Re: Is GIMP seriously broken in Buster?

2018-09-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:52:45 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, >Am I missing something or is GIMP seriously broken? In my Buster/AMD64 Works fine here. Admittedly, it's not a package I use often, but even so, I've never seen the behaviour you're experiencing. -- Regards _ / )

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-13 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:36 AM Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-09-12 10:11 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:32:56PM -0400, Lee wrote: > >>Just out of curiosity - why would journaling be undesirable on a > >>partition that is almost never written to? > > > > …I'm not

(OT) Top Posting (was Re: Gimp Babl too old)

2018-09-13 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:07 PM Ric Moore wrote: > > > > Same reason some people top post. They just ignore the conventions. > I have a special issue: Using Gmail on a Phone or Tablet (I have both). I have yet to find a Straightforward way to Snip lots of lines, using the Android App. Als

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 01:50:40PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > So what are the arguments against doing this (which I accept there may > well be)? We'll ignore the eyebrow-raising need for /boot to be > journalled, shall we? Interesting thought! I've always used ext2 for /boot, 'cause "always". B

Re: Is GIMP seriously broken in Buster?

2018-09-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-13 08:44 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: Try the Flatpak version of GIMP. I'm not a fan of the attempts to create universal packages. The problem they create is that you have multiple different versions of the same libraries and you're now relying on multiple people to patch security hol

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Sep 2018 at 17:50:13 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 01:50:40PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > So what are the arguments against doing this (which I accept there may > > well be)? We'll ignore the eyebrow-raising need for /boot to be > > journalled, shall we? > >

Re: Gimp Babl too old

2018-09-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/13/2018 12:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Tixy wrote: "Sounds like the sort of thing the third party repository at deb-multimedia.org does" Why do they do that? Simply to order their repository ahead of the others? Same reason some people top post. They just ignore the conventions.

root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Anyone know if it's possible to get xterm (or xfce4-terminal or any other terminal for that matter) to be a "native/ clean login terminal", to increase security when running root commands? To: CypherPunks On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:48:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So someone cracking int

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:21:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2018 19:13:58 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 12/09/2018 00:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:52:15PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > > >> I have some files, with weird permissions: > > >> # ls

Re: Is GIMP seriously broken in Buster?

2018-09-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/13/18, Gary Dale wrote: > Am I missing something or is GIMP seriously broken? In my Buster/AMD64 > system, I open a picture, select a section and try to cut it and the > whole picture disappears. I'm left with a white or transparent > background. If I select a region and try to copy it, GIMP

Re: Is GIMP seriously broken in Buster?

2018-09-13 Thread Matthew Crews
Try the Flatpak version of GIMP.

Is GIMP seriously broken in Buster?

2018-09-13 Thread Gary Dale
Am I missing something or is GIMP seriously broken? In my Buster/AMD64 system, I open a picture, select a section and try to cut it and the whole picture disappears. I'm left with a white or transparent background. If I select a region and try to copy it, GIMP crashes. I'm reduced to using Kol

Re: trouble by new install of claws mail

2018-09-13 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:50:04 +0200, arne wrote: >The message: > >"Your Claws Mail configuration is from a newer version than the version >which you are currently using." > >Claws Mail is right. > >I did copy Claws settings from debian testing to a new system on >stable. > >I do not want to loose m

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:03:36 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 13 Sep 2018 at 20:48:35 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:47:01 +0200 > > deloptes wrote: > > > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > > > For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a > > > > show stoppe

trouble by new install of claws mail

2018-09-13 Thread arne
The message: "Your Claws Mail configuration is from a newer version than the version which you are currently using." Claws Mail is right. I did copy Claws settings from debian testing to a new system on stable. I do not want to loose my settings. Claws seems to work OK but the message remains.

SSD unrecognized disk label

2018-09-13 Thread Allen Hoover
I have an SSD that has some serious issues. It contains files that are fairly important to recover. The user had not done backups quite recently. If I view the SSD in parted, it says unrecognized disk label, and the size is shown as 1073MB instead of 120GB as it should. I have another SSD here t

Emacs and message-mode: save and close buffer

2018-09-13 Thread Pétùr
I have this code in my .emacs to save and close the buffer with C-c C-c. It is designed to use with message-mode for going back to mutt after writing an email. However, it doesn't save the buffer. If I compose an email and never press C-x C-s, C-c C-c will just close the buffer and erase it with

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread Brian
On Thu 13 Sep 2018 at 20:48:35 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:47:01 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a > > > show stopper. > > > > I see it as a temporary resolution. I think this should be

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:47:01 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a > > show stopper. > > I see it as a temporary resolution. I think this should be reported > and developers should come it a fix. Do we know that oth

Re: Gimp Babl too old

2018-09-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:32:57 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Hello Dan, >Basically, people who use deb-multimedia.org want someone to package up >fresh versions of the kinds of tools that get updated frequently with >new features, while mostly maintaining the stability that comes with It's not that sim

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a show > stopper. I see it as a temporary resolution. I think this should be reported and developers should come it a fix. Do we know that other usb audio devices suffer the same? regards

Re: Gimp Babl too old

2018-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:41:39AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Tixy wrote: "Sounds like the sort of thing the third party repository at > deb-multimedia.org does" > > Why do they do that? Simply to order their repository ahead of the others? > So why not just advise people to change sour

Re: Gimp Babl too old

2018-09-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Tixy wrote: "Sounds like the sort of thing the third party repository at deb-multimedia.org does" Why do they do that? Simply to order their repository ahead of the others? So why not just advise people to change sources.list? It seems like they don't themselves make a statement on the subject

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Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64 [AUDIO SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > rv riveravaldez (2018-07-26): >> I'm having an audio issue with this same kernel: there's a permanent >> buzz that starts at soon as the system has loaded and only stops when >> I play some sound (any audio or video) or starts JACK (via qja

Re: Gimp Babl too old

2018-09-13 Thread Pétùr
On 13/09/18 07:03, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 19:54 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: At first, it sounded like the last `apt update` execution occurred some time between “libbabl-dev” and “libbabl-0.1-0” upgrade to version 0.1.56-1 on repositories side. But “libbabl-0.1-0” seems somehow pic

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a show stopper. On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Joe wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 06:34:23 > From: Joe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED] > Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:34:40 + (UTC) > Resent-F

Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:12:33 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:36:20 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > > Then I looked > > at /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file. I noticed the following at > > end of file. > > > > # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard > > opti

Re: Bash-Problem with cursor position after calling a function with READLINE_LINE

2018-09-13 Thread Norbert Gruener
Hi Jude, On 9/7/18 4:09 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try putting a -n switch on that echo command and I predict this problem > will go away. I am sorry, but adding the »-n« switch did not solve that problem. It is exactly the same behavior. Cheers, Norbert --

Re: Bash-Problem with cursor position after calling a function with READLINE_LINE

2018-09-13 Thread Norbert Gruener
On 9/8/18 4:28 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-08, Stefan Krusche wrote: >> Am Samstag, 8. September 2018 schrieb Stefan Krusche: >>> Thanks for food for thought, David. The question why, and where exactly, >>> the different behaviour emerges, remains unanswered for me. It would be >>> interesting to

Re: update problem

2018-09-13 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-12, Default User wrote: > > Now, regarding other distributions: > > Void? > Heard the project leader just sort of wandered away. > Maybe after Void matures for a few years, I'll check it out. > 'Void' might be considered a kind of nominative aposematism. -- “An oak is a tree. A rose

Re: Interface does not setup on startup

2018-09-13 Thread Pablo Álvarez Córdoba
Oh, tahnks. :) I did not remember that. Now it works. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ El miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2018 9:55, Reco escribió: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 06:51:23AM +, Pablo Álvarez Córdoba wrote: > > > Hi folks. > > I have Debian 9. I configured my wlan i

Re: Sound in Stretch

2018-09-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:36:20 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:23:58 +0200 > > deloptes wrote: > > I also found this > http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/10/04/how-to-get-usb-sound-adapter-0d8c000c-working-as-primary-sound-card-in-debian-linux/ > > > When