Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat > Another option, get a small handheld transceiver that you can tune to > the appropriate frequency. > > This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled > station because the microphone input is

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 03/10/15 01:27, Danny wrote: > In order to hear comms coming in or out of the transciever (via an antenna) > one > has to connect to the transciever with ANOTHER transciever in order to hear > people talk (if you are tuned to the same frequency off course) > > Now ... my second transciever is

Re: googleearth-package -- errata

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:21 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > (2) what is not CLI about the command: > > ~/Downloads # gdebi gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb CORRECTION OF A MISSTATEMENT ERROR: The line should read: ~/Downloads # gdebi google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb I regret causing

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread John Hasler
rlharris writes: > All I know is that when I installed Jessie, I specified only the Xcfe > desktop, and I did not specify Gnome. (Months ago I tried to install both > Gnome and Xfce on a system, and something went awry.) > The installer may have installed some Gnome packages, but that does not >

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 23:16:30 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > the author. That was one of the 2 things I lost when I made the > > transition to linux in 1998, the other was the instability of Amigados, > > sometimes crashing several times a day. > > W.r.t crashing several times a day, you can eas

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 23:07:13 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 4:45 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > rlharris writes: > >> So, at the present time, it appears that the need for > >> "googleearth-package" has passed -- at least with respect to Jessie > >> (and in my case, with t

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 22:44:01 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 4:34 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Google site, at the place referenced by your URL, has just offered to > > let me download (copied and pasted to avoid typos) > > > > google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb > >

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 17:43:49 Mike Castle wrote: > Installed by default, meh. > > But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. > > cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. > > if [ -e /etc/default/unclutt

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> the author. That was one of the 2 things I lost when I made the > transition to linux in 1998, the other was the instability of Amigados, > sometimes crashing several times a day. W.r.t crashing several times a day, you can easily recover this feature with a little cron job, Stefan

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 4:45 pm, John Hasler wrote: > rlharris writes: >> So, at the present time, it appears that the need for >> "googleearth-package" has passed -- at least with respect to Jessie >> (and in my case, with the combination of Xfce on an i386 system). >> Direct installation with gde

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread John Hasler
rlharris writes: > So, at the present time, it appears that the need for > "googleearth-package" has passed -- at least with respect to Jessie > (and in my case, with the combination of Xfce on an i386 system). > Direct installation with gdebi is simpler and faster. What about those whose computer

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Mike Castle
Installed by default, meh. But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. if [ -e /etc/default/unclutter ] then . /etc/default/unclutter fi if [ -x /usr/bin/unclutte

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 4:34 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The Google site, at the place referenced by your URL, has just offered to > let me download (copied and pasted to avoid typos) > > google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb The Google web site detected that you are running an amd64 system, so it aut

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 22:30:28 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 3:56 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I also thought that the package you were trying to install was > > called "googleearth". It says so in the subject line. Ah! A search > > suggests that you did actually mean g

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 3:56 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I also thought that the package you were trying to install was > called "googleearth". It says so in the subject line. Ah! A search > suggests that you did actually mean googleearth not gnome-earth. As best as I can put together the pieces, s

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-10-03 at 16:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: > "gdebi is a simple tool to install deb files. It lets you install local deb > packages resolving and installing. its dependencies. apt does the same, but > only for remote (http, ftp) located package repositories. It has a graphical > user interface b

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 20:27:47 Erwan David wrote: > Le 03/10/2015 21:21, rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > > On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome? Â > >>> That all future r

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 13:07:46 Mike Castle wrote: > Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false > positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse. > > And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now. > > mrc It should be installed by the installer a

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 20:21:55 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome?   > >> That all future readers of the archives will use Gnome? > > > > I

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Wayne Topa
rr4ddwaa. tbIf y .r.à Idea a1 On Oct 3, 2015 4:28 PM, "Erwan David" wrote: > Le 03/10/2015 21:21, rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > > On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome?

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Erwan David
Le 03/10/2015 21:21, rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome? Â >>> That all future readers of the archives will use Gnome? >> I was forgetting that s

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome?   >> That all future readers of the archives will use Gnome? > I was forgetting that several other desktops > use Gnome applications. But I st

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 19:50:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Do we actually know that the OP uses Gnome?   > That all future readers of the archives will use Gnome? The OP has since posted. I was forgetting that several other desktops use Gnome applications. But I still maintain that a CLI answer t

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread rlharris
On Sat, October 3, 2015 2:51 am, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:21:44 -0500 > rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: ... >> Would you be so kind as to outline the procedure for using synaptic to >> install the .deb package which I downloaded from the Google Earth web >> site? ... > Use gdebi. That

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 18:18:08 Curt wrote: > On 2015-10-03, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 03 October 2015 06:21:44 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >>  I searched and saw that some people are installing > >> using "dpkg -i"; but does that take care of dependencies? > > > > No. But try: > >

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Curt
On 2015-10-03, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2015 06:21:44 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >>  I searched and saw that some people are installing >> using "dpkg -i"; but does that take care of dependencies? > > No. But try: > > # dpkg -i foo.deb > > Which will probably complain about depe

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Mike Castle
Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse. And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now. mrc

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 03 October 2015 06:21:44 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >  I searched and saw that some people are installing > using "dpkg -i"; but does that take care of dependencies? No. But try: # dpkg -i foo.deb Which will probably complain about dependencies, then: # apt-get -f install Which wil

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 09:37:37 Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 09:16:11 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > > One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death > > by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that > > was part of and automatic in Amigados 20 year

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

2015-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/10/15 05:35 PM, Floris wrote: Op Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:34:10 +0200 schreef Gary Dale : I'm running an up to date Stretch/AMD64 system with Plasma desktop. I just plugged in my camera through its USB cable but didn't get a notification window. The camera shows up in lsusb but there is no

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 09:16:11 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death > by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that was > part of and automatic in Amigados 20 years ago. > > I'm refering of course to shutting the mouses po

Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that was part of and automatic in Amigados 20 years ago. I'm refering of course to shutting the mouses pointer image off when you start typing in an e

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 03/10/15 18:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If it is about a mounted filesystem, then your question should > rather be how to properly unmount the device before removing it. > Unmounting is supposed to flush pending filesystem data. I would concur here… yanking a removable storage device just after

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/10/15 00:02, Serkan KURT wrote: > How can i a file copy to usb device without file cache? > KDE notifier shows copy completed but actually copy process does not > finished. > > > How can I solve it? > > Debian Jessie amd64, KDE. In KDE click on the USB icon in the task bar, and then click

Re: KDE file copy to usb device without file cache

2015-10-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Serkan KURT wrote: > I use sync but how can i this with GUI for newbie users? Find or make a GUI tool which uses fsync(2) or fflush(3) on the output file before closing it. But probably that's not the decisive point here. If it is about a mounted filesystem, then your question should rather

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:21:44 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Wed, September 30, 2015 1:08 am, Heracles wrote: > > I just installed Google-Earth using "synaptic" in Debian8 and it worked > > fine. It had to install a few other bits and pieces but as it did all the > > work I was fine with it.