Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-06 Thread ntrfug
ing every thing on > one partition/directory. > > Where may I read about pros/cons ? > TIA > > The home directory contains not only "personal data" but configuration directories for all your apps. I long ago settled on a middle-of-the-road solution--I have a pa

Claws-mail "Get mail" opens full-page

2018-07-03 Thread ntrfug
I've been using claws-mail since well before it was claws-mail (back in the sylpheed days). When I checked for new mail or opened dialogs they opened in the reduced size I specified, and this size was preserved when I exited the program. I upgraded to stretch a couple of months ago, and to buster

Claws-mail all windows open in full-page

2018-07-03 Thread ntrfug
I've been using claws-mail since well before it was claws-mail (back in the sylpheed days). When I checked for new mail or opened dialogs they opened in reduced size. I upgraded to stretch a couple of months ago, and to buster just last night. Since the stretch upgrade all claws-mail dialogs open

Re: Very light "private" cloud

2018-05-29 Thread ntrfug
I started using OwnCloud three years ago, in order to avoid the i cloud. I noticed especially in the last upgrade that it has become much easier and more straightforward. I can't imagine a cloud that doesn't use a database, though there is probably a solution that won't involve mySQL. On Tue,

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-19 Thread ntrfug
ystem for Windows (when I started) and for more flavors of Linux than I can remember. I did this so I could wipe the root partition and reinstall without destroying my personal files. I call it "files" and mount it on /home/ntrfug/Documents at boot. I also have a 100 Gb part

Using NVIDIA drivers in Jessie

2015-01-08 Thread ntrfug
Short version: they worked for me for just under 1 day. After that the system won't boot--at the point the NVIDIA logo should be displayed the system hangs on a black screen, and the only thing I can do is power off. I can start in single-user mode, supply the root password and startx as root. Fro

No sound in Jessie KDE

2015-01-07 Thread ntrfug
When I had Windows 7 on my machine (Lenovo W53) the sound volume was high enough that I usually set it at ~50%. With Jessie 100% volume seemed barely adequate, and I was experimenting to see if I could get more. In KDE->System Settings->Multimedia I played with the settings; the result was that no

Re: Jessie and nvidia

2013-08-26 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:03:46 -0430 José Maldonado wrote: > > First you laptop have hybrid graphics technology take a look a > bumblebee project in the Debian wiki. > > Second, you have installed the package nvidia-xconfig? and executed > this command during setup of your card nvidia? > I had

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:05:15 +0200 Alberto Fuentes wrote: > > oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as > well... > > has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about > debian CUT, but im not sure is ready yet. > > greets! > aL > I've used Debian Test

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-04 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:29:12 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 apr 12, 15:21:14, Camaleón wrote: > > > > That's why we have to use UUID instead >:-) > > ...or LABELs. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Thank you both. Using either labels or uuids in fstab will accomplish what I was trying to do

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-03 Thread ntrfug
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:21:14 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > I see no mention there to the afore mentioned NTFS-3G warning at > all ;-) The NTFS-3G message was quoted in the original post of this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-03 Thread ntrfug
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 05:29:56 -0500 Indulekha wrote: > > > > Are all these distionnaries wrong? > > > > -- > > Pierre Frenkiel > > ---1463809023-1608600801-1333448123=:30347-- > > > > There is nothing wrong with your English or those definitions, > they're just obscure and have fallen out of popu

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-03 Thread ntrfug
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:59:42 -0500 ntrfug wrote: > For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb > drives on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy. > ... > > The problem is not limited to devices with NTFS file systems; I can't > mount ext2 or

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-04-01 Thread ntrfug
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:21:49 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Show us, please. > > I really doubt you get a message pointing to NTFS-G3 or Tuxera > website for a volume formatted with ext2 or reiserfs. That would be > something worth seeing :-) I HAVE shown you. You HAVE seen it. If you refuse t

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-04-01 Thread ntrfug
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Bug? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631504 Thank you for that pointer. Apparently this has been an issue for a while, and for GNOME desktops as well (which indicates to me that the problem is somewhere in the autom

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-04-01 Thread ntrfug
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:31:02 +0100 Keith McKenzie wrote: > It's there. So if you use a root terminal, you should be able to > mount it. After that, you will need to find out why it isn't being > auto mounted, as that seems to be what you want. I already know I can mount it as root. I would like

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-04-01 Thread ntrfug
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:10:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > It can't be the "same" message, that's for sure ;-) Yes, it can. It is. Exactly the same. How do you "know" otherwise? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-04-01 Thread ntrfug
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:15:22 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Just for confirmation, you get a message telling you to rebuild > ntfs-3g when the filesystem is ext2? Can you show us the relevant > part of /var/log/syslog when you plug the thumb drive? ('tail -f' > helps here). That is correct -- rega

Re: Installing genesys on Debian - lateral thinking time?

2012-03-31 Thread ntrfug
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:19:12 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Suggestions welcomed - so long as they don't entail throwing the > wretched LiDE 110 in the nearest lake - not that I would be able to > find one with any water in it. (Sorry, this is an international list > and that was a local reference. I live

Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-03-31 Thread ntrfug
For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy. I get the following on inserting a SanDisk thumb drive: "The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: Unprivileged us

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

2012-03-31 Thread ntrfug
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:39 +0100 Lisi wrote: > I am trying to install genesys, first in my Lenny box and then in > Squeeze. The SANE website says that my scanner is fully supported. Have you seen this web page? http://man.flashnux.com/en/debian/6/6.0.1/man5/sane-genesys.5.html It shows tha

Re: PPPOE Failure on Verizon DSL

2003-03-12 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:25:08 -0500 JP Glutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ethenet connection). Kmail was not running, and since I had never > figured out to get pppoe running without rebooting, I decided to try to > figure it out once and for all. The normal boot gets pptpd and > ppp_on_boot

Re: Apt-get, downloading a single package

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:31:39 -0500 "Radek Zajkowski [Deb]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would like a command to apt-get look like if I wanted to download a > single package. > To *download* it, use "apt-get -d install ". To download *and install* it, use "apt-get install ". I found this in

Re: [newbie] Setting up network

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:32:27 +0200 Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but it is so frustrating to issue these commands whenever I reboot my > computer. I know there are ways to automate this proccess and there are > progrms which setup the network on each boot. But I am not able to find ou

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:37:14 -0500 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2003 1:49 pm, Glenn English wrote: > >There ought to be a list for debian wannabes. I've tried several times > >to get woody going on a couple different boxen - most recently a Dell > >Latitude laptop. >

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:39:24 -0500 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mouse: > > in a console, run gpmconfig. if you can get the mouse going in console > mode, you're set. i don't know enough about your setup to know what > kind of mouse you have, but i'd guess ps2. when it asks you abou

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On 10 Mar 2003 11:49:03 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There ought to be a list for debian wannabes. I've tried several times > to get woody going on a couple different boxen - most recently a Dell > Latitude laptop. > Have you tried the Linux on Laptops web site? http://www.li

Re: Newbie questions

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:33:15 -0500 Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amen! most is more than less! Cool. > > It's more or less the most you can get out of a pager. > At least until somebody unleashes "least" on an unsuspecting world. You know this is coming :) Kevin -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root canprint properly

2003-03-09 Thread ntrfug
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:23:00 +0100 (CET) iks_kzm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg -l | grep lp > > shows > rc lpr2000.05.07-4.2 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system > > dpkg -l | grep magicfilter > > rc magicfilter1.2-53 automatic printer filter. > > dpkg -l | gre