wishi's questions

I wonder whether there's a way to make urxvt render xft fonts:

URxvt.font: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Regular
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold
URxvt.talicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Italic
URxvt.bolditalicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold:Italic

If I try this, I get something like:

So it scales pretty bad:

 ! Fonts
 Xft.dpi:        132
 Xft.antialias:  true
 Xft.rgba:       rgb
 Xft.hinting:    true
 Xft.autohint:  true
 Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull   

I'm not sure whether this is one of the reaons. However I want antialias and that Droid. Is there any trick here?

I'm using awesome-wm on Kubuntu 10.10. I like some of the KDE tools... like choqok. Thing is, that within awesome wm it seems to be impossible to set a default browser, because KDE4 settings overwrite the generally desired settings:

To illustrate the problem:

% xdg-mime query default text/html  
chromium-browser.desktop

And from ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

[General]
BrowserApplication=firefox.desktop

Which does in no way make sense to me. If I set Firefox as default xdg-mime should not have Chrome. In fact I want Firefox.

So how do I globally once and for all, across all frameworks, define Firefox as default?

Best, Marius

p.s.: I should probably mention, that clicking in Choqok starts Konqueror...

I have a bug-problem with the apt-packages of emacs:

>>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))
>>Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))
>>Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 30.
dpkg: error processing emacs23-lucid (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
 emacs depends on emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; however:
  Package emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs23-lucid which provides emacs23 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs23-nox which provides emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs23-lucid is not configured yet.
  Package emacs23-nox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing emacs (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
         Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs23-lucid
 emacs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

In fact I would be satisfied with just emacs23-nox, a couple of plugins - from apt. But I can neither --purge nor --purge reinstall, nor remove the packages. It always processes until this certain bug. I did some google-searching, found some stuff on Launchpad suggesting:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall --purge emacsen-common

But this is the same... so I hope there a way to tell app to just remove everything releated to emacs, and to start from scratch again?

Thanks, Marius

How do I configure Wake-On-USB properly on a 10.04 or 10.10 Ubuntu (2.6.36 and higher if needed)? (Wake-on-USB is when the computer is asleep and for example a USB Keyboard event wakes up the machine!) The notebook is an Acer Aspire Timeline X 1830T. I don't know in which way the Linux Kernel supports the controllers.

There are different ways to approach this, for example /proc/acpi/wakeup... or UDEV... or something with HAL?

/proc/acpi/wakeup shows every device in S4, but I need S3.

Device S-state Status Sysfs node
P0P2 S4 *disabled
PEGP S4 *disabled
P0P1 S0 *disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0
EHC1 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0
USB1 S4 *enabled
USB2 S4 *disabled
USB3 S4 *disabled
USB4 S4 *disabled
EHC2 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1a.0
USB5 S4 *disabled
USB6 S4 *disabled
USB7 S4 *disabled
HDEF S0 *disabled pci:0000:00:1b.0
RP01 S5 *disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0
PXSX S5 *disabled pci:0000:01:00.0
RP02 S0 *disabled pci:0000:00:1c.1
PXSX S5 *disabled pci:0000:02:00.0
RP03 S0 *disabled
PXSX S5 *disabled
RP04 S0 *disabled
PXSX S5 *disabled
RP05 S0 *disabled
PXSX S5 *disabled
RP07 S0 *disabled
PXSX S5 *disabled
RP08 S0 *disabled
PXSX S5 *disabled
GLAN S0 *disabled
PEG3 S4 *disabled
PEG5 S4 *disabled
PEG6 S4 *disabled
SLPB S3 *enabled

• S4, which is Suspend-To-Disk afaik... doesn't seem to work either if I echo USB1 into the wakeup table. It just sets an S4 flag.
• can I get the USB ports in S3?

I want to make the machine wakeup from Suspend-To-Ram (S3, ACPI standard) in case a key on my external keyboard is pressed. It only wakes up if a key on the internal Laptop keyboard is pressed... from Suspend To Ram. It seems if I plug in a USB mouse, that the USB port isn't even powered. I have no BIOS option to change this.

Further specific information regarding the device:

usb-devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 13 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04d9 ProdID=1603 Rev=03.10
S: Manufacturer=
S: Product=USB Keyboard
C: #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=usbhid
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbhid

root@underwater-laptop:/# lsusb
[...]
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 04d9:1603 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0138 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[...]

If this doesn't work I have to properly explain why :( - but I think it is very hard to research this kernel internal. Any hints for good information here? I hope it's possible... I'm just looking for any solution.

edit: this, waking up on USB, works on Windows!

Thanks a lot, Marius

This is a follow up question to my prior thread. This solution works very well. However, after booting up, I only see a blinking cursor. Crtl+Alt+FX, where X=1..4 e.g. invokes a root Shell. I want this Shell to be there after the initial bootup, without having to invoke further keystrokes.

Problem is: we have an "automated keyboard" controller that just types. If it doesn't have a shell, its input is lost :) I know that this is a very specific problem... so I'm extra happy for any answer I get.

Thanks in advance, wishi

I'm setting up a PC for a very specific purpose. It's going to do some stuff deep underwater... round about 3km. We don't fear fish hijacking the box locally ;).

I'm trying to set up a login: no Xserver. Works well... I edited gdm.conf not to start. Great: that's how Linux is supposed to be in the first place.

Now my next and last task is: get the login. I googled upstart, event.d - my 10.4 distribution I recently installed doesn't have this or it doesn't work like I expect. I want the box to boot and to provide a local root shell. Just that...

How is this possible?

edit: possible tags: headless, auto-login. Can't set that....

I'm trying to convince Ubuntu's init system not to start X11 at boot-up. Removing gdm did not change the fact that each time the machine restarts, X11 with Gnome comes up.

How do I get rid of it? I need to auto-login as root with no Xserver after startup. It's inteded for a very specific automation-purpose to behave like that and not meant for Desktop experience ;)