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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Followup on Window managers</FONT></H3>
Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:56:30 -0600 (MDT)
<BR>From:
Gordon Haverland
(<A HREF="mailto:ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca"
>ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca</A>)
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Hi!
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<P>
Nice article on window managers, although it would have been
nice to see a few more tried out.
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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There are many people out there who have their favorite
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window manager out there, and won't try others. Sort of like the
which editor is better (vi versus emacs) battle. But what
might actually be interesting, is for the X% (90+ ?) of us
who don't have any strong feelings about window managers (or
editors for that matter), is if some kind of "popularity
contest" could be run. We login, and instead of calling
twm, fvwm, ... in some RC file, we made a call to wm, which
picked one of the N window managers on our system at random.
When we went to logout, or to force a change of window manager;
we were asked our feelings on how the session went, and then
this report (along with a list of what window managers are on
our system) went someplace for compilation. Maybe even a list
of what programs were launched during the session (and from the
command line or via the window manager/icon/however you want to
describe it). People who are interested in wm could get feedback
from the guinea pigs (so to speak) as to how useful their
wm was. I'm sure some interesting statistics might show up.
It might turn out that ZWM was most liked by left-handed
Carpathians who do GIS work.
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Sorry, I don't want to write any code to do this. I've got
enough things to do.
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<P>
Gord
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<p><em>Well, there is always Debian's statistics package so you
can let them know what you liked - perhaps someone will
do something similar for X. -- Heather</em></p>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">question on xdm documentation</FONT></H3>
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:35:26 -0400
<BR>From: Doug James &lt;<A HREF="mailto:dcjames@home.com"
>dcjames@home.com</A>&gt;
<P>
Is there a place on the internet where I can pick up some documentation
on the latest version of xdm (The on released with XFree86 4.0.1)?
There's some stuff in the Xresources and config files that just isn't
mentioned in the man page.
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I've looked everywhere I can think of, hit every search engine I know
of, and even gotten flamed as a lamer on linux IRC channels trying to
find this information.
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Your help would really be appreciated.
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<p> Doug
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<p><em>And speaking of X... Readers! This is your chance to</em>
Make Linux A Little More Fun
<em>-- namely, to adopt a man page today, starting with most of
the XFree86 Project... or, some articles on XFree86 4.0 would
be cheerfully accepted here, too. -- Heather</em></p>
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<li><A HREF="#mailbag/1"
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<li><A HREF="#mailbag/2"
><strong>NT GINA for 95/98</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Thank you, [X in "Toaster" Mode]</FONT></H3>
Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:59:09 +0100
<BR>From: "Padraig Tobin" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Padraig_Tobin@eur."
>Padraig_Tobin@eur.</A>3com.com&gt;
<P>
Saying 'thank you' seems passe these days but I feel I have to do it anyway..
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I'd been trying to do this for about a week until I eventually found
[at a gazette mirror] <TT>../issue52/tag/14.html</TT>
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Thanks, Much obliged,
Padraig
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<FONT COLOR="navy">NT GINA for 95/98</FONT></H3>
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:00:34 -0600
<BR>From: <em>Anonymous</em>
<P>
FYI, re your 'and NSGINA ' article, there is a 95/98/NT/2000 GINA solution
now provided by Digital Privacy, Inc.
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Cheers,
</P>
<em><dt>This note was made anonymous by request. It isn't strictly about
Linux, but, we mentioned the GINA so... you can read more:
<dd><tt><a href="http://www.digital-privacy.com"
>http://www.digital-privacy.com</a></tt>
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Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:55:40 +0200
<BR>From: Henk Langeveld &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Henk.Langeveld@holland.sun.com">Henk.Langeveld@holland.sun.com</A>&gt;
<BR>Subject: gazette navigation
<P> I've been browsing the gazette several times, but I find the navigation
buttons rather awkward. The small size of the [Next] and [Previous] icons
makes it difficult to get a quick impression of an issue. I think the last
time I checked the Gazette before today was at least 6 months back.
<P> Please consider making these two buttons at least as large as the 'FAQ'
icon, and you may have at least one more regular reader.
<P> Note: I'm reading this on a 20" screen - the buttons are about 5x10 mm for
me, while the netscape buttons at the top of this window are approx 1/2 inch on
each side, that's about a 3 times larger area.
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<BR>Subject: Monthly FAQ roundup
<P> Here are the answers to this month's FAQ questions sent to <EM>LG</EM>:
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Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:31:34 -0500
<BR>From: eL JoRgItO <jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es> &lt;<A HREF="mailto:jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es">jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es</A>&gt;
<BR>Subject: Escogiendo un Administrador de Ventanas
<P> hola, una critica, :(
<BR>constructiva espero ;)
<P> Es sobre el articulo
<A HREF="../issue57/arndt.html">"Escogiendo un Administrador de Ventanas..."</A>,
no conozco muy bien vuestra publicacion y tal, pero me parece un
poco flojo, el autor solo conoce generalidades de cada gestor de ventanas
y enumera algunos reconociendo que ni siquiera los ha probado...
Me parece muy mal, pues creo que lo minimo antes de escribir sobre algo
es probar todo lo que por lo menos conozcas y nunca hablar de oidas.
Yo sin ser nadie del otro mundo he probado esos gestores y ochocientos mil
mas y solo por curiosidad, sin el proposito de escribir un articulo sobre ello.
<P> na mas, el resto de articulos que he visto tenian mejor pinta, y por eso
os comento este. gracias.
<P> saludos de un cachupin desde la peninsula :)
<H4>Felipe Barousse translates:</H4>
<P> Hello, here is a criticism, :(
a constructive one, I hope ,)
<P> It is related to the article
<A HREF="../issue57/arndt.html">"Choosing your Window Manager...."</A> I don't
really know very well your magazine but, the author of this article seems a bit
lousy to me. He only knows generalities of each window manager and names a few
and even acknowledges that he hasn't tried them...
<P> It looks so bad to me since I believe that the least thing someone has to
do before writing about something is try out everything that you know and avoid
talking by what you listened around.
<P> Me, being nobody special have tried those window managers and hundred other
ones just out of curiosity and without the specific purpose of writing an
article about it.
<P> That's it. The rest of the articles I have seen look much better and that's
why I comment on this specific one.
<P> Greetings from a "cachupin" from the peninsula :)
<P> [Translator's note: cachupin: refers to the people native of Spain.
Peninsula refers to the Iberic peninsula; that is, Spain]
<H4>Your Editor responds:</H4>
<P> The article may be weak on details, but it does contain some information
some readers might need. We have all levels of readers, from newbies to
experienced sysadmins/programmers, so we try to provide a wide variety of
articles.
<P> If you have anything you wish to write for <EM>Linux Gazette</EM>
in English,
, send it
to <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A> if it's article length,
or <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A> as a 2-Cent Tip if it's
shorter. If you prefer
to write it in Spanish, send it to
<A HREF="mailto:fbarousse@piensa.com">fbarousse@piensa.com</A> and Felipe will
translate it.
<P>-Mike
<H4>Or, in Spanish:</H4>
<P> Aunque ese art&iacute;culo sea quiz&aacute;s un poco d&eacute;bil de
detalles, contiene algo de informaci&oacute;n de inter&eacute;s a unos
usuarios. Hay cada nivel de lectores, tanto usuarios nuevos como
administratores de sistemas y programadores experimentados. Pues, tratamos de
publicar art&iacute;culos a cada nivel.
<P> Si Vd quiere escribir algo por <EM>Linux Gazette</EM> en ingl&eacute;s,
env&iacute;elo a
<A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A> si es largo de
art&iacute;culo, o
a <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A> como Consejo de 2 Centavos si es
m&aacute;s corto. Si Vd
prefiere
escribirlo en espa&ntilde;ol, env&iacute;elo a <A HREF="mailto:fbarousse@piensa.com">fbarousse@piensa.com</A> y Felipe lo tracucir&aacute;.
<P> <FONT SIZE="+1"><STRONG>Readers, is there anyone else willing to translate
articles from other languages?</STRONG></FONT>
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Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:54:29 -0400
<BR>From: Aurelio Martinez Dalis &lt;<A HREF="mailto:aureliomd@cantv.net">aureliomd@cantv.net</A>&gt;
<BR>Subject: Information required
<P> My name is Aurelio Martinez. I am a linux begineer and I do not have
internet access (WWW). Is it possible to receive Linux Gazette by e-mail in
text file format?. Thanks.
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[Not currently. The files would be too big (2-4 MB, and many mail
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