On 12/28/2016 11:06 AM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 06:33:11 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
I've just installed Jessie with Mate DE to a new machine.
On previous installs on other machines, a search icon was present
on Synaptic's menu bar. It is not there now, what have I done
differently?
Have you no icon (magnifying glass) at all?
That is correct.
If this is missing, you have some kind of installation problem with Synaptic,
I suspected as much. The FIND function does exist and is
available thru one of the menus.
blow away and try again.
How do I "blow away"?
If you want a search text input icon in addition to the
basic magnifying glass search, you need the non-default
apt-xapian-index package and a few dependencies.
Not quite ;) I wish "NORMAL" 'quote' operation 'unquote'.
IOW, "what did I mess up?"
My machine is a laptop whose CD eject button is small and in an
awkward location. Is there anyway to have Synaptic eject rather
than unmount the CD when it has finished with it?
Probably not Synaptic as such
That is what I suspected.
, but a right-click on the drive in a file
manager should give an 'eject' option, or there may be an up arrow
beside the drive name. You probably have to close anything which is
currently using the drive.
Yepp, that is essentially my workaround.
[As a side note, I have noticed that some USB flash drives have a
"safe remove" option, others have only an "eject" option. I would
prefer USB flash drives to only have an unmount option. Possible?]
Don't know, I generally use a file manager with USB drives, and just
hit the up arrow beside the drive when I'm finished. If more than one
partition is mounted, clicking on one arrow blinks the light on the
drive (if it has one) and unmounts all partitions.
To paraphrase a burger joint ad of yester-year - "I want it my way".
As an alternative to the above, is there any way to have Synaptic
use an external USB connected drive rather than the internal CD?
I would think you'd have to make sure it has a fixed name, and give it
a sources.list file uri entry.
What I was really hoping for would be a solution of form examine
sr0 first then sr1, chose whichever had the appropriate CD/DVD.
The external drive is moderately faster and has a convent eject
button.
Are you in the market for flying nun jokes?
So I can't spell.
Decades ago I knew a sister who would be rolling on floor laughing!
Her Mother Superior would be grimacing with a smile on her face.
Nuns *DO* have a sense of humor ;)
