Re: MATE/Compiz
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:36 PM IL Ka wrote: > > But how do I automate that so Compiz starts every time I log in? >> > > Hi. I am not familiar with compiz, but here are some ideas. > If you install MATE Tweak (it will appear in the Control Center), there's an option under "Windows" to select the window manager (select "Compiz..."). You can also install fusion-icon to get this choice. Fusion-icon appears as "Compiz Fusion Icon" under Accessories in the main menu, and shows an icon in the upper-right app tray). If you want to take it a step further and use the Emerald window decorator (install emerald, emerald-themes), choose "Select Window Decorator" in fusion-icon. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
MATE window list
I switched to MATE w/Compiz (on Bullseye) a few weeks ago and I'm really
liking it. I love the exotic effects, like windows turning into paper
airplanes and flying away when you close them. But I have a problem with
the airplanes: when I hover over an item in the window list (a.k.a. task
bar), I get a thumbnail of the app, and when I mouse away... it turns into
a paper airplane and flies away! Love the airplanes, but that's a bit much.
I know it's MATE and not Compiz that's doing the thumbnails, because in
Compiz Config under Extras, Window Previews are disabled, and if I enable
them, I get *two* thumbnails from the window list. So is there a way to
disable MATE from showing these thumbnails?
It looks like this may have been added in MATE 1.24 (which I'm running),
based on this URL:
https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2020-02-10-mate-1-24-released/
("The *window list* applet now supports window thumbnails on hover.")
--
Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
"After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
MATE/Compiz
I'm getting fed up with effects crashes in KDE Plasma, so I just did a test install of Bullseye with MATE and added the Compiz packages. I've got everything working (even windows folding up into a paper airplane and flying away when they close), but my question is how to start Compiz. The Debian wiki page for Compiz says to use "compiz --replace", and that works for me. But how do I automate that so Compiz starts every time I log in? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: pygopherd
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:08 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:25:12 -0600 > Glenn Holmer wrote: > > >Is it just for lack of a maintainer? Does it have to do with the Python > >3 migration? > > Did you look at the reason(s) for removal? Pretty much all the info you > require is there. > The info I was hoping to find is in this thread: https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2020/11/msg9.html -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
pygopherd
I see that pygopherd (gopher server) is removed from the repo: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pygopherd Is it just for lack of a maintainer? Does it have to do with the Python 3 migration? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: favorites disappear from application menu
I recently upgraded to Debian Testing (fresh install, following the instructions on the wiki), and I'm still seeing this issue. Anybody else? On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 9:19 AM Glenn Holmer wrote: > I continue to have this problem, and have submitted a bug report. If > anyone else is experiencing this, please add any information that may be > helpful. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949298 > -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Debian is testing Discourse
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 3:45 AM Reco wrote: > [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: > > So, thoughts, options? > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html > -1 to newfangled fol-de-rol -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
favorites disappear from application menu
I continue to have this problem, and have submitted a bug report. If anyone else is experiencing this, please add any information that may be helpful. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949298 -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Python 3 as default
Is it safe to set Python 3 as the default in Buster, or are there system programs that still need to run under Python 2? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: favorites in KDE menu disappear
> > I have my menu set to the "Application Menu" option, with just two > favorites set up: system settings and Dolphin. But every so often (maybe > once a week or so), those favorites just disappear from the left side of > the menu and I have to add them back again. > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:06 AM bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: ehjkh_...@mail.gmail.com> > > That's not good if the containment stuff is going screwy again, that was a > bad problem last ver. Does it seem to happen when you add widgets? Do > you have a lot of widgets or desktop icons and things? > No Plasma widgets on the screen at all, desktop set to "Desktop" layout with eight virtual desktops. My setup is stable; I've had it just the way I want it for quite some time, so it's hard to imagine what the trigger for this could be. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
favorites in KDE menu disappear
Running Debian Buster w/KDE, fully up-to-date. I have my menu set to the "Application Menu" option, with just two favorites set up: system settings and Dolphin. But every so often (maybe once a week or so), those favorites just disappear from the left side of the menu and I have to add them back again. Anybody else seeing this? Know of a solution? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 8:12 PM Michael Stone wrote: > Putting grub in a directory other than "EFI/debian" does allow for > multiple OSs to have their own boot loaders which can be started from > the UEFI boot menu. (E.g., you could have EFI/stretch, EFI/centos7, > EFI/sid, etc.) In this case I would still keep the efi partition mounted > on /boot/efi to reduce long-term confusion. I'd also add new directories > instead of trying to keep multiple versions of debian from overwriting > the debian directory. Do you know how to do this? I've had quite a bit of difficulty just adding new boot entries to EFI, including bizarre results like my newly-added boot entry not appearing after reboot but both PXE entries (IPV4/6) being duplicated. I've been using efibootmgr from within Linux as well as bcfg from the EFI shell. I've been trying in a VM with both stretch and buster installed (both use the vendor directory "\EFI\debian)" as well as on my new laptop with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio installed (both use the vendor directory "\EFI\ubuntu"). I was able to install GRUB to a new EFI directory (e.g. "ubustu" for Ubuntu Studio), but I was left with the impression that there was something hard-coded that was overriding the specification of vendor directory (--bootloader-id in grub-install) when creating the EFI boot entry (e.g. the "ubustu" entry booted Ubuntu, not Ubuntu Studio). In practice, I suppose it doesn't matter because the most recently installed GRUB will contain menu items to boot both operating systems, but I am relatively new to EFI and want to learn it thoroughly. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: netbeans crashing on testing/sid
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:59 AM, rudu <r...@cegetel.net> wrote: > Thank you very much Glenn, this was all I needed to know to come back on track. > Do you know if/when a package will be in the sid/testing repositories ? (For easier updates) Still can't post from ce...@kolabnow.com so I'll repeat from this address: I don't know if there are any plans for that, but I don't see it as necessary. NetBeans has its own update center and will notify you when updates are available. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
trouble posting
I've been subscribed to this list from a different address for some time and receive messages properly, but the few posts I make from that address never appear on the list. Can anyone help me diagnose this? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
odd screen corruption in VNC
Setting up VNC, both machines running Debian Stretch with MATE (no VMs involved). Using tightvncserver, and xtightvncviewer as well as vinagre as client. In both cases I see some corruption of the upper MATE panel with red circles containing a number or letter. Anyone have any idea what this is from? The remote desktop appears to function normally in every way I've tested. Here's a screenshot: https://www.lyonlabs.org/panel-corrupt.png -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: konsole blinking screen with irssi when ssh'd to NetBSD
On 06/25/2017 02:34 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:51:01PM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote: >> I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH >> into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the >> entire screen blinks on and off about once a second. This is from my >> Debian Stretch box running KDE, with konsole as terminal and bash as >> shell. >> >> I've got another machine here that runs GNOME (under Fedora); I tried >> the same thing using gnome-terminal and the screen didn't blink when I >> started irssi. >> >> Can anyone offer some suggestions to solve this? > > It might be as simple as a bad terminal description. What is $TERM set > to? Try setting it to something different (TERM=xterm irssi -or- > TERM=vt100 irssi) and see if that fixes things. Sorry, answer was supposed to go to the list: Thanks, that worked (SSH to freeshell.org, then "TERM=xterm irssi"). -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
konsole blinking screen with irssi when ssh'd to NetBSD
I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the entire screen blinks on and off about once a second. This is from my Debian Stretch box running KDE, with konsole as terminal and bash as shell. I've got another machine here that runs GNOME (under Fedora); I tried the same thing using gnome-terminal and the screen didn't blink when I started irssi. Can anyone offer some suggestions to solve this? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...
On 03/14/2017 01:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > There USED TO BE a lot of demand for a choice of installer at init time > - from pretty much all of us who object to systemd. Nobody listened, > eventually people gave up, and a lot moved to other distros. Really? How many people switched away from Debian over systemd? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: User-oriented backup tools
On 02/16/2017 10:34 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 14:50, Hans wrote: > Ok, now I'm trying back-in-time. After some setting up, it's working and > copying 60+ GB from my Home to the external usb3 drive. And it's quite fast! I've been using backintime for years and am very satisfied with it. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Dolphin symlink previews
On 02/04/2017 11:13 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote: > Debian testing with KDE here, all patches applied. > > I've got a directory full of images, some of which are symlinks. I have > Dolphin set to display previews for image files, but previews aren't > showing up for symlinks. How can I get previews for them? Ha! Never mind, I'd broken the symlinks by moving the originals. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Dolphin symlink previews
Debian testing with KDE here, all patches applied. I've got a directory full of images, some of which are symlinks. I have Dolphin set to display previews for image files, but previews aren't showing up for symlinks. How can I get previews for them? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
SDDM doesn't start
Debian unstable w/KDE, all patches applied. When I boot the machine, I get a console rather than X. I see the following in ~/.xsession-errors: klauncher: Exiting on signal 15 The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" after 260379 requests (260379 known processed) with 0 events remaining. QDBusAbstractAdaptor: Cannot relay signal KDEDModule::moduleDeleted(KDEDModule*): Pointers are not supported: KDEDModule* The "cannot relay signal" message is repeated numerous times. If I issue "systemctl restart sddm", the desktop comes up normally. This is repeatable; it happens on every boot and restarting sddm always brings up the desktop. I had the NVIDIA drivers running, but removed them in favor of nouveau. lsmod shows that nouveau is loaded. This didn't make a difference. How can I diagnose and correct this? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: installing firmware during stretch install
On 09/24/2016 03:32 PM, pcr1 wrote: > Hi. I am trying to install stretch onto my AMD64 box using wifi. During > install I get a missing firmware message asking me to supply > rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2fw on removable media. I found rtl8168g-2fw on my > laptop in lib/firmware/rtl_nic and copied it to a folder I labled > rtl_nic on a flash drive. Then I ran the install again on my AMD box > and clicked yes when asked for the missing firmware after I plugged in > the flash drive. Did I do that right? My install still does not > configure the network and says my network hardware may not be working > properly. All help is appreciated. https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware See the line that starts "Alternatively, there are now versions of the 'netinst' CD images that also include all the non-free firmware packages directly", the link is: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
vncserver problems
Fresh install of Debian testing on a machine that runs headless. I want to start an X session from my .vnc/xstartup. Installed with XFCE. The machine was previously running Jessie (which is still there in a GRUB multi-boot configuration), so I configured testing according to my notes from Jessie. But I am seeing some strange things in vncviewer: 1) Right-clicks do nothing in synaptic, and the menus don't drop down when left-clicked. I see the same symptoms in virt-manager. 2) Tab key doesn't work in xfce4-terminal (it acts as though I had pressed alt-tab, switching to another app on the screen). Doesn't work in an authentication dialog in Firefox either, but it doesn't switch apps (that one I can get around that by clicking on the next field). I wanted to try uninstalling tightvncserver and trying vnc4server instead, but it doesn't seem to be in the repo...? However it is in sid's repo. Anyway, installed from there with no difference at all. My .vnc/xstartup file has just two lines: export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 . /etc/X11/Xsession and I'm starting vncserver like this: vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -name www1 Can anyone help? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e
On 07/04/2016 04:08 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:40:07PM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote: >> There's a problem with spam on this mailing list. > > Want to help? > > <https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads> Thanks. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e
On 07/04/2016 04:52 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 20:40:07 Glenn Holmer wrote: >> Is it sensible to blame spam on the list subscribers? > > Who is doing so?? > >> I'm on lists for >> several distros, and none of them have as much as there is here. It's >> also not sensible to suggest that it's because other lists are losing >> valid messages due to false positives, as you did earlier. > > Where and when did I so complain? I don't recall even thinking it, let alone > writing it. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00239.html -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e
On 07/04/2016 12:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 19:37:10 Doug wrote: >> Is it legal to send encrypted messages over the Internet? > > Is it sensible to reply to spam??? > > Lisi Is it sensible to blame spam on the list subscribers? I'm on lists for several distros, and none of them have as much as there is here. It's also not sensible to suggest that it's because other lists are losing valid messages due to false positives, as you did earlier. If that were the case, people would be complaining that their messages didn't reach the list. There's a problem with spam on this mailing list. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: June 2016
On 06/06/2016 07:17 AM, Noa Cohen wrote: > I have advertisers that are looking to buy your traffic in high CPM. What's with all the spam on this list? You don't see that on other distros' mailing lists. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: [OT]: May Day
On 05/03/2016 08:34 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Politics does not belong here +1 Enough already. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: XM1541 with Debian
On 04/09/2016 09:42 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Glenn Holmer <shad...@lyonlabs.org> wrote: >> On 04/09/2016 08:42 AM, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: >>> If anyone did use the XM1541 cable with Debian - to copy files between >>> Commodore 64 floppy and PC - please help me! >> >> Those are considered obsolete because they require a parallel port. >> Nowadays people use the ZoomFloppy, which is a USB device: > > Somewhat ironic that you suggest that a parallel port is obsolete, and > people should buy new shiny things, when discussing transfer tools for > a 34 year old computer. Nothing is too good for our Commodore 64s! -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: XM1541 with Debian
On 04/09/2016 08:42 AM, Hársfalvi Gábor wrote: > If anyone did use the XM1541 cable with Debian - to copy files between > Commodore 64 floppy and PC - please help me! Those are considered obsolete because they require a parallel port. Nowadays people use the ZoomFloppy, which is a USB device: http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/ However, the software used with the ZoomFloppy (opencbm) also works with the older devices. Here are instructions for building it on Linux: http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/building-opencbm-on-linux.html There is also a newer version: http://spiro.trikaliotis.net/opencbm-alpha http://spiro.trikaliotis.net/Download/opencbm-0.4.99.98/opencbm-0.4.99.98-source.tar.bz2 For further information, see "ZoomFloppy Users" on groups.google.com. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start
On 04/04/2016 10:21 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > Unfortunately, these people are what most of the population consist of. > On 04/03/2016 02:17 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:15:54 -0400 >> Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: >> >>> Does this list have moderators? Because this is absurd. >> >> Yes. But they only intervene when necessary. We are not infringing on >> the rights of anyone else to discuss what they wish. >> >> However, I think we should take this off-list, deloptes. Please take your own advice. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start
On 04/03/2016 05:41 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > Surely the start of the Sino-Japanese war would Moderators... please, I beg you. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start
On 03/30/2016 01:21 AM, deloptes wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >> Charlie writes: >>> Was Canada conquered by the British Enough! Take it off-list! -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: XFS on root
On 02/28/2016 01:31 PM, mj wrote: > On 02/28/2016 03:34 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> Let me get this straight- /boot on XFS, with GRUB, working flawlessly? > > I think we have been running root xfs, without a seperate boot partition > for ages. This has been working at least since wheezy, but I guess even > earlier. > > Just try it. I have machines with multiple operating systems, and use a "master" GRUB in its own small partition with the boot code in the MBR, and a "slave" GRUB embedded in each operating system's boot partition. I don't know if this is still true (the message is quite old), but it's why I've always used a separate ext2 /boot partition in that scenario. http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg10770.html "As we all know, you cannot install grub into an XFS partition because the XFS superblock is in sector 0 of the partition." -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Re: Good keyboard
On 02/13/2016 12:47 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > When my last keyboard started failing, I replaced it with http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-for-pc-mac/ Worth every penny. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
