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Topic: DSL v4.0rc1

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imhennessy Offline

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Posted: Aug. 19 2007,22:45

Hello all,

I did a quick search on my problem and found nothing, so I think it must either be just me and my setup (both DSL 4RC1 LiveCD and GRUB USB pendrive on a Dell Inspiron 700m 40GB hdd with a WinXP partition, a Dell partition, an Ubuntu partition, swap, DSL 3.4 on one, and a little playground on the final partition.)
it seems that only with 4RC1, the auto mount tool tells me that the Ubuntu and playground partitions, both ext3 are of unknown type: ext3

apologies for not having a dmesg sample or even a direct quote. I'm only on wireless right now, and that wireless is ipw2200, and the .dsl is on an ext3 partition.

if this is clearly just a problem I'm having, more apologies.

ivan

roberts

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Posted: Aug. 20 2007,01:34

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it seems that only with 4RC1, the auto mount tool tells me that the Ubuntu and playground partitions, both ext3 are of unknown type: ext3

Found the problem and fixed it. It will be in 4RC2.

Thanks for testing and reporting this!

lucky13

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Posted: Aug. 22 2007,21:23

There's an issue with the alt/meta key in this newer version of jwm in DSL 4 (rc1). I'm testing some new extensions (console-based) and every time I hit the alt key for a command in one of the apps (for example, M-x in emacs) jwm freezes the current terminal window. I double checked keybindings and tried reassigning to no avail -- jwm totally hogs that key and freezes the current window no matter what I try.

I didn't recall this happening with earlier versions so I'm back on DSL 3.4 and it's not a problem here.

I also noticed that exec and root commands added to .jwmrc only work when num lock is engaged.

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roberts

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Posted: Aug. 22 2007,21:41

jwm used in v4 is a stock jwm 2.0 whereas the jwm in 3.x is a very old v0.24 and hacked version of jwm, the hack had only to do with providing a root menu, before such became an option.

jwm is not the only window manger in 4.0, there is fluxbox and swm

Edited by roberts on Aug. 22 2007,21:49

jls legalize Offline

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Posted: Aug. 23 2007,01:36

Cause dsl is intended to be used mostly on old machines I think is better to remove the
-zoom
option from the mplayer command associated to .avi files in the file manager (dfm).

legalize cannabis, etc.