Re: Bluetooth speaker: visible, but no sound

[W. Martin Borgert]

On 2016-06-08 10:30, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> pavucontrol shows the speaker as "Output Device". But xfce4-mixer,
> while showing the speaker in the "Sound card" dropdown, does not
> allow me to actually select the device. Also, I wonder what device
> string I have to put into my .quodlibet/config to use the speaker
> (gst_pipeline = pulsesink device=???).

Found out by myself:

gst_pipeline = pulsesink device=bluez_sink.AB_CD_EF_12_34_56

Now quodlibet works with Bluetooth speaker, xfce4-mixer does
not, nor do the volume buttons of the keyboard.

Cheers

Bluetooth speaker: visible, but no sound

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I'm trying to use a bluetooth speaker, but don't get any sound.

bluetoothctl shows the device as paired, trusted, and connected and
lists it as "serial port", "headset", "audio sink", and some others.

pavucontrol shows the speaker as "Output Device". But xfce4-mixer,
while showing the speaker in the "Sound card" dropdown, does not
allow me to actually select the device. Also, I wonder what device
string I have to put into my .quodlibet/config to use the speaker
(gst_pipeline = pulsesink device=???).

Any ideas?

TIA!

Re: Debian 8 - Jesse - Letsencrypt deployments

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Frank Pikelner :

Has anyone deployed "letsencypt" to their Debian 8. There do not seem
to be any packages for Jesse (though are in the works) and only way
seems to be to pull a package from testing.


I deploy the official Debian packages on Jessie using of a Stretch chroot.
Cheap workaround, but works fine for me. Usage: Nginx and Prosody.

Be careful when copying the files from chroot to your system - some of
them are symlinks. In doubt, just copy the complete /etc/letsencrypt/.

HTH.

Solved: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Many thanks to Christian, David, and Pascal!
With your hints I was able to solve the problems.

Lessons learned:

 1. d-i needs to be in "low" questions mode (expert) to allow
manual selection of partition type (e.g. DOS/MBR or GPT).

 2. d-i seems to call grub-install on /dev/md0, even if user
explicitely selects /dev/sdXN - one need to select the
manual option and type the right device names. Or go to
shell and grub-install --force manually.

 3. Changing the partition type of one disk in RAID6 is easy: If
all disks are OK, it is relatively safe to just remove one
disk (mdadm fail + remove), copy the partition table from
another disk (in case of MBR it can be done with sfdisk) and
add the removed disk again. It gets synced very quickly.

Cheers

Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each.
The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top
separate swap and root.

The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason,
grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the
fourth disk is GPT, while the others are DOS (= MBR, right?). Also,
the fourth disks only partition is of type "Linux RAID", while the
partitions of the other three disks are "Linux raid autodetect".

On a second machine, supposed to be identical, grub-install failed
on all disks, but I could not yet check, whether GPT is the culprit,
too.

Questions:

AFAIK, I don't need GPT for such small disks, right?

Is there an easy and safe way to change the disk from GPT to DOS/MBR?

Who did set up the disks in that heterogenous way? d-i? Why?

Thanks in advance!


PS: Last time I had a similar install was with etch or lenny, IIRC.
Despite the issue I face, d-i made so much of progress in that area.
Wonderful!

[SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting deloptes delop...@yahoo.com:

looks like gnome specific.
did you check permissions?
I think this was in policykit


Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly
fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button)
is missing in the menu. My relative now uses the power button to
hibernate, configured using gnome-tweak-tool. With the extension
packaged it would be even better (https://bugs.debian.org/782741).

Cheers


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Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

On 2015-04-17 20:23, deloptes wrote:
 I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum No
 suspend in XFCE without systemd) to get it work again.
 It looks like upower dropped the freedesktop actions exposed to dbus and now
 the system dows not know of such possibility - however old upower works
 fine

Is this really related? My relative does run systemd, and what
is missing in the menu is hibernate (to disk), not suspend (to
RAM). hibernate works fine after configuring the power button
to this function, as suggested by Michael Biebl. Thanks anyway.


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Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

On 2015-04-17 02:00, Michael Biebl wrote:
 While you can configure the actions on power button, sleep button and
 lid switch events (via dconf-editor or gsettings [1]), ttbomk there is
 no config option to adjust gnome-shell and you'll need to resort to a
 extension for this.

OK, setting the power button to hibernate via gnome-tweak-tool
works fine, thanks! It looks, however, like a regression to me,
compared to wheezy, that hibernate is not in the menu. IMHO,
hibernate is more important than suspend, which sucks energy.

 You can try
 https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/755/hibernate-status-button/
 though. Seems to work fine here on Gnome / Jessie.

That fails my requirement must be in Debian.
RFP https://bugs.debian.org/782741 filed :~)


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Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie,
but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu.
There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt.
Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants hibernate.
Any idea how to get this back?
Please without hacking text files nor installing software
that is not in Debian, which I found searching the net.
I'm confident that I just need gnome-tweak-tool, but I can't
find the right toggle.

TIA!


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How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I'm new to Orca, but have to set it up for a friend. I'm using
stable with Orca 3.4.2-2.

When using Iceweasel (24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1), Orca talks to me, e.g.
reads selected text and reads most (but not all!) menu entries.
Also, I can press the magic Orca modifier (here: CAPSLOCK) to
get the configuration dialog.

In Libreoffice (1:4.1.4-2~bpo70+1) nothing happens. If I press the
Orca modifier, this is not catched by Orca, but it seems to get
through to Libreoffice. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!


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Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com:

If it's not possible to make screen read the default rather than an
opt-in via click I'd call that a bug.


I didn't try in any other way. Now it is on, so I'm happy :~)


Yes, but one has to configure it explicitly, as it does not respect
the global setting.


Keyboard settings?


Orca seems to ignore the global LANG setting (es_AR.UTF-8) and talks
Spanish as an Englishman.


To change the GDM language,


No, I explained it wrong: The GDM language is just fine, but Orca
was reading the Spanish menu in English.

I solved it however: I could activate the Orca configuration dialog
by pressing Insert+Space and change the Orca output language.

Now it works!


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Re: How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility#Orca
?


Yes, I know this page, but setting the variables mentioned there
doesn't change anything. Also, I was under the impression that I
don't need to set them anyway, when running Gnome (gnome-shell).

Thanks anyway!


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Re: How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting W. Martin Borgert deba...@debian.org:

Also, I was under the impression that I
don't need to set them anyway, when running Gnome (gnome-shell).


Interestingly, when trying on another machine (wheezy with Xfce4
instead of Gnome3) with the variables set, libreoffice talks to
me. So it must be a configuration issue or missing package. If
nothing helps, I can ask the user to switch from Gnome to Xfce.

Cheers


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Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk:

First of all, I'd consider installing task-spanish-desktop. This will
install language packs for the common desktop applications (mainly
libreoffice and iceweasel).


Good hint! Interestingly, this installed also ant{,-optinal}.
This does not really fit my idea of a desktop application :~)
I could remove those later without any further packages removed.
Probably a recommends by one of the java packages...


Next, try adjusting the file
/var/lib/AccountsService/users/your-user-name to read

  [User]
  Language=es_ar.UTF-8


In fact, I just changed the system to es_AR.UTF-8 - this was
in this case the easiest solution.

Thanks anyway!


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Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com:

I'm sorry, I know nothing of GNOME or Orca - I use KDE and it's
accessibility reader (which also uses espeak).
*But as no one else has replied yet...*

This should 'probably' exist:-
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop


Yes, with gdm3 instead of lightdm, the display manager now talks to me.
I just have to switch it on once by pressing a symbol in the upper
right corner.

It has, however, while reading Spanish, an English voice, i.e. the
pronounciation is totally wrong. It seems, that Orca does not respect
the global language setting (es_AR.UTF-8 in this case, which would
map to latin american spanish I presume).


Espeak includes Spanish, and Orca uses espeak (apparently) - so it
probably should work in Spanish.


Yes, but one has to configure it explicitly, as it does not respect
the global setting. For the display manager, I don't know how to
configure it for gdm, so the login remains in English - not a deal
breaker, just a bug.

Many thanks!


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Re: Gnome (wheezy): How to set GDM speech (Orca) language?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I set my system language to es_AR.UTF-8, but Orca seems to ignore this.
When logged in, I can configure Orca to use Spanish, but what about GDM,
i.e. before log in? The buttons etc. are in English, but Orca pronounces
it all in English.

Thanks in advance!


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Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

I'm trying to configure a laptop (Debian wheezy) for a visually impaired
user, who speaks Spanish. I'm not sure, which desktop to install for her,
so I tried the default (Gnome). It's been some time, that I tried Gnome,
so I'm a little bit stupid with it:

1. How to configure the language (Spanish)?

I tried it with System Settings - Region and Language - + -
Select a language - Spanish - Select. Now Spanish appears twice
in the list. I logged out and in again, as suggested by the settings dialog,
but only the clock in the middle of the upper black bar seems to be in
Spanish (mar = martes/Tuesday), everything else is still in English.
I tried multiple times, but so far no success. es_AR.UTF-8 is a valid
locale on the system, btw. Do I need to install a language pack for Gnome?

2. How to configure speech synthesis for login and logout?

It seems, that neither the login (lightdm) nor the logout dialog (Gnome
shell?) talks to me. When I'm logged in, Orca talks to me (in English).
Would this work with gdm and/or do I need to configure anything for this?

Thanks in advance!


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Re: Download Debian live CD testing?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Quoting Noah Duffy n.milo.du...@gmail.com:

http://www.debian.org/CD/live/

That should help you out.


I cannot find any reference to wheezy/testing (nor
sid/unstable) on that page, only squeeze/stable.
Thanks anyway.


On Jul 21, 2011 11:51 AM, W. Martin Borgert deba...@debian.org wrote:

Hi,

a colleague just asked where they can download Debian
Live CD for testing/wheezy. Do they exist? TIA.

Cheers


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Download Debian live CD testing?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

a colleague just asked where they can download Debian
Live CD for testing/wheezy. Do they exist? TIA.

Cheers


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Dual monitor problem (intel, GNOME)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

for the first time I try to get a second monitor at my laptop,
so far with limited success:

Monitors: Internal LVDS 1280×800, external VGA 1280×1024.
Video: Intel GM965/GL960.
Software: Debian 5.0, Gnome. Exception: X is from experimental.
Initial layout: two identical pictures of 1024×786 each.

With grandr, I can fix the resolution of each screen (just by
selecting Auto) and put VGA right of my LVDS (Layout). I have
to move the upper and lower panels from the VGA to the LVDS with
the mouse, though.

Windows and dialogues pop up either on LVDS or VGA, without any
logic.

First question: How can I save the setting, so that I don't have
to do this every time (fix the resolution and move the panels to
my primary screen)?

Second question: How can I influence, where new windows and
dialogues will pop up? E.g. always LVDS would be fine.

Many thanks in advance!


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Re: Dual monitor problem (intel, GNOME)

[W. Martin Borgert]

On 2009-02-19 12:52, Mirco Piccin wrote:
 grandr is a frontend to xrandr.
 You can edit  a simple bash script that launch xrandr with your preferred
 settings.

Hm, I found the commands for resolution and putting one screen
right of the other, but I didn't find the command to put the
panels on the primary screen. Any idea?

(Btw: While I prefer xrandr commands over a GUI, such as grandr,
I wonder what my mother would do. She uses Gnome on etch, but
has no idea what bash or script mean. For a text editor, she
would try OpenOffice. Fortunately, she has only one monitor.)


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