Dell217A weblog of how I set up my new Dell in 217 CNWed Oct 29 14:29:58 2003 clipboard integration non-progress- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Got back to my office in 217CN, logged in (the X server startup up cleanly). Ran xemacs, got the same inconsistent behavior trying to copy from the X window to Notepad. So xemacs doesn't help on that. However, xemacs does seem to be somewhat better in understanding modifiers on mouse buttons. button3 and M-C-button3 have observably different behavior: they pop up different context menus.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/29#art034 Thu Oct 23 10:40:35 2003 Can't see cross-device links from Windows- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I have a lot of stuff on projwand and scratchwand. I've made links from my home directory to the work that is in these places, but none of these links are visible from My Documents. Nor is there any way I can see to access these directories directly. This means that I can't use this extra (non-quota) space from the PC (say for IE cache, etc.) This seems a relatively important thing to fix.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/23#art026 Thu Oct 23 10:52:23 2003 Can't remove startxwin from Startup Group- (Found June 24, 2008 ) My X server this morning had a serious spaz: somehow it got my Caps inverted, so that everything I typed in lower case came out in upper, and vice versa. I shut down the X server, and then observed that in my startup group I had two X servers starting up: startxin.bat, which simply ran C:cygwinusrX11R6binstartxwin.bat, and my own X Windows Startup, which ran XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard I also noticed that when starting up, I'd get a brief cmd window which said "access is denied"...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/23#art028 Thu Oct 23 10:49:00 2003 Where to put Temporary Internet Files- (Found June 24, 2008 ) In an attempt to cut down on the size of my .WIN_PROFILE, I moved my IE Temporary Internet Files to C:Temp, which to my surprise seemed to work. Unfortunately, now logging out takes forever while it says "saving your settings". Where can I put the temporary internet files that won't screw things up either by counting against my quota or by requiring a long saverestore settingshttp://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/23#art027 Thu Oct 23 17:43:14 2003 Can't make Escher run duplex from Dell217- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Looking at Printers and Faxes XX Printing Preferences : when XX = renoir we get a pane that says "Print on Both Sides" and gives radio buttons for flip orientation. when XX = escher we get no such pane. BTW, can I arrange things to print a header page on jobs spooled through Windows I believe the setting is on the Printer Properties Advanced Separator Page, which is grayed out. I'm guessing that I'd have to be an Administrator to do that. Not a biggie right now.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/23#art029 Tue Oct 28 09:35:14 2003 startxwin.bat: it's Baa-ack!- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I removed startxwin.bat from my startup group from the Unix side, as Colin suggested earlier. This worked for a while, but as of this morning, it's back in my startup group. I haven't been in CN for a while (since last Fri or possibly last Thursday), so I don't know for sure when it reappeared. And also, this batch file does not start up cleanly. When it runs, I get a brief cmd window that says: Access is denied: Startxwin.bat or something like that. Fooey!http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/28#art030 Wed Oct 29 09:43:59 2003 All Machines in CCIS are not alike- (Found June 24, 2008 ) So I went to log in on one of the Dells in Egan. (Because I wanted to try running xemacs over X to see if I got the same inconsistent clipboard behavior). The good news is that my startup folder still contained exactly 1 XWin startup. The bad news is that on Owen's machine, the X server failed to start, producing a window that said: XWin.exe - Unable to locate component: The application failed to start because cygcygipc-2.dll ws ot found. Reinstalling the application may fix this...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/29#art031 Wed Oct 29 11:25:36 2003 Quick Launch Toolbar Issues- (Found June 24, 2008 ) MW == Me, JW == my son Josh MW 1. I've somehow gotten into a state where the Quick Launch Toolbar MW displays itself with large icons rather than small ones. That MW makes it pretty useless. Do you have any idea how to MW control this JW 1) right click on empty space in toolbar. View small icons MW Bleah! How did I miss that MW 2. Do you have any experience with alternatives to the Quick Launch MW toolbar JW 2) I use True Launch Bar (www.truesoft.com). Costs $10 or $15,...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/29#art032 Wed Oct 29 13:30:28 2003 What I miss about X- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I think the thing I miss most in moving from vtwm to WinXP (assuming we get past dealbreaker issues like working clipboard integration) is the ability to bring up a list of all the current windows with a single mouse click For example, in my .vtwmrc, I have the line Button1 = : root : f.menu "TwmWindows" ) I am told that are ways of obtaining similar functionality in XP. Can anyone fill me in BTW, the other thing I miss is the ability to minimize a window with a single keystroke...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/29#art033 Wed Oct 8 19:23:29 2003- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Need to set keyboard properties in SSH Secure. Don't know how to do this for the ssh inside cygwin.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/09#art005 |