Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
Huh, it starts way over to the right-most monitor. Since it is windowed, I can drag it full lenght to the left and I have fishes swimming through all of the monitors. Now to get that full screen and dis-engage when I activate the mouse or keyboard. WHOOPS! Correction! It's starting on the 3rd

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Thank you. My individual use case appears to be adequately safe, perhaps > more due to good luck than good management. However a couple of side > comments plus something I read somewhere hints at a more elegant solution. > Will have to some

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the d

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the d

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used > for > storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 > or ext4. > > My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 14:44:27 john s. wrote: > ps. sorry about multiple copies. If you know that you are doing it, why are you doing it? The postings are from 3 different addresses, which has presumably got something to do with it. Whatever the reason, once is enough. Lisi -- To UNSU

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:38:53 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > > > I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used > > for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted > > ext2, ext3 or ext4. > > > > My p

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 05/04/2014 16:39, john s. wrote: > I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used > for > storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 > or ext4. > > My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to > my

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-05, Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > >> I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used >> for >> storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 >> or ext4. >> >> My problem is that I canno

How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
I have been running Gnome on Debian 7.4. I want to try KDE so I installed it. I can see new apps under Applications so it looks like it may have worked. But I don't know who to actual switch from one to the other. Is there a GUI app that I can click to switch between them? Or some shell proc

Re: Dual Display from ATI 7700

2014-04-05 Thread ray
> 1) Run KDE, and use one of the KDE tools to specify the "extended desktop" > mode; To achieve this, I have installed KDE. But I have not been able to determine how to switch for Gnome to KDE now that it is installed. How do I switch between them? Thanks, ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:13:58 Curt wrote: > he asked the wrong question (3 times, and will be shot at dawn by > Lisi) ;-) Sorry - I have an awful cough at the moment (birch pollen) and am getting very little sleep. :-( So it did come out a bit grumpy. I am a bit grumpy at the moment. Bu

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:05:36 ray wrote: > I did find an article to edit the default desktop manager Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Dual Display from ATI 7700

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:16:06 ray wrote: > How do I switch between them? Via your DM when you log on. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2014

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 17:37:49 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >I still don't see why he _knowingly_ posted the same question 3 times. He /might/ not have known before they were returned to him via the list. Of course, only he knows, ATM. -- Regards _ / ) "The blinding

Re: Dual Display from ATI 7700

2014-04-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 09:16:06 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: Hello ray, >To achieve this, I have installed KDE. But I have not been able to >determine how to switch for Gnome to KDE now that it is installed. At the login screen, there should be a couple of menus. One will give power down, restart optio

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/04/14 18:37, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:13:58 Curt wrote: >> he asked the wrong question (3 times, and will be shot at dawn by >> Lisi) > > ;-) > > Sorry - I have an awful cough at the moment (birch pollen) and am > getting very little sleep. :-( So it did come out a

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:31:54PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I seem to remember this happening after an update but I'm not positive. > It did work before. My wireless connection continues to work. > > Looked at the usual suspects, /etc/ network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf, > etc but everyt

pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, When I look at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/ , I see the versions of apache2 for wheezy and jessie together in the same directory. When the repository Packages index files are created, how does apt-ftparchive know to put apache2.2-bin_2.2.22-13+deb7u1_amd64.deb into http

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 18:04:18 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > OK, a bit OTT, but surely not worth making a fuss over... No. Mea culpa. Would that I could give up the birch twigs!! My husband looked at me this morning and suggested going abroad somewhere for a few weeks - somewhere where they

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 19:39:10 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2014 18:04:18 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > OK, a bit OTT, but surely not worth making a fuss over... > > No. Mea culpa. Would that I could give up the birch twigs!! My > husband looked at me this morning and sugges

Wine not full screen

2014-04-05 Thread Kevin Price
After installing lxde and gnome desktops on wheezy, wine no longer changes the resolution to be full screen. It instead opens in a little subsection of the display in the upper left corner. Switching between windowed mode and non windowed mode doesn't change the desktop resolution. I thought it

Re: Wine not full screen

2014-04-05 Thread Kevin Price
I was futzing around with xrandr and noticed that the only resolution available was my monitor's native resolution. Installing amd's official driver fixed this. I had to install outside of apt, because the version included in the repos hard locked my machine. Everything works great now! -- To

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 09:05:36 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > I have been running Gnome on Debian 7.4. I want to try KDE so I > installed it. I can see new apps under Applications so it looks like > it may have worked. > > But I don't know who to actual switch from one to the other. Is > there a GUI a

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 16:13 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > > > >> I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is > >> used for > >> storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatt

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
> Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be > able to tell you how to switch. > I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me understand 'which desktop manager'. When I sa

aptitude search says "package will be installed"

2014-04-05 Thread Dalios
Hi all, A few weeks back while I was still following Stable (wheezy) I used gdebi to install a package (minitube if that matters). Later I upgraded to Testing (jessie) and now I used the command "apt-get purge minitube" to uninstall the package but when I use the command "aptitude search mini

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-05 Thread ray
> I suspect hardware problems. Could you try a live CD? > Andrei, Thank you for responding. The system works fine in Windows. In fact, I found even though rebooting Linux many times did not stop it, once I booted into Windows and then back into Linux, it worked fine. The same thing happene

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:12:15 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > > > Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will > > be able to tell you how to switch. > > I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. > > I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the > terminology

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Klaus
On 05/04/14 22:12, ray wrote: Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be able to tell you how to switch. I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the terminology. Please help me understand 'which desk

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:26:09 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > > > I suspect hardware problems. Could you try a live CD? > > > > Andrei, > > Thank you for responding. The system works fine in Windows. In > fact, I found even though rebooting Linux many times did not stop it, > once I booted into Wind

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:12:15PM -0700, ray wrote: > > Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be > > able to tell you how to switch. > > I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. > I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the > terminology.

Re: aptitude search says "package will be installed"

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:20:34AM +0300, Dalios wrote: > Hi all, > > A few weeks back while I was still following Stable (wheezy) I used > gdebi to install a package (minitube if that matters). Later I > upgraded to Testing (jessie) and now I used the command "apt-get > purge minitube" to uninst

Re: aptitude search says "package will be installed"

2014-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Dalios writes: > What does that "the package will be installed" mean? When will it be > installed? It means that if you were to run "aptitude install" with no target minitube would be installed. You've somehow confused Aptitude into thinking that you asked it to install Minitube and then interrup

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:26:44 -0400 (EDT), Robert Holtzman wrote: > > For a while it looked like a bad cable as I was able to connect on a > different one from the same router. The connection lasted long enough to > d/l an update. Then I closed the connection. Today none of the cables > from the ro

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Stephen Allen
> ray wrote: > Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than > just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, > there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. There is also at least > one fork of an older version of Gnome, as the current Gnome

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:05:09PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > First of all, you've broken the thread. The thread was broken once > already by the March / April forced break at the end of the month. > You can't help that. But this time, you've broken it yourself by > starting a new thread. T

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: > Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information > is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which > distribution to associate each package. The association between versions of binary/source packages and a suite i

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread ray
> At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window > > managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one > > used' entry. > > Joe > Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and m

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Michaux
Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository with dak. That seems like it would be overkill. Another option I saw in the man page for apt-ftparchive is the FileList option to specify exactly which files are included in each distribution. I had it working but the idea of maint

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:43:51PM -0700, ray wrote: > Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change. > For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and menu at the top > and KDE at the bottom of the screen. After switching to KDE and > rebooting, I see a new log in windo

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Tom H wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Thank you. My individual use case appears to be adequately safe, perhaps more due to good luck than good management. However a couple of side comments plus something I read somewhere hints at a more elegant solution. Will have

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:26:09PM -0700, ray wrote: > Due to the time out issue, I am wondering if there might be a BIOS > conflict with the Linux installation. I don't know how to get to > those boot logs. > > I have read they should be in /var/log/ and dmesg.log but I don't find > that file an

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> install xfce > run xfce > kill xfwm and start i3 instead ( in the same command, or you might be > annoyed because not having any wm will make things a lot harder to control > your system. ). I killed xfwm4 using kill and killall command but xfwm4 respawns itself back as soon as I kill it. -- Re

insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-05 Thread John Magolske
Hi, After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting a long string of error messages about scripts "...missing LSB tags and overrides" (some of the output is pasted below). I've been searching around, but not figuring out what the cause of this could be or how to resolve it. Any clues or suggest