On 11/2/21 07:33, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 20:46, lina wrote:
I have to prepare a poster,
Inkscape appears to be pretty powerful when one knows how to use it.
It's always added to my setups even though I barely touch it. Just
waiting for time to follow a good how-to ste
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:20 PM Steve Mynott wrote:
> Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)?
>
I am using it on a laptop running buster with encryption and lvm. It seems
to be working fine. I haven't really checked anything, though.
Hello,
Clicking on scrollbars does different things with different
applications. In Emacs, the following used to be standard:
- left click: one screenful down
- right click: one screenful up
- middle click: jump to where you clicked
In emacs now (emacs-24 with gtk+), the mouse scrolling is quit
On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote:
my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in
mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop
i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in
mexico.
I had used wicd for months without pr
On 08/21/2014 09:58 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote:
I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my Debian
7.6 machine. I recognize the security risk. I usually run the lxde
desktop. I see that gdm3 is starting the Xorg server with "-nolisten
tcp" arguments. I read that this can be disa
/MayoClinic
http://youtube.com/MayoClinic http://twitter.com/MayoClinic
On 08/21/2014 12:57 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote:
This might not be a good lead, but can you stop gdm3 on your machine,
log in to a console, start X with startx and see if it works? Maybe
there are startx options to allow TCP liste
Hello,
I have two laptops:
- Lenovo X201 running Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (also has
3.2.0-3-amd64 and 2.6.32-5-amd64)
- Thinkpad X31 running an out-of-date Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-2-486
(haven't turned this
one on in a while and consequently haven't updated packages)
Also ha
Thank you all for your thoughts about the USB disk problems I'm
having. I follow-up below.
Kelly wrote:
> Have you tried it on different ports?
Yes and no change.
> Do other USB devices (flash drives, keyboard/mouse, etc) work in the
> port(s) you are trying this disk on?
Yes.
> What do you ge
It has taken many hours, but my Mac Pro (model MacPro1,1) finally
automatically booted Debian from rEFInd and the grub2 menu.
Problems/challenges:
- grub-efi[-ia32[-bin]] doesn't properly set the path to find the efi
image when installed and set-up by a package manager. I've filed a bug
report
Hello,
I'm still fighting with grub-efi-ia32 on a Mac Pro. I am able to boot Debian
from a supergrub CD (iso), so the install works. But when I boot from grub on
the harddisk, I have video problems and the screen freezes. Can I tell
grub-efi-ia32 to just use text or really simple graphics?
I'v
On 02/03/2014 04:17 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone
recommend a good todo list software?
Depending upon what sort of to do items and how you track them, remind
and wyrd (or another front-end to remind) might work well for you.
Remi
On 02/28/2014 09:23 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
Could anybody please point me to a list of abandoned free software?
This is Debian specific, but the Debian Project News includes a list of
Debian packages in need of a maintainer or some other care:
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/#wnp
On 10/12/2013 12:11 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote:
You need to rebuild emacs to achieve that. This note from
/usr/share/doc/emacs23-common/README.Debian.gz is the key: If you
prefer the old-style, non-toolkit scrollbars, just edit debian/rules
to add --without-toolkit-scrollbars where indicated a
Hello,
I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see
that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a
single IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected
to my laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201)
How
Hello,
After a 7 or 8 year trial with Mac OS X, I'm back to Debian. I have one
of the first generation Mac Pros (model 1,1) and I'd like to keep OS X
in a dual-boot mode temporarily, to deal with opening the occasional
file that linux can't (such as Mac's Pages and Numbers files).
There are
On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote:
You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You
might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write
few, read many.
I assume this "read many, write few" idea applies to all SSD drives.
There se
Hello,
I think I'm almost there, but I'm puzzled. I appear to have successfully set up
RAID 5 and LVM following this page:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/512
I have three 500 GB drives and they are configured like this:
/dev/sda1 is ext4 /boot
/dev/sd[abc]2 are RAID 5 forming th
Hello,
On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with an
external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning:
Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result:
hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel:
On Friday, July 29, 2016 11:39 AM, Brian Flaherty wrote:
>
> Hello,>
> On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with
> an external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning:
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If it is worth more informa
On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and
today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen
On 11/21/2011 05:17 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote:
On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these
On 11/30/2011 08:46 AM, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote:
You may configure that in the window manager
Where does one do that?
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For a week or so, Alt-F2 (run a command) won't run anything. If I just
type a command such as "xterm", it says command not found. If I press
Escape after this, the pop-up window disappears. If I type the full path
to the executable (e.g., /usr/bin/xterm), the pop-up window freezes and
the shadi
On 12/02/2011 03:03 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
*Hi,
I am trying to be familiar with gnome 3,
So I installing from debian testing the gnome 3,
It seems good, but sometimes I am lost, for example, I want to put a
file on the Desktop, like drag it from the usb to the screen!! as usual,
it didn'
On 12/02/2011 12:26 PM, Alan Chandler wrote:
I find Icons on the desktop pretty useless - they are always hidden by
windows - except when you aren't running anything.
I agree.
I just spent a week exploring in depth how to manage my workload in both
KDE 4.7 following frustration with Gnome 3
On 12/09/2011 09:32 AM, Michel Blankleder wrote:
On Friday 09 December 2011 18:15:39 Alan Chandler wrote:
On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote:
Anyone any ideas what could have happened here.
just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been
libdrm-intel1
Last week I had a
Hello,
I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3
mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of awesome.
However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, let's me know
dropbox is running, mounts usb drives, etc.
If you use i3 and you
Good evening,
I have moved away from iTunes back to organizing my own music. The main music
directory contains several kinds of files: ogg, mp3, flac, aiff. I want to
create a subdirectory that only contains links (I assume soft.) to the
directories containing only ogg and mp3 files. For exampl
Hello,
I've been trying a while to get linux running on my Mac Pro (Intel, not
powerpc). Specific model is MacPro1,1. I tried just installing Debian alone,
but couldn't get it to boot alone or with rEFIt. Others have suggested keeping
OS X on the system for Apple updates and now I'm trying that
> - Original Message -
> From: Dan Hitt
> To: Brian Flaherty
> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> How man
So, I've made some progress getting Debian booting on my old Mac Pro.
Right now, here's the hang-up and I'm not sure how to proceed.
I'm
using rEFInd to choose what to boot. It finally finds my Debian
installed grub efi image, however, there's something wrong in a path and
it dumps me at grub-
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