Wheezy: mouse middle button issue

Hello Forum ! Since a couple of day, the middle button of my magic mouse (USB) has experienced a major issue: I can more copy/past or open-in-new-tab. A deeper investigation with xev shows that button 2 is no more existing: any idea ? My box is a Wheezy box that is daily updated. Cheers, Jerome

Re: shell script removing log files.

On 22/12/14 19:51, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. for i in $( echo *.Log ); do /bin/rm $i; echo Removed $i. done In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or directory

xscreensavers: how to specify window dimensions

Hello List, let play with xscreensaver_s. If /usr/lib/xscreensaver/deco is lauched a window pop up: how can we specify the width and the height of the window ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

Hello, on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with update-flashplugin-nonfree I do not know if this update tool exist on Squeeze. hth, Jerome On 09/02/15 16:32, antispammbox-debian wrote: Hi all It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze? Thanks Regards -- To

Re: javaws

will enjoy this! Plus, you get version updates automagically. It really doesn't get any better. I just tried your link, and it fired up the first time. Note that the Debian package java-package allows to create your own Oracle Java debbals. Cheers, Jerome Ric -- Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D

Re: javaws

Hi, On 17/04/15 10:31, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/17/2015 04:06 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, On 17/04/15 09:53, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/17/2015 03:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote: Just notice /etc

Re: javaws

Hi, On 17/04/15 09:53, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/17/2015 03:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote: Just notice /etc/alternatives/javaws - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws change to 7 works. If you're going

Re: Jessie and /var

Hello Petter, On 04/04/15 09:23, Petter Adsen wrote: I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume sizes about right when I first set them up. VM images and containers are stored under /var - is there

very naive question iPad as extra monitor

Hello Forum: Does anyone know a working way to use an iPad as extra monitor with Debian ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: Wlan

Bonjour Stephan: debian-user@lists.debian.org is an English spoken forum: you may either expose your issue in English or send your issue to the corresponding German forum. Bonne chance, Jerome On 11/07/15 13:25, stephan roehling wrote: Hallo, meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden.

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

Hi, On 15/09/15 23:43, Bartek wrote: > Still searching for a fix to stream TV via Hulu. Worked fine with > Chrome/pepperflash and Iceweasal/flash until about mid-July, around the > release time of Windows 10. Hulu indicates that with Linux, HAL is > needed. My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

Hello Fernando: I am not sure that the debian-user forum is the best place for your message: what I mean is that you may want to target better. The debian-user forum is meant for end users who are not responsible for the content of the packages. First, you may want to make a bugreport for the

TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

Hello Forum: Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ? Is there any alternative ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

Hello Tomas: On 18/01/16 20:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello Forum: > >> Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ? >> Is there any alternative ? > > I didn't find one i

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

Hello Charlie: On 26/02/16 03:53, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have to also switch > away from Debian. Is it not an extreme attitude ? There are plenty of web browser around: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers Be aware that the list

Re: how to install debian on iMac

Hello: On 20/02/16 23:13, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote: > >> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac >> with Fusion drive? >> >> The basic configuration is >> >> • 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor,

Re: how to install debian on iMac

On 21/02/16 00:53, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net> > wrote: > >> There is a Debian website dedicated to MacBookPro machines. >> Ubuntu also provides information. > > Thanks! This may be

Re: computer cann't shut down

Hello Forum: On 20/03/16 04:42, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: >> shutdown -h now >> >> doesn't work. it still reboot. >> > This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the > Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment. Though I have not had

texdoctk: how to set Button colours ?

Hello Forum, whenever I launch texdoctk(1), I get the message: NOTE: Button colours not set in /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults; using defaults. Any hint on how to fix this ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Fwd: Error in Linux Debian

Hello Juan, welcome to Debian. Your question is a Debian User question, so I redirect it to the debian-user list. Best, Jerome Forwarded Message Subject:Error in Linux Debian Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:17:56 -0300 From: Juan Carlos Cangiano

Re: graphviz: pdf output with vectorial fonts

Hello Debian users, On 24/07/17 19:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Forum, > > my pdf outputs with dot are ugly: while boxes and edges are vectorial, > text is in pixel: in short I have a font issue. > I am looking for a vectorial (scalabe ?) font ? > It might be a configuratio

graphviz: pdf output with vectorial fonts

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Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

Hello Debian Users, I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch. I encountered a few little issues that I could fixed easily. Nevertheless, so far, I failed to fixed one of them, and a very annoying one. During Xfce sessions, at random time my screen is filled with piece of outdated

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

Hi Johann, thanks for your reply. On 27/07/17 10:14, Johann Spies wrote: > On 27 July 2017 at 07:52, Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net> wrote: >> Hello Debian Users, >> >> I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch. >> I encountered a few

Stretch: merkaartor: is it working ?

Hello Forum, I have just tried merkaartor on my Stretch box: so far I cannot make it works as within Jessie: does anyone observed the same ? Any hint is welcome. Thanks, Jerome

how take a xscreensaver/deco image as backgound image

Hello List, I use deco as xscreesaver and I would like to take one of its random image as (static) background: is there a simple way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

Indeed :-) Thanks a lot for your prompt reply On 28/06/17 20:52, Apurv Jyotirmay wrote: > For me it has always been with holding "alt" key and use scroll wheel. Try it. > -Apurv > > On Jun 28, 2017 22:13, "Jerome BENOIT" <sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net >

Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

Hello Forum, I have recently migrated from Jessie to Stretch. I have a couple of minor issues. One of them concern Xfce: some time my fingers seem to do a combination of keys that magnifies the screen: I got a floating desktop environment that is lager than my actual screen. Does any know the

Stretch: RUNPATH seems no more taken into account

Hi Again, I migrated from Jessie to Stretch a few days ago. I have just realised that the RUNPATH (as printed by `chrpath -l`) of one of my local program is no more taken into account. I rebuilt it, but the issue remains. Any idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

father" name, you can just add /usr/bin/im/ to your PATH. > We can also add the prefix im- to each executable. For instance, the tools coming with the nauty package are prefixed with nauty- to avoid name collision. Jerome > > Stefan > -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low. small

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

Thanks for your reply. On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). >> >> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]:

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

On 15/01/18 13:32, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > Recently I have to reinstall my system. > Most of things works OOTB, but I cannot make Acrobat Reader (9.5.5) to > work. > Stracing shows segmentation fault (catched) in main thread. > Worse thing is, on second computer with the same libraries(and the

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

Hello, On 15/01/18 16:32, Carl Fink wrote: > On 01/15/2018 06:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >> On 15/01/18 13:32, Kamil Jońca wrote: >>> Recently I have to reinstall my system. >>> Most of things works OOTB, but I cannot make Acrobat Reader (9.5.5) to >>

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

t looks like. > Jerome > Regards > Johann > -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upset with debian performance

: > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/terrible-audio-problems-4175640263/ > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > Cheers, Jerome (unmasked) -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upset with debian performance

Dear Joe, On 13/10/18 13:46, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:55:47 +0400 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Dear Mask, >> > >> >> this is a User list. >> > >> >> Feel free to submit relevant bug reports to the package maintainers, &g

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Hello, On 22/02/2019 14:39, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:12 pm, Andrea Borgia wrote: >> Hi, Sam. >> >> Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should >> be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing". >> If you decide to use

Re: Wondering how long it usually takes for a package to move from stable-p-u

Hello, On 11/04/2019 05:59, Luke Picciau wrote: > I have been tracking this package > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ca-certificates-java for about a month > because the package version 20170929~deb9u1 which is in stable has a bug > which is blocking my docker image builds. Version

Re: install debian on latest Macbook pro

Hello Lina, On 12/04/2019 02:44, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to install the Debian on latest MacBook Pro, I found the > keyboard and the touchpad does not work. > > It is just the beginning, I know I will meet lots of problems, > > Is there any link providing the information how to

How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

Hello, How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ? In fact I would like to know if tarball compress with plzip are rsyncable ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

Hello Etienne, thanks for your reply. On 22/06/2019 16:35, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Jerome Benoit, on 2019-06-22: >> How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ? >> >> In fact I would like to know if tarball compress with plzip >> are rsyncable ? > >

Re: Please help delete printer job

Hi, On 13/06/2019 18:31, Dan Ritter wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi... >> >> by mistake I told my Samsung ML-1925 to print a large document and don't >> manage >> to cancel that... I tried with the `cancel' command, also lprm, and also >> from >> within web browser print management...

Re: Keyboard not responding after exiting X

On 20/05/2019 13:42, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > >> On Mon 20 May 2019 at 06:15:57 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> In order to have PDFtoMusic properly installed and work (see thread >>> `PDFtoMusic installation') I had to do a full-upgrade to unstable. >>> Everything is ok now

merkaartor: annoying merkaartor.log in HOME

Hello List, each time I read an OSM data file with merkaartor, a (very) annoying merkaartor.log is let in my HOME directory. How can we get rid of it ? or get it elsewhere ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

plotutils: graph -TX: small

Hi, I am using graph from the plotutils(1) package in order to have a quick plot. The X output format is small on my hightresolution screen (MacBookPro retina): how can I make it bigger ? I am looking for a permanent configuration. Thanks in advance, Jerome

hyperlinks in PDF open thunderbird instead of firefox

Hello All, I have just noticed that when I click on an hyperlink in a PDF then thunderbird shows up instead of firefox. I guess it s related to the recent update of thunderbird. What is the best way to fix this annoying issue ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Re: Newcomer Problem: Synaptic

Hello Das, On 03/01/2020 12:06, das wrote: > Hello Friends: > > I am using Debian for four or five days only and obviously I did > something stupide while installing and trying to learn the system. > > When I am using Synaptic can clicking 'update', it is giving me this > error message > << >

Re: Newcomer Problem: Synaptic

Hello Das, On 03/01/2020 13:09, das wrote: >> >> You are mixing Ubuntu with Debian here: we cannot install Ubuntu packages on >> Debian (and vice versa). >> You have to choose either Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to play with ppa >> stuff, you must choose Ubuntu. >> If you want to stick to

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

Hi, this looks as a bibtex issue: did you update the bst ? Otherwise, did you try to compose out of TeX Studio, for instance with command lines or latexmk ? Cheers, Jerome On 28/06/2021 03:05, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/27/21 2:41 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote: Issuing bug on

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

Hello, my guess was that the bbl must be updated. Namely, compose with apsrev4-2.bst (or one among the others). I would check which one is actually used in the aux or blg file, and I would check which one is actually pickup with kpsewhich(1). For instance, you can try from a terminal: kpsewhich

Re: computer screen blink

Hi, you may fist determine if it is a hardware issue or a software issue. Some Mac screens are known to flicker after a while. What is your computer ? Can you boot on Windows/MacOS to see if the same thing happens ? Knowing your hardware may help a lot. hth, Jerome On 21/10/2021 10:51, lina

Re: Debian

Hi Courtney, latest Mac are not well, if not at all, supported by Linux. You may try to install Debian on a PC (or an old supported mac) instead. hth, Jerome On 19/10/2021 13:11, courtneyxshort wrote: Hello, I am a Computer Science Masters student and part of my degree involves me

Re: Debian

on the Debian-User list, you must be more specific on what you really want to do: technical terms are here important. Best, Jerome -- Original Message -- From: "Jerome BENOIT" To: "courtneyxshort" ; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Chemfig Latex compile program

Hello Lina, can you provide a more minimal sample that reproduce the error ? Best wishes, Jerome On 08/10/2021 15:59, lina wrote: Hi, When I updated the system, the following .tex code does not work, it shows the error likes this:

Re: Executar um programa no modo gráfico no momento da inicialização do Debian

Bonjour, please note that is an English spoken list. Best wishes, Jerome On 04/10/2021 15:14, Amarildo Machoski wrote: Bom dia... Primeiramente gostaria de agradecer em participar, espero também porder colaborar. Como é a primeira vez que estou mandando uma dúvida não sei se estou fazendo de

Re: computer screen blink

]  nouveau_gem_object_delete_work+0x36/0x60 [nouveau] [86845.159526]  nouveau_cli_work+0xcc/0x120 [nouveau]  #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:23 AM Jerome BENOIT mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> wrote: Hi Lina, so you are mainly p

Re: computer screen blink

My mistake, you are using the stable Debian: you may replace the buster-backports by bullseye-backports Jerome On 22/10/2021 11:47, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi Lina, your Debian is actually the old-stable (Buster). You may consider to upgrade to the new stable (Bullseye) since you seem to use

Re: computer screen blink

                                 save_vmload vgif umip rdpid overflow_recov succ                                  or smca On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:04 AM Jerome BENOIT mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> wrote: Hi, you may fist determine if it is a hardware issue or a software issue. Some Mac screens are

Re: computer screen blink

r_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx > cpb cat >                                  _l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate sme ssbd mba sev ibpb > stib >                                  p vmmcall sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep > bmi2 c >                               

Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

to pursue long-term solutions so that you aren't stuck with a perpetual out-of-date buster environment for this one program. Cheers, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36

Re: Package: nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver

ts > to using Waylan - if you are at the login prompt, you can choose which > session is loaded by clicking on the cogwheel. Wayland, with a "d".  This is also true for Debian 10 (buster). -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?

Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

r your help, lina -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: which package is good for making poster

Hello, On 02/11/2021 10:45, lina wrote: Hi all, I have to prepare a poster, I wonder which package is good for this work, You may consider the beamerposter LaTeX package. I can print it out in several papers and attach them together later. If transportation of A0 poster is an issue, an

Re: which package is good for making poster

On 02/11/2021 11:29, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, On 02/11/2021 10:45, lina wrote: Hi all, I have to prepare a poster, I wonder which package is good for this work, You may consider the beamerposter LaTeX package. Actually, I recently used the tikzposter LaTeX package: https

Re: which package is good for making poster

some text. mick -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

Hi, have you tried the basic xterm ? Cheers, Jerome On 26/10/2021 16:08, lina wrote: Hi, Once upgraded to the new system, I found that they would gather the same app in one tab. Such as Xfce terminal all in one, I want them to be listed one by one, not to be degenerated into one. Thanks

Re: User group "users"

On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason to have it? >From old Unix

Re: Which Program does WebKitWebProcess belong to

Hi, you want to play with apt-file. Cheers, Jerome On 26/05/2022 22:43, tmcconnell...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I'm getting high CPU usage from WebKitWebProcess (50% or higher) on my machine and would like to know how to find what is being a CPU hog, for one. And how to report it? Thanks in

jupyter-qtconsole, turtle, and Xfce: unresponsive turtle console

Hello Debian Users, I am playing with jupyter-qtconsole in Xfce. Debian is Debain version 11.4. When I launch a turple from the jupyter-qtconsole, I get a turtle console as expected. And I can move the turtle around. However, when I switch to another workspace and then come back to the

Re: Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

On 06/01/2023 11:38, Ken Heard wrote: When I try to do so I receive the following message: [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 091EE1D5633F19F2 16 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit

Re: file server

Hello, On 12/07/2023 13:48, lina wrote: Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished analyzing, I can just remove it. Do you want a `scratch space` [1] ? What can be also interesting to know is whether you can compress your data. Best wishes, Jerome [1]

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

Hi, can we efficiently jail zoom ? Jerome On 19/12/2023 11:28, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/12/23 17:53, John Conover wrote: Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? Thanks, John Are you aware of Zoom using video calls for spying on, and, collecting personal information

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