Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 05/11/2014 17:02, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Miles, Le mercredi, 5 novembre 2014, 09.32:57 Miles Fidelman a écrit : [If you're happy with systemd, and not considering a change - please stay out of this discussion. If you object to the very nature of the discussion, hit your delete key and

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 11/05/14 08:53, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version onto a laptop computer. However, the sound does not work. In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel something soundcard t

Mounting Compact flash attached to USB card reader makes it unreadable.

2013-12-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi all, Debian testing, 3.11-2-amd64 kernel. I got a all-in-one USB card reader to read a camera's compact flash. The reader works fine, and the device appears. However if mounted (and then unmounted) the card becomes unreadable by both the camera (which reports a card error) and Debian. Th

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 20/12/12 02:17, Frank McCormick wrote: On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: Anyone know what would make captcha not work? In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to decrypt it. I've got no issue to

Re: exchange like alternative

2012-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 05/12/12 08:12, Olivier BATARD wrote: After some long testing, I found that the best way is not a product that claim to do everything. So postfix + dovecot + davical + nginx does the job perfectly and are easier to support and configure. This seems to confirm that the 'unix philosophy' - reg

Re: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze

2012-09-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 27/09/12 12:42, Filipe Freire wrote: Dear All! I am having problems getting a stable mount of an extern FREECOM HD on debian squeeze. Sometimes it mounts and by running # blkid -o list -c /dev/null get /dev/sdb1 vfatFREECOM HDD /media/FREECOM HDD 13EC-4051 but it often umounts w

[SOLVED]: Re: Setting /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors permanently to 128 for specific device

2012-09-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I got a Samsung YP-R2 portable ... Only problem is the device keeps being reset at any copy/move/delete operation. Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1][2] which consists in setting max_sectors to 128 istead of the default 240. I can do that as root manually but I'd like to

Re: Setting /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors permanently to 128 for specific device

2012-09-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 12/09/12 17:13, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:15:51 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: (...) Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1][2] which consists in setting max_sectors to 128 istead of the default 240. I can do that as root manually but I'd like to have it

Setting /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors permanently to 128 for specific device

2012-09-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Dear udev gurus, After breaking the second Clip+ player I got a Samsung YP-R2 portable player which plays OGG files and is accessible as a disk with MSC mode. Only problem is the device keeps being reset at any copy/move/delete operation. Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1]

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 05/09/12 09:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:41 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 04/09/12 21:43, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed That's certainly an op

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 04/09/12 21:43, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed That's certainly an opinion, and perhaps a commonly-repeated one, but an opinion non-the-less. +1 - I'm with Jon on this one.

Re: wifi vanished yesterday,but back now.

2012-07-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 23/07/12 15:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:57:47 +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 23 July 2012 08:23, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs testing. Early this morning at

Re: wifi vanished today

2012-07-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine. [...] I right-clicked on the icon with two terminals and a red box with an white X, got a menu, and unchecked the option th

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/07/12 04:09, Karen Lewellen wrote: [...] I am seeking to find one single program, as audio hijack pro is one single program, that combines multiple recording functions...so I do not have to hunt through many utilities. I do know about audacity, nice to learn there is a copy in debian. Bu

[OT] Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-25 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 25/06/12 14:39, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:13:56 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. After typing your first name, last n

Re: not autocompleting

2012-06-19 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/06/12 17:05, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:16:51 +0100, mk bane wrote: A while ago I upgraded to Squeeze. I've noticed filename completion does not appear to work for some commands, such as oocalc. Anybody point me the direction of a solution? Thanks, Is it only failing for a s

Re: Fire and Thunder

2012-06-12 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 12/06/12 11:15, Steve Dowe wrote: Hi, I know that Debian distributes its own variants, but could someone say what their experience of installing the latest Firefox and/or Thunderbird has been like in Squeeze? If I understand correctly you want Firefox and Thunderbird, latest versions? In t

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 05/06/12 12:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: A combination of "find" and "rm" will probably do. But careful when using find and rm as there's no 'undo', files are permanently deleted forever. In case something goes wrong you may lose data! Play safe, e.g. by echoing the files which would be remove

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-21 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an answer

Re: how to change bubble size ?

2012-04-19 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 19/04/12 15:12, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Could any one suggest me a way to change the fontsize of the desktop bubble of notify-deamon ? It is too big ... I think it depends on the DE. On XFCE I've noticed it uses the "default font" as set from Settings > Apparence | Fonts Lorenzo. --

Re: [OT]: yet another linux antivirus fairytale

2012-04-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 13/04/12 08:41, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, an italian newspaper where the average tech-saviness is near to zero (see the many articles about "Facebook") or the level of fud-iness is near to 100 for tech-related articles has published an article about security risks and virus related issues

[OT]: Re: skype?

2012-04-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Adding the [OT] label as this is rather far from 'debian'... On 11/04/12 07:27, Doug wrote: On 04/11/2012 12:15 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: It is shameful that, so many years after the digital revolution, proprietary formats such as those championed by microsoft are *mandated* by the industry, e

Re: [OT] Something about google search

2012-04-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 07/04/12 17:47, lina wrote: Hi, For the top line in google page Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More Is it possible to delete the Play and Calendar, and bring something hidden in More up there? Because thay are simply lists ( of links with some fancy CSS (+ sc

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 03/04/12 21:36, consultores wrote: On 04/03/2012 09:05 AM, Indulekha wrote: you wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 05:29:56 -0500 Indulekha wrote: Are all these distionnaries wrong? There is nothing wrong with your English or those definitions, they're just obscure and have fallen out of popular u

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/04/12 11:49, Nick White wrote: Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to g

[OT] Lynx: Copy selected URL to clipboard [WAS]: Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser

2012-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 03/03/12 22:56, Randy Kramer wrote: Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question: Why not create a new one? Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g., the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser? I ha

Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-29 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Meanwhile I added explicitly Linux incompatibility, which seems to be widely reported, to the Wikipedia page, in case people hit it searching for the format ;) Lorenzo. On 29/02/12 11:07, Julien Claassen wrote: Lina! Does youtube support upload in aa-format? This would be cool, since you

[SOLVED]: Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
ter So now I am able to purge Acrobat reader, hopefully to never see it again. Ciao, Lorenzo. --------- Lorenzo Sutton MUSA - Museo degli strumenti musicali Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Fondazione Auditorium Parco della Musica Largo Luciano Berio, 3 -

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:12:10 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote: (...) Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have restrictions or

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came, claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened

Re: [OT]: Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 15:16, lina wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 15:06, lina wrote: Hi, I wonder: 1] can the output like: 5 3 1 5 3 direct it into the LibreOffice directly. without copy and paste. 2] Is it possible to do a quick sum calculations for

[OT]: Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 15:06, lina wrote: Hi, I wonder: 1] can the output like: 5 3 1 5 3 direct it into the LibreOffice directly. without copy and paste. 2] Is it possible to do a quick sum calculations for some output on terminal. like the sum of 3 16 3 3 9 Thanks for your suggestions, I think

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote: On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uni

[OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came, claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's Acrobat bloat... After trying almost any available PDF reader on linux I reluctantly

Re: Wireless networking in Debian

2012-02-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 24/02/12 08:44, George wrote: I have a Compaq CQ60 laptop running squeeze, and I have never gotten wireless networking to work. My chipset appears to be supported, however wicd never detects any networks in the area (even though there are several) and nm-tool reports "State: unavailable" for t

Re: bug report request for advice

2012-02-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, I'm no expert about this, but some suggestions to hopefully point you in the right direction at reporting this... On 24/02/12 06:28, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting states: "If you are unable to determine which package your bug report shou

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 23/02/12 03:54, David Christensen wrote: On 02/22/2012 05:18 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: ~$ python -c "print (' '.join([str.capitalize(x) for x in 'NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD'.split(' ')]))" Nelson Aris

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-22 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 22/02/12 05:23, David Christensen wrote: On 02/21/2012 07:48 AM, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard I'd use P

Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

2012-02-22 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 21/02/12 15:20, lina wrote: Hi, Is it necessary to install the xfce4-power-manager? I mainly use AC. seldom use battery. Today went outside, so use the battery. install the xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager-plugins and xfce4-power-manager-data to monitor the battery remaining. My int

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/02/2012 22:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message <4f3e4d4f.6090...@gmail.com>: Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge

Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage wrong, the most critical problem being that the machine shuts off without any previous warning. I wonder where the problem might be. Indeed this battery is

Re: Bash Script regular expression

2012-02-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 10/02/12 08:30, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: Hi everyone, I was creating a script and i found something i can't figure out. #/bin/bash for i in $(cat certificates.txt) do echo $i done I expected this RSA Secure Server Certification Authority VeriSign Class 1 CA Individual Sub

Re: Run in terminal from XFCE file browser?

2012-01-27 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 26/01/12 21:05, Bob Proulx wrote: In XFCE's Thunar file browser you can right click on a script and execute it. Fine. Is there a way to run the script in a terminal from the file browser? Of course there is always Alt-F2, Select run in terminal, Run, but that isn't associated with that part

Re: Free software

2012-01-25 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 25/01/2012 10:42, Stayvoid wrote: Hello! I want to install Debian. Does it contain any non-free software? How to check it? Is there a way to use Debian without non-free software? http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html King regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: ALSA instead of pulseaudio on new sid

2012-01-25 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 25/01/2012 03:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 12:37, John Hasler wrote: Scott writes: You'll discover the minor pain of learning Pulse is a very profitable investment. For those of us who are not audiophiles and have very simple audio needs, what does Pulse add? Hi John, a common m

Re: Music software

2012-01-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 24/01/2012 11:25, Mark Neidorff wrote: Morning, I'm running Mepis which is a squeeze spinoff. I have started taking music lessons. My instructor plays a tune and I record it. I want to then play it back slowed down, without changing the pitch of the notes so that I can "play along." Tried

Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

2012-01-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 15/01/12 21:48, Ralf Madorf wrote: PolicyKit It would help if you could give a little more insightpointers on how to do it? ;) Lorenzo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Charles, On 13/01/12 19:04, Charles Blair wrote: I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side. Can somebody recommend software

Re: alltray + icedove/thunderbird not working

2012-01-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/01/12 17:53, Victor Nitu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:54:13 +, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Before looking into bugs I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing this and how to possibly debug. Google didn't turn up anything usefu

Re: alltray + icedove/thunderbird not working

2012-01-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/01/12 17:03, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:54:13 +, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: This is on debian wheezy with alltray v. 0.71b installed from repositories. It doesn't seem to work as expected with neither Icedove 3.1.16 nor the latest Thunderbird 9.0.1 binary. Wondering if u

alltray + icedove/thunderbird not working

2012-01-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
This is on debian wheezy with alltray v. 0.71b installed from repositories. It doesn't seem to work as expected with neither Icedove 3.1.16 nor the latest Thunderbird 9.0.1 binary. Wondering if use of XFCE4 is relevant Before looking into bugs I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing t

Re: xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome

2012-01-08 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 01/01/2012 19:48, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? I would start by removing the related metapackages (gnome, gn

Re: xfce4 how to escape the full-screen mode

2011-12-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 23/12/11 14:29, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to escape/exit the full-screen mode. In gnome the esc used to work, but now in xfce4 I don't know how to make it work. I tried (definitely blindly) any possible keys I could think of. I think the default should be + F11 to toggle fullsc

Re: xfce4

2011-12-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 19/12/11 23:16, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Thanks for all the elp! I am trying some of the suggestions now. Of cpourse, changing date withsudo date is now problem, as I do not switch timezones that often! On the other hand, switching keyboard layout I do Very often, surely ten

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-07 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 07/12/2011 16:18, afuentes wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:54 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disablin

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 06/12/2011 14:54, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling only the

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 05/12/2011 13:15, afuentes wrote: when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up? the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have the beeping disabled as well in preferences... Does an

Re: [OT]: Changing icedove's profile browser setting for http(s) links in emails

2011-12-04 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 03/12/2011 12:52, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:30:21 +, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I searched allover but can't really find a solution... I need to be running one Icedove instance with the -no-remote argument because I need to keep profiles separate. Now the instance running

[OT]: Changing icedove's profile browser setting for http(s) links in emails

2011-12-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi list, I searched allover but can't really find a solution... I need to be running one Icedove instance with the -no-remote argument because I need to keep profiles separate. Now the instance running with -no-remote will give an error dialog when clicking on a web link, complaining that "I

Re: XFCE - Desktop Problems

2011-11-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 28/11/11 15:42, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - I just upgraded my sid distribution. Now - I can't -- 1] move, maximize or minimize windows. 2] close open windows so I can see the desktop. Try to run xfwm4 command (ALT + F2 and then type it in) Also make sure this starts when you

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 27/11/11 16:48, Paul Isambert wrote: Thank you Roman. Removing Alt-F2 in the shortcut settings did give me some Alt-shortcuts back, but Ctrl-shortcuts still won't work, even when I remove everything in the settings. Any idea? I also came across this trying to use Inkscape. The CTRL + F

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

2011-11-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 24/11/11 11:19, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. Excuse me for off topic, please. I try to split a big flac file into separate tracks it contains according to .cue file I have w/ this command: $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac when I get: shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss,

Re: [solved] Xfce: Toggle CPUfreq scaling by the panel - Was: Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hey Ralf, On 23/11/11 23:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 14:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 12:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 18 nov 11, 21:44:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It's supported by the plugin, but it doesn't work. If the plugin has the frequenc

Re: gnome 3 refugee: xfce went sour and new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

2011-11-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 23/11/2011 17:05, Hendrik Boom wrote: Yesterday I updated my wheezy system and when I restarted my machine this morning all my xfce windows had lost their frames. There as no longer a close button or a top border I could use to move the window around. The programs within the windows worked f

Re: XFCE-volman

2011-11-21 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 22/11/2011 08:24, Johann Spies wrote: One of the differences between gnome and xfce4 for me was that xfce4 would not automatically mount a usb-storage device when inserted. Today I found out that that behaviour can be configured by using thunar-volman -c Just for completeness it is also ac

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/11/2011 22:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Good point! Applications> Settings> Settings Manager> Keyboard> Application S

Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 18/11/11 11:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) now I prefer Xfce to GNOME 2 and GNOME 3. Excepted of some thingies I'm missing for Xfce, it's easier and better to configure. 'Better' since it has advantages for my workflow. GNOME expat here as well... :) The cpufreq information plugin fo

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. It can also be bound to a keyboard shortcut. Lorenzo. Thanks i

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

2011-11-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 17/11/11 15:31, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I just got to reinstall debiann vause my harddisk fried. I wanted to use the opportunity to change from gnome to Xfce4. This worked well when I installed stable, but when upgrading to wheezy the problems arrived. First some output from

Re: GUI for mic testing ?

2011-11-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/11/11 08:09, J. Bakshi wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:54:26 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 07:50:21AM +0200, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Any small GUI tool for mic testing ? audacity (but it is not small). yes , it is an elephant fir just testing mic You can try

Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: >>> [...] >> I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the >> nm-applet as user.

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly "apt-get remove/purge gnome" Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side effect

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 12/11/11 17:58, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi, all: What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3! (IMNSHO anyway.) Well I wouldn't be so strict. I think many people will eventually like it. But I agree that personally I just don't likr it, preferring certain 'traditional'

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, What packages should I install in debian so that firefox and chrome can play flash? If you want an Open Source flash player implementation try gnash otherwise the flashplugin-nonfree will basically download and install the player from Adobe.

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/11/2011 09:22, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/11/11 19:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead- for-mobile-devices/ Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phas

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 08/11/2011 18:54, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! Here we go :-) I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and with no live, text is rendered blurry a

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/10/2011 01:09, Harry Putnam wrote: Celejar writes: [...] Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low. OK now I've got sound and happily listing

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/10/2011 18:36, John Hasler wrote: consul tores wrote: Lisi writes: Maybe we should coin an adjective. USian perhaps? And you can be EUian. TERRAn? (finalizing the spaceship thingy sitting in the garage since a while, now that faster-than-light travel seems to work...) -- To UNSUB

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/10/2011 11:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:22 -0400, Doug wrote: [...] My English is completely broken Well you should probably file a bug report and be more specific about what exactly happens, how to reproduce this, what version you are running etc.. Maybe you could

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Lisi, On 20/09/2011 16:31, Lisi wrote: I have accidentally filled something, that I shouldn't have,on my root directory, and have now got a 100% usage of the disk containing my /. This is causing me problems. (Now there's a surprise!!) I have no backup of my /. Yes, I know. I deserve everyth

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-19 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Frank, On 19/09/2011 14:41, Frank McCormick wrote: On 19/09/11 03:28 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-09-18, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. Maybe yo ucould try on the GTK one? Just a thought. When I open an image in the l

R: Re: GTK weirdness after upgrade on wheezy

2011-09-15 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
>Da: noela...@gmail.com >Data: 15/09/2011 15.14 >A: >Ogg: Re: GTK weirdness after upgrade on wheezy > >On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:31:20 +0200, lsutton wrote: > >> After a dist-upgrade on wheezy (amd64( only some gtk applications have a >> weird look different from the system default, e.g. gnome-termin

Re: Flash in 64-bit environment

2011-07-15 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:13:30 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > [...] > While html5 gets approved, I have replaced all the animations with > javacript+css+dom to avoid Flash Player as much as I can. >> But seriously there are some things still done in Flas

Re: Flash in 64-bit environment

2011-07-15 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:52:15 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:41:45 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>> I have recently installed Squeeze AMD-64 on my new Phenom box. >>>> Generally very please

Re: smart formatting csv files

2011-07-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently dealing with some big ugly csv files (separator is ';'). > I'm using gedit or kwrite to visualize them. Any particular reason you won't use a software which can import/export csv? > Does anyone know if there is some kind of plugin ou e

Re: Flash in 64-bit environment

2011-07-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:41:45 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have recently installed Squeeze AMD-64 on my new Phenom box. Generally >> very pleased with it, but am having trouble with some Flash files. > (...) >> Any suggestions as to what to do, please? > Yes, you can instal

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of > brazilian, french and italian music has plenty of accented cha

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Dave Sherohman wrote: > [---] > Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the > Swedish version of the page. Setting language preferences on the client > side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites. Not to mention the ever-so-bothering location selection thingy whic

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because > Google has figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country. > But I want the results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra > mouse click on 'Google.com in English' > > Apparently

Re: psi instead of Skype [OT]

2011-06-15 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/06/11 04:58, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:33:41 +0100, Brian wrote: >>> On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 14:24:54 +, Camaleón wrote: For those -friends, family, skype-friendly, etc...- I just simply use the low land-line/mobile rates my SIP provider h

[SOLVED] Re: gdmsetup can't unlock problem: any workaround?

2011-06-12 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:26:04 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I seem to be facing a bug where gdmsetup can't be unlocked: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622234 Does anyone know of a workaround to turn on/off automatic login without gdmsetup? I'm often

gdmsetup can't unlock problem: any workaround?

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I seem to be facing a bug where gdmsetup can't be unlocked: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622234 Does anyone know of a workaround to turn on/off automatic login without gdmsetup? I'm often switching, leaving auto-login at home and turning it off when at work, travel etc. Thank

[OT]: curlftpfs seems somewhat slower than e.g. clients

2011-06-09 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I find mounting an ftp with curlftpfs very handy because I can work as if it were a local mount, but it seems quite slower than ordinary ftp clients e.g. in responsiveness and upload. It also looks generally slower than sshfs which I use on another server. Maybe it can be tweaked for imporved perfo

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-06 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, tadziu wrote: > i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to > stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my > second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get > it working, and it's not performing as well as i've expected. Re. the getting version 4.