Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

On 02/28/2016 04:56 AM, BerndSchmittNews wrote: Hello, under debian7 I was using gpoint to temporarily deactivate touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware failure, so I

Re: Using Jessie Backports

use backports for a few applications and have never had any major issues, but the choice is up to each individual user. LostSon

Re: plain (original) Debian hosting

this one http://debian-hosting.info/ I have used it for years with no complaints. LostSon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

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Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

manag p usermode:i386- Graphical tools for certain user account manag lisi@Tux-II:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 7.8 lisi@Tux-II:~$ Lisi apt-get install mate-system-tools will get you what you are looking for. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Old Computers

?distribution=damnsmall Lisi How about Tiny Core Linux http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req LostSon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: jessie+kde: how to make gtk apps look better integrated

On 05/01/2015 08:55 AM, baldyeti wrote: Hello, just trying out debian8 (amd64) with the KDE. Looks real good so far, just dislike the bulky scrollbars (e.g in iceweasel) Can someone suggest what package(s) to install to remedy (in earlier releases I think one needed an oxygen theme for gtk

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

about a month ago and immediately afterwards upgraded my desktop system to Jessie. The conclusion: best Debian ever. I have 5 separate systems all running Jessie since the freeze, and even my wife and kids like it. LostSon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

or recommendations? sivaram Here are the Debian Jessie images https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

Geany works quite nice or there is always gvim. On 07/15/2014 01:47 PM, B wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:34:18 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: This is … an expected behaviour from any GTK+3 application launched outside of GNOME. Googling 'GTK3 client-side decorations' will

Re: MATE 1.8: issues with sound control

/ What kind of soundcard do you have, I am running mate on 5 different machines, some using pulsaudio some not and have not had this issue at all. Now I don't have gnome3 installed on any of these machines so maybe that is the difference here. LostSon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Best Mail Client

, iceape. - the best is Icedove/Thunderbird. It works perfectly. - I like claws-mail too but it's very slow with Imap. It's ok with pop3. -- Maderios Evolution -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: XFCE is slow on Acer One netbook - suggestions?

. I guess a lot of Gnome's services are still started with your graphical environment, and they overload your machine. You can use sysv-rc-conf to make unnecessary services not to start. I have always used rcconf myself, nice little ncurses app. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org

Re: no sound when playing ET: Wolfenstein

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 17:04 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Using Debian Lenny AMD64 ET: W version 2.60b I already added echo et.x86 0 0 direct /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss exit 0 apt-get install oss-compat will get you some sound. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

fonts seem off

no changes. My fonts do look ok with full. But they are awfully skinny. any ideas ? -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Package Creation

me. -- S.Vellingiri, Associate Systems Engineer, bk systems, chennai. hariharan@gmail.com This is what i used to learn to build debian packages http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html hope that helps. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

there are no advantages to having it. Also I agree with the previous statement the more I use it, and when and if I find bugs or problems I can submit these to the appropriate people and hopefully we can get them resolved and bring more people to 64 bit computing, my measly two cents. -- LostSon http

enigmail and iceape

Hello Has anyone had any luck with getting enigmail to work with the iceape suite ? I was trying to get it working earlier today with no luck, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny amd_64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

alt key is not working in terminals

be some global config or something that got messed up ? Thanks. -- lostson http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny AMD 64 pgp4F9HfKcAR9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian AMD64

for 64 if you absolutely need them really is easier than one might think. If you have a 64 you might as well use 64. I am using debian lenny if that makes any difference to you. Hope it all goes well for you, and good luck. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc

enemy territory lags badly

if anyone has had this problem and if they got it fixed ? I did some googling but have not come up with any answers, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: memory problem

. Cheers, Frank I hate to butt in but do you see better behavior and performance from say epiphany or galeon or some other browser ? -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Hmm...

and kids and computers. We usually host a lan part for new years but i just had surger so no lan party this year im afraid -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

phonon-gstreamer backend

4.4.3 on lenny does anyone have a fix for this thank you. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: debian standard tool for config services?

you boot up with works really nice -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: iPod

to get 58.7MB of archives. After unpacking 157MB will be used. That looks like pretty much everything to me, no? -- J -- thats not quite everything there is alot more -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

compiling issue

called I cant seem to find that either, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org Debian Lenny on amd64 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: compiling issue

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:50 +, Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:51:05 -0600, lostson (lost...@lostsonsvault.org) wrote: [ FYI - there seems to be something wrong with your digital signature ] Hello I am trying to compile a program on Debian Lenny but when compiling i

mugshot packages

Hello I was looking around for mugshot packages but no luck so far. It seems the only downloads on the actual mugshot site is through cvs. Does anyone know how to get mugshot working? I am using lenny btw, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

exim4 question

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Re: exim4 question

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br: lostson wrote: Hello I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for dummies section. I want to use mutt and when i send i want to use my providers smtp

Re: exim4 question

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:19:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:11:01AM -0600, lostson wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br: lostson wrote: Hello I have perused the docs

Re: exim4 question

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:18:35AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat December 20 2008, lostson wrote: First, try sending mail to yourself at your local box address.  Exim should make the appropriate /var/mail/$USER when it sends the mail. Your first time sending, mutt will tell you

Re: exim4 question

very new to debian and using lenny so am learning as I go, thanks again for all your help! -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

Simple go through your sources file and change etch to lenny. Then do a apt-get update then run apt-get dist-upgrade Worked like a charm for me. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: rhythmbox questions

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:30:52 -0700 Chris Burkhardt ch...@mretc.net wrote: lostson wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 18:31 -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: lostson wrote: Hello I am using Lenny and have noticed when starting rhythmbox that most of the plugins fail to load

rhythmbox questions

. Is there something I have missed perhaps, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Lenny sources.list example

://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secure by default?

. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secure by default?

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: http://samspade.org/d

upgraded to lenny

(malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I am not sure how to resolve this any ideas? thanks. Other than this everything went very well. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org signature.asc Description

Re: upgraded to lenny

On Thursday 01 May 2008 09:59:36 pm lostson wrote: Hello I upgraded to lenny and when trying to apt-get update i now get this Hit http://ftp.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry

Pinning ?

of some good documentation on this subject, thanks. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 03:09 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008 00:54:09 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 20/04/2008, lostson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I have qt4-config as well but that one

Qt4-config Qt4-designer

Hello I have installed qt4 qat4-config and qt4-designer, I can run them from command line but they do not show up in any of the menu's anywhere. Is this a bug or have i missed something somewhere, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org pgpPbej7ytVtI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: On 20/04/2008, lostson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have installed qt4 qat4-config and qt4-designer, I can run them from command line but they do not show up in any of the menu's anywhere. Is this a bug or have i missed something

nvidia driver question

out of say unstable or testing without completely modifying you current stable version ? I have read alot obout the Debian Way pro's and con's and am curious as to what and how. -- lostson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

then pretend that its GTK). :) Doug. I personally use sylpheed. -- lostson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

removing kde

Hello All I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling trying to find a way with no luck thanks. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

human engine ?

Hello Is it possible to get the human style and engine on Debian ? I have been googling trying to find an answer with no luck. Or maybe the glossy theme but I think that is included in gnome 2.18. I really like both of those styles and am curious if this is possible, thanks. LostSon

Re: etch setup and some questions

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 12:00 +0300, tejas wrote: lostson wrote: Hello I have recently converted my machines over to Debian and am very happy. A few things I would like to know though #1 I currently have gnome installed can I install KDE and remove gnome and if so how ? #2 I

etch setup and some questions

couldn't be happier!! I am sure I have more questions just can't remember them all, thanks ahead of time. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: can not login anymore with KDM

On Thursday 18 May 2006 18:04, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:06 -0500, lostson wrote: On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:50, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 20:47 +0800, Richard wrote: Hi i have a problem: i can not use KDM anymore to login to KDE I found in my

Re: can not login anymore with KDM

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Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:24 +1000, mustard lee wrote: lostson wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:02 +1000, mustard lee wrote: I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get upgrade prior

Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

things up. Personally I think it should pull in udev as well, but it doesnt. So be sure to upgrade udev and it will eliminate this problem. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Begin: Waiting for root filesystem

that driver is broken, too. Would explain why the install works - older kernel. C. Just did it it again, is the easiest way around this to just install an older kernel ?, thanks LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Begin: Waiting for root filesystem

Nelson Castillo wrote: again. WTF is going on. I had this problem with sid using an Intel 845GTP board and a Pentium D processor (with an PATA IDE disk). It used to happen when I tried a SMP version of the Linux kernel. It only worked with a 2.6.16 SMP kernel. -- http://arhuaco.org/ This

Begin: Waiting for root filesystem

bango hanging at the same message again. WTF is going on. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etch and several problems

with similiar problems. What does one do to combat this, I cant have my system breaking every other day where I have to reinstall or spend hours trying to figure out what went wrong, thanks. LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

wireless problems

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building linux-wlan-ng

Forwarded Message From: lostson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: building linux-wlan-ng Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:01:32 -0500 Hello I am trying to build linux-wlan-ng and i am using module-assistant when i get to the build stage i get

building linux-wlan-ng

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Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

don't have huge ascii art signatures. Ubuntu users apparently do. At least that's my unscientific observation based on a limited sample. :P Hey now wait a minute I am a debian user and I have the aliens on mine. Are these offensive in some way ?? -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org

updating with aptitude

update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===~-._ (___) \___/ I Want To Believe signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: updating with aptitude

Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to Begin: Waiting for root file system it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have

init editing

was talking about. Thanks for all the info so far, I may go as far as initNG but was looking for a much simpler solution. I just want to set it so certain things do run at boot time, thanks again. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo

Re: init editing

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:00 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:44:40 -0500, lostson wrote: I guess maybe I was misunderstood, maybe not who knows. My friend uses sarge and gnome. It was a small tool I guess nothing fancy. Mainly for turning things off at boot time

Re: init editing

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:01 -0500, John Hasler wrote: LostSon writes: I installed that and briefly looked at it, and it looks like thats exaclty what i was looking for. A way to enable or disable services at boot time, thanks. We might have mentioned Sysvconfig earlier, but you said you

Re: Does Audigy 2 / Audigy 2 ZS work in Debian?

I use a alsa 2ZS card and it works perfectly. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===~-._ (___) \___/ I Want To Believe signature.asc Description

init script editor

Hello I was talking to a friend of mine about speeding up the boot process and he said there was a nice gui init script editor for debian but couldnt remember the name. Anyone know the name of this tool, thanks. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo

irssi core dumps

Hello For the past few days irssi keeps dumping core files quite regularly. Has anyone encountered a fix for this problem, thanks. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo

kernel 2.4.27

I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. Will this pose any problems because im using the testing branch ?? -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org I Want To Believe pgpRqWtbc2H1c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel 2.4.27

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:07:40 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. 2.4.32 is the latest. 2.4.27 is 19 months old. Will this pose any problems because im using

Re: kernel 2.4.27

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:10:26 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:46 -0500, lostson wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:07:40 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: I am using debian testing and am

installing kde

Thought I would sit down and install KDE for fun today so i did a apt-get install kde apt-get does its thing and lists all the packages, then it tells me this LostSonMedia Change: Please insert the disc labelled ‘Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)’ in

evolution lockups

this either by downgrading or upgrading? Thanks. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libdvdcss

Where can i find a repo with libdvdcss so i can watch my dvds. I saw earlier someone looking for win32codecs as well. I need them both, thanks. LostSon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]