Midnight Commander, numpad and ps command.

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Tillus

Beginner

Posts: 6

Thursday, November 13th 2003, 7:11pm

Midnight Commander, numpad and ps command.

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What is Midnight Commander and how can I find information on it? I’ve tried man/whatis/apropos and info and f ex Midnight Commander in the command prompt without any result.

How do I get my numpad to work properly in AbiWord? For the moment it’s either dead (numlock on) or it works like arrow keys (numlock off).

ps is supposed to report different processes, active in the system, but why doesn’t it tell wich status the processes have? I’m typing it like they tell me in my book: ps <enter>. And why doesn’t ps see when I run AbiWord? Likewise, the jobs command doesn’t work either.

Is it possible to port avi-codecs directly to Linux from windows, or do I have to start looking for codecs all over again?

Last, when I put a CD in my CD-drive it plays the music fine, so everything seems installed properly. But when I try XMMS to play my mp3-files I don't hear a thing. No otput at all. The same thing when I try playing a movie with mpegs I get picture, but no sound.

Thank you very much

Have a nice day.
Tillus

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Sebastian

Beginner

Posts: 46

Thursday, November 13th 2003, 8:30pm

Re: Midnight Commander, numpad and ps command.

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Original von Tillus

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What is Midnight Commander and how can I find information on it? I’ve tried man/whatis/apropos and info and f ex Midnight Commander in the command prompt without any result.

Did you try good ol' google?

First hit: http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

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ps is supposed to report different processes, active in the system, but why doesn’t it tell wich status the processes have? I’m typing it like they tell me in my book: ps <enter>. And why doesn’t ps see when I run AbiWord? Likewise, the jobs command doesn’t work either.

ps --help
I usually run ps combined with "aux" -> ps aux
If you want to find a specific process you should try "ps aux | grep <process>"

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cmbofh

Intermediate

Posts: 539

Friday, November 14th 2003, 5:52am

Re: Midnight Commander, numpad and ps command.

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How do I get my numpad to work properly in AbiWord? For the moment it's either dead (numlock on) or it works like arrow keys (numlock off).

Hmmm. You'd have a better chance of getting an answer if you
asked that question in a GNOME forum. After all abiword is
not a KDE app so there probably won't be that many users
of abiword around here...

Does your keypad work as expected with other apps?
If it doesn't then the problem may be at the X level
(keyboard configuration/layout).

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Is it possible to port avi-codecs directly to Linux from windows, or do I have to start looking for codecs all over again?

If you mean by "porting" that you want to be able to use
them then the answer is yes, at least for mplayer.

I don't know if it works with codecs you provide (actually
I don't think so), but it comes with a big stock of codecs from the
win platform (it's a separate download). Note that some distros
come with stripped-down versions of mplayer that are missing those
codecs (probably due to legal problems). In that case you're
better off if you build it yourself.

See http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/ for details.

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