Re: flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel (DIAGNOSED)
Hi Girish I'm having no problems with Flickr in Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny. Your photostream loads fine too. Maybe you can post this on Flickr's help? I have posted. It seems that my ISP (GVT, Curitiba, Brazil) cannot route properly to one of Flickr's servers: l.yimg.com I discovered that since iceweasel hung with this status message: Read l.yimg.com and running traceroute l.yimg.com showed that the last hop reached was one of GVT's (the ISP). I opened a trouble ticket against my ISP. They didn't seem to have a clue since they instructed me to change my DNS settings ! I also opened a trouble ticket with ANATEL, which is a telecom regulatory body: now my ISP (GVT) has 5 working days to present a proper solution. I'll make sure I post the final solution here to document it for future reference. A member of Flickr staff wrote that other brazilian users have been complaining about the same problem and they all use the same ISP (GVT). By the way, the problem is intermittent and happens on ALL browsers. It was a coincidence that my photostream loaded on Opera when I first tried. Thanks for your interest Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel
Hi ! Flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel, has anybody seen this ? Iceweasel hangs forever, waiting. Whenever this happens, I switch to opera and it loads there, flawlessly, always. I noticed that this started to happen about a week from now. I have already played with wiping cookies and cache, to no avail. Consistently, flickr loads on opera but trips over on iceweasel practically every time I try to access it. I'm running Debian Lenny. Just in case anybody wants to check what I've described, here's my flickr URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcelpaulo/ Regards Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hi Rustan ! i don't have any idea about this, sorry. i found a lot bug report while googling regarding kcontrol. perhaps you can change to KDE 4, as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300658#14 mentioned that kcontrols doesn't exist in KDE 4. I also saw those bug reports. But I used xfce … And I switched to xfce precisely because I wasn't happy with KDE 4. Thanks just the same Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hi Andrei […] It sounds to me like it might something as simple as you may have removed the images used for those little icons. What icon themes do you have installed? The xfce4-icon-theme is known to be incomplete: […] But the icons appear *BEFORE* kcontrol is installed. In other words, they're installed, no matter which package they come from. I double checked and the installation of kcontrol didn't cause removal of anything, so the icons should still be there. kcontrol messes something up and they can't be reached anymore. Thanks ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hi Ismail ! I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter with KDE4 […] I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, soundkonverter, kflickr and kmldonkey. In all these applications, icons disappeared from some toolbars. In amarok, for instance, the default bottom toolbar should include icons for Previous Track, Play/Pause, Stop, Next Track, but they don't show up: a thin vertical line replaces each one. Exactly the same thing happens with the toolbars in the other KDE application I tried. This is my environment: Debian Lenny Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 Xfce 4.4.2 amarok 1.4.10 try to reconfigure the suspected packages with dpkg-reconfigure. Have just done with amarok but the problem persists. Thanks for the suggestion just the same. Perhaps I should use brute force, purge all KDE applications, all traces of KDE libs, and start over. I'll post the results to make sure it stays as reference. Thanks ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hi again Ismail, I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter with KDE4 […] I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, soundkonverter, kflickr and kmldonkey. In all these applications, icons disappeared from some toolbars. In amarok, for instance, the default bottom toolbar should include icons for Previous Track, Play/Pause, Stop, Next Track, but they don't show up: a thin vertical line replaces each one. Exactly the same thing happens with the toolbars in the other KDE application I tried. This is my environment: Debian Lenny Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 Xfce 4.4.2 amarok 1.4.10 […] Perhaps I should use brute force, purge all KDE applications, all traces of KDE libs, and start over. I'll post the results to make sure it stays as reference. kcontrol messes things up. Here's what I did: 1. Purged all packages which depended on kdelibs 2. Removed ~/.kde 3. Reinstalled amarok All toolbars appeared correctly. But the fonts were too big. 4. Reinstalled kcontrol 5. Changed the font's size to 9 The icons disappeared from the toolbar ! That's what happened yesterday, since I installed all KDE application first, tinkered with them, realized the fonts were too big, googled on it, and installed kcontrol as someone had suggested. My doubts now are: 1. Should I open a bug report with the KDE team ? 2. Is there another way of configuring the fonts for all KDE applications without resorting to kcontrol ? Regards Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hello ! I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter with KDE4, and I'm happy I switched: KDE feels like an elephant whereas Xfce feels like a dragonfly, in look'n'feel and speed: it's lean and elegant. I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, soundkonverter, kflickr and kmldonkey. In all these applications, icons disappeared from some toolbars. In amarok, for instance, the default bottom toolbar should include icons for Previous Track, Play/Pause, Stop, Next Track, but they don't show up: a thin vertical line replaces each one. Exactly the same thing happens with the toolbars in the other KDE application I tried. I installed kcontrol to customize their appearance but it had no effect: the icons on the toolbars still disappeared. I have googled on “kde application toolbar disappear xfce” but no hit shed light on my problem. I also searched the xfce forum to no avail. This feels like a common problem to solve, since I'd imagine to be common for xfce users to use the occasional KDE application, but I'm stumped with no solution. This is my environment: Debian Lenny Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 Xfce 4.4.2 amarok 1.4.10 Could anybody give me a hand on this ? Regards, Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce
Hey Tony ! I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter with KDE4 […] I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, soundkonverter, kflickr and kmldonkey. In all these applications, icons disappeared from some toolbars. In amarok, for instance, the default bottom toolbar should include icons for Previous Track, Play/Pause, Stop, Next Track, but they don't show up: a thin vertical line replaces each one. Exactly the same thing happens with the toolbars in the other KDE application I tried. This is my environment: Debian Lenny Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 Xfce 4.4.2 amarok 1.4.10 Did you remove some KDE stuff from you machine? (in particular, kde artwork, maybe?) It sounds to me like it might something as simple as you may have removed the images used for those little icons. You really lifted my hopes, but … To be sure I didn't miss anything, I installed metapackage kdeartwork which should pull in everything artwork related. But … The problem persists. Just to make sure, I restarted X, but no joy. You're right, it must be something simple, but not this simple. Anyway thanks for the shot. It made sense. Fingers crossed that other pointers pop up. Thanks ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4
Simon Huggins wrote on Jan, 10: [...] What do you mean instead? Here's the scenario. I configured mutt to compose mails with gvim --remote. I start gvim. I start mutt and ask to compose a mail. A new buffer is created in the currently running gvim. Its window should be raised and gain focus. xfwm4 raises the gvim window but doesn't give it focus. fluxbox and kwin raise the window and give it focus. A discussion thread [1] at Xfce mailing list concluded that it's a gvim bug. I've raised the bug report against vim-gtk but haven't heard from the maintainers yet. Thanks for your interest Paulo [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.user/11185 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla + mutt
mess-mate wrote on Jan, 11: [...] | | after an update of the mozilla suite ( debian/sarge) mozilla can't | | be launched whtin mutt. [...] | You're in mutt, you click on a html attachment, what happens then ? | Lynx open in a terminal with the html page. The way this thing works is: if there's more than one mailcap entry for a MIME type, text/html in this case, mutt will use the first one that works. Check /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap. There'll be a text/html for lynx and another for mozilla, and lynx comes before mozilla. A solution: put the lynx entry after mozilla's. Hope this works now Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4
Hi, I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and noticed an annoying xfwm4 behavior. I use mutt with gvim, setting editor=gvim --remote-wait so that I have a single instance of gvim running. With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is raised but doesn't gain focus. I tried it with fluxbox, and it behaves like KDE: the gvim window is raised and gets focus. I found these hidden xfwm4 options: focus_hint=true prevent_focus_stealing=false which seemed to be related to this, but they had no effect. Would anybody know if this can be configured or will it be really a xfwm4 shortcoming/bug ? Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla + mutt
mess-mate wrote on Jan, 9: after an update of the mozilla suite ( debian/sarge) mozilla can't be launched whtin mutt. What exactly happens ? This is my mailcap setup about it : text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla '%s'; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html; test=test $DISPLAY != I also hit this problem. Here's my mailcap entry: text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY; needsterminal The only significant difference is needsterminal. I hope it works for you Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla + mutt
mess-mate wrote on Jan, 9: [...] | after an update of the mozilla suite ( debian/sarge) mozilla can't | be launched whtin mutt. [...] | I also hit this problem. Here's my mailcap entry: | | text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY; needsterminal [...] Well.. no. It didn't work :( really, i don't known what happen exactly. You're in mutt, you click on a html attachment, what happens then ? Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4
Simon Huggins wrote on Jan, 9: With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is raised but doesn't gain focus. I tried it with fluxbox, and it behaves like KDE: the gvim window is raised and gets focus. What version of xfwm4? ii xfwm4 4.2.3.2-2 window manager of the Xfce project What do you have in the settings of the window manager under the focus tab? option name=Xfwm/FocusNewWindow type=int value=1/ option name=Xfwm/FocusRaise type=int value=1/ option name=Xfwm/RaiseDelay type=int value=250/ option name=Xfwm/RaiseOnClick type=int value=1/ FocusRaise raises a window that got focus. The problem I observed is exactly the opposite: to give focus to a window that got raised. FocusNewWindow doesn't apply because a new window is not being created in this scenario. I thought that there were promising (in ~/.config/xfce4/xfwm4/xfwm4rc): focus_hint=true prevent_focus_stealing=false but didn't have any effect on the problem. Thanks for answering Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tabbrowser Extensions
Mark Grieveson wrote on Jan, 8: Please help me uninstall Tabbrowser Extensions. I feel like Mozilla has caught a disease, and I can't get rid of it. [...] I uninstalled another Mozilla extension manually by following these instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_Uninstall_Extensions#Uninstalling_manually See if it works for you. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
x-window-system-core 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 pulls dependencies 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1
Hi, Keyboard stopped working properly after last X upgrade (6.9.0.dfsg.1-1). I have dependency package x-window-system-core installed, so I tried to downgrade it from 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11. To my surprise, it pulled the dependencies 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 and not 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11, as I expected. I had to manually downgrade each of the dependencies. I tried to file a bug report on x-window-system-core, but reportbug asks instead to file the report on one of the dependencies. Would anybody know how and where do we report a bug such as this one ? Please note that I'm not referring to the original keyboard problem (I filed a bug on xlibs for that one), but to the fact that a downgraded x-window-system-core pulls upgraded dependencies. Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly
Bill Marcum wrote on Dec, 26: [...] I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. The problems are: 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking glyphs. 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running. Is your locale UTF-8 or ISO-8859-*? ISO-8859-1. I got curious: why, Bill ? Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc
Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: [...] Yes, this has been very useful: I like mrxvt too. It avoids the problem that some terminals have of trapping F10 so that you cannot easily get out of mc. On the other hand, it shares the other problem of being left in reverse video when you do quit mc. Still, that is transient and scrolls away. I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been very useful. I also tried mrxvt. Excellent first impression but it limps in a very essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for line-drawing characters when you use FreeType fonts and ncurses applications, such as mutt, aptitude or mc. konsole, xfce4-terminal and urxvt handle this correctly. Although I quite liked mrxvt, I settled for xfce4-terminal: it's also tabbed and handles xft ncurses correctly. Of course, it will pull Xfce libraries with it. I posted the xft problem on mrxvt user mailing list and got no replies, whereas the xfce user mailing list is quickly responsive. Just my $0.02. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] printf format specifier
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote on Dec, 27: [...] I thought that %02.1f would print floating points as xx.x or 0x.x but it does not. It prints x.x or xx.x. How do I ensure that there always are 2 digits before the floating point? Please allow me to recommend a very good discussion group for questions such as yours: comp.lang.c You can access it through: http://groups.google.com/ You just subscribe and can post your doubt straight away. I've done it before and the guys over there are really helpful and speedy. Regards, Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc
Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: [...] I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been very useful. I also tried mrxvt. Excellent first impression but it limps in a very essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for line-drawing characters when you use FreeType fonts and ncurses applications, such as mutt, aptitude or mc. konsole, xfce4-terminal and urxvt handle this correctly. On my box, the line drawing in mutt and aptitude is perfect. It is probably a font encoding issue. Which font are you using for mrxvt ? Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly
Hello, I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. The problems are: 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking glyphs. 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running. Googling on 'mrxvt ncurses' didn't hit anything relevant. I read through all the documentation and noticed a reference in the changelog to ACS_ASCII capability, but the man page lists mrxvt.acsChars as a configuration option and doesn't include its valid values. I didn't find anything vaguely relevant to the cursor problem. Somehow I suspect that this is related to TERM, but I couldn't find anything related to this in the documentation either. Here's my ~/.mrxvtrc: mrxvt.xft: true mrxvt.xftAntialias: true mrxvt.xftNomFont: true mrxvt.xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono mrxvt.xftSize: 9 mrxvt.scrollBar: false I use exactly the same font/size with xfce4-terminal without any problems whatsoever. From what I could initially see, mrxvt seems to be a much more interesting terminal emulator than xfce4-terminal, and I wish I can switch to using it, but these problems make it unusable. Currently installed mrxvt: ii mrxvt 0.4.2-1lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator Could anybody point me to some reference where I could find answers or hints on these problems ? Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly
Wayne Topa wrote on Dec, 26: [...] I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. The problems are: 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking glyphs. 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running. [...] Here's my ~/.mrxvtrc: mrxvt.xft: true mrxvt.xftAntialias: true mrxvt.xftNomFont: true mrxvt.xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono mrxvt.xftSize: 9 mrxvt.scrollBar: false Just tried mutt in mrxvt and it works fine here. mutt 1.5.11-4 mrxvt 0.4.1-3 So you track etch. I track sid but I downgraded mrxvt and still no joy. I did not set up an .mrxvtrc file though... You'll be using the default font, then, whatever it is. What I notice is: when the font doesn't have the line-drawing glyphs, some terminal emulators get approximations. konsole and xfce4-terminal do that, but mrxvt doesn't seem to. Thanks for taking the time to answer ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly
Paul Trevethan wrote on Dec, 27: [...] I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. The problems are: 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking glyphs. 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running. [...] This may or may not help. I had a similar issue with mc (file manager) when using rxvt as the terminal. Rather than keep looking in the terminal options, have a look at the man page for the application. I came up with starting mc with the -a or -x parameters and the ugliness went away. Mutt may have a similar solution in its options. That would be a workaround, yes. I read mutt's and aptitude's man pages but there's so equivalent option to mc's -a, so no workaround for these. Thanks, Paul, for the workaround. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor
Jon Dowland wrote on Dec, 22: [...] I wonder if this source is trusted. Its certificate is signed by itself. When I click on the downloaded xpi file, Firefox says it's unsigned. I fear installing an extension that might potentially pry my privacy. Has anybody installed mozex from that site ? Whilst it's good to be aware of such problems, would it be much safer if the certificate was signed by a CA? That just proves that the nic-nac-project.de people signed the JAR (or whatever they are); not that you can trust them. You're right: I was making much ado about nothing. [...] Thanks for your comments, Jon Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor
Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the mozex extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla to Opera or Firefox but have just realized that mozex is just too essential to go without. Thanks for your attention, Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor
Richard Hector wrote on Dec, 22: Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the mozex extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla to Opera or Firefox but have just realized that mozex is just too essential to go without. I'm using mosex with firefox. I remember it wasn't entirely painless to set up, but unfortunately I can't remember what the problems were - though finding the right version was one of them. Thanks for confirming that there is a way. I've found what appears to be the latest version of mozex for Firefox at: https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html I wonder if this source is trusted. Its certificate is signed by itself. When I click on the downloaded xpi file, Firefox says it's unsigned. I fear installing an extension that might potentially pry my privacy. Has anybody installed mozex from that site ? Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor
Michael Ott wrote on Dec, 21: [...] Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the mozex extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla to Opera or Firefox but have just realized that mozex is just too essential to go without. Firefox: I use mozex with firefox 1.5 and it works. When you search mozex in the firefox extensions you find a link to an inofficial version for mozex which works with firefox [...] Thanks for reassuring me of that, Michael ! I'm still a bit unsure about installing mozex from that unknown source. Can it be trusted ? Its certificate is not even signed by a CA, and the site is not part of the mozdev.org hierarchy. Just to make sure: did you install mozex from this link ? https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html Have you never had any security problems (your data being maliciously used) after the installation ? Thanks for the feedback, Michael ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management
Roberto Sanchez wrote on Dec, 20: Hello, Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will just reload with the same state if I log out and choose Save session with them open. Firefox doesn't do this. I'd like to have Firefox load on session start-up with two particular pages loaded in two tabs. You'll find the info here: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentationlang=en#start This is The Place to look for xfce solutions: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.user and of course xfce site itself: http://www.xfce.org/ Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor daemon for exim4 logs
Monique Y. Mudama wrote on Dec, 15: [...] Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ? [...] Not a daemon, but I have this in my crontab: @daily /usr/sbin/exim4 -bp | /usr/bin/mail -e -s exim queue `date` user You could do the same thing with greater frequency. Excellent idea. It does the trick for me. I just elaborated slightly to send mail only if there are messages on the queue. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, Monique ! Paulo #!/bin/sh # Alerts if messages pending on exim queue # $Id: eximchk,v 1.1 2005/12/19 19:06:47 paulo Exp $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin user=root nmsg=`exim4 -bpc` if [ $nmsg != 0 ] then exim4 -bp | mail -s $nmsg message(s) on exim queue `date` $user fi exit 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: README files
Ed Paris wrote on Dec, 18: [...] I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? [...] Why don't you try vim ? It comes out-of-the-box with a plugin that decompresses gzipped files on the fly. Or set in your .bashrc: eval $(lesspipe) and you'll be able to read your gzipped files with: less file Hope this solves your problem Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce
Hi, I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a taller terminal window, without menu and scroll bars. If the program doesn't run on a terminal, like xconsole, for example, I just need to add a -geometry argument. I can't figure out how to do something similar to programs that run on a terminal. I did have a look at the manuals but perhaps I'm not yet sufficiently acquainted and may have overlooked something. Could anybody give me a hand here ? I'll gladly read up on any documentation if someone could kindly point me the direction. Thanks a lot Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce
Almut Behrens wrote on Dec, 17: [...] I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a taller terminal window, without menu and scroll bars. If the program doesn't run on a terminal, like xconsole, for example, I just need to add a -geometry argument. I can't figure out how to do something similar to programs that run on a terminal. This somewhat depends on what options the terminal understands, but the approach would generally be much the same, i.e. use -geometry for the terminal that mc/mutt/... is running in. Size is sometimes specified in pixels, but usually in characters, e.g. for mc in rxvt I have a command like rxvt -geometry 120x50+480+0 -e mc -geometry applies to the terminal; the -e executes the application in the terminal. Feel free to add other options as required -- mc options would of course go after -e mc. Thank you so much for the tips, Almut. I got confused because Xfce launchers come pre-configured with xfterm4, which is a wrapper than can call whatever terminal is set in $TERMCMD. I still get confused by it, so I'm calling xfce4-terminal directly, passing the geometry and application to run. For more complex start commands (where you need to set up environment variables and stuff) I usually put everything in a small wrapper script, which I then call from the window manager. The last command in such a script would typically be an exec (which avoids that an unnecessary shell process is kept running...) #!/bin/sh # do some setup here, like specific locale changes, lib paths, colors # or whatever there's no commandline option for... exec rxvt -geometry 120x60+50+20 -e mutt That's a good idea. If any of the commands gets out of hand, I'll follow this path. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to send mail from Mutt?
Thomas H. George wrote on Dec, 17: In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use outgoing.verizon.net for outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. Or perhaps, if it is there, I don't understand the entry. Could this be the problem or should I look elsewhere? mutt doesn't speak SMTP. It simply pipes the messages to a so-called Message Transport Agent (MTA) which, in a vanilla Debian installation, should be exim4, if I'm not mistaken. The MTA will then send your mail to outgoing.verizon.net, the so-called smarthost. Quite likely it'll be already installed in your machine. If you're unsure about how to configure it, I can send you some notes I jotted down when I had to learn how to do it. I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address and it no longer works. Perhaps your MTA is already configured to your former email provider, and you'll just need to reconfigure it: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config I hope this is what you were looking for Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to send mail from Mutt?
Peter Nuttall wrote on Dec, 18: I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address and it no longer works. In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use outgoing.verizon.net for outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. Or perhaps, if it is there, I don't understand the entry. Could this be the problem or should I look elsewhere? [...] As pointed out already, mutt doesn't talk smtp. The two solutions to this are 1) have a proper MTA 2) MSTMP http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ Some other alternatives: aptitude search '~Pmail-transport-agent' p courier-mta - Courier Mail Server - ESMTP daemon p esmtp-run - User configurable relay-only MTA p exim- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) p exim4-daemon-heavy - exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended feature i A exim4-daemon-light - lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon p hula-mta- integrated mail calendar system with sim p masqmail- A mailer for hosts without permanent inter p nullmailer - simple relay-only mail transport agent p postfix - A high-performance mail transport agent p sendmail-bin- powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Tra p smail - Electronic mail transport system p ssmtp - extremely simple MTA to get mail off the s p xmail - advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mai p zmailer - Mailer for Extreme Performance Demands Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen resolution in GUI
David R. Litwin wrote on Dec, 16: I keep trying to get Debian to load a GUI to 1280X1024 resolution. I run the install and select the correct driver for my video card. Then when it asks about my monitor I select the medium option and select 1280X1024 @ 75. I know this resolution is supported for this monitor but I continue to get to the GUI and only supports 800X600 and 640X480 are available. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I had, have, exactly the same problem. I must admit the problem still baffles me but is half-solved now, thanks to Knoppix. Problem before: a Fujitsu laptop with an LCD capable of 800x600, connected to a Samsung monitor capable of 1024x768. No matter how much I tweaked /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before that), the resolution was always set to 800x600. Half-solution now: I booted with a Knoppix Live CD, which created an XF86Config-4 with a lot of fancy modelines, and X was started with 1024x768. I overwrote my xorg.conf with Knoppix-generated XF86Config-4, rebooted with Debian and, voilà, 1024x768 resolution. The half-problem now: the screen is not completely used: 1.5 cm vertical black stripes on each side. I tried to lower the default color depth, from 16 to 8, but then the screen went black when X was restarted. I got the impression that the modelines would have to be different for a different color depth, and Knoppix seemed to have detected the right ones for color depth 16. I hope this helps somehow Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck errors on boot
Andrew Sackville-West wrote on Dec, 16: [...] recently did a pretty big apt-get upgrade (probably 2 months worth) and now I get massive fsck errors on my boot, halting boot and dumping me to a shell. errors look like this /dev/hda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY [...] This has just happened to me when I booted with a Knoppix Live CD and mounted /dev/hda1. I didn't dig deeper into the problem, but Knoppix seemed to have set the system time incorrectly. It looks as though the last mount time is written to the filesystem superblock, so root was left with the Knoppix wrong system time. When I booted with Debian, I got the same messages you got. I didn't run fsck manually. At the next Debian reboot, fsck was automatically run and then, no more error msgs. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck errors on boot
Andrew Sackville-West wrote on Dec, 16: [...] errors look like this /dev/hda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY [...] This has just happened to me when I booted with a Knoppix Live CD and mounted /dev/hda1. I didn't dig deeper into the problem, but Knoppix seemed to have set the system time incorrectly. It looks as though the last mount time is written to the filesystem superblock, so root was left with the Knoppix wrong system time. When I booted with Debian, I got the same messages you got. I didn't run fsck manually. At the next Debian reboot, fsck was automatically run and then, no more error msgs. I just used a knoppix disk to do fsck on all my partitions (as I couldn't get to / to do fsck manually). Then I rebooted into knoppix again and ran fsck on all partitions and they came up clean. so I reboot into debian and again get the errors. I know what you're saying that maybe knoppix is writing incorrectly, but I got this error long before I thought of sticking knoppix in. And I don't get an automatic fsck on reboots either. After you finish booting Knoppix, check the system time with date. Boot with Debian and compare its system time with Knoppix's. Most likely they'll be very different. My understanding (or lack of) is: 1. When you mount a partition or run fsck, the current system time is written to the partition's superblock. 2. When you access that partition again, the program (mount, fsck, ...) compare the superblock's time with the system time, and if they're too different, complains. Therefore, when you run fsck from Knoppix, Knoppix's system time goes to the superblocks. When Debian tries to mount the partitions, mount complains because the recorded time is too different from the current system time. What do you have to do ? fsck from *Debian* and not Knoppix. Or, better still, set Knoppix system time to the correct value *before* mounting any partitions on your hard drives. [...] I think its a e2fsprogs issue. what version are you running? It doesn't look like it to me. [...] so with totally clean partitions from Knoppix, I still get errors. Some of those partitions were never mounted in knoppix either and should not be generating this error as no new mount time should be written. But if you ran fsck on them, they'll have been tainted by Knoppix. If the system times are different, clean partitions to Knoppix will have the effect of making them appear dirty to Debian. My knowledge doesn't go much farther than this. I hope it suffices to explain and solve your problem. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor daemon for exim4 logs
David Watson wrote on Dec, 15: [...] Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ? [...] I have a package in Debian called Geximon (it's a gnome version of eximon), it won't alert you of frozen messages but it will display them in the main window. It also is not a daemon, but I may add an option for alerting to the presence of frozen messages at some point, if there is any interest. geximon saved my life yesterday. I installed it some time ago and use it whenever I want to deal with exim. I think it's a really useful and intuitive application. If you're its author, accept my compliments and hertfelt gratitude. I think frozen message alerts would be a nice and useful feature. Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down
Søren Boll Overgaard wrote on Dec, 14: [...] I've recently upgraded the linux-image-2.6-686 package to 2.6.14-5[1]. The installation went as normal when new kernel images are installed, but the ensuing reboot didn't work out as expected. Immediately after the first IDE disk was detected, output like this was generated on the console: /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory [...] Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/343048, and you'll see you're not alone. But Erik (the maintainer) has provided a patch. I applied it and the problem is solved. It's all there in the BTS. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote on Dec, 14: [...] Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, 2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. [...] You might try Mozilla's shortcuts[1]. I don't have Firefox installed to test them but won't do any harm to try them: ctrl-PgDown next tab ctrl-PgUp previous tab Hope it works Paulo [1] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitor daemon for exim4 logs
Hi, I have Debian sid running on a standalone laptop. exim4 is my MTA, Yahoo the smarthost, and fetchmail pulls mails from Yahoo and Gmail via POP3. Today I had the unpleasant surprise that Yahoo changed the canonical name of its SMTP relay server, and mails I wrote during the day were bounced back by Yahoo. As I map my login name to my Yahoo account name via /etc/email-addresses, exim4 kept trying to relay them to Yahoo, bounce back, same story... Result: all mails were frozen in exim4. After changing Yahoo's canonical name in /etc/exim4/passwd.client, I forced delivery of the frozen messages and had hell to edit one by one, to remove exim4's headers, and resend them. I realized that I should be monitoring exim4 logs for errors, so that I'd know when a message is frozen. Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ? Thanks for your attention Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to thoughttracker (was: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid)
Jon Dowland wrote on Dec, 13: I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor sid. Would anybody know why ? Would anybody risk a recommendation ? I don't know the ins and outs of thoughttracker, but for PIM I use a small vim script called potwiki, which implementsa lightweight wiki in vim. If you use vim already, it's great: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1018 Hey, great ! I've just installed it and will try it out. Thanks a lot for the tip, John. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to thoughttracker (was: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid)
Jay Zach wrote on Dec, 13: [...] I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor sid. Would anybody know why ? [...] Would anybody risk a recommendation ? [...] I'm not sure what thoughttracker does, but I've had good luck organizing my mind with: freemind It's a java program, so I can use it on my windoze worstations at work, and come home and use the same db on my Lunux workstations at home, which is nice. Thanks for the recommendation, Jay. I doubt I'll ever be able to organize my mind. If I can organize notes, it'll be a big step forward for me. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternatives to thoughttracker (was: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid)
Joey Hess wrote on Dec, 13: Would anybody risk a recommendation ? I use hnb, it's a console-based outliner, quite nice. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/organising_notes-2005-01-31-08-05.html I liked this. Hearty thanks for the tip and the recommending URL. Being console-based is a perfect start. I'll certainly be trying it out. Thanks a lot Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid
Joey Hess wrote on Dec, 12: [...] I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor sid. Would anybody know why ? [...] From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt: Thanks for this reference, Joey. I've bookmarked it and won't waste bandwidth in the future with this type of doubt. [...] RoM; dead upstream, better alternatives exist [...] Would anybody risk a recommendation ? Once again, thanks for the lesson Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid
Hi, I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor sid. Would anybody know why ? I've been trying to organize my scraps and bits of knowledge in man pages and Csanyi Pal recommended me thoughttracker. I track sid and could perhaps try pulling it from stable, but wouldn't like to see it disappear when etch becomes stable. It seemed strange that google 'thoughttracker linux' didn't hit anything that might explain this. It looks like thoughttracker has death contract on it. Thanks Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No sound from gxine with ALSA
Hi, I've just moved from OSS to ALSA, and gxine doesn't generate sound anymore. Mixer settings are Ok because I can play CDs with xmms or cdplay without problems. audio.driver:alsa in ~/.gxine/config. When I try to play streaming audio, gxine connects to the server but doesn't generate sound. strace shows that gxine is looping on write to a unix socket, fd 3. If I try to execute any other operation, it freezes completely, and strace shows it's blocked on a futex() call. I googled hard on 'xine alsa sound' but found no mention of this weird behaviour. Much to the contrary, the comments were invariably: xmms and xine work Ok with ALSA. Is there something ashamedly obvious that I'm missing ? Thanks for your attention Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim4 using remote_smtp not smarthost
Rir, R Ransbottom wrote on Dec, 9: I run configure-debian to set up my little mailserver and everything looks fine; but still may mail does not go to my smarthost. [...] I had to learn to do this recently: 1. Edit in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf: dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_smarthost='your-smarthost' 2. Run: update-exim4.conf /etc/init.d/exim4 reload 3. Put your login info in /etc/exim4/passwd.client: your-smarthost-canonical-name:login-name:password Here you must use your smarthost's canonical name, which you can obtain, for example, with: dig your-smarthost I'm taking the liberty of sending you privately a little man page with all the info that I amassed while trying to learn how to configure exim4. I hope this solves your problem. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet Connection Speed Test
Nate, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Dec, 5: Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody? Try iftop. It doesn't upload/download anything: you'd have to start that apart. It continuously shows, top-like, the upstream and downstream speeds of each TCP connection. I hope this is more or less what you're looking for Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
