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Session managers - driving me mad!
by Chris Green 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

This is beginning to drive me crazy, I can't get *any* of xdm, kdm or gdm to work sensibly for me. Of the three at the moment gdm is closest, it's fairly easy to configure to allow remote connections and to disable local ones. The only thing it lacks at the moment is that I can't make it default to xfce (as per my previous messages). kdm is the most frustrating program invented. It's effectively impossible (without arcane knowledge) to get it configured so that it allows remote connections. Since remote connections are just about the only point of running XDMCP this seems a bit silly. The KDE control centre configuration window for KDM allows all sorts of cosmetic changes but nothing useful. xdm used to work but for some odd reason the version that comes with slackware 10 is built for IPV6 and just falls over when run on my current slackware 10 system. (OK, rant over, I'll go away and cry for a while) -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: [ALUG] SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

>> I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all >> about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. >> >> I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH >> secure login. > >Have you thought about scp? Secure copy. There is a windows app called >winscp (its on freshmeat.net) > >John winscp - That works really well and I didn't know about it. So I am up and running. Great. Thanks for the suggestion. Really useful. I'd still like to get dreamweaver working over ssh beacuse the files would upload automatically on saving. Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:13, Keith Watson wrote: > > From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > > > Hi > > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > > Regards > > Nick Daniels > > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved > it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in > CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... > > Regards, > > Keith Many thanks I got half way last night by playing with the dpi resolution, so it seems that is where the problem is. This morning I was offered an Epson someone was discarding and that works fine. Best Regards Nick Daniels

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Still confused about my printer fonts
by Chris Green 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front. I've been playing with different applications under KDE and Kword for example can print in a number of fonts. In particular it gives me a series of Bitstream Vera fonts and Luxi fonts to choose from. Plus it gives me Serif and Sans Serif which are actually just aliases for the Bitstream Vera ones. However the application I want to use, knoda, which is a KDE applicatioa,n only presents me with five fonts and in reality four out of the five actually print Courier and the fifth (Serif) is the only one which prints anything presentable. Can anyone suggest what might be going on here? By the way I have rebuilt knoda from the source and it behaves exactly the same as the Slackware .tgz package that I originally installed. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #362 - 16 msgs
by John Seago 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 21:27, Adam wrote: > I am, so is Kirsty we are already giving lifts so have no room left in > the car. I will be bringing some nice shiny Ubuntu CD sets for people > who want them. If I and others remember to bring the bits needed there > will be the facilities for a gpg keysigning. I will also be bringing > along some junk^H^H^H^Hwonderful hardware that I want to get rid of. Can you put me down for one of the Ubuntu CD sets please? Having discovered that Ottakar's are giving them away, I neglected to get one for my son-in-law. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH secure login. I am running vsftpd on a SuSE 8.1 box. I can do ssh logins to this box. Normal ftp works fine. OpenSSH appears to be installed and running. I can do sftp to localhost if logged into the console or via an SSH connection. I am using Macromedia MX on Windoze to create the files I want to transfer. I have read the manual and followed their instructions to install putty.exe and plink.exe. Things seem to be nearly working but I am clearly missing a step or two. When I try to upload a file, I'm prompted to do the ssh login. After that the ftp transfer fails. I think the SuSE box is misconfigured but I have failed to google up a solution. I suspect I'm failing to understand something deep so I'm searching google for the wrong stuff. Any ideas? Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. Have I overlooked anything obvious? Regards Nick Daniels

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Re: My Xorg video setup
by John Seago 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

This may be a rather silly question, but have you run xorgconfig, or did you just use the setting of xorg which arises at the end of the install? -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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RE: [ALUG] Another printer problem
by Keith Watson 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

> From: Hyperbit Sent: 26 November 2004 16:43 > Finally, Linux will be hardware friendly ah, but when will hardware be Linux friendly? :o) Keith ____________ What you think you own, owns you. - Zen Saying

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RE: [ALUG] Printers problem
by Keith Watson 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

> From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > Hi > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > Regards > Nick Daniels > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... Regards, Keith ____________ The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

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