Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

y was happening during *login* instead of logout: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840618 Apologies if you already know about the Debian-Accessibility list. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: where does knotes store its data

n that one. Just an example of how those things happen on occasion. *oops.* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: failed upgrade to Buster

already locked out of that partition so that negates the usual panic over getting locked out should the electricity fail before GRUB can be reinstalled on that partition, GRIN. It will take going into chroot to try GRUB2 in my own case. If it works, I'll share again. Good luck with your own instance.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

[OT] Email signature double dash delimiters (Was: KISS gpg)

g discussed.. :) Am now... --also-testing -- With some useless rhetoric.. -- And then some more useless rhetoric.. just to see what it does if there is more than one set of what the client would see as delimiters. Cindy ;) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Cannot open Chromium browser in same workspace (from which it was launched)

e that's how it got changed, too, *IF* that turns out to be what happened. I'm imagining an errant cursor going click happy behind the user's back. Has happened to me on more than one.. or three.. occasions. *Those darn dogs (again)!* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: fail2ban for apache2

thumb drives]. Even those inexpensive, nay, CHEAP wifi dongles.. I mentioned I bought 3 of those myself a few months back... Who knows And how the doodles is the average user supposed to sanity/safety check every single piece of computer-based, possibly chip containing hardware from now on. The implication is that one computer compromised internally that way is most likely networked with a whole bunch of others in the meantime, too. AND.. I don't think how we obtain these items affects any perceived risk in the future. Something from a big box store can be just as easily compromised as single items we may buy from "online marketplaces" Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: XFCE and auto-raise too fast

the various time delay option check boxes, etc, such as they vary specifically based on "Click to focus" versus "Focus follows mouse"? It's been a while since I found that XFCE perk, but I can still remember having to second guess the intents, the action/reaction relationsh

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

way that consumers can only fully participate... If one pours hoards of dollars into a smart phone. As the old saying goes... Well, isn't THAT convenient for all of the phone providers incidentally receiving that phenomenal monetary boost as a result. Cindy *Chevy Chase'ing off her so

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

years or so now, nope, not here. Here at Debian-User, there's occasional chatter about multiple operating systems coexisting via virtual machines, multiple interactive hard drive partitions, and such. Beyond those options presenting scenarios for learning how to make ALL things Linux sing, it can also be about the more primordial desire for, attraction to Variety, the spice of #Life, yada-yada. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a healthy, helpfully diverse stack of OS CDs and DVDs *

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

E files reappearing as needed (if deleted intentionally or otherwise) is that THOSE files are usually something found under /home/user buried within all those dot directories accessed via CTRL+H. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed... annnd... a dial-up modem that is SO CLOSE to working directly through Debian. SO CLOSE. *

Re: INQUIRY

ards: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?35926-Executing-grub-install-dummy-failed&s=d8cf37f9fee08ca29b2ec7aeda842ae0&p=77478#post77478 If that doesn't jump down to the quote, Comment #40 sounds pretty interesting and rational. Am posting in case that also triggers any related do/do nots, too.

For Newbies: One line descriptions of important Linux packages

eeded upgraded via apt/apt-get. :) Hope this helps someone else. Best wishes! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... HOPE for all things good in the New Year! *

Re: just a general question really

g in through an open developer window. Cindy.. [0] Rumor used to be it didn't matter what you manually entered for the "Baud" field, you were going to, at most, get less than 57600, period. *hm* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access#Using_compression_to_exceed_56k -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Package comitup: bootstrap Wifi using Wifi

tstrap? https://lists.debian.org/debian-cross/2020/01/msg0.html PS Make that... 586*1* MB... QUIT IT!! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with... a *oops*, forgot to buy those Debian-friendly dial-up modems, need to do that... Right. Now. *

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

reflecting the different kernel version. That sounds like the most likely way a User would catch that kind of [anomaly]. Maybe.... "fat" is trying to (intelligently, proactively) protect us from the rare occasion something like my experience might occur?? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey

Re: fmtree: line 0: unknown keyword sha256digest

;dpkg -i wvdial[version].deb". When I decided to try and purge, that's when I received something similar to yours here: > Note, selecting 'freebsd-buildutils' instead of > './freebsd-buildutils_10.3~svn296373-7_amd64.deb' That's when the little 4-watt light bulb went off overhead for me (AGAIN for the umpteenth time). :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Use system drive, in another system

it could happen. :) CHOICE! OPTIONS! VARIETY! #ThankYou yet again, Debian Developers AND Maintainers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: AWS AMI Debian Buster

Lastly, there's always this complete list of current Debian lists of various purposes: https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html Sharing in case there's something else related on there, as well. Hope that helps someone at least a little. Maybe Debian-Publicity (list) has had previous interest

Re: Something wakes my laptop from suspend to ram and I don't know what it is

ran the bug. Wasn't a tiny one, either. Just one of the perils of computing in the great outdoors.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Wiki software.

easiest form of deployment is by using the Xavante web server. + END SPUTNIK'S DESCRIPTION +++++ I like the sound of that package enough to add it to my regular downloads until I get a chance to play with it firsthand. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: windstream and linux

pool on some GUIs. I'm like that about package managers now. I canNOT imagine using anything except apt/apt-get command line interface ever since I dug in and self-taught how to do that several years ago. There is so much less "bloat" on our computers when we can do as much as possible

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

ot; take me to the [HOST] computer's /boot directory, NOT the [guest] in chroot. I only discovered that accidentally one time when I had to run "ls -ld" on vmlinuz and initrd.img for some long forgotten reason... or another. DISCLAIMER It's possible it had something to do with how I w

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

tly what it said. I THINK that's the computer that had that CHOICE.. Dell XPS 420 grin. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: about debian installation on gpt and mbr hard drive

e of "Ok, WHAT HAPPENED?!" is PEBKAC... PEBCAK... Devil's Advocate: Except that... My chair's not the only one experiencing this exasperating experience. THAT is a sanity-maintaining checkpoint, actually, in that. We are not alone. :) Cindy... :) DISCLAIMER: I've

Re: Re(2): USB adapter for SD card.

but Knoppix loads as normal if new card reader is given its own dedicated USB port it doesn't have to share with any other hardware... Cindy Sue :) - :: - Cindy-Sue Causey Wren Grabs [Processed Bugs] Ball From Nestling http://youtu.be/nx7g3F6J_jI http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountains

Re: USB adapter for SD card.

On 9/5/13, Doug wrote: > On 09/04/2013 11:54 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 9/4/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> >>> Yeah. It looks like the card reader is recognized, and the fact that >>> the cards are in it, but it looks like the capacity of both cards i

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

thing a user might not even think of nor notice until they're actually signed in and start typing where they can see the letters. which on average PROBABLY wouldn't happen UNTIL they actually get signed in.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia,

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

ut servers being "slashdotted" (facing a ton of unexpected traffic all coming in at the same time). That could be one reason for not being able to access them. The one I can't reach is a different repository entirely. In fact as point of reference, it was kernel.org returning a simila

Re: funny text in bash history

PS A little tip: For anyone who hasn't discovered it yet, CTRL+SHIFT+T is a keyboard shortcut to bring up a terminal in some Debian based distros out there. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Debian policy on alternate init systems

a Debian-User email that is simply waiting its turn to be read.. If that is the case, my sincere apologies in advance for undue noise.. Thank you, Marty Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: squeeze-lts problem with debian's keyrings or apt

ong here. > Could anybody help me out, please? While you're waiting for others with answers, have you run "apt-get update" yet? If not, it's one of the steps in APT to make sure we're as current as Humanly possible.. Beyond being current, I'm also looking to s

Re: debian-advocacy?

rg/completeindex.html Hope that helps at least a little.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

s first hitting my radar via incidental mentions by fellow list members over at W3C (w3.org).. *grin* -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

home stuff is not too personal to share once you discover what created that size, it might help others avoid their own 100%.. They'll know where to proactively avoid the same size issue, if nothing else just by creating a larger partition wherever /home resides should they happen to have computin

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

at a critical moment. Is there some kind of testing that could be done to extensively... well... test that aspect? Isn't systemd where someone was upset about remarkably long boot times early on in these recent discussions? Maybe at least one part of their issue could be traced to this... o

Re: Debian 6.2 and Systemd ?

:) PS All the above? Prime example of. oh, what _is_ that word.. *CHOICE* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Installing from Backports (Was: INTEL HD Graphics)

e is to start a completely new email then copy-paste from the old one if needed to begin your new thread.. :) Happy Debian'ing out there! :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with bird seed (trips occasionally, too) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

to trying to complete my own debootstrap self-education. Took break from updating keyrings (on dialup) to check email. Multistrap hit my own radar in last week or so, too. Thank you for the reminder.. It's now "on the list" :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County,

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

rs), don't they eject upon job completion? Been a while and my experience was not optimal so I'm halfway blanking on how it goes. Seems like one or another of the couple programs I tried MIGHT HAVE ejected without further user intervention.. Maybe that's another place to look for a po

Re: Sound stopped working after kernel upgrade from 3.2 to 3.14

means to simply type your responses UNDER the writing you're answering.. It helps people follow the sequential train of thought in a conversation.. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: [was UEFI] someone does

und the same time the word "computer" was becoming more commonly uttered.. Not all that long ago, every comma, period, AND space that could be dropped from usage had a visually measurable data storage impact on those tiny hard drives of (also) not very long ago... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue

Re: Grub ... updating kernels

t I guess the "no-brainer" part of it is that it was just Debian looking at the entirety of my setup at the moment of that particular install. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: mounting a Nikon camera

covered our humble file managers are a reasonable/rational image organizing alternative. >From there, you're just one quick right click away from how you want to manipulate your videos and images for publishing on the web or elsewhere.. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County,

Re: Quiet Bootups

real fun begins then realized... that's where I've been A LOT lately... Being able to read those lines when they do stop has occasionally and certainly proven more helpful than staring at a, oh, I don't know... several minutes lingering blank purple screen, for example.. =) Cindy :) -- C

Re: iso and disk space problem

anyway hoping this will give you or anyone else something to go on if that turns out to be your case.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Multiboot usage

ecause of my using not-so-recommended modifications.. Joel's reference to chaining is just the latest I'd seen.. That's the first time I'd understood it (without searching the Net). It's now officially "on the list" to be learned soon. Sure could have used it the last few

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

something like the US' BBB Online? I've made many an online purchase decision based on ours here.. And been happy every time. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Increasing Debian's Adoptability [Was: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades]

al(l) * now that you know how to partition, learn how to dual boot. It's a BLAST that escalates your grasp of Debian exponentially. If *I* can do it, yadda-yadda! :) PPS If something like any of the above already exists, my humblest apologies. My unhumble opinion is it then needs more prominent ai

Re: finding a dependency chain

0 (null)) libwvstreams4.6-extras (0 (null)) debconf (18 0.5) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) wvdial:i386 (0 (null)) Provides: 1.61-4.1 - 1.61-4build1 - Reverse Provides: ++ Hoping that's on topic.. In particular, having that as a latest personal find just showed me how much average users are proba

Re: Bibletime encoding problem

font with a glyph for each visible Unicode 5.1 Plane 0 character unifont-bin - utilities for manipulating the GNU Unifont xfonts-unifont - PCF (bitmap) version of the GNU Unifont K/t to someone on one of these lists who suggested that handy little search one day. It's a regular time saver for th

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

analyzes the hard drive where a healthy drive only reflects one entry each for similar. Here's swap as one example: Current partition structure: 1 P Linux Swap 0 32 33 1274 241 55 2048 1 P Linux Swap 0 32 33 1274 241 55 2048 Cindy -- Cindy-Sue

Tip: apt-listbugs (Was: policykit + systemd)

ts to continue installing or abort to do further research first. I can't help wondering out loud if broader use of any tool of this type that is specific to a user's CHOICE of package managers might somehow draw in faster bug fixes purely due to more exposure.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Su

Chroot/Debootstrap Mechanisms (Was: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?)

ust boil down to some of us debootstrap "newbies" not commanding the process optimally, maybe including simply not understanding the true power and reach of what we've undertaken... OR NOT. :D Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

t, I don't know. I'm one of those who was recently aforementioned as having not spoken up yet. The reason I've not voiced anything is because I am not this moment able to present an educated opinion one way or the other on the whole deal. I *DO*.. have an opinion about *_CH

Re: trying to remove wicd

all the above said, for no particular reason I just tried installing wicd before sending this off. Apt-get wants to install a NEW package it calls.. wicd. And only that four-letter name in addition to upgrading three others: python-wicd, wicd-daemon, and wicd-gtk.. *hmmm* :)) Am going to t

Re: trying to remove wicd

f wicd finally works properly before you switch to command line? I'd try it myself but wifi, that whole networking via GUI, had it work once or twice but was never able to master it.. It'll be next year before it'd ever work on this end.. Good luck with it.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-S

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

n what is going on here? TIA! Will this help at all? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/geda-gaf/ Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

On 9/19/14, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/19/14, Frank Miles wrote: >> Strange. Doing a web-search, I find a page for the geda-gaf package (old >> form at >> https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geda-gaf.html >> which seems to say that geda-gaf is part of stabl

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

.. :)) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

piece of self-training on with respect to preserving the kinds of tweaks such as is being discussed here.. PS Apologies in advance if this shows up twice. Had a dialup glitch JUST as it was sending but not seeing it posted yet. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, U

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

of critical data in the process. As always, YMMV. Good luck! Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Any stats for quantifying Debian's maintenance magnitude?

ackage does NOT contain only one single solitary standalone file, either.. Each package's files needs its due head nod within that quantifying process, too.. 37,601 lines, each appearing to represent a unique software package that theoretically should receive regular developer tending.

Re: systemd sysvinit

f an ALTERNATIVE tool that can be used to confidently help support or contradict those results.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

tstrap.. There were a couple or few things that happened after the debootstrap that I'm hoping to keep following up on. Am guessing there's a possibility mine was somehow related to a necessary debootstrap step that I missed by being so new at it.. In the meantime, it continues to FEEL LI

Re: More FUD for everyone: Computers Are Dangerous! (Users are devs, after all.)

o, and take those to developers in a succinct, abbreviated, anonymized format. My mind wanders after that point but ombudsman, yes, that's exactly the word, concept I was thinking, too.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I

Re: Ideal Debian distro for Asus Notebook?

t;debian-laptop" [1]. In verifying the list name, I just encountered a member's email that repeats what I was thinking about it. It's a very low traffic list, [2] but there _are_ people monitoring it.. :) [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ [2] https://lists.debian.org/debia

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

land this kind of answer get tricky sometimes. These came up first 2 results on the first shot with a weirder than normal array of keywords: debian how do i want to see messages at boot -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating go

Cognitively friendly systemd components graphic

n't come up based on personal user software *CHOICE*, I found it via an image search using "wikimedia commons systemd" (without quotes). Looks like there are several different takes on that search that may come at systemd from different angles, too.. Hope this helps someone else.. :)

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

nt of your request is ideally motion would be producing that format without further intervention from outside software. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

out a little more "fun". :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Not receiving list mail

d a notice in these cases here Yes, no? * wandering off to sign up for the whitelist (hm, probably should have done that FIRST) * Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: unable to install stardict

r font would help solve characters showing up as question marks? It's helped me in the past with web browsers doing the same with respect to non-native languages Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy Sue - :: - Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct

Re: USB wireless network adaptor

ves for threads using the word "persistent", for example. I'm just not sure myself how to set it up just yet and will be doing the same VERY SOON. :) Hope this helps (someone).. Once mastered, can guarantee it's a major headache AND time saver down the road :) Cindy --

Re: Encrypted flash drives

good place to check off when hard drive rapidly disappears for no apparent reason... Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: RTL8111 Networking Drivers

unable to meet, for example, if the source is unavailable. These situations will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis." + END QUOTED TEXT + That would be why it takes extra steps to get an RTL8111 driver functional. It turns out to in fact be about its relationship to Debian&#x

Re: Proper folder for non-Debian binaries

l that way. Whether that likewise conflicts, I'm not sure. I understand what's being said there, but I've just never had to actually think on it/worry about it since I've always been a single user system. I do remember always wondering to myself if that /usr/local directory

Re: Spam on Debian lists

s from extremely "top tier" tech companies The topics varied, but it would be conversations regarding things such as attempting to obtain more universal compatibility between Debian and non-free hardware. *Something* like that Just thinking out loud... :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Mouse pointer _sometimes_ too big

his second it appears to be not occurring. :) I've wondered if it's about package upgrades changing something that affects universal cursor interactivity across programs. But... Feels a little more like one program or another gets glitches where certain parts of the program kick back to original cursor default or maybe kicks back to last previous favored cursor theme for some reason... Or not... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

rticipate actively over at Debian-Mentors? https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ It does sound like a "maintainer" type question since that's on average who I usually see messing around with the bug reports over at Debian-Mentors... but I, of course, could always be wrong on that

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

ut boot up. A successful boot sometimes and not others falls right in line with Greg's observation there. It very much sounds reasonable for a third thread out here, to, that is already a to-do to find and update. :) Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Mouse pointer _sometimes_ too big

On 4/25/17, Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/24/2017 11:19 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> Mine will occasionally do something like this. In my case, it gives >> the appearance it's switching back and forth between entire cursor >> themes. Is there a chance that's ac

Re: suspend/resume device

ESSAGE That "apt-listchanges" package comes in handy for putting that type of information right in your face during upgrades. Hope that helps someone somewhere some day... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

that I don't remember it. #ThankYou, Developers! I'm about to do something extremely #Life changing in a few minutes. I *literally* could not do it without all the well functioning Debian packages I'm about to spend the entire rest of the evening buried in Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue

Re: Download Manager

pit" type packages out there, too, that save recently copied snippets from our "clipboards". I "use" it occasionally, but the sticky notes dealy fits more in line with what I need.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * I comment, therefore I am.. (procrastinating elsewhere). *

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

removing various packages over time. Or not, grin. This was another of those that rated a priority level of "Annoying" for me. It wasn't critical to the functioning of my computer, and I figure that feature may have been redesigned by... conscious design. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: ifconfig network resolution

in... The good news is... OUR computers are set up universally enough that we can see those very pretty Japanese characters on this end... PS Thanks, I really needed that laugh :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: ifconfig network resolution

On 6/10/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/10/17, Joe wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 23:36:06 +0900 >> Joel Rees wrote: >> >> >>> - >>> myadm@mycomp:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0:1 down >>> myadm@mycomp:~

Re: XFCE Panel to the bottom

placeholder [thingie], WE might be able to grab and move that entire panel toolbar where WE both wish to see it in each, our own, unique window setups.. Just thinking out loud again *from ye ol' Pickens, grin* :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: XFCE Panel to the bottom

On 6/23/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/23/17, Mike Stroud wrote: >> I have just installed Debian 8 32 bit XFCE. I've removed the bottom >> "dock" >> panel because I don't need it. I've added the Whisker menu onto the top >> panel menu.

Re: XFCE Panel to the bottom

On 6/23/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I took a break, made some coffee, then came back to this with a refreshed > brain. > > And there they are front and center your "dots".. Looks like about > 6 on mine on either end of that panel without doing anything speci

Re: XFCE Panel to the bottom

On 6/23/17, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 06/23/2017 09:59 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 6/23/17, Mike Stroud wrote: >>> I have just installed Debian 8 32 bit XFCE. I've removed the bottom >>> "dock" >>> panel because I don't need it.

Re: flash in stretch again

there is at least one related "toggle" usually available in a browser's preference settings. It would be about plugins if it exists. It would be about enabling/disabling/deleting and is something that it never hurts to check off on a debug list. Just thinking out loud... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

debootstick: Turn chroot into bootable image

7;s all I know about it, and unfortunately I don't have the resources to test it first before sharing. Hope this helps someone some day.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines

espect to being safe to purge while playing around with it. Purging would let a user start over and catch up to speed with how Intense Red's mention of a changeover to sddm now handles things. Using a word like "purge"? ALWAYS after a *BACKUP* is made, of course Of course. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Superblock last write time is in the future.

do to take part in that international arena in a properly time synced manner. There are surely exceptions why not to go UTC, but the rationale behind doing so made total sense to me at the time. :) So far, that UTC route has worked *for me* with the exception of that Canon video camera's file time stamp anomaly... Just thinking out loud... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

some *trusted* Mozilla repository. Under Preferences, the Security tab has a "General" section that includes an option to be warned about sites adding add-ons behind our backs. That section also has options to be warned about dangerous downloads and unwanted or uncommon software. That's all I can think of right now... Good luck blocking it out of your system.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Laptop hangs after wake up in stretch

ements rather than all at once Or something like that there. Yeah, that might end up being a nanosecond slower than normal.... but that nanosecond slower is a whole lot better than the kind of "lockdowns" that some of us regularly experience.. Just thinking out loud

Re: perl system integrity?

ement'y list(s). Maybe that's a possibility for other more localized Perl lists, too, if one exists for your area... Hope this helps.. someone some day... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape... and a desire to create an excuse to play with Perl again... *

Re: why network install so slow?

ue to try to help out. I actually was able to do that a couple months back where no one else could duplicate a user's error, and my setup actually did throw the user's same issue. *yay* :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: (solved)Re: why network install so slow?

debug checklist if anyone happens to come across this thread in the archives. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

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