Bug#793670: mount: bad optical disk can place mount command into uninteruptable sleep

2015-07-26 Thread Dallas E. Legan
e sleep, except that the process can be killed. If there are reason's the noninteruptable sleep must be used most of the time, perhaps providing a switch to enforce "killable" when the media is of unproven quality would be possible. Thanks for any consideration. Regards, Dall

Bug#699068: [larryhsfriends] Fwd: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number more than

2015-04-05 Thread Dallas E. Legan
(probably unnoticable for practical purposes, but present in a form) 5) Account on sdf.org / NetBSD Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 (21 June 2010) no apparent limit on number of characters typed in 6) Account on grex.net / OpenBSD 5.0-stable Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 (21 June 2010) no apparent limit

Bug#763618: lighttpd: Confusing CGI information on default start page

2014-10-01 Thread Dallas E. Legan II
ld be corrected (updated?). Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraf

Bug#750132: xine-console: Video driver 'none' fails for aaxine.

2014-06-01 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: xine-console Version: 0.99.8-2 Severity: normal '-V none' option fails when used with aaxine. It's on the list of supported video output drivers ('--help'), and would seem to be easy to support. This is desirable since xine does support some relatively obscure audio codecs, since fbxine i

Bug#736319: get-flash-videos: The search function is broken

2014-01-22 Thread Dallas E. Legan
nks if you can get this (or anything inspired by it or equivalent) into the code base for this tool. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekel

Bug#730148: dhelp: Doesn't seem to register ffmpeg-doc

2013-11-21 Thread Dallas E. Legan
force ffmpeg-doc to register, no change. Apologies if I'm misunderstanding anything, or if this is really a bug in the ffmpeg-doc package, but it would be nice to get ffmpeg-doc integrated into this system. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@laf

Bug#725333: when run in screen, elinks causes beeping on all window changes

2013-10-04 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: elinks Version: 0.12~pre6-1+b1 Severity: normal During a session using the screen program, if elinks is started screen starts to beep everytime a change is made to a different or new window or area. This continues even after elinks is stopped, until screen is detached. After reattaching,

Bug#719182: directvnc: difficulty running when not root

2013-08-08 Thread Dallas E. Legan
so it could be better documented. Thanks for any help, advice etc. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At

Bug#719181: directvnc: Switching between consoles and back, need some way to refresh screen

2013-08-08 Thread Dallas E. Legan
, etc. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft -- System

Bug#702917: linphone-nogtk: linphonecsh has no provision to recieve chat messages

2013-03-12 Thread Dallas E. Legan
ate xmpp/jabber client. :-) I also noted that linephonecsh generic '' blocks, where it seems like it should just return to the prompt. Thanks for any consideration and the work you are doing. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereano

Bug#701880: linphone-nogtk: prefix= setting in proxy_ stanzas of .linphonerc seems to be completely ignored

2013-02-28 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: linphone-nogtk Version: 3.5.2-10 Severity: normal editing .linphonerc to have a 'prefix=...' associated with particular proxy_ sections, as in some online documentation, fails. Editing a prefix into the file, then starting linphonec, it is simply gone, without a trace. No prefix in

Bug#689757: apparently due to recent changes by youtube, quvi no longer works there

2012-10-05 Thread Dallas E. Legan
. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft -- System Information: Deb

Bug#689281: linphone-nogtk: need some way to adjust the verbosity of proxy registration messages

2012-09-30 Thread Dallas E. Legan
blind friend, and so could be considered an accessability issue. Thanks for any consideration. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Teke

Bug#689280: linphone-nogtk: playbackgain set volume resets to default after pausing

2012-09-30 Thread Dallas E. Legan
r activity. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft -- Syst

Bug#686630: mkvtoolnix: mkvmerge fails

2012-09-03 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: mkvtoolnix Version: 5.6.0-1 Severity: important mkvmerge -v -o insidewash103110.{mkv,wmv} mkvmerge: symbol lookup error: mkvmerge: undefined symbol: _ZN7libebml15EbmlCodeVersionE -- mkvmerge program seems to be rendered inoperative. Thanks for any consideration. Regards, Dallas E

Bug#675544: iceweasel: apparent change in the meaning of -no-remote

2012-06-01 Thread Dallas E. Legan
ce with me. :-) Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft -- Pack

Bug#674742: iceweasel: -new-tab seems more finicky

2012-05-27 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.4esr-2 Severity: normal In the process of filling this out, I found that some addons apparently must be turned off for the -new-tab (and maybe -new-window) to work with the latest iceweasel package. Very annoying, and disrupts interoperability. -- Package-specifi

Bug#673907: linphone-nox: friend chat message......... would be cool

2012-05-21 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: linphone-nox Version: 3.5.2-8 Severity: wishlist It would save a lot of typing if the friend command had a chat subcommand so you could: friend chatmessage body here.. Thanks for any consideration Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org http

Bug#670104: surfraw: name collision with googlecl package

2012-04-22 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: surfraw Version: 2.2.8-1 Severity: minor If you add the surfraw elvi directory to your PATH, there is a name collision with the 'google' command from the 'googlecl' package. Personnally, I've solved this with some aliases, but maybe there should be some co-ordination between the package m

Bug#670103: googlecl: name collision with the surfraw package

2012-04-22 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: googlecl Version: 0.9.13-1 Severity: minor When both surfraw and googlecl are installed, there can be a name collision of commands if the surfraw 'elvi' directory is added to a users PATH directory, both providing a 'google' command. Personally, I've solved this with some aliases, but a c

Bug#663418: cdrdao: would be good to have a switch to generate and use a WAV file instead of .bin

2012-03-10 Thread Dallas E. Legan
aking cdrdao more useful.cdparanoia can create such a .wav file, but then you still have to run cdrdao to generate a toc file to go with it. Thanks for any consideration, your efforts are appreciated. Dallas E. Legan / aw...@lafn.org -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT pr

Bug#637832: wm2: terminating program window undoes package big-cursor effects

2011-08-14 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: wm2 Version: 4+svn20090216-2 Severity: normal When closing a program's window (such as Xeyes or Xclock) the pointer reverts back to it's normal size, instead of that provided by big-cursor. Very annoying, but not incompacitating. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II le...@ac

Bug#631675: linphone-nox: option to autoanswer and ring both would be useful

2011-06-25 Thread Dallas E. Legan
nd ringing into seperate settings. Thanks for any consideration. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org / http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/index.html -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686

Bug#627732: mimms: Would it be good to have a switch to dump out technical specs of stream?

2011-05-23 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: mimms Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: wishlist I'm not sure if this is even meaningful in the mms: world, maybe the specifications are always the same, I don't know, but it might be useful to people like me who aren't too familiar with mms: and related stream formats. Any way a --identify/-i s

Bug#612588: clive: Make it work with tube.majestyc.net

2011-02-09 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: clive Version: 2.2.13-4 Severity: wishlist http://tube.majestyc.net is an alternate interface to http://www.youtube.com designed to meet best accessability practices. It's easy enough to write a wrapper script to translate the URL's to standard youtube format, but it would be even slicker

Bug#612587: slimrat-nox: Make it work with tube.majestyc.net

2011-02-09 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: slimrat-nox Version: 1.0-1 Severity: wishlist http://tube.majestyc.net is an alternate interface to http://www.youtube.com designed to meet best accessability practices. It's easy enough to write a wrapper script to translate the URL's to standard youtube format, but it would be even slic

Bug#612586: youtube-dl: would be good if it worked with tube.majestyc.net

2011-02-09 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2010.12.09-1 Severity: wishlist http://tube.majestyc.net is an alternate interface to http://www.youtube.com designed to meet best accessability practices. It's easy enough to write a wrapper script to translate the URL's to standard youtube format, but it would be eve

Bug#607362: lynx-cur: Support for 'A' / ADDRLIST command doesn't seem to be in the current build

2010-12-17 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.5-1 Severity: normal Somewhere in 2.8.7 a version of the 'l' / LIST command, 'A' / ADDRLIST was incorporated. As I recall, some special action was needed during the build process to incoporate this feature. The action does not seem to have been taken in the curr

Bug#607062: simpleopal: explicitly -s 'first sound card' doesn't seem to work

2010-12-14 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: simpleopal Version: 3.6.8~dfsg-2 Severity: normal With no -s , it defaults to the USB (second) sound card, which it successfully uses. Also if -s "USB AUDIO " is specified sound works. It also works with the 2nd card if -s /dev/dsp1 is specified. If -s 'Intel 82801DB-ICH4' is

Bug#605082: linphone-nox: would be good if linphonec soundcard commandhad setting for capture/ringer/playback

2010-11-27 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: linphone-nox Version: 3.3.2-1 Severity: wishlist haven't noticed a way to set only capture/ringer/soundcard on the soundcard command. I invision simply an extra setting 1/2/3 or 0/1/2 for soundcard use soundcard use defaulting to all if index.2 is omitted, as it does now. Thanks

Bug#605000: dtmfdial: doesn't seem to be able to share soundcard with other apps

2010-11-25 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: dtmfdial Version: 0.2+1-2 Severity: normal I have two soundcards, dtmfdial does not seem to work with the default, but does with a usb outgboard card. It reports '$/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy', but several other apps can deal with this situation. I can see that it might be useful fo

Bug#561740: zgv: suggestion for installation

2010-11-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: zgv Version: 5.9-2+b1 Severity: normal I submitted a suggestion for libsvga1 that when installed, a check be made to see if a framebuffer device was present, and /etc/vga/libvga.config be edited to uncomment the chipset FBDEV line to make this the default when run on machines with a fr

Bug#603963: Patch: addaptation of fimgs script, zgs, that uses zgv instead to view pdf etc.

2010-11-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: zgv Version: 5.9-2+b1 Severity: wishlist Below is an adaptation of the fimgs script, zgs, to use zgv in compliment of fim/fbi to view pdf, ps etc., allowing use of unique zgv features such as generation/viewing/selection via thumbnails. The script is not perfect right now, could use a bi

Bug#603959: libsvga1: On installation, should check and configure for frame buffer

2010-11-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: libsvga1 Version: 1:1.4.3-29 Severity: important I installed in a different order, so perhaps this is taken care of. Apologies if so. I experienced problems using svga packages after moving to use of a frame buffer. Many were cleared up forcing frame buffer usage via the configuration fi

Bug#603650: fim: Add thumbnail support, like zgv?

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: fim Version: 0.3-beta-prerelease-1.2 Severity: wishlist It would be cool if fim had support for generating/displaying/navigating directories with thumbnails, like zgv can. I don't know how feasible this is, but I don't think zgv is under active development, and doesn't directly support s

Bug#603648: lynx-cur: Handle single password elements in forms more like single text elements

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.1-1 Severity: wishlist If a form contains a single text field, lynx will submit it when return is entered. Similar behaviour for password fields would be cool, facilitating customized, accelerated login pages. Thanks for any consideration. -- System Informatio

Bug#603647: lynx-cur: Name used with mailto: not saved in .lynxrc

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.1-1 Severity: wishlist It seems to me it would be convenient if the name you enter when submitting mailto: URLs was saved in .lynxrc, so you wouldn't have to fill it out after you start lynx and activate a mailto:. Thanks for any consideration. -- System Infor

Bug#603646: lynx-cur: External menu could be cleaner, more like download or print menus

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.1-1 Severity: wishlist It would be good if the menu pulled up when externals was briefer, more like the download or print menus. Currently it displays the full commands and the URL involved in each command. I know one blind friend who is confused by this display

Bug#603645: lynx-cur: needs a command to force submission of cgi forms like w3m and elinks have

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.1-1 Severity: wishlist Submission of HTML CGI forms is too important to leave to the whim of web page designers and scripters, who too often have no knowledge of writing for web page accessability/usability, and seem to feel that javascript should be required fo

Bug#603644: lynx-cur: Inclusion of

2010-11-15 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.1-1 Severity: wishlist The LIST and ADDRLIST commands currently include links and form elements, but no and html elements. Inclusion of these would create a pure, functinal DOM (Document Object Model) rendering of a web page, that could be useful for simplifyi

Bug#599137: slimrat-nox: Does not work with Rapidshare URLs, probably due to recent changes at Rapidshare

2010-10-04 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: slimrat-nox Version: 1.0-1 Severity: normal The program is not able to deal with URLs for Rapidshare.com, probably due to changes in Rapidshare approximately at the end of Sept. 2010. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing')

Bug#597805: tsocks: Would be good to have a CLI switch to export LD_PRELOAD

2010-09-23 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: tsocks Version: 1.8beta5-9.1 Severity: wishlist I use ckermit as a wrapper interface for ssh, and find that I need to export LD_PRELOAD to have ssh socksified in this environment. Also in some cases run lynx, w3m etc. under script control of ckermit (others might use expect, etc. for th

Bug#565810: iceweasel: Command to execute when closing tab/window along with -new-tab/-new-window

2010-01-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.5-1 Severity: wishlist When giving the -new-tab or -new-window switches on the command line to start iceweasel/firefox, it would be cool if you could specify a command to execute when the window/tab closes. My current typical use would be 'chvt ...' to flip back t

Bug#565807: iceweasel: -new-tab/-new-window not properly documented in man page / -help output

2010-01-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.5-1 Severity: minor The -new-tab switch really should have a seperate entry in the man page to help draw attention to it's existence. Both -new-tab and -new-window switches should be listed as part of the output for -help, to make people aware of their existence, so

Bug#565803: iceweasel: Iceweasel/Firefox does not seem to readily render left/right single/double curly quotes properly

2010-01-18 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.5-1 Severity: normal Html character entities ‘ ’ “ ”, left/right single/double curly quotes do not seem to render properly as they do with IE Explorer and Lynx (at least approximately so with Lynx). I tried several view/character set settings with no reasonable resu

Bug#563471: wodim: -swab does not work in -dao mode

2010-01-02 Thread Dallas E. Legan
. -af ... parameters) Anyway, this seems to indicate to me -swab should work with wodim -dao, like --swap does with cdrdao. It will allow wodim to work with a slightly different input format. Thanks for any consideration given to this! Regards, Dallas E. Legan II le...@acm.org / aw...@lafn.org /

Bug#563218: wget: odometer style progress display would be good, increase accessiblity

2009-12-31 Thread Dallas E. Legan
Package: wget Version: 1.12-1.1 Severity: wishlist It would be good if wget had a progress display option that simply refreshed the number of bytes, kb or whatever, to that point and showed the total expected. I think of this as an odometer style dislay, and it is actually implimented in the Lynx