Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 18:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I don't know how to tell. I could find no place to set the xfce window > manager, and I didn't want to change something on the openbox settings > and then restart X or Openbox, because I just have too many windows > open and too much to do. >

Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?

2014-05-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 25 May 2014 17:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon wrote: > On my wife's computer which has an Ivy-Bridge CPU and Intel H77 chipset, > Gnome3 is fully enabled (Debian 7.5, linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64) > > However on my daughter's computer which has a Haswell CPU and Intel H87 > chips

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/05/14 10:09, Steve Litt wrote: > If you know how to find out which window manager Xfce is using, please > let me known I just ran "ps xf" (show my processes, in tree format) Then I looked at the descendents of xfce4-session, and see that the first one is xfwm4. The 'wm' suggests that it's a

Re: unmount a removable store automatically before xdm logout.

2014-05-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 25 May 2014 15:55:16 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > if [ -e MP/Mounted ]; then A user could unmount the filesystem somehow, create an arbitrary file there, and therefore fool your script. Better check /proc/mounts for the needed filesystem (and its' attributes) here. > if [ "$

can't get wicd to work

2014-05-25 Thread tom arnall
I poked around a bit more at the Debian wiki and some other places and found out about Broadcom wireless devices and that they have problems. Here is what I did about it and the results. I'm using all caps for my remarks to keep them apart from the rest of the text. (My card works. I checked it wi

Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?

2014-05-25 Thread Horatio Leragon
On my wife's computer which has an Ivy-Bridge CPU and Intel H77 chipset, Gnome3 is fully enabled (Debian 7.5, linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64) However on my daughter's computer which has a Haswell CPU and Intel H87 chipset, Gnome3 is not enabled at all, this despite the fact that the linux-image has

unmount a removable store automatically before xdm logout.

2014-05-25 Thread peter
~/MP is the mount point for a removable store which contains sentinel Mounted. ~$ mount | grep MP /dev/sda1 on /home/peter/MP type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,user=peter) peter@dalton:~$ ls -l MP/Mounted -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 11 May 25 15:45 MP/Mounted Th

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > If you know how to find out which window manager Xfce is using, please > let me know Package: xfwm4 Version: 4.10.1-2 Installed-Size: 2777 Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers Architecture: amd64 Provides: x-window-manager Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), l

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 25 May 2014 23:05:35 +0200 Filip wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 22:45:42 +0200 > Filip wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 May 2014 15:49:27 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > The coredump must be an Ubuntu thing. I never had it > > coredump on me, neither in Wheezy or the latest testing. > > Or maybe

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sun 25 May 2014 at 15:49:27 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 21:38:14 +0200 > Filip wrote: > > > > In order to be able to mount from the command line as normal user, I > > already had the following entries in /etc/fstab. > > > > /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Filip
On Sun, 25 May 2014 22:45:42 +0200 Filip wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 15:49:27 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > Yes. I downloaded and installed xfe, (admittedly, this was for my > > Ubuntu 13.10 box) and what I found is it doesn't show mountable > > drives like Thunar does, so you can't mou

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Filip
On Sun, 25 May 2014 15:49:27 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > > Yes. I downloaded and installed xfe, (admittedly, this was for my > Ubuntu 13.10 box) and what I found is it doesn't show mountable drives > like Thunar does, so you can't mount an arbitrary device from xfe. > > Also, my xfe installation

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 25 May 2014 21:38:14 +0200 Filip wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 20:00:33 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 25 May 2014 at 00:12:57 +0200, Filip wrote: > > > > > You can mount/unmount in xfe. When you have plugged in a > > > hotpluggable medium, it gets and entry under /media. If you righ

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Filip
On Sun, 25 May 2014 20:00:33 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 May 2014 at 00:12:57 +0200, Filip wrote: > > > You can mount/unmount in xfe. When you have plugged in a > > hotpluggable medium, it gets and entry under /media. If you right > > click on it, you have the mount/unmount option. > > What

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sun 25 May 2014 at 00:12:57 +0200, Filip wrote: > You can mount/unmount in xfe. When you have plugged in a hotpluggable > medium, it gets and entry under /media. If you right click on it, you > have the mount/unmount option. What program does xfe use for mounting? It certainly doesn't do anyth

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:20:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > There are uncountable illegal copies of Madonna's noise > pollution, she still owns too much money, while other people die of > hunger. That's not Madonna's fault Ralf, that's just bad government. There's a lot of it about. Where's Voltai

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Muntasim Ul Haque [2014-05-25 15:56 +0600]: > Hi, > GNOME-Terminal is blank in Awesome WM. It just opens but doesn't show > anything. Not even by username and hostname. Absolutely nothing. But Xfce > terminal was working great. Even Terminator is working properly. So what's > wrong with GNOME-T

Re: search engines (hijacked from rapidly proliferating sess files )

2014-05-25 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 24 May 2014 19:45:26 -0500 John Hasler napísal: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > I don't use Google anymore, but to be fair, Google shows suggestions > > while you're typing, so assumed you misspell or you don't remember > > some terms... > > Not if you disallow all their cookies and s

Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes

2014-05-25 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-24, John Hasler wrote: > Tony Baldwin writes: >> They DO show ads. They just don't do the tracking and the >> filtering/manipulation of your search results. > > You know this how? They were awarded the European Privacy Seal, which apparently is based on verifiable criteria, if you're

GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-25 Thread Muntasim Ul Haque
Hi, GNOME-Terminal is blank in Awesome WM. It just opens but doesn't show anything. Not even by username and hostname. Absolutely nothing. But Xfce terminal was working great. Even Terminator is working properly. So what's wrong with GNOME-Terminal? -Muntasim Ul Haque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-25 Thread Oliver Zemann
Hi I am recieving an error by cron since a couple of weeks. I cant remember exactly what was updated, but i am pretty sure it was very related to that. Before that update, i never got such emails: subject: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync conten

Re: Pitivi or Openshot require removing cups !?

2014-05-25 Thread Joel Roth
Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I wanted to take a look at Pitivi and Openshot, but both installation require > removing *lots* of important things like cups and gimp ?!? > > I run wheezy, with some backports (required by my motherboard) and a newer > version of glibc (to run Master PDF Editor). I ca