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Thu, 23 Oct 2003

Thu Oct 23 17:43:14 2003 Can't make Escher run duplex from Dell217
Looking at Printers and Faxes > XX > Printing Preferences :

when XX = renoir we get a pane that says "Print on Both Sides" and gives radio buttons for flip orientation.

when XX = escher we get no such pane.

BTW, can I arrange things to print a header page on jobs spooled through Windows? I believe the setting is on the Printer Properties > Advanced > Separator Page, which is grayed out. I'm guessing that I'd have to be an Administrator to do that. Not a biggie right now.

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Thu Oct 23 10:49:00 2003 Where to put Temporary Internet Files?
In an attempt to cut down on the size of my .WIN_PROFILE, I moved my IE Temporary Internet Files to C:\Temp, which to my surprise seemed to work.

Unfortunately, now logging out takes forever while it says "saving your settings".

Where can I put the temporary internet files that won't screw things up either by counting against my quota or by requiring a long save/restore settings ?

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Thu Oct 23 10:52:23 2003 Can't remove startxwin from Startup Group
My X server this morning had a serious spaz: somehow it got my Caps inverted, so that everything I typed in lower case came out in upper, and vice versa.

I shut down the X server, and then observed that in my startup group I had *two* X servers starting up: startxin.bat, which simply ran C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat, and my own X Windows Startup, which ran XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard

I also noticed that when starting up, I'd get a brief cmd window which said "access is denied" and "startxwin.bat". I definitely *was* running startxwin.bat, because I'd get the xterm that it starts up.

I tried removing startxwin.bat, but every time I logged out and logged in again, it came back (!).

Is this startxwin.bat something that you added to the Startup group recently? I don't think it was there when we initially played with this machine.

startxwin.bat says "start XWin -multiwindow", but does not say -clipboard.

I was hoping that knowing exactly which X server I was running would help with my cut & paste problems, but these are still a problem.

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Thu Oct 23 10:40:35 2003 Can't see cross-device links from Windows
I have a lot of stuff on /proj/wand and /scratch/wand. I've made links from my home directory to the work that is in these places, but none of these links are visible from My Documents. Nor is there any way I can see to access these directories directly.

This means that I can't use this extra (non-quota) space from the PC (say for IE cache, etc.)

This seems a relatively important thing to fix.

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