Spanning wallpaper across monitors in Plasma is a pain. A github project,
"superpaper," works fine on X. But it doesn't work on Wayland.
Does anyone know how to span wallpaper across monitors, in Plasma, using
Wayland?
(I'm running Sid.)
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On Aug 10 2021, at 12:32 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> How can I determine what the "1 not upgraded" package might be?
>
>
> ~$ apt-get update
> Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
> Hit:2 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease
> Hit:3
may have missed something.
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to several of the
resolutions I know my monitor supports (and then running "sudo
update-grub") has no effect.
Any suggestions?
I've been running sid for a year, but this has been a problem since I got
the computer a couple of years ago and was running stable so I figure it's
not sid-specific.
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ever use cdroms for is installing Debian, I got away without having to
change my hardware.
Many thanks to the people who create the Debian installer for floppies!
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I can't get DXR3 (em8300) support working with libxine1. The sarge
version still works, but none of the newer versions of libxine1. Does
anyone have experience compiling libxine1 with em8300 support? How is
it done?
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How do you know it is not working? Are you getting some sort of error
message?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. Current versions of libxine1 _do_
support em8300, but only
I
ever read websites any more.
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* Benjam? Villoslada [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060501 11:33]:
Fonts dosen't works again in Flash :( Maybe due the last x-org updates.
Anyone have solved this issue?
I'm having the same problem.
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Right now, when spam makes it through spamassassin, I report it with an
X according to the following line in my .muttrc:
macro index X |/usr/bin/spamassassin -r\nenter
to tag multiple spams and then report them with
a single keystroke?
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, and an indispensable
resource to the migrating Linux/Unix administrator and existing Debian
user alike.
I've read much of it and have found it very clear and helpful. As I
say, it assumes some Linux knowledge, but is very helpful in explaining
what is distinctive about Debian systems.
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, which is done by manually editing
/etc/exim4/passwd.client according to the instructions in that file.
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* Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040729 18:49]:
I always thought some kind of menu system was a requisite for a
desktop environment until I started using ion.
You're part of the way there, but what you really need is ratpoison! :)
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to stay with stable. When
sarge becomes stable (real soon now), you can upgrade your woody
machines to it.
But if you find yourself continually wanting to install software that
depends on libraries in unstable, you might want to bite the bullet and
see what unstable is like.
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browser such
as links or w3m installed, and mutt should display html emails as text.
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* Lorenzo Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040423 09:52]:
My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is
simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading
somewhere in the middle of chapter II.
Or maybe he's a troll who went to a lot of trouble.
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, I
wanted something quick and easy: set up one machine as a time server and
have the other machines connect to it. Ntp may well better for some
purposes (large networks and such), but for my tiny home network I found
chrony simpler to understand and hence quicker to set up.
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to the insufficient memory message that suggested a problem, but maybe
it's there.
Do I perhaps need to change the configuration file?
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, undocumented laptop that I was only going to use for a couple of
weeks and then wipe clean. A straight Debian install would have been a
PITA. Knoppix did the trick.
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the
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* Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040208 10:44]:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
When an old laptop falls into your hands, and you don't have any
documentation on it, it's easier to use Knoppix and then upgrade to
Debian than it is to do the work needed
* Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040208 22:13]:
I call people stupid when they ARE.
For the sake of your social life, I sure hope you meant only when.
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The same to me -:))). Please, help! Vlada
My sons can all do it.
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Nice to know it, but what's the secret?
Vlada
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groff -P -pletter foo.txt
produces postcript formatted for A4 paper.
Does anyone know how to create letter-sized postscript with groff?
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* Lance Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040117 18:20]:
I'm trying to use groff to create postscript, but it keeps returning
pages for A4 paper rather than letter.
There wasn't really a problem. I was making two mistakes:
1. I wasn't using a macro, such as -me, so there was no header or
footer
to go ahead, and I can
teach him how to maintain it as a Debian machine. I wouldn't ever
encourage anyone to buy Lindows as a separate purchase, but sometimes
machines with preinstalled OS can be a good deal.
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* Todd Pytel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031212 16:35]:
Hardware-wise, nothing at all has changed in the last 3 weeks. No new
devices, same kernel, same modules.
Have you rebooted in that time?
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correctly or in the
right order. You said in your earlier post that you had the same
modules loaded. Are you sure? (Sorry for being obnoxious, it's just
that I've had the experience of _insisting_ that I had the correct usb
modules loaded, and it turned out I didn't.)
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* David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031211 13:48]:
Actually, Michael Robertson is trying to sell his Debian based linux
to consumers.
Is it possible to take a Lindows installation and convert it over to
Debian sid or testing? That would make it a lot more attractive.
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to it?
Are you issuing the GRUB command initrd /filename?
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you want. Otherwise (IMHO), not.
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* Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031115 17:30]:
But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfirebird.
Where is it?
I think it's one of the extensions you can download and install.
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command.
Thanks again!
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mostly use
this machine with only a stylus. Better it just automatically logs me
in and starts an X session for me.
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, there's only
ever been a couple of guys working on Scribus. When you think of it in
those terms (a couple of guys versus a huge corporation), it's pretty
impressive.
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, for example, returns over 300 results, whereas
apt-cache search browser | grep browser returns 70 results. Over 300
packages mention browser somewhere in the description, and 70 packages
include browser in the short description.
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* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031003 09:39]:
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
Welcome to the heard.
What did you hear?
Or, rather, who heard you?
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I don't know of any single book that does all the things you're looking
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:07:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2
You only need the v if you want to see all the filenames.
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spam box is full of plausible sounding subjects from familiar
sounding names.
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installation script (make install
make install_modules, setup, etc), builds a
standard binary package and installs it in your
system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your
distribution's standard package management utilities.
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:51:10PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
a compatable player. Has anyone tried this? Whenever I try to
download something it wants to save .emp files which are xml files
that zinf doesn't seem
. Digging around debian.org, I didn't find anything.
if you're compiling a version of iptables that you've gotten via
apt-get source iptables, a simple
$ fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
If you're compiling from non-debianized source, you can use checkinstall
to make a debian package.
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I'm using kernel-img-2.4.19-k6-smp, and a matrox G400. Has anyone else
seen this kind of behavior? Is it related to a missing module?
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, but selectwm may do what
you want. It depends on a mouse, but it's nice to be able to exit a wm
before knowing what wm you want to use next. You can exit your current
wm and see a menu of other available wms.
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update-rc.d -f gdm remove
removes all the gdm links in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d/ directories.
update-rc.d also lets you set different priorities for different
runlevels with a single command.
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-kpkg clean, but wasn't adding a revision.
The revision gave an error message the reminded me I'd forgotten to
delete the debian/official file.
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you could try running IE in WINE or VMWARE (now
THERE is a real test for a windows emulator)
vmware runs Windows (including IE) with no problems, except you can't
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md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian
website)?
Or is this already done somehow?
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hardware acceleration?
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were to use this tool, it looks like it could become
extraordinarily effective. Perhaps there's a catch, but I hope not.
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of
itself and reinstall it using the deb.
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A book that's full of useful examples is _The Linux Cookbook_ by Michael
Stutz, available in paperback from Linux Journal Press, and also by
apt-get install linuxcookbook
Another extremely useful book for getting the whole unix thing is _Think
Unix_ by Jon Lasser (QUE, 2000)
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This makes it very easy to track down both incoming and outgoing mail,
and gives you a nice archive of all your correspondence.
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on your system.
I think you're referring to twin (a Text mode WINdow environment), which
is packaged for Debian, for sid at least. The packages pages at
www.debian.org aren't working right now, so I can't tell whether twin is
available for potato or woody.
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a package with the greatest number
of
depenencies and you get most of what you need with one command.
Doesn't apt-get build-dep packagename give the desired result?
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that fix was? I can't find it searching the
archives, and I didn't save it when I saw it.
Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:36:34PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote:
Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and
wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2)
Has anyone found a workaround for this?
There may be other ways to do it, but this works:
1. copy the cd files to a
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, or of some other html validator that does
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:11:37PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
This is a response to Lance Simmons.
When I reinstalled Debian yesterday, I installed the modules in the order
that you give: parport, parport_pc, and lp. After each I got the message
installation succeeded. Is there any point
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:08:29AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an
x-window session? That would be cool.
Having recently got round to using screen I know that cutting
what you want
it'd be easy enough to do.
What makes it work is that uwm lets you have a window border as
narrow as a single pixel, and doesn't require a title bar.
Lance Simmons
:)
Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an
x-window session? That would be cool.
Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
The printer does not work. The echo test failed.
What messages do you get when you insmod parport, parport_pc, and
lp?
in the correct order:
insmod parport
insmod parport_pc
insmod lp
If it says they're already loaded, remove them in reverse order:
rmmod lp
rmmod parport_pc
rmmod parport
and then reload them. Then report what messages you get from the
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Once you've got the echo test working, then you can worry about
setting up your /etc/ files to do this automatically (I don't
remember how this is done).
If they are loaded but the echo test doesn't work, I'm not sure
what to do next (though I'm sure others on the list will know).
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. The printer does not appear in dmesg and the echo
system for printing did not work.
When you load parport_pc by using insmod parport_pc, (you can remove it first
using rmmod lp and rmmod parport_pc) do you get any messages at all?
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-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
Since he's running potato, shouldn't these two lines say
stable instead of unstable?
Lance Simmons
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:35:22PM -0400, mikepolniak wrote:
Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE
in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results?
While we're at it, how about the HP 3300Cse? Anyone have it
working?
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if you had
to, even if you don't plan on actually running a name server. I
like how-to's; full documentation is often a bit overwhelming if
you're not already up to speed.
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a symlink so that it 'seems' nothing has happened
This worked for me. Thanks! I couldn't get the other suggestions to
work, but that probably says more about my non-existent apache skills
than about the suggestions.
Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:53:47AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
or http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ with a mask like libgimp*29*deb , this
is where I had the best luck in such cases.
Great! There were scores of hits.
Lance Simmons
Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of
30. Isn't there an archive somewhere?
Lance Simmons
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:48:55PM -0800, hansen wrote:
On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote:
Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of
30. Isn't there an archive somewhere?
they just go away to
http://archive.debian.org
libgimp1.1.29 isn't there. I
know if netsaint even _should_ work after installing apache
and then netsaint from the binary debs? Is more configuration required?
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of ghostscript, but I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not
that interested in trying. I'm happy with how apsfilter works for me
right now.
Is there any way to mark a package so as to _not_ upgrade it? The
documentation on apt-get didn't enlighten me. Must I refrain from
apt-get upgrading?
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blinking feature?
Thanks for the various suggestions.
Lance Simmons
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:35:17AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
I'm getting this error message a lot:
kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
Full disclosure: a few weeks ago I switched to one of those Microsoft
what's
causing this message and how I can stop it?
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thing keeping you from trying uwm, I
hope you'll give it another try.
Lance Simmons
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:28:39AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
If anyone else is looking to try it, keep in mind that there's no man
page, no documention gets installed in /usr/doc, and no documentation
of the program
, and the devlopers say that when uwm is gnome-compliant,
gnome will be able to take care of that. As I say, though, uwm just as
it is is far and away my favorite window manager.
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keep coming
back to, and most recently I've stuck with it for several months
straight, which is something of a record.
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_Linux in a
Nutshell_ (O'Reilly, 2000)--which is mostly just man pages--strikes me
as a pretty good start.
Lance Simmons
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:11:06PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Lance Simmons did write:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:42:36PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
Lance Simmons wrote:
Is
there a way to change resolution _and_ screen size at the same time
me with a screen four times larger
than I want.
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