Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to > >do so. > > Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?" I find it hard to beleive mys

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 03:06:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Can you elaborate on the performance issues? I'm using dirvish for my > maildirs (dovecot imap server), without noticeable problems. I don't know whether dirvish does something to improve matters, but with hard link trees, if you ha

Re: Problem with 2 external monitors on a laptop

2016-10-07 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:17:56 +0200 schreef Xxx Yyy : Hi. I use HP ProBook 6560b (LVDS1) with 2 external Fujitsus B24T (VGA1, HDMI2), both connected via docking station. OS: debian testing with xfce LVDS1 - off VGA1 - on HDMI2 - on Recent (approx 1 month back) apt-get upgrade

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:46:08AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to > > >do so. > > > > Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universa

default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread sp113...@telfort.nl
Hello, I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. I want to use feh, but default is gimp, firefox or wine internet explorer. Wine is not even installed! I can not find where to change the default. I have mc directories in: ~/.local/share/mc ~/.config/mc /etc/mc/ usr/lib/mc/ /usr/share/mc/

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-10-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900 > >> Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrot

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:47:37PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Also I have no .Xresources file, is that normal? wooledg@wooledg:~$ ls -a /etc/skel . .. .bash_logout .bashrc .profile Yup. Normal. But the good news is, it looks like you *can* make one and expect it to be used by the Debian

Re: Problem with 2 external monitors on a laptop

2016-10-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I have likely the same problem with a single external monitor in Jessie. In fact the OS or X is turning down the brightness on the monitors. If you haven't already, simply try increasing brightness. On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:28 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:17:56 +0200 schreef Xx

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > my position remains the same: > > aptitude is poorly designed. > > Fine. So don't use it. But moaning won't help anyone, not even you. You > don't like Aptitude. We get the message

Bluetooh in Debian Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread juan hernandez
Hello: I'm using Debian in a Lenovo but I'm unable to using with bluetooth. Any advice? Thank you in advance best.

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 21:47:37 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > FWIW, you can tell xterm to use freetype fonts, e.g., > > > > xterm -fa "Monospace 12" > > > > Alternatively, use the faceName resource in your ~/.Xresources fi

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Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, Am 06.10.2016 um 20:43 schrieb Brian: On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: [...] (What does the glxinfo command give?) root@robbe:~# glxinfo Error: unable to open display That is when you used a terminal. Boot into X with xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR It is not pretty but

Re: Suggest adding translations for LibreOffice, Firefox and other software includeded in Debian

2016-10-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 06 Out 2016, scootergrisen wrote: I have tested some live images at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ to try them out and see the difference. I notice that software like LibreOffice and Firefox and Icedove does not show in my language then though the

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:20:58 +0200 (CEST) "sp113...@telfort.nl" wrote: > Hello, > I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. > I want to use feh, but default is gimp, firefox or wine internet > explorer. Wine is not even installed! > I can not find where to change the default. > I have mc

Re: Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread sp113...@telfort.nl
>> Hello, >> I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. >> I want to use feh, but default is gimp, firefox or wine internet >> explorer. Wine is not even installed! >> I can not find where to change the default. >> I have mc directories in: >> ~/.local/share/mc >> ~/.config/mc >> /etc/mc/

url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm getting redirected to a yahoo! search for "create web", If I try to load it in the floss chromium,

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 19:53:05 +0200 (CEST) "sp113...@telfort.nl" wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. > >> I want to use feh, but default is gimp, firefox or wine internet > >> explorer. Wine is not even installed! > >> I can not find where to change the defau

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
I can now also verify that the page loads fine n Dolphin browser on my android device. On 10/07/2016 02:00 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread claude juif
2016-10-07 20:04 GMT+02:00 Anthony Baldwin : > I can now also verify that the page loads fine n Dolphin browser on my > android device. > > On 10/07/2016 02:00 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >> I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media >> consulting side-business at http://pla

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 19:53:05 +0200 (CEST) "sp113...@telfort.nl" wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. > >Try /etc/mc/mc.ext which calls /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/image.sh Either there, or (my preference) ~/.config/mc/mc.ext > I have in /etc/mc/mc.ext: > > include/

Re: Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread sp113...@telfort.nl
>> I have in /etc/mc/mc.ext: >> >> include/image >> Open=feh %f >> View=feh %f ALL_FORMATS >> >> but that does not help > >I'm not sure what your 'include' directive is doing (it's impossible to >know without seeing the rest of your file). Try replacing that line with a >simpler '

Re: need help on pptp config

2016-10-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/10/2016 à 03:04, Li Wei a écrit : I want to use vpn to bypass censor. In XP, it's OK In Linux I have installed and run pptp-linux: Why PPTP ? Didn't you just write you wanted a VPN ? Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 CHAP authentication succeeded MPPE 128-bit stateless

Re: Bluetooh in Debian Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread deloptes
juan hernandez wrote: > Hello: > I'm using Debian in a Lenovo but I'm unable to using with bluetooth. Any > advice? > Thank you in advance > > best. What does it mean you are unable of using bluetooth? What have you tried? do you have some logs? Have you tried bluetoothctl and rfkill? Is your bl

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/10/16 02:58 PM, sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: I have in /etc/mc/mc.ext: include/image Open=feh %f View=feh %f ALL_FORMATS but that does not help I'm not sure what your 'include' directive is doing (it's impossible to know without seeing the rest of your file). Try replacing

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 02:32 PM, claude juif wrote: 2016-10-07 20:04 GMT+02:00 Anthony Baldwin mailto:baldwinling...@gmx.com>>: I can now also verify that the page loads fine n Dolphin browser on my android device. On 10/07/2016 02:00 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little busi

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 14:36:45 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 19:53:05 +0200 (CEST) > "sp113...@telfort.nl" wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > >> I have difficulties with mc's default image viewer. > > > >Try /etc/mc/mc.ext which calls /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/image.sh > > Either there, or (my p

Re: default image viewer in midnight commander

2016-10-07 Thread Hans
I suppose, there is a menu in mc itself, where you can edit all the connections to a programm according to its ending. Look at "Command", then "Edit extension file" (if you use English version). If you do not find it, cause your Debian is in another language, start mc by using LANG=C mc. Good

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 19:05:23 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > Am 06.10.2016 um 20:43 schrieb Brian: > >On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > > > >[...] > >>>(What does the glxinfo command give?) > >>> > >>root@robbe:~# glxinfo > >>Error: unable to open display > > > >That

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 08/10/16 03:43, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: my position remains the same: aptitude is poorly designed. Fine. So don't use it. But moaning won't help anyone, not even you. You don't like

Re: Re: default image viewer in midnight commander-SOLVED

2016-10-07 Thread sp113...@telfort.nl
>On 07/10/16 02:58 PM, sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: I have in /etc/mc/mc.ext: include/image Open=feh %f View=feh %f ALL_FORMATS but that does not help >>> >>> I'm not sure what your 'include' directive is doing (it's impossible to >>> know without s

mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use mcedit, its internal editor tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon > update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use > mcedit, its internal editor What does "echo $EDITOR" say in your shell? The update-alternative

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is set to NOT use mcedit, its internal editor What does "echo $EDITOR" sa

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:46:15 -0400 Tony Baldwin sent: > Apparently nothing, but when I do update-alternatives to set it, It > shows that vim.tiny is currently the chosen default (visudo uses it) > How do I set $EDITOR if not with update-alternatives? After contemplation, my reply is: I u

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:46:15PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon > > > update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course,

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 17:46:15 (-0400), Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon > >>update-alternatives --config editor?, and, of course, mc is s

[Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Stretch

2016-10-07 Thread Brian
Seen as important enough to send to debian-devel. Some might be interested in voting. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00042.html -- Brian

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 05:58 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: export EDITOR=vim.tin I've learned recently whil using this to configure $PATH, Tat this is going to set it for the current session only. How can I make it permanent? thanks, Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread davidson
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm getting redirected to a yahoo! search for "create web", I

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 05:57 PM, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:46:15 -0400 Tony Baldwin sent: Apparently nothing, but when I do update-alternatives to set it, It shows that vim.tiny is currently the chosen default (visudo uses it) How do I set $EDITOR if not with update-alternatives?

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 05:58 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:46:15PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread davidson
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm getting

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 06:11 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 17:46:15 (-0400), Tony Baldwin wrote: On 10/07/2016 05:38 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 05:23:00PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Why is mc using nano when vim.tiny is set as my editor upon update-alternatives --c

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-10-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-10-07, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2016-09-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900 >> >> Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Sat, Sep 24,

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
Put in your ~/.bashrc lines like this: export EDITOR="vim.tiny" export VISUAL=$EDITOR Exit the current login session and then log in again, or load the new contents of ~/.bashrc with $ . ~/.bashrc Convince yourself that all is well in the environment with: $ env -- IMPORTANT: This email is

Re: mc using nano when vim.tiny is my default editor?

2016-10-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
Almost forgot: in mc's "Options" drop-down menu, uncheck "Use internal editor." (My taste is to use mc's internal viewer, so I leave that box checked.) -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential,

Re: need help on pptp config

2016-10-07 Thread Li Wei
Thanks for your reply! I'm user of VPN. The provider chooses PPTP. In Windows XP, it works and the default gateway is 192.168.115.34 how to config it in Linux? Thanks! how to add a route to the remote IP 192.168.115.1 on interface ppp0? Thanks! In Linux I use VPN with pptp-linux below is by ifcon

Re: url redirected in chrome/chromium, but working fine, according to ping/traceroute, lynx, w3m, iceweasel.

2016-10-07 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 10/07/2016 06:42 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have a little business card website up for my big brother's media consulting side-business at http://playomatic.myownsite.me. Now, at the moment, if I try to load it in Google-Chrome-Stable, I'm get