Re: theme editor?

On Tuesday 10 February 2015 07:46:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 02:41:48 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 February 2015 04:01:10 David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > [...] > > > > > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look a

Re: theme editor?

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 02:41:48 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2015 04:01:10 David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > [...] > > > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in > > > the repo's I address. Fixable? > > > > >

Re: theme editor?

On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > [...] > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in the > > repo's I address. Fixable? > > > > Thanks Petter. > > I don't understand this. Earlier in the thread you

Re: theme editor?

On Tuesday 10 February 2015 04:01:10 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > [...] > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in the > > repo's I address. Fixable? > > > > Thanks Petter. > > I don't understand this. Earlier in the thread you posted

Re: Writing files with formatted name

Hi On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > would writing synchronized java class using the same algorithm solve the race > problem? Java is a bit overkill for that :-) Atomic locking is available in the shell too - man flock ... > > Thanks > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > That's odd. Works on my Wheezy 7 64-bit install. Always has. > > Used it numerous times during the initial X > > set-up/config/shakedown. I didn't manually enable it either. Of > > course, my system isn't stock. > > Perhaps you

Re: theme editor?

Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): [...] > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in the repo's > I address. Fixable? > > Thanks Petter. I don't understand this. Earlier in the thread you posted: >>Greetings; >> >>I am apparently using lightdm and I have failed

Re: Re: boot, missing module, and luks issues, please help

In regards to issue #2: I created an identical VM and performed an identical install, except for one difference, I used ext4 instead of btrfs (for all of /, /boot and /home). This install works fine. I noticed that in the broken install, initramfs is missing cryptsetup. I'm not sure if there is a

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

I use Squeeze LTS Adobe has security updates to flash, Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202.442, it is a manual install. greg On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Michael Graham wrote: > Somewhat related to this, I've been having a problem where my system reports: > > $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --stat

Re: Killing X, was Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > I think X made this change several years/Debian distributions ago. Just some clarification for off-list replies: http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/Xorg.1.html The special combinations of key presses recognized directly by Xorg are: Ctrl+Alt+B

Re: Upgrading, was Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > Is your definition of "two root partitions" the same as mine? > I'm new to *nix and have a have a physical machine set aside for > "sink or swim" educational experiences. > I use expert install and manual partitioning such that: >first install wou

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl - more details

On 2/8/15, Bob Proulx wrote: > songbird wrote: >> Thomas H. George wrote: >> ... >> > Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If >> > default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the >> > Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful

Re: Re: Linux based cellphones

Actually Ubuntu sells a phone too. -- Best Regards, Stephen Allen http://webweenie.blogspot.com

Iceweasel question

Greetings all; Is there a procedure to enable javascript for iceweasel/firefox? All of my prefs and about:config say it is enabled. Buit its not working a large percent of the time. Neither add-block or ghostery is installed ATM. I get a lot of javascript:void(0) in the address bar, and I do

Re: Upgrading Iceweasel; Other Packages from Experimental?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:38:28 -0500 Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi, > > I found the Debian Mozilla team webpage[1], which tells you how to get > a more recent version of iceweasel. I am running testing/jessie, and > want the release version of Iceweasel. Thus, I added the two > corresponding lin

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

Somewhat related to this, I've been having a problem where my system reports: $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --status Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.442 Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.442 But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous versio

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:02:23 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > John L. Ries wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... > > > > I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie > > diagnostics; but I would never use it as a

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

Patrick Bartek wrote: > That's odd. Works on my Wheezy 7 64-bit install. Always has. Used it > numerous times during the initial X set-up/config/shakedown. I didn't > manually enable it either. Of course, my system isn't stock. Perhaps you have it configured that way? $ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. > > > This is an Ubuntu page but it documents it. > > > > Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another "improvement." > > That change was

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

On 2015-02-09 19:00, Curt wrote: On 2015-02-09, August Karlstrom wrote: But so far none for Iceweasel/Firefox obviously. There is an open source flac decoder in javascript that apparently works in Firefox/Iceweasel. https://github.com/audiocogs/flac.js/tree/master Thanks for the link.

Re: Can't hibernate/suspend or play video

On 02/09/2015 03:31 PM, JMB wrote: Hi, I've been having a problem over the last couple months or so. Periodically, something will happen and I will not be able to suspend or hibernate my machine, and it's always accompanied with an inability to play video (any attempts to play video - with vlc

Re: Upgrading, was Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

David Wright wrote: Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): [...] To recommend this [upgrading] to a new user, might not be a good idea. I've been at it since the days of Slackware install via a pile of floppies. As noted previously, there will be a proper upgrade installer released when Jess

Re: boot, missing module, and luks issues, please help

Issue #1 seems to just be virtualbox not being able to remember efi entries across reboots, so let's ignore that. Can anyone offer any help with regards to issues #2 & #3 please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Can't hibernate/suspend or play video

Hi, I've been having a problem over the last couple months or so. Periodically, something will happen and I will not be able to suspend or hibernate my machine, and it's always accompanied with an inability to play video (any attempts to play video - with vlc or mpv - ends up in crashing or

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

On Monday, February 09, 2015 02:13:33 PM Paul E Condon wrote: [...] > You could use a file in your first partition for swap instead of a > separate partion (that is badly configured) for swap. Having swap on > its own partition seems to have lost some of its technical advantage > due to changes in

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

Thomas H. George wrote: > I created the display problem. The HP box has only vga, no hdmi so I > experimented with the settings and chose an incompatable one resulting > in a black screen. I created a second user, tom2, and the display opened > normally for tom2. That proves that the problem was l

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > OK, here's the thing that's nagging me a bit. This is what happened > as far as I can remember. > > Installed Debian > Installed Emacs24.4 from backports > Installed R from debian CRAN vide instructions from CRAN site > Installed Rstudio.deb community edition from Rst

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? now update java

On 02/09/2015 11:00 AM, Hans wrote: When you want to update java, then download jave, and do as above mentioned. This will create a java package, which you then can install by using "dpkg -i oracle-whatever*.deb". That is just half the battle to install Oracle Java. There are all of the alter

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

On 02/09/2015 07:50 AM, Jape Person wrote: That hospital's kitchen makes the best darned omelets. Is it wrong of me to foster a small hope for an overnight stay so I can avail myself of them? (They let me have all I want!) Nice talking with you. All I got was diced chicken gruel and a hard ro

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

John L. Ries wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... > > I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie > diagnostics; but I would never use it as a network interface configuration > tool if I could help it. The p

Re: Writing files with formatted name

would writing synchronized java class using the same algorithm solve the race problem? Thanks On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I need to write files with name format {5 digit sequential > number}.{extension I will supply}. > > Is there a utility which would allow me to co

Re: theme editor?

On Monday, February 09, 2015 10:25:02 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 08:49:41 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday, February 09, 2015 08:46:05 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > > > I just had a look, and it seems the themes are just CSS files, so > > > you could just open for instance

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

Patrick Bartek wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This > > is an Ubuntu page but it documents it. > > Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another "improvement." That change was introduced in Debian in Squeeze 6. No changes for Jess

Re: SSL error in (e)links(2) web browers

Marko Randjelovic wrote: > When I use elinks (Squeeze) with > > set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 1 > > $ elinks -dump https://webmail.sbb.rs/ > ELinks: SSL error Ah! Very good. That explains why it didn't complain for me. connection.ssl.cert_verify [0|1] (default: 0) Verify

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

On 20150208_0029-0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:12:32 AM Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have been down that graden path so many times I think I could do it > > > in my sleep. I had that drive setup with

Re: Killing X, was Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

David, you just solved an unrelated problem I had where my keyboard settings inside XFCE weren't being respected. I wondered why... On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Note that X now

Killing X, was Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This > > is an Ubuntu page but it documents it. > > Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another "improvement." > > Why do these people ne

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

On Mon, 2/9/15, Hans wrote: Subject: Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2015, 10:00 AM > > I would also like the answer to this question. I recently tried to update > flash on my squeeze install according to instructions I had

apt-get upgrade sometimes needs -f

i'm running testing/sid most of the time, this is an FYI in case you see similar problems... the past few weeks/months when i do: apt-get update and then the apt-get upgrade and answer Y the responses may include lines like: E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

On 2015-02-09, August Karlstrom wrote: > > But so far none for Iceweasel/Firefox obviously. > There is an open source flac decoder in javascript that apparently works in Firefox/Iceweasel. https://github.com/audiocogs/flac.js/tree/master -- "Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

On 2015-02-09, Hans wrote: > > I believe "dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree" will download and install > the > latest flashplugin from adobe. > I thought the command was update-flashplugin-nonfree --install Maybe it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. However, I remember something ab

Re: Google search

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:32:09 + Alex PADOLY wrote: > > > Good evening, > > Tthere is a free alternative in the GOOGLE search > engine? I'm a little uncertain what you mean - are you looking for something like https://duckduckgo.com/ ? Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm posit

Google search

Good evening, Tthere is a free alternative in the GOOGLE search engine? Thank you Regards Alex PADOLY

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC > > simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to > > a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This > > should be a root

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

Hi, there is no update-flashplugin-nonfree on Squeeze but there is a simple shell script. I think it would run also on squeeze. Regards, basti On 09.02.2015 16:55, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with > > update-flashplugin-nonfree > > > I do

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

On Mon, Feb 09 2015,Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > [snipped 11 lines] >> 1. Do I have to uninstall & reinstall the cran packages, Rstudio before >> proceeding? And this needs to be done from backports? > > No uninstallation is necessary when y

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:07:51 + (UTC) Glyn Astill wrote: Hello Glyn, >I think the issue is that the flash plugin version stops at >11.2 and there's been no further version. Adobe continue to backport security updates to the Linux version of their flash player(1). New capabilities etc. do no

Upgrading, was Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): > [...] > To recommend this [upgrading] to a new user, might not be a good > idea. I've been at it since the days of Slackware install via a pile > of floppies. As noted previously, there will be a proper upgrade > installer released when Jessie is officia

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

- Original Message - > From: Jerome BENOIT > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, 9 February 2015, 15:55 > Subject: Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? > > Hello, > > on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with > > update-flashplugin-nonfree > > > I d

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

> > I would also like the answer to this question. I recently tried to update > flash on my squeeze install according to instructions I had carefully saved > from the last time I updated. Here's the command I used: > > $ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-7u10-linux-i586.tar.gz > > And it came back somet

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

Hello, on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with update-flashplugin-nonfree I do not know if this update tool exist on Squeeze. hth, Jerome On 09/02/15 16:32, antispammbox-debian wrote: > > > Hi all > > It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze? > Thanks > > Regards > >

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

On Mon, 2/9/15, antispammbox-debian wrote: Subject: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2015, 9:32 AM > Hi all > It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze? > Thanks > Regards -

[OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

Hi all It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze? Thanks Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/7006767CFF2C4D019891EE55FE2A80DB@rx

Re: theme editor?

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 08:49:41 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday, February 09, 2015 08:46:05 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > > I just had a look, and it seems the themes are just CSS files, so > > you could just open for instance (on an Ubuntu machine): > > > > /usr/share/themes/Numix/gtk-3.0/apps/ligh

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

On Sunday 08 February 2015 13:15:16 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > I think I'm confused whether I should remember that some bits of > software are from backports and it's incumbent on me to track all this > while upgrading to Jessie or installing anything else from stable.  I > really don't want to d

Re: Debugging ipv6

On 09/02/15 13:02, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:50:19PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: >> >> tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org >> PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1) 56 data bytes >> 64 bytes f

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie diagnostics; but I would never use it as a network interface config

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

On 2015-02-09 03:40, Ric Moore wrote: The FLAC project consists of: [...] * Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the works) But so far none for Iceweasel/Firefox obviously. -- August -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Installed Debian > Installed Emacs24.4 from backports > Installed R from debian CRAN vide instructions from CRAN site > Installed Rstudio.deb community edition from Rstudio site > While installing packages via Rstudio, lCurl fails

Re: theme editor?

On Monday, February 09, 2015 08:46:05 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:21:52 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I am apparently using lightdm and I have failed to find a desktop > > theme which is 100% pleasing. So I am wondering if we have a theme > > editor that

Re: theme editor?

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:21:52 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I am apparently using lightdm and I have failed to find a desktop > theme which is 100% pleasing. So I am wondering if we have a theme > editor that might allow me to tweak some colors here and there in an > existing theme?

theme editor?

Greetings; I am apparently using lightdm and I have failed to find a desktop theme which is 100% pleasing. So I am wondering if we have a theme editor that might allow me to tweak some colors here and there in an existing theme? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defen

Re: Debugging ipv6

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:50:19PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: > > tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org > PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1) 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 2a03:9800:10:54::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 tim

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

On 02/09/2015 03:37 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2015 09:42 PM, Jape Person wrote: Certainly there will be corner cases where folks get bitten -- especially if they've done a lot of customization of the old init system before doing the upgrade. But I imagine most folks will just hit the button

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

Hi, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, when you boot the computer, the BIOS is still invoked as the > very first bit of executable code. It initialises the hardware and then > reads the first sector of the first hard drive and executes that as > native code. Typicall

Debugging ipv6

I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2a03:9800:10:54::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=13.6 ms 64 bytes from 2a03:9800:10:54::1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=12.1 ms 64

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 03:02:02PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Some guys at the WD forum suggested this could be a BIOS issue, which > kinda sucks as i'm not in the mood to get a new mobo. > I was under the impression linux doesn't really need the BIOS to > operate, but i'm not versed in the art

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of > my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output > overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at > wh

Re: SSL error in (e)links(2) web browers

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 11:08:29PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > When I use links2 or elinks web browsers on some websites when https is > > https://webmail.sbb.rs/ > > elinks does not complain about the site. This may be a bug in elinks > as it may be ignoring an error.

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

On 02/08/2015 09:42 PM, Jape Person wrote: Certainly there will be corner cases where folks get bitten -- especially if they've done a lot of customization of the old init system before doing the upgrade. But I imagine most folks will just hit the buttons and go on about their business. Or mayb

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

On 02/09/2015 02:05 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This should be a root terminal. Re