Re: My XFCE4 Desktop

Nice image. One of the things I can do on XFCE-desktop that I could not find an easy way to do on the other desktop environments (I have tried Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate and maybe KDE), is to have a different background image for every monitor and that I can change image at a specified time. So I have

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 00:04:07 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > I'm always on the lookout for a "pa→pdf" successor to pa→ps, but > see no sign of it on the horizon. Or perhaps I do. I need to check out https://github.com/dov/paps but the night has drawn in... Cheers, David.

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Wed 21 Sep 2016 at 20:37:28 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 15:08:58 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 22:41:23 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 16:14:37 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > > > > I've begun to experience problems using the mouse

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Wed 21 Sep 2016 at 18:13:18 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Although it is a different topic > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file > > >

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

Or it may be that no permission, for example, is not his .Xauthority, .xsession file wrong file ownership, which can be fixed by sudo chown username.usergroup /home/username/.Xauthority wrong file permissions, which can be fixed by sudo chmod u=rw go= /home/username/.Xauthority //or chmod +755 ..

Re: Remove Account

On 9/20/16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Benjamin R. Zakarin wrote: >> Therefore I implore of you to entirely scrub bzaka...@umich.edu from ALL >> MAILING LISTS AND ANY REGISTRY. > > I don't know whether anybody listens here who has the power to do so. > > Did you already try the "Unsubscribe" button

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On Wed 21 Sep 2016 at 15:07:09 (-0400), Anthony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/21/2016 11:05 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:49:13AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>it seems that I am using lightdm. > > > >I know of absolutely no documentation for configuring lightdm as a > >user. I

Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED

On 09/19/2016 09:43 AM, Brian wrote: [snip] > hp-plugin is setup to go to the openprinting site for the plugin. > :) > > It has been some time since I used this technique so I was working > partly from memory. Step 5 was poor advice because that script > would expect a GUI with QT to be available

Apt Error at Update

Hi Folks: It's intermittent, after running apt (SID updated daily, for the past several days). Anybody else? Error: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then appstreamcli refresh-cache > /dev/null; fi'

Re: My XFCE4 Desktop

On 09/20/2016 11:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 19 September 2016 21:28:55 Jimmy Johnson wrote: May I share my Debian Sid/testing XFCE4 desktop with you, someplace I found this nice Fantasy Nature picture to put on my desktop and I like it. :) https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/144

Re: Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 21:12:29 -0500 "Neal P. Murphy" wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:18:51 -0500 > "Neal P. Murphy" wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:15 +0100 > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 02:16 -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > > > I think the last linux-image u

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal > of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got > the error message > > modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found in directory /lib/mo

Re: Need a tutorial

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 12:24:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all, Dr Klepp in particular; > > > > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can > > I find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. K

Re: Need a tutorial

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can > > I find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about > > a year back that made the

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 19:57, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > > > roberto > > 43

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 15:08:58 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 22:41:23 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 16:14:37 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > > > I've begun to experience problems using the mouse to select a passage in > > > a PDF displayed with xpdf 3.03-10 i

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On 09/21/2016 11:05 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:49:13AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: it seems that I am using lightdm. I know of absolutely no documentation for configuring lightdm as a user. I suspect that the software *has* no user configuration at all, because every s

Re: change password prompt

On 9/19/16, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: >> > >> >On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> >>I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by >> >> adding >> >>somethin

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory) ...

On 09/21/2016 11:20 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Anthony Baldwin wrote: giving the full path in the rc.xml doesn't seem to make any difference. Are you sure openbox is aware of the change ? (Did you restart it ? Does it react immediately on newly added key combinations ?) Normally, yes, O

Re: WordPress on Debian

>> Is there perhaps a definitive document that explains how WordPress >> things are set up in Debian. The /usr/share/wordpress/readme.html >> starts off by unpacking the zip file, which tells me that's not the >> document that describes The Debian Way. There's no "man wordpress" or >> "info wordpr

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 19-09-2016 15:29, Kent West wrote: > Is there perhaps a definitive document that explains how WordPress > things are set up in Debian. The /usr/share/wordpress/readme.html > starts off by unpacking the zip file, which tells me that's not the > document that describes The Debian Way. There's no "

Re: Need a tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all, Dr Klepp in particular; > > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can I > find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about a yea

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Although it is a different topic > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file > > backs up your "pretty funny" feelin

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory) ...

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 05:20:31PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > You could put a script into /usr/bin (where it will be found, i hope), > let it print the PATH to a file, bind it to a key combination, and > look what it writes into the file: > #!/bin/sh > echo "$PATH" >/tmp/my_openbox_test_for

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory) ...

Hi, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > giving the full path in the rc.xml doesn't seem to make > any difference. Are you sure openbox is aware of the change ? (Did you restart it ? Does it react immediately on newly added key combinations ?) > Yes, the $PATH is set in my .bashrc... > Wait.. Is this why

Fwd: Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory) ...

Sorry that you're getting this twice again, Thomas, but I keep flummoxing the list-reply function (old age + brain tumor). Tony On 09/21/2016 09:54 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Tony Baldwin wrote: .config/openbox/rc.xml bid Well, a short while ago with cron it helped to tell the c

Re: 'Wiring down' hard disks

Hi. On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:03:46PM +, ch_e...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi > Could someone please advise me the best way to ensure a particular hard disk > (SATA) always appears at a specific device node, i.e how can I be sure > /dev/sdb for example is always going to refer to a specifi

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:49:13AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > it seems that I am using lightdm. I know of absolutely no documentation for configuring lightdm as a user. I suspect that the software *has* no user configuration at all, because every search I've ever done has come up with nothing.

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On 09/21/2016 10:01 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:43:15AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like How do you login? With a display manager?

Need a tutorial

Greetings all, Dr Klepp in particular; Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can I find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about a year back that made these 3 commands in my rc.local file Just Work: su gene -c "sshfs gene@shop:/ /sshnet/shop" su ge

Re: Need a tutorial

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can I > find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about a year > back that made these 3 commands in my rc.local file Just Work: > > su gene -c "sshfs

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:43:15AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my > .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like How do you login? With a display manager? Which one? > when I press W-b, and some ot

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:43:15AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Greetings, friends, I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like true bid bid

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory) ...

Hi, Tony Baldwin wrote: > .config/openbox/rc.xml > bid Well, a short while ago with cron it helped to tell the clueless software where the script is by an absolute path. Probably: /home/tony/bin/bid > Shortuts for stuff in /bin/ or /usr/bin/ [...] seem to work fine What user st

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On 9/21/2016 7:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/21/2016 7:06 AM, David wrote: On 21 September 2016 at 21:59, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm learning the shell. Which shell? That may be an an even better question than meets the eye. I have two use cases: 1. the immediate one being whatever

Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

Greetings, friends, I have various scripts in $HOME/bin, many of which I have put in my .config/openbox/rc.xml so I can fire them off with a keybinding combo, like true bid bid (This particular one does cat ~/Documents/bid | x

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

Gregg writes: > imadev:~$ csh > % echo "$0" > No file for $0. Well, that tells you that you are running something weird and nonstandard such as csh. But if you are running csh you already knew that. If echo $0 doesn't produce satisfactory results run ps and examine the output

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:18:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > To find out what shell you are running type > > echo $0 imadev:~$ csh % echo "$0" No file for $0. The world's a much bigger place than just the Bourne family of shells, unfortunately. ps -p $$ # works in csh too

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

Richard writes: > When in an arbitrary terminal of an arbitrary Desktop Environment, how > would I determine which shell is in use? To find out what shell is the login shell type echo $SHELL To find out what shell you are running type echo $0 To run the Korn shell type ksh To kill the shell

Jessie - PHP 5.6 update?

Hi, I was wondering if the security updates in 5.6.25 and 5.6.26 might make it into Jessie soon, does anyone know why there is a delay? It's of course possible to use dotdeb's packages, but I prefer the official update path. -- Jan

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:30:50AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 1. the immediate one being whatever shell MATE terminal uses. Unless it's completely diverging from Unix standards, it should launch your user account's shell as defined either by the $SHELL environment variable, or by your entry

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On 9/21/2016 7:06 AM, David wrote: On 21 September 2016 at 21:59, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm learning the shell. Which shell? That may be an an even better question than meets the eye. I have two use cases: 1. the immediate one being whatever shell MATE terminal uses. Sub-question: W

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:18:50 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: Hello Richard, >Is this a systemd thing? No, it's a bash thing. If you're not using bash (IDK what Mate's terminal is based on) then it won't exist. Look for something like equivalent to see what you've got, if anything. -- Regards

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

Hello, Not a bug, but a feature since the first C shell release in 1978 [1], which was copied to pretty much every shell created since (Korn shell/ksh, Bourne again shell/bash, Z shell/zsh, …). The reason behind it is that – since Unix predates most graphical user interfaces, and most of the time

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On 9/21/2016 7:04 AM, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: De: "Richard Owlett" Workaround? rm ~/.bash_history HTH It didn't :< No such file seems to exist in any directory. Is this a systemd thing?

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

On 21 September 2016 at 21:59, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm learning the shell. Which shell? Try 'man whatever.shell.you.are.using' and read what it says about "history". In bash for example, you can set HISTFILESIZE to zero.

Re: Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

De: "Richard Owlett" > Workaround? rm ~/.bash_history HTH

Jessie (8.0) - Unexpected behavior of "MATE Terminal" after reboot

I'm learning the shell. I experiment with test cases in "MATE Terminal" The "up arrow" key is useful to recall previous command for editing. I hadn't expected it when I found all instances of "MATE Terminal" share same history. *HOWEVER* I found that history remains after a "power off", "boot"

Re: Remove Account

On Sep 21, 2016 4:30 AM, "Michael Lange" wrote: > .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. I'm so rusty with my Morse, it took me a minute and some effort to decode this. I always planned to get good at code. Maybe I will, if your alien blessing works for me ;-)

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 21:05:29 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:30:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Selection of text from a pdf isn't always possible with evince. Example: > > > > paps /etc/nssitch.conf > nsswitch.ps > ^^^ probably typo > > ps2pdf

Translation Services By Native

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Re: Remove Account

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:08:12 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > Sadly that doesn't help with the OP's problem. That requires access to > the subscribed email address. He no longer has access to the > subscribed email address and everything is being forwarded to him so he > wants to stop it.. Here

Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir

Am 21.09.2016 um 06:04 schrieb kamaraju kusumanchi: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Malte Forkel wrote: >> Am 20.09.2016 um 07:33 schrieb kamaraju kusumanchi: >>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Malte Forkel >> wrote: Hi, according to the man page, dpkg-source -b takes an argum

Re: Remove Account

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 08:29:09 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:30:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 22:40:23 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > But you said he would read list mail as follows: > > > > > > He said he _receives_ lis

Re: Remove Account

On 2016-09-21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > It's a bot that handles requests to join the list. > > debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of > > subscribe > > for example and > > unsubscribe > > Note the capitalisation. > > AndyC > I learned something here because I had thoug

Interested in adding another resource page!

Hey there,I was doing some research about universities in Europe and noticed that you have this killer resource page on your site  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/01/msg01552.html . Awesome job!Since you’re clearly an authority on the subject, I though you’d be interested in che

Re: Remove Account

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:30:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 22:40:23 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > But you said he would read list mail as follows: > > > > He said he _receives_ list mail. He did not say that he reads it. > > > > > Now he is mass deleti