Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> how do I fix the problem?
>
> Settings Manager - Desktop - Wallpaper for my desktop appears to be
> completely grayed out and is unresponsive.
Is xfdesktop running? If not, start it. It sometimes goes AWOL for
reasons I've never tracked down.
regards,
mike
David Christensen wrote:
> On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select
> an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in
> another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the
> newline.
[...]
> On Debian 11, when I select an entire line
Simon Kainz wrote:
> #Governor:
> root@node3:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> schedutil
Maybe try a different governor? I had a different problem (CPU running
too hot) after upgrading to Bullseye, and the problem went away after I
switched to the ondemand governor.
The Wanderer wrote:
> In my case, I started with the last Debian package version before the
> removal, imported the source package into git, dropped the debian/
> directory because that doesn't belong in the upstream codebase, ran the
> '2to3' tool (from the package of the same name) against the c
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote:
>
> > FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private scripts:
> >
> > * Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual
> > command in Debian10 [and 11] is
Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Why is it always a pain to mount my Android phone on my Laptop?
Do you have mtp-tools installed? I found that mounting my phone got a
lot more reliable after I installed that package.
best regards,
mike
Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I can see mtp-tools is a meta-package for:
[...]
> Which one do I need to configure/troubleshoot my issue?
I'm afraid I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge in this area. The
only other things I can offer are
1. My phone (Android 11, Samsung One UI 3.1) defaults to an M
On Debian 11.3, I've discovered that I can reliably get a core file from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess by using Atril
to view a PDF file (any PDF file that I've tried). But the dbgsym
packages for libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 and libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
(version 2.34.6-1~de
Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Have a look at this blog post and program:
>
> Managing OpenBSD installed packages declaratively
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-05-05-openbsd-declarative-packages-with-pkgset.html
[...]
> Anyone has that for Debian and Debian-like systems?
I have half of that,
cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote:
> I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have
> some ideas.
So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
I'd also check for error messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors.
regards,
mike
Tom Browder wrote:
> Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected
> text doesn't show as highlighted.
>
> I have had no such problems with stretch, but they were upgrades
> in-place from previous installations--buster was installed new.
I can't reproduce that problem with
Tom Browder wrote:
> When I use -Q highlighting works!
That points at something in your .emacs.d settings as being the
culprit.
> I installed emacs-lucid (which removed emacs-gtk) and now highlighting
> works (but other colors are changed).
IIRC, GTK3 lets the user (theme) specify the color to
Andrea Borgia wrote:
> how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as
> locking when suspending?
For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup
settings.
mike
Philipp Kemmeter wrote:
> When I start dmenu, the input of neither mouse nor keyboard is registered
> anymore, and as xmonad freezes by purpouse until dmenu returns something, I'm
> stuck. The only way to work further is switching to a non-X terminal and
> killing dmenu.
FWIW, dmenu works fine fo
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> I have a funny problem since I upgraded my laptop to buster: xterm does not
> have any title.
>
> It is the only window that has this problem. I did not see anything special in
> the .Xresources.
>
> Anyone having this issue ?
I can't reproduce the problem (MATE, marco, x
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Ideally, you shouldn't need more than the current kernel and, perhaps, the
> previous version. If the current kernel works on the reboot, then you should
> be able to remove all previous variants with the same major version number.
It used to be that I could leave the o
Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> It now appears that the automatic installer does not get size of /boot
> right - even with only one new kernel update wanting to install itself
> it often fails with lack of space.
I have had this problem, too, so thank you for bringing it up on the
list.
> One solutio
Hi Stefan!
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I use `MODULES=dep` and my kernel+initrd uses less than 20MB still so my
> 250MB /boot partition is currently 21% full with 2 kernels installed.
Ah, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try, as well as trying more
aggressive compression (thanks, Peter!).
> Th
William Torrez Corea wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 00:07 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> > What happened with my desktop environment?
> >
> > My desktop environment has problems, the title bar is hidden.
[...]
> The problem started 1 month ago. I don't know what caused the problem, a
>
Celejar wrote:
> I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a
> number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate
> via the "Preview" button or (more importantly) via the "Blank after"
> setting.
Thank you for bringing this up. I just noticed yesterday
Celejar wrote:
> The logs show regular deactivate events like the following every 20
> seconds:
>
> ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time
>
> I saw this:
>
> https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-blank
>
> I guess I have to figure out what application is se
John wrote:
> Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is
> mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs
> from a simple file. This has worked for many years. But now with the
> jessie->stretch upgrade it fails with emacs barfing.
Can you give m
john wrote:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil)
>rmail-remote-proto-p(nil)
>rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff"
> "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t)
>rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/var/spool/mail/jpf
rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On at least one machine, some of the Xfce launchers are inoperative,
> including the launcher for Synaptic and the launcher for Midnight
> Commander
I don't know about MC, but for Synaptic, is policykit-1-gnome installed
on that system?
(cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cg
Andrea Borgia wrote:
> Il 14/09/19 22:30, Mike Kupfer ha scritto:
>
> > Andrea Borgia wrote:
> >> how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as
> >> locking when suspending?
>
> > For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup
> &g
I have a system running bullseye. When I try to log out, or shut down,
from MATE, I invariably get a popup that tells me that
at-spi-dbus-launcher is not responding. I click on "logout anyway", and
the system does eventually log me out, but there's a delay.
I tried disabling the AT-SPI daemon an
Mark Allums wrote:
> On 10/19/2019 5:54 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> > Hi, mike, I don't know, but, as soon as I read "Orca", I thought of
> > the Debian-Accessibility list:
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/
Thanks, Cindy Sue, I may give that a try.
> I am not running Orca,
I have 2 systems running Buster with encrypted disks. The first system
was upgraded to Buster; I think the original install was Stretch. The
second system was installed with Buster.
With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the "please unlock
disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 23 ian 20, 07:49:01, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the "please unlock
> > disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback. With the second system, I
> > get a "*" for each char
David Wright wrote:
> It would be interesting to know why installing plymouth made any
> difference. My system prints asterisks even though plymouth is
> not installed.
>
> Were there any other packages installed along with plymouth?
Hmm. When I installed plymouth, the only thing it pulled in w
Curt wrote:
> I heard about one fellow whose window background color was strangely
> similar to his emacs highlighting color, and this explained why his
> highlighting efforts were suboptimal and even quite close to being
> totally invisible.
I had something similar to this happen to me with Emac
I have a 64-bit guest running Jessie; the host is running Wheezy. AMD
processor, in case that's relevant.
With the 3.11-2 kernel, "df -h" of a shared folder produces more or less
the expected results:
Host:
$ df -h $HOME
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5
I have a system that is configured for dual-boot: Wheezy and Jessie,
with a shared /home. The Jessie partition was just installed today.
I can't get the system to resume properly on Jessie. There are 2
problems.
1. When resuming from suspend, the display fails to go out of sleep mode
until I pr
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> 1. When resuming from suspend, the display fails to go out of sleep mode
> until I press Ctrl-Alt-Fn to go to a different virtual terminal. But
> then when I return the vt7, the display flickers and there are
> horizontal lines running through it. I don't
Yesterday evening I used NetworkManager and OpenConnect to connect to
my employer's VPN. (I use Xfce if that's relevant.)
I then installed several updates, including dbus and a couple libnm
packages, and I then shut down the system for the night.
This morning NetworkManager didn't list that VPN.
Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2014 14:55:19 Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > Any suggestions for what I should do next?
>
> I've used openconnect today on sid through network-manager and kde without
> problem. You may need to update (again) your system.
Yes, i
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
> declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
> least in jessie repos.
>
> What are people using as a replacement? Hopefully something as easy
> to use and encfs was.
I've been usi
brian wrote:
> My wife has developed a problem with her hands, and can't type more
> than a few sentences without severe pain.
Ouch. My wife has a similar problem. She's gotten better, but she
still needs to use Dragon.
> I've got Dragon (V10, which
> was supposed to be the most compatible) i
Tom Roche wrote:
> me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> bash: /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file or directory
> [127]me@it ~ $ lsalh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 44K Mar 6 2012
> /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/f
Joel Rees wrote:
> > Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on?
I haven't seen this, nor do I know what's going on, but here are some
things I would check if I were seeing that sort of video breakage:
Do you have compositing enabled (under Window Manager Tweaks)? If you
do, does the
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Does the screen lock when you run
> > $ xflock4
> > ?
>
> No, it just returns without doing anything.
>
> > What screen saver do you use?
>
> Don't know. I just did "aptitude install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
> xfce4-power-manager" and then used "XFCE" session in GDM.
IIRC
Celejar wrote:
> Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has
> anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs?
FWIW, I've been using fetchmail, with maildrop as the MDA, for several
years. I'm not aware of any lost mail in that time.
regards,
mike
--
To UNSU
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right
> click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded
> out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that
> something is not clickable.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep
Michael Milliman wrote:
> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has
> ceased to be displayed.
[...]
> I have attempted to re-set the desktop
> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop
> background on the desktop to no effect.
I don't know wha
Ralph Katz wrote:
> > 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the
> > lightdm log in screen. Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session
> > back after an annoying pause. This never happened on jessie.
This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but is light-locker running?
mi
Ralph Katz wrote:
> Yes! apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade.
> I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors
> in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking.
Did you also kill the xscreensaver daemon? You might have been getting
odd behav
Ralph Katz wrote:
> While purging xscreensaver removed 2 or 3 packages, installing now would
> bring in a host of packages, for whatever reason. I don't need a
> screensaver as much as I need the lock.
Take a look at /usr/bin/xflock4. It's just a script that runs through a
fixed list of lock pr
tony mollica wrote:
> I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some
> time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back to
> the lightdm greeter for logging in. However, after logging in again I
> now get the xscreensaver unlock input window,
This doesn't s
wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > This doesn't sound to me like you're being logged out. Rather it sounds
> > like light-locker is locking your screen, which is does by bringing up a
> > new lightdm instance.
>
> B
Harry Putnam wrote:
> root # bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.40 Guest Additions for Linux
5.0.40 is pretty old, and Googling for "virtualbox linux 4.14 guest"
shows a couple reports about the Guest Additions not
Kent West wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude E7250 laptop. I'm trying to install Debian to it using
> a USB stick.
[...]
> The real problem is that after going through the first three or four
> screens, the install halts, complaining about not being able to read
> the CD-ROM.
Yes, I ran into the s
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > I have a copy of kern.log from the first (successful) boot, and I have
> > the dmesg output from the second (failed) boot. If anyone wants to look
> > at them, let me know.
>
> I am interested. Especially whether ther
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> The bad log has two suspicious lines before that range:
> [6.997775] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=abcd, idProduct=1234
> [7.000181] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=3
> Looks much like phony default values.
> They are
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to make it clear:
> Was this kernel loaded from the very same USB stick which it then cannot
> inquire properly and in some cases cannot read from ?
Yes.
Oh, and I tried it again this morning, after the laptop had been off all
night, and this time it worked
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Does the live image always succeed and the netinst image always fail ?
> Is always the same USB stick affected ? (Or do you have one for each ISO ?)
> How do you actually "select" between installer and live ?
I made some changes between the initial attempts and what I'm do
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > If I plug the stick into the laptop when it's running, the stick is
> > mounted okay. [...] didn't notice anything odd, but then I'm not familiar
> > with the contents of a hybrid image ISO.
>
> They have a
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Since the OP's problems were with 9.4, I haven't tried a more recent
> ISO, but I'll download an image and test it. (If this turns out to be
> fixed in 9.4, I will be very embarrassed and will happily buy y'all
> a meal if you're eve
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > I used sha256sum instead of sha512sum, but I otherwise followed
> > the above instructions. The checksum from the dd pipeline does not
> > match the checksum of the original .iso file.
>
> That's not good.
> Espe
RA DW wrote:
> I try to mount a NFSv3 share to one FreeNFS server (in Win7), however,
> after following almost all the guides in the web to mount it, I get an
> authentication error, even if the server gives rpcinfo from Debian8,
> and add the rpcbind : line in /etc/hosts.allow
> (https://justpas
Is anyone else on Jessie (x86_64) seeing a problem where Firefox
(45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1) wants to reload the tabs from the previous session,
even when the preferences are set not to do that?
I normally use "show a blank page" on startup, but I was getting either
the previous tabs or the "this is emba
Thanks to everyone for your comments. The problem appears to be caused
by this entry in /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop:
X-XFCE-Commands=%B -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)";%B;
Copying that file to $HOME/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop
and changing that line to
Andrey wrote:
> me@cli:~$ mount
> ...
> serv:/home/me/data-t on /home/me/dt type nfs4
> (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,sync,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,hard,noac,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.209.1
dmacdoug wrote:
> A month or two ago I moved a certain computer from jessie
> to stretch and after doing so found that neither the right
> nor the middle mouse buttons have any effect when clicked
> on the XFCE desktop.
Is xfdesktop running?
mike
dmacdoug wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > Is xfdesktop running?
> No, it isn't. It looks like pretty much everything else in
> xfce is running, but xfdesktop isn't.
Assuming it's installed (good point, Lisi), I would try j
dmacdoug wrote:
> It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page
> says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it
> says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:"
I get that message if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, or if
it's set
dmacdoug wrote:
> sure enough there is no DISPLAY environment variable set. So I set it and
> then the error message became:
>
> Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session
> manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
>
> I notice there are several other
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta'
> key not being recognized. How to fix that?
If you're running Emacs in tty mode, then I think the Meta key support
is done by the terminal emulator. What terminal emulator are you using?
As for
I recently set up a VirtualBox guest that is running Sid. I can ssh
from it to the host. But if I connect to my employer's network (using
OpenConnect), I cannot connect to any systems on that network. Using
"ssh -v" I see
...
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Lo
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> I recently set up a VirtualBox guest that is running Sid. I can ssh
> from it to the host. But if I connect to my employer's network (using
> OpenConnect), I cannot connect to any systems on that network.
[...]
> From a different VM, which is running Stret
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And I have permanent mounts of that "shop" machine in my /etc/fstab
> > here this machine "coyote"
[...]
> The other two work normally. All have identical auto.master
> files with "/net -hosts" enabled.
I'm no
Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
> The big difference happens at packets 58/54 (Deb7/Deb8). For Deb7, the
> RENAME call is immediately answered by an NFS4_OK, whereas for Deb8 as
> the client it's an NFS4ERR_DELAY. I haven't seen any reason on the
> client communication that would explain that, however thi
Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
> Am 28.09.2015 um 18:59 schrieb Mike Kupfer:
> > In the deb7 trace, the other client is .4, not .3. It does not get
> > a delegation when it opens file2 (see packet 39), so the server
> > can process the RENAME immediately.
> Hang on, the two
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Is there a way to get traces as a normal user?
Not that I know of.
mike
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> My problem now is screen resolution. All I get is 1024x768. Under
> Wheezy I get 15 different resolutions from 720x400 and 640x480 up to
> 1920x1080. Jessie says that the monitor is "Unknown" and only allows
> me to use 1024x768. How do I get X to recognize my monitor und
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > - Boot a Live image and see what resolution it gives you.
> I can still boot into Wheezy and get 1920x1080.
I meant a Jessie Live image.
Though given that you didn't find an old xorg.conf file, the odds of the
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have a copy of Xorg.0.log for both Wheezy and Jessie. How do I post
> them to paste.debian.net?
Well, I don't have a preference as far as using paste.debian.net or
posting straight to the list. To use paste.debian.net, start a browser
and go to http://paste.debian.net/.
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> To use paste.debian.net, start a browser
> and go to http://paste.debian.net/. Click on Browse, select the file,
> add a note to indicate which log file it is (if it's not obvious), click
> on Send.
Oops, forgot to mention: that should take you to a new p
Ric Moore wrote:
> Trying to automount a dvd for playback and I'm seeing this.
I'm seeing these messages, too, even for removable USB drives. (Jessie,
amd64, running Xfce.)
Jan 1 15:50:52 allegro kernel: [314184.131707] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3
file system using the ext4 subsystem
Ja
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
> > Trying to automount a dvd for playback and I'm seeing this.
>
> I'm seeing these messages, too, even for removable USB drives. (Jessie,
> amd64, running Xfce.)
I filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor
The other night I plugged a thumb drive into a Belkin 4-port USB hub.
This had the side effect of disconnecting an Iomega USB drive that was
plugged into the same hub.
I have since been unable to reproduce the problem, but I'm concerned
about the possibility of data loss when a drive gets disconne
Curt wrote:
> On 2015-03-12, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > The other night I plugged a thumb drive into a Belkin 4-port USB hub.
> > This had the side effect of disconnecting an Iomega USB drive that was
> > plugged into the same hub.
> >
> > I have since been unable
Curt wrote:
> On 2015-03-12, David Wright wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Is that Iomega USB drive healthy?
> >
> > Do you mean "was it healthy before this incident"
> > or are you expressing concern for its health since
> > being disconnected.
>
> I meant the former, though I'm sure you know more abou
David Wright wrote:
> Could it be nothing more than a dicky plug contact?
> I don't use automount so I'd rattle the connectors around and see if I
> got lots of connect/disconnect messages. If it's a powered hub running
> off a wall-wart, it might be the power rather than the data cable.
The conn
Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:04:51AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > - Do I need to have a reproducible test case before opening a bug?
>
> If it is not reproducible, then how does one go about fixing it?
I deal with hard-to-reproduce bugs in my day job fa
Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before
lightdm started. The message was something like
/init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found
After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no
success. Is journalctl the right tool to find the messa
songbird wrote:
> songbird wrote:
> > Mike Kupfer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before
> >> lightdm started. The message was something like
> >>
> >> /init [stuff I didn't catch] to
The Wanderer wrote:
> If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs /
> initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it
> contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some related
> thing.
Indeed, it's missing bin/touch. Thanks for the det
songbird wrote:
> how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the
> command given and didn't get it to work and so set
> it aside until i could read further docs today.
I did
$ su
# cd /root
# mkdir initrd
# cd initrd
and then ran the pipeline that The Wanderer gave. I think I
Johann Spies wrote:
> Since Jessie became stable, there is a flat gray background on the XFCE4
> desktop and I cannot change it. My normal configuration is that XFCE4
> should use a list of pictures and change the background regularly
> (something that I don't think the other systems can do). Th
wrote:
> [ 42.426886] NFS: v4 server does not accept raw uid/gids. Reenabling
> the idmapper.
Here's some background information:
In NFSv3, uids and gids are represented as integers. In NFSv4, they are
strings. The original specification called for strings of the form
"id@domain", and typ
Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger
characters in several places, including
- xfwm4 titlebar
- labels in the Xfce window buttons applet
- Xfce application menu
- Xfce logout dialog
But the Xfce settings dialogs (Appearance, Window Manager) say that the
font setti
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger
> characters in several places, including
>
> - xfwm4 titlebar
> - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet
> - Xfce application menu
> - Xfce logout dialog
[...]
> The VM was pr
Sven Hartge wrote:
> Pinning the DPI setting in Appearance>Fonts to
> a fixed value instead of letting it auto detect the value fixed that for
> me.
Yes, that worked for me, too. Thanks!
mike
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Sven Hartge wrote:
> Just for fun: could you check with
>
> xdpyinfo | grep resolution
>
> what DPI value is reported on your system and in the VM?
Both report "96x96 dots per inch".
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Francis Gerund wrote:
> And the display doesn't look defective or mis-calibrated, just more like
> 1995 than 2015. I think it just lame fonts in XFCE, not the physical
> display.
You could try tuning the font settings (Settings>Appearance>Fonts). The
Hinting setting can make a huge difference,
Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> When replying to a message in Thunderbird as packaged in Debian 9, the
> date and time is automatically placed before the quote, like this: “On
> 22/08/17 17:31, $NAME wrote:”. How can I change the format used for the
> date and time?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_
Kent West wrote:
> I walked away then and came back in a few minutes to find it had finished,
> but didn't pay attention to any other messages, and then tried booting it
> on another year-old Dell PC. It gave me the grub menu, but then when I
> tried to boot Debian Live, I got an error about an in
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor
[...]
> That sounds something like having an X11 screen larger than the
> monitor it is on, and X panning around that. Typically, though,
> panning requires the mouse to hit the
Stefan K wrote:
> 'sync'-mountoption is important (more or less), but it should still be
> much faster than 20MB/s
I don't know if "sync" could be entirely responsible for such a
slowdown, but it's likely at least contributing, particularly if the
application is doing small I/Os at the system cal
Stefan K wrote:
> > Can you partition the files into 2 different shares? Put the database
> > files in one share and access them using "sync", and put the rest of the
> > files in a different share, with no "sync"?
> this could be a solution, but I want to understand why is it so slow and fix
>
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