How to change GDM3 login screen background

2019-04-06 Thread Andrew Clark
Hi, I'm trying to update my gdm3 login screen background. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/GDM : Customizing the GDM appearance GDM v3.0+ allows for some basic customization, such as changing the logo icon, display background, and GTK theme. To do so: Edit

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 01:39:27PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later > with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know > that, > at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I

sources.list wheezy

2019-04-06 Thread galileu
Caros, Tenho esse excelente laptop com Debian Wheezy instalado e funcionando muito bem. Meu sources. list é este: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 4:44 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > 2. A lot of my editing involves editing near (but not at) the end of > > a file. I assume (I know) that the software that saves the file is > > smart enough not to rewrite the entire file but instead to preserve > > the beginning of the

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyway, I edit large files many times a day and try to save it at each > edit or partial edit (at a guess, one particular file is around 100 > MB, and I may save it 200 or more times a day). So, we're looking in the order of 100GB / day. > 1. I'd like to count how many times a day I actually

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 06.04.2019 22:39, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later > with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know > that, > at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I will call the > longevity

Flatpak and apparmor.

2019-04-06 Thread Georgios
Hi! I would like to know how i can set up an apparmor profile of a application i run through flatpak. For example. Lets say i have installed libreoffice through flatpak. In order to start it I must run "flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice --writer" How do i set up a profile with

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 4/4/19 10:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: I frankly don't care if it needs users. To get users, it has to work. If it doesn't work at least as well as synaptic, it will never get the users. If thats not plain enough to the people making these descisions, tuff luck. This stuff gets its users by

Re: Changement des dépôts pou Debian 8 Jessie

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/04/2019 à 18:54, Martin Vézina a écrit : Je crois que j'ai trouvé? Modifier "http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ " pour "http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/; pour "jessie-updates main" J'en doute. 1) Le répertoire "dists" est implicite, on ne le met pas dans l'URL. 2) Le contenu du

Re: cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/04/2019 à 17:25, olivier.platus a écrit : C'est une cle made in china Elles le sont toutes ou presque. achetee chez cdiscount pour 5 euros. Par contre, cela me paraît très bon marché pour une clé de 128 Go. comment verifier de facon definitive et plus que sur que cette cle est

Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-06 Thread rhkramer
Background: I am considering buying a new disk (and will write an email later with some other questions or observations about the process), but I know that, at least often for SSD drives, they now specify what I will call the longevity in terms of TB TBW (iiuc, that is terabytes total bytes

Re: Changement des dépôts pou Debian 8 Jessie

2019-04-06 Thread Martin Vézina
Je crois que j'ai trouvé? Modifier "http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ " pour "http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/; pour "jessie-updates main" source.list     # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 kde-CD Binary-1 20160917-14:22]/ jessie main     deb

Re: cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread olivier.platus
C'est une cle made in china achetee chez cdiscount pour 5 euros. J'ai tape la ligne a nouveau : mkfs.ext4 -v /dev/sdb2 mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) résolution de fs_types pour mke2fs.conf : 'ext4' Étiquette de système de fichiers= Type de système d'exploitation : Linux Taille de bloc=4096 (log=2)

Re: Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Paul Sutton
On 06/04/2019 15:22, Mindaugas Celiesius wrote: > Hello. Check this errata for Buster Alpha 5 > > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata > Sorry I clicked reply not reply list, so resending to the list Thanks I am just installing now, and will check /etc/apt/sources.list after

Re: cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/04/2019 à 16:47, olivier.platus a écrit : blkid /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2: PARTUUID="6a51eb54-02" file -s /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2: data wipefs /dev/sdb2 (rien ne se passe) e2fsck /dev/sdb2 e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) ext2fs_open2: Numéro magique invalide dans le super-bloc (...) J'ai fait un

Re: cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread olivier.platus
Merci de repondre. Desole pour l'attente mais le pc et midori sont souvent KO par la java et cela m'enerve beaucoup ! Je tape les lignes demandees : blkid /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2: PARTUUID="6a51eb54-02" file -s /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2: data wipefs /dev/sdb2 (rien ne se passe) e2fsck /dev/sdb2 e2fsck

Re:Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Mindaugas Celiesius
Hello. Check this errata for Buster Alpha 5 https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

Debian buster installer says Debian 9

2019-04-06 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I created a fresh Debian non free install disk yesterday for Debian Buster.  Booting in to this, the initial screen for graphical install says Debian 9.  Has anyone else noticed this. This is the contents of the directory with the ISO in firmware-buster-DI-alpha1-amd64-DVD-1.iso  MD5SUMS 

Re: cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/04/2019 à 14:15, olivier.pla...@laposte.net a écrit : mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1 parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 551MiB 8743MiB # càd 8Go mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2 mkdir /media/{efi,data} mount /dev/sdb1 /media/efi mount /dev/sdb2 /media/data (...) Cependant apres la ligne creant le systeme de

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 23:06:13 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 14:21:21 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 April 2019 11:05:00 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Indeed, and running the UI toolkit code as root was always > > > considered a bad design pattern,

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 April 2019 22:39:23 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 17:01:33 (-0400), Lee wrote: > > On 4/5/19, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:56:49PM -, Curt wrote: > > >> > My understanding is

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > If synaptic, as somebody else has mentioned, helps with more complicated > upgrades (where maybe lots of packages have to be removed and then (I hope) > reinstalled, I might give synaptic a try. So as far as GUI package managers go in Debian,

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 15:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 21:34:15 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > > Another well-known one is GParted, which doesn't really have an > > alternative for people to use instead... > > Does parted not do the same things? No, it can do some things

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 17:01 -0400, Lee wrote: > That's what I don't understand. Why remove the package if it's only > a problem with some desktops? In fact, it's not even a problem on Gnome + Wayland, as you should be able to run Synaptic as root with XWayland and the “right” xhost setting

cle usb multiboot

2019-04-06 Thread olivier . platus
Bonjour. Je souhaite creer une cle usb multiboot. J'utilise une cle usb 2.0 de 134GB ou 125Go connectee a un port usb 1.1 d'une ordinateur 32 bits (pentium 2 avec 512Mo de memoire vive). Le systeme d'exploitation est debian stretch 9.5 pour i386 . Je travaille sous xwindow + twm + xterm et le

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 06, 2019 04:56:22 AM David wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > Newbie asks "how do I do X in Gnome" ... and no-one there knows the answer > :) This might be less of an issue in other distros than it is in Debian. > > > Thing is, beyond its innate and

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 19:56 +1100, David wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > > My impression from my general reading here is quite a few people > > rely on > > the synaptic package manager. I use apt-get; it's pie-like > > simplicity > > comforts me. > > Speaking in very broad

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

2019-04-06 Thread john doe
On 4/5/2019 10:26 PM, Chris XX wrote: > I was trying to Verify the authenticity of Debian CDs on your website, but What flavor of Debian do you want to instal? What OS ("linux","Windows,""Mac") are you using to download "Debian"? > I don't see instructions that will guide me through the process

Re: mais ou est passee la place manquante ?

2019-04-06 Thread Étienne Mollier
Pascal Hambourg, au 2019-04-06 : > Le 04/04/2019 à 23:21, Étienne Mollier a écrit : > > Mais finalement, peut-être qu'on pourrait directement utiliser > > le fichier bloc stockant /home tel que rapporté par la commande > > `df`, plutôt que d'aller voir dans le fichier fstab, si > > d'aventure il

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread David
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 19:08, Curt wrote: > > My impression from my general reading here is quite a few people rely on > the synaptic package manager. I use apt-get; it's pie-like simplicity > comforts me. Speaking in very broad terms to make a general and somewhat obvious point, we could say

Re: mais ou est passee la place manquante ?

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/04/2019 à 10:40, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Encore plus simple : comme mount, tune2fs accepte directement la syntaxe UUID= ou LABEL= à la place du nom de périphérique. Il fallait bien sûr lire "LABEL=". Attention aux espaces dans l'étiquette qui sont échappés dans /etc/fstab, à éviter

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 08:07:41 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2019-04-05, Lee wrote: > > > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and > > quit?

Re: mais ou est passee la place manquante ?

2019-04-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/04/2019 à 23:21, Étienne Mollier a écrit : hamster, au 2019-04-04 : #!/bin/bash homeUUID=$(grep "/home" /etc/fstab | grep -v "#" | cut -d"=" -f2 | cut -d" " -f1); homedevice=$(ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | grep $homeUUID | cut -d"/" -f3); tune2fs -m 0 /dev/$homedevice; (...) Ceci étant,

Re: scanner epson 3170

2019-04-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/04/2019 à 15:28, Bernard Schoenacker a écrit : > bonjour, > > je souhaiterai utiliser un scanner ancien [...] > je me suis rendu chez epson mais c'est pour du rpm en 32 bits > > comment trouver le bon pilote ad'hoc ? A mon avis: - tu devras passer ton système en multi-architecture

Re: Changement des dépôts pou Debian 8 Jessie

2019-04-06 Thread Fabien R
On 06/04/2019 00:30, Martin Vézina wrote: > W: Impossible de récupérer > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/InRelease  Impossible > de trouver l'entrée « main/source/Sources » attendue dans le fichier > « Release » : ligne non valable dans sources.list ou fichier corrompu > > E: Le

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-05, Lee wrote: > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and quit? > > Everybody pays the price because it doesn't work with Gnome

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:39:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: "Why not make a [Conflicts:] with Wayland / Gnome? It's not possible to make sure that synaptic installs on a [Conflicts:] that would remove Wayland?" This is probably the easiest option to support as it should be possible to

Re: Changement des dépôts pou Debian 8 Jessie

2019-04-06 Thread francesco scaglione
On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:30:56 -0400 Martin Vézina wrote: > Depuis plus de 24 heurs j'ai un erreur lors du "ap-get update" > > Il y as eu un déplacement de dépôt vers les archives ... > > Je ne sais pas quoi et comment modifier mon "sources.liste" > > Si vous-pouvez me donnée une idée de comment

Re: Changement des dépôts pou Debian 8 Jessie

2019-04-06 Thread Francois Mescam
vim /etc/apt/sources.list Francois Mescam On 06/04/2019 00:30, Martin Vézina wrote: > > Depuis plus de 24 heurs j'ai un erreur lors du "ap-get update" > > Il y as eu un déplacement de dépôt vers les archives ... > > Je ne sais pas quoi et comment modifier mon "sources.liste" > > Si vous-pouvez