Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > ... > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. Are you looking for x11vnc [1][2] on the host you want to see? If so, tigervnc and others c

[debian-user] thunderbird proxy env. vars for socks

2016-02-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I'm familiar with proxy envirnoment variables such as (both lower and upper case versions): use_proxy soap_use_proxy http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy rsync_proxy no_proxy all_proxy Thunderbird at least pay attention to some of them, and honestly, before I haven't needed anything else. Howev

Re: USB camera prog ?

2015-01-04 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Renaud OLGIATI > wrote: >> I am looking for a prog that will display on screen, and save, pictures >> taken with a USB camera connected to the box. >> >> Better obviously wi

Re: USB camera prog ?

2015-01-04 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > I am looking for a prog that will display on screen, and save, pictures taken > with a USB camera connected to the box. > > Better obviously with a GUI; but I do not care to install a load of Gnome or > KDE bloat. > > Any idea, advice, etc

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > ... > Since Flash is no longer supported or updated by Adobe, what do I use > instead and how do I get it installed so firefox and Sea Monkey can use it? > ... Well, despite flash plugin suggested by others (which is stuck at an old flash v

Re: alternatives to skype

2013-02-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 10/02/13 00:34, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> ... > > Try Google+ hangouts - I've used it with Firefox. > > You need a GoogleEmail account. > > Create a hangout and others (in your circle) can join in. > > See http://www.google.com/+/lea

Re: a tool to have specific images on X root window

2013-01-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM, wrote: > > > Le 18.01.2013 21:42, Erwan David a écrit : > >> Le 18/01/2013 21:38, Javier Vasquez a écrit : >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Erwan David wrote: >>>> >>>> Le 18/01/2013

Re: a tool to have specific images on X root window

2013-01-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 18/01/2013 21:10, Erwan David a écrit : > >> Le 18/01/2013 21:02, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : >>> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I would like to know if someone knows a tool like xphoon or xplanet, but >>> allowing to use a simple image (I d

Re: screensaver recommendation

2012-11-23 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wish to have a screensaver. >> >> Thanks ahead for recommendation. >> >> >> Below are some background info.: >> >> lightdm insta

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide >> the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? > > Yes, except for: >

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister >>> > I use startx, and

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister >> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read >> > be

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found >> > that startx fails whereas xdm succee

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-04 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Patrick. > > > You worte: > >> Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited >> features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit. >> won't take more. tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed.  In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:55:22 +0100 > Lisi wrote: > >> Hello, all! >> >> On a new installation of Squeeze the sound is muted.  I have checked >> Alsamixer and made sure that master and PCM are not muted, as >> recommended by Claudius. But sound is sti

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >>> today I run aptitude update and get errors: >>> http://paste.debian.net/166950/ >> >> Pastebin for 3 lines? >> >>> After that I run aptitude safe-upgrade and again,

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/24/2012 4:02 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> 2012/3/24 shirish शिरीष : > >>> # TMPFS_SIZE: maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific >>> # size is provided.  If no value is provided here, the ker

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
2012/3/24 shirish शिरीष : > > ... > > How do I write values of TMPFS_SIZE and TMP_SIZE > > This is what it looks like atm :- > > # TMPFS_SIZE: maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific > # size is provided.  If no value is provided here, the kernel default > # will be used. > TMPFS_SIZE

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> 2012/3/24 Joey Hess : >>> shirish शिरीष wrote: >>>> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs >>>> ? >

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
2012/3/24 Joey Hess : > shirish शिरीष wrote: >> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? >> >> Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, >> texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta >>  Error: applying of delta for texlive-latex-extra-doc failed

Re: [debian-mips][icedtea-jamvm] Any one using the icedtea-6-jre-jamvm on mipsel?

2012-02-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
I sent the following to debian-mips list before, cause I wanted acceleration on such machines, however maybe there's people using the jamvm icedtea plugin not only on mipsel machines, :-). Please see below. -- Javier. On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: | On Sun, F

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/30/11, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for > the player. ... > > upgrade mplayer 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111024-0.0 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111213-0.0 > > ... > > Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? Is it likely to return to > the > di

Re: something regards "find"

2011-12-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/29/11, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to find one file out, > > one file contains some numbers, like > > 7.9 2.4 4.2 12.2 and etc > > I can't remember the file name. I tried: > > $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */* > > $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */*/* > >

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
> ... > As a default player i use gnome-mplayer.I recommend that you to use it. > > ... >> >> I have a problem in using movie player, it's kinda of funny when open >> some song with it, all the process just being killed and came to login >> interface. (more like the new-started laptop without truel

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > ... > > I don't want to provoke anyone or start a flame war, but why does the > debian menu system still exist?  It had it's place in the past, but all > modern DEs and panel/menu systems support the FD.o XDG application > standards.

Re: [debian-users] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
So, no one with experience on debian with this usb device? :-( Javier. On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I sent this to another list, but apparently no one knows, or cares to > answer... > > Bad thing I'm not using debian in the x86-64

[debian-users] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I sent this to another list, but apparently no one knows, or cares to answer... Bad thing I'm not using debian in the x86-64 and x86-32 machines I'm trying. I do use debian on other mips mini-pcs though... So it might be stock kernels from different distros are so different, but perhaps the

Re: incredibuild for linux(debain).

2011-10-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Muhammad Fahad wrote: > can we use incredibuild for linux(debain). if no then is there any > alternative > Regards > Fahad Haven't ever heard of it... But quickly looking into it, wouldn't distcc be an option for the same purpose? -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:21 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Please notice these combinations require experimental besides >> unstable, :-)  And to make the dependency handling easier, I just use >> aptitude in ncurses mod

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:07 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Well, for me the next combination of packages just works well (at some >> point in the past I needed to add experimental to have the latest >> combination o

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > ... is there another Java plugin that's functional? I > tried the icedtea one, but it seemed to have a dependency issue with > xulrunner that prevented installation. > > ... > > --Todd Well, for me the next combination of packages just works we

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM, AG wrote: > Hey list > > Just a quick query about releasing swap space.  On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets > used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. > > Is there any val

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:42:14 +, T o n g wrote: > >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:32:20 +, T o n g wrote: >> >>> Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend? >> >> I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gi

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Tomas Kral wrote: >> >> Dear List, >> >> How do I import pictures from a digital camera on Squeeze? >> >> On Lenny I installed gthumb application that was called by >> gnome-volume-manager when a camera was plugged in to a USB slot. >> >> W

Re: Automounting USB drives

2011-05-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > (...) > >> Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment to >> get this working again?  I have been searching for a couple of days now >> but I have not found any

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2011-04-23 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: >>> Please help me to resolve this error. >>> >>> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 >>> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot

Re: Problems with autofs

2011-04-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 12. 04. 2011 20:52:08 je Aniruddha napisal(a): > >>> I  tried with and without quotes, with the label and formatting the >>> drive as ext3.  I restarted autofs. None of these worked. Whe

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110413_202225, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Don J wrote: >> > For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few >> > other programs.  As far as I can se

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Don J wrote: > For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few > other programs.  As far as I can see, they get a segmentation fault > and just disappear.  From the debugging and back traces that I've > done, it appears that I may be missing or

Re: something changed in unstable initramfs-tools?

2011-04-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:02:57AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It used to be until yesterday that nouveau (controlled by KMS) was >> automatically loaded by the kernel, as well as snd-hda-intel, and t

something changed in unstable initramfs-tools?

2011-04-06 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, It used to be until yesterday that nouveau (controlled by KMS) was automatically loaded by the kernel, as well as snd-hda-intel, and the kernel hadn't changed since (2.6.38-2-amd64), so I imagined in yesterday's upgrade initramfs-tools changed... Is this the default now? I added the modules

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Mon, 2/28/11, Klistvud wrote: > ... > My reasons for abandoning the desktop environment and > going pure Openbox is more philosophical than practical. >  My current Fedora 12 64-bit system with GNOME runs > just fine even with the CP

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-02-12 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:10:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sb, 12 feb 11, 05:54:55, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>> > As far as I understand sid/unstable users should always have testing >>> > i

Re: fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded fluxbox on the weekend: > [UPGRADE] fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1 -> 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 > > and now the window decorations don't show the min/max/close buttons. It > doesn't matter which style I use, my own custom style or a

Re: new first for Sid

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Slicky Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 > Slicky Johnson wrote: > >> aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... >> >> >> >> patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low >> >>   The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file

Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> ... >> Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign >> nouveau driver as prior to the update.  However using >> fbdev instead worked out. >>

Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign nouveau driver as prior to the update. However using fbdev instead worked

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver >>> packages. Wait a bit?

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > packages. Wait a bit? > > Hugo It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's due to a change in xorg package... xserver-xorg-core now is

New version of midori with more problems?

2011-02-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I've keeping track of midori in unstable, to see the moment when it can actually substitute one of the more bloated browsers... After upgrade yesterday, the right button of the mouse seems to do nothing. And in mipsel boxes, it seems not possible to get into gmail with lots of time spent an

Re: Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: > ... > > I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? > ... FYI, archlinux is already using xz by default on their packaging system, and for kernel lzma, which at least improves compression ratio a bit. -- Javier. -- To

Re: [OT] Re: Evolution 2.30 (squeeze) with exchange

2011-01-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Erwan David wrote: > On 18/01/11 22:22, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> On the 18/01/2011 18:13, deloptes wrote: >>> ... >> ... > ... > now I use icedove in Imap (activated on > exchange), plus the exchange data provider for lightning > (http://gitorious.org/lig

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:44:20 +, Lisi wrote: > >> I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, >> but a dual-boot would be possible.  It must fulfil the following >> criteria: >> >> 1) Be managed by someone who knows a l

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

2011-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > to create partition... > > mkdosfs /dev/sda1 > > To mount the volume > > mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive mkdosfs does not create any partition, it formats the partition to VFAT, but it has to be created first. In your example /dev/sda1, the partit

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > ... > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > system. > > ... acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into S4. acpitool -s => suspend to ram (sleep) => Puts machine into S3. man acpitool P

Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ... > Can you burn blu ray disks in debian? >... > Michael Fothergill Hmm, as far as I know the original cdrecord [1] from the original cdrtools has been advertised to burn BluRay for quiet a while now. I don't have BluRay media, so I

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-12-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/08/2010 03:44 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Overall chromium has a small edge, but not very noticeable here. I use >> both happily anyway ! >> > what about Opera.. just asking :) > > > -- > Paul Cartwright > Registered Linux u

Re: DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

2010-11-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
To my surprise debtorrent is pretty functional... Bad thing it doesn't work under proxy (firewall), so I can't take advantage of it at work... Still is pending for me a set of good practices, how much disk space would be decent, etc... Javier. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Javi

DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

2010-11-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I like torrent a lot as a mechanism to share information. I believe the DebTorrent project is great cause it might enable upgrading systems not necesarily from one mirror but from different seeders and leechers, freeing up resources, and perhaps making upgrades faster, and all under the user

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is at > university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of her > theses (in litterature, so no big.deal as far as sketches, drawings...). The >

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop.  For > some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's > actually 107 DPI.  What's the best way to let x.org know the internal > display's actual DPI? > Ho

Re: laptop-mode-tools

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> ... > Talking about laptop-mode-tools, I haven't got around to do a bug report > against it yet, because Ubuntu has made a lightweight package replacing > it: > > Ubuntu's pm-utils-powersave-policy replaces laptop-mode-tools: very > lightweight with only a few scripts which work on any system wit

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> > >> When you install it, I don't remember if hdparm and sdparm are >> automatically triggered as dependencies, but then if not it's pretty >> good idea to have them installed, so that laptop-mode  can play with >> the HDs speeds...  It can handle as well CPU frequency, but I prefer >> cpufr

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it > doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools. I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-) The original list had it with some words as well, so I thought it was not necessary to make additional comments... See this

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez > wrote: >... > > If you have couple of minutes, would you, please, to expand your > comments about a system without desktop environment? Targeting a > laptop.

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:55 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> ... > > Thanks. I use fluxbox and don't use desktop environment myself as well > (my wife does). > > Thank you for your detailed explanation to disen

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +, T o n g wrote: > ... > Of all the following acpi related packages, which ones do you have (or, > which ones should I tell my debootstrap to install)? > > acpi-fakekey - tool to generate fake key events > acpi-su

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can > choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] > at the the usual place. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome :-) > > Regards > Dale

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/7/10, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Running Sid on amd64. Me too, on both amd64 and i686... > ... > 3. Midori - webkit-based, crashes more than Kazehakase. > ... I've been testing Midori for a while, and it doesn't crash on me. It has some limitations though: 1.- Java doesn't work properly un

Re: How to setup X fonts on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze?

2010-09-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/9/10, Csanyi Pal wrote: > ... > > I have installed amongs others following fonts: > otf-freefont > ttf-freefont > ttf-unifont > xfonts-100dpi > xfonts-100dpi-transcoded > xfonts-75dpi > xfonts-75dpi-transcoded > xfonts-base > xfonts-biznet-100dpi > xfonts-biznet-75dpi > xfonts-biznet-base > x

Re: .xsession kills X server with sqeeze/fluxbox

2010-09-06 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/6/10, brownh wrote: > Javier Vasquez writes: > >> ... > > ... > installed xorg and tested it by doing $ startx, and got the expected > graphical mode (blank screen with graphical prompt (?) in UL corner). > > I then installed fluxbox, and much to my surprise,

[debian-user] ifup/ifdown interfaces + guessnet + tap bridges

2010-09-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hello, I like guessnet quiet a bit to be able to automatically load the right logical interface when trying to start a physical one. As an example: +++ auto lo eth0 # The primary network interface mapping eth0 script guessnet-ifupdown map eth0-static eth0-dhcp map default:

Re: .xsession kills X server with sqeeze/fluxbox

2010-09-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/5/10, brownh wrote: > I'm used to using an .xsession file in ~/ Me too. >. But I find that when I have sqeeze installed with fluxbox, the server >crashes if there is an > xsession file present, even if it is empty. Perhaps the contents of your ~/.xsession. I have it on unstable with no p

[debian-user] Any one getting aptitude frozen on "update" with Translation-en bzip2 ?

2010-09-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I use debian unstable, and when trying to do "aptitude update" Today I face at the very end: 99% [1 Translation-en bzip2 0] And then aptitude just freezes forever... I searched through google for this, and I found old bug reports about that but for apt-get: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: Skype on amd64

2010-09-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/1/10, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:12:01 +0200, tv.debian wrote: > > ... > On my Debian Squeeze amd64, Skype crashes on startup with the message: > > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 643: _dl_open: Assertion > `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTE

Re: [debian-user] Evolution no longer providing calendar notification unless uder desktop environment (unstable)

2010-09-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/1/10, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi, Javier: > > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 16:52:54 Javier Vasquez wrote: >> OK, >> >> I just didn't want to use any startup script such the same fluxbox >> one, or ~/.xsession, or ~/.xinitrc. The reason being is

Re: [debian-user] Evolution no longer providing calendar notification unless uder desktop environment (unstable)

2010-09-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
For now created the following wrapper: #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-alarm-notify & exec /usr/bin/evolution And the following fluxbox menu: [exec] (Evolution) {~/bin/evolution_wrapper} Works, though I have to update the wrapper any time Evolution gets upgraded, :-( Again, other

Re: [debian-user] Evolution no longer providing calendar notification unless uder desktop environment (unstable)

2010-09-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
OK, I just didn't want to use any startup script such the same fluxbox one, or ~/.xsession, or ~/.xinitrc. The reason being is that I'd prefer anything Evolution depends upon to be called when invoking Evolution. I don't call Evolution always that I start X, :-) But it's good to know I can laun

[debian-user] Evolution no longer providing calendar notification unless uder desktop environment (unstable)

2010-08-31 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi all, If you take a look at the debian bug 588552, you'll notice that as of now Evolution (2.30.3-1) needs "/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-alarm-notify" to be running in order to provide events notifications and the like. Problem is that evolution doesn't start this process, and now it relie

Re: Stable, light-weighted, lighting-fast and actively-developed WM

2010-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/30/10, T o n g wrote: > ... > > The reason being, on my laptop, the > > - Fn-F4 key suspend > - lid close > > doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, and I don't have the time and > energy to tweak udev to enable them for fluxbox ... In reality those "features" you mentioned are not responsabi

Re: Get a list of obsoleted packages

2010-08-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/27/10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <201008271648.59327.alain.baecker...@laposte.net>, Alain Baeckeroot > wrote: >>Le 27/08/2010 à 16:35, T o n g a écrit : >>> I use to get the list of obsoleted packages using aptitude. Now that I'm >>> planning to remove aptitude, what are the alternat

Re: kvm Vs qemu-kvm Vs qemu -enable-kvm

2010-08-21 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/21/10, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I could not google out and get an effective information on what is the > difference between the above. Can someone explain me please ? > > I am talking here about the user space application only and not the > kernel module or kqemu. > > I can see

Re: I was told to "MSN" somebody

2010-08-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/10/10, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I was told to "MSN" somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you > folks recommend of > $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l > 53 > given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm. pidgin It can handle msn, google-talk, jasper, and with the sipe pluging also

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. > > Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily > missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets > back to

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/5/10, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> > >>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character >>> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts >>> were easy

[debian-user] Cleanning up mixture of debian-multimedia packages and official ones...

2010-08-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I use debian unstable, and as such I never worried much about /etc/apt/preferences (well /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not recognized by aptitude as of now), so I always had a misxture of official debian packages, the ones coming from debian-multimedia, and debian unofficial ones. Yesterday, a

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 7/18/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/2010 04:05 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 07/18/2010 03:54 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrot

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 7/17/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much > without any luck. > > USB Audio > 32-bit Sid > ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 > Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) > Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) > vlc 1.1.0 > users are in group audio > > Sound plays fi

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 7/9/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/09/2010 08:40 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? >

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 6/6/10, Paul Chany wrote: > Javier Vasquez writes: > >> xorg.conf accepts the following server flags: >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "AutoAddDevices""False" >> Option "AllowEmptyInput&quo

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-06 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 6/5/10, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:47, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: >> >>> Phil Requirements writes: >> Yes, you need to create a simple xorg.conf, because they aren't used by default. I had to create xorg.conf on my s

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 5/26/10, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: >> Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? > > I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > > AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux d

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:55:18 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? > > Curious is that I don't have such file in my home (running Lenny and > GNOME here) :-? > > Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsess

Re: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today

2010-02-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 2/18/10, Paul E Condon wrote: > Today in Wall Street Journal (pg 3 in US edition), there is an article > about hacker break-ins to computers via the internet. Mentioned as the > method of break-in are spyware called ZeuS, and Firefox browser, but > no mention of what OS are aflicted. > > I assu

Re: USB audio adapter

2010-01-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/13/10, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I am interested to buy a USB audio adapter. >> The C-Media based adapter which came with >> an Altec-Lansing headset works well but I >> prefer to buy an adapter without a headset. >> Does anyone know of an inexpensive adapter >> which works in Debian? > > Most

Re: acpitool vs acpi-support

2009-11-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 11/14/09, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > The acpitool and acpi-support look very similar to me: > > acpitool: > > acpi-support: > > ... > > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) In the old days I used to have both installed. However the support provided by acpi-support, which something acpitoo

[OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Sorry to ask specially through this list... I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. What I've read in this same list in the past, is that for the purpose of still not letting them die, using op

[Debian-User] Original cdrkit.

2008-12-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi all, If I'd like to use the original cdrkit instead of the main repository packaged version, the only way to do that is by compiling the sources? Or is there any debian-multimedia like package around? Thanks, -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:29:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. >>> >>> The system lookin

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