eyes applet

2015-08-12 Thread rlharris
On Thu, August 13, 2015 1:08 am, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > There are several descendants of program "xeyes" around. Thanks. I found in the Debian archive eyes in "gnome-applets" and in "mate-applets". Does anyone know if either would work in xfce? RLH

Acceptable use of Debian products

2015-08-12 Thread Rohnan Donohue
Hello Debian Team, I was usnure if this would be the appropriate email to message My name is Rohnan, and I am a secondary student in Victoria, Australia. I am writting to you to please ask for express permission to host Debian products on a website I am currently producing in one of my classes.

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > (except for the pair of "eyes", which I greatly miss). There are several descendants of program "xeyes" around. My favorite time waster on Sun4 was "oneko", the mouse chasing cat. As for desktops: Two months ago i tried Gnome (eeek !) and XFCE (moan). Then i wen

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/08/2015, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I had to use xfce on my old T43 although Mate would be closer to Gnome. > > > Original Message > From: Bret Busby > Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:38 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ? > > On 13/08/2015, Stephen Po

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I had to use xfce on my old T43 although Mate would be closer to Gnome.   Original Message   From: Bret Busby Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:38 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ? On 13/08/2015, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/08/2015, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT), Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> I've never used GNOME 3. It won't fully run on any of my systems since >> none don't have 3D capability. So, it goes into "fallback" mode. > > I assume you meant to say "none have 3D capa

Re: pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

2015-08-12 Thread rlharris
On Wed, August 12, 2015 9:46 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't > silent, and mute other sources in that cases? It does not directly address your need, but I think that pulseaudiovolumecontrol (pavucontrol) is almost essential, and re

pulseaudio module to mute other sources?

2015-08-12 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so this is where I'm trying first Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audi

convert jpeg to size suitable for printing the image on an A4 with lpr

2015-08-12 Thread Emanuel Berg
I wrote this zsh wrapper to `convert' to do it. With the 72 PPI resolution, the image get smaller! With the 200 PPI resolution, the image gets bigger, and it looks good when viewed with feh, but when I print (with lpr) the increased-size image gets split up in two parts on the paper with a black

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Martin McCormick
For those in the UK, We in North America could occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British Aisles when Solar activity was high. The Band-1 transmissions were roughly between 41 and 45 MHZ. Audio was AM or amplitude modulation as well as was the video which was 405-lines a

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've never used GNOME 3. It won't fully run on any of my systems since > none don't have 3D capability. So, it goes into "fallback" mode. I assume you meant to say "none have 3D capability". When GNOME 3 first came out, it had

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: > > On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >The care alone, even were there no societal cost, costs several orders of > > >magnitude more money than the £145.50 cost of a TV licence. The trial >

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > Indeed. But in Britain, the term is politically overloaded, a > touchstone of all that is bad (for a large proportion of the > population). No headline writer would dream of writing Head Tax when > they can scream Poll Tax. Poll tax is the idiomatic expression, that's > all.

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread rlharris
On Wed, August 12, 2015 4:29 pm, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:07:47 -0400 (EDT), Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: ... > I switched to XFCE because it doesn't require 3D graphics acceleration, > and I've been happy with it. Furthermore, it is designed to run > applications written for the G

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): > David Wright writes: > > In the UK, tomas's tax would be called a "poll tax".. > > "Poll" once meant "head". Indeed. But in Britain, the term is politically overloaded, a touchstone of all that is bad (for a large proportion of the population). No hea

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hello Debian users 😁 > > I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user. > I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE. > I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works > constantly without freezing and crashing. > Please share me your e

Re: v ia32-libs-i386 on Wheezy

2015-08-12 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/13/2015 02:05 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > For a program that I want to install on my husband's computer, I need the > following virtual package: > > v ia32-libs-i386 > > On my Wheezy computer it is installed, but it is not on my husband's Wheezy > computer, and aptitude search can't find it

v ia32-libs-i386 on Wheezy

2015-08-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
For a program that I want to install on my husband's computer, I need the following virtual package: v ia32-libs-i386 On my Wheezy computer it is installed, but it is not on my husband's Wheezy computer, and aptitude search can't find it. Here is his sources.list: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.or

Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:42:04PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local > machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in > Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail > includes some import

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 13 Aug 2015 at 00:07:47 +0400, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user. Good to know. > I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE. Views are two a penny. > I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works > constantly without freezing and cr

I would love to see this error go away..

2015-08-12 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hello, In testing I would love to see this error go away: "KDEInit could not launch 'kpat': Could not open library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_kpat'. Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_kpat: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_kpat.so: cannot open shared obj

Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Russell L. Harris writes: > What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the > downloaded mail? Spamassassin. Manually select representative ham and spam (as much as you can stand and/or have time for) and use that to train it. Then just let 'er rip on the whole thing (preferably

sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail includes some important emails, so searching and sorting is necessary. The local machine is r

Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:07:47 -0400 (EDT), Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Hello Debian users ?? > > I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user. > I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE. > I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works > constantly without freezing and crashing.

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > To me, it's just a thinly veiled way of moving things to a flat-tax > > scheme, for the benefit of the rich (yes, I know about the official > > rationale) > > Don't you m

unmount mount point when exiting gnome3 desktop

2015-08-12 Thread John Naggets
Hello, I would like to automatically unmount a DavFS mount point /media/webdav) when a users logs off the gnome3 desktop on jessie. For that purpose I have added the following command to /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default: /bin/umount /media/webdav But it looks like this script never gets executed w

Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-12 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Hello Debian users 😁 I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user. I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE. I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works constantly without freezing and crashing. Please share me your experience with Debian Gnome. With Kind Regards, Dwijesh

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > In the UK, tomas's tax would be called a "poll tax".. "Poll" once meant "head". -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: nfs / idmap mount problem

2015-08-12 Thread Sigmund Scheinbar
> I've got a problem mounting NFS shares: after mounting the nfs > directory (share) it is empty, and is owned by a rather strange UID > 4294967294 (on the server, also on other clients). ^^ Ups typo. I meant the UID of the folder (and the content)

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): > tomas writes: > > To me, it's just a thinly veiled way of moving things to a flat-tax > > scheme, for the benefit of the rich (yes, I know about the official > > rationale) > > Don't you mean a head tax? "Flat tax" usually refers to a tax that is a > f

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting doug (dmcgarr...@optonline.net): > I'm curious. Do you have to pay that sum for each TV receiver, or is > it a balnket license per house? > Also there is a reference to a computer--does a computer count as a TV? > I assume that the license is renewed annually? The horse's mouth is at http

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread doug
On 08/12/2015 01:23 PM, Brian wrote: /snip/ I suffer from them, I haven't had a tv since 1971, and they can't let go, Unless you have typed and sent your mail from a friend's computer, you do. [Snip] The care alone, even were there no societal cost, costs several orders of magnitude more mone

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Aug 2015 at 16:57:33 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: > On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: > >> Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit > >>a van with high-quality broad-spectrum radio receivers,

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Joe
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:04:37 -0500 wrote: > Several years ago, one of the United States television > networks did a story on the British TV license and showed agents > in a van driving around looking for the tell-tale weak radio > signals from the local oscillators of television tuners and

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Martin Smith
On 12/08/2015 14:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit a van with high-quality broad-spectrum radio receivers, a person to drive and another to tune and evaluate what he/she is re

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > To me, it's just a thinly veiled way of moving things to a flat-tax > scheme, for the benefit of the rich (yes, I know about the official > rationale) Don't you mean a head tax? "Flat tax" usually refers to a tax that is a fixed percentage of all income (or of all expenditures, wh

Re: Grub not seeing my root did

2015-08-12 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hi, On 12/08/15 03:46, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: > I just installed Debian on my MacBook Pro and now it cannot see my > root to boot from. On the live CD and manually set the boot flag on > the partition but still no go. Has anyone ran into this before? How did you install Debian? What version

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Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 02:56:21PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: > >   Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit > > a van [...] > They have a much simpler solution.

Re: How to rollback an upgrade in Debian

2015-08-12 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 12. August 2015, 14:26:58 schrieb Erwan David: Rolling back is not easy. I suggest, to remove or comment out the entry in sources.list of debian/testing. Then start aptitude. Now mark all packages to the required versions to install and mark those with the wrong version to deinstal

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 14:04:37 marti...@suddenlink.net wrote: >   Now think, for a second how much money it costs to outfit > a van with high-quality broad-spectrum radio receivers, a person to > drive and another to tune and evaluate what he/she is receiving > and whether or not it is fr

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIII, marti...@suddenlink.net a écrit : > All that aside, think of the money that the BBC spends > administering and enforcing the system that they have created. > The United States is not immune to this sort of self-harm, > either. It goes on at all levels fro

[OFFTOPIC] Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> All that aside, think of the money that the BBC spends > administering and enforcing the system that they have created. Indeed. For that same reason public transit systems should be paid out of the normal government budget rather than being tied to individual users (which can also be desc

nfs / idmap mount problem

2015-08-12 Thread Sigmund Scheinbar
Hi! I've got a problem mounting NFS shares: after mounting the nfs directory (share) it is empty, and is owned by a rather strange UID 4294967294 (on the server, also on other clients). Mounting the same share on another box works quite well (dir is filled and owned by the correct uid). I suspec

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-12 Thread martin.m
David Wright wrote: > When I was a boy, the TV licence fee was taxed (called "duty") by the > government at 33%. This has been a very interesting discussion as I am one who believes that information and media should be unrestricted and priced reasonably or subsidized by advertising. Being

How to rollback an upgrade in Debian

2015-08-12 Thread Erwan David
Hi, Using testing, I see that KDE5 is (almost ?) complete in it. What would be the best way to prepare for a rollback after upgrade if I see that it does not work well enough for me ?

live build

2015-08-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, I am using "live build" and I don't need the package prism2-usb-firmware-installer and I would like to know how prevent this package to be installed. On the other hand this package requests a connection unresponsive, and "lb buid" can't to be completed. tia. -- Gerard

Re: no icons in iceweasel menus - jessie gnome

2015-08-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 02:01:57 Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Sorry Lise, > > I guess I'm not very careful reader. You are still on Wheezy. Then it is > even simpler. open gconf-editor and set menu-have-icons to 0 in > gnome.desktop.interface. > > If it wasn't just mild sarcasm. No, it wasn't. I