Hi,
I am a user of SLIM. What is wrong with it? I read that it is not
being actively developed. Does it mean a project has to be
continuously developed to be used? Aren't bug reports and bug fixes
NOT enough?
Software development is like a developing animal. While growing an
animal is in rapid de
Le 25/05/2016 18:55, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
Linux has the nice policy of never changing a public ABI, hence, there's
no problem in this respect
Good to know. Although this is not true for kernel internals (if
you write or maintain a driver) and it obviously cannot apply to new
features
Adam Borowski escribió:
[...]
Evince is evil and insane. #721783 is one of many regressions. You want
atril for a fork of evince from before its upstream went completely bonkers.
It's still gnomey but to a far more acceptable degree.
I installed okular (and its dependences) and it works perf
On 05/26/2016 01:23 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
capability of respawning daemons that crash? OpenRC can't do that.
OpenRC *can* do that:
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Automatic respawning crashed services
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
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On Tue, 24 May 2016 14:06:33 +0200
wrote:
> Is there a link to an instruction how to use (and setup) openrc
> together with sysvinit?
>
> I'd like to use openrc as a tool to administrate daemons and services
> since i find it a lot more "logical" (easy?).
Before you do this, allow me to ask y
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:40:27 -0400, Steve wrote in message
> <20160525114027.64eb3...@mydesk.domain.cxm>:
>
> > On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:56:57 +0200
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it
> > > shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu
On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:40:27 -0400, Steve wrote in message
<20160525114027.64eb3...@mydesk.domain.cxm>:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:56:57 +0200
> wrote:
>
> > Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it
> > shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu at least in former times) it was no
On 05/25/2016 08:49 AM, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
>
> Can you suggest a lazier solution (like pre-compiled packages)?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Antonio
>
Lazier:
apt-get -t jessie-backports install linux-image-4.5.0...
-fsr
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On 05/24/2016 02:06 PM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote:
Is there a link to an instruction how to use (and setup) openrc
together with sysvinit?
I'd like to use openrc as a tool to administrate daemons and services
since i find it a lot more "logical" (easy?).
TRIOS Mia is fully functional Debian j
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 04:19:23PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > The kernel doesn't make any call to the glibc; it is the
> > opposite: when running the new kernel, the userland invokes the
> > glibc all the time, and this glibc makes system-calls to the new
> > kernel, and there are some changes i
https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
Debian Wheezy (7)
A very notable change is that HAL is phased out. If you still have the
hal package
installed, you should remove it or it will interference with pm-utils during
suspend.
If the suspend / resume works well on your system, you are lucky and no
need
Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 25/05/2016 16:25, Antonio Trkdz.tab a écrit :
>> Thank you Didier and Urban.
>>
>> >I think you can compile your kernel with any version of gcc 3, 4 or
>> 5, but take care of the C library. The libc used by your OS (ie
>> glibc) must be compiled with the kernel headers for
>i've built linux-libre-4.3.5 in 686, 686-pae and amd64 architectures, and
shortly i'll share the beta of Gnuinos. Give me one week...
Great! Looking forward to it.
Antonio
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:01 PM, aitor_czr wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> El 25/05/16 a las 16:25, "Antonio Trkdz.tab"
> escr
Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 24/05/2016 12:50, Jaromil a écrit :
> > >>Emacs is a somewhat old-fashioned/ traditional[*] Lisp implemenation
> >[*] It doesn't support lexical scoping.
> >
>>> >
>>> >No idea what that means. I like emacs for text editing and don't use it
>>> >for anything
El 25/05/16 a las 10:50, aitor_czr escribió:
Hi Edward,
El 29/03/16 a las 00:58, Edward Bartolo escribió:
I found using the return value of a function makes code much more
>readable and probably more reliable. Multiple return values can be
>encapsulated inside a structure which would be retur
Hi Antonio,
El 25/05/16 a las 16:25, "Antonio Trkdz.tab"
escribió:
Another thing I had a small attempt at was to pull the kernel
4.3.05(ish)-libre from gnuinos, but for some reason the repository listed
in the web page didn't work in my hands.
You are right, both links to the apt repositories
On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:56:57 +0200
wrote:
> Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it
> shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu at least in former times) it was not
> installed ... (?) But it's a long time i was away from Debian ...
There's no Pulseaudio on my system. So I don'
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 04:49:12PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 25/05/2016 16:38, KatolaZ a écrit :
> >Having said that, I think you should not have too many problems
> >compiling a 4.x kernel with glibc-2.19 (the version you find in
> >Jessie)
>
> The kernel doesn't make any call to the gli
Rainer Weikusat writes:
> Hendrik Boom writes:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:40:37PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> [same as below but worded differently]
>
>>>
>>> ... and what the Lisp 1.5 FUNCTION was about was to enable solving the
>>> so-called 'upward funarg problem': Assuming a functio
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:53:50PM +0100, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
> Thank you for the info!
>
> >It's Devuan, obvoiously.
>
> Got it! :)
>
> >I don't know whether you already are aware of it, but the best way to
> compile a vanilla kernel on Debian/Devuas is through using
> kernel-package, whic
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:22:01PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
>>
>> The LISP "alist" implementation is, as we noted earlier, an
>> example of the "deep access" approach". The "alist" contains
>> pointers to previous values of all bound variables together
Thanks to Ozi i got two desktop independent logout/hibernate tools which
generally work fine (cb-exit and oblogout). But i have a problem when i
try the suspend/restart commands:
I get this error msg:
---
Error org.freedesktop.UPower.GeneralError: not authorized
---
The command in the above tool
Thank you for the info!
>It's Devuan, obvoiously.
Got it! :)
>I don't know whether you already are aware of it, but the best way to
compile a vanilla kernel on Debian/Devuas is through using
kernel-package, which compiles the kernel and produces a
ready-to-install .deb package.
Yeah, you mentio
On Wed, 25 May 2016 15:25:56 +0100, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
> Now that I think of it, I got rid of libsystemd0 by having gvfs and dbus
> installed from angband repos, might it be that I need to reinstall some
> packages from there, but ascii repo (it will take a bit of system
> pinning,though)
Le 25/05/2016 16:38, KatolaZ a écrit :
Having said that, I think you should not have too many problems
compiling a 4.x kernel with glibc-2.19 (the version you find in
Jessie)
The kernel doesn't make any call to the glibc; it is the opposite:
when running the new kernel, the userland invoke
Le 25/05/2016 16:25, Antonio Trkdz.tab a écrit :
Thank you Didier and Urban.
>I think you can compile your kernel with any version of gcc 3, 4 or 5, but take care of the C
library. The libc used by your OS (ie glibc) must be compiled with the
kernel headers for the kernel version it runs on.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:22:01PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> The LISP "alist" implementation is, as we noted earlier, an
> example of the "deep access" approach". The "alist" contains
> pointers to previous values of all bound variables together with
> the variable
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:38:11PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
[cut]
>
> I don't know whether you already are aware of it, but the best way to
> compile a vanilla kernel on Debian/Devuas is through using
^^
It's Devuan, obvoiously.
HND
KatolaZ
--
[ Enzo Ni
Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it
shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu at least in former times) it was not
installed ... (?) But it's a long time i was away from Debian ...
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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:25:56PM +0100, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
[cut]
>
> In a previous discussion Hendrick Boom suggested it as an easy solution,
> but do you recommend having mixed source (ascii/jessie)? I am afraid I
> could mess up my system regretfully in the long runeven if only for
Hi. Indeed upgrading my system in some way i lost fglrx, and now, when
i try to reinstall it from the repositories i'm getting that there is
no fglrx driver. When i reactivate the Jessie repositories, the driver
is there but when i try to install it, synaptic or apt-get lament that
fglrx depends on
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:40:37PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
[same as below but worded differently]
>>
>> ... and what the Lisp 1.5 FUNCTION was about was to enable solving the
>> so-called 'upward funarg problem': Assuming a function is returned
>> (passed upward) wh
Thank you Didier and Urban.
>I think you can compile your kernel with any version of gcc 3, 4 or 5, but
take care of the C library. The libc used by your OS (ie glibc) must be
compiled with the kernel headers for the kernel version it runs on.
So to be clear...if I download the sources and I comp
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Dima Krasner wrote:
>slim is far from perfect, that's true. However, "it works" and
>LightDM can use both ConsoleKit and logind in the version
>packaged in Jessie, but prefers logind. Other DMs have a hard
>dependency on logind, or will in the future. We cannot
On Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:20 +0200, Jaromil wrote:
[...]
> I don't exclude adopting the package with Devuan becoming upstream
>
> but are we 100% sure that there are no other alternatives out there,
FWIW, below is the trimmed-down version of a list I
shamelessly ripped from:
https://wiki.archl
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Irrwahn wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016 12:08:12 +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 May 2016 23:07:33 +0200
> > Irrwahn wrote:
> >
> >> In my humble opinion a quality distribution like Devuan
> >> should not show a potential weakness at such a crucial
> >> spot by s
On Wed, 25 May 2016 13:49:23 +0100, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
[...]
> I had a look at installing the 4.5 kernel from ascii, but it pulls a lot o
> dipendences, including libsystemd0 (again)
[...]
This is odd. (FWIW, I'm writing from an Ascii installation
with the stock 4.5 kernel, and no libs
Le 25/05/2016 14:49, Antonio Trkdz.tab a écrit :
Can I compile the 4.1 without having to get the gcc4.9 compiler?
I think you can compile your kernel with any version of gcc 3, 4 or
5, but take care of the C library. The libc used by your OS (ie glibc)
must be compiled with the kernel hea
Hi All,
I didn't want to resuscitate old discussions, so I am writing a new one.
I am actually using Nvidia drivers from jessie-backports, but I would like
to try nouveau drivers for my Nvidia card to get rid of some proprietary
blobs...
With current kernel in stable(3.16), nouveau don't support
Hi all,
El 25/05/16 a las 10:50, Daniel Reurich escribió:
Hi,
Sorry for hooking back an earlier part of this thread, but I turned back
to xpdf a while back as it was the only pdf viewer that I found produces
consistently good and correct rendering results. It can print too. The
biggest proble
On Wed, 25 May 2016 12:28:22 +0200, Jaromil wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016, Irrwahn wrote:
>
>> Hello DNG,
>>
>> has anybody else experienced problems using the
>> apt-file utility recently?
>
> yes, it is a known bug.
>
> it is documented in an issue on Amprolla on our gitlab.
>
> Amprolla is
On Wed, 25 May 2016 12:08:12 +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 23:07:33 +0200
> Irrwahn wrote:
>
>> In my humble opinion a quality distribution like Devuan
>> should not show a potential weakness at such a crucial
>> spot by shipping a package in questionable condition.
>
>
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Irrwahn wrote:
> Hello DNG,
>
> has anybody else experienced problems using the
> apt-file utility recently?
yes, it is a known bug.
it is documented in an issue on Amprolla on our gitlab.
Amprolla is undergoing a major maintainance and Nextime is busy
setting up a new b
Hello DNG,
has anybody else experienced problems using the
apt-file utility recently?
Whatever I try, I always get:
# apt-file search
E: The cache is empty. You need to run "apt update" first.
Of course I followed the hint, but to no avail.
I tried this as both normal user and as root,
On Tue, 24 May 2016 23:07:33 +0200
Irrwahn wrote:
> In my humble opinion a quality distribution like Devuan
> should not show a potential weakness at such a crucial
> spot by shipping a package in questionable condition.
Hallo Irrwahn,
in an earlier mail you wrote regarding slim:
| Subject
Le 24/05/2016 23:04, emnin...@riseup.net a écrit :
I would like to have in the terminal (i use xterm), directories shown
not only with a different colour (i managed that) but also with final
slash (i liked that in some bsd and in slackware), e.g.:
~/.bogofilter/
~/.claws-mail/
etc. Someone know
Hi Edward,
El 29/03/16 a las 00:58, Edward Bartolo escribió:
I found using the return value of a function makes code much more
>readable and probably more reliable. Multiple return values can be
>encapsulated inside a structure which would be returned by a function.
>I used this construct in s
Le 24/05/2016 12:50, Jaromil a écrit :
> >>Emacs is a somewhat old-fashioned/ traditional[*] Lisp implemenation
> >[*] It doesn't support lexical scoping.
> >
>
>No idea what that means. I like emacs for text editing and don't use it
>for anything else.
in brief it means that is impossible to
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