The problem was that dtwm was always looking at my ~/.dt/C/dtwmrc and I was always editing my ~/.dt/dtwmrc. I saw on some page on the net by the man whose is the word of honour on this page that dtwm looks at ~/.dt/C/dtwmrc before it looks at (if at all) the ~/.dt/dtwmrc and that was what clinched it.
Thanks Theresa, thanks Kannan, thanks Sun.... for nothing.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Wuenschlist CDE WM
Okay, in Solaris-CDE - you can double-click on the titlebar of a window and it will be maximized. Question is, is it possible to tell the window manager that there are really two monitors and that you only want the window to occupy one screen when maximized? Or, can you control what the Maximize function will do? Can you tell it to only increase the window geometry to 1280x1024? That would help my productivity a lot.
Hier'st what goes on:
CDE through Citrix - crappy windows management ->
Exceed - Cadence hangs after the property form ->
Seamless windowing through Citrix -> crappy windows management ->
back to Citrix -> doesn't give me good pointer precision when I use the wireless mouse ->
back to a cheap wired optical mouse - which is so cheap that it sometimes sends double clicks ->
I'm still out of the psych ward. But for how long. I should probably sue M$ and Hummingbird and Sun and Novell for damages. What a set of *ds. Can't they get basic technology like this to be user friendly? Or are they serving a different set of masters than we think - all being paid by the Japs and Chinese to keep America's productivity down?
Hier'st what goes on:
CDE through Citrix - crappy windows management ->
Exceed - Cadence hangs after the property form ->
Seamless windowing through Citrix -> crappy windows management ->
back to Citrix -> doesn't give me good pointer precision when I use the wireless mouse ->
back to a cheap wired optical mouse - which is so cheap that it sometimes sends double clicks ->
I'm still out of the psych ward. But for how long. I should probably sue M$ and Hummingbird and Sun and Novell for damages. What a set of *ds. Can't they get basic technology like this to be user friendly? Or are they serving a different set of masters than we think - all being paid by the Japs and Chinese to keep America's productivity down?
Configuring CDE
If you haven't figured it by now, yes, I've given up on the XO laptop completely. I don't even _look_ at it anymore unless I'm searching for something that might be under it. I've got two left. If you need them, please just ask.
Anyhow, now my predicament is that Solaris-CDE doesn't respond when I try to do stuff like:
AltTab root|icon|window f.next_workspace
It retains the old definition of the Alt-Tab combo which is f.next_key. Why is Solaris out to get me now? I have to give it to CDE - it's one of the crappiest window managers ever created. You now know why Sun's stock never recovered. Khosla probably wrote the code for this.
Anyhow, now my predicament is that Solaris-CDE doesn't respond when I try to do stuff like:
Alt
It retains the old definition of the Alt-Tab combo which is f.next_key. Why is Solaris out to get me now? I have to give it to CDE - it's one of the crappiest window managers ever created. You now know why Sun's stock never recovered. Khosla probably wrote the code for this.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Mathemagica
Stuff I didn't know you could do. This is what happens when you have so many smart people looking at something.
Mathematica puts out a symbolic expression that you can read. Now, you think about publishing that - using LaTex. Luckily for you, all you have to do is:
In[3]:= TeXForm[%]
Combine that with Tex's fault tolerance and you have a big time-saver here.
Another thing I didn't know you could do - but, being a shell guy I thought I'd try:
The % in the above refers to the output of the previous submission. But, can you refer to the nth output? Sure can, just use %n. That's a handy one too. Good job Steve.
Mathematica puts out a symbolic expression that you can read. Now, you think about publishing that - using LaTex. Luckily for you, all you have to do is:
In[3]:= TeXForm[%]
Combine that with Tex's fault tolerance and you have a big time-saver here.
Another thing I didn't know you could do - but, being a shell guy I thought I'd try:
The % in the above refers to the output of the previous submission. But, can you refer to the nth output? Sure can, just use %n. That's a handy one too. Good job Steve.
Monday, June 30, 2008
HOWTO No Extra Cost Dual Monitor Setup
if you have a Dell docking station and a Dell laptop.
Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - this is trivial - but this isn't what most people want because the laptop screen is so small and so high-res that 1400x1050 is very hard on the eyes. You want to connect two external LCD monitors to your docking station and then get 2560x1024 using the two of them:
1) Connect one monitor to the VGA connector, the other to the DVI connector
2) Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - only one LCD will be used and the laptop screen will be used as the second display
3) Close the laptop. The system will go into standby mode and the displays will go blank.
4) Press the power button on the DOCKING STATION. There are two buttons that the rest of the world has never noticed since the last ice age.
5) The system will now use both monitors.
Wish I had got this with my Google search "how to do dual monitor using a docking station VGA DVI". But I didn't.
Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - this is trivial - but this isn't what most people want because the laptop screen is so small and so high-res that 1400x1050 is very hard on the eyes. You want to connect two external LCD monitors to your docking station and then get 2560x1024 using the two of them:
1) Connect one monitor to the VGA connector, the other to the DVI connector
2) Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - only one LCD will be used and the laptop screen will be used as the second display
3) Close the laptop. The system will go into standby mode and the displays will go blank.
4) Press the power button on the DOCKING STATION. There are two buttons that the rest of the world has never noticed since the last ice age.
5) The system will now use both monitors.
Wish I had got this with my Google search "how to do dual monitor using a docking station VGA DVI". But I didn't.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Linux and NTFS
Apparently, the battle has been won. But, the war - not yet. We need a way to take Windows apart piece by piece - be able to look at it as components and see how they can be used so we can decide what to keep and what to throw away and what to modify/replace. That's the holy grail. It'll take another Torvalds to pull that off - this time from Brazil.
Anyhow, a simple search throws up ntfscat, libntfs, ntfsresize.
Where linux failed - in making it's stuff easy to use. The problem is that though the majority of people in a company don't need hardcore computing - they would faint if they looked at a linux screen. This should be a simpler problem to solve, but you know how computer scientists are - it's not appealing enough to go after.
Anyhow, a simple search throws up ntfscat, libntfs, ntfsresize.
Where linux failed - in making it's stuff easy to use. The problem is that though the majority of people in a company don't need hardcore computing - they would faint if they looked at a linux screen. This should be a simpler problem to solve, but you know how computer scientists are - it's not appealing enough to go after.
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