Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/12/2015, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You have two major choices, neither one of which is what you > want to hear. > > 1. You can subscribe via some other address. GMail, Fastmail, > whatever. Let other people handle your mail for you, for money > or not. > Why not simply take up that suggestio

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-14 Thread Christian Brunotte
Hello Am Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:10:15 -0800 schrieb Jimmy Johnson : > On 12/09/2015 04:17 AM, Christian Brunotte wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've just crossgraded my desktop computer from i386 to amd64, using the wiki > > recipe and got everything working so far. > > > > The only problem: > > On the lo

Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread T t Hart
Hi, I hope I am in the right spot for Some serious help. As I am very new to Linux in general. I wanted to install Debian 8 via a netinst over wifi which, seems to be supported by Ubuntu but not by Debian. Ok so be it with no wired connection available in my house I will have to set up the rest o

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-14 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 10:36 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set up tap-to-click in gdm3? > > > > The goal is to be able to tap on the trackpad to perform the swipe > > gesture that's now required to get the list of users, and

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:57:54PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Dear Dr. Kleene, > > Surely your neuroscience teaching, and other professional duties, at > UC and elsewhere [...] Woah. Calm down a bit. regards - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 02:46:43AM +, Steve Kleene wrote: [...] > I am running mailto/sendmail from the command line, configured locally by > /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf. This file includes: > > DSsmtp.uc.edu > > This sets my employer's server

Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Martin Read [Sun, Dec 13 2015, 11:18:24AM]: > On 13/12/15 09:19, Eduard Bloch wrote: > >Observation: various programs use the XDG mechanism (freedesktop > >configuration method) to start a specific browser to visit a hyperlink. > >Easy to verify with the xdg-open tool. > > > >But how can I

Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Thomas Schmidt [Sun, Dec 13 2015, 10:32:01AM]: > > Feels like things that have been established in a sane way (alternatives > > system and sensible-browser) are now reverted to the chaos we used to > > manage in the nineties :-( > > Well, the kernel has also reverted to the CD drive quir

audio problem with coolmail

2015-12-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I'm using coolmail for mail notifications. It works almost correctlty, apart that I have the following error message for the sound: Coolmail: Error writing to /dev/audio I am in the audio group, and anyway I have the same error when running coolmail as root. There was a time when it work

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 10:05 +0100, T t Hart wrote: > I wanted to install Debian 8 via a netinst over wifi which, seems to > be > supported by Ubuntu but not by Debian. [...] > I have a wla-2000 usb adapter with some code that belongs to it that > says: > 0df6 005d > > To began I tried ifconfig: w

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade? (solved)

2015-12-14 Thread Christian Brunotte
Hello Just for the archives, removing ~/.config/Trolltech.conf fixed the problems. I don't know what this file is for but it seems to be some kind of cache for the locations of certain libraries. Too bad that it also contained the architecture of those libs: $ head ~/.config/Trolltech.c

Re: audio problem with coolmail

2015-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 11:56 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I'm using coolmail for mail notifications. > It works almost correctlty, apart that I have the following error > message for the sound: > > Coolmail: Error writing to /dev/audio > > I am in the audio group, and anyway I have th

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 13:03 +0100, T t Hart wrote: > Also if this is possible could help me with the commands I should > issue as > I have no GUI These should help you out: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en Also, please reply back to the

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 10:21 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > It did not work :-( > > I my regular account a grep for 'tap-to-click' in ~/.conf does find a > match in ~/.conf/dconf/user. So setting this option through dconf or > gsettings is probably the right basic idea. > > On Debian the gdm3 us

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:07:40 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/12/2015, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > You have two major choices, neither one of which is what you > > want to hear. > > > > 1. You can subscribe via some other address. GMail, Fastmail, > > whatever. Let other people handle your mail

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Lee Fuller
​Hey there, I checked your email address using basic telnet and a measurement tool. I identified the likely physicality of your mailbox to be Cincinnati, and the server connecting to you in these measurements is in Texas. I ran the test in a handful of arrangements but I repeated the general rou

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Woah. Calm down a bit. That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh? Please try to deal with it before issuing instructions to me. I'm not here for your comfort, iydm. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:31:06 + (UTC) Steve Kleene wrote: > What I like about my existing setup is that all of my mail gets > deposited locally on my machine. I can read most (but no longer all) > of the text with a simple "mail" from the command line. This is the > easiest way to read and a

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:07:50AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Woah. Calm down a bit. > > That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh? Most definitely, yes. >

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:57:54PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Dear Dr. Kleene, > > Surely your neuroscience teaching, and other professional duties, at > UC and elsewhere keep you sufficiently busy so that you shouldn't > really have to pester Debian volunteers trying to keep the massive > Debi

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:41:46PM +, Lee Fuller wrote: ​Hey there, I checked your email address using basic telnet and a measurement tool. I identified the likely physicality of your mailbox to be Cincinnati, and the server connecting to you in these measurements is in Texas. I ran the te

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: Plonk*. Sigh. Another satisfied customer. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet) FWIW, I didn't need the wikipedia reference. I've been plonked in classier joints than this! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 December 2015 13:31:06 Steve Kleene wrote: > If I could have > gmail forwarded to an account on my local machine, that would work well. You can. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop That may not work, if you have to be logged in to get access. Lisi

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Woah. Calm down a bit. > > > > That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh? > > Most definitely, yes. > > >                                                       Please try to > > deal with it before issuing instructions to me

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/14/2015 10:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: No idea how you could take as "instruction" what only could be meant as a "proposal", but there you go... It was in the imperative. "imperative ‎(countable and uncountable, plural imperativ

Re: no response from listmaster [SOLVED]

2015-12-14 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2015-12-13 17:18:32 GMT, I wrote: > My address (sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu) has been unsubscribed from the > debian-user mailing list. I understand why. I took the address down for a > few days for reasons that are now irrelevant (but can be related if anyone > cares). Because mails from lists.

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Albino B Neto
2015-12-14 10:42 GMT-02:00 Sven Arvidsson : > These should help you out: > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en Or: First you will add repo contrib and non-free: $EDITOR /etc/apt/source.list <...> main contrib non-free You install comma

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 13:27 -0200, Albino B Neto wrote: > Or: > > First you will add repo contrib and non-free: > > $EDITOR /etc/apt/source.list > > <...> main contrib non-free > > You install command in bash: > > # apt-cache search ^firmware > > install your driver. Catch 22, he needs a wor

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.12.2015 um 10:36 schrieb Francois Gouget: > > Does anyone know how to set up tap-to-click in gdm3? You should mention, which version of gdm3 and Debian you are using. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signatu

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:05:32PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 13:27 -0200, Albino B Neto wrote: > > Or: > > > > First you will add repo contrib and non-free: > > > > $EDITOR /etc/apt/source.list > > > > <...> main contrib non-free > > > > You install command in bash: >

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Lee Fuller
For reference, the default timeout in the current release of mailman is 30 seconds. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA I believe DSA are responsible for the list server. - - Lee Fuller On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:41:46PM +, Lee Fuller wrote: > ​Hey there, > > I checked your email address usin

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread John Hasler
Steve Kleene writes: > What I like about my existing setup is that all of my mail gets > deposited locally on my machine. I can read most (but no longer all) > of the text with a simple "mail" from the command line. This is the > easiest way to read and archive my mails in the style I've develope

Re: Wla-2000 Realtek in Debian problems etc.

2015-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 December 2015 16:41:33 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:05:32PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 13:27 -0200, Albino B Neto wrote: > > > Or: > > > > > > First you will add repo contrib and non-free: > > > > > > $EDITOR /etc/apt/source.list > > > > >

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:06:48PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2015 13:54:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >Woah. Calm down a bit. > > > > > > That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh? > > > > Most definitely, yes. > > >

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: > > >Plonk*. > > Sigh. Another satisfied customer. > > >* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet) > > FWIW, I didn't need the wikipedia ref