Re: Desktop environment

William Torrez Corea wrote: > I have installed Debian 12 and use XFCE 4.18. The installation has a > problem, the windows do not adjust size and figure like the previous > version. In addition to the title, the fonts are very small. > > I don't know if it is a bug or configuration problem. I'm n

Re: Desktop environment and VNC

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:49:08 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > > There are many VNC servers that can be installed from apt, but you also > > need a desktop environment, which can be installed from tasksel. > > > > I see in tasksel tha

Re: Desktop environment and VNC

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > There are many VNC servers that can be installed from apt, but you also > need a desktop environment, which can be installed from tasksel. > > I see in tasksel that I already have Debian Desktop Environment and GNOME > installed. >

[SOLVED] Re: Desktop "locking".

From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:17:31 +0100 > Gnome is very likely using it's own thing (as per the description, > light-locker relies on lightdm while Gnome is using gdm3). While keeping firefox, gedit and dependants, I removed every package found with "gnome" in the name

Re: Desktop "locking".

From: Cindy Sue Causey Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:04:06 -0500 > There must be a way to track down what's invoking that button's image. Yes, identifying an entity in software ought to be straightforward but isn't always. Good practice in software engineering isn't recognized as in more t

Re: Desktop "locking".

On 12/16/21, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Thanks Andre. I wonder whether we all refer to the same green button. > http://easthope.ca/UnlockYourDesktop.jpg > It wasn't among the first hundred or so images reported by Google. I've never seen that before. Just means I haven't used the program that'

Re: Desktop "locking".

From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:17:31 +0100 > On Lu, 13 dec 21, 23:56:14, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > light-locker is the package. It is a small subset of xscreensaver, if I > > recall correctly. > > It's a component of XFCE (though LXDE is using it too) and completely

Re: Desktop "locking".

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 4:17 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 dec 21, 23:56:14, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > light-locker is the package. It is a small subset of xscreensaver, if I > > recall correctly. > > It's a component of XFCE (though LXDE is using it too) and completely > unrelated to x

Re: Desktop "locking".

On Lu, 13 dec 21, 23:56:14, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > light-locker is the package. It is a small subset of xscreensaver, if I > recall correctly. It's a component of XFCE (though LXDE is using it too) and completely unrelated to xscreensaver. Gnome is very likely using it's own thing (as per t

Re: Desktop "locking".

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:15 PM wrote: > Gnome Desktop Manager and Wayland/Weston in Debian 11 here. Two > screens work nicely on a NVIDIA NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev > a2) PCI adapter. > > When the console is idle for 4 or 5 minutes the screens go black. > > Mouse activity gives a small

Re: Desktop environments

gt; To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Desktop environments > Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 04:36:40 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, mick crane wrote: > > > Well I was thinking is a valid question. > > Wha

Re: Desktop environments

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, mick crane wrote: Well I was thinking is a valid question. What's the deal with these desktop environments ? I wonder this too. I thought is like a desktop with pictures so you know where everything is and then you click and start a program that does something They're

Re: Desktop environments

Resending to list, unintentionally sent my reply off list. On 2020-04-10 20:21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, April 10, 2020 02:50:14 PM mick crane wrote: Well I was thinking is a valid question. What's the deal with these desktop environments ? I thought is like a desktop with pictures

Re: Desktop environments

Hmm, I wasn't paying attention -- my regular reply went to Mick, only, not to the list, resending. Will do the same for his reply. On Friday, April 10, 2020 02:50:14 PM mick crane wrote: > Well I was thinking is a valid question. > What's the deal with these desktop environments ? > I thought is

Re: Desktop environments

Not sure what exactly is your question aiming at. Each desktop environment is different, kind of like the controls inside a car, while they all are made to bring you from A to B. Still for my trying out tiling window managers was a big step in becoming more productive. I love my i3wm. Try them out

Re: desktop icons locked

>> Desktop icons on Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 are locked. >> >> Please provide work around on how to fix this problem. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Eugenia Lemberg >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 18:10:01 CET schrieb Eugenia: > Please check your windowmanager set

Re: desktop icons locked

Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 18:10:01 CET schrieb Eugenia: Please check your windowmanager settings. Good luck! Hans > Desktop icons on Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 are locked. > > Please provide work around on how to fix this problem. > > Thanks, > > > Eugenia Lemberg > > elemb...@yahoo.com 408 54

Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 06/10/2017 06:33 PM, songbird wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > ... >> I've just done: >> apt-get update >> apt-get upgrade >> apt-get dist-upgrade >> >> I no longer see the problem described in this thread. >> [just a heads up for those who haven't recently done update etc] > >

Re: SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

Richard Owlett wrote: ... > I've just done: > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > > I no longer see the problem described in this thread. > [just a heads up for those who haven't recently done update etc] correct, updated versions of some MATE pieces were accept

Re: SOLVED - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 06/10/2017 03:55 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/18/2017 11:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot >> the problem. The salient information is: OS is ful

SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/18/2017 11:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing, MATE desktop environment. I have att

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 08:28:52AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop > > background like feh will? > > If all you wa

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop > background like feh will? If all you want is to set the root window (desktop/background) image, "xsetbg" from the xloadimage package will do nicely. If you wa

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Tue 30 May 2017 at 04:15:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > >On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: > >> > >>There are legitimate concerns about aspects of feh's behaviour, not > >>sufficient as yet to prevent my recommending it, but the topic

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Mich

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> >>> On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > And a

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Sat 27 May 2017 at 19:13:25 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > > > And actually, the --no-xinerama flag is not

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Sat 27 May 2017 at 09:52:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > And actually, the --no-xinerama flag is not needed, at least on my > > > system. I use feh --bg-fill ... an

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 2017-05-27, David Wright wrote: > > BTW I checked the error message I mentioned earlier. Feh itself > emits the incorrect error message for PNG files, but the correct > message is emitted by the spawned jpegtran program for JPGs. > Please file a wish-list bug for a name change to fey (forewarn

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Sat 27 May 2017 at 12:32:06 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > If I had read the man page more slowly that using the menu to set the > > > image as wallpaper was unnecessary. Use:

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Fri 26 May 2017 at 17:57:40 -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > If I had read the man page more slowly that using the menu to set the > > image as wallpaper was unnecessary. Use: > > feh --no-xinerama --bg-fill > > /usr/share/backgrounds/mate

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/25/2017 06:27 AM, RavenLX wrote: > On 05/21/2017 05:40 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> As I understand it: >> >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. >> icedove 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1 to thunderbir

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/26/2017 09:48 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> The man page >>> _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to >>> trea

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/25/2017 06:08 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] >> The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >> The workaround is usi

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/25/2017 05:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >>> [snip] > The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). > >>> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the b

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/26/2017 09:48 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to treat the whole X di

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/25/2017 06:56 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page _mentions_ setting wallpaper in passing my noting "Use --no-xinerama to treat the whole X display as one screen when setting wallpaper

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Thu 25 May 2017 at 10:38:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 25 May 2017 at 12:18:44 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > > > I installed and have been using f

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Thu 25 May 2017 at 12:18:44 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > > > repositories catch up to upstre

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/21/2017 05:40 PM, David Christensen wrote: As I understand it: * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. icedove 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1 to thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1). * 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/25/2017 06:08 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to manua

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > > repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. > > Been working just fine,

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 25-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). > > > > > > > > The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background image. This does work, however, it has to be done each t

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/24/2017 06:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian >> repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. >> Been working just fine, with its limita

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. > Been working just fine, with its limitations. It's better than a black > desktop. :) I had

Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/24/2017 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). >> The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background >> image. This does work, however, it has t

Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: [snip] The bug report also lists a workaround (which I haven't tried). The workaround is using the feh package to manually set the background image. This does work, however, it has to be done each time you log-in. It is better than nothing. Ups

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On Mon 22 May 2017 at 09:55:42 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > > > As I understand it: > > > > * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision > > -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/22/2017 02:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > >> As I understand it: > >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. >

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > As I understand it: > > * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision > -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. > icedove 1:45.

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/21/2017 05:55 AM, RavenLX wrote: On 05/20/2017 01:00 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/19/2017 07:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: I've been having problems with Xfce wallpaper on Debian 8.8 for a month or more. It broke after an apt-get update/ apt-get upgrade. I filed a bug report, receiv

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

Original Message Subject: Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:55 PM From: rave...@sitesplace.net I haven't noticed any new wallpapers (I too am running Debian 8.8 with XFCE and have my wallpaper set to one I like which I saved in ~/Pictures/Wall

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 09:31 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> >> >> On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >>> Michael Milliman wrote: >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. >>> [.

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 01:00 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/19/2017 07:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: I've been having problems with Xfce wallpaper on Debian 8.8 for a month or more. It broke after an apt-get update/ apt-get upgrade. I filed a bug report, received one reply, tried the suggestions to n

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 06:33 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> >>> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >>> ceased to be displayed. >> [...] >>> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >>> background

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. > [...] >> I have attempted to re-set the desktop >> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop >> b

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/19/2017 09:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has >> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot >> the problem. The salient information is: OS is

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/20/2017 01:26 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right >> click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded >> out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that >> something is n

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

Michael Milliman wrote: > I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has > ceased to be displayed. [...] > I have attempted to re-set the desktop > background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop > background on the desktop to no effect. I don't know wha

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right > click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded > out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that > something is not clickable. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/19/2017 07:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully upda

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/18/2017 09:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing, MATE desktop environment. I have att

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 05/18/2017 10:27 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 5/19/17, Michael Milliman wrote: I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing,

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

On 5/19/17, Michael Milliman wrote: > I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has > ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot > the problem. The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing, > MATE desktop environment. I have attempte

Re: Desktop freeze

Might be related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769835 (which has a patch). 2017-01-20 20:34 GMT+01:00 Van Nelle : > I have the same problem on debian testing with xfce. > The chromium just freeze and i can just force close it. > > Any fix? > > 2016-12-12 18:32 GMT+02:00 Jérémy Lal

Re: Desktop freeze

I have the same problem on debian testing with xfce. The chromium just freeze and i can just force close it. Any fix? 2016-12-12 18:32 GMT+02:00 Jérémy Lal : > Hi, > > i'm having a very similar issue with epiphany-browser and chromium, > using gnome-shell in debian/sid. > The content inside the

Re: Desktop freeze

Hi, i'm having a very similar issue with epiphany-browser and chromium, using gnome-shell in debian/sid. The content inside the window stops being refreshed completely, but i can still move the window around without it displaying garbage. I'm not sure on which package i should report this. Jéré

Re: Desktop freeze

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Gianluca Guidi wrote: > Hello, > I would like to report a bug I experienced in sid but I have no idea about > what package could be involved. > > I use Xfce, including its window manager, and Compton to add some effects. > > Every few seconds everything on the scre

Re: Desktop notifications?

Reco [2016-11-18 11:03:31+03] wrote: > For your notification to work you need to define the correct value of > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable for your backup script. That is the kind of information I wanted. I had assumed, perhaps naively, that desktop notification system would aut

Re: Desktop notifications?

Hi. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I have a backup script that runs once a day with root privileges. It's > handled by systemd timer and service units. I would like to have a > desktop notification text when the backup is ready. > > What I have tried so f

Re: Desktop notifications?

On 11/17/2016 10:09 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: I have a backup script that runs once a day with root privileges. It's handled by systemd timer and service units. I would like to have a desktop notification text when the backup is ready. What I have tried so far: I don't use normal desktop, only

Re: Desktop sharing question

On 08/04/2014 07:50 AM, Andreas Weber wrote: I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. I have always been a huge fan of Teamviewer[1], I use it for

Re: Desktop sharing question

On 2014-07-24 17:36, Nelson Green wrote: I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. You already have a Google account and my guess is so does your

Re: Desktop sharing question

On 25/07/2014 11:17 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, B wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:36:47 -0500 >> Nelson Green wrote: >> >>> Good morning all, >> >> Good afternoon alone, >> >>> PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I >>> can see what h

Re: Desktop sharing question

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iul 14, 10:36:47, Nelson Green wrote: >> Good morning all, >> >> I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I >> would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see >> what he is seeing and

Re: Desktop sharing question

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, B wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:36:47 -0500 > Nelson Green wrote: > >> Good morning all, > > Good afternoon alone, > >> PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I >> can see what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. I have >

Re: Desktop sharing question

On Jo, 24 iul 14, 10:36:47, Nelson Green wrote: > Good morning all, > > I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC. I > would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see > what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. I have used VNC to > connect to

Re: Desktop sharing question

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:36:47 -0500 Nelson Green wrote: > Good morning all, Good afternoon alone, > PC. I would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I > can see what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice. I have Use X2GO (x2go.org), it includes a 'desktop sharing' function

Re: Desktop 3d

Hi There, Checking sourceforge, apparently the project is unmaintained since mid 2005. (last release) This is also confirmed on the bug tracker: "There is no maintainer for 3ddesktop. This means that this package no longer exists (or never existed)." And since unmaintained software is afaik remo

Re: Desktop button in Gnome

On 11/28/12, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Is there a way to have a button in the tray that will minimize all the > windows and show the desktop? Enjoy: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/368/ To install you have an nice black button "on/off" on the top-left corner of the

Re: Desktop button in Gnome

On 11/28/12, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Is there a way to have a button in the tray that will minimize all the > windows and show the desktop? Enjoy: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/368/ -- Gean Michel Ceretta - geancere...@linuxmail.org - geancere...@gmail.com - +5

Re: Desktop button in Gnome

On 11/28/12, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Is there a way to have a button in the tray that will minimize all the > windows and show the desktop? Hi Ethan, give a look at https://extensions.gnome.org/ maybe they have an extension for your request. Good look. -- Gean Michel

Re: Desktop button in Gnome

On 11/28/12, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > Is there a way to have a button in the tray that will minimize all the > windows and show the desktop? Which DE/desktop-environment are you using? Are you familiar with use of multiple virtual desktops, and the pager to swap between them?

Re: desktop notification gone

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:51:01PM +0200, Tom wrote: > Hey Adrian, > > >>To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does > >>notification work for you? > > > >I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE <..> It also has a nice configuration > >utility: xfce4-notifyd-config. Works great so far

Re: desktop notification gone

On Sun, 13 May 2012 12:51:04 +0200, Tom wrote: > Hey Camaleón, > > First off, to my delight it is worked around by using XFCE's daemon, cf. > Adrian's message. Yup, I already read that message :-) >>> After quite a detour I learned it's likely/probably about the message >>> queue not being flu

Re: desktop notification gone

Hey Camaleón, First off, to my delight it is worked around by using XFCE's daemon, cf. Adrian's message. After quite a detour I learned it's likely/probably about the message queue not being flushed <..> For notify-OSD and notification-daemon however the only advice I found was to kill it. Ye

Re: desktop notification gone

Hey Adrian, To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does notification work for you? I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE <..> It also has a nice configuration utility: xfce4-notifyd-config. Works great so far (for at least 2 months); couldn't be happier. Works like a charm ind

Re: desktop notification gone

On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:41:44 +0200, Tom wrote: > On 05/12/2012 06:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Check whether the "notification-daemon" is started after you login. > > It is, I re-checked this afternoon for Michael already (and besides, > notify-send does okay, which I guess it wouldn't without th

Re: desktop notification gone

On 13/05/12 00:07, Adrian Fita wrote: > I start it from ~/.config/autostart/xfce4-notifyd.desktop (the > package doesn't come with any .desktop file anywhere). Sorry, I forgot to attach the xfce4-notifyd.desktop file that I use: [Desktop Entry] Name=XFCE Notification Daemon Comment=Display notifi

Re: desktop notification gone

On 12/05/12 22:41, Tom wrote: > To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does > notification work for you? I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE on Openbox as window manager. I start it from ~/.config/autostart/xfce4-notifyd.desktop (the package doesn't come with any .desktop file anyw

Re: desktop notification gone

On 05/12/2012 06:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: Check whether the "notification-daemon" is started after you login. It is, I re-checked this afternoon for Michael already (and besides, notify-send does okay, which I guess it wouldn't without the daemon). When running Gnome everything's fine. What

Re: desktop notification gone

On Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:08 +0200, Tom wrote: > My desktop has long stopped notifying me of things. I ignored it for a > while, expecting it to fix itself, but it doesn't. > > I wasn't/am not quite sure about the relationship between the > notification-daemon and notify-osd packages. The latter

Re: desktop notification gone

On 05/12/2012 02:26 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox <..> When running Gnome everything's fine. To show desktop notification, you need a notification service running. gnome-shell and KDE have one built-in and there is a standalone daemon called notification-daemon

Re: desktop notification gone

On 12.05.2012 13:53, Tom wrote: > This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox, starting notification- and > gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc. Oddly enough, all applications > that ought to notify me (I only use three: my music player, Icedove, > and Transmission) do so exactly one time after their sta

Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups

On Ma, 01 mai 12, 13:30:13, Touko Korpela wrote: > > User is in (cdrom,floppy,audio,video,plugdev,scanner,netdev,bluetooth) groups > but root password is asked when trying to reboot or shutdown. I'm using > lightdm display manager. Do you have a terminal or xterm running as root? Try closing it f

Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups

Brian wrote: >> Hi. >> I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users >> should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and >> they >> can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without >> root >> password? >An Xfce install can im

Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups

On Mon 30 Apr 2012 at 23:16:03 +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: > Hi. > I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users > should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and they > can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without root >

Re: Desktop icons in KDE 4.7.4

On 07/03/12 17:10, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:02:16 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: The desktop icons have disappeared. What do I have to do to get them back again? Did they leave a note or something? Now seriously, did you change the desktop layout or the path where folder view w

Re: Desktop icons in KDE 4.7.4

On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:02:16 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > The desktop icons have disappeared. What do I have to do to get them > back again? Did they leave a note or something? Now seriously, did you change the desktop layout or the path where folder view was ponting to (usually "~/Desktop"

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