Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 05/12/2011 15:55, Andreas Rönnquist a écrit : For a non-gnome-specific alternative, take a look at xdg-open. Better yet, thanks. Le 05/12/2011 16:17, Raf Czlonka a écrit : [0] http://www.zsh.org/ Being a Linux newbie, I'll stick to the default shell for the moment, although I'll probabl

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 05/12/2011 15:51, afuentes a écrit : $ gnome-open file.pdf it the same that double clicking on file.pdf from gnome I have an alias like thsi alias go='gnome-open' so i just have to type $ go file.pdf Wonderful, thank you! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello there, Is it possible to launch a default application with a file from the command line, e.g. something like: ./myfile.pdf which would retrieve the default PDF viewer and launch it on "myfile"? For the moment, I have a bash script called with "launch ", which analyzes the extension of

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 01/12/2011 20:36, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins a écrit : Now I get it, You must use the same command i sent you, however in the Lua language you should have an option to detach the command from the terminal Unfortunately, there is no such thing. That should work (assuming that no

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Em 01-12-2011 11:08, Chris Davies escreveu: > Paul Isambert wrote: > >> But Icedove still stays attached to the first terminal... >> > Just to check, you want to be able to start icedove from the command > line in (say) an xterm, but have it continue to run even when that

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 30/11/2011 17:02, Clive Standbridge a écrit : I don't know anything about Lua, but searching around suggests that os.execute executes its command in a shell, not directly. In that case you should be able to use a command like icedove & No, that didn't work, the terminal closes and icedo

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 30/11/2011 15:52, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins a écrit : I did not understand what you wanted, but i guess `xterm -e `icedove &` ` is close to the command you are looking for. The `` are used by bash to open a sub shell. (Assuming you are using bash). Thank you Iuri, but the termi

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 30/11/2011 14:29, Clive Standbridge a écrit : Paul Isambert wrote: Hello there, When started from gnome-terminal, Icedove stays attached to it. I can detach it by executing "icedove&". The problem is, I can't seem to do that recursively, i.e. from the terminal call ano

Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello there, When started from gnome-terminal, Icedove stays attached to it. I can detach it by executing "icedove &". The problem is, I can't seem to do that recursively, i.e. from the terminal call another terminal which calls "icedove &". The following works: "xterm -e 'icedove'" (with Iced

Laptop doesn't sleep when lid is closed (Xfce).

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello, I've set xfce4-power-manager to sleep when the lid is closed, no matter whether I'm on AC or battery. The problem is that it doesn't work. Strangely, though, if I close the lid when on AC (resp. battery), reopen it and go on battery (resp. AC), the computer goes to sleep, and restarts i

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 28/11/2011 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit : 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

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Isambert
never came acroos problems with F1 to F12). you can define Xfce specific shortcuts in settings -> keyboard so that they wont interfere with yours. Regards - Roman On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Paul Isambert <mailto:zappathus...@free.fr>> wrote: Hello, I'

Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello, I've installed gVim with Xfce. My shortcuts made of Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F12 and Alt-F1 to Alt-F12 doesn't work. Instead, they seem to be executed for Xfce: I've noticed that because Alt-F2 launches an app in Xfce, and that's what happens in gVim too. So is it possible to give control to a

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-26 Thread Paul Isambert
Quoting Richard : > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100 > Paul Isambert wrote: > > > Quoting Richard : > > > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 > > > Paul Isambert wrote: > > > > > > > Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-26 Thread Paul Isambert
Quoting Richard : > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 > Paul Isambert wrote: > > > Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : > > > Hello there again, > > > > > > I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi > > &g

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : Hello there again, I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me there were tons of things

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : I launched "synaptic safe-upgrade", Sorry, that was "aptitude safe-upgrade" Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello there again, I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me there were tons of things to do, which I did, except it broke here and there

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 24/11/2011 21:52, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: You're absolutely right. So here's a detailed account of what I've done, following what was exposed (in French) here: http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ndiswrapper (Yeah, it's for Ubuntu, but that seem

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Isambert
Selon Paul Isambert : > Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : > > Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > >> Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : > >>> What about ndiswrapper ? > >>> > >> A promising lead. So I'

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : What about ndiswrapper ? A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something a

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : What about ndiswrapper ? A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something about .conf files, too). Perhaps I've done something wrong earlier (I've done so many thin

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 23/11/2011 17:55, Richard a écrit : On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:59:29 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joel Roth wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:06:32AM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Le 22/11/2011 20:52, Joel Roth a écrit : On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:44PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 23/11/2011 09:18, Joel Roth a écrit : On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:06:32AM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Le 22/11/2011 20:52, Joel Roth a écrit : On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:44PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Hello, I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. d

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 22/11/2011 20:52, Joel Roth a écrit : On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:44PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Hello, I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works. The problem is the wifi. My

Re: Re : Re : Make WiFi work.

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 22/11/2011 18:09, Nicolas Bercher a écrit : De : Hugo Vanwoerkom It seems you're rong since this driver is not reported to be supported in squeeze (requires linux> 3.0, etc.). Wiki's explaination are valid only for wheezy. Hence, a squeeze user must use testing and unstable repositor

Re: Re : Make WiFi work.

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 22/11/2011 16:35, Nicolas Bercher a écrit : hI, Your card seems to be a pci-e one. According to this page http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Drivers I think you should upgrade your linux kernel to some version> 3.0.0 since support for your wireless card has started with kernel 3.0.0~rc1-1~

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Isambert
Thank you Hugo for the answer. Le 22/11/2011 16:34, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Paul Isambert wrote: Hello, I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works. The problem i

Make WiFi work.

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello, I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works. The problem is the wifi. My card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC, says Windows) is apparently not recognized. I've tried