abdelkader belahcene:
my debian
What version?
doesn't detect the video card but ubuntu live ( and other live
like linuxMint Mepis..) , I want to copy the file xorg.conf from ubuntu
live to the installed debian, problem ther is no xorg.conf or it is empty,
it seems that new version of
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'fighting
dependencies'. I run Sid, and while I occasionally have to hold back
a few packages, and can't always do a complete, full upgrade, it's
simply a matter of
Foss User:
I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to
manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such
configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so?
Because these settings (SSID, encryption) just don't apply to Ethernet.
With wifi, you have a
dr.hugo.z.hackenbush:
Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root
but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in
terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please?
You need to login again after adding your user to the floppy group. Did
you
Nate Bargmann:
Since a couple of you are recommending maildir, is there an easy way to
transisition from mox format to maildir?
$ apt-cache search convert mbox maildir
mb2md - Converting Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format
I also have my procmail working well sort each mailing list into its
Thomas Steinbach:
ich habe mir ein neues Board reinsetzen muessen, wobei
sich auch viel anders geaendert hat. Alos neue CPU, Ram,
Grafikkarte, etc.
Nun startet mein debian nicht mehr. Klar, war ja
auch vorher Athlon64 und nun Phenom, sowie anderer
Chipsatz...
Das sollte alles egal sein,
Siju George:
Where do I get usb install images for lenny and how do I write it to
the USB drive?
In the installation manual. :)
Wait, lmgtfy:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en
J.
--
I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble
comprehending a nuclear
Nuno Magalhães:
Jochen Schulz:
The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk
isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use
smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors.
Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a Maxtor
Nuno Magalhães:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM:
I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age.
I second that.
Thanks for the input but i can't see how hard-drive failiure would
make
Alan Chandler:
In the latest SID update, it appears that all the close buttons from my
windows have disappeared (along with the minimize and maximize button).
I am using standard Gnome, so I assume its the metacity window manager
doing this
Is metacity running at all?
J.
--
I'm being
Tixy:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust
the CPU freq, according to its load.
When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny install, I
noticed that it was using 100% CPU time with the
Charlie Dorff:
Could someone please explain how to put a debian iso image onto a usb flash
drive? Thank you in advance.
The Debian Installation Guide contains a section explaining this. The
basic idea is that you just need to install a bootloader and a kernel
and then can copy any ISO to the
T o n g:
Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can
synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on
different hosts, propagating the changes between them?
This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my
notebook and
Danesh Daroui:
I have deleted my /tmp directory by mistake.
Generally, that shouldn't be a problem, since no application should
expect to find data stored in there after a reboot anyway. Just recreate
it and do 'chmod 1777 /tmp' afterwards.
I would like to ask if there is anyway to retrieve
Merciadri Luca:
However, when booting Debian, it is put at 75%, and keeps using this
value until I change it (by clicking on the applet, and choosing
Performance or 2.66Ghz, or 100%).
What does
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
say after bootup?
I thought it
Merciadri Luca:
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de writes:
What does
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
say after bootup?
Ondemand, the same as what appears in the applet, after boot. However,
despite Ondemand, even a huge CPU load does not make Debian asking
Emanoil Kotsev:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Don't you read the replies to your mails? There is no way to tell apt
which architecture to fetch packages for. Not in sources.list nor
anywhere else.
You mean that if I say
debootstrap --verbose lenny testdeb/
There is no way to let
Dale:
2009/9/17 K. Jantzen k.d.jant...@t-online.de:
in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line saying
Starting MTA:
It takes ages until Debian comes up with exim4. Thus booting takes
quite some time.
What does that mean?
Do I have to have that?
Exim4 is Debian's
Michal:
MTA is mail transfer agent, exim is one of those, like sendmail,
postfix et al, and you can remove this. Check the guide under
install/remove some software
update-rc.d -f exim remove
This is bad advice for various reasons.
- It doesn't solve the problem, it's just a workaround.
-
Sjoerd Hardeman:
Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not
follw symlinks in copying. That should do.
Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some
packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these
users. Even if you
Sjoerd Hardeman:
Jochen Schulz schreef:
Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some
packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these
users. Even if you install the same set of packages on a new system, you
have no guarantee that these users
Robert P. J. Day:
anyway, that's what i'm thinking -- one subsystem or component at a
time, so i can appreciate the distinctions between all the parts. ftp
server. mail server. web server and configuration.
good idea? too much work? thoughts?
As I already said: it clearly is too
Emanoil Kotsev:
Hi, this is a question I was going to ask in few weeks as I planned to learn
how I can migrate from 32 to 64 bit debian distro.
It looks like it's not possible to just upgrade i.e. replacing the sources
in apt/source.list?
You can try finding all occurences of i386 and
Alex Samad:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
This is only true for users with a UID 100, as these are defined and
maintained by the base-passwd package. System users with a higher UID
get their UID and GID allocated at package installation time and use the
Emanoil Kotsev:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Yes, groups created by a package are not removed, not even on purge (I
still have the 'Debian-exim' user and group, though I purged it and
replaced it with postfix). If that same package is reinstalled it will
reuse the user:group, this is why it should
Emanoil Kotsev:
You are right, that I'm not targeting the same approach. Migration of data
and services involves too much manual work. However I was thinking that
after replacing the package sources in source.list you could force
reinstall if every single package that has the status
Guillaume CHARDIN:
So on intel plateform (the one i have is P4) I have to use amd64 images :)
Nice :)
This is because AMD developed the 64 Bit extensions that Intel uses (as
a licensee) as well. From a user's perspective, the naming is a bit
unfortunate, but it is giving credit where credit
Alex Samad:
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:08:15PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I am running 2.6.31 since at least -rc4 and have no problems. I just
don't like the changes regarding the rfkill framework. On my Thinkpad
X200, Fn-F5 switched on/off bluetooth only and the switch on the side
Mark Allums:
Anyone with experience with 2.6.31 yet? Anything we need to know?
I am running 2.6.31 since at least -rc4 and have no problems. I just
don't like the changes regarding the rfkill framework. On my Thinkpad
X200, Fn-F5 switched on/off bluetooth only and the switch on the side
Dave Witbrodt:
In short, it looks very good. I am using a very carefully customized
.config file, however, and no experimental/unstable features such as KMS
(kernel mode setting).
KMS works very fine here (recent Intel graphics) since I learned that
you have to disable the framebuffer
Please don't top-post.
Umarzuki Mochlis:
I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to
postgres or mysql.
Didn't you look at the existing documentation?
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreSQL
J.
--
I worry about people thinking I
Daniel Dalton:
The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the
usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's
a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3?
Yes and no. The hd is probably dying, but if I were you, I would search
for a replacement of
a dehqan:
How is it possible to save mms live videos with good quality ?yes mimms is a
software that perform this but no good quality.
As far as I can see, mimms just downloads what the server sends without
reencoding it. In other words: you cannot do anything about the quality
except
Jesus arteche:
I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do you
recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...
What exactly do you need? If all you need is an MTA, I propose Postfix
or Exim. But since you brought Zimbra into play I suspect you need more
than plain mail delivery.
Ron Johnson:
On 2009-09-02 05:30, Paul Richards wrote:
Is there a way to combine a large slow drive with a fast small drive
in such a way that the faster drive simply becomes a cache for the
larger drive?
-- snip
I'd think about selling the SSD and either buy more RAM or a SCSI
controller
Paul Richards:
2009/9/2 Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de:
My recommendation: buy more RAM, install the OS to an SSD and copy the
data most often used there as well. Put the rest on a regular disk and
write a boot script to force the data you are interested in into the
filesystem cache
Ron Johnson:
On 2009-09-02 11:38, Paul Richards wrote:
[snip]
An SSD cache has a number of benefits over a filesystem cache in RAM.
Price per GB will be much lower, and also it will persist over a
An SSD drive cheaper than RAM sticks??
Sure. An 80GB ntel X25m still costs at least 200,-
Kevin Ross:
Using an SSD as a cache for a hard drive isn't a good idea, since
SSD's are orders of magnitude slower in writing than hard drives are.
That strongly depends on the model. Intel SSDs are significantly faster
than traditional hard disks when doing random writes. Other SSDs are
Daniel Dalton:
However, midway through the sync process, the fs is set to read only as
there seem to be errors with certain files.
If I remount, I can't remove these effected files,
What error message do you get? What's in dmesg output?
the only way to fix
things is to make use of
Mohammed Rashad:
I am using Debian Lenny 5.0
when i open login manager select properties of root account home directory
for root changes from /root to /home/root
What do you want to achieve?
How do you try to reach that goal?
What do you expect to happen?
What happens instead?
J.
--
I
Jerome BENOIT:
can OpenVPN connect to a Juniper network ?
I don't think so. OpenVPN uses its own approach to establishing a VPN. I
would be very surprised if Juniper had copied it (or vice versa). You
need to find out whether Juniper invented something on their own or uses
standard protocols
Jerome BENOIT:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Jerome BENOIT:
can OpenVPN connect to a Juniper network ?
I don't think so. OpenVPN uses its own approach to establishing a VPN. I
would be very surprised if Juniper had copied it (or vice versa). You
need to find out whether Juniper invented something
Nuno Magalhães:
This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and
the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important
commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird
boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - like
Girish Kulkarni:
According to its authors, libdvdcss is designed for accessing DVDs
like a block device without having to bother about the decryption. I
don't want to do that; I just want to decrypt what I should be able to
decrypt.
Or am I getting things wrong here?
Yes. Almost all
Johannes:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer,
you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed
descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like
libdvdcss. The latter may be illegal in some
Girish Kulkarni:
Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?
Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5.
Are you aware that you usually cannot change the drive's region code an
arbitrary amount of times? At least from what I know,
Paul Cartwright:
this morning I noticed there was no new email, but when I went to webmail (
squirrelmail) on my hosts servers, there was email . This is the error
message I am getting in /var/log/syslog:
Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: timeout after 300 seconds
waiting
hce:
I am going to create ext3 file system to an external USB HDD for being
used as an backup storage. I am not clear if it is necessary to
reserve super user blocks (5% by default), could you please advise?
I do that only for filesystems which make the system (partly) unusable
when they are
Hans Gatu:
I downloaded the
isohttp://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-cd/debian-502-i386-kde-CD-1.isoand
burned a CD.
After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM
window manager.
I am NOT interrested in using TWM.
I expect the KDE to show up.
Mark:
- used shred command to blank memory stick
- used GParted to create 2 partitions: (1) a 1 GB FAT16 partition that I
made bootable via Manage Flags; (2) the remainder (~6.6 GB) I formatted to
ext3
- followed the instructions here
Paul E Condon:
What are the packages that actually implement this feature? Can I
simply install those packages and have the feature without having the
rest of Gnome? Does it come automatically if I attempt to transition
to Xfce, for example?
Xfce has a checkbox somewhere in the settings GUI
K. Kiranbabu:
Greetings of the Day from SAMEER. We want to know that the Debian
for PowerPC development of yours supports the MPC5554 PowerPC architecture.
PowerPC belongs to the architectures supported by Debian, yes.
If so I request you to send the details downloading the
a dehqan:
In The Name Of God
Which one? :)
ifconfig wlan0 down
/etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6
iwconfig wlan0 essid allah
iwconfig wlan0 key 12346
The latter enables WEP encryption. WEP is better than nothing, but
offers no
Siggy Brentrup:
Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to
run otherwise unused SW?
I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question:
where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient
hardware? Is there anything you really need from
Siggy Brentrup:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question:
where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient
hardware? Is there anything you really need from squeeze on this
machine? Do
Mark:
Has anyone had success using the method described here
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2)
using a DVD .iso image?
I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.
J.
Ron Johnson:
On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.
pedantry
Linux uses the udf fs for DVD BlueRay disks.
/pedantry
I expected that, too, but:
$ file iso
Patrick Wiseman:
I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser)
because the version available to me through aptitude doesn't like my
ELF64 system. The source comes with a 'builddeb.sh' script, but it
fails with './builddeb.sh: line 4: debuild: command not found'.
Obviously
Kevin Ross:
ke...@htpc:~$ dd bs=1 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=5GB
-- snip
ke...@htpc:~$ /sbin/mke2fs sparse
-- snip
The filesystem has 4.4 GB available to it, but it's currently only taking up
77 MB of disk space.
Neat! Thanks for sharing that.
J.
--
After the millenium I would
AG:
With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of
the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the
Update Notification?
I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day)
using 'sudo aptitude update sudo aptitufe
AG:
As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the
scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with
these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are
superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user?
I can only speak
Mark:
Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but
recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had
success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap
partition?
I ran my previous laptop with 768MB of RAM for several
Eric d'Alibut:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Schulzm...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Do you have any concrete problems or are you asking in advance?
I should have posted the problem I was having, which concerns
running ikiwiki.cgi. I am getting Premature end of script headers
when
Eric d'Alibut:
I notice the ikiwiki docs provide httpd server config hints only for
Apache 2 and lighttpd. Should I take this as an implicit hint that my
attempt to run ikiwiki (that *is* hard to type!) on the older Apache
vintage are foolhardy, extremely ill-advised, a recipe for disaster,
Long Wind:
I have a mp3 file
When I play it, the sound volume is too low even if I set highest
volume in sound mixer
Is there any utility that change mp3 file?
mp3gain can be used to make several files have the same peak volume.
J.
--
Fashion is more important to me than war, famine,
Paul E Condon:
I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside,
not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format
maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see
what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do
Alex Samad:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:38:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
I don't understand what you mean about mono. I don't think that I have
any mono stuff on my system, and IIUC, Debian won't install it unless
isn't the new gnome package going to bring in mono as a default
Only if you
Dirk:
Ok, let us assume I wouldn't be able to remove HAL from a installed
Debian without breaking X11 permanently and I have a random problem
(pick one from this list:
http://www.google.com/search?q=HAL+problem+linux).
Previously, you said not only HAL itself is the problem, but the
Dirk:
the X11 in debian/unstable is very broken right now. It requires HAL
which i replaced with a dummy package and now the DontZap option in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is also broken... I can't quit X11 with ctrl+alt+bs
anymore...
I have that problem as well and I am using the real HAL
Jörg-Volker Peetz:
aptitude keep-all
cancels all scheduled actions on all packages (from the man-page).
Ah, thanks. I didn't know that. That one helped.
J.
--
I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undying gratitude.
[Agree] [Disagree]
abdelkader belahcene:
I was suprised by the xorg on debian 5.02 (the latest release). There is no
file xorg.conf in /etc/X11.
X.org nowadays tries to autoconfigure itself. If everything works, you
don't need an xorg.conf anymore. If it doesn't, you can write a minimal
/etc/X11/xorg.conf where
Jörg-Volker Peetz:
First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package:
aptitude why-not package-name
$ sudo aptitude install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states...
Andrew M.A. Cater:
Upgrades between releases
=
You'll hear lots of views on this. SUBJECTIVE OPINION FOLLOWS:GUT
FEELING AND EXPERIENCE IN EQUAL PARTS. Ubuntu is harder to upgrade
cleanly between releases and it may actually be quicker to reinstall.
You
Hi,
due to a major brainfart on my part, I recently had to reinstall my sid
system. To quickly install all packages I had installed on my previous
installation, I used 'dpkg --set-selections', feeding it a file created
on the old system. An 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' and an hour later my
system
Suno Ano:
Jochen - How should I proceed concerning the auto/manual status of all
Jochen those packages?
below you can see how I replicate a system; since two or so years now, I
simply inject the package list on the new system and then aptitude
install does the trick i.e. there is no
Pawel Cholewinski:
I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer
agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why.
And which is unsafe and why.
I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure.
Exim is Debian's default MTA
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
In 20090706212028.gd31...@wasteland.homelinux.net, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure.
Sendmail gets more modern all the time, but m4 is quite the beast for
configuration files. Still, if you learn it you'll
Giorgos Pallas:
- failed to create a file system
The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
failed
-- snip
Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?
I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few days
ago. I think it is a bug,
Chris Jones:
Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based
applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here...
irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice.
How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good
Raffaele Morelli:
I bought a LinkSys WRT54GL wirelss router and I am going to configure
it to extend my DSL connection at home.
I am not new to debian but network(ing) skills are modest.
Does anyone own this device and running debian?
Yes, I do. I am running OpenWrt on it, though.
Any
Raffaele Morelli:
1. assign a static ip to the WRT in the range of 192.168.1.0/24 but
different from the one of DSL modem
Most probably you will not need to do that since this is the default
behaviour of the WRT. The public (modem) interface gets its IP address
assigned automatically.
2.
明覺:
thanks, but before I got the benifit of so many languages, I have been
tired of learning them, maybe it cannot be called learning, it's
just some parallel memory, for none of them bring new concepts to
C/C++.
This is plain wrong. How do you do closures in C/C++? What about higher
order
Micha Feigin:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:39:53 +0800
明覺 shi.min...@gmail.com wrote:
Then what's the only one language for linux? I think
it's C/C++.
I'm afraid you are out of luck. All the init scripts are as the name sugests,
scripts (you may get away without bash but you won't get away
Todd A. Jacobs:
However, installing it doesn't seem to update the plugins, or create an
option in update-alternatives for selecting sun-java6-plugin over gcjweb
or icedtea. How exactly did you get it to work with iceweasel?
Most of the time, the best way to configure the numerous java
DHL Sicherheitscenter:
Lieber DHL-Kunde,
Achtung, Phishing (falls das nicht offensichtlich war). Abuse-Meldung an
Hetzner ist raus.
J.
--
When I am doing sex I wonder if my emotions can be detected by alien
civilisations.
[Agree] [Disagree]
lee:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Spying?
look at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
They get a list of sites you have visited --- and who knows what else.
No, they don't get that list. At least, you
Daryl Styrk:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:52:56PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
mutt + muttprint give acceptable results, but I have no idea how to
script it.
Wow muttprint want the following...
-- snip
Yeah, sorry. I forgot that muttprint is ridiculously heavy if you don't
use Latex
Johannes Wiedersich:
Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should
basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of
the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the
email without attachments.
It's quite a few mails in a
St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology:
I downloaded *DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site
( 2 ISO images)*, I tried to install it on my* Intel Core2 Duo* machine.
For an Intel Core2Duo you need an amd64 image, not ia64. The latter is
only for Itanium
Oliver Schneider:
Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is
there a cross compiler tool chain which is used to do the builds and
if so, is it available to the Debian users?
As far as I know, all packages ending up in the official archive need to
be built on their own
Paul Johnson:
ZephyrQ wrote:
I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying
eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3.
Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being
saddled with cell phone that won't play
Jan Willem Stumpel:
Section ServerFlags
Option DontZapoff
EndSection
By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a
non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing?
No, that's exactly what you are supposed to do.
J.
--
I throw away plastics and think
Martin McCormick:
Is there any sort of instant message application that can run in
a command-line terminal, similar to talkd?
mcabber, irssi.
J.
--
I have never been happier than I am now; a fact which depresses me
immensely.
[Agree] [Disagree]
Miguel Obliviemo:
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Do you want to run another window manager *inside Gnome*? Then you need
to kill metacity and directly afterwards start your preferred window
manager: pkill metacity openbox.
Well, I admit I don't know what inside Gnome means
Miguel Obliviemo:
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo mig...@view.net.au wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
M. Lewis:
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
This can always happen if your (aptitude|apt-get) update happens in the
middle of your mirror being updated from the main repository. Maybe you
just need to update again.
J.
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Harry Rickards:
On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea
how openbox handles background images.
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Sorry for not making it clearer, but I want to change the colour of the
background
Harry Rickards:
-- snip lots of useful info
Thanks for the help and pointers.
Thanks for sharing your findings!
J.
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Harry Rickards:
I was wondering whether it was possible to give a path to the SSH
Private Key in the ~/.ssh/config config file, instead of having to give
it as an option. I can't find anything by RTFM, or STFW. Thanks.
I think it's IdentityFile, documented in ssh_config(5).
J.
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Daryl Styrk:
I'm looking for some input from the list. Does anyone have one running
Debian?
http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/debian-lenny-tar-ball
J.
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