Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > I realized that I had not tried dd from VC2 just before entering the > partitioner section of weekly build (Jessie) installer. It didn't > allow successful write, so I tried Wheezy 7.7 which had failed before > the dd write. This time for 7.7, the partition write succeeded, and I > proceeded to a successfully reboot after install. But the Wheezy that > it installed was largely useless to me because I use gnome-terminal > frequently and all the virtual terminal programs had a serious flaw: > They didn't have a command prompt in the window. While looking for > some config setting to get a command prompt, I noticed that I had > actually installed 7.8, which I hadn't known existed. Maybe the > version conflict could be causing problems. So I downloaded Wheezy 7.8 > CD. tried it, and it had the same flaw. But I realized that I could > use VC1 to dist-upgrade to Jessie, and sort out the picky details in > the release that I would like to use in Jessie, and beyond. The > dist-upgrade went about as well as expected in that the Wheezy install > had placed both Xfce and Gnome-desktop on the computer. The trick that > finally allowed a conflict free was to select task-mate-desktop for > installation. > > That allowed the aptitude conflict resolver to let go of all the gnome > packages that were in conflict with required Xfce packages. Which is > the whole point of writing the above: Asking for Mate does a world of > good for this particular dist-upgrade path which is one that we all > hope a lot of people will be attempting soon. I really don't feel that > want to be locked into the sequence LTS -> LLTS -> RLLTS -> RRLLTS > (ReallyReallyLongLongTermSupport ;-) while Debian leaves me in its > more and more distant past.
Well that's a relief. > 1) In Xfce, the "Settings->Preferred_Applications->Web_Browser" window > offers "Mozilla_Firefox" in its pick list. This might be treatable > as a release critical bug. When I do select it, I do actually get > Iceweasel, so maybe the problem can be handled by a phone call by > our lawyers to Mozilla's lawyers. ;-) Debian can't distribute a modified Firefox nor its artwork, hence the rebadging. > 2) A problem that I really want to fix: The window in which Iceweasel > is displayed does not have toolbar across top of the window. ( line > containing "File Edit View History ...) There might be some > key stoke combination the serves as a substitute, but I have trouble > remembering such things. Where is this configured in Xfce? NOT in > Settings->"Window_Manager" or "Settings->Window_Manager_Tweeks". I've > looked there. Press Left-Alt and the menu bar will appear. You can also press, say, Left-Alt-B and get the bookmarks, if you know the appropriate letters, F, E, V, S, B etc. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150313035505.gc22...@alum.home
