Re: GDM won't unlock screen

Rob Owens writes: > Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching > to a console and back? > Yes, without effect. So far the only action which seems to make a difference is to switch to a console and back. > There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead.

GDM won't unlock screen

I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx, which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure out. With the defau

Re: Recording TV with Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:12 -0300 > > With mencode I used the following command (using PAL in my country): > > mencoder tv:// -tv > driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0: > freq=775.25:adevice=/dev/dsp1:forceaudio:audiorate=32000 buffersi

Re: changing xterm colors

Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jamie Griffin wrote: >> Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: >>> You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home >>> directory (or create it if it does not exist). >>> >>> Put the following lines in the file: >>> >>> xterm*VT100*foreground: green >>>

Re: convert video to audio

KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > laura eznarriaga wrote: >> >> * >> *convert video to adio* >> >> how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio >> is their a program for this ?_ >> * >> > > Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux

Re: microsoft vs opensource

Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a difference between: > > - what makes sense (for some definition of "makes sense") > > - what's "right" (for some definition "right") > > - the legal and regulatory issues involved (there's a lot of dispute > about whether software should be p

Re: microsoft vs opensource

"Telaman Consultancies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > The ever persistent issue of software patents for example, when > dealing with programming - which is essentially a language - and > shouldn't, as a means of transmission of knowledge, even have > copyright attached to it. Doesn't this pro

Re: microsoft vs opensource

Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know about >> trademarks. I know about property laws. I know of contract laws. I >> am not aware of any intelectual property laws. >> > "intellectual property law" = pa

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8 >> >> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UTF8? >> >> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day >> Michelle Konzack > > >

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI > installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large > project. Here's a link to it: > > http://ubuntu.com. > > (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that > statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's > projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards > the penguin/snarky-devil side of the

Re: Exim4, ISPs and headers

Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at my headers, should be the same (I am using a similar > setup with postfix). Didn't have any troubles so far (though I am > subscribed to the whitelist for Debian lists). Cool. I guess I picked the wrong week to clean out my mailboxes

Exim4, ISPs and headers

I recently took a look at the headers of some of my mail I sent to my yahoo account from my ISP mail account, and saw some odd stuff which made me wonder if perhaps my setup is goofed up. I am curious if perhaps something like this may cause my mail to be seen as spam or the like, and thought I w

Re: Changed device for camera..

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /sbin/blkid will also tell you what a device's UUID is. Very cool. I was not aware of this one. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changed device for camera..

Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for that very extensive explanation Patrick. It is much appreciated > and > though I was going to leave the whole thing as is till another time. I am > prompted by the time you have taken to explain this to write more. You're very welcome. I only h

Re: Changed device for camera..

Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for that Ron, but the camera mounts again on /dev/sda1 and when I want > to write the udev rules for it they won't write but choke on the attributes > of: > > * ATTRS{serial} command not found > * ATTRS{model} command not found > * ATTRS{modalias} com

Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

"Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > you could try running, > > #dpkg --configure -a > > But likely I suspect it will fail. Yes, it appears to have changed little. Still failing. > Another option is possibly to pre-empt it and go ahead and delete: > /usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png Actu

Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages. Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop. Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this. Here is what has been coming

Re: this list is on google groups

steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web > crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived > all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine > you'll see quite surprising results if you post re

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some cons that annoy me frequently: > > * Stack-based interface: mutt's interface is organized around > doing a task which may have sub-tasks, and once you're in a > sub-task you can't get back to the main one without "quitting". >

Re: Gnus and emacs22

Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-12-10 20:40 +0100, cothrige wrote: > >> Ah, that explains it. It causes me to wonder just how much is now >> coming preinstalled, and doesn't need to be added on? I may be adding a >> bunch of stuff tw

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Odd. Mine just said, "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." Well, you probably let it see you coming. > A quick Wikipedia search (found it on my first try) gave me this: > > Showoff ;-) Seriously thou

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar bullshit. I agree about HAL, and the thing really just makes me nervous. I was apparently right too, because when I turned it off via update-rc.d, my box started singing about somebody named Daisy. The

Re: Gnus and emacs22

Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Gnus AFAIK, is included in emacs22 and emacs-snapshot. I think it > might be the deveopment version called No Gnus, nevertheless, you can > use this built in Gnus instead of the stand alone package. Ah, that explains it. It causes me to wonder just

Gnus and emacs22

I recently upgraded to testing and in the process made the move from emacs21 to emacs22. I purged the old packages, having had some strange things happen in switching emacsen in the past, and reinstalled those I used after switching to version 22. I didn't install gnus though.. I have generally

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I"ve been typing on mine for a couple hours now and it's > fantastic. The sound takes me back. And once you adjust to an > ever-so-slightly-different key spacing, it's a breeze. I swear I'm > typing faster with fewer mistakes. And definitely le

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:52:43PM +0800, Kenlen wrote: >> recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. . >> > > I tried w3m but I couldn't get it to work. IIRC its just that its a > different key commands so its a new learning curve. Since I didn

Re: Finding installed dependencies?

Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/05/2007 02:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > > And apt-cache rdepends . $ man apt-cache > Look at deborphan as well. > > Regards, > Ralph Awesome. Now I have several tools to look into. Isn't that just the way it is, so often when it seems hard to do som

Re: Finding installed dependencies?

Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > 'debfoster' is a neat program to find cruft and remove it. > If pkgx is install and has dependencies a, b and c, then 'debfoster' > will show you this

Finding installed dependencies?

I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed. Is there a way that I can list other installed packages which have that first one, i

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1951219 > http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/1748213.shtml > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/0

OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or glitch was really nice. And the files sounded great (256K bitrate) and there was actually a

Re: efficiency of windows managers

"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you read /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/README.Debian [3]? It contains > information about how to start StumpWM. I tried this too, and I think it takes a great deal for granted. There is just too much assumed about what you know for this stuff to work, IM

Re: efficiency of windows managers

d so this works well for me. Just export SBCL_HOME in your .bashrc with something like "export SBCL_HOME=/home/cothrige/lisp/lib/sbcl" and then `source ~/.bashrc'. I then started sbcl and typed the following one at a time at the prompt, to install clx: * (require 'asdf) * (req

Re: efficiency of windows managers

"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it was kind of hard to get going. You may have already set it up, but just in

Re: efficiency of windows managers

"Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try: > > fluxbox > icewm > pekwm > fvwm2 > > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of > fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with > 512M main, and 64M at

Re: Debian may lose a user

Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hasler wrote: >> >> I don't see that you provided any useful information. > > Then it wasn't directed at you. > > There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux > to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was > directed at

Re: LPR and CUPS

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:35:15PM -0500, cothrige wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > that's better than the typical "cups sucks" flamewar we get... cue in > 3..2..1..

Re: LPR and CUPS

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cupsys-bsd package provide /usr/bin/lpr. you should not need to > install an additional package to get lpr functionality. > Well, there you go. I did not have that particular package installed, rather having only cupsys and so on. This fixe

LPR and CUPS

I have an HP Deskjet printer which I have set up using CUPS. It has always functioned fine, and I can use lp to print without any problems, and openoffice, browsers and such work just fine. However, I use Emacs and would like to be able to print from within that app, and it uses lpr, which I hav

Re: Where, Doom3 For Linux Download

Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Orestes Leal wrote: >> Hi Folks, I need a 'direct' download (with suport for resume) for download >> de Linux version of doom3, I have the original 3 CDs so the only thing >> that I need it´s the .run? or whatever

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > well that somehow makes me feel better, 'cause I was starting to feel > stupid since I wasn't able to find no such links ;-) > If you go to the home page for BBC radio 2 and click on Listen at the top right, you will see the "Listen using stand-alone

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm trying with this one > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml > > and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by > Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site? Well, neither cou

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about > streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, > if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing > the address of the real audi

Re: /dev/cdrom & /dev/dvd symlinks and udev

Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated > by the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if > you set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file). > > HTH > > Wackojacko > Many thanks for the tip,

/dev/cdrom & /dev/dvd symlinks and udev

I have two dvd drives, hdc is a standard drive and hdd is a cd/dvd writer. The problem is that all the cdrom symlinks always point at /dev/hdd which is not my primary drive. I like cdrw and dvdrw as they are, but would like to have cdrom and dvd to point correctly to hdc. In trying to do this I

CD player with CDDB

I generally use a tiling WM (xmonad, ion, stump, etc.) and listen to music with mpd. With that setup I can keep a small text monitor in the status bar, or other such place, for seeing just what is currently running. Every once in a while though I will actually play a cd and I would like to have

Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08/09/2007 09:12 PM, cothrige wrote: > >> I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does? >> Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could >> help with LCD monitors, or th

Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > wrt dpms: > Until you get a more knowledgable reply, man xset (especially, the 's' > option) and man xscreensaver-command (-time) may help. Many thanks. I will read up on these right now. > I use the nv driver, but have a crt. I have gotten to thinking

Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

I have been having a couple of odd developments lately which I think may be traceable to my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19" LCD monitor. It started when I noticed I was not getting consistent reactions to my DPMS settings. In my xorg.conf I have the following: Section "ServerFlags" Option

Re: Capture of video stream..

"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08/06/2007 01:53 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >> >> I want to capture streamed video from a youtube >> link... [snip] > > Maybe the '-dumpstream' option to mplayer can capture such streams. > > If you're using the Firefox web browser, the "Fast Video Downlo

Re: screenshot

* Frank McCormick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the > dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot > maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!! I believe the Gimp has a pretty straightf

Re: Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > Well, not that I can see. But, I will admit that I am likely > > overlooking something. The complaint, "input: AT Translated Set 2 > > keyboard as /class/inp

Re: Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:21:36AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > Is this a stock Debian kernel or a self compiled one? > Is this from the CLI or from a GUI? (i.e x or no x) Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am running a 2.6.20.12 k

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Romain Francoise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in > Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository. > > See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/1:20070529-1 > Thanks for that info. Does that then m

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from Debian, by > default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add them back in > themselves. Looking at gNewSense, I got the impression that they only > removed things a

Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

I have a strange thing happening when I try to login immediately after boot. It only happens once, and then everything is fine, but it still bugs me. After booting, which seems completely normal, the first time I touch the keyboard this pops up on screen: "input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100, Nic James Ferrier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years > > of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I > > am so angry wi

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Nic James Ferrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea > > getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that > > Debian is being petty and f

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Stephan Seitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Marty wrote: > >license, which *is* considered a free license. In my opinion, all the > >analogies fall short because documentation is not software, regardless > >of Debian's dogmatic claims to the contrary. >

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > One more question is: how to get a font that is larger than 12x24? I > remember having seen a nice SUN console font that was quite big. I > want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger > fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that

Re: Really slow xterm

* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > scrolling is one place to measure, but there are several (font choice > is another, e.g., Xft is notoriously slow). Older versions of rxvt > would stop refreshing while they were getting input, and then paint > the final screen (usually faster, but w

Re: Really slow xterm

* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I > > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that was pretty > > awful. > > But at the same time

Re: Really slow xterm

* Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige: > > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it > > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in > > /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s

Strange dhcp difficulty with 2.6.20+ kernels

Not too long ago I was going to upgrade my kernel, I am currently running 2.6.18.1, and downloaded the latest 2.6.20 tarball. I went through the usual steps. I configured it carefully and then compiled it via make-kpkg. Lastly I installed it with dpkg. When I rebooted everything seemed okay, bu

Re: Question about Mutt

* Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just hold the shift key and use j or k (i.e., J or K) to go up or down. > Without shift deleted messages are skipped, but not so with the shift key. > > Ken Many thanks for that. I obviously overlooked that somewhere along the line. It is surely a l

Question about Mutt

There has always been a thing about Mutt which has bugged me, and lately it has nagged at me even more than usual. Perhaps somebody on this list will know of a way to change this. In the index screen if I mark a message to be deleted it will cease to be accessible in any way, and if I scroll to

Really slow xterm

I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier it was even worse taking over 10 seconds. It is a very big difference in usage, and if

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: > > > >xterm*font: 10x20 > > > >Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my > >fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work > >so well for yo

Re: xterm fonts

* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just where did Jesus claim to be God? I've heard lost of people say > that Jesus was God, but I haven't seen the place where Jesus himself > claims it. > > -- hendrik I think the clearest place is in the Gospel According to St. John:

Re: OT: sponge burning!

* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > He was a full-fledged supporter of McCarthyism, never saw a war he didn't > like, was very much anti-labor-rights, and verbally abused Eisenhower for > having a moral compass on those issues. His only saving grace is he turned > libertarian in retire

Re: OT: sponge burning!

* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> Name five American national-level politicians in your lifetime that had > >> moral fortitude. You can't get that far in US politics without being a

Re: OT: sponge burning!

* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was just having this discussion the other day. Legal killing is > *not* murder. I would certainly say that lawful killing is not murder, but might not agree with the specific choice of legal. Legal would imply the laws of the land, whereas lawful woul

Re: OT: sponge burning!

* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ask a pro-lifer whether she'd euthanize a pregnant cat. > > Then you'll know when she *really* thinks life begins. > Well, I don't think I could euthanize a pregnant cat. Do you think many people could? Seems a bit cold for me. Patrick -- To UNSUBS

Re: OT: sponge burning!

* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anyway, voluntary abortion is legal in most countries, including the > USA, so voluntary abortion does not meet the statutory definition of > "murder". > I am obviously inserting myself into another person's conversation, and for that I apologize, but

Setterm failure

I recently have begun using the console much more on a slower machine and have noticed that setterm does not seem to work. I had set it in rc.local with "setterm -blank 15" and "setterm -powerdown 45", and while the screen will blank, it will never powerdown. I also tried doing it manually, just

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

* Mirto Silvio Busico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006. > > When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the > left; so it is unusable. > > Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour? Yep, same here. Bu

Re: Cannot change default browser

* Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple > of things that kopete doesn't. I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens, but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see the menus and choice

Re: Cannot change default browser

* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or > somesuch) that may need an adjustment. > I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them all just in case. I find the same result for gnome-www-browse

Cannot change default browser

I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs, and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I could find nothing at all

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Okay. I was actually thinking that maybe your modem is set to 'dial on > demand' and the Windows laptop may be sending some packets > intermittently to keep the connection up (it does weird things you know, > not that I know much about all of them). Looks like

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does the same 'blackout' period occur on your computer when your wife's > laptop is also connected to the linksys router? Or does it occur only > when your computer is ON. Initially I noticed this when her computer was not being used or was completely shut d

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So your router's LAN address is 192.168.15.1. Is that correct? You can > check this by opening your router's web configuration page. OR, you can > also try on your wife's laptop (which IIRC runs Windows and works fine) > and open a command prompt terminal and

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:57:06PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > > > > Maybe that could be my trouble, but why do you suppose I would not > > have the same problem with the other computer using that same router? > > cru

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps the router is taking care of PPPoE? SWBell (which I > previously used as ISP) typically uses PPPoE. I don't believe so. I had initially connected the modem directly to the computer, this was when I first switched to DSL, and I had not i

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am not sure if I see the picture: are you trying to connect to your > ADSL modem through a router or directly from your Debian computer? I have an ADSL modem which is connected to my Linksys router with my computer then connected to that, as is my wife's.

Re: Continuing internet oddities

* Russell L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Patrick - > > From your bellsouth address and the fact that you have DHCP, I presume > you are also have to contend with PPPoE. I suspect that PPPoE may be > the culprit. > No, I have never had to use PPPoE before that I am aware of. Under Sl

Continuing internet oddities

I have been having some troubles with my DSL internet connection for a while now. First an upgrade appeared to remove some or all of the dhcp related software on my box. Thanks to this list I think I fixed that by installing dhcp3-client. But, then the connection would only be there about half o

Re: yahoo mail and firefox

* charlie derr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I use yahoo infrequently (but usually at least a couple of times a week). > I've never seen this error (and I just logged in now and don't see it now > either). > > > apt-cache policy firefox > firefox: > Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2 > Candid

Re: what's up with all the attitude

* Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > a very intimidating crowd over there. Makes Debian look like the girl > > scouts in some ways. > > Not, in my opinion. Try stable, security > and mobility (if you have laptop). > No-one on open/freebsd lists will learn > "newbie" first steps. Lot of pe

Re: what's up with all the attitude

* Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Don't think I would be up for that one. I did try installing FreeBSD > > right before moving to Debian (I was in one of those experimental > > 'let's try a new OS' moods) and I did what I usually did and started > > lurking in lists getting prepared

Re: what's up with all the attitude

* Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > That's why I like Speed Channel or ESPN this time of year--no campaign > ads. You've got to be kidding. What would TV be without campaign ads? I wish they would have a political ad channel so I can watch them all day throughout the year. Of course

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

* Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > IIRC, Google made the + the default. I recall using search engines prior > to Google coming on the scene and the + was necessary to ensure both > terms were found in the results. Sadly, some current site specific > search engines are still brain dea

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

* Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > >(The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO > >terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few > >words and a single topic. topic 1 + topic 2 type of thing. "rsync" + > >"Debia

Re: what's up with all the attitude

* Nate Duehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > Want REAL attitude? Try OpenBSD. Now THAT's an attitude. (And we'll > leave it up to you to decide if it's good or bad... that's a judgement > call I'm not prepared to discuss on a Linux list! GRIN...) Don't think I would be up for that one.

Re: what's up with all the attitude

* ChadDavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty b

Re: A Question About Aptitude

* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > edit /etc/apt/apt.conf > in there, there is a line that has something like: > > blah blah proxy= false > > just remove it leaving the first line > Cool. I just did that and so hopefully the next upgrade will go more smoothly. Thanks for that ti

Re: A Question About Aptitude

* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Others have mentioned Synaptic, I found when playing with Ubuntu it was > very easy to use but it seemed to do strange things and I inevitably use > aptitude to upgrade and install. Aptitude is a steeper learning curve > but well worth the effort. I

Re: A Question About Aptitude

* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > When you 'aptitude upgrade' aptitude will upgrade those packages for > which all the dependencies are resolved and won't break anything. When > you use aptitude interactively and press 'U', you will see every package > that can be upgraded to a highe

  1   2   >