On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul E Condon
wrote:
>
> I'm learning to use icedove after a long and happy relationship with mutt. I
> remember having this question from before I knew about mutt and it still
> puzzles me: Why the checkbox labeled "Always check to see if icedove is the
> defa
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 13:03 -0500, ZephyrQ wrote:
> Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb
> on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be
> aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable).
What might be a major issue for yo
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:44 +0300, Angelin Lalev wrote:
> I'm growing old and impatient. Years ago I'd wait a several days in
> which I'd dissect the problem. It appears that I have somehow
> activated "offline" mode. That's why evolution would not let me push
> "Send/Receive" button.
(Debian Sque
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 08:26 +0100, AG wrote:
>
> In light of this, which is the best candidate to use: the non-free
> mozilla flash plugin or another?
>
I don't know whether you're on Lenny or Squeeze or Sid, or whether your
running a 64-bit or 32-bit Debian system, so this may not pertain.
But
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:35 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
> was heard to say:
> > Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before
> > Squeeze)
> > so that we can have versioned dependencies on virtual packag
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 12:05 +0530, Foss User wrote:
> I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or
> xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to install xmonad?
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude install xserver-xorg xmonad
You may want to install 'xorg' rather than '
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Tony Baldwin writes:
>
> > I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client
> > should stop the incoming connections from seeking the ip, so I'm a
> > little confused, and curious about the matter, now that you've bro
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:22 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
> I madea nice debian wallpaper for my desktop already:
> http://tonytraductor.livejournal.com/123789.html
Very nice wallpaper! I was going to suggest you upload to
Debianart.org, but I see you already did. :-)
Enjoy Debian.
--
Mich
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hi:
> Following the lines of successful setup of 3D nvidia driver with lenny
> amd64, i met failure with lenny i386 on a old K7S5A Elite mainboard
> with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2). I also lost OpenGL, which I used
> for several appl
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:32 +0100, AG wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
> > AG wrote:
> >
> > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > >
> > > > In <20090521183512.gb7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Yes, I removed them and now KDE is broken. I even tried to ge
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:30 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On 22 May 2009 13:33:50 Jason Filippou wrote:
> > > Daniel Burrows the maintainer of aptitude is a member of this
> list.
> > > Perhaps he might find some time to respond. I did look into the
> same
> > > question a while back. I believe
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:19 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote:
> On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote:
> > It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx"
> > module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the
> &
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:37 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good hardware diagnostic or "burn-in" program?
> I have used memtest86 and will try that, but ideally I'd like to
> stress test more of the system than just the memory. Something that
> can run on Debian Etch whil
I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'),
so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here:
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-of-date (for one,
because it keeps talking about Etch), especially gi
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:50 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill wrote:
> > Aniruddha wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it
> >> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As
> >> far I can tell t
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote:
> * Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]:
>
> > Does /etc/hosts begin thus?
> >
> > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost
> > 127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer
> >
> > If so, try commenting the 2nd line.
>
>
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> However, on the web page at
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting , under the heading
> "4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386"
> is
> "Only one of the four primary MBR partitions can be used for booting
> OpenBSD (i.e., extended pa
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:15 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Charlie Dorff wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
> >> documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks. Charlie
> >>
> I found "The Debian System," by Mart
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:56 +0100, AG wrote:
>
> The commented line is one of the suggestions Gav made yesterday, so I
> tried it, but realised I didn't like the placement. But otherwise I'd
> say that there is a pretty decent consistency between our respective
> Conky(ies?) files.
You might
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> As opposed to KDE, Conky is a full-blown PITA to configure in Gnome.
Funny, I just installed conky and it works fine (using GNOME/Metacity on
Debian Lenny). I haven't rebooted or logged out of GNOME since I did
it, so maybe the problems you de
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:09 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Does debian flavor of gnome come with sound that can play on the sound
> card when gnome starts up? If so, what needs to be done to turn that
> capability on?
>
>
>
Gnome menu:
System -> Preferences -> Sound
Sound preferences (2nd ta
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 11:45 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Kelly Clowers
> wrote:
> > Open up synaptic or aptitude or whatever interactive package manager you
> > prefer and look for fonts for whatever language(s) you need. Most fonts
> > start
> > with xfont
Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a new system running Lenny, amd64 architecture and 8 core Xeon
chips. It has been crashing regularly, often after less than 24 hours
uptime.
Could it be the powernow-k8 kernel module?
That appears to have been the source of system-freezing problem I was
having. I d
mond wrote:
On Mar 6, 3:30 pm, Frank wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote:
Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a
few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded
I recently installed gmrun, which is working fine. However, there are
certain changes users can make to its behavior via ~/.gmrunrc or
/etc/gmrunrc. From /usr/share/doc/gmrun/README.Debian:
Please see /etc/gmrunrc for an example configuration file.
Place it in ~/.gmrunrc if you wish to custom
Robert Latest wrote:
Hello Kelly,
As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two
way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo
(off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such
as splashy or usplash.
Yeah, but I don't want the penguin
Frank McCormick wrote:
What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all
the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters
so the display is wierd.
Midnight Commander works great with URxvt, the unicode version of rxvt.
The Debian package I have inst
Kelly Clowers wrote:
I disagree. Sure, some people use a tabbed term with awesome, but
I use urxvt, and based on the mailing list and IRC I feel like most users
use xterm or (u)rxvt.
FYI, in case you were not aware of this, urxvt can also be a tabbed
terminal. There's a perl extension that e
mhep...@gmail wrote:
So what package would I file the bug report against ? I mean it wasn't
technically a failure of grub, since grub never got installed, but why
didn't grub get installed during setup ? Would this get submitted to the
d-i team ?
That would be my guess. The install process
Andrew McGlashan wrote:
IMAP folders works strangely too... the [Gmail] folder is weird in
itself. To delete messages properly from the "Inbox", I need to drag
them to the "Trash" folder and then delete them [and do a purge].
You do? Doesn't work that way for me. I have my Thunderbird (er
Daryl Styrk wrote:
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was
something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying
that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will
repair grub for you with a click or reinstall a work
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +, Aneurin Price
> was heard to say:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +, Aneurin Price
>> > was heard to say:
>> >> To expand up
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote:
But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
are still installed. I thought the gconf2 p
Andrew Reid wrote:
On Saturday 21 February 2009 20:34:09 Michael M. Moore wrote:
Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed
and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the
packages that will break but that I don't want a
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Or, if nautilus is not a
dependency of gdm, then why is it automatically installed because of
gdm? I still feel like I'm missing something.
Because:
gdm Depends: gnome-session
gnome-session Recommends: nautilus
Thanks for the clarifications, and the tip abou
Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800
"Michael M. Moore" wrote:
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other things. I also removed evolution.
But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed p
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/2009 03:19 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Volkan YAZICI wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes:
What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D
wodim.
wodim does not support to write DVDs.
Then how am I able to burn DVDs, even though I do not ha
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Michael M. Moore writes:
>> Many people have no problem with doing updates daily or nearly that
>> frequently. I don't like to be updating quite so often, and I don't like
>> it taking very long when I do it.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina
wrote:
> I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the
> official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch.
>
> Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian
> version
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that
> would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed
> on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing
> list t
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 21:26 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote:
>
> Ahh... I think iceape was called mozilla-iceape in Etch, and so I looked
> for "mozilla" in aptitude and of course didn't find anything. I see it's
> there as just "iceape", so I have a fallback position. Has anyone tried
> vimperator wit
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Sebastian Günther
wrote:
> * Umarzuki Mochlis (umarz...@gmail.com) [27.01.09 04:27]:
>> I tried making boot-time script for deluge like below
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/bin/deluge
>>
>> Then I ran update-rc.d to the deluge script hat I saved in /etc/init.d
>> # upda
didn't realize you could use gmail from the command line.
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
> add missing categories:
> audio player:
* quodlibet
> cd-ripper:
* abcde
> desktop OR window manager:
* GNOME or Openbox
> disc burner:
* Nautilus
> e-mail
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:59 +1100, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the firefox the best browser?
I can say definitively that Dillo is the best browser.
There, that's settled.
Next question?
(p.s. I can also settle the vim vs. emacs question once and for all,
but I charge for that. I take Amex, Vis
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 19:02 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:33:00PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
>
> > So exercising an abundance of caution I usually stick with synaptic.
> > Maybe on my next install I'll look into Aptitude.
>
> What do you do when X dies or need
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:50 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > As far as the fam vs. gamin problem is concerned,
> > > aptitude figured out the correct course of action
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 12:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I found a few problems on my system (Lenny/testing) after I replaced fam
> > with gamin:
> >
> > 1) Menus in OO.org took many seconds to open -- at least 15, per
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