Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:55 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 18/11/2011 22:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List: > >> > >> is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Jer

Re: Why does this preseed for gitolite fail?

2011-11-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian Troutwine wrote: > Why? The pre-seed was extracted from a manually configured > installation, per > [here](http://serverfault.com/questions/330456/how-do-i-provide-dpkg-configuration-parameters-to-aptitude-or-apt-get/330467#330467) > and exists without issue on another machine. It looks like

Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

2011-11-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:59:59 -0500 Pete Orrall dijo: >> > Apparently this affects more than just Xfce users >> The Gnome weather applet still works, wonder why the XFce plugin >> doesn't use the same service? > >From what I've read, the xfce weather plugin only uses the one service, >The Wea

Re: problems of ppid.

2011-11-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > shiyao ma wrote: > > Supposing I launched pidgin under xfce4 with keyboard shortcuts, I found > > that pidgin's ppid is 1. > > I knew that if I start a program in a console and e.g: wireshark& if I > > close the console, the program will be still running, and it's pid will > > be

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread Bob Proulx
shiyao ma wrote: > Once again, I added export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 in my .zshrc > However, I do not think it will affect the locale of my GUI software... Is it an acceptable solution to set LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 only? If not then I will suggest a more complicated but robust solution. It appears that s

Re: Ubuntuone Package

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:54:18PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:33:33 -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > I had found an e-mail from one of the Ubuntu packagers from some time > > back indicating that he was going to try to get this included in Debian, > > due to the problems of i

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:39:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > do most of you replace GNOME 3 by XFCE? > > I'm undecided what to do, but I guess it would be wise to install > parallel to GNOME 3 the most used alternative installed by users who are > subscribed to this list. > > Except

Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

2011-11-18 Thread Pete Orrall
> > Apparently this affects more than just Xfce users > > The Gnome weather applet still works, wonder why the XFce plugin doesn't use > the > same service? >From what I've read, the xfce weather plugin only uses the one service, The Weather Channel (TWC), to provide data. The Gnome appl

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the > panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom > of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is > it possible to

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 13:01 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Thanks to all for help! Now, finally, I solved all my problems, except one: > I still do not have wifi working, although, as far as I can see, I > have all relevant packages installed. I use wicd (wicd-gtk) and do NOT > have ne

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 12:19 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > > > > On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > >> > >> On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello List: > >>> > >>> is there a way to lock the screen manually w

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 17:34 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I would prefer a `button' near the `Log Out' one: > I guess it can be done ... how ? Alt + F2 > xfce4-settings-manager > Panel > Items > + (Add new item to this panel) > Add Launcher > Select the launcher > Push button to "Edit the currentl

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:22 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello List: > > > > is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Jerome > > Good point! > > Applications > Settings >

Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Lorenzo :) > As far as I've read so far the only way would be to use the gnome > plugin... or you can of course go terminal e.g. with the cpufrequtils The current Xfce plugin for using GNOME panel plugins doesn't work for the current Xfce panel. > > 2. > > > > For a panel and for 'App

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/11/2011 22:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Good point! Applications> Settings> Settings Manager> Keyboard> Application S

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:29 PM, shiyao ma wrote: > > Once again, I added export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 in my .zshrc > However, I do not think it will affect the locale of my GUI software... With bash, you'd edit "/etc/profile" or "~/.profile"; with zsh, no idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? > > Thanks in advance, > Jerome Good point! Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts says that Ctrl + Alt + D

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- path to kioskrc

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 15:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:20:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > What's the regular full path for testing to the Xfce kioskrc? > > > > ???/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc? > ^^^ > etc > > Greetings, When I started the Xfce panel a message appeared a

Re: problems of ppid.

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:59:25 +0800, shiyao ma wrote: > Supposing I launched pidgin under xfce4 with keyboard shortcuts, I found > that pidgin's ppid is 1. > I knew that if I start a program in a console and e.g: wireshark& if I > close the console, the program will be still running, and it's pid w

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the > panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom > of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is > it possible to

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:52:46 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The screen savers are pretty, but would it be possible to have them just > go blank and save power when the laptop in not plugged in? You don't need any screensavers installed. man xset. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 08:06 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Ralf Mardorf, 18.11.2011: > > > > IMO it's hard enough that there isn't a confidential, comfortable shred > > option even for the command line, at least the DE should delete (rm -r) > > files and directories instead of moving them. > > O

Re: Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 14:24 +0200, SM wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > When deleting files or directories with Thunar's right-click delete > > option, those files will be moved to the wastebasket. > > Lot of DE's understand pressing Shift-Delete after you'

Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Andrei :) On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 14:08 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 18 nov 11, 11:56:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 1. > > > > The cpufreq information plugin for the Xfce4 panel, > > xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, doesn't enable to switch from ondemand to > > performance. > > How can I get this fe

gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is it possible to move it to be part of the strip at the top, for example? In

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

2011-11-18 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Thanks to all for help! Now, finally, I solved all my problems, except one: I still do not have wifi working, although, as far as I can see, I have all relevant packages installed. I use wicd (wicd-gtk) and do NOT have network-manager installed (I always earlier found wicd to function better) Whee

problems of ppid.

2011-11-18 Thread shiyao ma
Hi,all Supposing I launched pidgin under xfce4 with keyboard shortcuts, I found that pidgin's ppid is 1. I knew that if I start a program in a console and e.g: wireshark& if I close the console, the program will be still running, and it's pid will be 1. Under GUI, how it works? The more detailed th

Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:06:55PM -0500, Pete Orrall wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 16:31 +, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 13 Nov 2011 at 10:18:52 -0500, Pete Orrall wrote: > > > > > What's going on and how do I fix this? > > > > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > > > > November 2011.

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread shiyao ma
Once again, I added export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 in my .zshrc However, I do not think it will affect the locale of my GUI software... So guys, what's your solution? On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2011-11-18, Marlon Nunes wrote: > > do a: dpkg-reconfigure locales > > choose yo

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> >> On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> >>> Hello List: >>> >>> is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) >>> ? >> >> Yes. With the command xflock4 - part

Difficulty with bonded ethernet devices after upgrade to squeeze

2011-11-18 Thread Patrick Zaloum
Hello I have been dealing with a problem for quite a while now since upgrading my lenny servers that use bonding to squeeze. It is a bit difficult to explain so I will do my best Let me start by giving my bond config: iface bond0 inet static address x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: GUI for mic testing ?

2011-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > Any small GUI tool for mic testing ? > Mine is Icewm with alsamixer gtk. But can't check the mic; > no visual. Test it for what? Get a gmail account, log in, go to chat settings, and there's a meter. Especially good if you're tight on space. --

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-18, Marlon Nunes wrote: > do a: dpkg-reconfigure locales > choose your default locale and that's it. > reboot. Why reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. You are right. It c

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 11/18/2011 05:57 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome xscreensaver-command -activate works on any WM/DE. Replace -activate with -lock if needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How to fix the ELF class issue

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:25:37 +0800, lina wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I guess this happens when you run acrobat reader from command line, >> right? > > Yes. when I tried to print certain page into a new .ps file. (my pdfedit > also not work) (...) - It happens

Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 18/11/11 11:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) now I prefer Xfce to GNOME 2 and GNOME 3. Excepted of some thingies I'm missing for Xfce, it's easier and better to configure. 'Better' since it has advantages for my workflow. GNOME expat here as well... :) The cpufreq information plugin fo

Why does this preseed for gitolite fail?

2011-11-18 Thread Brian Troutwine
I'm installing gitolite on a Debian Squeeze box with the following preseed: gitolitegitolite/gituserstring git gitolitegitolite/adminkey string ssh-rsa B3ECT gitolitegitolite/gitdir string /var/lib/git On installation: # debcon

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. It can also be bound to a keyboard shortcut. Lorenzo. Thanks i

Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- path to kioskrc

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:20:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What's the regular full path for testing to the Xfce kioskrc? > > ???/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc? ^^^ etc Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > And it didn't for me when I installed Lenny.  I have just installed it > manually.  I have not got task-desktop, so do not need its > dependencies. > > lisi@Junior:~$ aptitude search task-desktop > lisi@Junior:~$ Keep in mind that the desktop

Re: How to fix the ELF class issue

2011-11-18 Thread lina
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:53:46 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so >> /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: wrong ELF class: >> ELFCLASS64 Failed to load module: >> /usr/lib/gio/modules/

Re: gnome-volume-manager gone?

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:54:25 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:31:45PM +, Camale?n wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:41:13 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: >> >> > Has anyone else experienced this? I updated my wheezy-running netbook >> > today (over 200 packages), >> >> Wow, that's

Re: Ubuntuone Package

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:33:33 -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: > Any chance that this package will be included in the Debian archive? There is an ITP (Intent To Package, IIRC) bug already opened: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559752 > Tried to install it but ran into dependency hel

Re: gnome-volume-manager gone?

2011-11-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:31:45PM +, Camale?n wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:41:13 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > > Has anyone else experienced this? I updated my wheezy-running netbook > > today (over 200 packages), > > Wow, that's too many packages, maybe because you did not run updates on

Re: How to fix the ELF class issue

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:53:46 +0800, lina wrote: > Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so > /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 Failed to load module: > /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so > > (acroread-en:16443): G

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 17/11/11 15:31, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I just got to reinstall debiann vause my harddisk fried. I wanted to use the opportunity to change from gnome to Xfce4. This worked well when I installed stable, but when upgrading to wheezy the problems arrived. First some output from

Re: gnome-volume-manager gone?

2011-11-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:41:13 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Has anyone else experienced this? I updated my wheezy-running netbook > today (over 200 packages), Wow, that's too many packages, maybe because you did not run updates on regular intervals :-? > and afterwards gnome-volume-manager and > gn

Re: Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Ralf Mardorf, 18.11.2011: > > IMO it's hard enough that there isn't a confidential, comfortable shred > option even for the command line, at least the DE should delete (rm -r) > files and directories instead of moving them. > Or is there a shred option working for journaled FS and that perhaps > e

Re: Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread SM
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When deleting files or directories with Thunar's right-click delete > option, those files will be moved to the wastebasket. Lot of DE's understand pressing Shift-Delete after you've selected the files/folders as "delete permanently".

Ubuntuone Package

2011-11-18 Thread Stephen Allen
Good morning; Any chance that this package will be included in the Debian archive? Tried to install it but ran into dependency hell and in the end realized that I wasn't going to be able to install it. I had found an e-mail from one of the Ubuntu packagers from some time back indicating that he

Re: Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread SM
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When deleting files or directories with Thunar's right-click delete > option, those files will be moved to the wastebasket. Lot of DE's understand pressing Shift-Delete after you've selected the files/folders as "delete permanently".

Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 18 nov 11, 11:56:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 1. > > The cpufreq information plugin for the Xfce4 panel, > xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, doesn't enable to switch from ondemand to > performance. > How can I get this feature working? Is this supported or you just want it? > 2. > > For a panel and fo

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 16:56 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > To repeat: My card is GeForce G0 6150, whgich is among the cards the > novaou driver shold work for! Kjetil test another driver, it's not unusual that nouveau fails. YMMV. - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) now I prefer Xfce to GNOME 2 and GNOME 3. Excepted of some thingies I'm missing for Xfce, it's easier and better to configure. 'Better' since it has advantages for my workflow. Anyway, here are 2 + 1 additional issues. 1. The cpufreq information plugin for the Xfce4 panel, xfce4-cpufreq-p

Xfce: File browser

2011-11-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
When deleting files or directories with Thunar's right-click delete option, those files will be moved to the wastebasket. I'm not a wastebasket user, I prefer that files are deleted, when I deleted them, since this is the reason to delete a file. It's annoying to 'file browse to the wastebasket' a

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread i
According to my experience, editing /etc/default/locale should work. I did restart my laptop and found that the line "export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8" didn't work. However, when I switched to root, and run locale -a, the output became normal. To confirm that, I run set | grep LC_CTYPE. It is true that

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread i
dpkg-reconfigure locales is not meticulous enough. That's the reason why I want to set the default locale by myself. 2011/11/18 Marlon Nunes > do a: dpkg-reconfigure locales > choose your default locale and that's it. > reboot. > > Em 18-11-2011 02:11, shiyao ma escreveu: > >> I am now using D

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread Marlon Nunes
do a: dpkg-reconfigure locales choose your default locale and that's it. reboot. Em 18-11-2011 02:11, shiyao ma escreveu: I am now using Debian/Sid with display manager lightdm and desktop manager xfce4. I used to edit /etc/environment and add export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8. Now It doesn't work. Wh

Re: debian 6.03 KDE desktop

2011-11-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 17/11/2011 16:27, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:57:37 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Running Gnome desktop debian 6.03. Kindly is there a command to add the KDE desktop to a Gnome system. I remember that in Ubuntu there is such a command. On boot up you have a choice to go eit