replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-02 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the other 2 distros. Googling the problem hasn't turned up much of

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/08/12 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated because I run 3 window

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry first reply went to his email address - On 03/08/12 01:56 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Today I downloaded a large group of updates, including Open Office and some dns-related utilities. Once they were applied, some strange network activity started on my machine. It keeps sending and

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/08/12 01:15 PM, Tom H wrote: Interesting stuff. You can have 3-4-5 X sessions each with a different window manager. It works when run from a TTY but I can't get it working from a terminal in an existing session, despite what the author claims. What's more interesting is it doesn't seem to

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/12 02:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 03 aug 12, 10:24:03, Frank McCormick wrote: At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM, while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L. #! /bin/sh clear;echo;echo Menu Items echo;echo 1 TWM echo 2 Blackbox echo 3 Ratpoison echo;echo Choice: $reply; read reply case $reply in 1) cp initrc-twm initrc; startx

xsesssion-errors

2012-08-31 Thread Frank McCormick
I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:02 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/01/2012 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:38 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 08/31/2012 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? Failed to open VDPAU backend

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:13:41 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 01:19 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I'd do a locate on vdpau, he might have nvidia-vdpau-driver installed? The only reference I

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/09/12 01:55 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 12:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously? Yes, exactly.

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

2012-09-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/09/12 06:30 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:29:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:24:52 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: (...) Please keep debian-user in CC. Why?! Because I opened it on behalf of debian-user. The people whom are affected by this

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

2012-09-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/09/12 09:35 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:24:52PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks This bug still exists. See message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg9.html and despite that it says there are no followups there

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/12 12:27 PM, Klaus Pieper wrote: Hello debian gurus, is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? Klaus [ 1008.061896] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk SDDR-113 9412 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 1008.063822] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 1008.196914] sd

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and

Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
I am having trouble finding a screenshot program which will do what I want. I often take shots from websites featuring old homes -- the problem is the software I have been using (scrot) sometimes has trouble grabbing the keyboard so that I can select a portion of a webpage. It does however

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/10/12 07:23 PM, lee wrote: Exec exec import -frame -quality 100 $HOME/fvwm/screenshots/screenshot-`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.png This is exactly what I was looking for...automatic naming. Thanks -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 23/10/12 05:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Most screenshot tools allow to select and they also allow to give a name and automatically add numbers to the name. If you want to do more, I recommend to use http://shutter-project.org/ . Well ImageMagicks import doesn't allow this ( or I couldn't

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 23/10/12 05:30 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I use scrot, and do it like this: #!/bin/bash filedate=$(date +%m%d%y%H%M%S) scrot $filedate.jpg gthumb $filedate.jpg exit The filedate is what I was missing for ImageMagicks import I use OpenBox periodiclly...but mostly use Fluxbox..and

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 25/10/12 07:59 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-10-24 11:21:18 +0200, lee wrote: You may want to use scrot -s instead of import so you can select a window or an area to take a screenshot of. I think I'll switch to scrot because import blacks out parts of windows that are below other

backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Is there an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories when you exit a window manager. I'd like to back up .thunderbird at least when I quit Icewm to GDM... Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Can anyone suggest an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories (such as .thunderbird) when existing a window manager to return to GDM ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Can anyone suggest an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories (such as .thunderbird) when existing a window manager to return to GDM ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/05/12 05:41 PM, Aubrey Raech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 May 2012 16:57:23 -0400 Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: Is there an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories when you exit a window manager. I'd like to back up

Re: backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/05/12 06:14 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 26/05/12 05:41 PM, Aubrey Raech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 May 2012 16:57:23 -0400 Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: Is there an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories when you exit

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 12:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 18:45 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup Nevermind :) Found the backups in /var/lib/gdm3 Didn't realize that's where GDM would put them. A GDM script can't put

[OT] Annoyances

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
By the waythis joelassistly guy is not only bothering Debian users: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/133662 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup to a script, than the backup must be in ~/. Perhaps the script runs cd /var/lib/gdm3 and you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird .thunderbird.backup, the backup without the path? You should post what

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 01:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup to a script, than the backup must

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 02:21 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 01:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you added cp -R ~/.thunderbird

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 03:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 14:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Just for fun I created a new user (my wife)..and ran a session under her account...she could not write to my directory so nothing happened. I suspect that the user root never would run

Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 04:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Or you add a flag to a config in all /home/user_dirs, where .thunderbird should be copied and check for this flag. FWIW the user name can be

[SOLVED] Re: backing up

2012-05-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/05/12 05:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:51 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/05/12 04:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default #!/bin/sh sh ~/a_script exit 0 /home/user_dir/a_script #!/bin/sh cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/thunderbird.backup exit 0

Re: backing up

2012-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
On 28/05/12 04:31 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: Just for fun I created a new user (my wife)..and ran a session under her account...she could not write to my directory so nothing happened. This whole thread has convinced me I need to learn more about

aptitude problem

2012-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
Lately this has been happening when I use aptitude to update at the command line. http://paste.debian.net/171569 It seems to get the update information fine, but then when I aptitude full-upgrade it fails to find any of the IP addresses. If I run full-upgrade a second time, it runs normally.

xml editor ?

2012-06-02 Thread Frank McCormick
I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? Thanks -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/06/12 10:23 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? Thanks XML

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 11:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:52:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 07:41 AM, Weaver wrote: Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? How is

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/06/12 11:33 PM, Jeremy Allard wrote: Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? You

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 12:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/06/12 07:41 AM, Weaver wrote: Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/06/12 05:16 PM, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML

Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I have googled this and found nothing significant...and have asked on the Mozilla forums without results. Can someone on the list help ? For the last few releases of Thunderbird (Linux Debian Sid) my .xsession-errors file has been filled with page after page of errors like this one:

Re: Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/06/12 11:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:49:09 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: For the last few releases of Thunderbird (Linux Debian Sid) my .xsession-errors file has been filled with page after page of errors like this one: (thunderbird-bin:2386): GLib-GObject-WARNING

Re: Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/06/12 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:46:46 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 26/06/12 11:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) (thunderbird-bin:2386): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.32.3-1-i386-987P8N/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gsignal.c:3393: signal name

Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks so tight that only a hard reset gets it back. Alt-SysReq does

re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/07/12 01:38 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing

Re: re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 03/07/12 01:38 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 04:11 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. Can you still

Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled

2012-10-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 31/10/12 10:42 AM, lee wrote: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:25:18AM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, how do I prevent the dvd drives from being polled by udisks-daemon? I can kill the process and it becomes a zombie, and I'd rather get rid of it. This

Re: how to prevent dvd drives from being polled

2012-10-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 31/10/12 01:15 PM, Dom wrote: On 31/10/12 16:13, Dom wrote: On 31/10/12 15:48, Frank McCormick wrote: On 31/10/12 10:42 AM, lee wrote: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:25:18AM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, how do I prevent the dvd drives from being

Re: How to detect what file was installed?

2012-11-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-11-07 09:06 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: Karl's answer is very thorough for your other questions, On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:25:52AM -0800, houkensjtu wrote: I know I can use the which command to detect where a executable file reside in, but how about all the other stuff? Take a look at

Re: Visualization of directory tree of my machine

2012-11-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/11/12 07:13 PM, Mark Neyhart wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 6.0.5 with the default gnome desktop. The default file browser (Nautilus?) does not give the view/perspective I need. I'm looking for something closer to (do I dare say it ;) Windows Explorer. If you are

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: Anyone know what would make captcha not work? In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to decrypt it. I've got no issue to read the examples in the German Wiki, I'm

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: Anyone know what would make captcha not work? In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to decrypt it. I've got no issue to read the examples in the German Wiki, I'm

Re: wheezy, grub2, hidden menu, shift-key to display menu

2012-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
it is GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT in /etc/default/grub. Set it to 5. If no key is pressed during that timeout...then system boots. I don't know whether the other timeout affects it. Actually on my system the keyword is not even in the file...I got the info from info -f grub -n Simple Configuration -- Frank McCormick

Re: wheezy, grub2, hidden menu, shift-key to display menu

2012-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:19:58 -0500 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:41:14 +1100 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: What I want to achieve: A hidden grub menu, with or without a press key for menu timeout/countdown; if I am holding down

Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I thought I would try out lightdm today instead of GDM3...but after installation and telling the configure script to use lightdm, I end up with a blank screen and a cursor...no login facility. Am I missing something ? Aptitude installed light dm and the greeter. -- Cheers Frank -- To

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Sharon. On 26 December 2012 16:39, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I thought I would try out lightdm today instead of GDM3...but after installation and telling the configure script to use lightdm, I end up with a blank screen

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run out of the box Thanks -- Cheers Frank It should, but it doesnt, at least in wheezy it doesn't. It gets stuck somehow. I guess

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 01:39 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:56:28 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run out of the box Thanks -- Cheers Frank

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 02:25 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 26/12/12 01:39 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:56:28 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the hidden .thunderbird directory on another partition via a

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the hidden .thunderbird directory on another partition via a

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way

[SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 05:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird to read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not possible ? I don't use Thunderbird so I don't know but... Use a 'bind' mount to just

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 06:48 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: then ran thunderbird. Seems to work perfectly. Even with the bind parameter will a regular umount command work ? I'll look though mount manual. I guess I'll create a small script to do all the grunt work :) Yes. Just 'umount

Re: windows decoration in Debian 7

2013-02-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11/02/13 04:38 PM, Madhu Srinivasan wrote: I installed ambiance theme in wheezy (from: http://www.ravefinity.com/p/ambiance-radiance-colors-suite.html), all other aspects of the theme are working except the windows decoration (does not change, last used border remains) . Any ideas to fix this

upgrade snafu

2013-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Did a quick apt-get update this afternoon: Haven't seem this in a while: localepurge: checking for existence of /var/cache/localepurge/localelist... localepurge: checking system for new locale ... Segmentation fault E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x

Re: upgrade snafu

2013-03-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/03/13 05:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: localepurge: checking for existence of /var/cache/localepurge/localelist... localepurge: checking system for new locale ... Segmentation fault E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] [ $(ps w

Re: Parcellite errors

2013-03-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/09/2013 12:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 Mar 2013 at 09:23:37 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: For quite a while now I have been getting this error in .xsession-errors log...somedays to the point where the log grows to 3 or 4 megs. (parcellite:2660): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting

Re: Chomium The sync server is busy...

2011-11-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11-11-12 04:32 PM, Douglas Saylor wrote: I've been getting this message for 2-days now. Anyone know if this is a Google or Debian problem? It's happened beforea Google problem usually. It was happening to me for 2 or 3 weeks about a month ago. -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/12/11 08:57 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware and driver to use. When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage: phy0 -

swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It suggested (as I recall) 0660. I never saw this before. How do I go about changing them ? -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-01-12 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It suggested (as I recall) 0660. I

Re: swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-01-12 02:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 19:57 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: On 12-01-12 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13/01/12 11:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobobijoy.l...@paladion.net wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? For me the

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11-09-01 06:45 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Hi list, How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Thanks, -- rbmj With google-chrome, and chrome-browser I have found the only way

Updates

2011-09-06 Thread Frank McCormick
I ran apt-get update this morning...and got a hash sum mismatch on several repositories. Anyone else having this problem ? -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Updates

2011-09-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/09/11 01:22 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I ran apt-get update this morning...and got a hash sum mismatch on several repositories. Anyone else having this problem ? The repositories were updatingsorry for the noise. -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2011-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/11 04:45 PM, Debian Listmaster Team wrote: Dear subscriber, We've encountered some problems while sending listmail to your emailaddress debianl...@videotron.ca. In the last seven days we've seen bounces for the following list: * debian-user 1 bounce out of 55 mails in one day

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2011-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/11 05:32 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:13:33 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Debian Listmaster Team wrote: For more information see http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/FAQ ... Does anyone know what this is all about ? Never seen anything like

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2011-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/11 05:40 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: Bob, This is all sensible advice, but it does not sound to me as though OP is handling his own email; the address concerned is debianl...@videotron.ca - videotron.ca appears to be an ISP/email provider, and I have a hunch that the

Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2011-09-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/09/11 05:40 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: Bob, This is all sensible advice, but it does not sound to me as though OP is handling his own email; the address concerned is debianl...@videotron.ca - videotron.ca appears to be an ISP/email provider, and I have a hunch that the

Gimp problem

2011-09-18 Thread Frank McCormick
I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't be resized or moved. This is an example of what happens. It It's only a minor annoyance but I'd like to

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/09/11 09:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:50:41 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/09/11 03:28 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-09-18, Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/09/11 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: http://imagebin.org/172940 I have changed styles several times..but it doesn't seem to affect GIMP at all. I've tried both themes available to GIMP, default and small but they don't make any difference Did you try to launch it from a

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/09/11 09:13 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Frank, On 19/09/2011 14:41, Frank McCormick wrote: On 19/09/11 03:28 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-09-18, Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. Maybe you

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 19/09/11 12:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:23:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 19/09/11 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Did you try to launch it from a new user, preferably a new/empty one? No, not yet but I will do A new user has the same problem

Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-22 Thread Frank McCormick
I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK. It ejects the DVD saying an error has occurred. Does anybody have a solution or suggestions

Re: Gnome package now requires installing tracker?

2012-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/12 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 14.02.2012 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:28 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100,

Re: Gnome package now requires installing tracker?

2012-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/12 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 14.02.2012 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:28 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100,

Guake

2012-02-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I recently started to use guake again after a long time. I notice it comes up without a top window frame. Is this the normal appearance or a bug ? -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Guake

2012-02-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/02/12 01:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:00:05 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I recently started to use guake again after a long time. I notice it comes up without a top window frame. Is this the normal appearance or a bug ? I've never used this terminal so I don't know

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/03/12 11:15 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today. 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 11:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Camaleón wrote: I can't recall if gnome-classic hides the icons over the desktop, I would have expected they are visible to mimic the GNOME 2.x style. OTOH, the top menu is still there and

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