Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-05-31 Thread Jape Person
On 5/31/19 11:16 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back on. > > Typing

Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised.

2018-06-27 Thread Jape Person
On 06/27/2018 09:38 AM, terryc wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:57:33 +0200 deloptes wrote: terryc wrote: Mostly it is USB sticks for stuff to play/display on the TV & "noise device" what do you see in dmesg when you plug in the device? Nothing. that was the problem. it is hard to mount it i

Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised.

2018-06-28 Thread Jape Person
On 06/28/2018 07:39 AM, terryc wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:21:16 + (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2018-06-28, terryc wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:27:30 -0400 Jape Person wrote: My suggestion is late, and possibly not much of a contribution due to my not having read the entire thread. I

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Jape Person
On 3/1/19 5:53 PM, Gian Carlo wrote: > Il 01/03/19 22:40, riveravaldez ha scritto: >> Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: >> >> $ systemctl reboot >> Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name >> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files >> Failed

network-manager-openvpn GUI not keeping automatic VPN connection setting

2019-11-05 Thread Jape Person
I hope that subject line doesn't obfuscate the issue. I'm using Sid/testing with Xfce4 desktop environment, fully updated. openvpn 2.4.7-1 network-manager-openvpn 1.8.10-1 network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.8.10-1 Using the GUI I set openvpn to connect automatically to a chosen VPN. I reboot. I d

apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-13 Thread Jape Person
Hi folks. Did I miss something? I've had 3 Sid/testing systems running on the same LAN behind the same router for just shy of 3 years. Their static IP addresses have always been issued by the DHCP server on the router. Everything has been copacetic among the systems, with local and outside name

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-13 Thread Jape Person
On 12/13/19 8:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 19:33:51 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: Hi folks. Did I miss something? Perhaps a couple of references: https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail which points out that any of .home, .mail

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Jape Person
On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: Assuming that you are using the router from your ISP, it is possible that the firmware has been upgraded without your nolage. One way to prevent this could be (1), that is, use your own router/server/gateway so you control everything on your LAN. I use an E

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Jape Person
On 12/14/19 4:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-12-14, Jape Person wrote: I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as a domain name at one time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though I've been using Debian for a

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Jape Person
On 12/14/19 3:56 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 dec 19, 19:33:51, Jape Person wrote: Hi folks. Did I miss something? I've had 3 Sid/testing systems running on the same LAN behind the same router for just shy of 3 years. Their static IP addresses have always been issued by the DHCP s

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Jape Person
On 12/14/19 8:02 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, December 13, 2019 10:04:18 PM Jape Person wrote: Could this change be due to recent upgrades in software? (I upgrade every day.) I've reviewed the recent upgrades listed in /var/log/apt/history.log. I would have thought any delib

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-14 Thread Jape Person
On 12/14/19 8:45 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 22:04:18 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 12/13/19 8:55 PM, David Wright wrote: But is it possible you've started using avahi/bonjour when previously you didn't? Or has the router upgraded itself and now knows not to issue names

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-15 Thread Jape Person
On 12/15/19 1:19 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: ... Hi, I am running a very similar setup, also on Sid/Testing (updated daily), and didn't notice any change. My local domain is not ".local" or ".home", it is custom. My resolv.conf looks like yours (modulo the domain name), I have an additi

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread Jape Person
On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: ... The file '/etc/resolv.conf' should let you know what TLD is sent from the DHCP server. Debian shouldn't modify your configuration files

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread Jape Person
On 12/16/19 11:39 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 10:53:02 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/14/19 1:24 AM, john doe wrote: ... The file '/etc/resolv.conf' should le

Re: Gnucash broken after Update

2019-12-16 Thread Jape Person
On 12/16/19 12:41 PM, Markus Grunwald wrote: Hi, a few days ago, I ran an apt update of my debian/desting machine and got a new gnucash version. Apt DID tell me that there was something to do to keep gnucash working. I had no time to do that, then, but I was used to getting the instructions per

Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention

2019-12-16 Thread Jape Person
On 12/16/19 3:25 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 13:36:27 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 11:39 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 10:53:02 (-0500), Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/19 12:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 13:49:25 (-0500), Jape

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-17 Thread Jape Person
On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for keys such as: CapLock, NumLock, Insert, etc. Is there any way to get a graphical indicator on a docking bar to show

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Jape Person
On 1/18/20 1:19 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM Jape Person wrote: I don't know whether or not gkrellm-leds would work for you. Last time I tried it I found it to look at little out of place on my Xfce4 desktop, but it did perform some of the functions you'

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Jape Person
On 1/18/20 2:32 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 18/01/2020 02:54, Jape Person wrote: On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for keys such as: CapLock, Nu

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Jape Person
On 09/01/2013 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: ... > > I've been looking at geany, and it looks interesting functionally, but > I'm not at all sold on it. Don't like lots of tool panes all over. > It's part of the reason I can't quite bring myself to use either > netbeans or eclipse regularly. > ... A

You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
Heh. Just being a little tongue-in-cheek here. I needed to do a fresh installation of Debian on two systems for friends this weekend. I tried both stable (7.1) and the 10/02/2013 daily of testing -- both of them the netinst image. For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop en

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop. you do not mention the display manager. at

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 10:02 AM, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-07, Curt wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments," then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the netinstaller at least that's the w

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so will likely struggle with not installing Gnome (really don't want Gnome or KDE). On 07/10/13 02:31, Jape Person wrote: > From my perspective, it looks to

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 11:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 10/07/2013 10:43 AM, Jape Person wrote: These folks are sophisticated enough to want to use VPN connections when they're connecting to public wireless locations. They just don't know enough about package management to sort this sor

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude: lqk xReally quit Aptitude?x x [ Yes ][ No ] x mqj and others don't. Can anyone

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude: lqk xReally

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 02:33 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 07:46 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Jape Person wrote: I'm sure you were right to first suspect locale settings. It's really the most obvious culprit. Are those the same for the systems that have the problem and those that don't? In

Re: Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread Jape Person
On 10/02/2014 10:17 AM, Wash-N-Go wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, filorin wrote: Hi there ! howdy, pardner. I spent too much time on the Internet to find how to create folders in Gnome Shell. i gather you did not intend to reply to the thread regarding security cameras. i imagine, instead, th

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: I've got xfce4-power-manager 1.4.1-1 in xfce4 on jessie and would like to find a way to dim the LCD backlight. I'm not seeing a brightness panel anywhere like this one: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/brightness nor does the back

Re: XFCE icons disappeared on Jessie

2014-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2014 03:02 PM, Ximo wrote: Hello, After a Jessie update icons of same themes disappeared on XFCE 4.10. On XFCE Settings > Appearance > Icons I've tried GNOME, HighContrast and Tango. The only that works is HighContrast. Maybe it's a problem with libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but I'm not sure.

Re: XFCE icons disappeared on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2014 03:06 PM, Ximo wrote: El 06/10/14 a las #4, Jape Person escribió: On 10/06/2014 03:02 PM, Ximo wrote: Hello, After a Jessie update icons of same themes disappeared on XFCE 4.10. On XFCE Settings > Appearance > Icons I've tried GNOME, HighContrast and Tango. The only

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-09 Thread Jape Person
On 10/09/2014 07:13 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/06/2014 09:41 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: ... What needs to be added or configured to get a brightness slider or other brightness control for the backlight? ... I think at this version they switched from

Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
Hi, folks! Sorry about the title. I'm just addicted to movie titles from the 60s. (-: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... syst

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:34 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: From dmesg ...[4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error [4.854298] systemd[151]: /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NU

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-16 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; |

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- "With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is e

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 07:41 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 02:42 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so

Re: Problem with external monitor

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 01:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-30, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have just realised the presence, and, extent of the presence, of the spelling/typographical errors in the last previous message that I posted about this; above, so am posting it again, hopefully with all of the erro

Re: Problem with external monitor

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 03:13 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 31/10/2014, Jape Person wrote: On 10/30/2014 01:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-30, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have just realised the presence, and, extent of the presence, of the spelling/typographical errors in the last previous message that I

Re: terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 06:23 PM, Andrés Martinelli wrote: Hello there!! I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some adds like undo/redo.. you can find it here: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! Thanks! This is so cool! I wi

Re: Howto add a vnc URL handler to Icedove?

2014-11-01 Thread Jape Person
On 10/29/2014 01:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: I want to make things easier for people accepting remote desktop invitations from Krfb. Ideal scenario:- 1. Create a reverse ssh tunnel to "middle" (an internet accessible server) from the "users" computer. e.g. port 1234 to port 1235 "middle" has p

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-01 Thread Jape Person
On 11/01/2014 06:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 31 oct 14, 14:10:20, Charles Kroeger wrote: I have a line in my /etc/fstab file: #/dev/sde1/ /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment out

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Jape Person
On 12/10/2014 10:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: In my not so humble opinion, one should be using such a switch to re-examine one's setup, practices, etc. You might discover some "interesting" stuff. As far as I'm concerned: 1. I'll be looking into disabling periodic checks on all my ext4 partition

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Jape Person
On 12/10/2014 01:40 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 11:36:35, Jape Person wrote: Using fsck.mode=force on the linux command line works fine for the purpose of forcing a file system check at home, but I don't see a practical way to use it on the remote systems. Do I really ha

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

2014-07-14 Thread Jape Person
On 07/14/2014 10:58 AM, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 14:38:46 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:13:22 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote: Hello Richard, I see that HP and OKI both claim to offer Linux drivers, for example. With HP, by and large, you don't need to ins

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-11 Thread Jape Person
On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Anybody know how to do that? TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C” locale. It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and r

How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-10 Thread Jape Person
Hi, I just used # apt-get install systemd-sysv on several Debian testing systems (fully up-to-date). It has been my habit to use # touch /forcefsck to force a file system check at reboot once per week on each system and to keep track of the results by copying the contents of /var/log/fsck/

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-10 Thread Jape Person
On 05/10/2014 06:32 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jape Person wrote: Hi, I just used # apt-get install systemd-sysv on several Debian testing systems (fully up-to-date). It has been my habit to use # touch /forcefsck to force a file system check at reboot

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force to the linux boot line in Grub is

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 08:29 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.05.2014 09:35, schrieb Sven Joachim: Something like "journalctl -b | grep systemd-fsck". I haven't figured out how to get "journalctl -u" to work here. That, or something like systemctl status systemd-fsck-root.service or systemctl status sy

[SOLVED] Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 12:17 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: >> - Original Message - >>> From: "Chris Purves" >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >>> Subject: systems hangs every few days >>> >>> After upgrading to wheezy,

Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
Hi! Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way. About a year ago I switched out Wicd for network-manager-gnome so that I could m

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 10:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of >> my >> socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in apt

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 11:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: > On 06/30/2013 10:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of >>>

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 04:01 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Patrick Wiseman: >> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: >>> >>> Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of >>> my >>> socks this morning when I ran my da

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-07-01 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 11:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [JFTR, I hit the same issue a while ago in unstable, and it took a while > to clean via aptitude's interactive interface] > > On Du, 30 iun 13, 17:49:13, Jape Person wrote: >> >> So...my problem was that I was

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-05 Thread Jape Person
On 07/05/2013 05:36 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 03. 07. 2013 01:17:15 je David napisal(a): >> >> Sounds like GNOME 4 :) > > +1 > > Laughed my socks off! :-D > > Yup, I've been snickering for days! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Jape Person
On 02/26/2014 12:11 PM, Kirt Odle wrote: Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? Download or install? If I assume you want to install these packages, and by "ALL of its dependenc

Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network?

2017-06-05 Thread Jape Person
On 06/05/2017 10:14 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I am looking for a FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for my SOHO network, to support Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, etc., Wi-Fi devices. I'd like something with an external power adapter (wall wart), dual-band,

gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-17 Thread Jape Person
Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing systems. I get the impression that this may not be a common practice, but I've been doing this (ap

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2017 07:54 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 00:27:29 -0400, Jape Person wrote: Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-19 Thread Jape Person
On 06/19/2017 09:10 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 13:47:32 -0400, Jape Person wrote: So you don't even install recommends normally? I would have supposed (from reading various descriptions of recommends) that this would result in significant functional compromise in most packages

Re: Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

2017-06-28 Thread Jape Person
On 06/28/2017 12:26 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Forum, I have recently migrated from Jessie to Stretch. I have a couple of minor issues. One of them concern Xfce: some time my fingers seem to do a combination of keys that magnifies the screen: I got a floating desktop environment that is lag

Re: (OT kinda) Your wish is their command

2017-07-26 Thread Jape Person
On 07/26/2017 12:01 PM, Curt wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ I'd swear that Adobe said they were going to do this years ago. At that time I muttered under my breath that I would probably be dead by the time they actually got around to it. 2020, huh? It's

Re: (OT kinda) Your wish is their command

2017-07-28 Thread Jape Person
On 07/28/2017 07:30 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-26, Jape Person wrote: On 07/26/2017 12:01 PM, Curt wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ I'd swear that Adobe said they were going to do this years ago. At that time I muttered under my breath that I

pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-03 Thread Jape Person
A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to make the queue

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. You'd think

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS printer list and in

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:09:25 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:37 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 07:02 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 16:10:13 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-04 Thread Jape Person
On 08/04/2017 07:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 14:14:42 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 08:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-04, Jape Person wrote: A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 08:52 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother printers to make it worth Brother's trouble to provide a utility for thi

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-08-05, Brian wrote: On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 20:19:33 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Brian wrote: It's sad, isn't it? There must be enough Linux / Unix folks using brother printers to make it worth Brother's troub

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would be leery of going through the procedure without a lot of wine for fear of bricking my device. A lot

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 03:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 14:44:46 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 02:28 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 13:12:40 -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 08/05/2017 12:44 PM, Curt wrote: [A bit of snipping for poetical reasons]. Frankly I would be

Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

2017-08-05 Thread Jape Person
On 08/05/2017 07:38 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 05/08/17 07:52, Jape Person wrote: It's funny (in much the same way that hitting your thumb with a hammer is funny) that the Brother support site does indeed list a later firmware update than the one I installed when I first got the printe

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-08-08 Thread Jape Person
On 08/08/2017 02:01 PM, Doug wrote: ... It always amazes me that people who get a driver made specifically for a device, a driver that has significantly more capability than one that came with their Linux os, would refuse to use it. It hasn't cost them anything, just as the Linux os hasn't cost t

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-08-09 Thread Jape Person
On 08/09/2017 04:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Doug wrote: [...] It always amazes me that people who get a driver made specifically for a device [...] Thanks, Brian and Jape. You've put it more eloquent

Re: Background will not change.

2017-08-09 Thread Jape Person
On 08/09/2017 02:31 PM, Default User wrote: ... Hi tomas. Cinnamon DE I think borrows it's background settings utility from Gnome 3. I had the background (wallpaper) set to show an image from the "Pictures" directory. Upon reboot, the background displayed instead was the "softwaves" wallpap

Re: Background will not change.

2017-08-09 Thread Jape Person
On 08/09/2017 10:28 PM, Default User wrote: Thanks, Jape! That's a lot of information to digest, but I'll give it a try. I wish there was an automated tool that could go through the system, to find and report any missing or invalid or circular dependencies, etc., and fix it or at least say

Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

2017-08-10 Thread Jape Person
After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? Using different desktop themes or logging in as a

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

2017-08-11 Thread Jape Person
On 08/10/2017 10:40 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint unti

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

2017-08-11 Thread Jape Person
On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: After this upgrade thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

2017-08-12 Thread Jape Person
On 08/12/2017 07:32 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Jape Person wrote: On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: After this

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Jape Person
On 02/08/2018 12:25 PM, Donald F. Emery wrote: > I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why > GNUCASH was not in debian testing. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790204 The bug report explains the current status of gnucash in testing. I installed gnucash from

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-07 Thread Jape Person
On 03/07/2018 10:37 PM, emetib wrote: > has anyone tried to update their bios from debian or linux in general? > > i've looked at these pages -> > https://wiki.debian.org/FlashBIOS > https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS038945 > > and have downloaded the packages that they say to get, and

Debian testing linux-image update leads to slow file transfers?

2018-04-03 Thread Jape Person
On 03/28 I updated 3 Debian testing systems on our LAN at home, the update including -- linux-image-4.15.0-2-amd64 Since that time two behavioral differences have been conspicuous on all three systems. The first is that these messages appear in dmesg during every boot process: [1.799465] pl

Re: Non-firefox browser?

2016-06-11 Thread Jape Person
On 06/10/2016 11:00 PM, terryc wrote: Are there any browsers in Debian Jessie that are not dependent on Firefox? It seems everything has been replaced or is just a cover/skin/re-paint of firefox. T.I.A. My two favorite non-firefox browsers are xombrero and qupzilla. Xombrero used to be cal

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