Ancient gorm files

Would it be the case that a 2015 interface would get stripped of its connections and object info like titles and such when opened in a 2025 issue gorm? Get Outlook for Android

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

I've built and booted a current RP4b denovo and reproduced the behavior. Here is a menu of how to recreate the issue. Use rpi-imager Generate a 32gb SDCard for RP4b with 64b Bookworm OS Boot the card, set up your wifi connection. $ sudo apt-get install dselect $ sudo dselect select Raspberr

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

One place to look. Their window manager (and some others) have a tendency to cause resize's of other windows at unnecessary times, like a change of focus to a new window. I've found it annoying in other cases. I do not know for certain that is the source of the issue but it is something to note.

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

I've pulled an RP4b from stock and am burning a fresh 32gb sdcard with Raspbian arm64 64b bookworm port. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Gregory Casamento Sent: Friday, March 28, 2025 10:19:09 AM To: Dale Amon Cc: Disc

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

y, March 28, 2025 10:19:09 AM To: Dale Amon Cc: Discuss Gnustep Subject: Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian I am not sure why this is happening without more information. I am wondering, as Ethan had suggested, if this is due to Wayland. Can you give a complete description of your configuration? Includ

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

It doesn't happen on any other machine I have and it didn't happen on Raspbian until a year or two ago. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Riccardo Mottola Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:26:26 PM To: Dale Amon ; Discuss Gnust

Re: GUI flickering on Raspbian

-gnustep-reference-implementation On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 19:39 Dale Amon mailto:dale.a...@immortaldata.net>> wrote: It would be difficult to explain, so here is a short video showing the issue.

Re: Call to stop contributing

them... grow up. -- +------+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport| | CEO 8990 Zia Blvd, Suite D,Las Cruces, NM, 88007 | | "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | | dale.a...@immortaldata.net

Re: Call to stop contributing

I whole heartedly support any organization that distances itself from political and social positions pushed by minority activists. I applaud that the FSF has the guts to stand up to blackmail. If some people wish to walk away because of that stand, that is their right. With that, I will say noth

Debian and Android

d using old mobiles as small pocket Unix computers. -- +--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport| | CEO 8990 Zia Blvd, Suite D,Las Cruces, NM, 88007 | | "Data Systems for Deep

Looking for Greg

Has anyone heard from Greg Cassamento recently? His phone does not seem to be working. I'd presume he'd be showing up here if anywhere! -- +--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport

Re: gnustep demo for macos

. -- +--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport| | CEO 8990 Zia Blvd, Suite D,Las Cruces, NM, 88007 | | "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | | dale.a...@immortaldata.net 76

Re: gnustep demo for macos

flight software is a very, very long and hard road. -- +--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport| | CEO 8990 Zia Blvd, Suite D,Las Cruces, NM, 88007 | | "Data System

Ubuntu installer is broken. It cannot partition a 10TB Ironwolf Red

the question. There is no way out. There is something rotten deep in the bowels of the partitioning tools used in everyone's installers. Suggestions on a work around until someone figures out how to fix the problem? -- +---+ | Dale

gpt and mkfs.ext4 seem to be at odds...

I 2) have an 80 MB /, a swap and the remainder of the 10TB in /lib0. 3) Have Ubuntu install, gpt, mkswap and mkfs.ext4 all happy. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland Inte

Re: Numeric literals

Greg: That is what I expected. Just trying to imagine one impossible thing before breakfast is all I was doing... -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air

Re: Numeric literals

Yes. On the one laptop I tried it, I get stray '@' in program. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com

Numeric literals

answer is "You are out of luck." but hey, it never hurts to ask. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com &q

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Secure Boot Policy

p the bad guys'n'gals or at least make life very difficult for them. To every season, there is a purpose. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data a...@vnl.com| | CEO Data Systems for Deep

Fwd: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Secure Boot Policy

Just a dumb question, since I have not been happy with UEFI let alone secure boot with keys. If you roll your own kernels, do the build scripts let you generate your own keys? Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

Let's also factor in flavors like Lubuntu that aim to use very minimal resources and that have the ability to run with ~ 300 MB of RAM on an i386 machine. While I understand modern applications are removing i386 support, we have a nice application base for Lubuntu for both LXDE and LXQt that provi

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

to think that a particular key on the recently/mostly standardized laptop keyboards and 'Microsoft Compatible' keyboards is what MetaKey means. Nope. It just happens to be assigned to that particular use on those particular keyboards/systems. Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing lis

Re: Kernel issues since -22

That does sound a lot like the existing issues and is disturbing news. But I've lived with it for 4 years so I guess I can deal with it longer. However, the new issues seem different. There are things like coming up to the mate login panel and being unable to log in because something is not set u

Re: Kernel issues since -22

On 2016-06-22 12:43, Dale Amon wrote: Has anyone else reported similar show-stopper issues in recent kernels? If anyone is interested in this issue, I'd be happy to share what little info I can extract via pen and paper of the early boot sequence leading up to the hangs. -- Ubuntu-

Kernel issues since -22

I have not got a whole lot of information because this happens so early in the boot. Basically, no kernel since -22 works on my Lenovo W520. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it has to do with some race condition in the systemctl set up. Even in -22 I often must boot several times before it

[libvirt-users] Problem with USB pass through after switching to Xenial from Trusty

I use a virtual machine for a scanner I have for which the vendor never updated their driver. I have accessed it for years using a pass through: I brought this over from the old config and although the machine boots as if it sees it, all I get with an ls

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

to the International Space Development Conference in Puerto Rico for the next week with my mind at ease knowing I've got this puppy paper trained ;-) +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com | | XCOR Aerospace Your Ticket To Space S

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

ions Scope Icon=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/unity-scopes/libertine-scope/icon.png Keep in mind that I have not been part of the development effort so I lack referents which are obvious to you. -- +-------+ | Dale Amon

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com | | XCOR Aerospace Your Ticket To Space Spacecraft and Engines | +---+ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

I found the issue. In copying and pasting to an xemacs on my laptop I lost the [Desktop Entry] line. Now it is showing. But not yet executing... One small step for an icon... -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

ed by the instructions I read. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com | | XCOR Aerospace Your Ticket To Space Spacecraft an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

/.local/share/icons/xterm-color_48x48.xpm Keywords=Libertine NotShowIn=Unity; X-Ubuntu-Touch=true X-Ubuntu-XMir-Enable=true But nothing shows up on the GUI laptop. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

edit it to taste. Yeah, I'm one of *those* guys... ;-) -- +-------+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com | | XCOR Aerospace Your Ticket T

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

The container build seems to have worked. I first blew away the file from the previous attempt and copied in a fresh ContainersConfig.json. So now I have to figure out how to make it all work. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineer

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:34:32AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > to force the os back to a clean state, make sure it is not writable, > then you can run: > > sudo system-image-cli -b 0 -vv > > that should re-download the image and auto-re-flash the device ... Okay. Step zero. I backed up the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

ns it is workin... -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera...@xcor.com | | XCOR Aerospace Your Ticket To Space Spacecraft and Engines | +---+ -- Mail

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

I appear to have succeeded with the reflash. Btw, nice touch guys... it did not blow away my .ssh keys with the reset. Next, I have to learn my way into the libertine process. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Sr Engineera

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

ontainer, ie one container to build packages natively, which will only exist on one notepad and only be accessed by ssh and used at command line; and one container in which to install and run the FTE software, which will only be used via the GUI and will exist on all such operational units.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:34:32AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > smells like it is time for a factory reset, i guess all your tinkering > while the system was writable got you into that state ... > > to force the os back to a clean state, make sure it is not writable, > then you can run: > > sud

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 04:40:13PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > May 12 16:26:11 ubuntu-phablet sshd[5248]: fatal: PRNG is not seeded > May 12 16:26:25 ubuntu-phablet sshd[5257]: fatal: PRNG is not seeded > May 12 16:28:33 ubuntu-phablet sshd[5316]: fatal: PRNG is not seeded > May 12 16:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 05:11:16PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > These are wrong for some reason. They should be like they are on my > workstation: > > amon@otv3:~$ ls -l /dev/urandom /dev/urandom > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 May 12 09:55 /dev/urandom > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

Actually those were earlier in the day. These are recent: May 12 16:25:33 ubuntu-phablet unity8: PAM adding faulty module: pam_gnome_keyring.so May 12 16:25:33 ubuntu-phablet unity8: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_kwallet.so): /lib/security/pam_kwallet.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

I'm on the edge of losing it Cannot log in from touchpad or get another job logged in. Fortunately I have an ssh window open already. Things went bad after I ran the instructions: # cd ~/.local/share/libertine # rm ContainersConfig.json # cp /custom/click/.click/users/@a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:20:31PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > this howto is about installing and using unity8 on a desktop PC, not > related to the tablet at all (where unity8 runs by default and > libertine is already installed and fully functional) ... I am wondering if I managed to break it

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

I'll be digging for the reason for this, but just in case you have seen things like this before: : : : I: Configuring init... W: Failure while configuring required packages. W: See /root/.cache/libertine-container/puritine2/rootfs/debootstr

[Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

it, a window appears and then disappears moments late. I tried this: initctl --session start libertine-lxc-manager since it was mentioned in the same article but it fails. I need some assistance on where to go next and will supply whatever information is required (so long as it is not I

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

they suggested this was needed: root@ubuntu-phablet:/var/log# initctl --session start libertine-lxc-manager initctl: Unable to connect to session bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 but that implies I am still missing something. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 05:54:01PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > Sounds like some more complications... but it looks like I > have things worked out. I just have to pick up a spare USB > hub after work to get the 1TB disk attached to the Aquarius M10. > > As for getting packages pro

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

disk attached. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

New Xeniel kernal causes boot failure on Lenovo W520

I've had to back off to using the old kernel. The latest update brings in a kernal that causes the boot to repeatedly complain that /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket has failed, and after sometime it dumps into the initrd shell. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mo

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:14:05PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > However, the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info show armhf packages > as you suggest. Ah, a bit more research. It looks like armhf is armv7 and that is the aarch64. Please correct me if that is wrong. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss m

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:35:33PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > the tablet uses an armhf userspace, not aarch64 > > The /proc/cpuinfo claims it is aarch64. However, the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info show armhf

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

root@ubuntu-phablet:/etc/apt# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : AArch64 Processor rev 3 (aarch64) processor : 0 BogoMIPS: 26.00 Features: fp asimd aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 wp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tlsi vfpv4 idiva idivt CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU archit

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Oliver Grawert wrote: > the tablet uses an armhf userspace, not aarch64 The /proc/cpuinfo claims it is aarch64. > in a former mail i posted: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/620740/recommended-way-to-install-regularcli-deb-packages-on-ubuntu-phone/6233

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > So I am presuming those folks working on it are building everything > > with a cross compiler. So instead of the one day task I was hoping > > for,

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

to set up their cross-platform development environments? Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

as one would like with software. Perhaps that is why AI's will never take over the world. They'll need to keep us humans around to reboot them. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

Thank you for that extra tidbit. I had contacted the list owner to find out if they covered tablets as well. So the answer is yes. And so I will, as I will probably need advice on other things. Now I must get back to work. I've got subversion installed and I am about to suck in a working set o

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > And just a question... you are saying phone. This is the new > > Ubuntu Notepad, not a phone. > > Sorry, I didn't notice that. I believe it s

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > And just a question... you are saying phone. This is the new > > Ubuntu Notepad, not a phone. > > Sorry, I didn't notice that. I believe it s

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:14:42AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > Could someone direct me to the information that is necessary to > > access a root shell on the Aquarius? > > See http://askubuntu.com/a/601972/7808

Ubuntu Notepad

Could someone direct me to the information that is necessary to access a root shell on the Aquarius? I need to install packages and compile my own GNUstep application to run on it and display data transmitted to it via a UDP stream via a GORM or ncurses5 defined data display. Ad Astra, Dale Amon

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

I like the way NeXTstep did it. If you drag an icon from the Workspace Manager to a shell or into Emacs, it 'drops' as the full path name of the item you dragged. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.c

Xeniel Xerus installer issue

Yesterday when I was doing some system testing, I did a fresh install of Beta 1 over top of the previous disk partititions, told it to wipe and reuse, and it came up with a panel saying it could not create partition 5 swap space. The panel could not be dismissed and I could not continue or go back

Re: [Dirvish] transferring dirvish.org/dirvish.com, RBL

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:18:19PM +0100, Andreas Kotes wrote: > > My neurologist tells me that I may be in the first stages > > of cognitive decline, and that I should pass important > > responsibilities on to others. Shock. Pray for na

Re: Account Management / Shared Secret Generator

Biggest problem you have is the vulnerability to substitution and various forms of phishing attacks. Picking good passwords using pseudo-random number generators is not easy. The target user population will not have a clue about these issues. As the adage goes, a false perception of security is

Issues with recent security updates?

On Sunday I did a dselect update to pull in the current security updates for trusty LTS. I rebooted Monday morning and found that my desktop had been massively modified with no warning. * My bottom bar disappeared * Places disappeared from the top bar * Buttons on windows

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:14:45PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Ah yes, the days when much design was done by engineers and managers > who shrugged and communicated in their settings dialogs, "We don't > know how to design software. Why don't you have a go?" And when, as a > result, people w

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

All of which is why I am migrating to Mint, step by step. Even on Ubuntu I use Mate and make the changes to make the OS and GUI do my bidding. A OS is a slave. It does what its master tells it to do, whether that be to put buttons on the right or the left. Different people have different tastes. T

Re: Fwd: future development idea: presentation mode

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Marek Sterzik wrote: > solution for working. But not so good for presenting. One problem I have run into (at night when I am kicking back for leisure after a long day of engineering) are some annoying effects that are the sort of thing you may be speaking

Re: Fwd: future development idea: presentation mode

Actually you will find the use of 2, 3 and 4 screens very common. Walk through an accounting office. True they are in the windows world, but multi-screens are basic to their work flow. Similarly (also windows), you will find that in the case of many engineering applications, two screens are essent

Re: Ubuntu phone feedback

Just out of curiousity, does any one know when it will be available in the US? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:25:40PM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > This is possible with .desktop files: > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Foo > Type=Link > URL=file:///path/to/foo I just cd /home/username/Desktop ln -s target linkname and the folder appears on the desktop just fine. --

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:27:20AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 08:37:38AM -0500, Saqman2060 wrote: > > What does it mean to clear out and old kernel version? > > It means remove the packages that contain old kernel versions by running Personally I just use dselect and

Re: Ubuntu Software Center future

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:39:26AM -0700, I.E.G. wrote: > I don't often respond . Personally I ignore the entire GUI update package. I use dselect or apt-get at command line, and if issues arrive I use dpkg --force-whatever's to fix them. The command line is far faster and more powerful for many

Re: What's the plan for PHP support in LTS releases?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:30:16PM +0100, Oli Warner wrote: > We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/ > > - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support > period > - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-

Anyone familiar with Mirabox?

I'm having some trouble getting into a Mirabox running Debian 7 mirabox-debian using minicom. I get all the boot output but it is not accepting input. It's not just echo because if that were so, typing root blindly at the login prompt should cause something to happen. I regularly use minicom v

Re: Upgrade issues

Just curious... did not see any response after I sent the screen shot. I've managed work arounds for most of my issues, some are awkward, some slow me down, but I am back to a mostly workable system... especially since I discovered Nemo, a file browser that knows who the boss is (ie *me* ;-) and

Re: Anyone familiar with Mirabox?

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:43:20AM -0700, Dale Amon wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting into a Mirabox running Debian 7 > mirabox-debian using minicom. I get all the boot output but it > is not accepting input. > > It's not just echo because if that were so, typi

Re: Upgrade issues

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:59:23PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > The appropriate way to deal with clear bugs is to report them in launchpad, > along with the necessary details like steps to reproduce, kind of hardware, > etc. Do you have bug numbers for these? It is not clear these are bugs. I

Re: Upgrade issues

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:32:48PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > You would make this easier for yourself and all of us if you start with a few > basic bits of information: > > Which Ubuntu version did you use before the upgrade? Saucy. > What did you upgrade to? Trusty. >

Re: Upgrade issues

Here's another on my list of issues. xemacs now gives this error on startup. (1) (xim-xlib/warning) Warning: XCreateIC failed. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

Re: Upgrade issues

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0100, Colin Law wrote: > In his last post, in a throw away line he asked " Is there some simple > change to make my gnome mate setup work properly again?". Why he did > not point this out at the start, given that most of his problems seem > to be UI related I ca

Re: Upgrade issues

I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. * I have not yet found which settings panel has the screensaver setup to make it run the slideshow over ~/Pictures. I would swear that this used to be part of the lock pan

Re: Upgrade issues

Oh, and when I switch desktops, only one screen changes. These massively decreases the space I have available for windows. Even with the four desktops and two screens I typically have all of them completely filled and the lower tool bar half full and up to over filled. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mai

Upgrade issues

Every time there is an update I steel myself for the inevitable. This time I am seriously considering getting a new disk and going to Mate. But I will give this one shot to see if there is something simple I can do to get my home login working properly again. I note the following problems:

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:23:40PM -0700, Robert Park wrote: > dh is debhelper, which is a tool that aids in building debian > packages. As far as I'm aware, it's not something that you'd just run > with no arguments (it has a lot of different subcommands and options > for them). The error message

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:45:30PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > We haven't released any security updates for debhelper. > What exactly were you expecting as the result of the dh command? I used it in some old package scripts. In the interrum I've looked over this and I can live without it. I'l

core unix command broken in latest updates

It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. $ dh dh: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat dh: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it! dh: c

Re: [Dirvish] Any Burning Man participants here?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:38:48AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I have an idea for a < $100 build-it-yourself, fire-resistant, > theft-resistant backup enclosure. It would be fun to make the > beta test at Burning Man at the end of August after I work out > the details and make an alpha test. A

Re: Our Networking Story

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:49:02AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: > network manager stores its system connection info in a text file in .ini > style format in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections Thanks for that pointer... but there is nothing in there about eth0, only the WiFi connections past an

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:32:56PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I never use network manager but just in case it's of use, check > out /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services Oh my. I find buried in there: ~$ cat /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher.service

Re: Our Networking Story

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:57:04AM +0530, Soren Hansen wrote: > interfaces as it would have any other statically configured interface, > because that's what /etc/network/interfaces says it should do. > > When it's ifup'ed again, it gets the right address assigned, but the > dhcp client is still ru

Re: Our Networking Story

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > Lots of us only use a GUI as a place to let us keep 40 > > xterm's available... > > Could you detail what process you are exactly using to do this > reliably? Are you using bonds/vlans/bridging? On my current job, I am using a la

Re: Our Networking Story

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:02:33PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:44:07PM -0800, Dale Amon wrote: > > I often configure laptops that for security have wifi, bluetooth > > etc all turned off at BIOS level, and the only ethernet connection > > is not to

Re: Our Networking Story

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Stanisław Hodur wrote: > *Wifi + Ethernet on Desktop* Which reminds me of another common use of machines that a typical GUI user won't think of. I often configure laptops that for security have wifi, bluetooth etc all turned off at BIOS level, and the onl

Re: Our Networking Story

The only feature I hold near and dear is that I be able to ssh into a server in a rack 8000 miles away, fiddle with /etc/network/interfaces if needed, and then reliably ifdown/ifup one of god knows how many connections (I often work with machines that have 8 or even more hardware ethers, not to me

Re: Good ARM board for Debian?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:37:07AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > jerry: i apologise - there are too many judgements and assumptions for > me to be able to continue this conversation, especially without > consultancy fees being paid. i've given you a lot of advice: you're > not liste

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

Thanks... I have managed to find a compile time work around to my primary issue, which negates my need to update. I may return to this later after we get in a couple newer units from them, at which time I can afford to play with the existing ones without risking schedule slippage. -- View this

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

Seems to be a lot of discussion of complex setups and bricking, which makes me a bit nervous as I do not have a lot of time to accomplish my goal. I am considering a Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade on a DreamPlug solely to get rid of a ObjC/FoundationKit issue which occurs during a compile under Debian S

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