Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/12/13 18:31, shawn wilson wrote: > For some reason, when I chsh to say /bin/zsh, log out and back in, I'm > still in bash - confirmed with readlink /proc/$$/exe Which release are you running? For me this works:- # chsh -s /bin/zsh $me (where $me is your username). Check with:- $ echo $SHE

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:13:04 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will > > be my DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not > > that good at the momen

How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. >> >> The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I >> missed

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
Le 05/12/2013 22:46, Stephen Powell a écrit : > Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently > no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D > acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is > apparently unusable with such an X driver

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to > launch my stuff, there are a lot of warnings, for instance: > > when I quit evince:

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 12:51 +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > > It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > > choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to > > launch my stuff, there are

Re: Switching video card brands

2013-12-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:42:47PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > I hope to be installing Debian in a new computer in about a week or > so. It will have a Haswell processor and I hope to be able to get by > with the built in video. But, if it doesn't work well I have an > Nvidia 8600GT card I can take fro

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: >> It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the >> choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to >> launch my stuff, there are a lot of warn

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 10:35 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > >> It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > >> choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > >> with acroread (on start): > >> > >> (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > >> module_path: "xfce", > > > > The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. > > If I try to install t

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 08:20:56, Joe wrote: > > I had used the fallback mode, but I then wandered off and tried Xfce > and LXDE, and stayed with the latter. It's a pig to get the Debian menu > to display on LXDE, if you use that, and I don't know if Xfce has the > same trouble. I seem to recall you me

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 12:29:14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Maybe there's a wiki page on the topic? If not, maybe we could start one? > > Or debian-ot@... :) Why off-topic? This is Debian related. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debia

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > but GTK also does > cause really serious issues, if you e.g. launch a GNOME editor with root > privileges, th

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
Le 06/12/2013 10:52, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 10:35 +0100, François Patte wrote: >> Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the

Re: Hearing Sound When Running Debian Live

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 05 dec 13, 20:33:17, David L. Craig wrote: > I am amazed to discover how difficult it is to figure > out why programmatically causing a sound to be heard > when running a Debian Live XFCE distribution doesn't > produce actual sound. I can invoke VLC via Application > -> Multimedia and hear

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. What DE do you use? It's new to me that there aren't those

Re: Switching video card brands

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 05 dec 13, 20:42:47, Jon N wrote: > I hope to be installing Debian in a new computer in about a week or > so. It will have a Haswell processor and I hope to be able to get by > with the built in video. But, if it doesn't work well I have an > Nvidia 8600GT card I can take from my old syste

Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread shawn wilson
$ chsh -s /bin/zsh ag4ve Password: $ grep ag4ve /etc/passwd ag4ve:x:1008:1008::/home/ag4ve:/bin/zsh $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ readlink /proc/$$/exe /bin/bash $ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.8 $ grep zsh /etc/shells /bin/zsh /usr/bin/zsh Oh, there is some interresting stuff about /etc/shells - probab

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > This are not Xfce, KDE > > > etc. bugs and they are also not Debian related, this is caused by > > > GTK/GNOME upstream's ignora

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > > What DE do you use? It's new to me that there aren't those issues > outside GNOME. There's nothing the other DEs

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > This are not Xfce, KDE > > > > etc. bugs and they are

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 12:17 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > Very likely that > > > > even GNOME doesn't continue using GTK

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:23 +0400, Reco wrote: > > I just stay clear of anything that's linked against > > libgconf.so. > > The real issues are caused by libdconf, libgconf is quasi obsolet. I > already must install libdconf for audio producti

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:26 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > > What DE do you u

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:54 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > > > I disagree. My .xse

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > > > I disagree.

Re: How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/12/13 19:27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… Thanks, I appreciate the feedback/testing. > > > On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >>> There was some recent discussion on the me

Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod reveals that the module ipw2200 is there. I use an access list for wireless appliances on my router

Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/12/13 21:16, shawn wilson wrote: > $ chsh -s /bin/zsh ag4ve > Password: > $ grep ag4ve /etc/passwd > ag4ve:x:1008:1008::/home/ag4ve:/bin/zsh That's as it should be so chsh is working So something associated with your login is setting /bin/bash as your default shell(?). > $ echo $SHEL

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:21:45, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod reveals > that the module ipw2200 is there. Sor

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 12:09:49 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:21:45, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > Wheezy. It is not successfully creating a wireless conne

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:21:45 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod reveals > that the module ipw2200 is the

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:54 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings

NFS hangs on unlink/safe_remove

2013-12-06 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Hello list, (please CC me, I am not subscribed here) I have got a problem with one of our NFS exports which is hard to debug and to reproduce. Setup (simplized): - Two powerful VMware ESX hosts connected (crossconnection) with 4 x 1 GBit/s - One connection is only reserved for NFS traffic -

Re: NFS hangs on unlink/safe_remove

2013-12-06 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 06.12.2013 14:53, schrieb Patrick Matthäi: Hello list, (please CC me, I am not subscribed here) ... The curious is also, that other clients do not have any problems (also Squeeze) to access the data at the same time on the same share. There is no noticeable load (network, CPU, HDD, HDD

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:21:45AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod reveals > that the module ipw2200

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 13:09:49 Celejar wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > Wheezy.   It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. > >  lsmod reveals that t

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 14:50:45 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:21:45AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > Wheezy. It is not successfully creating a wire

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 11:21:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod > reveals that the module ipw2200 is there.

Comparative timings for cp using two SDHC-USB adapters; was Re(3ish): USB adapter for SD card.

2013-12-06 Thread peasthope
Timings for copying 1434 files from an SDHC card to a hdd and from the hdd to the SDHC using two different adapters follow. A is the mount point for the SDHC-USB adapter. Backup is a directory on the hdd. File sizes range from 0 to 51.5 MiB. AtoBackup is approximately 16 times faster using the

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Reco writes: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:20:19PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2013 13:09:49 Celejar wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > > Wheezy.   It is not

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:34:51 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2013 11:21:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > > It is not successfully creating a wireless c

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:20:19 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2013 13:09:49 Celejar wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > > Wheezy.   It is not succes

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 22:51 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > In my Xfce, they're both called panels (Panel 1 and Panel 2); my bottom > one contains all kinds of widgets (that I've customized and put there, > e.g. CPU / network / sensors monitors, clock, audio mixer, screenshot > tool), and my top one con

Re: Unable to change shell and add groups

2013-12-06 Thread PaulNM
Apologies if some of this seems obvious to you, but figured I'd check anyway. On 12/06/2013 05:16 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > $ chsh -s /bin/zsh ag4ve > Password: > $ grep ag4ve /etc/passwd > ag4ve:x:1008:1008::/home/ag4ve:/bin/zsh Just checking: You did logout then back in at this point, right? If

Does any OS (e.g. Debian) support ZFS on MIPS?

2013-12-06 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear list members, I just posted a variation on the question below at http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/103724/6860 and on the freebsd-mips mailing list. However, I realise that members of this list may well not have accounts at that website or on that mailing list, so it seems reasonable to ask the

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 16:48:04 Celejar wrote: > Don't know wicd, and there's way too much stuff in here for me to > grok. I'd want to see the main system logs (syslog / messages). That's how I felt - particularly as I didn't know what most of it meant anyway - so I couldn't trim in case I tr

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Dec 2013 at 11:21:45 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod reveals > that the module ipw2200 is

Re: Does any OS (e.g. Debian) support ZFS on MIPS?

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:11:22 + Sam Kuper wrote: > Does Debian ZFS under the MIPS architecture? Judging from this list, it's not: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search&keywords=zfs ZFS is supported on i386 and amd64 via FreeBSD kerne

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Dec 2013 at 18:24:13 -0500, Bo Lan wrote: > Although I am not sure if XFCE or LXDE is good or bad, I am kind of > agree with your opinion about the usability under such an free X driver. > According to Debian's policy, Debian is an organization that highly > respects completely free soft

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 17:19 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > That does not mean that I am against graphic output. Ralf's sound > samples and my graphs and icons are graphical objects. With you can > have several terminals and copy and paste text among each other. > > What I don't like is the posit

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:54:28 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm sorry, I can't contribute more to this thread, since I already > pointed everything out. > OK, that's a good one. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Ron Leach
On 06/12/2013 18:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1 I had this recently when trying to get a Samsung Galaxy working on a USB interface. Reco's reply (1) to me was helpful, he said: That's only means that you lack usb0 definition in /etc/network/interfaces. so,

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 15:20 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way to teach gui users to count. The saner style is to call the first panel "panel one" instead of "panel zero". To name it "panel zero" even won't teach anything about logical issues about indexat

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 19:40 +, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:54:28 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I'm sorry, I can't contribute more to this thread, since I already > > pointed everything out. > > > > OK, that's a good one. And it's meant with a ";)". But I really thought it won

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:57:55 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 08:20:56, Joe wrote: > > > > I had used the fallback mode, but I then wandered off and tried Xfce > > and LXDE, and stayed with the latter. It's a pig to get the Debian > > menu to display on LXDE, if you use that, and I

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 18:44:49 Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Dec 2013 at 11:21:45 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed > > Wheezy. It is not successfully creating a wireless conn

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 19:49:36 Ron Leach wrote: > On 06/12/2013 18:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1 > > I had this recently when trying to get a Samsung Galaxy working on > a USB interface. > > Reco's reply (1) to me was helpful, he said: > > That's only means tha

SOLVED: CD drive not showing up anymore

2013-12-06 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 03.12.2013 08:59, schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: > Hello, > > somehow my computer does not automatically pop up with a message when I enter > a CD or DVD. Not in KDE, GNOME or XFCE. There is no automatic action at all. > I can not even see any log entries when closing the CD tray with a new CD

Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 00:01 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? > does grub support USB keyboard? > if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? > I am considering logitech wireless keyboard > I am running wheezy > Thanks!

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Doug wrote: > On 11/26/2013 03:22 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On 11/27/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 24 November 2013 19:20:47 Doug wrote: > >>> On 11/24/2013 12:34 PM, AP wrote: > >> [snip] > (i) Which Distribution: > >> [snip] > (ii) DEB vs

Part way there Was:Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 December 2013 11:21:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. [snip] > I had this card working in Squeeze, without, so far as I can > remember, problems. I have a partia

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 19:13 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Doug wrote: > > Maybe I have it wrong--I refer to having to install knowing a priori the > > name of the package you want to install. And I have _never_ had a > > problem with Synaptic. Using it for a

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: with acroread (on start): (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "xfce", The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. If I try to i

Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-12-06 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 12/06/2013 04:13 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 00:01 -0500, Long Wind wrote: another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? does grub support USB keyboard? if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? I am considering logitech wir

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
André Nunes Batista wrote: > BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way > to teach gui users to count. Hmm... I disagree. Counting and indexing are two different things. Indexes start at zero. Counting starts at one. This is often described as the classic fencepos

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:04:49 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > > > After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to > KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk > space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like > it and have never liked

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. > I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, > 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like it and > have never liked Gno

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Leach wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1 > > I had this recently when trying to get a Samsung Galaxy working on a > USB interface. > > Reco's reply (1) to me was helpful, he said: > > >That's only means that you lack usb0 definition > >in /etc/network/interfac

Re: Does any OS (e.g. Debian) support ZFS on MIPS?

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:11:22 + > Sam Kuper wrote: > >> Does Debian ZFS under the MIPS architecture? > > Judging from this list, it's not: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search&keywords=zfs > > ZFS is supported on

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. > It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. Is the wifi access point you are trying to connect to a hidden network? If so then

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, December 06, 2013 04:55:11 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > To click and type a search term for many _users_ is easier to do than to > remember a command they only need once every 2 years and than to add a > cryptic search syntax. This is a very good statement, one worth rephrasing: It is

Re: Part way there Was:Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have a partial success. I have started the wireless connection > manually, as a result of continuing to Google. I did: > > Disconnect ethernet cable > > # ifconfig eth1 up > # iwlist eth1 scan > # iwconfig eth1 essid NETWORK_NAME > # dhclient eth1 That will work. :-) B

Re: Part way there Was:Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I recommend that you work through the wicd problems. Yes. > But is this laptop ever mobile? Do you take it off and connect to > other networks? Or does it *always* stay at home and *always* connect > up to your current access point? If so then you can set up a static > conf

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless > 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy. Last one from me today. :-) You say that it is freshly installed Wheezy. But then if so how did your 2200BG get the name "eth1"? That isn

Re: Remove root access from folder/directory

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Davies
Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > I've unzipped a folder and it became root protected. Next time don't unzip it as root. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.o

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:04:49 PM Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > with acroread (on start): > > (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > module_path:

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 02:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:40:02 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The terminal > just says: > Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1 I didn't see anywhere suggested you just change the name to wlan0 On my /etc/network/interfaces I have these two interfaces eth0 and wlan0 that both connect if the wlan0 is

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Dec 2013 at 15:50:47 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: [Snipped to shorten this mail, although I agree with most of what was said.] > Also while I personally rather like the command line ifupdown process > and configuration I wouldn't recommend it for a newbie. I am not even > using it myself

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/6/2013 5:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: André Nunes Batista wrote: BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way to teach gui users to count. Hmm... I disagree. Counting and indexing are two different things. Indexes start at zero. Counting starts at one. This is

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:50:02 +0100 Brian wrote: > Network-manager and wicd depend on wpasupplicant. Personally I would > rather deal with the organ grinder than one of the monkeys. The best advice I would give if you have Network-manager installed is to edit: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/06/2013 04:13 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/26/2013 03:22 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/27/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2013 19:20:47 Doug wrote: On 11/24/2013 12:34 PM, AP wrote: [snip] (i) Which Distribution:

Package Request

2013-12-06 Thread John James Ammerman
What email would I use to suggest an addition of packages to the Debian repo? If this is correct address then: http://www.python.org/about/success/mmtk/ http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/MMTK/ I would like to suggest these packages for the Debian repository. Thank you for your time, John James Ammer