Am 2007-05-31 03:06:13, schrieb Deboo ^:
On 5/25/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please see my project :
http://freenet-homepage.de/linux4michelle/tdapp-defaults/
You have a wonderful project. Only if it was available in English ...
Thanks or your comment.
Yeah, first
Am 2007-05-28 08:03:34, schrieb Deboo ^:
How do you set it up right? And what is the advantage of
.~/Xresources/ over ~/.Xresources file other than having separate host
files?
In the directory ~/.Xresources/ you have the same files like in
/etc/X11/app-defaults while in the file ~/.Xresources
Hello,
sorry for my late answer but I was 10 days in hospital...
Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^:
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of
the directory. ~/.Xresources/.
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or
On 5/25/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please see my project :
http://freenet-homepage.de/linux4michelle/tdapp-defaults/
You have a wonderful project. Only if it was available in English ...
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to a reasonable geometry size.
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus
I read thru the FAQ and did tried many things to make xterm fonts
atleast as large as the terminus font on the console but whichever
font I try it's not really good for the eyes and also not similar
.Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option
to a reasonable geometry size.
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus
I read thru the FAQ and did try many things to make xterm fonts
at least as large as the terminus font on the console but whichever
font I try it's
On 5/26/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^:
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of
the directory. ~/.Xresources/.
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources
On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:37 +0200 JWS wrote:
Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html
(this uses ~/.Xresources).
Using a unicode font in xterm this way appears to be working well,
provided that you log in through a login
Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^:
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of
the directory. ~/.Xresources/.
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load
.~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load
On 5/19/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my
.Xresources which over-ride the system defn's:
XTerm*geometry:90x43
[snip]
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu
Am 2007-05-22 20:39:54, schrieb Mumia W..:
??? Ignore anyone who says that an ~/.Xresources/ directory has any
??? significance.
This is bullshit, since ~/.Xresurces/ IS READ always.
[ '/tmp/xfontsel.strace' ]--
18707 14:25:31.582714 []
Am 2007-05-23 09:19:35, schrieb Deboo ^:
??? On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
???
??? apt-cache show dfm
???
??? Great. Thanks for the info. Works OOB!
Perfect :-)
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and
then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the
screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option
to a reasonable geometry size.
On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu,
there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate
the other three everytime. How do I do this auto?
Regards,
Deboo
That's definitely strange. Something has been
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/23/07, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button
(right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus.
Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if
it's possible. I have
On 5/23/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu,
there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate
the other three everytime. How do I do this auto?
Regards,
Deboo
Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html
(this uses ~/.Xresources).
Regards, Jan
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:55:47PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
What's better than fluxbox? I'd like to trash fluxbox and get
something that works OOB and is easily configurable and doesn't give
much headaches and atleast works if reinstalled, in case of
problems.
I just went through this
On 05/22/2007 06:44 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I
I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're
missing.
did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not even
On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation.
Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I
ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already
purging fluxbox but reinstall did not seem to give
On 5/23/07, JWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html
(this uses ~/.Xresources).
Regards, Jan
Although nice for simple config but couldn't help me get back the
xterm menus. It's again, interesting
On 05/23/2007 06:11 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation.
Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I
ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already
purging
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
One more question is: how to get a font that is larger than 12x24? I
remember having seen a nice SUN console font that was quite big. I
want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger
fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that
On 5/24/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I did was install xfonts-terminus via apt, and then opened the
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias file and added this to it:
For some strange reason, after installing xfonts-terminus and using
xfontsel, the maximum I am getting is 20. I get
On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S.: Can someone paste somewhere the default fluxbox config and
provide a link in a reply post here?
You might have to manually delete /etc/X11/fluxbox . Oh well, here is
the default config:
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several
times and afte ra power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now
still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to use another term.
I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs and is a
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several times and afte ra
power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now still xterm is without a menu. And I
am forced to use another term. I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs and
On 05/23/2007 10:37 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S.: Can someone paste somewhere the default fluxbox config and
provide a link in a reply post here?
You might have to manually delete /etc/X11/fluxbox . Oh well, here is
the default config:
Am 2007-05-18 22:06:13, schrieb Deboo ^:
Well I still do not understand. I was wonderign if he meant fribidi or
some such package ... to install fluxbox desktop icons easily ...
apt-cache show dfm
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan
Am 2007-05-18 01:06:41, schrieb s. keeling:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
This is not right since the two have different meanings. The file
~/.Xdefaults doea not exist but the FILES:
~/.Xdefaults-host_alias
which set
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:53:09AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:51:39AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
Also how to use the dektop icons that
DSL is able to use with fluxbox?
I already installed fbdesk but it
seems of no use at all or is it
buggy?
ibid.
On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I
I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're
missing.
did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not even after purging and
reinstalling
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of
the directory. ~/.Xresources/.
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load
.~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~/.Xresources but how do you load the
~/.Xresources/
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I
I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're
missing.
did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu.
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:14:51AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
I'm able to select bigger fonts using xfontsel but when putting them
in .Xresources or .Xdefaults, and doing and xrdb -load, and then
starting xterm or mrxvt with that font, xterm or mrxvt give an error
about not finding that font and
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:44:51PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I
I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're
missing.
did I couldn't get back the
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:49:31PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of
the directory. ~/.Xresources/.
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load
.~/.Xdefaults or xrdb
On 05/22/2007 06:49 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load
.~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~/.Xresources but how do you load the
~/.Xresources/ directory? I made the directory but nothing changed
since it did not load.
Regards,
Deboo
Ignore anyone who says
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt-cache show dfm
Great. Thanks for the info. Works OOB!
Regards,
Deboo
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On 5/23/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I had real work to do, I just installed xfce4-terminal since I can
configure everything from menus. While to install it brings in more
libs than rxvt, when running it only uses a bit more and it has tabs
that don't add to the
On 5/23/07, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button
(right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus.
Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if
it's possible. I have always used the Ctrl-left/middle/right
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 5/19/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my
.Xresources which over-ride the system defn's:
XTerm*geometry:90x43
[snip]
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu
On 5/18/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mkdir ~/.Xresource
ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system
echo #include \XTerm-system\ ~/.Xresources/XTerm
echo .Xterm*font: X ~/.Xresources/XTerm
where X is something like:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:19:54PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
This happened years ago, and I believe you can blame upstream for it,
not FOSS. Nowadays, ~/.Xdefaults is often a symbolic link that points
to ~/.Xresources.
Ah .. well ..
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:51:39AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
Also how to use the dektop icons that
DSL is able to use with fluxbox?
I already installed fbdesk but it
seems of no use at all or is it
buggy?
ibid.
What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 5/18/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mkdir ~/.Xresource
ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system
Also, how do you specify xterm options like bg and fg in these files
or the .Xdefaults file? I set it in the
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:05:21PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
[..]
I've had the misfortune of having to herd (as in clean up after)
nuclear physicists who didn't know what a directory was:
as in herding cats .. I assume.
Me: Dennis just reported that he's broken his codebase again and
On 5/19/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my
.Xresources which over-ride the system defn's:
XTerm*geometry:90x43
XTerm*SaveLines: 2000
XTerm*VT100*background:black
Deboo ^ :
cga2000 :
Deboo ^ :
And how do you incorporate the custom xterm options in the default
fluxbox menu? Is there something to edit the menu commands?
I wish I knew .. :-)
Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with
fluxbox? I already installed fbdesk
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you deprecate
it in what is it .. lenny?
Am 2007-05-16 06:42:06, schrieb Deboo ^:
xterm*font: 10x20
Thanks. This works if I already open a new xterm from within an xterm
or any terminal emulator but not from the fluxbox right click XShells
-- xterm.
mkdir ~/.Xresource
ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system
On 5/18/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ibid.
What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such
thing with apt.
$ dict ibid
1 definition found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
ibid.
adv : in the same place (used when citing a
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
Interesting. .Xdefaults still works
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with
fluxbox and xterm and two other
terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt.
But all three of them give very
small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able
to get a reasonable font with the
HUGE option in the
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two
other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them
give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable
font with
Also how to use the dektop icons that
DSL is able to use with fluxbox?
I already installed fbdesk but it
seems of no use at all or is it
buggy?
ibid.
What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such
thing with apt.
Regards,
Deboo
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two
other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them
give very small
On 05/15/2007 08:12 PM, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
xterm*font: 10x20
Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my
fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work
so well for you.
Thanks. This works if I
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:42:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults:
xterm*font: 10x20
Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my
fonts, but I don't switch them
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults:
xterm*font: 10x20
Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my
fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work
so well for you.
Thanks.
On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However,
some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the
menu is not `xterm`.
Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other
terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very
small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the
HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need bigger fonts. How do
you exactly specify
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other
terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very
small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the
HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need
On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other
terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very
small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the
Hi,
is there a variant of xterm witch uses font antialiasing like xdvi?
Armin
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