mutt in gnome-terminal goes gray!

2013-09-18 Thread Eric d'Halibut
I have a gnome-terminal profile configured with a black background. However, running mutt in it changes the background to gray, a much lower contrast situation. In all the other terminals I have tried (xterm, rxvt, urxvt), black stays black in mutt. (This background-goes-gray also happens with midn

Re: Identifying CPU

2013-09-18 Thread Beco
On 18 September 2013 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Is x86 enough for you? If so, http://libcpuid.sourceforge.net/ > > If you need to check across architectures, you probably need to > go all the way to autoconf for maximum flexibility. > > -dsr- Nice lib, Dan. Thanks! --Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. re

Re: Monitor text colour on boot is magenta instead of white

2013-09-18 Thread Craig L.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:24:20PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Today I had occasion to change location of my computer and its > peripherals including the monitor. When I turned it after the change > on the colour of the text which scrolls up the s

Monitor text colour on boot is magenta instead of white

2013-09-18 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today I had occasion to change location of my computer and its peripherals including the monitor. When I turned it after the change on the colour of the text which scrolls up the screen was magenta instead of white. This magenta instead of white pers

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
*CAVEAT LECTOR* - long winded humor included in following Ralf Mardorf wrote: I recommend to stay with Debian and to stay for Debian with the Linux kernel and what ever boot loader you're using now. Test WMs and DEs, win experiences and in the future you still can decide to use FreeBSD, another

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide > software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html > >

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.09.2013 22:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [*SNIP*] I guess this is why Debian meet my needs: you can tinker things easily, and so learn a lot even if you have poor starting knowledge. But do not worry, it seem that on that list, everyone is still learni

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [*SNIP*] I guess this is why Debian meet my needs: you can tinker things easily, and so learn a lot even if you have poor starting knowledge. But do not worry, it seem that on that list, everyone is still learning things regularly. That "tinkering" is gener

Re: Twinview put panels on the other screen

2013-09-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt writes: > On 2013-09-13, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> What I want is my panels to go on the left screen, not on the right one, >> because my left screen is bigger and I'm facing it >> physically. Therefore, the right screen should extend my left

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:13AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > The rxvt-unicode program is now already installed, but when it does not > > seemed to be offered in: > > > > update-alternatives --list x-terminal-emulator > > > > None of the existing options: > > > > /usr/bin/aterm-x

Re: Identifying CPU

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:53:03AM -0300, Beco wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Please, can I get something like the 'Extended brand string' from > cpuid to identify a cpu using C language? > > Of course, not using system("cpuid") :) Something more "cross-platform". > Is x86 enough for you? If so, http://

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2013-09-18 Thread Eric d'Halibut
On 9/18/13, Darac Marjal wrote: > Either would suggest to me a lost/corrupt file... Your careful (quite impressive, actually) reply encouraged me to inspect my collection of font files. I noticed a discrepancy between: /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.

What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-18 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page TIA, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: group share directory using ACL's

2013-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 09/09/13 16:25, David Christensen wrote: I am attempting to set up a "group share" directory where any user (local or via Samba) can create, copy, and move files and directories and every other user has full access to those files and directories. This directory will be shared via Samba. I fo

RE: swapper tainted

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
> Subject: Re: swapper tainted > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:10:26PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > If you are using the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's it. > > I do I am using 304.88 from wheezy repository.. How could I fix it? I mean, that's the cause of the taint. It may not be your proble

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Pure TeX extension wanted

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 23:36 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi John, > > looks like I am going to have to write one as its removed from 1.18 > and anyway it was colored and only supported a subset of TeX anyway. > > Thanks, > > Aaron > > > On 17 September 2013 19:46, John W. Foster wrote: > > On

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I recommend to stay with Debian and to stay for Debian with the Linux kernel and what ever boot loader you're using now. Test WMs and DEs, win experiences and in the future you still can decide to use FreeBSD, another Linux distro and/or other bootloaders. I prefer Linux over FreeBSD, but have bot

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 14:10:43 Richard Owlett wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 18.09.2013 14:22, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : > >> To switch between DEs, you can do it with the usual connection > >> managers, IIRC. > >> But I personally prefer to login on TTY

viewing html or clicking link in Jessie/sid crashes system

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, Jessie/sid, Mutt from Gnome-terminal: Whenever I try to view an HTML portion of a message in Mutt or click on a link (a relatively new feature of Terminal?) my screen displays a repetitive pattern and my system craches (can't access virtual terminal; can't ssh in). TIA for any ideas, Googl

Re: DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
John W. Foster: > > I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. > Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install > without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get > around this. The package dwww depends on apache2 | httpd-cgi. Tha

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:20:02 +0200 Richard Owlett wrote: > What's the best? I still don't know. Mr. Owlett, I would just like to add to the usual suggestions since you're interested in tinkering with Debian, a worthy hobby to be sure, that no one has suggested the now forgotten UDE with the i

DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get around this. There are several applications that seem to have this same issue. Some help pl

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.09.2013 13:31, Richard Owlett a écrit : Richard Owlett wrote: /Background [snip] /Questions 1. Given that I prefer LILO over GRUB and xfce over Gnome/lxde/kde, what GUIs should I investigate further. 2. Given that internet is effectively non-existent and internal/external disk space is

Re: Identifying CPU

2013-09-18 Thread Beco
Hi Guys, Please, can I get something like the 'Extended brand string' from cpuid to identify a cpu using C language? Of course, not using system("cpuid") :) Something more "cross-platform". Cheers, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." (H.

Thank you - was [Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"]

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: /Background [snip] /Questions 1. Given that I prefer LILO over GRUB and xfce over Gnome/lxde/kde, what GUIs should I investigate further. 2. Given that internet is effectively non-existent and internal/external disk space is effectively unlimited, how can I make as many as

Re: Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.09.2013 10:25, Jarrod O'Flaherty a écrit : Yes! That's it, essentially. You have put it very well here. I wish I had described it in that way. I am, in a nutshell, looking to make the process of applying what we find on Wikis and message boards -- all of which is fantastically helpful --

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.09.2013 14:22, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : To switch between DEs, you can do it with the usual connection managers, IIRC. But I personally prefer to login on TTY and then start the window manager/DE of my choice. Usually, DEs have a 'start

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.09.2013 14:22, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : To switch between DEs, you can do it with the usual connection managers, IIRC. But I personally prefer to login on TTY and then start the window manager/DE of my choice. Usually, DEs have a 'start-my_favorite_de' command to do that. I

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
To switch between DEs, you can do it with the usual connection managers, IIRC. But I personally prefer to login on TTY and then start the window manager/DE of my choice. Usually, DEs have a 'start-my_favorite_de' command to do that. If you are tired about starting them by hand everytime, you ca

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread Luis Bandarra
I didn't explain myself well, now that i have time, i'll see to it. I use Xephyr[1] to create a new X server in the current X host session. Then i launch the application i which to use on the new display. On 18-09-2013 07:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote: This

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 06:44:28PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Someone in private mail suggested Enlightenment. Openbox was already > > on my list. > > Desktop environments lean towards over kill. > > Enlightenment and awesome w

Re: swapper tainted

2013-09-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:13:53PM -0400, Jim Green wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:10:26PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > If you are using the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's it. > > I do I am using 304.88 from wheezy repository.. How could I fix it? Just before the error is the complaint

Re: Re: Security?

2013-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Opera and Start Page as default search engine http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg00679.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/msg00680.html spinymouse11.2@suse11-2:~> opera -version Opera 10.11 Internal. Build 4791 for Linux. Qt library 4.5.3. While this outdated version of

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2013-09-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:07:21PM -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > The subject line is a failure message from tightvncserver, running on > squeeze. For a reason unknown to me this package began to fail to > launch two days ago, AFTER LITERALLY YEARS OF UNINTERRUPTED, > completely hiccup-free, perfor

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