Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-02 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks everybody for all the suggestions. Whisker manager worked for me (thanks Darac), but the other suggestions were also interesting and useful. I did have trouble with Settings > Main Menu my version of xfce doesn't seem to have that. The Settings submeu jumps from Keyboard to MIME Type

Re: apt or apt-get equivalent of 'aptitude --show-why upgrade'

2017-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-02 at 14:44, Felix Miata wrote: > Christoph Groth composed on 2017-08-02 17:44 (UTC+0200): > >> I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from >> "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt >> upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the pac

Re: Live recording

2017-08-02 Thread David Christensen
On 08/01/17 23:46, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On 08/01/17 14:04, Rodolfo Medina wrote: As much as I can understand, the simplest solution for me to live recording with several microphones is to buy a - say - 6 channel mixer and plug it into the line-in PC entry... If you can possibly afford a mult

Re: Network config

2017-08-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:10:23PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 02/08/2017 à 16:19, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > > > > > 1) Make sure the Debian "resolvconf" package is *not* installed. > > > > You should reconsider this advi

Re: Network config

2017-08-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:44:50PM +0400, ruslan axundov wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem with debian 9 as static nameserver . > So that I used before ubuntu 16.04 and I have configure satatic ip and dns > and it worked perfectly but today I tried to use debian 9 and when I > enter static dns s

Re: How to Work Around Bug?

2017-08-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-08-02 15:51 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm running Sid (so I know brokenness happens), and I got bit by bug > #869670, "linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 : Depends: > linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common (= 4.11.11-1+b1) but it is not going to be > installed". > > I expected that a "grave" bug might ge

How to Work Around Bug?

2017-08-02 Thread Kent West
I'm running Sid (so I know brokenness happens), and I got bit by bug #869670, "linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 : Depends: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common (= 4.11.11-1+b1) but it is not going to be installed". I expected that a "grave" bug might get fixed pretty rapidly, so I've not worried too much abo

Re: Network config

2017-08-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:10:23PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/08/2017 à 16:19, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > > > 1) Make sure the Debian "resolvconf" package is *not* installed. > > You should reconsider this advice. resolvconf may be your best ally to > handle such a situation. OK, I'v

Re: apt or apt-get equivalent of 'aptitude --show-why upgrade'

2017-08-02 Thread Felix Miata
Christoph Groth composed on 2017-08-02 17:44 (UTC+0200): > I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from > "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt > upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the package > 'pulsaudio' which I've been avoiding succes

Re: Network config

2017-08-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/08/2017 à 16:19, Greg Wooledge a écrit : 1) Make sure the Debian "resolvconf" package is *not* installed. You should reconsider this advice. resolvconf may be your best ally to handle such a situation. 3) I have utterly no idea how Network-Manager works Me neither, but I know one t

Re: Debian 9 running (extremelly) slow

2017-08-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:30:53PM +0300, Alexandru Iancu wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm using Debian 8.9 on my old laptop( > https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/GA009ET.htm). > It is running fast(as Debian always used to run). I upgraded to 9.0(and > later to 9.1) bu

Re: apt or apt-get equivalent of 'aptitude --show-why upgrade'

2017-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-02 at 11:44, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from > "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt > upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the package > 'pulsaudio' which I've been avoiding successful

apt or apt-get equivalent of 'aptitude --show-why upgrade'

2017-08-02 Thread Christoph Groth
Hi, I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the package 'pulsaudio' which I've been avoiding successfully so far. I could of course uninstall pulseaudio afte

Re: Arial vs. Helvetica.

2017-08-02 Thread Joe
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:26:13 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I want to specify a variable pitch font in a wiki. The font should be > widely available and acceptable to commonly used browsers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial explains, "It [Arial] was created > to be metrically identical

Re: Problem pulseaudio

2017-08-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:34:52 +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > I confirm, it works perfectly. Mqny thanks Juan Glad to it helped.

Re: Arial vs. Helvetica.

2017-08-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 06:26:13AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I want to specify a variable pitch font in a wiki. The font should be > widely available and acceptable to commonly used browsers. See [1]. My take is: use first generic font fami

Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

2017-08-02 Thread davidson
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I installed (fresh install instead of an upgrade) Debian Stretch on my laptop. The installation is full success without any problem except a little one - 'beep' does not produce a sound neither from CLI nor from a bash scripts. I had Jessie

Arial vs. Helvetica.

2017-08-02 Thread peter
I want to specify a variable pitch font in a wiki. The font should be widely available and acceptable to commonly used browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial explains, "It [Arial] was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface Helvetica, with all character widths identic

Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-02 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 22:12:55 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: >I'm using a pretty vanilla debian 9 with xfce. > >There's an Applications menu in the upper left which has lots and lots >of applications listed under multiple submenus. > >There's a program that i

Re: Network config

2017-08-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:44:50PM +0400, ruslan axundov wrote: > I tried to use debian 9 and when I > enter static dns server for debian in resolve.conf then after reboot > debian all dns ip removed from resolv.conf file. I tried multiple method to > prevent this feature but nothing happen. what

Network config

2017-08-02 Thread ruslan axundov
Hi I have a problem with debian 9 as static nameserver . So that I used before ubuntu 16.04 and I have configure satatic ip and dns and it worked perfectly but today I tried to use debian 9 and when I enter static dns server for debian in resolve.conf then after reboot debian all dns ip remove

xfce4-session launched from .xinitrc, clobbers xrandr settings

2017-08-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone here launch xfce4 from .xinitrc, or from console? xfce4-session clobbers xrandr settings when run from .xinitrc (via .xinit from Linux console). When starting from console, I know the monitor layout I want, and don't like the delay (and blanking between changes) of having to manually

Re: Missing HDMI display

2017-08-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:19:13AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > Xorg.0.log does not exist on my system (this mystified me when I went > to look at it) In stretch, it can be in either of two places, depending on whether X runs as root or as your non-root user. If X runs as root, then /var/log/

Re: Missing HDMI display

2017-08-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 01:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2017-08-01 21:22 (UTC-0500): > > > With a little more research, I have found that the HDMI interface > > is > > detected and shows up on the xrandr output.  However, it shows up > > as > > being disconnected, even

Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 10:12:55PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: I'm using a pretty vanilla debian 9 with xfce. There's an Applications menu in the upper left which has lots and lots of applications listed under multiple submenus. There's a program that i have on my system whose name i cannot find in

Re: Debian 9 running (extremelly) slow

2017-08-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my only theories for now are that your attempts with Debian 8 and 9 differ in respect to processor architecture (32 vs. 64 bit) and/or that you don't have enough RAM to avoid heavy swapping during installation. (Consider to subscribe to this list in order to see answers.) Alexandru Iancu wr

Redmine on server in DMZ

2017-08-02 Thread Johann Spies
A few years ago we got redmine working on a server in the DMZ on our network using ruby gems copied there from another computer with access to the internet. This server has now been updated to Debian Stretch - which broke the redmine installation. None of us know Ruby-on-Rails or Ruby well enough

Debian 9 running (extremelly) slow

2017-08-02 Thread Alexandru Iancu
Hello everybody, I'm using Debian 8.9 on my old laptop( https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/GA009ET.htm). It is running fast(as Debian always used to run). I upgraded to 9.0(and later to 9.1) but it started to run slow so I did a fresh 9.1 install(home is on a differen

Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

2017-08-02 Thread Joe
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 22:12:55 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm using a pretty vanilla debian 9 with xfce. > > There's an Applications menu in the upper left which has lots and lots > of applications listed under multiple submenus. > > There's a program that i have on my system whose name i cannot find

Re: Live recording

2017-08-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, at 08:07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll writes: > > If you do that you'll be recording at most 2 channels, > > > Mmmhhh... this is not clear to me. Why only two...? Suppose the mixer > has 3 > channels, can't I plug three mics into it..? Say two for the piano an

Re: Live recording

2017-08-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeremy Nicoll writes: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, at 06:09, David Christensen wrote: >> On 08/01/17 14:04, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> > As much as I can understand, the simplest solution for me to live >> > recording with several microphones is to buy a - say - 6 channel mixer and >> > plug it into the