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Feb
9
comment Should the usage message go to stderr or stdout?
@Stephane Chazelas. If I understand your comment correctly, you are writing from the perspective of a user of a program, this question I think is from the perspective of someone writing a program.
Feb
4
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Aug
15
comment Defragging an ext partition?
@David: I have no /etc/defaults/rc but do have /etc/default/rcS on debian 6
Apr
17
comment Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
sorry I was not clear ctrl+alt+f1 works. It is the ctrl+alt+f1 solution that does not. I can switch virtual terminals, but it does not fix the corruption. Thanks.
Feb
15
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Feb
9
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Feb
9
accepted Process priority and cpu speed
Feb
8
asked Process priority and cpu speed
Nov
15
comment Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
nothing. May be the keys are not bound.
Sep
14
comment Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
Tried it, no luck. Thanks
Aug
10
comment emacs can't open display
Emacs server continues to run after log-out. Then X credentials change , authentication keys are session based (they where static before -- well a few years ago).
Jun
28
comment Allow setuid on shell scripts
are there any other languages that support setuid safely?
Jun
25
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Jun
25
comment emacs can't open display
It seems, I have some old emacs servers running. This with a new authentication key each session ( I guess as it is in /var ) #$ps ux | grep [e]macs richard 2642 0.0 0.8 38788 24984 ? Ss Jun22 0:25 emacs --daemon richard 7512 0.0 0.6 33896 19720 ? Ss Jun23 0:05 emacs --daemon richard 15458 0.0 0.6 32836 19076 ? Ss 09:40 0:01 emacs --daemon
Jun
25
comment emacs can't open display
answers: 1&2) #$ll $XAUTHORITY -rw------- 1 richard richard 49 Jun 25 09:21 /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-richard-XY3O 5)gdm (desktop no network), I use emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --no-wait -c to bring up a window and emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --no-wait $file to open a file. It is working to day. I will try to logging out and in again.
Jun
23
comment Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
have tried ctrl-alt-F1 it did not work.
Jun
23
revised Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
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Jun
23
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Jun
23
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Jun
23
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