June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

PosgtreSQL 7.3 on suse 8.2
by p_s 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

I have tried to run postmaster in order to start up postgreSQL server.. I have run initdb -D /var/db_data to create db cluster. When I try to start the postmaster I get: Failed to initialize lc_messages to '' FATAL: invalid value for option 'LC_MESSAGES': 'en_US' in my postgresql.conf I have in postgresql.conf (in the bottom of that...) I assume that this causes the problem, but what to set on those ? # # Locale settings # # (initialized by initdb -- may be changed) LC_MESSAGES = 'en_US' LC_MONETARY = 'en_US' LC_NUMERIC = 'en_US' LC_TIME = 'en_US' TIA, P_s

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Suse 8.2 sux works for ssh forwarded connections
by Michael.James＠csiro.au 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

A problem with su is that it looses you authority to run X apps. Even as root, you will get rebuffed trying to run something as innoculous as xclock. sux is a little suse script that allows you to su and still retain your connection to your X server. ie: you can su then run yast2 and get full graphical yast immediately. It's particuarily useful with headless or remote servers, ssh in and use X to display yast back on a comfortable workstation. Now with new enhanced 8.2 you can ssh in as yourself (not root), sux up to root and pull yast2 back to your local desktop. Wonderful, I hated leaving root logins allowed but needed it for just that reason. Apologies to everyone for whom this is old news, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james(a)csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] I need ideas for Linux training course (OT)
by John Sowden 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [SLE] I need ideas for Linux training course (OT) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:17:41 -0700 From: John Sowden <jsowden(a)americansentry.net> To: "Theo v. Werkhoven" <twe-suse.e(a)ferrets4me.xs4all.nl> I am a newbie at this, and one of my complaints has been the use of the 'nix language to explain something. Consider giving your text, section by section, to someone who has never used Linux. Have them read your text, then explain to you how to perform the task described. There are technical nouns used in explaining that are used a verbs, leaving the newbie lost. There are also other suttleties (sp?) in linux. If you change a config file, often you must execute a command to put the new config data into play. This needs to be explained. Finally, as we all know, this operating system has more documentation than any other to date (afaik). Lots of doc does not mean that a newbie can understand it. my 2 cents. On Sunday 01 June 2003 03:24 pm, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > * Sun, 01 Jun 2003, zentara(a)zentara.net: > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 21:20:47 +0200 > > > > >> Any help would be greatly appreaciated. > > > > > >Theo -- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net ------------------------------------------------------- -- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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The suse's build (suse 8.2) of glibc-2.3.2 is not good!
by ROBOT 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Hello, I trying to start kavdaemon on suse 8.2. It's not posible, but it posible whith redhat or other distro with glibc-2.3.2! I have change this lib and got good result. SuSE! What do you think? Would you like to release an apdates to glibc-2.3.2 and stable gcc 3.3 too? Thank you all. Robik

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Getting sound to work
by Zach Smith 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Hello all... I'm using SuSE 8.2 and having a dickens of a time with getting the sound to work consistently. I use the SB Live! Value card in a Dell 2.5 GHz machine with 1 GHz RAM. I can't get CD's or MIDI files to play sound even though their respective app's are "working" (elapsed time controls moving, etc). I have system sounds and I'm able to listen to streaming audio via the Internet (ShoutCast) and XMMS works as well except the volume control doesn't function (have to use KMix or others to adjust volume). Another strange thing I've noticed is when using Gamix, it starts off saying no soundcard is available or sound has not been configured yet. I'm completely lost by this audio thing and hope one of you gurus can figure it out. TIA! -- Zach Linux--Doing to Microsoft what the DOJ couldn't

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APC UPS backup
by Richard 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Trying to install a Backups Pro, it seems to be working except that it cannot connect through port 7000, returns message saying this port is already in use. How can I get around this? Can I just randomly assign port numbers until one works? Richard

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Suse 8.2 Problems
by Praise 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, After having successfully installed Suse 8.2 in 4 computers, I have noticed the following problems. 1) On my laptop, the graphic board driver has some problem. This is my GA: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY After some minutes (or seconds) my screen looks like a zebra and it gets completely unusable. It worked well out of the box with suse 8.0 (3D too). I have got back to framebuffer, but I hope this is NOT the definitive solution. Any thought? 2) I have been installing Suse 8.2 booting from a CD-RW, as it was the secondary master and the MB did not boot from the other CD. Installation hung up after a while, but I have not understood clearly why, but I think it has something to do with having a CD-RW to boot from. I unplugged the CD-RW and installed everything, but this is not an ideal situation. I remember I got the same problem on another machine installing Suse 8.0. The configuration was the same (ie a secondary master cd-rw to boot from). I thought it was my cd-rw which did not read the cd correctly, but as this is happening again with a different PC and a different set of disk I am just curious. Is anybody able to replicate this problem? If I am correct, we should have a bug report. 3) My most powerful PC has two NICs. They are: 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) I configured the 8029 to be eth0, using the ne2k module, and the 8139 to be eth1, using the 8139too module. The error I get is: ... Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:100@dc00 for device 00:0c.0 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:100@dc00 for device 00:0c.0 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: Trying to free nonexistent resource <e3003000-e30030ff> Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe0c4d000, 00:a0:a2:00:84:e9, IRQ 11 Jun 1 11:20:35 main kernel: eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' ... eth1 is not up, at boot time, I think it is because of this problem. dsl0 is not up too, because of that error. If I do "rcnetwork restart" everything gets up running. I hope this would be solved by 8139cp module, which I still have to try. I hope it is not a bigger bug:) Praise -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2mDX6v3ZTabyE8kRAjPmAKDZ9Ih6v1UulH+Xudav/B5VXDrCyACgjnDd B5tG+FKHcN7hkIJKXoj1CaM= =L8ds -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TWM/MWM cant get out:
by thom＠cavtel.net 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

I tried i think TWM on my login screen to see what that would do. Please help. Now I can't seem to get back to the FVM screen to choose KDE. Don't know how to exit this thing either. On reboot it goes right back to TWM. Thanks. Thom Nuzum (in DC)

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/var/adm/backup
by illustre 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

how can i stop this bkups or i shall ask who generates them

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Re: [SLE] Help NEWBIE!
by Stephen 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Sunday June 01 2003 5:29 am, Stephen wrote: > >>rcmysql status > > > It is now.......SuSE has a mysql.server file in /usr/share/mysql/ that no one > else uses......nice to have, but it isn't what I was looking for to get the > beast up and running. Anyway, as root, it will start or stop the server just > fine. I wrote a couple scripts to start and stop it without being root. Now, > to get the critter working with SO. 'Have an idea that's going to be a royal > pain in the butt. > > Thanks, > > Fred > You can start mysqld at startup by enabling it in the runlevel editor. To save the user having to start and stop it manually. Steve

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Re: [SLE] 8.2 hangs at install
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Sounds like my problem. Just bought me a 52X drive and I have this problem. Before I start using my old cdrom 2X with its own bunch of minor problems, I would like to know if it is possible to lower the speed by using hwscan at the start of installation? The same question as with my badram. Is it possible to inform the cdrom at installation time about using a lower speed and to restrict the use of ram? I have only one memory chip and for the coming days no possibility to swap it with other chips. >Hello >I had exactly the same problem. I tried installing from >scratch N times >and N times it failed at the same place (Evaluating >package >selection...). I posted to the list to no avail. The last >thing I tried >was swapping out my CDROM drive from a 52X to something >much slower. >This solved the problem. I don't know why but that did it >. The 52X drive >had no problems with 8.1 installation however. Magic? >Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: >>Having just received my 8.2 I was eager to start working >. >>I decided to go for an upgrade and found out that there >>where difficulties reading the installed packages of my >>It is always such an occasion that it is advisable to >check >>memory. I have 256 Mb and indeed at 209.3 Mb there is an >>error. Could it be the faulty memory? >>As I do not have the possibility to get new memory in >the >>coming days and being eager to get the 8.2 running, is >>there a possibility to restrict the memory use during >>installation of 8.2 up to the size of 209Mb as I can do >>during normal use? >> -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Xsane on 8.2
by Bruce Marshall 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Tried using Xsane on 8.2 today for the first time since installing (clean) 8.2. Upon scanning, it just kept repeating the scan over and over. I had to click on Cancel to get it to quit. I was not using the batch mode and a look at all the options didn't show me anything was amiss. Has anyone else experienced/solved this? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/01/03 13:28 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Some men are discovered; others are found out."

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Re: [SLE] kreatecd - qt 2.2.2
by H du Plooy 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 19:00, Catimimi wrote: > # ln -s /usr/lib/qt3 /usr/lib/qt > " ln -s /usr/lib/qt3 /usr/local/qt > > at least the last one doesn't exist. > > It should work with that. > > Catimimi. Thanks, I did this, configure was happy, but it didn't compile. I guess kreatecd just doesn't go with qt3. I'll ask the kreatecd guys. Thanks H

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Scanning Problem (was YaST insanity)
by Steve Miller 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

--- Steve Miller <doctor_clyde(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:25:48 -0700 (PDT) > From: Steve Miller <doctor_clyde(a)yahoo.com> > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] YaST insanity > > Hi, > > I have a really weird problem... > > Just got an Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner, > which > is said to be fully supported by SANE, according to > the SANE home page. That's the good news. The bad > news > is that unless I use version 1.0.10 or higher of > SANE, > I can BREAK my scanner, even with the correct > driver! > I am running SuSE 8.1, which has the 1.0.8 version. > (I > caught this just as I was about to scan my first > image! (Whew!) > > First, I tried downloading SANE's own tarballed > version 1.0.12. The build, make, and install went > OK, > but when I tried to remove 1.0.8, YaST complained > bitterly. I ignored it, but then when I tried xsane, > IT complained that SANE was not properly installed. > Guessing that there is something odd about the SuSE > version that YaST handles, I got rid of the 1.0.12 > version. > > Second, I tred downloading the SuSE RPM (SANE > 1.0.10) > from the SuSE 8.2 ftp site. I first was unable to > change my installation medium to my home directory > to > install the package. So then I tried rpm -i > blahblah.rpm. I got a message that the package could > > "not be installed". Using --install got the same > result. > > How can I either (a) get YaST to behave or (b) > install > the software I need so YaST will realize that SANE > IS > installed and I can configure my scanner or (c) find > a > how-to that will tell me how to do manually whatever > YaST is set up to do? YaST is blocking me at the > software installation level and I am sure will block > me at the configuration level even if I do get the > software installed. > > Thanks in advance. > > Steve Miller > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to > suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com

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Browsing DVD-R with Konq
by Rick Green 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

A friend passed me a DVD-R filled with their vacation pictures. It mounts easily in my DVD-ROM drive, but Konqueror does not display any files present. From a command line, cd and ls can browse the disk. xv will open the pictures. Xcdroast could see them, and allowed me to select subsets for copy to CD-R. On the subsequent CD-R's, Konq can browse and open files on all but one of the CD's. On this one (690MB full on a 700MB disk), it exhibits the same behaviour as on the DVD-R. System is SuSE 8.1. Any ideas why Konq appears to get confused with large iso or ubf filesystems? -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [SLE] OpenOffice slow in 8.2
by Paul Benjamin 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Yes I am trying OO 1.1 beta2 after having problem with the SuSE 8.2 rpm but it has the same problem. If you run a cpu intensive background task like SETI@Home, Folding@Home, distributed.net? If you do and it works for you what is your memory settings. I have 512M of RAM and I am not using the swap file yet and it still is dog slow if I am running a nice 19 that uses every CPU cycle it can grab. What is ood is that if I look at the KDE System Guard the OpenOffice task is nice 0. I would be interested if it happens to you. On Sunday 01 June 2003 06:22 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi Paul, > Can I ask what version of your OpenOffice? If it is 1.0.1. It is very slow. > I suggest you to try OpenOffice 1.1 beta2. It is much faster. It much > faster if you adjust the memory that it uses to allocate to load the > application. I think to adjust the memory it is in the "Tools" and then > "Option". > > Eko.

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Routing table problems
by Jerry Feldman 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

My SuSE 8.2 laptop has 2 network interfaces. A builtin assgined to eth0 and a PCMCIA wireless card. Both are set to acquire IP addresses via DHCP. When I have the PCMCIA card plugged in, the routing table does not include the default route, so I need to add it manually: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 If I execute rcnetwork restart, the routing table is correct, so it appears to be a problem at boot time. If I remove the PCMCIA card and replace it, the routing table loses its default route. I suspect that there is a subtle bug either in etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-route or etc/sysconfig/network/ifup-pcmcia-eth If anyone has an idea, you might save me some work in debugging this. Note:I have not added any information in YaST/Network Card config/routes for either card. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Graphics Hardware Problem?
by Sylvanus A. Currie 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Recently my display has developed a problem which manifests itself as an apparent misalignment of the guns. Every text character is displayed with a white glow to the right and there appears to be shadowy lines across the display. At first, I thought may be I had messed up my XFree86 install with my last update bu no!, the problems are apparent even at boot up whilst displaying bios messages. I then tried an alternative working monitor to no avail. So I am left with the conclusion that my GeForce2 GTS graphics card is on the way out, OR, I need a new monitor (vga) cable. Does this sound reasonable? Has anyone come across this problem before? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2eKSRNQ96ZZBo4oRAjk0AJ9aEcuct2jw/6P6Wh62v7NeUxoTLACglvFA X7Fo35ADg9UcviwyeJot8qg= =DQeu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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YOU doesn't connect to master server
by Stanley Long 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

SuSE 8.2, installed from DVD. A YAST2 online update was done eight days ago from http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse per /var/lib/YaST2/you/config. Tonight YAST2 online-update produces an Error: "Cannot connect to http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/suseservers.cgi. Check your connection." Galeon is getting www.suse.de just fine tonight. According to the YAST2 editor for /etc/sysconfig, YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER=yes, so YOU is trying to update the default server list in /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers from the "master" server. There are no user specific servers available in /etc/youservers; everything is commented out. Where does YAST2 get (store) the master server address that it is trying to reach, <http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/suseservers.cgi> and is this still the proper address for the master server? I can't find it with Galeon. The default server list in /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers is: http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse/suse ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse ftp://ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de/pub/mirrors/suse ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linux/suse.com/suse ftp://ftp.suselinux.hu/pub/suse ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/SuSE-Linux

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KDE 3.1.2 keeps loosing BE keyboard settings
by Bart Symons 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

I'm using a Belgian AZERTY keyboard layout. For some reason KDE keeps loosing the keyboard settings, apperently reverting to French AZERTY instead of Belgian AZERTY. This is very annoying because the "greater then" and "smaller then" keys are not in the ususal place. I used YaST2 to set the keyboard to Belgian and that seems to work for the (pure) consoles but not for KDE applications or consoles in Konsole. ???

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How do I make a bash script?
by Tom Nielsen 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

I would like to have apt-get update automatically. The only way I can see to do this is to set up a bash script and use cron to do it...I think. 1. What should my script look like? 2. What should I put in my crontab to make it update on a weekly basis? Since it's automatically done and needs to be done as root, how do I accomplish this? How many cups of milk do I add to my pancake mix...sorry, got carried away. Thanks, Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Cinelerra : I really need your help !
by arnaud kubacki 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Hi ! I encountered several difficulties installing cinelerra on my SuSE 8.0 First, I tried the RPM packet but they are either compiled on a Redhat Machine or Mandrake Machine, so I am unable to stand with it as I need to recompile my Glibc and Gcc Second, I tried the sources but they did not compile : it ask autotools and a52.h lib but when I want to install these libraries, I got error messages : The a52.h needs autotools and when I want to install autotools the make install does nothing. Do you have any clue on how to install cinelerra on a SuSE 8.0 ? I was delighted to try (then may be buy) MainActor 5.0 but this is only available on Win 2000 and Win XP Thanks, Arnaud

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Court Puts Muzzle on SCO (OT)
by Curtis Rey 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

The SCO Group was dealt a legal blow Friday in its attempts to enforce what it sees as violations of its Unix intellectual property rights when a German court granted a preliminary injunction against the company. Joe Eckert, spokesman for SuSE Linux A.G., said the court has ordered SCO to stop claiming that the Linux operating system is an illegal derivative of Unix. "If SCO ignores the court's order, it faces a fine of up to 250,000 euro," he said...... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1113022,00.asp Cheers, Curtis.

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Help NEWBIE!
by ABHIJIT NAIK 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Dear Friends, I am new user of MySQL and whenever I type mysql to start the ware it simply states -- Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'. I know I am doing something very wrong here and mabe some of you might be able to help me solve this problem. I am running a SuSE Linux 8.2 version AMD Duron machine and already have a subscription to my ISP to access their database. ALso, the file mysql.sock does not exist in the mysql folder. Thanking you all very much for your kind help. Sincerely, ABHIJIT NAIK

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Mouse macros in Linux?
by Clayton Cornell 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

I am working on something that requres repeating certain mouse movements and clicks over and over. I'm getting RSI from doing this. This is something I would like to record and playback as a macro, but I cannot find any Linux macro utilities that will do this. I've done a search on Google and only came up with xmacro which doesn't quite do what I need. Anyone have any suggestions? C.

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