Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 06:23:24PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:45:20 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:32:22AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > > > If you do acquire another copy you may want to run cupstestppd on it. > > > > Where do I find it? > > It's on

[OT] munin

Hey all, I installed munin on my network, and wrote a puppet module to push out the munin-node.conf to each machine. Everything seems to work fine, and 9 machines are reporting in and generating graphs, but 5 are not. The configs are identical with the exception of the hostname. Here's the rub. Of

Re: sound issues

On 04/03/12 14:18, Darren Crotchett wrote: > I am going to clearly remark as much as possible for the benefit of > anyone who may find this page later. See my inline replies/comments. > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kelly Clowers > wrote: > > > > Tha

Re: sound issues

I am going to clearly remark as much as possible for the benefit of anyone who may find this page later. See my inline replies/comments. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 05:53, Darren Crotchett > wrote: > > > > Can you elaborate on what you mean

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

Mike, Another excellent approach--thanks! Unfortunately, I've now realized that lynx doesn't display some of the links that I'm interested in--I think because they may be generated by javascript (or java), so I now need to look for a text browser that runs those. I understand edbrowse might b

Re: MD device not found on boot

On Saturday, 03 March 2012 10:43:52 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> Are you using kernel-package "make-kpkg" or the "make deb-pkg" > >> target to build your kernel packages ? The former requires a bit of > >> manual configuration to work properly. > > I'm using make-kpkg: > > > > # c

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it? I have ~/.lynx/external to which I just added this line: EXTERNAL:http:echo %s | xsel -i:TRUE Then I can navigate to a link and hit the `.' key. If there are mo

Re: Desktop icons missing

Thank you kindly, Selim, that is a good tip also. I think we can safely close this thread. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Charles Krinke,  3.03.2012: >> >> I do have a "gnome-panel" panel and I can manipulate it to some >> extent. Meaning I have an application

Solved: Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

Jasper, Excellent--exactly what I needed! Thank you very much! Randy Kramer On Saturday 03 March 2012 05:31:38 pm Jasper Noë wrote: > In lynx you can make bookmarks with the 'a' button. > Combine that with a bookmark in your graphical browser to > > ~/lynx_bookmarks.html > > That is all. > > --

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:56:07 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: > Hijacking this thread Then don't. Start a new one, or better still, do a little research first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Desktop icons missing

Charles Krinke, 3.03.2012: > > I do have a "gnome-panel" panel and I can manipulate it to some > extent. Meaning I have an application item, my several virtual > desktops which I can rename normally, the clock and a few other > goodies. > > The key right now is the missing desktop items causes m

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser

On 03/03/2012 04:56 PM, Randy Kramer wrote: Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question: Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g., the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser? I have lynx installed on my m

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF > > Make sure you have NO definition

Re: evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:06:55 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 17:23 +, Camaleón wrote: >> If the last thing you can see before it crashes is the IMAP syncing >> routine, have you tried to disable this account? > > After the first time I deleted all user information from my

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

In lynx you can make bookmarks with the 'a' button. Combine that with a bookmark in your graphical browser to ~/lynx_bookmarks.html That is all. --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

[OT] Lynx: Copy selected URL to clipboard [WAS]: Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser

On 03/03/12 22:56, Randy Kramer wrote: Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question: Why not create a new one? Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g., the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser? I ha

OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question: Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g., the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser? I have lynx installed on my machine, and tried a quick look at it, but is

Re: Desktop icons missing

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:40:16 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote: > Thank you Cameleon, it is working now. I appreciate your advice in > working through this. You're welcome... and please, keep a bottom-posting style¹, it makes your stuff far more readable ;-) ¹http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists

Re: Desktop icons missing

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:07:02 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: (...) >> I did create the key "show_desktop" and set it. But upon logging out >> and back in, there is still no desktop. > > There obviously is something missing in your installation but I

Re: nonfree repositories

On Sb, 03 mar 12, 21:38:12, Lisi wrote: > Are these down? If not, does anyone know which repository still actually has > them? No problems here (with ftp.at.debian.org as mirror). Could you show some error messages? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developer

Re: Desktop icons missing

Thank you Cameleon, it is working now. I appreciate your advice in working through this. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:16:39 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote: > >> Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheezy, >> but it loo

nonfree repositories

Are these down? If not, does anyone know which repository still actually has them? Lisi -- 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/201203032138.12916.lisi.re..

Re: Desktop icons missing

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:16:39 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote: > Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheezy, > but it looks like wheezy is not ready enough for prime time. I wonder what's your understanding of "primetime". Testing is what its name indicates, a testing a

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF Make sure you have NO definition for eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces and t

Re: Desktop icons missing

Dear Frank: That was it, thanks for the link. Now all the desktop icons are back. I did google first before I asked this list, but as in much "googling" one needs a "string" that gets useful data out of the noise, and you found such a string. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Frank McCorm

Re: Desktop icons missing

Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheezy, but it looks like wheezy is not ready enough for prime time. I will annoy myself with missing desktop icons for a while and then perhaps move back to squeeze if it does not find a resolution. I thought testing for wheezy woul

Re: Desktop icons missing

On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: X>> If you are running Gnome-classic, AND there are desktop files in ~/Desktop, go into a terminal and run "nautilus -n". You then should have desktop icons. Log out, and log back in. They should be there still. If it doesn't work, in a terminal wind

Re: Desktop icons missing

On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Thank you very much for working with me. I was able to run "nautilus -n", logoug and log back in. I was also able to run gconf-editor and find "apps/nautilus/preferences", but in there there are five settings and none is "show desktop". Although I can

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 20:59:30 +0100, Bernard wrote: > So, everything seems to work fine... except for the 'NetworkManager' ! > On that machine, I only have a wired ethernet connexion ; there is no > wlan chipset for now ; I will install one soon. So, the Internet > connexion happens automa

Re: Desktop icons missing

Dear Frank: Thank you very much for working with me. I was able to run "nautilus -n", logoug and log back in. I was also able to run gconf-editor and find "apps/nautilus/preferences", but in there there are five settings and none is "show desktop". Although I can see things that relate to the desk

Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: stuff deleted.. /dev/hdc3, but now my only CDROM drive does work on /dev/hda (hda as is, not on hda1 or whatever, which I did find weird though). It does work, This is normal, since CD-ROMs don't have partitions.

Re: Desktop icons missing

On 03/03/12 01:48 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Dear Frank: Maybe my issue is I dont quite get what you are saying. There is no gconf-editor program. I can see a gconftool program, but dont know how to enable the Desktop programs to be displayed or even if this is the right tool. Didn't we ju

Re: evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 17:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:14:10 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > > > Since the beginning of this week evolution crashes on my user account. > > Running from a terminal window I see all plugins getting loaded fine and > > it starts to sync my imap accou

Re: Desktop icons missing

Dear Frank: Maybe my issue is I dont quite get what you are saying. There is no gconf-editor program. I can see a gconftool program, but dont know how to enable the Desktop programs to be displayed or even if this is the right tool. So, I guess the question is no, we didnt quite deal with this. I

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:45:20 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:32:22AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > If you do acquire another copy you may want to run cupstestppd on it. > > Where do I find it? It's on your system. man cupstestppd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Desktop icons missing

On 03/03/12 12:33 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Dear Kai: I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items defined in ~/Desktop for the normal user do not appear anymore and I am trying to get back to seeing the

Re: yelp opens .xml or does not open help files at all

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:10:48 -0300, Gerardo A. Mirkin wrote: (no html please) > Hello everybody, > I just opened yelp help of Gnome 2.0 for the first time since I > installed Debian 6.04 on an Asus eee pc 1215p (using net install from a > pen drive made with unetbootin). To my surprise, when I cl

Re: rsync

lina wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Is the time correct between your client and file system server? > > > > $ touch foo ; ls -ldog --full-time foo ; date "+%F %T" > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 0 2012-02-28 10:42:29.0 -0700 foo > > 2012-02-28 10:42:29 > > source $ $ ls -ldog --full-time md_0.xtc ; da

Re: sound issues

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 05:53, Darren Crotchett wrote: > > Can you elaborate on what you mean by "it just needs to be setup correctly"? > I'm going to be working on this issue today.  Before I install the > applications that Raffaele recommended, I want to give Pulseaudio one more > chance because

Re: detect/probe the physical connected state of a network cable

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:13:12 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:29:45 +0800, lina wrote: >> >>> Once I disabled the wireless and plugged in the cable. >> >> How exactly did you disable the wireless? Was the ethernet cable >> already plu

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:32:22AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 02 Mar 2012 at 16:30:26 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:41:55AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > > > The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd > > > > > >*PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > > > >

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

Hi again, Charles Krinke wrote (Thu March 1, 2012): > On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from > the kernel which would include any panic. Thanks. I'd already checked there, though, and no dice. The log just skips from the last innocuous kernel message to message

Re: rsync

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:27:13PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:44:31AM +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Kelly Clowers > >> wrote: > >> > Such a thing could be written perhaps, if you had passwordless

Re: Desktop icons missing

Dear Kai: I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items defined in ~/Desktop for the normal user do not appear anymore and I am trying to get back to seeing them on the desktop with "gnome classic" at this

Re: evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:14:10 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > Since the beginning of this week evolution crashes on my user account. > Running from a terminal window I see all plugins getting loaded fine and > it starts to sync my imap account, then is suddenly disappears with a > segfault in the termi

Re: detect/probe the physical connected state of a network cable

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:29:45 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Once I disabled the wireless and plugged in the cable. > > How exactly did you disable the wireless? Was the ethernet cable already > plugged at that time? Was eth0 up? There is some bars (whic

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:04:55 +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> Did you run an in-place update or did you install squeeze from scratch? > > in-place update, and I had to ressort to the equivallent of a software > chainsaw several times to make it work :-) Mmm... >> Okay, as a firs

Re: Desktop icons missing

On 03/03/12 11:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Camaleón wrote: I can't recall if gnome-classic hides the icons over the desktop, I would have expected they are visible to mimic the GNOME 2.x style. OTOH, the top menu is still there and app

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy (SOLVED!)

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:31:36 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 02 Mar 12:40 -0600, Camaleón wrote: >> You can also consider contacting the manufacturer (Brother in your >> case), AFAIK it used to be a linux-friendly partner. And true is that >> their printers PPD files are quite old (2005).

Re: detect/probe the physical connected state of a network cable

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:29:45 +0800, lina wrote: > Once I disabled the wireless and plugged in the cable. How exactly did you disable the wireless? Was the ethernet cable already plugged at that time? Was eth0 up? > Seems it's not sensitive. I needed plug out and re-plug in, > > Which commands

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 09:17:55 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Not strange as most other programs don't have an export to PDF as Libre > Office does. That is what I was trying to say. This is an underselling of GTK and QT based applications which have a Print... dialogue, including Libre Office. T

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

On 2012-03-02, Rémi Letot wrote: > > Everything works fine after a bit of tweaking, except printing. I have a > networked postscript printer managed through cups, and since the upgrade > it has been dead slow. What do the log files say? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Changing processor

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:55:55 -0300, rcb wrote: > First of all, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, as it is my first > message. (...) Welcome :-) > Simple stated, my question is: will my first machine that is runing > Debian installed from scratch work smoothly after I simple change its > pro

Re: Desktop icons missing

On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. > > Nautilus does not handle the desktop in gnome3 by default. But this can > be changes with a flag. The easiest way to set the flag back to true is > via gnome-

detect/probe the physical connected state of a network cable

Hi, Once I disabled the wireless and plugged in the cable. Seems it's not sensitive. I needed plug out and re-plug in, Which commands can be used to let the laptop to detect the connection of cable? I tried the # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported

Re: Changing processor

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:55:55AM -0300, rcb wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > > (or will I need to reinstall things? Both processors are intel 64 bits, > btw). > > > Thanks for your help, > Beco. > > PS. Disclaimer: > * Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask such question > * Forgive-me any mi

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

* On 2012 03 Mar 08:42 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: > > > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

Teemu Likonen writes: > * Rick Thomas [2012-03-03 02:22:09 -0500] wrote: > >> You can purge them all by doing >> >> sudo aptitude -Pv purge $(aptitude search '~c' -F '%p') > > You can do just: > > sudo aptitude -Pv purge '~c' I tried both to be sure :-) It did suppress files from the ol

Re: Is there any resources could show me about debian accounts and groups spec?

On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:47:32, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote: > There are tons of accounts and groups in /etc/passwd.and /etc/groups > Several account I'd already know what they do, but some like "bin, sys, lp. > .." > How exactly they do good for system? Debian Policy explains this http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-po

Re: Changing processor

>>From: Claudius Hubig : >>If you are still using the default kernel, i. e. did not recompile >>your own and threw out ‘unneeded’ options/modules, everything will be >>fine. Thanks Claudius. It is always better to ask "before" buy. I didn't recompile or anything. Just keep the system updated via s

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On 03 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: > > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 > > Feb for details. > > I did find your blog a few d

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:03:26 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: > > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 > > Feb for details. > > I did

Re: Changing processor

rcb wrote: >Simple stated, my question is: will my first machine that is runing Debian >installed from scratch work smoothly after I simple change its processor >from a DualCore to a Core2 Quad? If you are still using the default kernel, i. e. did not recompile your own and threw out ‘unneeded’ o

Changing processor

Dear Debian users, First of all, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, as it is my first message. My name is Ruben (aka Beco), I'm a computer scientist, and I've being using linux since 1995 (Slackware-KDE, RedHat-KDE - because of RPM, Suse-KDE - because it recognize more hardware and I didnt li

Re: sound issues

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 05:35, Raffaele Morelli > wrote: > > > > if you want two or more audio apps to share the same sound device, start > > qjackctl, tell vlc to use jack output module and do the same with other > apps > > if needed. > > >

Re: [OT] something about cite

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:08:00 +0800, lina wrote: > >> sorry again, a bit off-topic. > > As far as you tag the subject accordingly -as you do [OT], it's fine with > me :-) Thanks for understanding. > >> My question is that how to cite something in t

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

* On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 > Feb for details. I did find your blog a few days ago and considered going back to lprng and ma

Is there any resources could show me about debian accounts and groups spec?

There are tons of accounts and groups in /etc/passwd.and /etc/groups Several account I'd already know what they do, but some like "bin, sys, lp. .." How exactly they do good for system? I've searched for google but couldn't identify the keywords daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh bin:x:2:2:bin

evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

Hi list, Since the beginning of this week evolution crashes on my user account. Running from a terminal window I see all plugins getting loaded fine and it starts to sync my imap account, then is suddenly disappears with a segfault in the terminal window. The thing is, this doesn't happen on othe

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On 01 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I think you're the newest member to our growing club! See: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660420 > > - Nate >> > I've never got on with CUPS and alwayw use lprng + magicfilter. I have a Brother HL5240 which was working fine in t

Re: encrypted root - change keyboard layout

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:30:21 +0100, Matthias Weiler wrote: > Hello everyone! > > As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super > secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I > don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. > > I get

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

On Fri 02 Mar 2012 at 16:30:26 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:41:55AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd > > > >*PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > > I see I have a couple leading characters of garbage. Removing them, > I

Re: USB speaker as "internal audio"?

- Original Message - > From: Camaleón > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: USB speaker as "internal audio"? > > On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:44 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > >> Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, an

Re: MD device not found on boot

02/03/2012 20:36, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On Friday, 02 March 2012 18:21:17 +0100, > tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: [cut] > >> Are you using kernel-package "make-kpkg" or the "make deb-pkg" target to >> build your kernel packages ? The former requires a bit of manual >> configuration to work pr

Re: encrypted root - change keyboard layout

03/03/2012 01:30, Matthias Weiler wrote: > Hello everyone! > > As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super > secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I > don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. > > I get to the (initramfs) pro

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

* Rick Thomas [2012-03-03 02:22:09 -0500] wrote: > You can purge them all by doing > > sudo aptitude -Pv purge $(aptitude search '~c' -F '%p') You can do just: sudo aptitude -Pv purge '~c' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Desktop icons missing

Camaleón wrote: >> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. Nautilus does not handle the desktop in gnome3 by default. But this can be changes with a flag. The easiest way to set the flag back to true is via gnome-tewak-tool: First line in section "Desktop". gnome-tweak-tool comes in a