[juneau-lug] Re: Fixed flash drive, new problems with Ubuntu
- From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:03:29 -0800
Nels:
Maybe no one has built the .deb yet. Hard to believe, but
stranger things have happened! Maybe it's your turn...
As to install, I'm on the server version so there is no X
let alone Nautilus, so install is just sudo apt-get install whatever
and I'm doing all the configuration I need through webmin from
a remote desktop - the server is down in the "hole" and I
hate listening to all that fan whine when I'm working.
Stephen
Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> Chris, I'm also really inpressed by Feisty. I plugged in my ancient Palm
> Pilot, and there was a daemon listening when I hit the sync button. It was
> never that easy when I was using Sarge. I think I might like Evolution, if
> I can figure out what's happening to the email messages it downloads (I
> think that's a problem with Evolution), and why it can't find some of my
> accounts (that's probably my fault).
> Stephen, this was by far the easiest install, with the least configuration,
> ever. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to do much additional
> configuration afterwards, either. I was hoping that I could find emacs as a
> deb for Feisty and point apt at it, but I've installed from a tarball
> before. It sucks, but it's sort of do-able.
>
> I found where to get sloppy focus: it was in the windows section of the
> preferences menu. I still haven't found where to tell it to open a file
> with a single click rather than a double click.
>
> Nels
>
>
> On 6/15/07, Stephen E. Bodnar <sbodnar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Nels:
>>
>> There's a brand new version of Emacs stable out, June 2, 2007.
>> It's listed here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
>> so you can download it directly from the Gnu.
>>
>> I have Fiesty Fawn running on a server too and I'm
>> amazed how simple it is to install and configure.
>> At last!
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>>> Hello, All,
>>> I fixed that problem I was having with not being able to mount the flash
>>> drive on Debian by installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. The flash drive now
>>> auto-mounts. I do have some new problems, though, and I'd surely
>> appreciate
>>> some insights.
>>>
>>> First, there seems to be no install candidate for emacs? I've tried the
>>> main and U.S. repositories. Any ideas on where to find emacs? I'm kind
>> of
>>> lost without it.
>>>
>>> Second, in KDE and Debian, I was able to use sloppy focus and single
>> clicks
>>> rather than double. Can I do that with Gnome and Ubuntu? Without
>> single
>>> clicks and sloppy focus, Gnome is too much like Windows for comfort.
>>>
>>> I do like having more modern versions of everything.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nels
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