Installing XFCE 4.14 on Buster?

2019-09-05 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm running Buster, pretty much a stock install, with XFCE. I'd like to upgrade XFCE to 4.14 (which was released last month), which is in unstable, mainly to take advantage of what is said to be improved HiDPI support in this version--I'm about to get a pair of 4K monitors (yes, my video card

Startup script not working

2011-08-19 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm running Xfce under wheezy on a desktop system. I have two monitors permanently attached to the computer; that is, I never need to do any configuration on the fly. To set up dual-head, I run the simple command xrandr --output HDMI2 --right-of HDMI1 I'd like to run this automatically at bo

XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount removable media au

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:51:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > > Yes. > > > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had

NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

2007-08-29 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
e out of a suspend a join a network immediately. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

2007-08-30 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:49:46AM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on > > a ThinkPad T60. > Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as

Suspend problem on T60

2007-08-31 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
anything that might be conflicting with this. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspend problem on T60 (moved)

2007-08-31 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:11:07PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm running Etch on a Lenovo T60. Up to now, I haven't had a > problem suspending my computer by shutting the lid. (I've now sent this message to the debian-laptop list, which I should have done origi

Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?

2008-05-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
kill this window before getting back to the command line. How do I turn off this behavior? I couldn't find anything in the Gnome menus that seems to control this. I don't want Gnome deciding whether I should be running an ssh agent or not. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?

2008-06-30 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
tionality is provided by the Gnome keyring. To shut it off, you can go to GConf and set /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. Hope this helps someone else. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
nality back? Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > > box that pops up on m

Setting up TAP interface at boot?

2009-01-18 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
address 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end up having to do everything by hand. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
'm having but on the whole I'm glad I did it. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:04:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > >> its status

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-13 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
sources.list the appropriate line from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads and you're good to go. For desktop stuff I think it can't be beat. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mounting Samba and fstab problem

2008-12-06 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
rror: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID $ Where is my mistake here? I've tried various things with no luck. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting Samba and fstab problem

2008-12-06 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:16:06PM +0200, subscriptions wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 17:52 +0100, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up a Samba share on a Lenny laptop that I > > can access as a regular user (i.e., me). I've tried going > > th

Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-06 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
ALSA supports that well enough, I'll happily move back--I don't have any need for networked audio servers, or twelve different kinds of volume controls, it's just my desktop. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Dual-head on Lenovo T60?

2009-05-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
00", so if the maximum really is 1400 x 1400, it seems like dual-head would never be possible. I'm at a loss about what to try next, or what details of my system would be helpful to provide. Any suggestions? Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-02 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
ht have caused this, and for how to evaluate and fix it. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-02 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:28:49AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: >> I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some >> screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally >> started to die completely, going to black shortly after

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:22:58AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > Unfortunately, a few seconds after hitting the MEPIS desktop > > screen, it, too, locks up hard, and I have to reboot. > > > > Next suggestion? :-( > > Just guessi

Segfaults on apt-get update

2009-09-04 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
problems, and I tried a few suggestions, including deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin and increasing the cache size with apt-get -o APT::Cache-Limit="5000" update or the like. None of these has been successful. Any suggestions for what I should try next? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower --

Re: Segfaults on apt-get update

2009-09-04 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:01:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-04 10:33 +0200, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost > > the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally > > use, crashes sil

xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-15 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
refer _not_ to have to start messing around with the configuration file, because apart from this one issue, I don't seem to need one, and Ubuntu doesn't seem to need it either. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jesse Sheidlower [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]: > > The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at > > 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external > > monitor through