Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Georgios
I'm watching movies through netflix so I do not have any ideas how to write a script that will do that thing. I guess the script should detect if an application is in full screen mode. A "solution" I'm thinking is to put a cron job with the following command xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 18:43:33 (+0300), Georgios wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > I already took a look at Caffeine before I send my first email. > The problem with it is that it looks for an app running so I do not > think its a good idea. > I often leave my laptop with a lot of firefox tabs open

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Jason
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: > >In-Reply-To: > > > > > >>The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered > >>no problems > >> > >> > >>*HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in th

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > In other words, lisp and prolog (and clojure and guile and scheme) > > > give > > > the "feeling" that "elegant code" can be the best software representation > > > "in coding". Why? Because "the correctness is almost blatant", as stated. > > > In > > > othe

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. Thomas Schmitt writes: > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical > correctness was killed by Goedel's incompleteness theorem.

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread David Wright
I try to quote the text I am referring to when I post here. The blob • below is meaningless without the quotation where I placed it. Here's the quotation (not your post) and what I wrote in reply: > Don't [•] secretaries, i've seen a lot that would make better programmers > t

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:22 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. > > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Georgios
Thanks for your reply. I already took a look at Caffeine before I send my first email. The problem with it is that it looks for an app running so I do not think its a good idea. I often leave my laptop with a lot of firefox tabs open and expect it to go to sleep mode or hibernation instead of closi

Re: troubleshooting nfs-kernel-server on Raspbian Jessie

2019-04-01 Thread Jason
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 30/03/2019 02:20, Jason wrote: > > I am trying to set up an NFS export on a Ras Pi (Raspbian Jessie). > > Something seems to be missing and I need help troubleshooting it. > > > > At first the NFS port 2049 was not even being op

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. > > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was killed by Goedel'

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Georgios wrote: > Hi! > First of all thanks for the fast reply. > > Yes I have presentation mode. I didn't even try it to see if its working > with hibernate. The problem with that is that its inconvenient to check > it and uncheck it all the time. > > I will inevitably forget it so

Re: Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:31:34AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:12 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > > Is there any reliable way to either (1) always connect via the LAN or > > > > (2) > > > > make the laptop broadcast its own LAN so I can login to it wirelessly > > > > fr

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:24:30AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:29 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > So now, suddenly from that update that started this thread, if I ru

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 04:47:18PM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > No problem at all [...] Thanks for not taking it personally. > Lets hope someone else goes the way to the end ... like Copernicus, Bruno > and others did over 200years. > > Amen! :D :-) Cheers -- tomás signature.asc Descript

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Do your reading before spewing nonsense: > > https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read > > (and this is /only/ Common Lisp. There's Racket, Guile and the new > kid on the block, Clojure, each one with its own, quite interesting > projects -- check out Guix for Guile's curren

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was killed by Goedel's incompleteness theorem. > > The insight was not new then. Paul the Apostle wrote about Epimenides: > "

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 06:46:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 April 2019 06:08:17 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:03:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until > > > > now

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Georgios
Hi! First of all thanks for the fast reply. Yes I have presentation mode. I didn't even try it to see if its working with hibernate. The problem with that is that its inconvenient to check it and uncheck it all the time. I will inevitably forget it sooner or later. On 4/1/19 4:02 PM, Curt wrote

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "NG" == Nicholas Geovanis writes: NG> In other words, lisp and prolog (and clojure and guile and NG> scheme) give the "feeling" that "elegant code" can be the best NG> software representation "in coding". Why? Because "the correctness NG> is almost blatant", as stated. In other words, s

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness was killed by Goedel's incompleteness theorem. The insight was not new

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:53 AM Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > .Yet Lisp gave me something useful on my work, and that is not > just being used to functional programming, but also being ready to > accept that "Ok, guys, here is a place where you have to start > thinking _very_ differently from whe

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "DW" == David Wright writes: DW> I assume that you meant to write some derogatory verb at • or DW> else it got lost, as did your entire comment in the other two DW> versions I've received from you. I think that the original tale referred to their secretaries, and no, it was never meant to

Re: Emacs and hunspell

2019-04-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
Johann Spies [2019-03-28 10:38:21+02] wrote: > I, so far, did not manage to use hunspell with emacs. Perhaps you are more successful with wcheck-mode which has more like display-based approach to spell-checking. You can install it through GNU Elpa or Melpa package archive. The README file has exa

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Georgios wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm running debian testing buster and I'm using xfce power manager. > In xfce power manager settings on "System" tab I activate "hibernate" on > 30 minutes and on the "Display" tab "Put to sleep" after 9 minutes and > "Switch off after" 10 minutes. >

FAQ: Jessie

2019-04-01 Thread Dan Ritter
There have been a lot of questions about jessie, jessie-backports and jessie-updates. Answers are here: https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=947 Summary from the end: The jessie-backports suite was archived on archive.debian.org, so you can use: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/01/2019 02:51 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I added the line deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib main to the beginning of sources.list . [...] This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: In-Reply-To: The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered no problems *HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in the DVD image. Synaptic is unable to install them: 1. sources.list refers to a non-existen

Re: Question about jessie

2019-04-01 Thread Pierre Fourès
Hello, I have been wondering about the same question in the latest days and here is some of the gathering. The jessie-backports are deprecated since July 2018 as stated in this message [1]. They are not part of the LTS, as stated in [2] in section « Deprecation of LTS support for backports ». Thu

Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Georgios
Hi there! I'm running debian testing buster and I'm using xfce power manager. In xfce power manager settings on "System" tab I activate "hibernate" on 30 minutes and on the "Display" tab "Put to sleep" after 9 minutes and "Switch off after" 10 minutes. When i watch videos on netflix (full screen)

Re: Installing Debian root on ZFS mirror NetBoot

2019-04-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 01:21:36PM +0300, Mimiko wrote: > On 01.04.2019 09:40, Matthew Crews wrote: > > On 3/31/19 11:20 PM, Mimiko wrote: > > > On 01.04.2019 05:51, Matthew Crews wrote: > > > > Step-by-step instructions are found here: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zf

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
>writes: >> I think also, but no one uses it except for emacs or some niche >> programming. > Do your reading before spewing nonsense: > https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read > (and this is /only/ Common Lisp. There's Racket, Guile and the new Wilber likes Guile :) :) :) > kid on the

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 April 2019 06:08:17 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:03:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until > > > now d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I > > > ha

Re: Installing Debian root on ZFS mirror NetBoot

2019-04-01 Thread Mimiko
On 01.04.2019 09:40, Matthew Crews wrote: On 3/31/19 11:20 PM, Mimiko wrote: On 01.04.2019 05:51, Matthew Crews wrote: Step-by-step instructions are found here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS Hello. I read this guide, but this implies to have a separate MD

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:03:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until now > > d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I have > > d> worked with PL and prolog for a while ... unfortunately I t

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread deloptes
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until now > d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I have > d> worked with PL and prolog for a while ... unfortunately I think in > d> coming years or decades it all will be declared dead ..

Re: Emacs and hunspell

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Johann Spies wrote: >> > > This bug seems to bite me. Emacs does not seem to get the dictionaries. > If I have aspell as an installed package it seems to use it despite my > configuration : > This bug looks kind of similar (maybe unrelated to your problem). There's a little fix (

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "d" == deloptes writes: d> laughable as well - overblown text editor for what ... to write d> text files?! Give me a break, pls! To make them write the text files for you, when your work is that. -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___

Re: Emacs and hunspell

2019-04-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 23:50, Alfredo Finelli wrote: > > This is how I managed to make it work for me; what follows is in my > init.el file: > > Thanks Alfredo. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916227 > This bug seems to bite me. Emacs does not seem to get the dictiona

Question about jessie

2019-04-01 Thread Cédric Devillers
Hello, just a quick question about Jessie. In recent days, the directories jessie-backports and jessie-updates have been removed from the main repositories. jessie-backports is now available on the site "archive" and jessie-updates has totally disappeared. The jessie distribution is supposed

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "d" == deloptes writes: d> Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: EC> It's not. They are written in vimscript, analogous to elisp. >> >> Sorry not. While Elisp is a Lisp dialect, therefore is a language >> that has been formally proved to be equivalent to turing-machine, >> that is not certain for vims

Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, David wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 09:56, David Wright wrote: >> >> I hit this bizarre page that has a comparable multitude of possibilities. >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error > > The "bizarre" that I'm seeing on that page is probably due to > toda

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] > I added the line >> deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib >> main > > to the beginning of sources.list . [...] > This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on a flash drive > is becoming more and