Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april?

2017-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 05 June 2017 08:27:11 David Wright wrote: > >> On Mon 05 Jun 2017 at 11:10:12 (+), david...@freevolt.org wrote: >> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >Greetings all; >> > > >> > >100% uptodate wheezy install

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong

2017-06-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-06-04, Felix Miata wrote: > Sergei G composed on 2017-06-04 00:31 (UTC-0700): > >> I am trying to run Debian 8.8 under current version 5.1.22 of >> VirtualBox on Windows 10 and I am getting > >> Oh no! Something has gone wrong > >> error message. I went down

Re: apt-listchanges error

2017-05-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-25, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all; > > A while ago, while updating my Debian testing system, I got the > following error: > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up apt-listchanges (3.10) ... > > Traceback (most recent call last): > >File

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 07:36:08AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: >> On 05/23/2017 10:07 AM, Robert Hardy (r.hardy) wrote: >> >Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en >> >> In my setup it's: >> >> http://deb.debian.org

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
lation-en.bz2 from cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org without a hitch. The problem appears to be at your end, not with the mirror. By the way, please don't top-post. It irritates people here. > > -Original Message- From: Liam O'Toole > [mailto:liam.p.oto...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 May 2017 1

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-17, RavenLX wrote: > > > On 05/17/2017 12:20 PM, Robert Hardy (r.hardy) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I received this message when installing from the Debian 8.8 netinstall >> ISO (debian-8.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) >> >> Initial error was for ftp.uk.debian.org

Re: Firefox ESR 52 in stretch

2017-05-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-05-03, Anders Andersson wrote: > I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that > there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is > still using ESR 45. > > It would be really nice to have this newer version before stretch is

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-04-01, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:11:12 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a different sovereign state. -- Liam

Re: strange problem with chromium

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-31, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: (...) > > Apt-show-versions says I have 55.0.2883.75-6 with it being upgradeable > to 57.0.2987.98-1. Apt-get has had the chromium package on hold for > quite a few weeks now in Stretch. That is something you should look into.

Re: MATE in /usr AND in /usr/local

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-04-01, David Griffith wrote: > > I'm interested in tinkering with components of MATE and testing them > while leaving the APT-installed versions alone. I've built and > installed the components from the Github repos and installed them to > /usr/local/. I can't figure out how

Re: How to: 3 fingers tap to show Activities (Gnome Shell) ?

2017-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-23, Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I read the Debian wiki about Synaptics ( > https://wiki.debian.org/fr/SynapticsTouchpad ) but I can't figure out > how to activate 3 fingers tap... I would like to create a sort of > shortcut to show Activities

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2017 00:38:36 Richard Owlett wrote: >> With the installer from DVD 1 of 13 the first option in taskel is for >> choosing to have a desktop - the default is yes. > > Thanks, Richard! This is as I expected - the default

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-14, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > > > On 3/14/17 4:37 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-03-13, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: >>> Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : >>>> On Mon, Mar 13

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-13, Erwan David wrote: > Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why >>> at install time, is there no choice for the init

Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages

2017-03-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-05, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >> On Sunday 05 March 2017 02:52:25 Doug wrote: >>> On 03/04/2017 03:29 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> > On Saturday 04 March 2017 20:12:49 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >> <$aptitude search >>> >>

Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop

2017-02-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-02-15, Michael Siemmeister wrote: > Hello! > > This is the first time I am writing to a Debian mailing list. > Therefore I don't really know whether or not this is the right place > for this mail. Please tell me if not. I want to report the following > problem.

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-02-11, Curt wrote: > On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] >> I now have only the "Main Menu" icon. It has Applications, Places, >> and System as submenus. I wish to return to the original >> configuration. How? > > Reinstall for the umpteenth

Re: How to not start ssh-agent with XFCE4 desktop (only gpg-agent)?

2017-01-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-01-26, Teemu Likonen wrote: > --=-=-= > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I have a Debian testing XFCE4 desktop system and use gpg-agent to > manager ssh-agent protocol as well. There is "enable-ssh-support" in >

Re: Jessie or stretch for server

2017-01-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-01-12, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:25:30PM +0100, Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm going to install Debian on a file server (NFS and postgres) for a >> small group of people. It will be in an intranet, no direct connection >> to Internet. >>

Re: using offlineimap, notmuch and emacs etc....

2017-01-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-01-07, Michael Fothergill wrote: > --001a1145bd88af6ab6054580e973 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Folks, > > I have installed the utility offlineimap which is somewhat new to me. > > I found a web site that explained how to use it in

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

2016-12-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-08, Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from > Debian "testing": > > # apt-get install -t testing weechat > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-06, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:12:45 +0100 > Yvan Masson wrote: > > ... > >> I am almost sure that installing a XFCE desktop also installs >> NetworkManager to handle connections. > > I use (much / most of) Xfce without NM.

Re: systemd-resolved ipv6 resolving issue

2016-12-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-12-02, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > > I do have a weird issue. First the story. > > I switch a new debian install (jessie) from the /etc/network/interfaces > setup over to systemd-networkd. In addition I also enabled systemd-resolvd. > The address

Re: Detect upgradable packages in shell script ran as a non-root user

2016-11-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-30, Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to run a cron job which periodically checks if I have > upgradable packages. One way to do it is probably like this: > > $ apt-get upgrade -s | grep -q "^0 upgraded" > > In case exit code is >0, then there are upgradable

Re: gdm3 greeter banner question

2016-11-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-29, Malmberg, Breen wrote: > --_000_148045651342734270lanlgov_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I am attempting to display a lengthy text warning banner, in the GUI, befor= > e the user logs in, while

Re: Uninstalling Gnome

2016-11-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >&g

Re: Uninstalling Gnome

2016-11-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 2016-11-28, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi all Debian users. >>> >>> When I freshly insta

Re: Uninstalling Gnome

2016-11-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-28, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all Debian users. > > When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as > my Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I > want to remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used

Re: Vivaldi & apt-get?

2016-11-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-11-14, John Conover wrote: > > When updating vivaldi in Wheezy 7.X, I get "The following packages > have been kept back" vivaldi-stable. > > Vivaldi updates fine in Jessie 8.X. > > Both were i386, (32 bit,) installed via ".deb" files. > > How do I fix Wheezy? > >

Re: Graphics issues debian 8.6

2016-10-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-11, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm building a backup server which will be tucked away. For the odd times > that it needs administration, I want to be able to see the server's desktop > (XFCE) remotely. The server has a Gigabyte GA-H110N (Intel H110 chipset) >

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-10-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-07, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> >> On

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-02, Brian wrote: > On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 21:41:50 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 12:52:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> > >> > I have the same setup and all customisations (apart from hubbed_hosts) >> > have been done via debconf. TBH, I

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
know is why following the advice from Liam O'Toole doesn't work for me, >> even though I have followed the instructions exactly. >> > > I think Liam is describing a situation where the only mail-capable > machine is the server, in your example gnome.monet. He configured it to

Re: veeger is infected ...startx again

2016-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-02, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Ric Moore wrote: > >> Surprise, my sources list reflected Jessie, not Stretch or >> Sid. I FIXED that. > > Did you run an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after making changes to > sources.list? > > Hang in there. > At

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-01, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 01 Oct 2016 at 21:52:53 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2016-10-01, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Sat 01 Oct 2016 at 17:25:46 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> > >> >>

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-01, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 01 Oct 2016 at 17:25:46 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2016-10-01, mo <mo...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > First of all: >> > Thank you Liam for your help! :) >> > Thanks for the very nic

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-01, mo wrote: > First of all: > Thank you Liam for your help! :) > Thanks for the very nice and long explanation Mark! :) > > I think i should elaborate a little more on my setup.. i guess i did not > make that very clear in the first place, sorry about that. > > My

Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery

2016-09-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-30, mo wrote: > Hi fellow Debian users ;) > > First off some information. (both, the pc and the server run Debian Jessie): > > Distributor ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie) > Release: 8.6 > Codename: jessie > > Exim: > ii exim4

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900 >> Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at

Re: SOLVED Re: mysql broken after jessie upgrade

2016-09-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-22, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/09/16 16:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included >>> a new version of mysql. >> >>> It

Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

2016-09-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-16, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/16/2016 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: >> (Is there a particular reason you replied to me privately, rather than >> to the mailing list?) >> >>> I should probably mention that I'm using chromium as my browser; >>> getting firefox or

Re: permanently add dir to $PATH

2016-09-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:01:39AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> The other problem is trying to permanently add $HOME/bin to the $PATH. >> >> I have in .bash_profile >> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin >> export PATH >> >> But every time I boot I

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-15, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> Mail never appears at HOST1 /var/spool/mail/user2 >>> >>> >> >> Does user2 appear in the file /etc/aliases on HOST1? Is there a

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-14, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > >> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config > > Thanks, that was pretty painless. And thanks for the url to the > documentation section. > > I've now progres

Re: Bluetooth: impossible to send files from phone to computer

2016-09-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-13, Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I am having trouble connecting my phone to my computer via bluetooth. > I use Debian 8.5 gnome and my phone is a motorola G2. I use both gnome > default bluetooth tool and blueman but none of them work.

Re: exim4 some config error causing error how to pinpoint

2016-09-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-09-13, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've attempted to setup exim4 on a second debian OS, using the > working configuration from the older one. > > Before getting too detailed I think I see something in output of my > debug technique that indicated somewhere my host is telling

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> >> Hi, Gene. >> >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone >> > tell me where to get

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-15, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Some where about 6 weeks back I wound up with both, and I don't seem > to be able to make the -esr version work as default, it runs the > 47.0.1 version anyway. But wheezy is stuck on the older version. And > I don't care which

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-15, Bill Wohler wrote: > I'm getting the following: > > $ mysql -h localhost -u user > Enter password: > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using > password: YES) > > This user was created with a fresh installation of mysql as

Re: Keeping firefox up to date

2016-08-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-14, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone > tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Go to http://mozilla.debian.net/ and use the drop-down

Re: problem with version numbering in packages openssl and libssl1.0.0?

2016-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-12, Daniel <dan...@zift.no> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:24:31AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-08-12, Daniel <dan...@zift.no> wrote: >> > Is there a problem with the version numbering for the packages >> > "openssl" a

Re: problem with version numbering in packages openssl and libssl1.0.0?

2016-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-08-12, Daniel wrote: > Is there a problem with the version numbering for the packages > "openssl" and "libssl1.0.0"? It seems I get the version from > jessie/main and that the version from jessie/updates/main is > ignored because of the extra letter in the version number.

Re: The DISPLAY variable.

2016-08-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables has no mention > of the DISPLAY variable. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html > mentions DISPLAY only incidentally in the last section. > >

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-07-13, Frank Miles wrote: > I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. > These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) to > the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I try > to do a Windows Update

Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts

2016-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-06-10, Levi S. Darrell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> >> I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" in your >> /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default. That's >> for X itself (I know

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-16, Tomas Kral wrote: > Dear Pete and All, > > I also use LXDE on RPI, that is our second machine in the household. > > I quite like GNOME for its appearance ala MacOS, and the new version of > GNOME has got many new great ideas, it looks awesome, though it does

Re: configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-12, soko.tica wrote: > --001a1146456672df2d0532a72b01 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello list, > > I need to install a package (php54) on a VM running debian jessie (Here is > why https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp ). I have >

Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers

2016-05-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 09 May 2016 22:37:06 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable >> > proposition fo

Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers

2016-05-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz wrote: > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable > proposition for the desktop. True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support graphical

Re: Firefox install

2016-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-14, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/13/2016 12:04 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-04-13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: >>>> Hi Marc, >>>> &g

Re: Firefox install

2016-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: >> Hi Marc, >> >> firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. > > ?? > > And I have installed it from Jessie backports. Also from wheezy backports. > > Lisi > I take it you're

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-05, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > > Il 04/04/2016 20:44, Ralph Katz ha scritto: >> You could do something similar, or change permissions, for the whole >> kde sound file directory. A more proper method may exist, but simple >> works fine. > > Thanks for the suggestion, a

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-04, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> > >> > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  >> >

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally >> > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:47:29 Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] >> >> > I've just tried Channel 4 using Google Chrome[1] on jessie, and >> >> > it seems to work. I say "seems" because the si

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > On

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-14, Laszlo T. wrote: > No more Iceweasel brand. The Debian can use the Firefox name. So change the > repository > > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-release In the case of wheezy, that would be wheezy-backports. Also, note that firefox-esr is

Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

2016-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-09, Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > > --=-UdXi+Shlqsrm1vW2wBHc > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:18 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-03-09, Andy

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-09, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 20:13 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> I fill in user-id and password, click "Sign In" and the=C2=A0 >> screen goes blank, flashes a few times, then comes right=C2=A0 >> back to the sign in screen. Trying to log on with root

Re: GNOME 3, how do you ensure windows are grouped in the dash?

2016-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-09, Andy Smith wrote: [...] > I am aware that I could change my workflow. I could use one terminal > with screen or tmux or similar to have a different window on each > host. I know I could use terminator to have multiple terminal > windows inside one window. Or

Re: jessie backports letsencrypt

2016-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-08, Michael Bonert wrote: > Has any one managed to installed 'letsencrypt' on jessie? > > I note that there are a few bugs... saying it will be available in a week > or so -- a couple of weeks ago. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809018 >

Re: Using a dedicated partition for VBox install

2016-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-07, Levi Darrell wrote: > --001a1141fc9a8f98e7052d796452 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Has anybody had any luck using VBox to install a second system to a > dedicated partition on the host system, rather than a dynamically allocated > virtual hard

Re: Gnome GUI: status line issue

2016-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-06, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure now how that has happened, but probably somewhere during > the system upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (the upgrade done from within > GUI), one of my machines somehow lost the ability of the status line in > Gnome

Re: Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-03-02, Russell Gadd wrote: > --001a11383ed40febc2052d18b9b3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I have just installed Jessie with the Mate desktop. My screen is 1920 x > 1080. I find grabbing the edges or corner of a window with the mouse > pointer in

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > screen is blacked out and the two monitors starts showing the desktop. > No problems

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Markos wrote: > > > Em 27-01-2016 15:54, Frank McCormick escreveu: >> On 01/27/2016 08:36 AM, Markos wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. >>> What happened to it? >>> What is another similar alternative to gftp

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 01/27/2016 11:37 PM, Tixy wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 05:54 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> [...] I do not care about GNOME Package Updater and other GUI things, >>> since I still prefer CLI. However, notifications would be

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-30, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > --=-=-= > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Liam O'Toole [2016-01-30 14:20:30Z] wrote: > >> aptitude search ~new > > You mean: > > aptitude

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >&g

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Do you have gnome-software and packagekit installed? With those, upgrade >> notficiations should work. > > On my system both 'packagekit' and 'gnome-packagekit' are installed. > > Are sure about 'gnome-software' package name? I

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

2016-01-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-29, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 03:03:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-01-29, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: >> > On 2016-01-29, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: >&

Re: application autostart

2016-01-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-24, Luis Tabera wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running a plasma desktop fron debian sid. The package > korganizer adds a .desktop file in > > /etc/xdg/autostart/korgac.desktop > > That launches korganizer daemon at start of a plasma session. This launches >

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-18, Francis Gerund wrote: > The problem is (apparently) solved! > > When I originally installed using xfce, it installed network-manager, > which is what I have been using. Works fine. Then I added openbox to > try using as a stand-alone alternative to xfce. > >

Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

2016-01-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-01-20, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:29:57 + (UTC) > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2016-01-18, Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > The problem is (apparently) solved! >&g

Re: Debian Wheezy boot messages

2015-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-12-01, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 01 Dec 2015 at 12:33:23 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-11-30, Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jant...@mailbox.org> wrote: >> > Hallo, >> > >> > where are the messages stored that Debai

Re: Problems with Gmail IMAP on Icedove

2015-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have been trying to set up IMAP from two different accounts on Gmail in > Icedove: 31.8.0-1~deb7u1. I have tired changing the password in case I had > got it wrong, I have retyped everything several times, I have copied and > pasted,

Re: Debian Wheezy boot messages

2015-12-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-30, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hallo, > > where are the messages stored that Debain produces during booting (checking > of various components, startup of e.g. postgresql, messages issued by > /udev, > error messages in case a routine could not be started, etc). > >

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-27, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:59:26PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> might feel slow compared to a 'normal' installation.) The live iso, on >> the other hand, is intended for installation and system rescu

Re: debian 8.2 live "standard" install - how to set up wifi?

2015-11-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-26, Francis Gerund wrote: > --001a11c3b1dadc040205256a8a50 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello! > > I just installed debian 8.2 stable, using the live "standard" 64-bit iso. > The install was done using wifi, with no problem. > > Rebooting, I get a

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-25, rlhar...@oplink.net <rlhar...@oplink.net> wrote: > On Wed, November 25, 2015 7:22 am, Brian wrote: >> On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 11:29:52 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> David >>> is talking about using the USB as an installation target. >> >>

Re: Java (aka icedtea) plugin for iceweasel, settings

2015-11-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-25, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I can pass options to java programs by setting the environment variable > JAVA_ARGS. This works by ultimately passing the contents of the > variable on the command line to the java runtime binary, such as > /usr/bin/java; well behaved packages

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

2015-11-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-11-25, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, November 24, 2015 11:28 pm, David Christensen wrote: >> On 11/24/2015 09:16 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > ... >> I discovered the install-Debain-to-USB trick a couple of years ago, when >> I was using Wheezy. I am only

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-10-14, tom arnall wrote: > i read the piece on installing without systemd. i get the feeling > that the bottom line of it is: good luck. or am i missing something? > > who decided that Debian shd be locked to systemd? > > what did they do to poll the views of the

Re: What software can I use to remind me of daily tasks?

2015-10-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-10-09, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:08:31PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I'm looking for a free (as in freedom) software that will remind me of daily >> tasks. That is it: one in which I can program reminders to be shown daily

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-13, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun 13 Sep 2015 at 01:04:27 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-09-12, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Sat 12 Sep 2015 at 20:21:40 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> > >> >>

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-13, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 12-09-15 om 22:21 schreef Liam O'Toole: >> On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: >>> Op 09-09-15 om 23:43 schreef Liam O'Toole: >>>> On 2015-09-09, Paul van der Vlis

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 10-09-15 om 11:33 schreef Liam O'Toole: >> On 2015-09-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:46:42 Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>>> When I need

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 09-09-15 om 23:43 schreef Liam O'Toole: >> On 2015-09-09, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: >>> Op 09-09-15 om 12:20 schreef Liam O'Toole: >>> >>>> If you use flashplaye

Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

2015-09-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-09-12, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2015 at 20:21:40 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: >> > Op 09-09-15 om 23:43 schreef Liam O'Toole: >> >> >> >> I'

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