Re: problem with speedtest-cli

On Thu, 01 Jul, 2021 at 18:52:42 +0800, kaye n wrote: >On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole ><[1]liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: > >Hello guys > >kaye@laptop:~$ speedt

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: >Hello guys >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli >Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration... >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in >load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.0.2',

Re: About Terminal on Buster

On Thu, 27 May, 2021 at 18:38:55 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > Is there not a program required to do that mouse, click, drag, select ? > I recall with various installations that worked then it didn't and it worked > after installing "g something something" That would be gpm. I haven't seen it in

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

On Wed, 12 May, 2021 at 14:05:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . > I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, > But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking > the

Re: How to commit a new architecture like RISC-V

On Tue, 11 May, 2021 at 14:30:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > As I said, I'm just a lowly user. On the contrary, you are an extremely helpful, courteous and entertaining user. :-)

Re: Evolution

On Tue, 27 Apr, 2021 at 18:49:55 +, Jerry Mellon wrote: >Hello, >I have been using Debian 10 now for about 6 months and all of a sudden >Evolution will not allow me to login. >I am getting a box while Evolution is starting and loading that says >"Please enter the password

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

On Tue, 23 Mar, 2021 at 17:06:47 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > didier gaumet wrote: [...] > > This one will probably do: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization > > (particularly the 3rd chapter "System Virtualization" if I understand your > > usecase) > > This is a comprehensive

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

On Sat, 19 Sep, 2020 at 14:31:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > While I'm an LXDE user myself I do acknowledge that other DEs might have > a different focus and/or priorities. As far as I can tell, providing > many options is something that GNOME seems to explicitly want to avoid, >

[OT] CentOS 6 [Was: Re: how to quickly recover buster boot loader]

On Wed, 05 Aug, 2020 at 00:04:48 +, Long Wind wrote: >i have win7 at sda1 and buster at sda2 >i install centos 6 at sda3, it can boot win7, can't see buster >i mean i can't boot buster now >is there some rescue image that can be written to bootable usb disk? >or do you know

Re: SANE default scanner

On Mon, 27 Jul, 2020 at 15:38:57 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > John Boxall (12020-07-27): > > I was having the same problem with the same model mfp. I had to go into the > > HPLIP Toolbox app and setup the printer. Once I did that xsane and simple > > scan could find the scanner. > > Thanks for

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: > On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? > > > > > > > > > > > > Or is everything else readable? > > Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes,

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 at 19:01:30 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > >> Hi, Folks - > >> > >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

On Mon, 29 Jun, 2020 at 10:21:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote: [...] > > Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday? > > Yesterday's problems stemmed from installing mate-desktop-environment rather > than task-mate-desktop ;{

Re: problem to apply an update with fwupd

On Tue, 23 Jun, 2020 at 20:57:30 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote: >Hi, >I am facing a strange trouble with a Debian Sid laptop (Dell Precision >7540) both using gnome-software or fwupdmgr: a recent firmware update >does not apply. >So after reboots the update comes back again.

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 09:35:45 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 12:22 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote: > > > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: > > > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/shar

Re: Default vim colorscheme?

On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote: > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim  or in /etc that default > > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it. > > I couldn't find the link, but I found

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

On Sun, 07 Jun, 2020 at 20:19:48 +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: >On 6/7/20 7:52 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] > What window manager/desktop suite are you using? > >GNOME Metacity That's unusual these days. Are you getting your application menu from gnome-panel?

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:55:02 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > It's OK. I understood your question the first time. > > > > The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends' option applies

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 23:04:17 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > > > If installing (default parameters in u

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : > > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in > > packages do not become removed

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

On Sun, 10 May, 2020 at 22:03:20 +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, > buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt > upgrade very frequently. > > As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. >

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 23:02:16 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:52, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-) > > > > > >

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-) > > I had not read the Freedesktop wiki before, but unfortunately it does not > help: I thought the solution was here when it says icon "has to have the > same name

Re: XFCE session problem

On Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 at 08:28:25 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > This morning I ran "apt update && apt upgrade" as usual, and there was > a new kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 amd64, to > replace the prior kernel, linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 > 4.19.67-2+deb10u2, and several

Re: python pip trouble

On Sun, 26 Apr, 2020 at 16:13:28 -0600, ghe wrote: > Buster, Supermicro workstation > > I wanted to install pip (python3 is installed and working well and my > apt mirrors are up to date): > > root@sbox:~# apt install pip > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state

Re: One more firewall question

On Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 at 13:08:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > One last name stands out in my apache2 logs. > > Is AppleWebKit a bot? There sure are a lot of them. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett AppleWebKit appears in the user-agent string sent by chrome and other

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:53:14 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >> Backports must not be used to fix bugs in Stable. If groovy from > >> Stable does not work w

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote: > > >>[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 > >>Is there a way to download patched g

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote: >[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 >Is there a way to download patched groovy version in debian buster >through apt? >As default groovy version in Buster stable is: Groovy Version: 2.4.16 >

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

On Sun, 19 Apr, 2020 at 19:11:55 +1000, elvis wrote: > > On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is > > *not* forwarding (should probably mention this in the wiki).U > > In over 25 years of email I have never come

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > TIA Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. Assumes

Re: DOH

On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 18:00:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Liam writes: > > I think you misunderstand me. I'm talking about making a connection to > > an IP address that you have already obtained by (encrypted) DNS. For > > example, your personal bind instance tells you that www.debian.org > >

Re: DOH

On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 23:42:48 +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > > 2. Having completed a DNS lookup unbeknownst to the ISP, we still have > > to make a connection to the resulting IP address through the ISP's > > gateway. The ISP can perform a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address if > > they are

Re: DOH

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 16:37, John Hasler wrote: > > Liam writes: > > I'm not familiar with bind. Does it work by consulting root name > > servers directly? > > It starts with the root servers and builds a database in exactly the > same way your ISP's DNS server does. In fact, it is probably

Re: Gnome Screenshot not saving to clipboard

On Tue, 14 Apr, 2020 at 16:02:07 +, Paulo Roberto wrote: >Hello. >The gnome-screenshot a few updates ago stopped working properly. >It's not saving to the clipboard anymore. >When I run: > >$ gnome-screenshot -a -c > >It activates the selection cursor, after selection

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 16:19:55 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using

Re: Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

On Thu, 26 Mar, 2020 at 23:34:57 +, Diana Emefa wrote: >I need http to access the outside world This is a mailing list. You have connected to the outside world without HTTP. I hope that you will continue to do so.

Re: Buster without systemd? [with backtrack]

On Wed, 25 Mar, 2020 at 21:02:17 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 20:18:29 (+), Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, Network Manager doesn't need a GUI either. Tools > > such as nmcli and nmtui allow you to configure and control network

Re: Buster without systemd?

On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 22:04:07 -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > I don't want a desktop. In fact, wicd doesn't even need X, as it can > run quite happily on a VC to configure a new AP. > > When I return to somewhere I have been before, wicd (the daemon) > usually connects before I have typed

Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome

On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 19:05:32 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 23:31 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Are the dawn and dusk times correct in the Night Light configuration > > window? > > > There are two options. Manual or Sunset/Sunrise in Nigh

Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome

On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 18:24:04 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night Light > feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I > have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset is >

Re: How can I see only the latest change log of packages before update ?

On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 00:35:39 +0200, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > Hello, > > My update/upgrade system script is about that : > sudo apt update && sudo apt list --upgradable -a && sudo apt > dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y && > sudo apt clean -y > > But I

Re: installing with Flatpak

On Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 at 17:58:05 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I would like to ask if there are any drawbacks in installing software > using Flatpak. As far as I understand, this installation method > installs packages in an isolated way (whatever that means). > I would imagine

Re: Applet to find internet status

On Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 at 19:54:29 +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > >  I am looking for an applet (a simple one) which indicates the > connectivity to internet (perhaps green when connected to internet and > red/orange when connected but no internet access). I am struggling to > search for this in

Re: now gmail rant

On Fri, 06 Mar, 2020 at 14:24:47 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: [...] > > Interesting that I have 3 responses to the original post.Perhaps we have > a time zone issue? Like when I was flamed at 06:00 the morning after, for > not responding to a post I sent at 21:00. We sometimes need a

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

On Thu, 05 Mar, 2020 at 13:13:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > > > > > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > > > earlier, so here it is again. > > > > No, that is not

Re: imgur vs stretch

On Wed, 13 Nov, 2019 at 15:20:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What might I be missing? An adequate description of your problem.

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

On Sun, 03 Nov, 2019 at 12:41:51 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >Hi, >I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 >(buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it >should be a clean install, and it seems to be. >The desktop manager looks different:

Re: buster 10.1 Q

On Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 08:44:28 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:17:55PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is > >

Re: buster 10.1 Q

On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is > deprecated? peferably something that can be run over an ssh -Y > user@machine login. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Synaptic is not deprecated in

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > Thank you for your contribution. I look

Re: Can status column be made to contain only ii?

On 2019-07-15, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > >> # grep RETT /etc/os-release >> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" >> # dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | wc -l >> 867 >> # dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii' | wc -l >> 136 >> # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l >> 125 >> # dpkg -l | egrep -v

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

On 2019-05-31, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> "BR" == Brad Rogers writes: > >BR> Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8 > >BR> Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't >BR> be back. > > Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ? > Java Web

Re: Insidious systemd

On 2019-05-29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-05-28 22:16:27 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > Hi, all! >> > >> > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched >> > for a suitable netw

Re: Insidious systemd

On 2019-05-27, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi, all! > > Needing to convert this box from wired ethernet to wireless, I searched > for a suitable network manager and wicd looked good: No desktop > environment dependencies (I use a window manager Openbox and single > lxpanel), compatibility with

Re: Bug with Eclipse on debian stretch (with logs attached)

On 2019-04-25, morgan wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Eclipse on my debian stretch but it crashes when launching. > I attached the logs, I don't understand if I could do anything, nor in > which package(s) are the issues. Sorry for not using reportbug for this > report. > > Feel free to contact me

Re: Problem loading Debian 9.8.0

On 2019-04-10, Patrick Gallagher wrote: > --9c7f3b05862d2a11 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Suppot, This is not support. This is a mailing list for users of debian, just like you. > > I installed Debian 9.8.0 on my laptop using an iso DVD image and Virtualbox >

Re: jessie-updates missing

On 2019-03-26, Mike Malcolm wrote: > --07ffdc0584fd528b > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello, > > My project has failed to deploy and I'm seeing that there is a 404 error > when trying to access jessie-updates. > > When I go to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ > >

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote: > Greets! > > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to > have worked though there are some oddities. > > now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); > the interface in general seems to run on a different

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

On 2018-11-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: >> Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on >> firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone? > > apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends > > It says "...

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 2018-09-04, Gene Heskett wrote: > thing they've now given it a "better" name of PTSD (by the libtards > definitions). "Libtards"? Gene, you can do better than that.

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

On 2018-07-19, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you >> > fire

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On 2018-05-09, Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 May 2018 at 12:50:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote: >> > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> > > >> > > > On

Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a Gstreamer bug

On 2018-05-05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote: >> "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of >> GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version, but it >> should just cleanly apply to the

Re: mate-panel segfault

On 2018-04-09, songbird wrote: > Greg Marks wrote: > ... >> (The instruction pointer and the stack pointer values will vary, >> as you'd expect.) I am running Debian 9, Linux kernel 4.6.0-1-amd64 >> x86_64, with MATE 1.16.2 desktop; my computer has a PNY Quadro K620 >> 2GB

Re: mate-panel segfault

On 2018-04-09, Greg Marks wrote: > I've been having a minor but mildly annoying problem. From time to > time, the entire MATE desktop will flash, and all open windows remain > open; however, the order in which their tabs appear in the bottom > panel is randomly rearranged.

Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box: > i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put > in the other user's name in the

Re: restarting ntp

On 2018-03-17, Michael Grant wrote: > --f403043615085592a505679a4cd2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I restarted ntp today and noticed this in the logs: > > Mar 17 07:12:41 bottom systemd[1]: > /lib/systemd/system/system-update-cleanup.service:35: Unknown lvalue

Re: Finding image file underlying an icon on Mate desktop

On 2018-03-15, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > On 03/14/2018 05:30 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: >>> Several months ago I needed a fully custom desktop icon for a shortcut. >>> I had no t

Re: Finding image file underlying an icon on Mate desktop

On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote: > Several months ago I needed a fully custom desktop icon for a shortcut. > I had no trouble creating an appropriate png file and having it display. > Now I need a similar icon. I went to the properties of the shortcut > expecting to be

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

On 2018-03-13, wrote: [...] > 1) All generalizations suck. > 2) Language wars are generally a loss of time. That makes two generalisations which, presumably, suck.

Re: Stretch with Gnome 3.22 : Icons on desktop

On 2018-03-04, Bernard <bdebr...@teaser.fr> wrote: > > > On 03/03/2018 00:55, Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] >> Have you tried a simple >> >> cp /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop Desktop/ > > I just tried it : it works ! Since it did not work the way

Re: Stretch with Gnome 3.22 : Icons on desktop

On 2018-03-02, Bernard <bdebr...@teaser.fr> wrote: > > > On 02/03/2018 14:03, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2018-03-02, Bernard <bdebr...@teaser.fr> wrote: >>> Hi ! > >>> >> > >> You can create your own icons by drag-and-drop, copy

Re: Stretch with Gnome 3.22 : Icons on desktop

On 2018-03-02, Bernard wrote: > Hi ! > > Has anyone succeeded in displaying icons on the gnome 3.22 desktop ? I > tried the 'gnome-tweak-tool', but the one that is available through the > Stretch repositories does not allow displaying any more icons than > 'home' and

Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively

On 2018-02-28, Dominic Knight wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 06:50 -0500, songbird wrote: >> >> the only real negatives of the newer monitor is >> that the scaling of fonts/menus/window sizes is set >> so small and not easily adjustable in the program >> itself that i

Re: totem not working

On 2018-02-26, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=totem > >thank you Greg for this link. >Now, I actually got 2 answers,but with so many users, I would expect >a little more. > >

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 2018-02-21, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [...] > I know what I'm talking about ... Dude, you're talking to a Debian developer. OP, if you're reading this, I urge you to follow the advice of Roberto and other wiser heads. -- Liam

Re: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

On 2018-02-19, Curt wrote: > On 2018-02-18, Karol Augustin wrote: >>> >>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>> >>>

Re: Firefox too slow when opening new window or typing in the URL

On 2018-02-17, deloptes wrote: [...] > Might be I need to clean up and see if it makes a difference > > thanks After 15 years, probably yes. I suggest you consider a refresh[1]. Make sure you understand what will be kept and what will be discarded, and how to recover the

Re: getting the right and complete firmware

On 2018-01-30, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: >> > Hi Anil, >> > >> > did you take a look at this: >> > >> >

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

On 2017-11-22, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I had installed Stretch from a DVD set. >>> It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have. >>> I made a handwritten

Re: OpenJDK 8 from jessie backports

On 2017-09-14, John Naggets wrote: > Thanks Georgi you made my day! That worked like a charm. > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> On 09/14/2017 03:45 PM, John Naggets wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I did the mistake of running an

Re: dhcp restart with bad config

On 2017-08-29, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > Today I had a small (big?) problem with the DHCP server. > When I make any changes I allways do a > # service isc-dhcp-server restart > to test the new config. In the past when there was an error in the config the > service would

Re: XFCE wm deadlocks on (other) console logout

On 2017-08-28, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I consistently get a deadlock of the XFCE window manager, immediately > after I logout of say Linux console 2, when e.g. XFCE is running on > console 1. > > Procedure to replicate: > > 1. login to console 1 > > 2. start xfce > > 3.

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

On 2017-08-27, Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > On 26/08/17 20:36, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> wrote: >>> I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on= > &

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes wrote: (...) > I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on > your favourite community video streaming site. That's how I've found > FOSS support: "Best software in the world. No problems at all. But if > you find a

Re: No ifconfig

On 2017-08-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2017 04:15:42 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > >> Glenn English: >> > I've written many scripts over the years, using ifconfig and others, >> > and having everything broken now is a major PITA. >> > >> > I very

Re: No ifconfig

On 2017-08-19, Brian wrote: (...) > network-mangler? This demonstrates a disdain for the work put into > making networking comfortable on Debian. It also probably infers a > lack of any deep understanding of how the software works. s/infers/implies Other than that, +1

Re: What tool can I use to make efficient incremental backups?

On 2017-08-17, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > Currently I use rsync to make the backups of my personal data, including > some manually selected important files of system configuration. I keep > old backups to be more safe from the scenario where I have deleted >

Re: How to keep Debian Linux patched with latest security updates automatically

On 2017-08-11, Herb Garcia wrote: > I found this article on Linux Today. I know a few of us have asked > questions about this maybe this might clear up a few of them. > >

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

On 2017-08-11, Gene Heskett wrote: (...) > First off, I have some scripts that greatly simplify things for me, and > which depends on dbus, which I read is deprecated, so what replaces it? Dbus is still around in stretch, and has many dependent packages. I don't think

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

On 2017-07-13, Sam Smith <deb...@net153.net> wrote: > On 07/11/2017 06:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith <deb...@net153.net> wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. >>

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote: [...] > But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. > Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this > complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal user so I > can run x11vnc to

Re: stretch, vim, cut and paste broken (and fix)

On 2017-06-30, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Imagine my surprise when the usual X selection and clipboard > techniques disappeared. > > Normal behavior: > > - X11 > - xterm or urxvt or gnome-terminal or whatever > - copy text by selecting with mouse button 1 > - move over to some

Re: Problems with missing information in MATE's "help system"

On 2017-06-29, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 08:26:47 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: >> I am using the MATE desktop on Debian Stretch. >> I wish to run a user specific script each time a specific user logs in. >> The script is known to work because I

Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april?

On 2017-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 06 June 2017 09:36:57 Gene Heskett wrote: > Liam wrote: >> > Glad you fixed the problem. For future reference, >> > /usr/share/doc/apache2/ is where you'll find the Debian and upstream >> > changelogs. Similarly for any other

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