Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread solitone
On 24/12/17 11:24, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I read that Cinnamon and MATE, both former clones of GNOME[2], have HiDPI in > mind: > is there any other possibility ? I use KDE's Plasma, which supports HiDPI pretty well.

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your reply. On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). >> >> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: >> I have been happy

Re: A sox Question about the silence Module

2017-12-24 Thread davidson
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, davidson wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Martin McCormick wrote: I am not new to sox but I am asking to see if I have missed something because a sox script I am using is mostly working but not quite. [...] #! /bin/sh sox -t .wav input.wav -t .wav output.wav silence -l 1 0 '-3

Re: A sox Question about the silence Module

2017-12-24 Thread davidson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Martin McCormick wrote: I am not new to sox but I am asking to see if I have missed something because a sox script I am using is mostly working but not quite. I am attempting to remove long silent pauses in a recording of people talking and what is supposed

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: if you are using PulseAudio just remove any exiting content of ~/.asoundrc and put this: hi Georgi, thank you for your suggestion, but I can't launch pulseaudio: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" and as I have a working config wi

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to > a retina box:

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-24 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/21/2017 09:04 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > the sound works perfectly with vlc or audacity, but I can't make aplay > to work. > the "aplay -l" output is: >    List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices >    card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: Generic Digital [Generic Digital] >    Su

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

2017-12-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, deloptes wrote: but I told you also about plughw - no? yes, but I told you before that I found it myself by accident, when trying on an other wav file. no idea why you are so resistant to getting the knowledge yourself - the man page is even not that long and you sho

Linux Startup Process

2017-12-24 Thread steve
Linux Startup Process You can use the following incantation to list enabled boot services: $ systemctl list-unit-files --type=service | grep enabled How do i know what i need, and what i can safely disable ? i know that accounts-daemon.service is a potential security risk. It is part o

Re: Optimized VM setup

2017-12-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > And this time (for the first time?) I saw that majority of the class were > running Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on a VM on a Windows — > typically Windows-10 > > This made those machines markedly sluggish. I wonder if some of those st

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to > a retina box: it appe

HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low. small (if

Re: Debian Stretch: Problems with installation - computer froze

2017-12-24 Thread Mark Sack
I had a similar problem with Debian 9.3. I started by creating a barebones VM (all options deselected on the tasksel page). After the machine was created and rebooted, I logged in as root and did apt-get install gnome-core. This produced the error with rtkit daemon and dbus configure hanging as

Re: Optimized VM setup

2017-12-24 Thread David Christensen
On 12/23/17 20:06, Rusi Mody wrote: I teach programming. Students of my class have their own laptops required to have (some recent) linux. And this time (for the first time?) I saw that majority of the class were running Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on a VM on a Windows — typically Win