how to install touchegg in debian ?

2013-01-21 Thread J B
Hello, Is there any lucky debian user having touchegg installed ? I have tried to install the ubuntu .deb but couldn't success due to dependency. I have synaptic configured for two finger scrolling, but it is not that superb like mac touchpad :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Exif timestamp vs file timestamp. Perhaps there's something similar to > nautilus-rename-exif-date that does choose audio Exif timestamps > automatically, instead of taking the file timestamps. And if this is the case, what would be a solution to correct this highly undesired for me behaviour?

sshfp records

2013-01-21 Thread Brad Alexander
Has anyone worked with sshfp records for openssh? I generated sshfp records: IN SSHFP 1 1 5490056a2208c8ad2cf869f5c06470450c8a017a IN SSHFP 2 1 18aef47bc01264709f25ac9daebed236b45b6b45 but when I ssh into the host (after deleting the records from .ssh/known_hosts), I get: $ ssh -o VerifyHostKe

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 02:54 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:31:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> The times that you show are exactly eight hours apart. That smells > >> like a timezone difference. > > > > If it

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:29:46PM +, Joe wrote: [...] > and there's still nothing Open Source that comes close to > Access. Which is good to know. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the op

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:31:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: >> The times that you show are exactly eight hours apart. That smells >> like a timezone difference. > > If it smells like that, than it is a timezone difference. I don't > believe th

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 20:22 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > very cool. I'm guessing burmester amps, AKG headphones and turtlebeach > hardware or similar ? Pioneer consumer HiFi amp, AKG professional but 30 years old studio headphones, 1 x RME HDSPe AIO professional sound card + an elCheapo ADAT dev

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > The real bonkers bit for me is that wpa_supplicant throws an error > > message > > at boot, every time, yet I still get dhcp working and here I am .. > > with wlan0 > > working just fine. No clue what black magic voodoo goes on there. > > Linux is connected by PPPoE, ad hoc using a WiFi US

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi :) > > I've got much more than four installs on my machine. One FreeBSD and > tons of Linux installs. The reason for having tons of Linux installs is, > that I don't have the perfect hardware, but I use Linux as an audio > production environment. very cool. I'm guessing burmester amps, AKG

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 19:45 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Wireless can be entertaining, though a lot less so than it used to > > be. Even the Network Manager seems to more or less work these days. > > The real bonkers bit for me is that wpa_supplicant throws an error > message > at boot, every

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > I should note that when I tried to use a sun disk lable or a BSD disk > > label to get 8 partitions ( which is wrong, sun has 16 partitions but > > Debian or fdisk/parted can't do it .. weird ) I ended up with a > > unbootable system everytime. Set a partition bootable got me no > > where. >

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 23:32 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Disclaimer: I have never even seen Windows 8, and long may it be so! Hi all :) hi Lina :) A friend needed help to set up his Windows 8. The Windows was already installed to the computer, the user don't need to install it. A user could also

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:07 pm Subject: Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On Lu, 21 ian 13, 14:24:10, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I think, and this is a WAG ( Wild As* Guess

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 January 2013 21:29:46 Joe wrote: > OK, I've had plenty of Linux installation problems, And I plenty of Windows ones. I rarely have to install Windows, and every time I have to, I breathe a sigh of relief that this is so. Problems with drivers? Linux?? Linux is sometimes tricky, W

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I've got much more than four installs on my machine. One FreeBSD and tons of Linux installs. The reason for having tons of Linux installs is, that I don't have the perfect hardware, but I use Linux as an audio production environment. It's useless for me to set up a virtual machine to test d

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Joe
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:10 -0500 Dennis Clarke wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims > > > it is not for production environment. More recent kernels and > > > drivers which means more supported hardware, and updated web > > > browsers ar

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 ian 13, 14:24:10, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I think, and this is a WAG ( Wild As* Guess ), there is > a defacto undocumented standard in the linux world which seems to say that > stuff in /usr/local is just local to that given system and never > touched by a package update. I'd say it's q

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 ian 13, 11:15:23, Brad Alexander wrote: > > I run a script nightly to capture the package list, debconf database, > disk information (df, df -h, and fdisk -l), and autoinstalled packages > list for every host in my network. > > What this allows me to do is have a pool of generic hosts (

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Joe
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:32:06 -0500 Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > I don't have much to say. It sounds interesting for me, to test SID > > by doing a minimal "expert" install. > > Funny. It took me a full day and three attempts to install Wheezy > onto a Lenovo G575 laptop. Ultimately I resorted to

Some kind of color management problem

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Resack
Hi, On iceweasel [1] I get an image displayed incorrectly. Its a JPEG with an embeded sRGB ICC-profile shown on this webpage [2]. For comparison of correct and incorrect displaying I did a screenshot [3]. See the blue artefacts in the dark sky beneath the building. Correct displayed on: Epiphany

[solved] Subsonic (Was: Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver))

2013-01-21 Thread Steven Post
[...] > Myself on some arbitrary date: > > Another user from this list (replied off list) hinted at subsonic, > > which > > seems to fit the bill very nicely. Debian/Ubuntu package is available > > from the website, but not the Debian repositories. [...] > > I'll have a look at that as well. At f

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> [snip] > > > For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims it > > is not for production environment. More recent kernels and drivers > > which means more supported hardware, and updated web browsers are > > some obvious interesting points here. They are simply the most > > o

Re: Pidgin makes noise

2013-01-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I have never seen a case where one of those two things did not silence > > the bell. > > Have you seen a case where the pcspkr module is loaded and the bell is > silent? I have a desktop that has a physical beeper that is so wimpy quiet that it is mostly silent

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> I don't have much to say. It sounds interesting for me, to test SID by > doing a minimal "expert" install. Funny. It took me a full day and three attempts to install Wheezy onto a Lenovo G575 laptop. Ultimately I resorted to creating a live bootable USB image and then doing obscene things li

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: > I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm > starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to > high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title > of a new note. Most probably not what you want, but in case anybody looks a

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Slavko wrote: Hi, Dňa Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:22:39 -0500 Miles Fidelman napísal: I'm interested too. Tomboy and Gnote look useful, but both seem awfully tied to the Gnome desktop. Any comments on Zim, or anything else similar that would work on both: - Mac desktop - headless Debian popping up

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:22:39 -0500 Miles Fidelman napísal: > I'm interested too. Tomboy and Gnote look useful, but both seem > awfully tied to the Gnome desktop. Any comments on Zim, or anything > else similar that would work on both: > - Mac desktop > - headless Debian popping up a remot

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
José Silva wrote: On 21/01/13 16:24, Richard Owlett wrote: I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of a new note. Suggestions on either another note utility or

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Lars Noodén
On 01/21/2013 07:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Lars Noodén wrote: >> There's also the Mono problem with that program > > What is "Mono problem"? A Google search turns up lots of hits but > nothing informative. There's been a heck of a lot written on the problem but the essence is that it is intr

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
José Silva wrote: On 21/01/13 16:24, Richard Owlett wrote: I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of a new note. Suggestions on either another note utility or

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Lars Noodén wrote: There's also the Mono problem with that program What is "Mono problem"? A Google search turns up lots of hits but nothing informative. If you are looking for better apps, there is a good choice. You have zim, knotes, Basket, and Getting Things GNOME. Checking them ou

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: I've just installed Debian 6.0.5 from the 8 DVD set and set about exploring available utilities. I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread José Silva
On 21/01/13 16:24, Richard Owlett wrote: I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of a new note. Suggestions on either another note utility or how to add words.

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization > > > This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please > polish this up a little bit? That would be a

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Lars Noodén
There's also the Mono problem with that program . If you are looking for better apps, there is a good choice. You have zim, knotes, Basket, and Getting Things GNOME. Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just installed Debian 6.0.5 from the 8 DVD set and set about exploring available utilities. I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title of a new note. The

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > [snip] >> >> If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system >> with almost nothing. Even "less" is not present in such an >> installation :D >> > I keep a list of al

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 21 janvier 2013 10:46, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:27:01 +0100, Anthony Campbell > > wrote: > >> On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> >>> If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system >>> with almost nothing. Even "les

Re: Pidgin makes noise

2013-01-21 Thread Curt
On 2013-01-21, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> >This is enabled by the Linux kernel module "pcspkr". You can unload >> >the module from the running kernel with: >> > >> > # modprobe -r pcspkr >> > >> >To prevent the kernel module pcspkr from ever being loaded you can >> >blacklist it by creating a file

Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:27:01 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system with almost nothing. Even "less" is not present in such an installation :D I keep a list of all the packa

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The original poster shouldn't care about this discussion. It's interesting for people with some experience using Linux and who have got special needs. "The release of Debian called "stable" is always the official released version of Debian. Ordinary users should use this version." - http://

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] > > If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system > with almost nothing. Even "less" is not present in such an > installation :D > I keep a list of all the packages I normally use and then get the same ones when I in

Re: Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: The times that you show are exactly eight hours apart. That smells like a timezone difference. If it smells like that, than it is a timezone difference. I don't believe that several files will get exactly the same difference for complete