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On 24/10/2015 17:33:43, DaveG wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:39:32 +0100, mick wrote:
>
>> On 24/10/2015 13:16:38, DaveG wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:34:36 +0100, mick wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I really want to embrace Linux and move away from windows but it is
>>>> little niggles like this in the applications that make it so
>>>> frustrating to use.
>
> Yeah, just looked.  It does seem as if there is an extra blank line both 
> in replies and new posts.  I have no idea why yours should be different 
> to mine.  Maybe try reading/posting to the pan mailing list.

Good idea, I'll do that.

>>> Is it a niggle or just a different way of doing things?  This post is
>>> exactly the same as yours in terms of white space. in that Pan placed
>>> three blank lines between the quoted text and the sig.  It put the
>>> cursor on the middle line so leaving a blank line between my text and
>>> the quoted text.  By not pressing Enter when I've finished typing it
>>> means there is only one blank line between my text and the sig so that
>>> saves a whole key-
>>> press   When using email on my mobile phone I have to add in an extra
>>> Enter to force a blank line between my text and the sig.  So, maybe not
>>> so much a niggle as just a different way of doing things <shrug>
>> 
>> I have put pictures in fvbt These are the windows I get when pressing
>> the post or reply buttons.
>> 
>> Another niggle, I cannot post attachments in Pan, hence the this reply
>> from MesNews.
>
> Yes, binary posting support is supposed to be there, )Yenc only so 
> that'll piss off PhilL) but as far as I can se support is poor and a 
> little non-standard.

I did read somewhere that binary support was going to be included a few 
versions back but so far it has failed to materialise.
I did get JBinUp installed and working after a phaff about but since 
doing a test posting to fvbt its never wanted to open again, that will 
please PhilL ;-)

>> Another niggle, if I press the minimise button top right pan goes off
>> screen and will not open up again when clicking the icon in the task
>> bar. Have to shut down and re-boot to get it back.  Other programs are
>> ok and can be minimised and opened up again by clicking their icons in
>> the task bar.
>
> That sounds like something is broken and unlikely to be Pan itself but 
> something to do with the Window Manager.  Try running pan from a shell 
> console, eg xterm and see if there are any error messages.

OK, I was going to re-install it over the top of the existing, but I 
don't think you can do that without removing the program first.  I was 
reluctant to do that as I really don't want to have to go through all 
the setup again for the umpteenth time :-)
>
>> Pan is good for downloading binaries, good enough to replace the
>> excellent windows Newsbin Pro, but another niggle, it sometimes locks up
>> when downloading (saving) more than one file at a time.  Earlier I was
>> downloading 14 hefty rar files at once, it locked up after two and a
>> half,
>> re-booted and it the came back and just carried on and did the remaining
>> twelve and a half without me intervening, clever bugger.
>
> That also sounds like a backend or other problem rather than Pan itself.  
> Again, run from a console and look for error messages.

OK.
>
>> Dolphin file browser today, just will not see my windows network shares
>> on any of my other three pc's.  Why?  they were working last night, I
>> have not done any thing other than switch the machines on as normal, no
>> updates, no changes, arrrrrrrrgh.
>> :-(
>
> Can't help with that.  That's scripts etc which are Linux distro 
> specific. I use NFS exports from my server and mount them on boot so 
> everything can see them as just another part of the file system.  I think 
> you can mount windows shares in /etc/fstab at boot time, setting options 
> to allow for "late" mounting if they are not available at boot time and 
> telling fstab they are SMB type mounts.
>
> Another option to consider is setting up windows to share over NFS 
> instead.  IIRC there's something called Services for Unix which does this.

It has been working fine so there must be something simple, perhaps 
just the boot sequence of everything on the network.  I'll power 
everything off and go and kick the substation a few times after I've 
had a nice Indian thats about to arrive. :-)

-- 
mick

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