On Thu, 01 Jul, 2021 at 18:52:42 +0800, kaye n wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole
><[1]liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote:
> >Hello guys
> >kaye@laptop:~$ s
On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote:
>Hello guys
>kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli
>Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration...
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in
>load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2', 'con
On Thu, 27 May, 2021 at 18:38:55 +0100, mick crane wrote:
>
> Is there not a program required to do that mouse, click, drag, select ?
> I recall with various installations that worked then it didn't and it worked
> after installing "g something something"
That would be gpm. I haven't seen it in t
On Wed, 12 May, 2021 at 14:05:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list .
> I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted,
> But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking
> the
On Tue, 11 May, 2021 at 14:30:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> As I said, I'm just a lowly user.
On the contrary, you are an extremely helpful, courteous and entertaining user.
:-)
On Tue, 27 Apr, 2021 at 18:49:55 +, Jerry Mellon wrote:
>Hello,
>I have been using Debian 10 now for about 6 months and all of a sudden
>Evolution will not allow me to login.
>I am getting a box while Evolution is starting and loading that says
>"Please enter the password fo
On Tue, 23 Mar, 2021 at 17:06:47 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> didier gaumet wrote:
[...]
> > This one will probably do:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization
> > (particularly the 3rd chapter "System Virtualization" if I understand your
> > usecase)
>
> This is a comprehensive docu
your data.
It works but it is only suitable for occasional or lightweight use. I
wrote a how-to guide for building such a system; it is here:
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html
It is a little dated now but still valid. It details some
optimisations you can do to boost life -- such as using a
On Sat, 19 Sep, 2020 at 14:31:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[...]
> While I'm an LXDE user myself I do acknowledge that other DEs might have
> a different focus and/or priorities. As far as I can tell, providing
> many options is something that GNOME seems to explicitly want to avoid,
> whet
On Wed, 05 Aug, 2020 at 00:04:48 +, Long Wind wrote:
>i have win7 at sda1 and buster at sda2
>i install centos 6 at sda3, it can boot win7, can't see buster
>i mean i can't boot buster now
>is there some rescue image that can be written to bootable usb disk?
>or do you know
On Mon, 27 Jul, 2020 at 15:38:57 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> John Boxall (12020-07-27):
> > I was having the same problem with the same model mfp. I had to go into the
> > HPLIP Toolbox app and setup the printer. Once I did that xsane and simple
> > scan could find the scanner.
>
> Thanks for t
On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote:
> On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > > Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Or is everything else readable?
> > Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synap
small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc.,
> >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts
> >> on
> >> individual programs?
> >>
> >
> > If you install libreoffice-gtk3 then LibreOffice will respect the font
> > se
On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote:
> Hi, Folks -
>
> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up
> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc.,
> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on
>
On Mon, 29 Jun, 2020 at 10:21:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote:
[...]
> > Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday?
>
> Yesterday's problems stemmed from installing mate-desktop-environment rather
> than task-mate-desktop ;{
Who
On Tue, 23 Jun, 2020 at 20:57:30 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote:
>Hi,
>I am facing a strange trouble with a Debian Sid laptop (Dell Precision
>7540) both using gnome-software or fwupdmgr: a recent firmware update
>does not apply.
>So after reboots the update comes back again. Previ
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 09:35:45 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 12:22 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote:
> > > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto:
> > > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote:
> Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto:
> > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim or in /etc that default
> > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it.
>
> I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/v
On Sun, 07 Jun, 2020 at 20:19:48 +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote:
>On 6/7/20 7:52 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote:
[...]
> What window manager/desktop suite are you using?
>
>GNOME Metacity
That's unusual these days. Are you getting your application menu from
gnome-panel?
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:55:02 +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
> On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > It's OK. I understood your question the first time.
> >
> > The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends&#
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:04:17 +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
> On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> > > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit :
> > > > If installing (default parameters
On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit :
> > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package,
> > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in
> > packages do not become removed automatic
s GPU would work on Linux v4.19.
I only need Debian GNU/Linux to detect it and know which GPU is to
passthrough it to my Windows gaming VM, to play Windows-only games. For
Debian I already have Intel's IGPU.
So how's the support for these GPUs?
Thank you so much!
--
Liam Powell
On Sun, 10 May, 2020 at 22:03:20 +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates,
> buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt
> upgrade very frequently.
>
> As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday.
>
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 23:02:16 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> Le 04/05/2020 à 22:52, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> > > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> > > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> > > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-)
> > >
> >
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-)
>
> I had not read the Freedesktop wiki before, but unfortunately it does not
> help: I thought the solution was here when it says icon "has to have the
> same name as
On Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 at 08:28:25 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> This morning I ran "apt update && apt upgrade" as usual, and there was
> a new kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 amd64, to
> replace the prior kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64
> 4.19.67-2+deb10u2, and several other
On Sun, 26 Apr, 2020 at 16:13:28 -0600, ghe wrote:
> Buster, Supermicro workstation
>
> I wanted to install pip (python3 is installed and working well and my
> apt mirrors are up to date):
>
> root@sbox:~# apt install pip
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state
On Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 at 13:08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> One last name stands out in my apache2 logs.
>
> Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
AppleWebKit appears in the user-agent string sent by chrome and other
b
On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:53:14 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
>
> >> Backports must not be used to fix bugs in Stable. If groovy from
> >> Stable does not work with the ope
On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote:
>
> >>[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460
> >>Is there a way to download patc
On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote:
>[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460
>Is there a way to download patched groovy version in debian buster
>through apt?
>As default groovy version in Buster stable is: Groovy Version: 2.4.16
>J
On Sun, 19 Apr, 2020 at 19:11:55 +1000, elvis wrote:
>
> On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[...]
> > Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is
> > *not* forwarding (should probably mention this in the wiki).U
>
> In over 25 years of email I have never come
On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key.
> But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help".
> Obviously its stored in a file. Where?
> TIA
Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. Assumes
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 18:00:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Liam writes:
> > I think you misunderstand me. I'm talking about making a connection to
> > an IP address that you have already obtained by (encrypted) DNS. For
> > example, your personal bind instance tel
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 23:42:48 +0300, Reco wrote:
[...]
> > 2. Having completed a DNS lookup unbeknownst to the ISP, we still have
> > to make a connection to the resulting IP address through the ISP's
> > gateway. The ISP can perform a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address if
> > they are deter
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 16:37, John Hasler wrote:
>
> Liam writes:
> > I'm not familiar with bind. Does it work by consulting root name
> > servers directly?
>
> It starts with the root servers and builds a database in exactly the
> same way your ISP's DNS
On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 16:02:07 +, Paulo Roberto wrote:
>Hello.
>The gnome-screenshot a few updates ago stopped working properly.
>It's not saving to the clipboard anymore.
>When I run:
>
>$ gnome-screenshot -a -c
>
>It activates the selection cursor, after selection
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 16:19:55 +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU w
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[...]
> > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server.
>
> Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own
> too, using o
On Thu, 26 Mar, 2020 at 23:34:57 +, Diana Emefa wrote:
>I need http to access the outside world
This is a mailing list. You have connected to the outside world without
HTTP. I hope that you will continue to do so.
On Wed, 25 Mar, 2020 at 21:02:17 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 20:18:29 (+), Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >
> > For what it's worth, Network Manager doesn't need a GUI either. Tools
> > such as nmcli and nmtui allow you to configure and cont
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 22:04:07 -0500, David Wright wrote:
[...]
> I don't want a desktop. In fact, wicd doesn't even need X, as it can
> run quite happily on a VC to configure a new AP.
>
> When I return to somewhere I have been before, wicd (the daemon)
> usually connects before I have typed
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 19:05:32 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 23:31 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > Are the dawn and dusk times correct in the Night Light configuration
> > window?
> >
> There are two options. Manual or Sunset/Sunrise in
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 18:24:04 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> hello,
> I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night Light
> feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I
> have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset is
> comi
On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 00:35:39 +0200, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My update/upgrade system script is about that :
> sudo apt update && sudo apt list --upgradable -a && sudo apt
> dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y &&
> sudo apt clean -y
>
> But I want
On Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 at 17:58:05 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> hello,
> I would like to ask if there are any drawbacks in installing software
> using Flatpak. As far as I understand, this installation method
> installs packages in an isolated way (whatever that means).
> I would imagine th
On Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 at 19:54:29 +, Bhasker C V wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for an applet (a simple one) which indicates the
> connectivity to internet (perhaps green when connected to internet and
> red/orange when connected but no internet access). I am struggling to
> search for this in
On Fri, 06 Mar, 2020 at 14:24:47 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
[...]
>
> Interesting that I have 3 responses to the original post.Perhaps we have
> a time zone issue? Like when I was flamed at 06:00 the morning after, for
> not responding to a post I sent at 21:00. We sometimes need a way
On Thu, 05 Mar, 2020 at 13:13:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> > Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45)
> >
> > > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email
> > > earlier, so here it is again.
> >
> > No, that is not ho
On Wed, 13 Nov, 2019 at 15:20:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> What might I be missing?
An adequate description of your problem.
On Sun, 03 Nov, 2019 at 12:41:51 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
>Hi,
>I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10
>(buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it
>should be a clean install, and it seems to be.
>The desktop manager looks different: i
On Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 08:44:28 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:17:55PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is
>
On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is
> deprecated? peferably something that can be run over an ssh -Y
> user@machine login.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Synaptic is not deprecated in bust
On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote:
> Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the
> installation.
>
> It's absolutely pathetic.
>
> Wayne Sallee
> wa...@waynesallee.com
> http://www.WayneSallee.com
>
Thank you for your contribution. I look forward
rc state indicates that the package has been removed but
> configuration files remain. You can review the list and purge these
> packages.
>
> I sometimes do this:
>
> # apt purge $(dpkg -l | awk '$1 == "rc" {print $2}')
>
ALternatively,
# aptitude purge ~c
--
Liam
.
>
> Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ?
>
Java Web Start has been removed from OpenJDK 11, so I doubt it.
--
Liam
On 2019-05-29, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-05-28 22:16:27 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> > Hi, all!
>> >
>> > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched
>> > for a suitable
ling? You need to talk to the maintainers of wicd and ask
them why there is a systemd dependency.
--
Liam
On 2019-04-25, morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Eclipse on my debian stretch but it crashes when launching.
> I attached the logs, I don't understand if I could do anything, nor in
> which package(s) are the issues. Sorry for not using reportbug for this
> report.
>
> Feel free to contact me fo
ut the Debian OS didn't load.
[...]
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
I don't use debian as a guest OS on virtualbox, but I know that there
are various prebuilt debian images[1] for that platform. You might have
better luck with one of those.
1: https://www.osboxes.org/debian/
--
Liam
I go to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/
>
> I see that the jessie-updates is missing.
>
> Please advise.
>
Jessie received its last update in June of last year. The contents of
jessie-updates were merged with jessie at that time. Therefore the
former is redundant.
--
Liam
anyone have any idea what is happening?
Linux burns 4.19.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.12-1 (2018-12-22) i686 GNU/Linux
systemd 240-4
Debian buster/sid
Thanks,
Liam
--
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https://Liam.Morland.ca/https://ScoutDocs.ca/Camps/
On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote:
> Greets!
>
> I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to
> have worked though there are some oddities.
>
> now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.);
> the interface in general seems to run on a different 'th
On 2018-11-05, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote:
>> Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on
>> firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone?
>
> apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends
>
> It says "... fire
On 2018-09-04, Gene Heskett wrote:
> thing they've now given it a "better" name of PTSD (by the libtards
> definitions).
"Libtards"? Gene, you can do better than that.
On 2018-07-19, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
>> > fire u
On 2018-05-09, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 09 May 2018 at 12:50:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote:
>> > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote:
On 2018-05-05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote:
>> "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of
>> GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version, but it
>> should just cleanly apply to the older versions."
>>
On 2018-04-09, songbird wrote:
> Greg Marks wrote:
> ...
>> (The instruction pointer and the stack pointer values will vary,
>> as you'd expect.) I am running Debian 9, Linux kernel 4.6.0-1-amd64
>> x86_64, with MATE 1.16.2 desktop; my computer has a PNY Quadro K620
>> 2GB Video Card and is runni
On 2018-04-09, Greg Marks wrote:
> I've been having a minor but mildly annoying problem. From time to
> time, the entire MATE desktop will flash, and all open windows remain
> open; however, the order in which their tabs appear in the bottom
> panel is randomly rearranged. So, if I have 13 termi
On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box.
>
> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box:
> i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put
> in the other user's name in the To: line.
>
> I then
On 2018-03-17, Michael Grant wrote:
> --f403043615085592a505679a4cd2
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> I restarted ntp today and noticed this in the logs:
>
> Mar 17 07:12:41 bottom systemd[1]:
> /lib/systemd/system/system-update-cleanup.service:35: Unknown lvalue
> 'SuccessAction' i
On 2018-03-15, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/14/2018 05:30 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> Several months ago I needed a fully custom desktop icon for a shortcut.
>>> I had no trouble creating an appropriate png file and hav
On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Several months ago I needed a fully custom desktop icon for a shortcut.
> I had no trouble creating an appropriate png file and having it display.
> Now I need a similar icon. I went to the properties of the shortcut
> expecting to be able to discover the lo
On 2018-03-13, wrote:
[...]
> 1) All generalizations suck.
> 2) Language wars are generally a loss of time.
That makes two generalisations which, presumably, suck.
On 2018-03-04, Bernard wrote:
>
>
> On 03/03/2018 00:55, Liam O'Toole wrote:
[...]
>> Have you tried a simple
>>
>> cp /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop Desktop/
>
> I just tried it : it works ! Since it did not work the way it did with
>
On 2018-03-02, Bernard wrote:
>
>
> On 02/03/2018 14:03, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2018-03-02, Bernard wrote:
>>> Hi !
>
>>>
>>
>
>> You can create your own icons by drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, or by
>> creating files in your ~/
tweak tool control (a) whether desktop icons are
displayed at all and (b) if so, which icons are displayed by default.
You can create your own icons by drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, or by
creating files in your ~/Desktop directory.
--
Liam
e misbehaving programs are probably getting their DPI information
from the X server directly. If you start X with the '-dpi 144' switch
then you should get consistent behaviour.
For example:
startx -- -dpi 144
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; best regards,
totem is used internally by various GNOME applications. The popcon data
is probably skewed by that.
--
Liam
On 2018-02-21, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
[...]
> I know what I'm talking about ...
Dude, you're talking to a Debian developer.
OP, if you're reading this, I urge you to follow the advice of Roberto
and other wiser heads.
--
Liam
for m.gmane.org, so it is not possible
>> to send you mail to address gldu-debian-use...@m.gmane.org and that is
>> why the mail is rejected.
>
>
> Well, I've been posting in exactly same manner for the totality of my
> presence here (through the gmane news to mail gateway--or mail to news
> gateway--or whatever the hell it is or was).
Same here, but using the server news.gmane.org.
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Liam
e of your profile if necessary.
1:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
--
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abase with the package name:
~$ apt policy firmware-atheros
firmware-atheros:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20161130-3
Version table:
20161130-3 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages
So the firmware can be found in the firmware-atheros package from the non-free
repository[2] of stretch.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/apt-file
2: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Component
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handwritten note.
>
> Thank you.
>
The above firmware file is provided by the package firmware-iwlwifi from
the non-free repository.
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-iwlwifi
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m backports back?
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I had the same problem with Jessie and OpenJdk-8.
>>
>> You have to install ca-certificates-java from backports too.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Georgi
>>
In general, the command
apt-get -t jessie-backports install openjdk-8-jre-headless
should automatically resolve the dependencies for you.
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nd (re)started the service. Which took a while as I got
> disturbed and the change was not urgent and I assumed the service was still
> running :-(
>
> Is there any way to get the old functionality back?
>
> Bonno Bloksma
You could port the script segments you identified to the jessie version
of the init file. But first I would consult the changelog from the
wheezy to the jessie versions (especially with regard to systemd
migration) to see if there is a better way.
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ly using Ctrl+Alt+F1
>
> So I'm guessing some sort of unhandled race condition, but I'm at a
> loss as to how to debug this.
I suspect a deadlock of the graphics driver rather then the window
manager. Some drivers don't handle console switching very well. Can you
reproduce the problem with a different window manager?
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On 2017-08-27, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> On 26/08/17 20:36, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes wrote:
>>> I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on=
>
>>> your favourite community video streaming
rence with FLOSS is that you can fix any problems yourself. Or
persuade or pay someone else to do it for you. The choice is yours.
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auto_linklocal, autoconfprivacy, defaultif, and ifdisabled.
>
> So when do we get that ported and into debian, replacing this gibberish
> generator call ip, so we can just get back to doing the things we want
> to do with a computer?
Please feel free to port those improvements. If you are unable or
unwilling to do that, you will need to persuade or pay someone else to
do it for you.
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On 2017-08-19, Brian wrote:
(...)
> network-mangler? This demonstrates a disdain for the work put into
> making networking comfortable on Debian. It also probably infers a
> lack of any deep understanding of how the software works.
s/infers/implies
Other than that, +1
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t a more efficient alternative?
>
(...)
I use duplicity for exactly this scenario. See the wiki page[1] to get
started.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/Duplicity
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170808131008.html
>
> I hope this helps
>
> -HP Garcia
>
>
Original article:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-keep-debian-linux-patched-with-latest-security-updates-automatically/
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ng anywhere soon.
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On 2017-07-13, Sam Smith wrote:
> On 07/11/2017 06:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked.
>>> Maybe I missed something, but am I seri
to use my desktop" hack??
>
> Or is there a better way?
GDM still supports XDMCP.
https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.22/configuration.html.en#xdmcpsection
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