Login manager screenshot

Hi I would like to take a screenshot of my GDM login manager to include in a new gdm login manager theme (without starting a gnome session). How is it done? Thanks in advance... -- .-. | Miguel J. Jiménez

Re: Iceweasel and Icedove not showing main window

Do you see any error messages if you run icedove from an X terminal? You should also check ~/.xsession-errors. Nothing in the terminal or in the .xsession-errors Did you really complete the upgrade or did apt list some packages as "kept back"? If you have aptitude installed you can use apti

Re: dsc.py: Automated warnings for Debian security updates

On Sun July 1 2007 11:22:40 pm Adam Hupp wrote: > (Sorry if you see this twice, but I never saw the first copy come > through) > > Hello, > I'm announcing a program I've written for notifying the administrator > about necessary security updates on a Debian box. It's called Debian > Security Check

dsc.py: Automated warnings for Debian security updates

(Sorry if you see this twice, but I never saw the first copy come through) Hello, I'm announcing a program I've written for notifying the administrator about necessary security updates on a Debian box. It's called Debian Security Check (dsc.py). Often it's not obvious that a security advisory a

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > > disc from her machine to mine, but QEM

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU. Perhaps it's a difference in processor features. Newe

Re: Configuring for skype

andy wrote: Hi all I have recently downloaded and installed Skype onto my lenny system and when I am configuring it by making a test call, apparently there is a problem with my sound system. I have gone through the various options in the Skype settings, but am wondering if there is something

Re: Mailing list problems with Thunderbird

On 07/01/2007 08:49 PM, KS wrote: > Kamaraju's pointed got me curious as I hadn't seen the feature in 2.0.x > yet. And indeed you are right. The patch was to make sure those > "extensions" worked properly. Thunderbird/Icedove in itself does not > have the feature of "Reply-To-List" yet. I've used

Re: Configuring for skype

andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I have recently downloaded and installed Skype onto my lenny system > and when I am configuring it by making a test call, apparently there > is a problem with my sound system. I have gone through the various > options in the Skype settings, but am wond

Re: Configuring for skype

I have also installed Skype in my Debian Lenny/Syd and it works fine. What's exactly the problem that you have got? Have you tried running alsa-conf from a konsole? Kind regards. -- Oscar Blanco García Ingeniero Electrónico - Universidad Nacional de Colombia Teléfono: Casa: +57 1 687 0019

Error trying to run apt-get

Was wondering if anyone has a workaround for this problem other than uninstalling and reinstalling. I'm trying to upgrade a package and get this error. The software involved doesn't seem to be one that I can uninstall without uninstalling a bunch of things I'd rather not uninstall to reinstall.

Re: Mailing list problems with Thunderbird

Sam Leon wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Sam Leon wrote: Ok, I have had this problem for awhile and I can't find any info on it. I am using thunderbird 1.5 in testing. All the other mailing lists that I have subscribed to work fine. When I see a post that I want to respond to, I sim

Continuing saga of xorg restarts

I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and xorg restarted. I'm utterly unfamiliar with the internals of X. What would VLC have been doing when I clicked Save that would cause a xorg restart? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my

Configuring for skype

Hi all I have recently downloaded and installed Skype onto my lenny system and when I am configuring it by making a test call, apparently there is a problem with my sound system. I have gone through the various options in the Skype settings, but am wondering if there is something that I should

Re: revtex4

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 23:26 +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am running Etch. I need the revtex4 class. In what package of the > > tex-live family is it? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Marcelo > > > > > > Hello, > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: revtex4

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am running Etch. I need the revtex4 class. In what package of the tex-live family is it? Thanks in advance Marcelo Hello, http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=revtex4&searchon=all&subword=1&version=stable&release=all http://pac

revtex4

Hi! I am running Etch. I need the revtex4 class. In what package of the tex-live family is it? Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:19:53PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Do you want to play .swf files or .flv files using the Macromedia > > Ye, I'm talking about .flv videos. > > > A standalone Linux player exists, it's on Adobe Labs' site somewhere. > > This players are

Re: FileSystem Question

Cousin Stanley wrote: I was (and I suppose still am) a huge fan of subversion. I loved RCS, hated CVS, and found subversion to be a God-send I started using git about 3 weeks ago William Under Debian Etch I see the following packages listed git-arch git

Re: Cellphone pages from mozilla/firefox

So, what explicitly the problem is? E.g. I have tried to open the website you posted but i failed because it is forbidden for me. I've got: " You don't have permission to access /ar/universal/p/index.mpl on this server." The problem, at least in my case, seems to be proper connecting to the right

Re: [HS] Brancher 2 écrans sur une carte graphique

Sorry, could you translate into English. I think English is the official language list. I'm an Spanish speaker so I do understand some of your sentences in French, but not all the text, yet. Kind regards. -- Oscar Blanco García Ingeniero Electrónico - Universidad Nacional de Colombia Teléfono: C

Re: FileSystem Question

> I was (and I suppose still am) a huge fan of subversion. > I loved RCS, hated CVS, and found subversion to be a God-send > > I started using git about 3 weeks ago > William Under Debian Etch I see the following packages listed git-arch git-core git-

gatos with etch and the ATI 3D Rage II+DVD

I have an ATI 3D Rage II+DVD in a machine running etch and 2.6.18-4-686. Before I waste too much time investigating blind alleys, can anyone tell me whether gatos will work or not? If it will work, any tips will be appreciated. Thanks,... Helen E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: triyng to setup pam-ldap..

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hi, > I'm triyng to setup pam-ldap so I can use it with sshd. > Where is what I get from sshd -d, while trying to login: > What do you have in /etc/pam.d/ssh, /etc/ssh/sshd_config, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and also /

Re: debian kernel

Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I want to compile the newest (2.6.21.5) kernel on my Debian lenny This is a little dated now that Etch has released, it was written for Sarge, but it is still very good recommended reading for building kernels on Debian. I offer it as additional reference. http://newbie

Re: FileSystem Question

Hi William, On 6/30/07, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keep in mind that CVS is extremely old, and entirely obsolete. Subversion was a new implementation of the same idea, and did in fact address many of CVS's shortcomings. However, if you are going to look into using a VCS (Versio

how to tunnel all network to a specific ssh season

Good day,... i have heared about tunneling specific programs with ssh (setting up firefox and gaim azureus to use ssh) but i wish more : i need to find a way to take all my network transfer and tunnel them to a spesific ssh season: for example

Re: Forcing Postfix SMTP client to use AUTH LOGIN

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 12:57:54PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2007-07-01T17:34:59+0100, Pigeon wrote: > > How do I force postfix to use AUTH LOGIN when it seems determined to > > ignore my smtpd.conf? > > All paths relative to /etc/postfix. Ensure you have something like this in > main.cf: >

Re: Forcing Postfix SMTP client to use AUTH LOGIN

On 2007-07-01T17:34:59+0100, Pigeon wrote: > How do I force postfix to use AUTH LOGIN when it seems determined to > ignore my smtpd.conf? All paths relative to /etc/postfix. Ensure you have something like this in main.cf: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = login smtp_sasl_

Totem restarting xorg (continued)

I just switched from totem-xine to totem-gstreamer. The third time I used it, xorg restarted. I believe I've noticed a pattern: it only seems to happen if I have a playlist longer than one file. One file, no matter how long, doesn't seem to cause a restart. -- Carl Fink

Re: Forcing Postfix SMTP client to use AUTH LOGIN

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:34:59PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I am trying to get Postfix (2.3) to relay mail via an upstream server > running exim 4.60. > > The exim server requires SMTP AUTH and in response to EHLO advertises > that it supports both AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN. However, it is > broken.

conflict between powersaved and kpowersave

Hi, I was about to submit this bug to kpowersave, but I thought I would ask here if anyone had any help: Package: kpowersave Version: 0.7.2-3 Severity: normal Hi, There seems to be some conflict between whether kpowersave or powersaved handles button presses. After suspending

Forcing Postfix SMTP client to use AUTH LOGIN

I am trying to get Postfix (2.3) to relay mail via an upstream server running exim 4.60. The exim server requires SMTP AUTH and in response to EHLO advertises that it supports both AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN. However, it is broken. AUTH PLAIN doesn't work, only AUTH LOGIN works. I have verified th

Re: Aptitude slow package initialization

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:08:29 -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude > recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one day > decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I was wrong. > There was

Re: archive corrupted !

Till Wimmer wrote: sfantar wrote: I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an archive .tar.gz. You said tar -cvf ? -c stands for "create", not compression... tar -cvzf would do a gzip compression. Maybe your archive isn't zipped at all. Till

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Aptitude slow package initialization

I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one day decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I was wrong. There was a dependency problem for awhile and it's only been recently tha

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

On Thursday 28 June 2007 17:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/28/07, John W. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked at that but this is the line that was set up by the installation > > system "general.useragent.extra.firefox default string > > Iceweasel/2.0.0.4" > > This seems to be e

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:56, John K Masters wrote: > On 11:50 Thu 28 Jun , John W. Foster wrote: > > I like the Mozilla extension Stumble Upon. How is it possible to get it > > working with Iceweasel. According to what I have read, Iceweasel is > > basically Firefox (for Debian), & Stumble U

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:16, arijit sarkar wrote: > I've never tried. but just a guess. > > in IceWeasel address-bar, type "about:config" and press ENTER. > now in search box type "general.useragent.extra.iceweasel"... change the > value of this key to "Firefox/2.0.0.x" (x= your iceweasel versio

Re: archive corrupted !

sfantar wrote: > I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's > an archive .tar.gz. > You said tar -cvf ? -c stands for "create", not compression... tar -cvzf would do a gzip compression. Maybe your archive isn't zipped at all. Till > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: help with php config in debian

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 12:32:45PM -, Xinhao Zheng wrote: > hi all, > I was a fresh man to debian linux.Is there anyone who can tell me > where to find the php's config file?I install php5 with following cmd: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql -- > with-apx

debian kernel

Hi, I want to compile the newest (2.6.21.5) kernel on my Debian lenny Centrino laptop. In http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org (2.2) is stated that the kernel offered in Debian repository is: "obtained by taking the source from linux-major_version.orig.tar.gz (that is, pristine kernel s

Re: How to move the master boot record?

On Sunday 01 July 2007 13:33:17 Rodolfo Medina wrote: [snip] > I've done more tests and these are my conclusions: > > 1) if I run the above grub commands from the `target' partition everything > goes well: e.g., if I want to install hda6 grub boot loader to the mbr, I > have to do: > ># grub

help with php config in debian

hi all, I was a fresh man to debian linux.Is there anyone who can tell me where to find the php's config file?I install php5 with following cmd: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql -- with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2 /bin/apxs2 make make install And,is there a cache i

Re: Mailing list problems with Thunderbird

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Sam Leon wrote: Ok, I have had this problem for awhile and I can't find any info on it. I am using thunderbird 1.5 in testing. All the other mailing lists that I have subscribed to work fine. When I see a post that I want to respond to, I simply click the Rep

Re: How to move the master boot record?

Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On my PC, besides the swap partition, I have one partition, hda1, for MS >>> Windows and another five for Linux: hda6, had7, hda8, hda9, hda10. >>> >>> At the moment the `boot partition' is hda6 and I want it to be, say, hda9. >>> Sorry if I can'y use

Re: entering data into a pdf file

Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:04:09 -0700 Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, I remember from my dad's experience at work, where he does this very act on an extremely regular basis, that you need the professional version of Adobe Acrobat in order to enter data into

Re: resolv.conf wrongly gets Belkin router's address

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:06:58 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >Kent West wrote: >> > auto eth0 >> > iface eth0 inet dhcp > >That looks fine to me. > >> That's the way it seems to me also, but when Belkin support told me >> that their router does NOT offer its own address as a DNS server, I >> figured I

Wireless with password not working

Dear all I've got an Apple PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch on it. I've managed to make the wireless card work by copying the firmware for the card from Mac OS to Debian. I can successfully connect to an open wireless network (i.e. a network which is not require a password) using Debian. How

Re: resolv.conf wrongly gets Belkin router's address

Kent West wrote: > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp That looks fine to me. > That's the way it seems to me also, but when Belkin support told me that > their router does NOT offer its own address as a DNS server, I figured I > better double-check with other Debianistas before concluding that