Spanning wallpaper across monitors in Plasma is a pain. A github project,
"superpaper," works fine on X. But it doesn't work on Wayland.
Does anyone know how to span wallpaper across monitors, in Plasma, using
Wayland?
(I'm running Sid.)
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On Aug 10 2021, at 12:32 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> How can I determine what the "1 not upgraded" package might be?
>
>
> ~$ apt-get update
> Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
> Hit:2 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease
> Hit:3
med
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resolutions I know my monitor supports (and then running "sudo
update-grub") has no effect.
Any suggestions?
I've been running sid for a year, but this has been a problem since I got
the computer a couple of years ago and was running stable so I figure it's
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ever use cdroms for is installing Debian, I got away without having to
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Many thanks to the people who create the Debian installer for floppies!
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How do you know it is not working? Are you getting some sort of error
message?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. Current versions of libxine1 _do_
support em830
I can't get DXR3 (em8300) support working with libxine1. The sarge
version still works, but none of the newer versions of libxine1. Does
anyone have experience compiling libxine1 with em8300 support? How is
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27;s pretty much the only way I
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* Benjam? Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060501 11:33]:
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> Fonts dosen't works again in Flash :( Maybe due the last x-org updates.
>
> Anyone have solved this issue?
I'm having the same problem.
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package; something to do with changes in I2C. Guess I'll just wait to
switch kernels until the problem gets resolved.
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* Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060131 22:09]:
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> > Right now, when spam makes it through spamassassin, I report it with an
> > "X" according to the following line in my .muttrc:
> >
> >
y for me to tag multiple spams and then report them with
a single keystroke?
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what is distinctive about Debian systems.
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to specify a username and password, which is done by manually editing
/etc/exim4/passwd.client according to the instructions in that file.
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* Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040729 18:49]:
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> I always thought some kind of menu system was a requisite for a
> desktop environment until I started using ion.
You're part of the way there, but what you really need is ratpoison! :)
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really need
something that isn't in stable, you may want to stay with stable. When
sarge becomes stable (real soon now), you can upgrade your woody
machines to it.
But if you find yourself continually wanting to install software that
depends on libraries in unstable, you might want to bite
ou have a text-based html browser such
as links or w3m installed, and mutt should display html emails as text.
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* Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040423 09:52]:
> My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is
> simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading
> somewhere in the middle of chapter II.
Or maybe he's a troll who went to a lot of
st running a few boxes at home, I
wanted something quick and easy: set up one machine as a time server and
have the other machines connect to it. Ntp may well better for some
purposes (large networks and such), but for my tiny home network I found
chrony simpler to understand and hence quicker to s
hin a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is
located. A see is not a person. Vatican City is the Holy See.
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ng prior
to the insufficient memory message that suggested a problem, but maybe
it's there.
Do I perhaps need to change the configuration file?
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owever, I had to set up an
old, undocumented laptop that I was only going to use for a couple of
weeks and then wipe clean. A straight Debian install would have been a
PITA. Knoppix did the trick.
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* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040208 22:13]:
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> I call people stupid when they ARE.
For the sake of your social life, I sure hope you meant "only when".
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* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040208 10:44]:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> > When an old laptop falls into your hands, and you don't have any
> > documentation on it, it's easier to use Knoppix and then upgrade to
>
Knoppix as a distribution, but I love the
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* Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040118 13:42]:
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> Vlada
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> | My sons can all do it.
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* Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040118 13:34]:
> The same to me -:))). Please, help! Vlada
My sons can all do it.
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* Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040117 18:20]:
> I'm trying to use groff to create postscript, but it keeps returning
> pages for A4 paper rather than letter.
There wasn't really a problem. I was making two mistakes:
1. I wasn't using a macro, such as -me, so th
mmand to grops doesn't seem to help:
groff -P -pletter foo.txt
produces postcript formatted for A4 paper.
Does anyone know how to create letter-sized postscript with groff?
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maybe the modules didn't load correctly or in the
right order. You said in your earlier post that you had the same
modules loaded. Are you sure? (Sorry for being obnoxious, it's just
that I've had the experience of _insisting_ that I had the correct usb
modules loaded, and it
* Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031212 16:35]:
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> Hardware-wise, nothing at all has changed in the last 3 weeks. No new
> devices, same kernel, same modules.
Have you rebooted in that time?
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* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031211 13:48]:
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> Actually, Michael Robertson is trying to sell his Debian based linux
> to consumers.
Is it possible to take a Lindows installation and convert it over to
Debian sid or testing? That would make it a lot more attractive.
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how are you linking to it?
Are you issuing the GRUB command "initrd /"?
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cement to be used on a
dedicated machine and interacted with using a remote control, mythtv is
what you want. Otherwise (IMHO), not.
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* Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031115 17:30]:
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> But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfirebird.
> Where is it?
I think it's one of the extensions you can download and install.
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etup" that contained just a script with
the appropriate command.
Thanks again!
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ard to log in, but I mostly use
this machine with only a stylus. Better it just automatically logs me
in and starts an X session for me.
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th's _Linux Journal_, there's only
ever been a couple of guys working on Scribus. When you think of it in
those terms (a couple of guys versus a huge corporation), it's pretty
impressive.
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apt-cache
search browser", for example, returns over 300 results, whereas
"apt-cache search browser | grep browser" returns 70 results. Over 300
packages mention "browser" somewhere in the description, and 70 packages
include "browser" in the short description.
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* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031003 09:39]:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Welcome to the heard.
>
> What did you hear?
Or, rather, who heard you?
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nux to get things done.
_RUTE_ (apt-get install rutebook -- but it's in non-free) is good for
system administration.
I don't know of any single book that does all the things you're looking
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> tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2
You only need the v if you want to see all the filenames.
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d it to, making
My spam box is full of plausible sounding subjects from familiar
sounding names.
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use too much in ion.
But if you like to resize windows a lot, ion makes it easier than
ratpoison. I just run all my applications fullscreen, on either the
left monitor or the right monitor, so ratpoison makes more sense.
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the files created or
modified by your installation script ("make install"
"make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a
standard binary package and installs it in your
system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your
distribution's standard packag
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:51:10PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > a compatable player. Has anyone tried this? Whenever I try to
> > download something it wants to save .emp files which are xml files
> > t
ilenames to contain more
information about the files, including track orde
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I'm using kernel-img-2.4.19-k6-smp, and a matrox G400. Has anyone else
seen this kind of behavior? Is it related to a missing module?
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ct answer to your question, but selectwm may do what
you want. It depends on a mouse, but it's nice to be able to exit a wm
before knowing what wm you want to use next. You can exit your current
wm and see a menu of other available wms.
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a better way (and more correct) than apt-removing gdm.
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
removes all the gdm links in the /etc/rc.d/ directories.
update-rc.d also lets you set different priorities for different
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m, using ratpoison as the default. If I need
to use a wm that keeps the desktop metaphor, I can quickly exit
ratpoison and switch to another wm without losing any of my windows.
Once I'm done with that program, I exit the "desktop" wm, and go back to
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ayer binary doesn't
recognize .rm files?
mplayer doesn't know the libraries are available unless it first found
the libraries during the configuration/compilation process.
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You may need to install some missing libraries to get it to build, but
the error messages give detailed information.
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Thanks. I had done the make-kpkg clean, but wasn't adding a revision.
The revision gave an error message the reminded me I'd forgotten to
delete the debian/official file.
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:45:48PM -0700, Dave Price wrote:
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> you could try running IE in WINE or VMWARE (now
> THERE is a real test for a windows emulator)
vmware runs Windows (including IE) with no problems, except you can't
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md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian
website)?
Or is this already done somehow?
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If you're removing dri and GLcore from XF86Config-4, is there still any
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f enough people were to use this tool, it looks like it could become
extraordinarily effective. Perhaps there's a catch, but I hope not.
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e it to make a deb of
itself and reinstall it using the deb.
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A book that's full of useful examples is _The Linux Cookbook_ by Michael
Stutz, available in paperback from Linux Journal Press, and also by
apt-get install linuxcookbook
Another extremely useful book for getting the whole unix thing is _Think
Unix_ by Jon Lasser (QUE, 2000)
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This makes it very easy to track down both incoming and outgoing mail,
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be able to get it
> running on your system.
I think you're referring to twin (a Text mode WINdow environment), which
is packaged for Debian, for sid at least. The packages pages at
www.debian.org aren't working right now, so I can't tell whether twin is
available for potato or woody.
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Tainting is permanent, even if an offending module is unloading the
tainted value remains to indicate that the kernel is not trustworthy.
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> Depends can be your friend here. Install a package with the greatest number
> of
> depenencies and you get most of what you need with one command.
Doesn't apt-get build-dep give the desired result?
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what that fix was? I can't find it searching the
archives, and I didn't save it when I saw it.
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:36:34PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote:
>
> Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and
> wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2)
>
> Has anyone found a workaround for this?
There may be other ways to do it, but this works:
1. copy the cd files to
ee, as usual
Both sites have limits on how many pages you can validate at a
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tor, or of some other html validator that does
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my brain begi
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:08:29AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an
> > x-window session? That would be cool.
>
> Having recently got round to
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:11:37PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> This is a response to Lance Simmons.
>
> When I reinstalled Debian yesterday, I installed the modules in the order
> that you give: parport, parport_pc, and lp. After each I got the message
> "installation succ
s on parport, so they have
to be loaded in the correct order:
insmod parport
insmod parport_pc
insmod lp
If it says they're already loaded, remove them in reverse order:
rmmod lp
rmmod parport_pc
rmmod parport
and then reload them. Then report what messages you get from the
modules as
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
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> The printer does not work. The echo test failed.
What messages do you get when you insmod parport, parport_pc, and
lp?
; when you can still have the real thing :)
Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an
x-window session? That would be cool.
Lance Simmons
colorful, but if that's what you want
it'd be easy enough to do.
What makes it work is that uwm lets you have a window border as
narrow as a single pixel, and doesn't require a title bar.
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was the same. The printer does not appear in dmesg and the echo
> system for printing did not work.
When you load parport_pc by using "insmod parport_pc", (you can remove it first
using "rmmod lp" and "rmmod parport_pc") do you get any messages at all?
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arport
insmod parport_pc
insmod lp
Once you've got the echo test working, then you can worry about
setting up your /etc/ files to do this automatically (I don't
remember how this is done).
If they are loaded but the echo test doesn't work, I'm not sure
what to do next (though I
n-US/non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib
> non-US/non-free
Since he's running potato, shouldn't these two lines say
"stable" instead of "unstable"?
Lance Simmons
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:35:22PM -0400, mikepolniak wrote:
> Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE
> in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results?
While we're at it, how about the HP 3300Cse? Anyone have it
working?
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thing up? (And
if so, what can I do to fix it?)
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yourself that you could set up a rudimentary domain if you had
to, even if you don't plan on actually running a name server. I
like how-to's; full documentation is often a bit overwhelming if
you're not already up to speed.
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:/home/erik# df -h
> > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > >/dev/hda4 1.0G 649M 331M 67% /
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:53:47AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
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> or http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ with a mask like libgimp*29*deb , this
> is where I had the best luck in such cases.
Great! There were scores of hits.
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where the symlink first was
> c) make a symlink so that it 'seems' nothing has happened
This worked for me. Thanks! I couldn't get the other suggestions to
work, but that probably says more about my non-existent apache skills
than about the suggestions.
Lance Simmons
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:48:55PM -0800, hansen wrote:
> > On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote:
> > > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of
> > > 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere?
>
> they just go away to
>
> http:
Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of
30. Isn't there an archive somewhere?
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stall or the netsaint install.
Any suggestions?
Does anyone know if netsaint even _should_ work after installing apache
and then netsaint from the binary debs? Is more configuration required?
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cent
version of ghostscript, but I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not
that interested in trying. I'm happy with how apsfilter works for me
right now.
Is there any way to mark a package so as to _not_ upgrade it? The
documentation on apt-get didn't enlighten me. Must I refrain from
apt-get upgrading?
Lance Simmons
had
problems with xbuffy's led blinking feature?
Thanks for the various suggestions.
Lance Simmons
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:35:17AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> I'm getting this error message a lot:
>
> kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
>
> Full
are/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap devel/bin86
usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz devel/bin86
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