Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:53:02AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: George pinkisntw...@gmail.com writes: Might I suggest awesome window manager? It uses almost no resources, can be manipulated entirely with the keyboard (although it also has complete mouse support), can be customized extremely easily (although the defaults are sane so it is by no means necessary to customize), it even has a lua API. How do you start it in your setup? Startx? Check out this site to get your awesome started with startx https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48378 -- Alexander J. Martinez Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP Wed Nov 2 05:29:50 UTC 2011 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2019093854.GA8781@debian2008.mynet
Re: Using an advanced video editor under Debian Lenny
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:26:16AM +0200, godo wrote: On 08/27/2010 09:02 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Months ago, I looked for an advanced video editor for Debian. Here is what I found: * PiTiVi: I can't make it work once installed. Many buttons are missing. I can't understand it. Maybe it's too simple for me (I tend to misunderstand simple things, seriously)! * Cinelerra: Nice, but there is not yet any Debian Lenny version. I tried to install it from source weeks ago, and I remember that compilation went terribly bad because some packages were too old/recent. I also tried from other repo, but to no avail; * Avidemux: Not a sufficient amount of functionalities; * Kdenlive: Looks nice (not tested yet), but I'm using GNOME. So, if there's another tool, better to install a GNOME tool; * Kino: for IEEE-1394, no interest for me; * LiveS: Looks really nice. Tried to install from source (with `jack*' stuff), but gives * OpenShot: Looks nice, but packages are for Ubuntu. I might consider compiling this one from source (but dependencies problems will be tedious to solve); * openmovieeditor: why not! * Kino: I can't get it to work as I want. Many years ago, under Windows, I was using Sony Vegas, and it looks like Cinelerra is the one which looks the most like Vegas. Any suggestions? All the best, Hi, I'm using Kdenlive (Squeeze KDE box) for video editing and it's more than enough for me. Just for trans-coding: ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora and Avidemux. If you want OpenShot http://www.openshotvideo.com/2008/04/download.html look for Build Wizard on the page. It is python script for installation on Debian. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 Have you tried http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ for cinelera -- Alexander J. Martinez Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 13:38:27 UTC 2010 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100828002829.ga27...@debian2008.mynet
Re: HTTP Filter Proxy
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:15:07AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-01-21, Glenn English g...@slsware.com wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Kun Niu wrote: Roman Gelfand wrote: Can somebody recommend HTTP filter proxy software or softwares? Filter what? Privoxy does a reasonable job on ads. Squid has acls and a bunch of other stuff that you config yourself. And they can run in serial... Seconded. Privoxy chained with squid make a good combination. There are plenty of tutorials on the web to help you set it up. Another vote for privoxy. You can configure it to block whatever you like based on URL pattern or HTTP headers (e.g. Content-Type), not to mention blocking just cookies, rewriting content (e.g. adding or removing autocomplete=off in form tags), etc. I think there is even a facility to block images based on dimensions, though I haven't played with it. Unless you need the caching, though, I don't see much value in adding squid to the mix. I've been using privoxy alone for years with great success. Liam --Greg How about adding Dansguardian to the mix... -- Alexander J.M. Debian Squeeze Linux 2.6.30-2-686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:53:05AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: What's the story on getting this thing working? I'm running Debian Squeeze on an ASUS 1000HE. The device doesn't seem to be recognised as anything it knows what to do about. It doesn't even seem to know it can be a mouse. -- hendrik Did not metion the model. I have a Bamboo Model MTE-450A (note: mine is usb not serial connection) The following is what I manualy had to add to my xorg.conf file: under this section ServerLayout add the following: Section ServerLayout InputDevice stylusSendCoreEvents InputDevice eraserSendCoreEvents InputDevice cursorSendCoreEvents InputDevice pad # no core events EndSection then add the following sections: Section InputDevice Identifier stylus Driver wacom Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type stylus Option USB on EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier eraser Driver wacom Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type eraser Option USB on EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier cursor Driver wacom Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type cursor Option USB on EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier pad Driver wacom Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type pad Option USB on EndSection I hope this gives a starting point... -- Alexander J.M. Debian Squeeze Linux 2.6.30-2-686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:39:26AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,28.Mar.09, 00:52:58, Divick Kishore wrote: Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But when I try to access I see the following: $: ls /mnt/maxtor/ ls: cannot open directory /mnt/maxtor/: Permission denied The 'user' option means that a user can *mount* that filesystem. You probably want the 'uid=divkis01'. See 'man mount', the section Mount options for ntfs. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) See if you have read/execute permission for /mnt/maxtor. You could try to mount it to a directory owned by you...create an empty directory under your /home/divkis01 (assuming your user name is divkis01). Also change your fstab to point to the new mount point. -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
On 11/13/08 06:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice editions to last year's categories: audio editor: audacity, sweep audio player: moc, audacious, ascd audio internet streams: Streamtuner cd-ripper: mp3c desktop OR window manager: fluxbox DBMS: none development: Perl disc burner: gnome baker, mp3burn e-mail client: mutt, procmail, msmtp, getmail file manager: mc (midnight commander) finance: none ftp client: none games: none graphics general: Inkscape, Tgif, Xfig image editor: gimp image viewer: gqview instant messenger: none mathematics: none misc utilities: too many to list p2p: none package manager: aptitude pdf-reader: xpdf, evince ps reader: gv spreadsheet: none tag editor: none terminal emulator: Rxvt-unicode text editor: emacs, aee video player: mplayer, vlc web browser: Epiphany, Iceweasel, links2 word-processor: AbiWord, OpenOffice Writer document processor: Lyx non-free: flash player. -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail filters debian-user mails as spam
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:35:00PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 17:07:29 +0530, Arvind Marathe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:53:28PM +0530, Arvind Marathe wrote: :0 * ^X-Spam-Level: * possible-spam/ Won't that rule match anything with a 'X-Spam-Level:' header ? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ It might be easier to tract one of the following or maybe a combination for you d-u mail. This will be at the begining of your list :0 * ^To:.debian-user* possible-spam/ :0 * ^X-Mailing-List:.debian-user* possible-spam/ :0 * ^List-Id:.debian-user\.lists\.debian\.org possible-spam/ :0 * ^List-Subscribe:.debian-user* possible-spam/ At the end of your list: #- Junk Mail :0Hw: *(may be forged) possible-spam/ :0w: * ^X-Header-Overseas:.* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^X-Header-NoReverseIP:.* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^Subject:.*Bulk* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^Received:.*forged* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^Received:.*anonimo* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^Received:.*nobody* possible-spam/ :0w: * ^Received:\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ...\ ... possible-spam/ -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:48:00PM +0530, Arvind Marathe wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:42:19PM +0530, Arvind Marathe wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:18:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:28:44, Arvind Marathe wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:19:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:03:01, Arvind Marathe wrote: ps: When i sent mail to d-u using gmail web interface, there used to be a copy in sent-mail, but i never got the copy i was supposed to get as a d-u subscriber. Now i am using mutt to send this mail, i wonder if i will get the copy of my own mail in my gmail box. No, you won't But i did get it. Does it have the mailing list headers (List-Id, List-Post, ...)? No. Sorry i was too fast in replying, because i was doing something else. Yes, the full header has the mailing list headers. Arvind I am a bit late to this thread...I have getmail, procmail, msmpt, mutt I have setup the pop in the gmail. This is what I have in getmail [options] verbose = 1 delete = false [retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = pop.gmail.com username = [EMAIL PROTECTED] password = yourpassword port = 995 [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/procmail unixfrom = True I have no problems getting my mail. Change the delete=true if you don't want to keep messages on gmail. -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to Mount New 2-Gig Zenstone MP3 Player
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47:26PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: The original 1-gig Zenstone MP3 players mount on Debian just fine if one has vfat support so I expected it to be a breeze to load a brand new 2-gig model, not the Zenstone Plus, but the 2-gigabyte model that has the tiny speaker. Boy, was I wrong about the ease factor. There is some weird variant of the fat32 FS on this drive and I haven't been able to mount it to save my soul. $ fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes 1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. It gets better. # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value Nothing mounts. Game over. I did capture an image of the flash drive. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/image.bin bs=512 Doing the strings utility on the first few bytes of image.bin yields NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN STONE RANSF~1RAT An older working Zenstone's beginning sectors look like MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN Stone Is there any way to make this odd-ball fat32 mount? If that XP really means Windows XP and not just garbage that strings picked up, then that may explain things a bit. Is there something I need to upgrade? I am running a 2.6.5 kernel with support for most of the common Microsoft file systems but we are dead in the water on this little project, so far. Thanks for any constructive ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try the following as root or sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital Camera
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:51:00AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) phreaque /home/keeling_ gphoto2 --auto-detect Model Port -- (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ So it doesn't detect it at all, then. Bummer. Are there entries in /var/log/messages as you plug in (and unplug) the camera from the USB? tail -f syslog# unplug, then plug. I notice it had address # 6, then it gets address 7. Huh. Guess that's # udev. Mar 27 18:43:18 phreaque kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 6 Mar 27 18:43:29 phreaque kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7 Mar 27 18:43:29 phreaque kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Those might be of use, especially in composing a message to the gphoto2 mailing list. Pretty much, those IDs have to match perfectly or it can't be used. There's also lsusb: (0) phreaque [root] /root_ lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 006: ID 03e8:2186 EndPoints, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Lots to go on it seems, but this thing will have to wait for solutions, barring what gphoto2 ml says. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the camera has a memory card, then try a memory card reader. I had a concord eye-Q and that is how I did the download of photos. By the way, I did not use gphoto2. I manually mount and umount the drive. With Gnome or KDE the mounting is automatically. Hope this helps. -- Alexander J.M. Debian Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I set up sudo..
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:35:32AM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote: I figured out that I didnt have /sbin and /usr/sbin in my PATH but how come when I do sudo env it does show those directories in my PATH ? The man page for sudo or sudoers says that sudo does modify PATH but it doesnt say how and it doesnt say how it tries to find the command that you give it. Is there a way to set up sudo so that I dont have to type the full path to the command. How about an alias in your own .bash_aliases? alias shutdown sudo /sbin/shutdown Or something? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] su to root then type the command visudo under User privilege specification add the following # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL ajm57 ALL=/sbin/shutdown,\ /bin/mount,\ /bin/umount Change ajm57 to your user name then save the file. You can add as many system command as you wish. So when you want to shutdown simply type sudo shutdown -h now it will ask you for your user password (don't type in your root password) -- Alexander J. M. Linux 2.6.18-5-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I set up sudo..
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:13:03PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:33:17PM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote: ...so that I can use ANY command with it. I tried ALL=(ALL) ALL but there are still many things that I cannot do with sudo. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Shouldn't it be user ALL=(ALL) ALL -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman In my opinion, you should only use sudo for the few commands that are necessary to do work on your computer. The key word is few. If you want to run all command available, then su to root or login as root. Running any command with root privileges, as I think you want to do, is a potential security risk. If nothing else, you will be susceptible to the late-nite blunders. Just my 2 cents worth... Alexander J. M. Linux 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: iPod Touch and Linux?
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:26:16AM -0500, Scott Abbey wrote: Magnus Therning wrote: My wife won an iPod Touch on a raffle last Friday. After playing with it for a while I've almost given up on the idea of keeping it. A lot of surfing and experimenting later I've found the following: * libgpod (which is used by both gtkpod and amarok) in Debian Sid only has read-only support for the iPod Touch (requires a jailbreak and installing SSH, which I've done). That seems to mean that iTunes is the only way of syncing music and audiocasts onto it. Ouch. * It doesn't have a flash decoder. All it offers is a H.264 decoder. This means that most videos on the web can't be watched. I've failed to find details on how to convert flash (and other format) videos to something that the iPod Touch could play. So even if I find a way of sticking videos on it I still can't play them :( Does anyone have any pointers on these issues. Or is the only option left to me to put it for sale on ebay and buy a Nokia N800 for the money? Personally, I would sell it and buy a N800. I don't know much about the Touch, never having owned an iPod, but I can tell you that several sites offer a flv(Flash) to * service. vixy.net is one. You can also use mencoder to transcode the flv to some other format[1]. 1. http://www.linux.com/feature/56642 I have used graphics/ffmpeg to convert *.swf files to avi and mpg. According to the man info it can also do flv. Something to try. Alexander J. M. Linux 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creative zen management with command-line interface
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:01:43AM -0800, David Fox wrote: On Oct 21, 2007 2:43 PM, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been searching without success for a command-line tool to manage a Creative Zen mp3 player. The only Creative Zen management tool for Linux which I have discovered thus far is gnomad2 (version 2.8.12-2 currently in the Debian testing archive). Disclaimer - I have an Iriver T3 mp3 player, not a Creative Zen one. I use mtp-tools to manage it. It's command line, and sessions resemble something like: $ mtp-connect --sendfile whatever.mp3 It's clunky but it does work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search libmtp libmtp5 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library libmtp-dev - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) development files libmtp-doc - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library documentation libmtp6 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library mtp-tools - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools But gnomad2 (which has a GUI) crashes on occasion, takes forever to delete a file, and appears to have left a corrupted file on my gnomad2 does also work here with the Iriver device, but it's slow to start up and libmtp is quicker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't have a creative zen to play with, but I thought the zen player was a MMC compliant (Regular or Flash) drive. If that is the case, then you need to mount it as an MSDOS drive. Then use your favorite file manager to move file to and from the zen. Look at the mount command for more information on mounting the drive. Hope this helps... -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
