Dell217A weblog of how I set up my new Dell in 217 CNFri Oct 17 21:55:30 2003 X-windowXP integration status report- (Found June 24, 2008 ) This remains a big problem. I have been unable to get cut-and-paste to work consistently between X applications (especially emacs) and Windows apps. Using SSH Secure Shell, Ctrl-Ins works most of the time as a "Copy Selection", but not from emacs, which captures this as a command. Unsetting the key doesn't seem to help. Putty CLAIMS to copy on select (see the putty FAQ, item A5.4), but does not seem to work, even from a non-emacs application. And I can't get stuff from Windows to X,...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/17#art025 Mon Nov 3 11:51:14 2003 Progress on emacs cut-and-paste problem- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Late last night I ran across http:pdx.freedesktop.orgStandardsclipboards-specclipboards.txt, which has a nice explanation of various interpretations of the ICCCM. I didn't grok the whole thing, but I ran across the following text: The current consensus is that interpretation b) is correct. Qt 3 and GNU Emacs 21 will use interpretation b), changing the behavior of previous versions. So on my home Dell, I did the following: From cygwin, I opened up an xterm (using the workaround from the...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/11/03#art036 Mon Nov 3 20:31:11 2003 Cut-and-Paste: The Search Continues- (Found June 24, 2008 ) When we last tuned in, our intrepid investigator had fired up an Emacs 21.2 under FreeX86 on his home computer, and discovered that cut-and-paste seemed to work fine. Then Colin managed to build Emacs 21.3 on denali. I tried running that on Dell217, and reported that cut and paste did not seem to work. So now, just for kicks, I tried running the denali emacs from my home machine. Guess what: cutpaste worked fine! So it sounds like there must be something different about the X server...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/11/03#art037 Thu Nov 6 15:52:46 2003 More progress on emacs & cutpaste- (Found June 24, 2008 ) At last, I've found some reproducible behavior: If from emacs 19.34, you repeatedly select the same region of text, and that region ends in a newline, the Windows Clipboard is unchanged the first time, but the text appears the second time. If you do the same thing, but the region does not end in a newline, the behavior is similar, but the text appears the THIRD time. It doesn't seem to matter whether you select it with C-k C-y, set-mark C-f .... M-w, or just mouse selection. So the...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/11/06#art038 Fri Nov 21 10:16:30 2003 XFree86 titlebar lossage- (Found June 24, 2008 ) So this morning I logged in to my machine, and discovered that the X server was showing all X windows under the title "CygwinXFree86 X", instead of "emacsalnilam.ccs.neu.edu" or "alnilam: homewand" or whatever. I couldn't even use "xtitle" (a script I wrote years ago, but which seems to work everywhere) to set the title bar correctly. It rans, but it has no effect. Since I typically have 8-10 X Windows running at any time, this was a Real Pain (taskbar roulette, anyone) Exiting and...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/11/21#art039 Fri Nov 21 10:16:30 2003 Deleted Desktop Icons Reappear- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Last week I deleted some items from my desktop and emptied the recycle bin. Imagine how surprised I was to see them reappear the next time I logged in! I did this twice, to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Now I've moved them all to a folder on the Desktop. We'll see what items reappear when next log out and log in again.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/12/09#art040 Wed Dec 10 10:32:06 2003 Deleted Desktop Icons reappear- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Colin wrote: Here's what I've discovered based on my experience. While it does get removed from your desktop while you are logged in, it doesn't get removed from your Windows profile folder. If you look in .WIN_PROFILEDesktop you should find the offending fileshortcut. My suggestion is to delete it there. That is totally bizarre. It's clear that Windows saves the desktop configuration at logout. So it just doesn't do it right Here's what I did yesterday: 1. I created a new...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/12/10#art041 Tue Jun 1 12:19:00 2004 Making deleted desktop items stay deleted- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Colin suggests the following procedure, which seems to work: Move the desktop item to the Recycle bin From 'My Computer', navigate to C:Documents and SettingsDesktop and delete the item from there.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2004/06/01#art042 Tue Jun 1 22:05:04 2004 Upgrading to Firefox- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I ran Firefox from the office and got the dreaded "no XBL bindings" message. I installed it again at home and got the same thing. So I decided to look it up. 5 seconds on Google produced the following info: http:www.mozilla.orgproductsfirefoxreleases sez: First, if you are running an old version of Firebird or Phoenix, visit the Extensions panel in Tools, Options and disable all of your extensions. If you cannot disable extensions, you must create a new profile before upgrading to...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2004/06/01#art043 Mon Nov 3 11:47:44 2003 Running xterm- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I found a work-around for the fact that SHELL comes up as SHELL=C:PROGRA1RATIONALRATION1NUTCROOTmksntsh.exe I simply say: xterm -e tcsh . On the machine in 217, this has the bonus behavior of reading my regular .tcshrc, so I have most of the functionality I'm used to. I'll have to ftp my .tcshrc down to my machine at home.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/11/03#art035 |