Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

On 02/22/12 19:15, yudi v wrote: Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, then it's the same: startx Ok I cannot launch X session from tty7, default console, as the normal user. But if I change the allowed_users value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file from "console" to "anybody", I can

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

> > Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, > then it's the same: > startx Ok I cannot launch X session from tty7, default console, as the normal user. But if I change the allowed_users value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file from "console" to "anybody", I can launch it from tty7. >From

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

On 02/22/2012 05:18 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: ~$ python -c "print (' '.join([str.capitalize(x) for x in 'NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD'.split(' ')]))" Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, And Harvey B. Pollard ^ I believe the 'A' in "and" should not

Re: Nepomuk

> I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. So why do we have to have it? It > hogs the CPU and has an enormous database. I certainly do not have enough > file to justify a 60Mb database. > > Is it possible to stop it from working in KDE? And what about nepomuk? > I'd like to stop that too. Do I ha

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 14:05 +, francis picabia wrote: > > Hello, > > One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to > see the error: > > server reached MaxClients setting > > After it, the server slowly spirals

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > francis picabia wrote: >> One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to >> see the error: >> >> server reached MaxClients setting > > Why is it frustrating? Yes, maybe you don't know this condition. Suppose you have hun

[SOLVED!!!] Weird Wifi problem -- WPA-EAP TTLS fails

There's a bit of acronym-soup here, for context check out the list archives from May 2011. I had this weird WPA-EAP TTLS problem at that time, and have now finally gotten it resolved. The key was to finally run a packet sniffer on the wireless port and watch the authentication as it went

Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party!

Have you ever wondered how to start getting involved in Debian/Ubuntu? Do you enjoy discovering new games and playing them? You might want to come to the games screenshot party! We hope that the party will be a fun, easy, low-commitment way to get involved. The Debian/Ubuntu games team is organisi

Re: Nepomuk

--- On Wed, 2/22/12, Shaun Jones wrote: >  In the control panel you can turn it off I believe it was > in the advanced tab. Yes, one could try to do that but in my case that POS is still running. I tried to kill it (and I thought I did) but it just won't die! :( # ps -A u | grep -i Nepomuk lus

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Re: Nepomuk

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. So why do we have to have it? It > hogs the CPU and has an enormous database. I certainly do not have enough > file to justify a 60Mb database. > > Is it possible to stop it from working in KDE? And

Nepomuk

I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. So why do we have to have it? It hogs the CPU and has an enormous database. I certainly do not have enough file to justify a 60Mb database. Is it possible to stop it from working in KDE? And what about nepomuk? I'd like to stop that too. Do I have to exi

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Re: unresponsive keyboard

On 2/22/2012 11:20 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:28:53PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that >>> time my keyboard became unresponsive. > >

Re: max bandwidth measurement tool

On Mi, 22 feb 12, 10:25:07, hvw59601 wrote: > > Is there a tool that will tell me what my max bandwith is at any one moment? No, you can only measure what is being transfered at any given time, but this may or may not be the maximum available bandwidth. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discuss

Re: unresponsive keyboard

On Mi, 22 feb 12, 10:23:54, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > This is on a desktop. Thanks for the attempt. It makes sense to try it anyway (it's not obvious from your answer if you already did). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debia

Re: [OT] GUI handler for executeable scripts.

peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >An executeable script /home/peter/Desktop/script.sh appears >as an icon in the LXDE desktop. A double-click on it, >starts it executing. In a Fedora system I use, a double >-click on such an icon produces a dialogue offering choices: >[Run in Terminal] [Display] [Can

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

francis picabia wrote: > One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to > see the error: > > server reached MaxClients setting Why is it frustrating? Is that an error? Or is that protection against a denial of service attack? I think it is protection. The default for De

Re: max bandwidth measurement tool

On 02/22/2012 12:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: What about using the speed test tool at dslreports.com? https://secure.dslreports.com/speedtest --b On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, My ISP is messing with my bandwith and it is getting lower all the time. I can find out wh

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

Dom wrote: > I think it would have been nice to have a warning of this change of > behaviour. I have apt-listchanges installed and I'm sure it didn't > notify me of any changes. These types of changes are discussed in debian-devel. In a released system they would be in the release notes. But sin

[OT] GUI handler for executeable scripts.

An executeable script /home/peter/Desktop/script.sh appears as an icon in the LXDE desktop. A double-click on it, starts it executing. In a Fedora system I use, a double -click on such an icon produces a dialogue offering choices: [Run in Terminal] [Display] [Cancel] [Run]. I'd guess that t

Re: New computer planned

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:58:03PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > The computer consultant has actually printed out on a piece of > A5-sized paper just what he's offering. I'm going to ignore the > Intel Core i3-2100 with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM and get the higher > spec. machine. > It will have Inte

Re: New computer planned -- (cleaning old keyboard)

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> >> Maybe I should keep the keyboard I am using. >> It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. > >   How to clean a dirty (fatty) keyboard: >   -- > > Mix liquid ammonia concentrate

Re: max bandwidth measurement tool

hvw59601 wrote at 2012-02-22 10:25 -0600: > Is there a tool that will tell me what my max bandwith is at any one moment? You can check your system-wide *usage* with iftop or bwm-ng. I do not know of any package in Debian that automates up/down bandwidth testing. But you can look at

Re: unresponsive keyboard

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:44:24PM -0500, Doug wrote: .snip > > > Just in case you're running an external keyboard on a laptop, I've found > that doing so, and using a USB adapter to plug it in, makes the k/b work > funny on a cold boot: I have to disconnect and then

Computer Usage Issue - tty_ldisc_reinit

I recently started having the follow occur when I boot into multi-user mode in stock Debian Squeeze 6.0.4: [ cut here ]  WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-41-amd64-ReqhZF/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:738 tty_ldisc_reinit

Re: unresponsive keyboard

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:28:53PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that > > time my keyboard became unresponsive. .snip. > > > > Short of reinstalling, I

Re: Manual's Tutorial #2 fails to boot from menu

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Re: max bandwidth measurement tool

What about using the speed test tool at dslreports.com? https://secure.dslreports.com/speedtest --b On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, hvw59601 wrote: > Hi, > > My ISP is messing with my bandwith and it is getting lower all the time. > > I can find out what it is by killing all apps and use wget

Re: New computer planned

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:19, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Wifi: yes. I do not have broadband. The consultant has a Wifi network which > I can pick up in my living room. Ah, I did not see this when I wrote my response. Check on the card/chipset. As I said, drivers can still be iffy, though much

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 14:05 +, francis picabia wrote: > Hello, > > One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to > see the error: > > server reached MaxClients setting > > After it, the server slowly spirals down. Sometimes it mysteriously recovers. > This is diffic

max bandwidth measurement tool

Hi, My ISP is messing with my bandwith and it is getting lower all the time. I can find out what it is by killing all apps and use wget to download something fairly large: currently 110 KB/s. It used to be 600 KB/s. Is there a tool that will tell me what my max bandwith is at any one moment?

Computer Usage Issue - tty_ldisc_reinit

I recently started having the follow occur when I boot into multi-user mode in stock Debian Squeeze 6.0.4: [ cut here ] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-41-amd64-ReqhZF/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:738 tty_ldisc_reinit

Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01) without proprietary firmware

On Mi, 22 feb 12, 16:45:28, Stayvoid wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm trying to configure wlan on my laptop. I've found several guides > on the topic, but all of them require to install non-free software. > [1, 2] I'm looking for a way to make it work without proprietary > software. Someone told me that

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

On 02/21/2012 09:05 PM, yudi v wrote: The OP didn't, I think, specify that he wants two X sessions with the same user. Yes that is exactly right, I an trying to use two X sessions under one user. You might want something like this... In my .bashrcx() x() { D=x for i in `seq 0 4

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 07:00:28PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > I just realized that I have been launching X session as root, how to > launch a new X session without using elevated privileges. Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, then it's the same: startx ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin

Re: How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

francis picabia: > > One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to > see the error: > > server reached MaxClients setting Well, either you are trying to serve more clients than you have configured, or whatever is responsible for creating the responses (application server,

How do you approach the problem of "MaxClients reached" with apache?

Hello, One of the most frustrating problems which can happen in apache is to see the error: server reached MaxClients setting After it, the server slowly spirals down. Sometimes it mysteriously recovers. This is difficult to diagnose after the problem appeared and went away. What have we for a

Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01) without proprietary firmware

Hi there! I'm trying to configure wlan on my laptop. I've found several guides on the topic, but all of them require to install non-free software. [1, 2] I'm looking for a way to make it work without proprietary software. Someone told me that it's possible with OpenFWWF. [3] But I have no experien

Re: New computer planned

Sian (and all), Congratulations on the work you've done with Algol, Literate Programming, and such! Those are all interests of mine, as well, (Well, from Algol, I eventually moved on to Pascal, and never really grokked C/C++, although I'm still making sporadic efforts to learn enough C++ to

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

On 22/02/12 05:23, David Christensen wrote: On 02/21/2012 07:48 AM, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard I'd use P

Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:48:47 +0800 lina wrote: > > > BTW, which commands can be used to find the battery remainings, acpi -b Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Fwd: Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

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Re: New computer planned

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 21 feb 12, 22:58:03, Sian Mountbatten wrote: It will have Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Socket LGA1155, MSI Z68S REV B3 motherboard, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB PCI-Express graphics, an SSD OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA instead of a hard disk drive

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

I just realized that I have been launching X session as root, how to launch a new X session without using elevated privileges. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

On 22/02/12 01:10, Seb wrote: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /?

Re: New computer planned

I wouldn't worry about SSD failure. At least, not as much as one usually worries about HDD failure :) The guys at hardware.fr did a nice experiment: they set up a computer to do continuous write-erase cycles on an SSD in order to see how long it would last, and when performance decreases would sta

Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

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Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 21/02/12 15:20, lina wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it necessary to install the xfce4-power-manager? >> >> I mainly use AC. seldom use battery. >> >> Today went outside, so use the battery. >> install the xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manag

Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

On 21/02/12 15:20, lina wrote: Hi, Is it necessary to install the xfce4-power-manager? I mainly use AC. seldom use battery. Today went outside, so use the battery. install the xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager-plugins and xfce4-power-manager-data to monitor the battery remaining. My int

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

On 22 February 2012 09:43, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote: > >> For filesystem UUIDs, I wouldn't use "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"". >> I'd change the new flash card's UUIDs with tune2fs and mkswap to match >> the copied/cloned "/etc/fstab". >> > > I didn't realis