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
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
On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 at 19:01:30 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > 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.,
> >
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
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 tells you that www.debian.org
> > re
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 server does. In fact, it is probably what
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
On 2019-07-15, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> Felix Miata writes:
>
>> # grep RETT /etc/os-release
>> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
>> # dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | wc -l
>> 867
>> # dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii' | wc -l
>> 136
>> # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l
>> 125
>> # dpkg -l | egrep -v '^ii'|'^r
On 2019-05-31, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
>> "BR" == Brad Rogers writes:
>
>BR> Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8
>
>BR> Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't
>BR> be back.
>
> Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ?
>
Java Web Start
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
On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched
> for a suitable network manager and wicd looked good: No desktop
> environment dependencies (I use a window manager Openbox and single
> lxpanel), compatibility with Openbo
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
On 2019-04-10, Patrick Gallagher wrote:
> --9c7f3b05862d2a11
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> Hi Suppot,
This is not support. This is a mailing list for users of debian, just like you.
>
> I installed Debian 9.8.0 on my laptop using an iso DVD image and Virtualbox
> 6.0
On 2019-03-26, Mike Malcolm wrote:
> --07ffdc0584fd528b
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> Hello,
>
> My project has failed to deploy and I'm seeing that there is a 404 error
> when trying to access jessie-updates.
>
> When I go to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/
>
> I
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 ~/
On 2018-03-02, Bernard wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Has anyone succeeded in displaying icons on the gnome 3.22 desktop ? I
> tried the 'gnome-tweak-tool', but the one that is available through the
> Stretch repositories does not allow displaying any more icons than
> 'home' and 'dustbin'. I read somethin
On 2018-02-28, Dominic Knight wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 06:50 -0500, songbird wrote:
>>
>> the only real negatives of the newer monitor is
>> that the scaling of fonts/menus/window sizes is set
>> so small and not easily adjustable in the program
>> itself that i have to change my monitor
On 2018-02-26, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=totem
>
>thank you Greg for this link.
>Now, I actually got 2 answers,but with so many users, I would expect
>a little more.
>
> best regards,
totem is used
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
On 2018-02-19, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-02-18, Karol Augustin wrote:
>>>
>>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>>>
>>>debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>> SMTP error from remote m
On 2018-02-17, deloptes wrote:
[...]
> Might be I need to clean up and see if it makes a difference
>
> thanks
After 15 years, probably yes. I suggest you consider a refresh[1]. Make
sure you understand what will be kept and what will be discarded, and
how to recover the previous state of your
On 2018-01-30, Anil Duggirala wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote:
>> > Hi Anil,
>> >
>> > did you take a look at this:
>> >
>> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
>> >
>> > Bernd
>>
On 2017-11-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote:
>> On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
>>> It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
>>> I made a handwritten which is not completely l
On 2017-09-14, John Naggets wrote:
> Thanks Georgi you made my day! That worked like a charm.
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>> On 09/14/2017 03:45 PM, John Naggets wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I did the mistake of running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Debian 8
>>> mach
On 2017-08-29, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I had a small (big?) problem with the DHCP server.
> When I make any changes I allways do a
> # service isc-dhcp-server restart
> to test the new config. In the past when there was an error in the config the
> service would keep running using th
On 2017-08-28, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> I consistently get a deadlock of the XFCE window manager, immediately
> after I logout of say Linux console 2, when e.g. XFCE is running on
> console 1.
>
> Procedure to replicate:
>
> 1. login to console 1
>
> 2. start xfce
>
> 3. switch to console 2 (e.g.
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
On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes wrote:
(...)
> I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on
> your favourite community video streaming site. That's how I've found
> FOSS support: "Best software in the world. No problems at all. But if
> you find a problem, file a bug and w
On 2017-08-19, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 19 August 2017 04:15:42 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>
>> Glenn English:
>> > I've written many scripts over the years, using ifconfig and others,
>> > and having everything broken now is a major PITA.
>> >
>> > I very much agree that sysV init
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
--
Liam
On 2017-08-17, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Currently I use rsync to make the backups of my personal data, including
> some manually selected important files of system configuration. I keep
> old backups to be more safe from the scenario where I have deleted
> something important, I m
On 2017-08-11, Herb Garcia wrote:
> I found this article on Linux Today. I know a few of us have asked
> questions about this maybe this might clear up a few of them.
>
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/how-to-keep-debian-linux-patched-with-latest-security-updates-automatically-170808131008.htm
On 2017-08-11, Gene Heskett wrote:
(...)
> First off, I have some scripts that greatly simplify things for me, and
> which depends on dbus, which I read is deprecated, so what replaces it?
Dbus is still around in stretch, and has many dependent packages. I
don't think it's going anywhere soon.
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
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 seriously reduced to using this
> complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal user so I
> can run x11vnc to use my desktop" hack
On 2017-06-30, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Imagine my surprise when the usual X selection and clipboard
> techniques disappeared.
>
> Normal behavior:
>
> - X11
> - xterm or urxvt or gnome-terminal or whatever
> - copy text by selecting with mouse button 1
> - move over to some other text input field a
On 2017-06-29, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 08:26:47 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I am using the MATE desktop on Debian Stretch.
>> I wish to run a user specific script each time a specific user logs in.
>> The script is known to work because I manually run it each and every
>>
On 2017-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2017 09:36:57 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Liam wrote:
>> > Glad you fixed the problem. For future reference,
>> > /usr/share/doc/apache2/ is where you'll find the Debian and upstream
>> > changelogs. Similarly for any other /usr/share/doc/$package_
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