Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:35:55 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: > > > RTFM, > > > use google or what else. > > > we don't support lazy users. > > > > Huh? Since when? I'm lazy, and I'v

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:48:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > > A request, if I may: Please adjust your mailing program to include the > > > name, but not the E-Mail address on the attribute line. Thanks! > > > > If you are worried about spammer

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:05:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:59:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using >>> the network manager's menu, and then ask it to

Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

Hello I'm hoping you can help me with this. I installed Wheezy a couple of days ago. Everything went fine. No glitches. Sound, wifi, mail, ssh, X -- all good. i kept the machine running for continuously while getting everything in place. On the first reboot, my main user is unable to startx, wh

Re: Ubuntu's Unity desktop

On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 19:23:44 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > Not that I would consider running it myself, but is Ubuntu's Unity > desktop available in any way for Debian? Or is it staying downstream? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609278 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Trouble getting net-snmp to return lm-sensors data (solved)

On Fri, 31 May 2013, Francois Gouget wrote: > > So I'm trying to get net-snmp to return lm_sensors data so I can monitor > the temperature and fan speed of my PC. But currently it won't return > any data: > > $ snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost lmSensors > LM-SENSORS-MIB::lmSensors = No more v

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:07:07 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Dňa 11.06.2013 19:54 Joe wrote / napísal(a): > > Agreed, I was echoing Chris' assertion that 'lazy' is not > > automatically 'bad'. 'Idle' is probably closer to describing > > non-Googlers than 'lazy'. > > There are a lot of not native English

Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?

If you care about resources, I would very much recommend openbox. http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox I've been using it for months now and I don't think I'm ever going back to any DE's. With little tweaking it became a complete replacement to full blown/bloated desktop environment. -- I challenge yo

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

Dňa 11.06.2013 19:54 Joe wrote / napísal(a): > Agreed, I was echoing Chris' assertion that 'lazy' is not automatically > 'bad'. 'Idle' is probably closer to describing non-Googlers than 'lazy'. There are a lot of not native English speakers (as I), and by this, sometime some tolerance for non pr

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

On 06/10/2013 02:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/06/13 03:39 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there a

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 20:28:00 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: > > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 18:54:43 +0100, Joe wrote: > Agreed, I was echoing Chris' assertion that 'lazy' is not automatically > 'bad'. 'Idle' is probably closer to describing non-Googlers than 'lazy'. We could now have a discussion on the subtle difference in meaning and usage between the Old Engli

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

On 11/06/13 02:28 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-bo

Dual boot Jessie and Windows on EFI

Dear Debian fans and supporters, I want to ask if somebody on this list has found and was able to follow some guide on the internet for how to setup partitioning when dual-booting Windows 7 and Debian 7. I tried yesterday, and after the partitioning step, I created a 300 MB "EFI boot partition",

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > > > > > I'd like

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

On Mon 10 Jun 2013 at 10:37:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Try echo > 'XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"' >> > /etc/default/keyboard Does this do anything special? Or, putting it another way, does it do anything more than 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configura

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

Noted, unhide has not noticed anything nor unhide.rb or rkhunter but I get considerable lag sometimes as if screenshots are being taken of the desktop. It might just be the latest nvidia drivers but it scares the willies out of me. It would be really awesome if the Debian livecd had a script, I've

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > > > I'd like to have -- restart the window manager. > > > >

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:20:40 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Dňa 11.06.2013 18:14 Joe wrote / napísal(a): > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:35:55 +1200 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: > >>> RTFM, > >>> use google or what else. > >>> we don't support la

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > > A request, if I may: Please adjust your mailing program to include the > > name, but not the E-Mail address on the attribute line. Thanks! > > If you are worried about spammers this would be useless. JFYI, you > e-mail address is available in the

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

Dňa 11.06.2013 18:14 Joe wrote / napísal(a): > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:35:55 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: >>> RTFM, >>> use google or what else. >>> we don't support lazy users. >> >> Huh? Since when? I'm lazy, and I've been helped. :)

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tuesday 11 June 2013 15:14:51 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at > >

Ubuntu's Unity desktop

Not that I would consider running it myself, but is Ubuntu's Unity desktop available in any way for Debian? Or is it staying downstream? Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:35:55 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: > > RTFM, > > use google or what else. > > we don't support lazy users. > > Huh? Since when? I'm lazy, and I've been helped. :) > “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made b

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at > > > deb-multimedia.org? > > > >Yes, it is, alas. > >I alr

LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

Hello I am struggling with an issue - hopefully someone has some experience they can share. I am trying to implement a PDF printer for a legacy mainframe process that prints reports to an LPR remote target. I have no access to the job provider, I am on the target end with a setup as below: cups-lpd

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

I went from Iceweasel experimental to Iceweasel beta, and it was able to install it using the directions at http://mozilla.debian.net/ for wheezy. I must have mistakenly used experimental. apt_preferences is interesting though, thanks. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:04:03PM +0200, basti wrote: > RTFM, > use google or what else. > we don't support lazy users. Huh? Since when? I'm lazy, and I've been helped. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people wh

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

Are they the latest? I am considering trying them. I will have to make the time. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 iun 13, 15:59:34, John Tate wrote: >> I'm using nvidia's binary blob instead of the drivers in apt, and for some >> reason they had to be reinstalled

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > I'd like to have -- restart the window manager. > > I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- > configuration",

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

- Original Message - From: "Rick Thomas" To: "debian-user List Debian" Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 10:27:35 PM Subject: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? >I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes >fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > >I'd

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: If you want to install Marillat's packages go to his site. http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia is on Marillat's mirror list He may not get along with

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

Pierre Frenkiel writes: > what is the difference between [deb > http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/] and Marillat's > deb-multimedia? See and

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

On Monday 10 June 2013 09:53 PM, visakh vijayan wrote: How can i install my debian wheezy alongside my windows7. I want both of them during booting and the option to select. Please help. http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ is a great way to do this. But as others have pointed out, please do go to debi

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: What mess did this repo make? I have been using deb-multimedia for years and have never had any mess. look at what Chris Bannister wrote on this list on 4 Feb 2013 Just

xfce4-panel pager (aka "Workspace Switcher") width?

After release of wheezy (I'm on sid), my pager has grown about twice as wide as I had it before. It looks like it has been set back to it's default setting for a 3-column pager, but I wanted a narrower pager, and I had achieved it before this post-wheezy-release sid-upgrade. I tried adding setting

Re: thinkpad t43 hangs

2013/6/7 Umarzuki Mochlis : > screen blank for a second then back again, mouse cursor disappeared. > after i go to terminal ( Ctrl + Alt + F1) then back to Ctrl + Alt + > F8, it goes back to normal for a while. After a few times, it finally > hangs and I have to force shutdown. > > have anyone expe

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? > >Yes, it is, alas. >I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister >"The deb-multimedia repos

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister "The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy system" It took me sevaral days to get rid of

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List > Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to > see in the resulting sources.list: > > deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-mul

Debian Sources List Generator

hi, After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to see in the resulting sources.list: deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/ stable main although http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br is "under cons