Stan Goodman wrote:
At 20:42:49 on Monday Monday 14 September 2009, "Brian K. White"
wrote: Stan Goodman wrote:
At 19:26:24 on Monday Monday 14 September 2009, Teruel de Campo MD
wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 00:08 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
At 23:55:18 on Sunday Sunday 13 September 2009, Stan Goodman
wrote: > killall xmms > will kill all instances of xmms > For what it's worth, <killall xmms> did nothing, and xmms remained in the Panel. Thinking that repeating this as root might be help, I did so, and now the Panel shows "XMMS[2]", i.e. there are two copies of xmms running, I can't see either of them, and neither of them is functional.
Hi Stan,
Hi, Denver...
Try a couple of things:
1. to bring back the window Alt+W to hide it Alt+W
2. to eliminate xmms from the task manager Rmouse/close.
Neither of these did anything. The second, done in a terminal, returns "No such file or directory".
It means right-mouse-click on the xmms tab or tray icon in the task manager, then select "close" from the popup menu. holy cow....
"Right-mouse-click"; I would have written MB2, but then, being left -handed, I'm aware of a more diverse world. Holy cow...
In all these years (I have been building and operating computers since before 1950) I have never seen "Rmouse" as a designation for a button. It
Neither have I. It's not in any dictionary or jargon file nor have I even seen it used informally, nor would I probably ever have chosen to indicate that action that way. So? I guess I must be clairvoyant because it required no thought at all. Sure there is a value to unambiguous communication. Heck I'm it's biggest champion when there actually is any ambiguity or the ambiguity carries any danger with it. (what happened when you tried the wrong command? nothing harmful. Leaving aside the fact I bet you didn't "man Rmouse" or google Rmouse before trying to execute a command some stranger gave you on a mail list...) There is also a value in being a bit awake at the wheel and being able to receive a pointer and pick up the ball and run with it instead of requiring anyone who might help you to actually do everything for you. Guess how many people are willing to help under those terms? Guess how many of those that are, have worthwhile help to offer? Now, I did not have to come anywhere near thinking this much about this, but, just for the sake of argument let's take your claim of ambuguity and run it through the mill: What commandline utility has a forward-slash in it's name? Ok maybe the poster typo'd and theres supposed to be a space in there. What unix command line utility uses forward-slashes as command line argument prefix the was DOS does? Come on. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org