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I want to find a simple, quick, on the fly, way to bind a series of keystrokes to one keystroke. Below is this moments problem, but I have run into this before so I would like a methodology.
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Sound cards in alsa and others are given hardware IDs like "hw:0,0". To use the 'adevice' option in mplayer with alsa I need to know the hw: numbers.

How do I find those numbers and does...

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How do I set up rc6 or whatever, so that I get a clean shutdown for
FireFox and Epiphany?

FireFox is started by my session manager and I often use Epiphany -b as
a specialized bookmark...

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I've looked in man lpr, a2ps, enscript, CUPS and googled for a way to temporarily change the page size of my printers. Both are postscript and take custom page sizes. The best suggestion I...

Hi blackbelt jones;

That is exactly what I am going to have to do -- download the source code.

But, my experience is that it takes hours to wade through source code for answers. I came here to...

Thank you techwise;

Reviewed "Learning the bash Shell" O'Reilly 2nd Ed. on Safari. Good, concise bash command explanations, but I have already printed out the bash man pages and I have O'Reilly's...

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I hope my title is not viewed as just being cute or coy. I want to be exact about my question. I am trying to chase down and learn how bash works. I have been using bash scripts for two...

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I am about ready to go out to buy a ASUS Radeon R9250GE vram 256 to replace my current ATI Rage 128 32 vram.

I have read there is some problems with Radeon drivers. On my Fedora Core 4...

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If I can get an answer to this question, I think I will have my understanding of IN/OUT solved. From http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2keyboard/ I have copied the following quote:

"At...

Hi bwkaz;

Found a site called 'Scan Codes Demystified' at http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/scan.htm.

Tells you more than you would ever want to know about the history of scan codes. It appears...

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I have several sites that show the scan codes and how they are used. But my curiosity was peaked when I could find no reference to a standard or their origination. The answer isn't...

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I am trying to trace the in/out process in Linux. I have most of what is happening summarized in the this little formula: Keycap => key matrix bytes => scan code => key code => keysym.

At...

Thank you bwkaz;

Its starting to become clearer. I know it wasn't a Linux questions but it rounds off my more general IN/OUT questions.

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As a personal project I am trying to chase down the details of how in/out works. I am successfully working my way through the Linux part of in/out but the BIOS part has me completely...

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A question that I have avoided for two years. Google and Help tell me lots about fonts in general but nothing about my specific question.

How do I use the gnome character map or the...

Thanks cybertron;

wininfo does exactly what I want. You won't believe this, but I have looked for something like that for over several months.

Regards Bill

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I use the Xwindows --geometry parameter all the time. I was wondering does anybody know of a command (or program) that returns the geometry of a named or selected window.

I am getting tired...

Thanks Hayl;

I have the gnome dictionary on my panel and I use it a lot. But it is more of a dictionary than a spell checker.

What I was looking for is something that uses aspell and is...

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Does anyone know of a good little stand alone gui spell checker?

Most text programs have a builtin spell checker, I know, but some don't. Ideally, I would like to select a word or a group...

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Does anyone know of some kind of addon, update or extension to aspell that will include the linux lexicon? I want something that will skip properly spelt Linux terms like sudo, ls -l,...

Thanks again banzaikai;

I followed your advice. Here is what happened.

Something is changing my chown and chmod back every time I change them and then subsequently login. But... I had been...

Thanks XiaoKJ;

My permissions are all like the following example:
crw------- 1 bill root 14, 0 Jul 9 05:48 /dev/mixer
crw------- 1 bill root 14, 3 Jul 9 05:48 /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 bill...

Hi banzaikai;
I appreciate you sticking with me so far.

Changing the mixer settings didn't help, eh?

I thought I would take up a last few moments of your time, and for anyone else that can...

Does JustLinux have a favicon that I con use in epiphany and/or Firefox? If so how do I download it? It hasn't downloaded itself like other mailing lists and forums.

Regards Bill

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From the fedora mailing list; someone mentioned that his /etc/udev/devices included his nivida sound card. While mine is Ensonq, my /etc/udev/devices file is empty. Is this...