olvwm misses windows key 'til restart

2009-04-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, I have PC104 keyboard with windows keys, configured to behave as meta keys. Since upgrade to lenny, olvwm doesn't understand the windows key properly - I can't switch viewports using windows- or windows-F*. When olvwm receives focus (which usually means meta key is not needed

Re: olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
ar98. : > : Machine has an S3 Trio 64/V+ ... I'm using the SVGA xserver, olvwm WM, : > : and xdm. : : Can you try some variations: twm instead of olvwm, VGA16 server, just : startx? I did a complete reinstall and avoided X altogether. So far, so good. I noticed someone mentioned that the

Re: olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-10 Thread Carey Evans
27;m using the SVGA xserver, olvwm WM, > : and xdm. Can you try some variations: twm instead of olvwm, VGA16 server, just startx? > : However, after that things are screwed pretty good. No mouse pointer, > : no keyboard ... ctrl-bkspc doesn't work, ctrl-alt-f[1-6] doesn't work &

Re: olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : Hello, : : On a brand new install, Debian 2.0, using install disks from 29 Mar98. : Machine has an S3 Trio 64/V+ ... I'm using the SVGA xserver, olvwm WM, : and xdm. : : If any user tries to login via xdm, you get as far as the desktop, with

olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hello, On a brand new install, Debian 2.0, using install disks from 29 Mar98. Machine has an S3 Trio 64/V+ ... I'm using the SVGA xserver, olvwm WM, and xdm. If any user tries to login via xdm, you get as far as the desktop, with two windows open (an xterm, and the virtual desktop w

olvwm

1998-03-08 Thread A. Savio
When I use the command dpkg --purge olvwm I get the message: dpkg: error processing olvwm (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Make olvwm the default window manager [Y] Any suggestion? Thanks, Al Savio. robert havoc pennington wrote: > On Sat

olvwm

1998-03-07 Thread A. Savio
I am a newbie and I having problems installing the olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is installed but the shell do not find it. Twm runs OK. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Al. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread A. Savio
Ben Pfaff wrote: >I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from >the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had > no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc >said that it is not. Can anybo

Re: olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc said that it is not. Can anybody give me a clue? You probably want to

olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread A. Savio
I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc said that it is not. Can anybody give me a clue? Thanks, Al. -- E

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-18 Thread tibor simko
example after some `startx >& /tmp/z'? you may be able to determine the error from its output. 2) if not, you can try 'strace startx' to find out more. usually, olvwm works quite well, so just keep trying, it's just the question of time. good luck :-) cheers -- [EMA

Re: olvwm

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: > Hi > > I am (still) trying to get olvwm to work under debian. When I run > /usr/bin/X11/olvwm, I receive the message > > Cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) > > > I have a .DISPLAY file in my home directory with > >

olvwm

1997-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
Hi I am (still) trying to get olvwm to work under debian. When I run /usr/bin/X11/olvwm, I receive the message Cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) I have a .DISPLAY file in my home directory with :0.0 in it. When I type "env" I cannot find a DISPLAY variable. How do I set th

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-12 Thread Bill Moran
HI Tibor > does the error persist when you run: `startx /usr/bin/X11/olvwm' with > _empty_ .xinitrc file? if not, how olwm behaves? > I get the same error. An X-session seems to start and then closes down immediately. Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-11 Thread tibor simko
>>>>> "bill" == Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bill> /home/bill/.xinitrc: line 35 161 segementation fault (core bill> dumped) olvwm does the error persist when you run: `startx /usr/bin/X11/olvwm' with _empty_ .xinitrc file? if not,

olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-11 Thread Bill Moran
HI I am trying to run olvwm. WHen I do I receive the following error message: /home/bill/.xinitrc: line 35 161 segementation fault (core dumped) olvwm Line 35 of my .xinitrc file contains: olvwm Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Update: olvwm and openwin-menu

1997-08-15 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Hi Tibor, Hi Everyone - Tibor Simko wrote: > > hi > > i like olvwm too. after the installation, the system-wide > menu worked for me right out of the box, after the right > mouse button click... so you must have done something > bizzare during the installation ?! >

please help: olvwm and openwin-menu

1997-08-15 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Hi Everyone, I just downloaded and installed olvwm. The good news is that it seems I have finally found a window manager that I like :-) The bad news is that I can't get it to read the menu definition file :-( The system-wide file exists as /etc/X11/olvwm/openwin-menu and my customization

Re: How emulate a SUN keyboard in olvwm?

1997-01-16 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Dany Dionne wrote: > > we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys > (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN > keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known > what i must write in it. >

How emulate a SUN keyboard in olvwm?

1997-01-16 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known what i must write in it. Thanks a lot, Dany Dionne Physics Depar

Olvwm and Matrox (was: No Subject)

1997-01-14 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
The olvwm package in unstable seems to need libc5 (>=5.4.17). There should be libc5 version 5.4.17 in the base section of unstable. If not, then you probably should check some other mirror site. I'm using the SVGA X server with 4 MB Matrox Millennium board all the time. It works qu