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March 2005 (#112):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]HelpDex, by Shane Collinge
     * [6]Running XBoard in Irssi, by Jason Creighton
     * [7]RSA 2005 Conference and Expo, San Francisco - Special Report, by
       Howard Dyckoff
     * [8]Free as in Freedom: Part Three: Open Source to the Corporate Bazaar,
       by Adam Engel
     * [9]Experiments  with  the  Linux  Kernel:  Process Segments, by R.
       Krishnakumar
     * [10]GNU Octave - Functions and Scripts, by Barry O'Donovan
     * [11]Introduction to Shell Scripting - Part 2, by Ben Okopnik
     * [12]Linux: A Clear Winner for Hardware I/O, by P. J. Radcliffe
     * [13]Lexical Closures In C, by Hiran Ramankutty
     * [14]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
     * [15]How to Set Up a Jabber Server, by Suramya Tomar
     * [16]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [17]Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
     * [18]The Linux Laundrette

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     * [22]KDE Multihead configuration
     * [23]Know any LDAP/Apache Gurus?
     * [24]MoinMoin seeks translators
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KDE Multihead configuration

   Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:07:58 +0000
   Pete Jewell ([25]pete from phraxos.nildram.co.uk)

   Hi

   I've been trying in vain to do something very simple, but have been unable
   to find the answer via excessive googling, so I'm hoping someone here can
   point me in the right direction.

   I am trying to configure my system so that I can utilise the TVout on my
   graphics card. I want to be able to display to the TV while still retaining
   use of the desktop via a CRT. Eventually I intend to run MythTV on the TV
   screen (mainly for the movie and ogg playing capabilities).

   To  this end I don't want [26]KDE to bother running a window manager &
   desktop on the TV screen. I have setup X such that I have :0.0 and :0.1
   display devices, with :0.1 being the TVout screen. Unfortunately I end up
   with a KDE desktop on the TVout, along with my usual KDE desktop on the CRT.

   I can successfully run a movie on the TV screen using -

$ DISPLAY=:0.1 vlc -f --video-on-top ./movie.avi

   However, if I then try and run something on the CRT it steals the focus from
   the vlc display on the TV (which in itself wouldn't be a huge problem if the
   KDE panel didn't then put itself to the front on the TV screen).

   The only hint at a solution I've managed to find indicates that I /must/ run
   two instances of X, one for each screen, if I want to solve the problem.
   However, another person has managed to do this with one instance of X (with
   MythTV on the TV) but runs WindowMaker as their WM, which accepts a -display
   parameter when run so it limits itself to :0.0

   First things first, my configuration:

     * Debian Unstable running debian kernal 2.6.8-2-686
     * nVidia GeForce MX4000 graphics card utilising nvidia driver 1.0-6629
       (built with module-assistant)
     * KDE 3.3.2
     * XFree86 v4.3.0.1 (as packaged and modified by Debian)

   Relevant parts of XF86Config-4

                  See attached [27]jewell.XF86Config-4.txt

   I hope one of you can help - if you need more info just let me know.

   Thanks.
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Know any LDAP/Apache Gurus?

   Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:46:17 -0800
   Owen DeLong ([28]owen from delong.com)