mate and ibus

2015-09-22 Thread Rob Hurle
Anyone using ibus on mate desktop? I've just moved to jessie and prefer the mate desktop to gnome. However ibus won't change to another input method (unikey for Vietnamese in my case). mate opens up ibus-unikey ready for Vietnamese input and will not recognise the key sequence to change to Engli

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-22 Thread Stuart Longland
On 18/09/15 21:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'll your points in reverse order. > The "repository merging" is handled by the -extract option of xorriso. > Thomas Schmitt, author of xorriso, has said in this thread to copy from > DVD using dd. Yeah, I basically was just focussing on the mechanics of

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:53:23 -0400 (EDT), Rick McDaniel wrote: > > I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. > I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get > the graphics 2 work. Spent days & read everything i could & followed > directions to

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Johann Klammer
On 09/22/2015 06:10 PM, Rick McDaniel wrote: > I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & > laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could > not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could & > followed directions to the letter & know what?

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Doug
On 09/22/2015 11:53 AM, Rick McDaniel wrote: I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could & followed directions to the letter & know what? I

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
Rick McDaniel composed on 2015-09-22 08:53 (UTC-0700): > I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I > gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the > graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could & followed directions > to the letter &

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 08:53 -0700, Rick McDaniel wrote: > I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & > laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could > not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could & > followed directions to the letter

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Hans
> > When you say legacy, like a Athlon 64 (Pentium 4 equal) single core with > > 3GB ram, GeForce 8600GT with w/512MB, and a Vortex 8830 sound card? I > > run it in Debian Stretch with Xfce. On the other hand, I have noticed my > > GeForce 4000 no longer works. But, hey, even old computers have to

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/22/2015 12:27 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:53:23 -0700 Rick McDaniel wrote: I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i

Re: iceweasel download panel uses gimp for pdf [SOLVED]

2015-09-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm happy to report that using open with (and then remember application association) from KDE's dolphin file browser did work to reset the open behavior from iceweasel's download panel. I used this to reset both pdf and directory associations. After this exercise the ~/.local/share/applications/m

Re: debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:53:23 -0700 Rick McDaniel wrote: >I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I gave >up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the graphics 2 >work.Spent days & read everything i could & followed directions to the letter >&

debian8 & graphics

2015-09-22 Thread Rick McDaniel
I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops & laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could & followed directions to the letter & know what? I gave up.Hate to admit it. Yeah,they were old mac

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 09:06:47PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Or some of 64bit software will not work if you don't check. > For example , skype ,teamviewer all need i386 packages. > > 1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded > softwar

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:25:20PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 22/09/15 13:38, Reco wrote: > >1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded > >software) should suffer anyway. > > It speaks ill of you that you cite this as a reason for not offering > cautionary advice

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Martin Read
On 22/09/15 13:38, Reco wrote: 1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded software) should suffer anyway. It speaks ill of you that you cite this as a reason for not offering cautionary advice to users of proprietary software. If such people *do* in fact deserv

NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-09-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
At my lab, with NFS accounts, some machines have been upgraded to Debian 8, and I get regular hangs on these machines, while they never occurred before on the same machine and still never occur on a machine that is still under Debian 7. This happens with one of my scripts, which does a lot of "mv"

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread mudongliang
On 09/22/2015 08:38 PM, Reco wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:43:48PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: On 09/22/2015 02:49 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large number of i38

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:43:48PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > > > On 09/22/2015 02:49 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > >On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >>For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > >>number of i386 packages on them tha

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is > there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything > involving that ar

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

2015-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Jose Martinez writes: > On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Thank you for your response, Ric. I hadn't tried alsamixer. In fact, > I've never pulled the alsa mixer up since install, I'm using PulseAudio, > and so have used the PulseAudio controls. In any event, I'm not sure > w

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread mudongliang
On 09/22/2015 02:49 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is there a good way to simply tell a package ma