How to change GDM3 login screen background

2019-04-06 Thread Andrew Clark
Hi, I'm trying to update my gdm3 login screen background. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/GDM : Customizing the GDM appearance GDM v3.0+ allows for some basic customization, such as changing the logo icon, display background, and GTK theme. To do so: Edit /etc/gdm3/gre

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 01:39:27PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later > with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know > that, > at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I wil

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 4:44 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > 2. A lot of my editing involves editing near (but not at) the end of > > a file. I assume (I know) that the software that saves the file is > > smart enough not to rewrite the entire file but instead to preserve > > the beginning of the fi

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyway, I edit large files many times a day and try to save it at each > edit or partial edit (at a guess, one particular file is around 100 > MB, and I may save it 200 or more times a day). So, we're looking in the order of 100GB / day. > 1. I'd like to count how many times a day I actually s

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 06.04.2019 22:39, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later > with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know > that, > at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I will call the > longevity >

Flatpak and apparmor.

2019-04-06 Thread Georgios
Hi! I would like to know how i can set up an apparmor profile of a application i run through flatpak. For example. Lets say i have installed libreoffice through flatpak. In order to start it I must run "flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice --writer" How do i set up a profile with aa-genprof

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 4/4/19 10:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I frankly don't care if it needs users. To get users, it has to work. If it doesn't work at least as well as synaptic, it will never get the users. If thats not plain enough to the people making these descisions, tuff luck. This stuff gets its users by wo

Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread rhkramer
Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know that, at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I will call the longevity in terms of TB TBW (iiuc, that is terabytes total bytes writ

Re: Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Paul Sutton
On 06/04/2019 15:22, Mindaugas Celiesius wrote: > Hello. Check this errata for Buster Alpha 5 > > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata > Sorry I clicked reply not reply list, so resending to the list Thanks I am just installing now, and will check /etc/apt/sources.list after ins

Re:Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Mindaugas Celiesius
Hello. Check this errata for Buster Alpha 5 https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I created a fresh Debian non free install disk yesterday for Debian Buster.  Booting in to this, the initial screen for graphical install says Debian 9.  Has anyone else noticed this. This is the contents of the directory with the ISO in firmware-buster-DI-alpha1-amd64-DVD-1.iso  MD5SUMS  MD

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 23:06:13 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 14:21:21 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 April 2019 11:05:00 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Indeed, and running the UI toolkit code as root was always > > > considered a bad design pattern,

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 22:39:23 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 17:01:33 (-0400), Lee wrote: > > On 4/5/19, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:56:49PM -, Curt wrote: > > >> > My understanding is th

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > If synaptic, as somebody else has mentioned, helps with more complicated > upgrades (where maybe lots of packages have to be removed and then (I hope) > reinstalled, I might give synaptic a try. So as far as GUI package managers go in Debian, there's

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 15:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 21:34:15 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > > Another well-known one is GParted, which doesn't really have an > > alternative for people to use instead... > > Does parted not do the same things? No, it can do some things GPa

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 17:01 -0400, Lee wrote: > That's what I don't understand. Why remove the package if it's only > a problem with some desktops? In fact, it's not even a problem on Gnome + Wayland, as you should be able to run Synaptic as root with XWayland and the “right” xhost setting (requi

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 06, 2019 04:56:22 AM David wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > Newbie asks "how do I do X in Gnome" ... and no-one there knows the answer > :) This might be less of an issue in other distros than it is in Debian. > > > Thing is, beyond its innate and fundamental

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 19:56 +1100, David wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > > My impression from my general reading here is quite a few people > > rely on > > the synaptic package manager. I use apt-get; it's pie-like > > simplicity > > comforts me. > > Speaking in very broad term

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

2019-04-06 Thread john doe
On 4/5/2019 10:26 PM, Chris XX wrote: > I was trying to Verify the authenticity of Debian CDs on your website, but What flavor of Debian do you want to instal? What OS ("linux","Windows,""Mac") are you using to download "Debian"? > I don't see instructions that will guide me through the process >

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread David
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > > My impression from my general reading here is quite a few people rely on > the synaptic package manager. I use apt-get; it's pie-like simplicity > comforts me. Speaking in very broad terms to make a general and somewhat obvious point, we could say that

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 08:07:41 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2019-04-05, Lee wrote: > > > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and > > quit?

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-05, Lee wrote: > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and quit? > > Everybody pays the price because it doesn't work with Gnome seem

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:39:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: "Why not make a [Conflicts:] with Wayland / Gnome? It's not possible to make sure that synaptic installs on a [Conflicts:] that would remove Wayland?" This is probably the easiest option to support as it should be possible to