On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:42:50PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Thanks to the enthusiasm of Lee Bengston, there is a new pre-built Xastir > virtual machine running the latest version of Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the > lightweight Xfce desktop) available. > > Lee was motivated to create the machine and sent it to me for testing, and > I updated it with the very latest VMware tools available in VMware > Workstation. > This means that as of this new virtual machine, it is no longer necessary to > do strange things to get the desktop resized to match your window --- the > newest VMware tools "autofit" the desktop to whatever window you have as soon > as you log in to the VM. Thereafter, it will autofit again if you resize the > window. This takes at least a little hassle out of using it.
Oh, yeah, and another feature of the new vmware-tools: cut/paste of files now works between guest and host machines, so arcane tricks to copy files between windows and linux are no longer necessary. This takes at least a lot of hassle out of using it. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
