif or .jpeg file as a desktop > background in fvwm? Hello Marc. I use xv to set it up. I made the following "script";

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