Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/03/2016 21:28, David Wright a écrit : You must live in a different price bracket from me. nope. I had at least two HP5M for free ten years ago... they died recently. There are ps compatible printer for cheap for years now. for pdf, I only have seen this on news papers, but the subject

Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?

2016-03-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 00:37 -0500, Dale Harris wrote: > Huh, why is iceweasel installing firefox-esr now and not even putting > in a sym. link from iceweasel to firefox? Iceweasel is no more, read the changelog.  If you think it should install a symlink, file a bug. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson ht

iceweasel now firefox-esr?

2016-03-11 Thread Dale Harris
Huh, why is iceweasel installing firefox-esr now and not even putting in a sym. link from iceweasel to firefox? -- Dale Harris rod...@maybe.org rod...@gmail.com /.-) $ sudo apt-get install iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 March 2016 05:05:47 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote on 03/09/2016 03:46 AM: > > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> The display manager is most likely crashing. You need to examine logs > >> and figure out why. > > > > Sorry, X is probably crashin

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 March 2016 02:13:46 Dennis Wicks wrote: > In case it makes a difference, Jessie AMD64 And GNOME? (gdm ???3??) Lisi

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 March 2016 15:28:57 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 20:11:51 (+0100), jdd wrote: > > Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : > > >It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the > > > matter in the printer's literature, eg > > > www.printerbase.co.uk/spe

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 March 2016 14:11:51 jdd wrote: > Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : > > It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the > > matter in the printer's literature, eg > > www.printerbase.co.uk/spec/pdf/brother-mfcj5720dw.pdf > > says > > Supporting: > > JPEG, BMP,

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 March 2016 12:50:32 Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 15:30:13 +0100, Hans wrote: > > as far as I know you need the packages from the Brother site. As > > soon you got them installed, start a browser and go to > > http://localhost:631 > > > > Then there should a gui start, where yo

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 20:11:51 (+0100), jdd wrote: > Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : > > >It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the matter > >in the printer's literature, eg > >www.printerbase.co.uk/spec/pdf/brother-mfcj5720dw.pdf > > says > > Supporting: > > J

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the matter in the printer's literature, eg www.printerbase.co.uk/spec/pdf/brother-mfcj5720dw.pdf says Supporting: JPEG, BMP, PDF, TIFF, PNG I read "PDF". It seems than most printers now

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 17:48:01 (+), Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 15:24:07 +0100, jdd wrote: > > > Le 11/03/2016 14:00, Brian a écrit : > > > > >2. You are very uneasy about having a proprietary driver for printing on > > >your machine, so are seeking a way not to use it and have o

Re: OT: Help needed to package cross-platform python application

2016-03-11 Thread BB
Next time I will send it back to sender! The sender might send it to the python list, where as a python issue it should be sent to. On 11.03.2016 18:19, David Wright wrote: On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 08:12:41 (+0100), Blöchl Bernhard wrote: OT? Indeed! Another blog highchecking attack. Why not stay

Re: OT: Help needed to package cross-platform python application

2016-03-11 Thread BB
Is your e-mail account hijacked? The first OT-post was sent from your account to the lilypond list. Here a copy: On Wed 09 Mar 2016 at 15:46:24 (-0700), Abraham Lee wrote: I have developed a couple of python PDF utilities that make certain batch processing operations a little easier. I

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 15:30:13 +0100, Hans wrote: > as far as I know you need the packages from the Brother site. As soon you got > them installed, start a browser and go to http://localhost:631 > > Then there should a gui start, where you can configure your printer. This is exactly what the OP

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 15:24:07 +0100, jdd wrote: > Le 11/03/2016 14:00, Brian a écrit : > > >2. You are very uneasy about having a proprietary driver for printing on > >your machine, so are seeking a way not to use it and have only standard > >Debian/Linux drivers. > > this printer seems

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 11:14:34 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:12:57AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:18:01PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >> You must have a lot of time boy, you must be l

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 March 2016 13:16:20 Jarle Aase wrote: > Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: > > In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both > > pcl and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, > > inkjet, inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Hans
Hi Brian. as far as I know you need the packages from the Brother site. As soon you got them installed, start a browser and go to http://localhost:631 Then there should a gui start, where you can configure your printer. Good luck! Hans

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/03/2016 14:00, Brian a écrit : 2. You are very uneasy about having a proprietary driver for printing on your machine, so are seeking a way not to use it and have only standard Debian/Linux drivers. this printer seems to be recent and flexible. Chance is he may be a pdf printer.

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 15:53 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > Houston, we have a problem. Stable does not have a high enough > version > of lxpanel (>= 0.8), so the build has unmet dependencies. What now? > Get the source package for that from testing/sid too? I'm guessing that you could disable the lxp

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:53:54PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:54:21 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:49 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > I shall give it a go. Sid, not stretch? Pour quoi? > > > > Testing might be a closer match in general, but in

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Mar 2016 at 15:16:20 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > My plan is to install the Brother drivers in a virtual machine. When that > works, I can use wireshark to see what's actually being sent to the printer, > and decide if I want to do something to make it work on the "real" machine. Let's ta

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:54:21 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:49 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I shall give it a go. Sid, not stretch? Pour quoi? > > Testing might be a closer match in general, but in this case the > versions doesn't seem to differ much. Houston, we have a

Re: Netinstall senza rete

2016-03-11 Thread Fabrizio Carrai
I apologize for the message in italian, my fault. The question was on how to resume a netinstall installation interrupted due to the unavailability of the network. As you may knowm, in this condition Debian is installaed with a very minimal configuration. Just to inform you all how I solved the pro

Re: cd as much as possible

2016-03-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
Jude DaShiell [2016-03-11 07:01:00-05] wrote: > The find command probably can handle this maybe in a shorter form. I > don't know as much syntax of that command as I'd like otherwise this > could probably written in a single line of code. "Probably", "maybe" and "I don't know"? Note that the ori

Re: cd as much as possible

2016-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:45:09 From: kamaraju kusumanchi To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" , tliko...@iki.fi Subject: Re: cd as much as possible Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:45:45 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:49 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > I shall give it a go. Sid, not stretch? Pour quoi? Testing might be a closer match in general, but in this case the versions doesn't seem to differ much. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc De

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:41:16 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really > > want to do. > > I'd say the most D

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:41:16 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really > > want to do. > > I'd say the most D

Re: chroot directory, and sshd

2016-03-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 10/03/2016 21:41, Sven Hartge wrote: Ron Leach wrote: I haven't been able to find out how to check the permissions on "/", and I'd appreciate a suggestion how to do that # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Mar 10 13:07 / Sven, tks. I'd used "ls -lg /" but that didn't list "/". Che

Re: Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 14:40 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > I'm thinking the most Debian-friendly options are either to compile > them myself from git, or to upgrade to stretch, which I don't really > want to do. I'd say the most Debian friendly way would be to grab the source package from sid and rec

Installing topmenu in stable

2016-03-11 Thread Adam Wilson
In short, I want to install the MATE topmenu applet in Debian stable (Jessie). However, the packages required are not in the stable distribution, only in stretch and sid. What is the best way to go about getting the packages installed? Should I compile them from the sources available at git.javisp

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:12:57AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:18:01PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> You must have a lot

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:18:01PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > >> You must have a lot of time boy, you must be lucky! >> >> Most of us take the shortest path possible. > > If all did like that you wouldn't ha

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:18:01PM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > You must have a lot of time boy, you must be lucky! > > Most of us take the shortest path possible. If all did like that you wouldn't have Debian (this goes to Brian too). - -- t --