Broadcom b43 driver

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
Problem fixed... Rebooting is a wondrous thing!! I ended up re-installing the original jessie kernel to get rid of my bull in the china shop hacking, then re-installed the firmware-b43-installer. Then with things back the way they should be, I rebootedLife is good, wifi is on the air. I

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-04 Thread Martin Read
On 05/06/15 00:27, Tomas Nordin wrote: I have forced installed latest version of gettext: $ dpkg --list gettext ... ii gettext 0.19.3-2~bpo70 i386 GNU ... but the previous version is run by calls: $ gettext --version gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.1 ... What do I do

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-06-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/03/2015 11:55 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:41:49 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: On 05/25/2015 11:16 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: iperf will use either TCP or UDP. :) Petter Well, I'm back I used iperf3 as follows: iperf3 -c iperf.scottlinux.com The program just hang

Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-04 Thread Tomas Nordin
Hi $ uname -a Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 i686 GNU/Linux I have forced installed latest version of gettext: $ dpkg --list gettext ... ii gettext 0.19.3-2~bpo70 i386 GNU ... but the previous version is run by calls: $ gettext --version gette

32to64 decision

2015-06-04 Thread Mailing Lists
i have an old small office server providing dhcp/dns/squid/custom cyrus debs/postfix/samba services which at the time of lenny did not have enough ram to choose the 64bit version. now that i've managed to get more ram into it i'd like to migrate it to 64bit. nothing really requires 64bit but rather

Broadcom b43 Drivers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the old driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the message: insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Invalid module format This has not happened in the past, it just installed and worked fine.] -- JM

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> Just for fun: could you check with >> >> xdpyinfo | grep resolution >> >> what DPI value is reported on your system and in the VM? > Both report "96x96 dots per inch". Interesting. Strange. But ... oh well, the work-around works. Grüße, Sven. --

Broadcom b43 drivers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
OK, I probably have my system all messed up. Here's the sequence of events: Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130 chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the legacy 304xx driver, so I followed all the instructions on the wiki for i

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Sven Hartge wrote: > Just for fun: could you check with > > xdpyinfo | grep resolution > > what DPI value is reported on your system and in the VM? Both report "96x96 dots per inch". mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
On 05.06.2015 00:24, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Pinning the DPI setting in Appearance>Fonts to a fixed value >> instead of letting it auto detect the value fixed that for me. > Yes, that worked for me, too. Thanks! Just for fun: could you check with xdpyinfo | grep resolution what DPI value is r

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Sven Hartge wrote: > Pinning the DPI setting in Appearance>Fonts to > a fixed value instead of letting it auto detect the value fixed that for > me. Yes, that worked for me, too. Thanks! mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: pendrive permissions

2015-06-04 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 04:20:25PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > I use debian testing with mate desktop. How can I handles pendrive > permissions? When I put in a pendrive, caja (mate window manager) can't > mount it with this error message "unable to mount. Not authorized to perform >

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/04/2015 05:44 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: On 06/03/2015 09:55 AM, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:04:13PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at all. So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not really be

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 00:43:51 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 17:36:01 -0400 > German wrote: > > > > > > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a > > > > > > > while I got banned for no obvious reason. So I have > > > > > > > decided to create another account with

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:49:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2015 22:33:41 German wrote: > > Sorry, but this is a private information. That breaks my privacy > > Then don't discuss it here. > > People who bypass email blacklistings are very annoying. You have > presumably been b

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 June 2015 22:33:41 German wrote: > Sorry, but this is a private information. That breaks my privacy Then don't discuss it here. People who bypass email blacklistings are very annoying. You have presumably been blacklisted because the list doesn't want you. Lisi -- To UNSUBS

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger >> characters in several places, including >> >> - xfwm4 titlebar >> - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet >> - Xfce application menu >> - Xfce logout dialog > [...] >> The VM wa

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/03/2015 09:55 AM, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:04:13PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at all. So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not really be a problem in this situation. I see I've spark

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 17:36:01 -0400 German wrote: > > > > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I > > > > > > got banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create > > > > > > another account with a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and > > > > > > continue to do

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/03/2015 04:48 PM, John Hasler wrote: Renaud writes: Which certainly taught you the hard way to draw one (or several) diagonal pencil or ink lines across the top of your card deck... Or to number your cards so that you could simply run a scrambled deck through the card sorter. That's c

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger > characters in several places, including > > - xfwm4 titlebar > - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet > - Xfce application menu > - Xfce logout dialog [...] > The VM was previously updated on June 1st

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 00:05:57 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 15:37:12 -0400 > German wrote: > > > > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I > > > > > got banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create > > > > > another account with a free prox

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 15:51:08 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > German writes: > > Right, but already tried to post through proxy. And now I have found > > list of IP proxy which can be configured through browser. I still > > have the same message that I can't post. I doubt that they know > > this proxy

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 15:53:20 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > German writes: > > I still think that it is nothing to do with proxies. Might that be > > that my computer name is filtered or as I said earlier the whole > > linux system is subject to filtering? > > Tell us what this forum is so that we c

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 15:37:12 -0400 German wrote: > > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another > > > > account with a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and continue to do > > > > some conversati

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread John Hasler
German writes: > I still think that it is nothing to do with proxies. Might that be > that my computer name is filtered or as I said earlier the whole linux > system is subject to filtering? Tell us what this forum is so that we can try it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA --

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread John Hasler
German writes: > Right, but already tried to post through proxy. And now I have found > list of IP proxy which can be configured through browser. I still have > the same message that I can't post. I doubt that they know this proxy > address, it is not free web based address. If you can find that l

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 June 2015 20:34:19 German wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:02:34 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jun 2015 at 13:21:09 -0400, German wrote: > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create anothe

Re: much longer boot time with jessie

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
David Wright wrote: > $ systemd-analyze blame > 36.727s wicd.service > 22.102s binfmt-support.service > 20.789s alsa-restore.service > 20.618s lm-sensors.service > 20.565s systemd-logind.service > 20.471s rsyslog.service > 20.468s rc-

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 June 2015 14:39:01 notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-04 11:41 AM, Matthew Chong wrote: > > Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), > > iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some > > time after I restarted gdm, then I just gave up and

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > That at least got me the menu items I was looking for. > > I'm about to do a reinstall from scratch for other problems. More later. > > The great thing about Debian, is

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:12:44 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:29:43 +0200 > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 13:21 -0400, German wrote: > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decide

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: That at least got me the menu items I was looking for. I'm about to do a reinstall from scratch for other problems. More later. The great thing about Debian, is that you *don't* have to do a reinstall. What

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:02:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Jun 2015 at 13:21:09 -0400, German wrote: > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another > > account with a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and

send logs in plain text NOT as a .doc file (was ...Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze)

2015-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:39:01PM +0200, notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-04 11:41 AM, Matthew Chong wrote: > > Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), > > iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some time > > after I restarted gdm, then I just gav

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:29:43 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 13:21 -0400, German wrote: > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got banned > > for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another account with > > a free proxy, cleaned my co

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > That at least got me the menu items I was looking for. > I'm about to do a reinstall from scratch for other problems. More later. The great thing about Debian, is that you *don't* have to do a reinstall. What problem are you havi

Re: much longer boot time with jessie

2015-06-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > Am 04.06.2015 um 06:59 schrieb David Wright: > > $ systemd-analyze blame > > 1min 13.144s acpi-support.service > > Can you please try and uninstall and purge > the following packages (not typically needed with jessie anyway) > > acpid > acpi-support

Re: practical difference between "main" and "contrib"/"non-free" package sections

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. Please refrain from personal e-mail. It's considered inapproprate here. I'm sending this e-mail to the list and suggesting you to do the same with your original e-mail. On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 21:38:15 +0300 Mister EpicMannow wrote: > Thank you for your explanation. > I understand now, what pro

mate-system-tools is answer -was [Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?]

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
lostson wrote: [snip] Richard Owlett wrote: With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under System->Administration->Users and Groups . Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie? [snip] apt-get install mate-system-tools will get you what you are looking for.

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Jun 2015 at 13:21:09 -0400, German wrote: > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got banned > for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another account with > a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and continue to do some conversations > with a members with whi

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:36:24 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:29:43 +0200 > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another > > > account with a free p

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Ron
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:29:43 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got banned > > for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another account with > > a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and continue to do some conversations > > with a me

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Martin Read
On 04/06/15 18:34, German wrote: Ok, how is that possible to detect the proxy? People maintain lists of known proxy servers, and some proxy server software probably has a detectable "fingerprint". And Tor is some sort of software you can use from linux? Tor is a (quite famous - it even ge

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:51:49 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > German writes: > > Ok, how is that possible to detect the proxy? > > There are published lists of the IPs of known proxies. > > > And Tor is some sort of software you can use from linux? > > apt-cache show tor Ok, thank you -- To UNSU

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread John Hasler
German writes: > Ok, how is that possible to detect the proxy? There are published lists of the IPs of known proxies. > And Tor is some sort of software you can use from linux? apt-cache show tor -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread John Hasler
German writes: > The message I got was that I am not permitted to post. So, I believe > that the server can identify me somehow. It isn't identifying you. It is identifying the proxy. It is quite common to block proxies since trolls and spammers use them frequently. -- John Hasler jhas...@new

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:29:43 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 13:21 -0400, German wrote: > > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got > > banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another > > account with a free proxy, cleaned my cookies

Re: A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 13:21 -0400, German wrote: > I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got banned > for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another account with > a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and continue to do some conversations > with a members with which I

A little of topic: security and anonymity question

2015-06-04 Thread German
I had some discussion on some message board. After a while I got banned for no obvious reason. So I have decided to create another account with a free proxy, cleaned my cookies and continue to do some conversations with a members with which I have enjoyed talking. I successfully created account wit

Re: Varius Default settings

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 07:19 -0400, Ron Benincasa wrote: > Since I installed Jesse, programs always seem to open full screen, > how/where can I change the default behavior so that they come up in size > and position they were when closed. Also how do I change the default > settings on filemanager s

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 15:39 +0200, notoneofmy wrote: > On 15-06-04 11:41 AM, Matthew Chong wrote: > > Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), > > iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some time > > after I restarted gdm, then I just gave up an

Re: practical difference between "main" and "contrib"/"non-free" package sections

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:15:36 +0300 Alexander wrote: > Hello. It is said on the Debian website, that contrib and non-free > packages get security updates whenever it is possible, some of these > packages are maintained by official Debian teams (for example, > firmware-linux-nonfree is mai

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:51:34 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Or, closer to what you actually wanted, you could take a look at the > >> package "kuser". Obviously, it's intended for use with KDE, so it will > >> drag in some KDE/Qt libraries if you do not already have them. I > >> couldn't

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
lostson wrote: On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 14:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 04 June 2015 12:26:03 Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users adminis

stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger characters in several places, including - xfwm4 titlebar - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet - Xfce application menu - Xfce logout dialog But the Xfce settings dialogs (Appearance, Window Manager) say that the font setti

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under System->Administration->Users and Groups . Is there such a tool available for Mate u

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under System->Administration->Users and Groups . Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie? I know this isn't what you're asking for, but y

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread lostson
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 14:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2015 12:26:03 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 > > > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-04 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-04 11:41 AM, Matthew Chong wrote: > Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), > iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some time > after I restarted gdm, then I just gave up and rebooted, after that the > issue gone away. I have had to r

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 June 2015 12:26:03 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under > > > System->Administration->User

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under > > System->Administration->Users and Groups . > > > > Is there such a tool available for M

Varius Default settings

2015-06-04 Thread Ron Benincasa
Since I installed Jesse, programs always seem to open full screen, how/where can I change the default behavior so that they come up in size and position they were when closed. Also how do I change the default settings on filemanager so that it automatically shows hidden files and in list mode. I c

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
Nicolas George [2015-06-04 11:35:47+02] wrote: > Le sextidi 16 prairial, an CCXXIII, Teemu Likonen a écrit : >> oma:2:once:/bin/su -l dtw -c /usr/bin/startx /dev/tty8 2>&1 >> So how do I get similar functionality with the new systemd init >> system? > > Someone recently suggested to use "nodm

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-04 Thread Matthew Chong
Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some time after I restarted gdm, then I just gave up and rebooted, after that the issue gone away. On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 at 6:56 am notoneofmy wrote: > I've attached

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2015-06-04 12:26:08+03] wrote: > Upto Debian 7 I have had this line in my /etc/fstab file: > > oma:2:once:/bin/su -l dtw -c /usr/bin/startx /dev/tty8 2>&1 Obviously I meant /etc/inittab file. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-04 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 16 prairial, an CCXXIII, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > Upto Debian 7 I have had this line in my /etc/fstab file: > > oma:2:once:/bin/su -l dtw -c /usr/bin/startx /dev/tty8 2>&1 > > It seems that it has no effect anymore in Debian 8 (Jessie), probably > because of the new init system (s

Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
Hi! When my machine boots it logs in to X session automatically without user login and password prompt. (This is a single-user system with encrypted Luks partitions and I always enter Luks password when the machine boots. I'm the only person in the world who knows the Luks password so this is why

Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under > System->Administration->Users and Groups . > > Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie? I know this isn't what you're asking for, but you could have a

Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-04 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS. The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX & DNS amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so I can't just copy the vm file/container. As a start, I would do a full tar archive of t

practical difference between "main" and "contrib"/"non-free" package sections

2015-06-04 Thread Alexander
Hello. It is said on the Debian website, that contrib and non-free packages get security updates whenever it is possible, some of these packages are maintained by official Debian teams (for example, firmware-linux-nonfree is maintained by Debian Kernel Team). Seems like the only practical diffe

Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under System->Administration->Users and Groups . Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma