Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

As far as Windows 7 is concerned, I have used it on my laptop in VirtualBox, with 1 of total 4 gb ram, and I can assure that t works flawlessly. I can't say anything about Windows 10 as I haven't given it a try on Virtualbox, but Windows 7 does work well. Good luck Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

I run some MS Server 2008 (R2) and some Win7 Hosts in KVM/Qemu since years staring with Debian 6. 8 Weeks ago I upgrade the Host (Hypervisor) to Debian 8 without any Problems. A quick and dirty explanation I found here http://serverfault.com/questions/631317/windows-7-as-kvm-guest-installation-wit

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:35:53AM +0100, basti wrote: > I run some MS Server 2008 (R2) and some Win7 Hosts in KVM/Qemu since > years staring with Debian 6. 8 Weeks ago I upgrade the Host (Hypervisor) > to Debian 8 without any Problems. Not a heavy us

Re: I think I've found a kernel/sound driver bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I'm CC'ing you because I don't know whether you are subscribed to the list) On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:48:45PM +, Patrick May wrote: > Hello, > > I think I've found a bug in a sound driver (snd-cs46xx) which causes a > kernel panic when several

Re: umask for GUI applications?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:27:26AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Is there a documented or supported way to set umask for GUI > applications in Debian GNU/Linux? > > I have project directory, where directories have +s and files and > directories are g

Re: Where is digikam?

On 11/09/2015 06:38 PM, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Hi, I see digikam in unstable for a very long time now. But it is not coming to testing. Why is that? Wasnt the push to testing supposed to be an automatic process? Or does digikam in unstable still have critical bugs? What is the reason for

Re: Re: An UML editor for Linux

— could you please recommend me some decent UML editor for Linux? I've been using umbrello for basic stuff - If you want to draft application components and get basic set of classes generated. I checked umbrello in KDE4+ and i improved, though for official commercial use I would not recommend

Installation

Bonjour Je voudrais savoir qu'elle version de Debian je peux installer sur un Asus Z53J, car après plusieurs essais la vidéo est correcte au départ mais quand l'installation et fini je ne vois que des traits sur l'écran. Je pense que c'est un pb du driver pour ma vidéo. Dans l'attente cordialeme

Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Hi, i am riddling about the size of directories in Jessie's ext4, as listed with ls -ld. They always grow and never shrink, even if they become completely empty. My record holder had 7.5 MB, currently i am having an empy one of 1.5 MB. Command mount reports /dev/sd... on /... type ext4 (rw,rela

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

On Ter, 10 Nov 2015, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i am riddling about the size of directories in Jessie's ext4, as listed with ls -ld. They always grow and never shrink, even if they become completely empty. Is this a known property of ext4 directories ? Yes, and also of its predecessors ext2 and ext

Re: Installation

On 11/10/2015 6:56 AM, Christophe M wrote: Bonjour Je voudrais savoir qu'elle version de Debian je peux installer sur un Asus Z53J, car après plusieurs essais la vidéo est correcte au départ mais quand l'installation et fini je ne vois que des traits sur l'écran. Je pense que c'est un pb du driv

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Hi, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Yes, and also of its predecessors ext2 and ext3. Thanks for the info. As i failed to find it myself: Do you know a link or man page where this is specified ? After all it imposes massive performance penalties which made me suspicious on the first hand. Does nob

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:36:56PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Yes, and also of its predecessors ext2 and ext3. > > Thanks for the info. > > As i failed to find it myself: Do you know a link or man page > where this is specified ? > > After all it impo

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 10/11/15 01:47, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > >> On 09/11/15 18:58, D&P Dimov wrote: > >>> I need to install MS Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine on a computer > >>> that is running Debian 8. To do that, I'd li

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Hi, Dan Ritter wrote: > 1. Enable the following features on your ext4 fs: > - dir_index > - extent That would have to happen at mkfs time ? > these are probably both on by default. My /etc/mke2fs.conf begins by [defaults] base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:49:08PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > 1. Enable the following features on your ext4 fs: > > - dir_index > > - extent > > That would have to happen at mkfs time ? > > > > these are probably b

Re: Re: umask for GUI applications?

> I'd expect this to be the job ow whatever session manager you are > afflicted with. For example, if you're "on" Gnome, I'd look into > .gnomerc; I don't know whether Freedesktop has come up with a common > theme for that. There seems to be no .gnomerc file anywhere. Display Manager is gdm3. Win

Re: Re: umask for GUI applications?

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 20:06 +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > I'd expect this to be the job ow whatever session manager you are > > afflicted with. For example, if you're "on" Gnome, I'd look into > > .gnomerc; I don't know whether Freedesktop has come up with a > > common > > theme for that. > > T

Re: Re: umask for GUI applications?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:06:16PM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > I'd expect this to be the job ow whatever session manager you are > > afflicted with. For example, if you're "on" Gnome, I'd look into > > .gnomerc; I don't know whether Freedesktop ha

Re: Re: umask for GUI applications?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 07:36:53PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] > There's an ancient bug about gdm overriding umask: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683815 Oh, noes. Now the question is -- is Xsession reloaded after gdm? If

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Thomas wrote: >Hi, > >Dan Ritter wrote: >> 1. Enable the following features on your ext4 fs: >> - dir_index >> - extent > >That would have to happen at mkfs time ? > > >> these are probably both on by default. > >My /etc/mke2fs.conf begins by > > [defaults] >base_features = sparse_super,fi

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > tune2fs -l "You can tune a filesystem, but you cannot tune a fish." It says: tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) ... Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file u

i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

Hello guys. I have installed Debian wheezy 7.9 on my PC. I have not installed any desktop environment during the installation. After installing debian, I have installed the i3 window manager from the console. However after restarting the system, i don't get i3. I get the console. What should I d

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

> After installing debian, I have installed the i3 window manager from the > console. However after restarting the system, i don't get i3. I get the > console. > > What should I do to start i3 when the system starts? > > I want to use only i3 and not any other desktop environment. Howdy Dwijesh,

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 23:57:04 +0400, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > I have installed Debian wheezy 7.9 on my PC. I have not installed any > desktop environment during the installation. > > After installing debian, I have installed the i3 window manager from the > console. However after restarting the

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found' On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 23:57:04 +0400, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > > I have installed Debian wheezy 7.9 on my PC. I have not installed any > > desktop environment during the installation. > > > > Afte

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On 10/11/15 20:19, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found' Install the 'xorg' package.

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > > Install the 'xorg' package. > Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session started. That Great ! 😁 Thank you very much all for your quick replies. With kind regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:30 AM

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

Dwijesh Gajadur composed on 2015-11-11 00:19 (UTC+0400): > When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found' startx seems to be owned by the xinit .deb, so your i3 installation must not have triggered complete, or maybe even any part of, installation of Xorg. -- "The wise are known for their unde

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:19:10PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > tune2fs -l > > "You can tune a filesystem, but you cannot tune a fish." Ah, oldies but goldies :-) > Ok. I have features "dir_index" and "extent

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > > Install the 'xorg' package. > Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session started. That Great ! 😁 Thank you very much all for your quick replies. With kind regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:30 AM

Fwd: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > > Install the 'xorg' package. > Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session started. That Great ! 😁 Thank you very much all for your quick replies. With kind regards, Dwijesh

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

Yes it worked. After installing Xorg and typing 'startx' , i3 session started. That Great ! 😁 Thank you very much all for your quick replies. With kind regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Martin Read wrote: >> >> >

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Seems you'll have to go with re-creating the dir. Yes. I suffer on an elevated luxury level. My Reiser FS showed substantial slowdown with mass file reading after a few years. Inode lookup and data file opening both dropped below half of the performance of a young f

Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes

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Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 15:32:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Dwijesh Gajadur composed on 2015-11-11 00:19 (UTC+0400): > > > When I type 'startx' it says 'command not found' > > startx seems to be owned by the xinit .deb, so your i3 installation must not > have triggered complete, or maybe even any

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

Felix, Thank you for following up. > what is output from > > # # cat /proc/cmdline placeholder root=/dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-root ro initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz quiet > what is output from > > # fbset # fbset bash: fbset: command not found > Is your desired desktop result p

Persistence

Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? If so, how?

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

>> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg Pastebin means upload the information to http://paste.debian.net/ or http://pastebin.com/ or http://paste.opensuse.org/ or http://paste.ubuntu.com/ or equivalent, or to your own personal web space, and put a link

Re: Persistence

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Matilda Fins wrote: > Is there a way to create a Debian live usb flash drive with persistence? > If so, how? > The following article illustrates this Linux Community Blogs

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:23:38PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Pastebin means upload the information to > > http://paste.debian.net/ > > or > > http://pastebin.com/ > > or > > http://paste.opensuse.org/ > > or > > http

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

On Tue 10 Nov 2015 at 21:23:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >> Pastebin your current /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Pastebin means upload the information to > > http://paste.debian.net/ > > or > > http://pastebin.com/ > > or > > http://paste.opensuse.org/ > > or > > http://

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

On 10/11/15 04:58, D&P Dimov wrote: > I need to install MS Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine on a computer that > is running Debian 8. To do that, I'd like to use software that is not > proprietory (I know, I know - this may sounds a bit ridiculous...). This > Debian page: https://wiki.debian.org/Syst

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

Chris Bannister composed on 2015-11-11 19:38 (UTC+1300): > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:23:38PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing list >> archive forever. >> Pastebinning is temporary, a week or month or whatever the particular pa

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

ray composed on 2015-11-10 17:22 (UTC-0800): >> what is output from >> # > # cat /proc/cmdline > placeholder root=/dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-root ro initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz > quiet Rather sparse, with nothing attempting to impact display configuration, other than hiding init messages (q