Re: (OT) Disable Secure Boot, et al

2016-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/08/2016 à 02:25, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > Hi! All, > > Anyway to enter UEFI Firmware Setup on contemporary UEFI W8/10 notebooks > without having to go through Windows? That is, is there a keyboard > combo, secret button or incantation whether or not a hard drive/OS is > installed. As far

Re: IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

2016-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/08/2016 à 21:48, afamilyofbetatesters hendersonpark a écrit : > This may not even be possible, but how can I update the IceWeasel > (Firefox) from 45 (old) to the current 47? I need it on 47 to be able to > use a platform I use instead of skype :) what you have and is available in Jessie is

Re: nosh and redo have moved

2016-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2016 19:34:44 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The whole sorry tale of why is on the new WWW site. The upshot of it > is that nosh and redo are in a new place. > No, it does not offer any explanation of why you come in here with a megaphone announcing these tools. This l

(OT) Disable Secure Boot, et al

2016-08-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
Hi! All, Anyway to enter UEFI Firmware Setup on contemporary UEFI W8/10 notebooks without having to go through Windows? That is, is there a keyboard combo, secret button or incantation whether or not a hard drive/OS is installed. As far as my research goes, there's not. I'm looking to buy a new

Limiting internet access by time

2016-08-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On a stretch box I have, I want to allow access to the Internet between the hours of 9am and 9pm and block it between 9pm and 9am. Ideally allow local network access throughout but block Internet access between 9pm and 9am, but I can accept total network blockage in the off times if necessary. The

nosh and redo have moved

2016-08-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The whole sorry tale of why is on the new WWW site. The upshot of it is that nosh and redo are in a new place. * https://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/ ** https://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/source-package.html ** https://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/freebsd-binary-packages.html ** https://jdebp.eu./Sof

Re: IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 20:48:41 afamilyofbetatesters hendersonpark wrote: > This may not even be possible, but how can I update the IceWeasel (Firefox) > from 45 (old) to the current 47? I need it on 47 to be able to use a > platform I use instead of skype :) What version of Debian are you usi

Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing About a week or so ago now, suddenly it has lost all its on screen text when playing a video (recorded TV programs). The surrounding overlays are all there, just the text is missing - including on pop up menus. As soon as

SOLVED - I hope! - was: Re: Sound troubles on crashed Jessie on Skylake

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 22:43:23 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote on 08/04/16 18:27: > > On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:01:01 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Which sound devices are shown by alsamixer? (See the text on the top > >> left and, maybe, use F2 and F6 keys.) > > > > Card: Pul

Re: only one user with access to vt consoles in multiseat set ups ...

2016-08-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
Also, something important to me is for each seat to be able to go into init 5 under its own locale Say, one seat would be running under a French locale and the other one a German one. lbrtchx

only one user with access to vt consoles in multiseat set ups ...

2016-08-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
I would like to know the reason for the following note: ~ https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO NOTE: Only the user on the first monitor has the use of vt consoles and can use Ctrl+Alt+F to select them. The other users have a gdm login screen and can use X normally, but have no vt's.

Re: Sound troubles on crashed Jessie on Skylake

2016-08-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Lisi Reisz wrote on 08/04/16 18:27: > On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:01:01 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Which sound devices are shown by alsamixer? (See the text on the top left >> and, maybe, use F2 and F6 keys.) > > Card: PulseAudio > Chip: PulseAudio > > F6 > default > 0 HDA Intel PCH > 1 HDA N

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 20:59:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 04, 2016 12:32:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > It wasn't originally. Look at the subject header. I specifically said > > in my original post that I did npt want a falme-war about terminology, > > but I seem to have go

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 21:01:31 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 04, 2016 02:34:15 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > It does not apply to the software I use. Why on earth are you so > > determined to argue? > > You don't have to participate in an argument... touchée! ;-) Lisi

Re: Lost /var/backups

2016-08-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-08-04 20:45 +0200, Tilo Werner wrote: > accidentally I lost all files under /var/backups. It was a mistake while > I was configuring the backup procedure o_O So I got no backup. > > Does anybody know how they were created? Most of them are created by cron jobs (look in /etc/cron.daily), a

repository uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)

2016-08-04 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hi, I have a weird signature issue with an LMDE Mint repository. I know that this is not pure debian but nevertheless I think my question is best posted here. The issue is: I have 4 PC and 1 laptop at home. All running LMDE2. When I do "apt-get update" the PCs have no issue. But the laptop says

IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

2016-08-04 Thread afamilyofbetatesters hendersonpark
This may not even be possible, but how can I update the IceWeasel (Firefox) from 45 (old) to the current 47? I need it on 47 to be able to use a platform I use instead of skype :)

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 04, 2016 02:34:15 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > It does not apply to the software I use. Why on earth are you so > determined to argue? You don't have to participate in an argument...

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 04, 2016 12:32:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > It wasn't originally. Look at the subject header. I specifically said in > my original post that I did npt want a falme-war about terminology, but I > seem to have got one any way. The OP asked if anyone else had met the > problem. At

Scratchy, Noisy Music Playback

2016-08-04 Thread Thomas H. George
The Solution: Kill Gnome (Alt-SysRq-K) and play ogg file from terminal. The Problem: An ogg file played with Audacity or with ogg123 sounded terrible. System is Jessie with standard debian packages installed The ogg file was created from a cd with jack and was intended for an sdcard for my c

Lost /var/backups

2016-08-04 Thread Tilo Werner
Hi, accidentally I lost all files under /var/backups. It was a mistake while I was configuring the backup procedure o_O So I got no backup. Does anybody know how they were created? On an other system, when I install packages or add users the files where altered. On this system nothing happens. M

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 19:06:51 David Wright wrote: > Reviewing your posts, the first sympathetically commiserated with the OP, > the rest seemed to be arguing with those who knew something about fvwm > and were trying to comment on the problem and its possible amelioration. David, that is unf

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Aug 2016 at 17:32:37 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:13:06 John Hasler wrote: > > Lisi writes: > > > And the authors of the software (DE) I use, use the term desktop > > > > But the software under discussion is FVWM, which, if I understand > > correctly, is not

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Aug 2016 at 23:17:08 (+1000), Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 07:29:23 -0500 John Hasler sent: > > > Programs do sometimes open in other viewports.. > > After contemplation, my reply is: > > Until now, I have never had a program open in a different viewport from > where

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:13:15 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > John Hasler wrote: > > There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing > > as a correct name in a technical discussion. > > Reading The Funderful Manual: > > Fvwm provides both, a large virtual desktop and

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:13:06 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > And the authors of the software (DE) I use, use the term desktop > > But the software under discussion is FVWM, which, if I understand > correctly, is not what you use. It would be nice if all the window > manager and deskto

Re: Sound troubles on crashed Jessie on Skylake

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:01:01 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Which sound devices are shown by alsamixer? (See the text on the top left > and, maybe, use F2 and F6 keys.) Card: PulseAudio Chip: PulseAudio F6 default 0 HDA Intel PCH 1 HDA NVidia enter device name F2 /proc/asound/version /pro

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > And the authors of the software (DE) I use, use the term desktop But the software under discussion is FVWM, which, if I understand correctly, is not what you use. It would be nice if all the window manager and desktop environment authors would agree on standard jargon, but that is

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Hasler wrote: > There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing > as a correct name in a technical discussion. Reading The Funderful Manual: Fvwm provides both, a large virtual desktop and multiple disjoint desktops which can be used separately or together. T

Re: Sound troubles on crashed Jessie on Skylake

2016-08-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which sound devices are shown by alsamixer? (See the text on the top left and, maybe, use F2 and F6 keys.) Is there a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf? What is the output of lsmod | grep snd ? Regards, jvp.

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > I'm unsure when this was so programmed. In the old times one could > mouse drag open packages into any desktop. There were no hard no go > fences between them. It was configured that way by whoever created the FVWM config file you are using. When I started using FVWM there were

Sound troubles on crashed Jessie on Skylake

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
My husband's box, Jessie with Skylake, is still recovering from being summarily turned off in mid-stream. I have been trying to get sound reworking. I did: peter@Nyx-II:~/Music$ pacmd set-default-sink 1 No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. peter@Nyx-II:~/Music$ pulsea

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Does it work better with a fresh profile? If yes, maybe cleaning up your profile helps. Here's a survey of the files in the profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_folders_in_the_profile_-_Thunderbird Regards, jvp.

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 16:26:25 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > There is no such thing as a "right name". > > There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing > as a correct name in a technical discussion. It's easier for everyone > if we all use the definitions cho

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > So after opening a program on a viewport that I had just had another > program finish opening. I would click on another program, and before > it opened, move the cursor to the desktop and viewport where I wanted > it to open and click on it, and it would open in that > location. H

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > There is no such thing as a "right name". There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing as a correct name in a technical discussion. It's easier for everyone if we all use the definitions chosen by the authors of the software (though I admit that even they

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > No, it wasn't. I said and meant "desktop", otherwise known as > workspace. Ok, but that is confusing when discussing FVWM. > If you say that the OP, who uses FVWM, said workspace and meant > viewport, I cannot argue, since you obviously know FVWM, and I don't. I've been using FV

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2016 09:48:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2016 14:02:45 Charlie wrote: > > All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. > > When things are properly identified, they fall into natural > > categories and understanding becomes orderly. > > Pr

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 14:02:45 Charlie wrote: > All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When > things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and > understanding becomes orderly. Provided that everyone agrees on what the names mean. In this case,

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 07:29:23 -0500 John Hasler sent: > Programs do sometimes open in other viewports.. After contemplation, my reply is: Until now, I have never had a program open in a different viewport from where it was opened, unless... Brought up and clicked on a program

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 07:29:23 -0500 John Hasler sent: > David writes: > > I ran two desktops on two screens/graphics cards in fvwm for many > > years and the boundary between them was impermeable. > > That has been my experience running four FVWM desktops with sixteen > viewports each on my mach

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 08:54:58 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent: > On Thursday 04 August 2016 03:21:20 David Wright wrote: > > The OP said they use fvwm which exhibits the behaviour I described. > > If you can drag the window from where it popped up to where you want > > it, then it was on the correct *desktop*

Debian 8.4 sgtreamer plugin memory leak

2016-08-04 Thread arusev
Hello all. Debian 8.4 sgtreamer 1.4.4 plugin "rtmpvdepay" (gstreamer plugins-good packege) is leaking memory because. The particular fix is available in gstreamer git repository. May be an update for this package is needed for Debuian releases 8.4/8.5 ? Could one expect gstreamer update will

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > I ran two desktops on two screens/graphics cards in fvwm for many > years and the boundary between them was impermeable. That has been my experience running four FVWM desktops with sixteen viewports each on my machine and also on my wife's machine. Programs do sometimes open in ot

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 04/08/16 04:18, Emile Antonios wrote: > Hello, Hello, Emile. > I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've > never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking > on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just closes. > > I'm running Jes

Re: Wheezy Xfce losing mouse clicks

2016-08-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 13:59, David Christensen wrote: > On 08/03/2016 07:19 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Try another mouse? > > Decent idea -- I'll give it a try and report back. > > > David > > If your mouse is Bluetooth / wireless, it could be the battery needs replacing or you could be

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Mike McGinn
On 08/04/2016 03:18 AM, Emile Antonios wrote: Hello, I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just closes. I'm running Jessie KDE same as: h

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/08/16 09:53, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 04/08/16 08:18, Emile Antonios wrote: Hello, I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just clos

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 04/08/16 08:18, Emile Antonios wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've > never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking > on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just closes. > > I'm running Jessie KDE > > sa

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 04 August 2016 03:21:20 David Wright wrote: > The OP said they use fvwm which exhibits the behaviour I described. > If you can drag the window from where it popped up to where you want > it, then it was on the correct *desktop*. No, it wasn't. I said and meant "desktop", otherwise kn

Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-04 Thread Emile Antonios
Hello, I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just closes. I'm running Jessie KDE same as: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1