Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Lone Learner
POSIX.1-2001 Utilities[1] and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities[2] both list the commands "bc" and "ed" to be part of POSIX. Yet, in a brand new Debian installation (version 10 for example), these commands are missing by default: $ bc bash: bc: command not found $ ed bash: ed: command not found Why does De

Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-23 Thread Lone Learner
refer 700 MB downloads for LXDE. On 16 March 2017 at 20:33, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 09:17:49AM +0530, Lone Learner wrote: >>On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> We've stopped building CDs for most purposes - they're j

Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-11 Thread Lone Learner
On 12 March 2017 at 10:16, Felix Miata wrote: > Lone Learner composed on 2017-03-12 09:17 (UTC-0530): > >> Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made >> in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or >> LXDE selecte

Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-11 Thread Lone Learner
On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre wrote: > learnerl...@gmail.com wrote: >>The download page for Debian stable CDs at >>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ has a bunch >>of options like CD-1, CD-2, etc., KDE, LXDE and XFCE. >> >>But the download page for Debian testing

Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-08 Thread Lone Learner
The download page for Debian stable CDs at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ has a bunch of options like CD-1, CD-2, etc., KDE, LXDE and XFCE. But the download page for Debian testing CDs at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ does not seem to have CD-

Why doesn't fc-match respect my match and edit rule for Courier when it does for Consolas?

2015-06-21 Thread Lone Learner
I am using Debian with XFCE. Default behavior: No match or alias --- First, let me show the default behavior of my system when ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf has no match or alias tags. In this case, fc-match outputs the following

Re: Editing org.gnome.desktop.background in /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings doesn't change login wallpaper

2012-10-22 Thread Lone Learner
I solved the problem using the instructions in http://fabhax.com/technology/change-wallpapers-in-gnome-3.4/ On 8 October 2012 19:48, Fernando Freire wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Lone Learner wrote: >> I am trying to change my GNOME 3.4 login background using the instructi

Re: Editing org.gnome.desktop.background in /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings doesn't change login wallpaper

2012-10-08 Thread Lone Learner
Yes, it is. Do you think I am missing any step? What more can I do to troubleshoot this? On 8 October 2012 13:20, Jon Dowland wrote: > Is /opt definitely mounted at the time gdm3 starts? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Editing org.gnome.desktop.background in /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings doesn't change login wallpaper

2012-10-07 Thread Lone Learner
I am trying to change my GNOME 3.4 login background using the instructions in http://www.stderr.nl/Blog/Software/Gnome/Gnome3-Gdm3-Background.html But that method didn't work for me. I am using Debian (Wheezy) testing. My /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings file is like this: [org.gnome.desktop.background

Why does Audacity show me internal mics: "Internal Mic: 0" and "Internal Mic: 1"?

2012-05-07 Thread Lone Learner
know why I have got two internal mics? As far as I know, my laptop has got only one internal mic. Why do I see two in Audacity? Here is some more output. I hope it will help you to answer my questions. If you need more output, please tell me. lone@learner:~$ arecord -l List of CAPTURE Hardware D

Problems detected: package initscripts left obsolete init.d script behind, package initscripts left obsolete init.d script behind, package initscripts left obsolete init.d script behind

2012-02-07 Thread Lone Learner
I am not able to switch to dependency based boot. Here is the relevant output. debian:/boot/grub# dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot. error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing. error: Problems detected: package initscripts