In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal
program that isn’t gnome-terminal.
Anybody know how to do that?
TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C” locale. It
wants to see a UTF8 locale, and refuses to work with anything less! See Deb
On 10/09/14 at 05:33pm, Menashè Eliezer wrote:
> Thank you Raffaele and Elimar, but lsmod | grep snd produces no results. I
> should have mentioned it before.
try loading snd-hda-intel first ( BTW it sounds really weird that no snd-*
module is being loaded ).
Can you post the output of ls -l /e
The above is the output of lpsci. I'm using the latest proprietary NVIDIA
driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color depth as 24 bit and
offers no way to change that.
I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What am I missing?
Thanks.
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2014/09/11 0:31 "B" :
>
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:08:31 -0500
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > That has been obsolete for at least a decade and may never have
> > applied to Linux. IIRC it had to do with specific characteristics
> > of BSD kernels.
>
> IIRC it was 1.5xRAM.
>
> Today, the only "oblig
Steve Litt writes:
>The only thing is, Daemontools has no way of telling it which order to
>load things, so, for instance, I'll need to load the dns server
>before Dovecot and Apache, so the dns server will continue to be
>loaded by the init system.
I've been using runit for some time, which is
Don Armstrong writes:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014, lee wrote:
>> Why would 40GB be too much?
>
> It's probably too much, unless you have processes which allocate lots of
> memory and then use it very infrequently or you have incredibly fast
> disks.
It works fine, only can slow the system down very mu
Bret Busby writes:
> So, I believe (unttil and unless, advised otherwise) that the
> deleteing the file (which did not free up the disc space, in itself),
> and then, renaming the xsystem-errors.old file, to xsystem-errors,
> appears to have disappeared the problem, which, if I had known
> earlie
Bret Busby writes:
> I note that, with that file that is being accessed by Nautilus,
> assuming that the number 1169162 , is the size of the file, I have
> tried, but, apparently, can not reduce that to zero, as that number
> does not change, with my attempts.
On a side note: You could try nemo
I found the same problem mentioned here:
xkb (setxkbmap & xmodmap) forget their setting within minutes
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1963372
Alexandros Prekates
http://librebytes.gr
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i tried : /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "ctrl:swapcaps"
Again it worked but only for some minutes.
Alexandros
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:34:16 +0100
Brian wrote:
> My money would still be on mangled font encodings rather than defective
> viewing applications.
Yeah, evince says it is 'WinAnsi' encoded (those two 2 words contracted
in one made me laugh;) Anyway, evince automatically substituted it
with DejaVu
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 23:12:26 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Brian wrote on 09/10/2014 18:20:
> > On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 16:32:50 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> >
> >> Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but
> >> searching
> >> for text or numbers does not wo
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 07:36:15 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Sorry, Ethan. Repostingto list.
>
> On Wednesday 10 September 2014 04:22:09 Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> > FYI I tried to set the orientation from the printer setup.
>
> It's not part of the printer set-up. The printer should be able to do
>
Has anybody a hint how to share a binary file (e.g., pdf) with this list, a
sharing or cloud service without the need to sign up?
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Brian wrote on 09/10/2014 18:20:
> On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 16:32:50 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>
>> Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but
>> searching
>> for text or numbers does not work correctly.
>>
>> I tried different viewers like the one built into icewea
On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:04:46 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200
>> > B wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
>> >> Bret Busby wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Alright, then; it is doin
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:14:34AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:07:43 +0100
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:19:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > For years, I've been using exec to replace a shellscript with a
> > > binary executable. Something lik
On 09/10/2014 02:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 19:42:57 Martin Read wrote:
On 10/09/14 18:07, Curt wrote:
Then why do the (net)installer(s) apply an obsolete principle when you
accept a/the default partioning scheme(s) (well, at least the Squeeze
netinstaller I used wa
On 09/10/2014 08:46 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering either
the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520.
Besides the Linux support there is one other thing to consider. The HP
Photosmart 7520 was designed never to b
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:17:02 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
> > I've tested it with 2 different printers (HP, Samsung).
> >
> > When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper
> > size" (free translation) in the print options, t
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:34:42 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> :~# sysctl -a|grep swap
> vm.swappiness = 90
> error: "Invalid argument" reading key "fs.binfmt_misc.register"
> error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.route.flush'
> error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv6.route.flush'
You're system's
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 19:42:57 Martin Read wrote:
> On 10/09/14 18:07, Curt wrote:
> > Then why do the (net)installer(s) apply an obsolete principle when you
> > accept a/the default partioning scheme(s) (well, at least the Squeeze
> > netinstaller I used way back when did so).
>
> My firs
On 09/10/2014 03:34 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
On 10/09/2014, B wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you can't
seriously tell me that the swap
On 10/09/14 18:07, Curt wrote:
Then why do the (net)installer(s) apply an obsolete principle when you
accept a/the default partioning scheme(s) (well, at least the Squeeze
netinstaller I used way back when did so).
My first guess would be "because it's not so bad an idea that anyone in
a posit
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 19:15:23 +0200, B wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0300
> Alexandros Prekates wrote:
>
> > Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
> > and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
> >
> > sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-ma
Alexandros Prekates wrote:
> My system is Debian stable with xfce.
>
> Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
> and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
>
> sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
>
> It worked! But .. after some
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0300
Alexandros Prekates wrote:
> Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
> and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
>
> sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
>
> It worked! But .. after some minute
On 2014-09-10, John Hasler wrote:
>
> That has been obsolete for at least a decade and may never have applied
> to Linux. IIRC it had to do with specific characteristics of BSD
> kernels.
Then why do the (net)installer(s) apply an obsolete principle when you
accept a/the default partioning schem
My system is Debian stable with xfce.
Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
It worked! But .. after some minutes the swap is reverted back to the
i
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-10 17:33 +0200]:
> Thank you Raffaele and Elimar, but lsmod | grep snd produces no results. I
> should have mentioned it before.
>
> Thanks Floris, I'm in the audio group. It happens even with a Root user.
$ dpkg -l | grep "alsa\|asound"
?
Elimar
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On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 16:32:50 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but
> searching
> for text or numbers does not work correctly.
>
> I tried different viewers like the one built into iceweasel, one of the
> poppler-family like xpd
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> I've tested it with 2 different printers (HP, Samsung).
>
> When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper size" (free
> translation) in the print options, the problem is gone, but I have to do
> that every time, I don
Thank you Raffaele and Elimar, but lsmod | grep snd produces no
results. I should have mentioned it before.
Thanks Floris, I'm in the audio group. It happens even with a Root user.
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:07:43 +0100
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:19:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > For years, I've been using exec to replace a shellscript with a
> > binary executable. Something like this:
> ...
> > Is that behavior going to change with systemd?
>
> No
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:08:31 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> That has been obsolete for at least a decade and may never have
> applied to Linux. IIRC it had to do with specific characteristics
> of BSD kernels.
IIRC it was 1.5xRAM.
Today, the only "obligation" is to have as swap as ram
if you plan
On Tue 09 Sep 2014 at 23:22:09 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> From the command line -
>
> lpr -o portrait -o cpi=17 -P POS58 /var/www/receipt.txt
Glad you now have printing to your satisfaction, but the "-o portrait"
option is bothering because neither the manual page for lp (which has
the sa
Steve Litt:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:00:18 +0800
>>
>> I had understood the rule to be that swap space size should be at
>> least double the size of the RAM.
>
> I think that made a lot more sense back in the days when 128MB of RAM
> was standard. If you have 16GB of RAM, and you're not using KDE
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:04:46 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200
> > B wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
> >> Bret Busby wrote:
> >>
> >> > Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB
> >> > memo
Brett writes:
> I had understood the rule to be that swap space size should be at
> least double the size of the RAM.
That has been obsolete for at least a decade and may never have applied
to Linux. IIRC it had to do with specific characteristics of BSD
kernels.
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:00:18 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/09/2014, B wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> >> Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
> >> usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you
> >>
Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but searching
for text or numbers does not work correctly.
I tried different viewers like the one built into iceweasel, one of the
poppler-family like xpdf or evince, and mupdf.
The text search fails if using a whole word with its
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
On 10/09/2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:54:08AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
The file has (kind of) gone, now (it is no longer accessible, but,
appears to still exist, in the
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:05:33PM +0200, lee wrote:
> I'm receiving 226542 bytes in 355 lines when I do this for one of the
> repos ... and same for another one:
>
> curl https://github.com/lee-/info/git-newer/refs?service=git-upload-pack | wc
> -cl
I suspect the right URL should be
http://gi
Hi,
> In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering
> either the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520.
Besides the Linux support there is one other thing to consider. The HP
Photosmart 7520 was designed never to be turned off. It comes with a smart
power br
Op Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:34:02 +0200 schreef Menashè Eliezer
:
Hello, I have Debian testing in which the sound was fine. Few days ago,
after an update, I have "no soundcards found" with >"aplay -l". lspci:
"00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset
Family High Def
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2014 08:13:55 Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I’m glad to know there are so many fine Desktop Environments out there,
>> each with its share of loyal partisans. I’ve tried many of them and I
>> thought I’d give Gnome a try on th
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-10 11:34 +0200]:
> Hello, I have /Debian testing/ in which the sound was fine. Few days ago,
> after an update, I have "no soundcards found" with "aplay -l". lspci:
> "00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
> High Definition Audio Co
On 10/09/14 at 11:34am, Menashè Eliezer wrote:
> Hello, I have /Debian testing/ in which the sound was fine. Few days ago,
> after an update, I have "no soundcards found" with "aplay -l". lspci:
> "00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
> High Definition Audio C
Hello, I have /Debian testing/ in which the sound was fine. Few days
ago, after an update, I have "no soundcards found" with "aplay -l".
lspci: "00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series
Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)". I've tried
everything and sear
On 09/09/14 03:54, John Conover wrote:
Nmap of a Debian 7.6 KDE machine indicates rpcbind (port 111) open.
This otherwise known as the portmapper service. It is used by Remote
Procedure Call services, such as NFS (hence the RPC in the name) You can
check what services are using this with the
Hello,
I've a problem with printing from Icedove. Some mails are printed with
very small fonts, so you cannot read them.
In my opinion the problem occurs when there is a long URL in a mail from
some mailclients, something like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hele+lange+url&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:21:14 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>
>> "
>> :~$ vmstat -S M
>> procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system--
>> cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo
>> in cs us sy id wa 15 0 1725
On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200
> B wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
>> Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>> > Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
>> > usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you
>> > c
On 2014-09-09, Don Armstrong wrote:
>
> Generally speaking, you want enough swap so that infrequently used
> memory can be offloaded to disk, but not so much swap that your computer
> stops being responsive when you begin to run out of free memory.
>
Is there a basic formula you could share with
On 10/09/2014, B wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
>> usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you can't
>> seriously tell me that the swapping is working as it should be.
On Wednesday 10 September 2014 08:13:55 Rick Thomas wrote:
> I’m glad to know there are so many fine Desktop Environments out there,
> each with its share of loyal partisans. I’ve tried many of them and I
> thought I’d give Gnome a try on this machine. I really don’t care what
> other people thin
On 10/09/2014, B wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
>> usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you can't
>> seriously tell me that the swapping is working as it should be.
On 10/09/2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu
wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:54:08AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> The file has (kind of) gone, now (it is no longer accessible, but,
>>> appears to still exist, in the ether of the unknown; still ta
On Sep 9, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Enjoy!
>
> Rick
>
> PS: Now, one remaining question — how do I tell Gnome to use a different
> terminal program, since gnome-terminal is broken in my environment? Is there
> a dpkg-reconfig option I can use for that? Or a magical GUI for su
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