Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:16:17PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > first of all, thanks for the fast response. > > > If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right > > thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:16:17PM +0100, Hans wrote: Hi all, first of all, thanks for the fast response. If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it). Yes, here is an example: 1. apt-get --purge remove 4.3.

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > > > 3. aptitude purge 'deborphan --guess-all' i wrote: > > Here i assume, that aptitude shall learn a command line which > > it will execute on its own discretion. Darac Marjal wrote: > Careful, I think this last command actually uses `backticks`. That's indeed much more plaus

Re: Headless Wheezy

2016-02-02 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:03 PM, David wrote: > I am running a headless version of Wheezy on an Alix Board, all seems to > be working as expected. > > I'm trying to install TeamViewer so I can gain remote access to my > network. > > I think TeamViewer is installed, but I can't find out how to conf

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers." > Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you > changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if > I launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt) > evaporates. Per

SID Update Feb 02

2016-02-02 Thread Stephen Allen
Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in browser, both Google-Chrome and IceWeasel are affected as it

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: For xterm, you set this config the way Don Armstrong showed: XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources. Bingo. That did it. I could not for money or love recall either of those two filenames you so graciously cited. Thanks

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 01:16:35AM +0100, Siard wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > amd64 Jessie running icewm here w/o systemd. > > > > I know how to tweak font sizes for displayed web pages, but how > > do I do that for the apparatus of the browser window itself? > > That is a GTK2 setting. Fon

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Teemu Likonen
Bob Holtzman [2016-02-02 11:28:22-07] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 01:16:35AM +0100, Siard wrote: >> That is a GTK2 setting. Font and font size can be set in >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0, it should contain a line like this: >> >> gtk-font-name = "Sans 11" > > That would be great if only I had that file in

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Siard
Bob Holtzman: > Siard: > > That is a GTK2 setting. Font and font size can be set in > > ~/.gtkrc-2.0, it should contain a line like this: > > > > gtk-font-name = "Sans 11" > > > > I have "Liberation Sans 11" myself. > > That would be great if only I had that file in my Jessie install. > Runnin

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Siard
Siard: > Bob Holtzman: > > Siard: > > > That is a GTK2 setting. Font and font size can be set in > > > ~/.gtkrc-2.0, it should contain a line like this: > > > > > > gtk-font-name = "Sans 11" > > > > > > I have "Liberation Sans 11" myself. > > > > That would be great if only I had that file in

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2016-02-02 00:37, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I know how to tweak font sizes for displayed web pages, but how do I do > that for the apparatus of the browser window itself? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/ is maybe what you've been looking for. HTH, ändu

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 01 Feb 21:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to > navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow > the Ctl variants. I think I resolved my Ctrl-arrow keys following this page: http://www.emacswik

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Feb 2016 at 08:24:22 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > keep in mind that the quotation marks, wildcard characters, and > variables are interpreted by the shell parser, not by the program > you run. By quoting you control what the program will get to see > as its list of arguments. ... bu

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Andreas Weber wrote: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/ is maybe what you've been looking for. Iirc, that changes fonts only in the displayed page, not in the menus, dialogs, etc. Best, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Re: Problem upgrading libc6 on sid

2016-02-02 Thread Brad Alexander
> If you are working from remote machine, the problem might be restarting > services which kills your connection. The problem is that it did not behave this way on any of the other containers on either of my hosts. These are all via ssh connections, the same as I have been doing since 2002. --b >

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:07:15 -0500 (EST) Bob Bernstein wrote: Hello Bob, >Iirc, that changes fonts only in the displayed page, not in the >menus, dialogs, etc. A quick click on the link suggests that your memory isn't correct. However, the Mozilla site tells me it's not compatible with my OS w

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Felix Miata
Bob Bernstein composed on 2016-02-01 18:37 (UTC-0500): > amd64 Jessie running icewm here w/o systemd. > I know how to tweak font sizes for displayed web pages, but how > do I do that for the apparatus of the browser window itself? Traditional upstream method applicable regardless of distro or D

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Feb 2016 at 13:38:26 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2016 01 Feb 21:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to > > navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow > > the Ctl variants. > > I th

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 02 Feb 18:52 -0600, David Wright wrote: > I didn't like the footnote on that page: "I am using the complete > version without problems outside X. But I couldn’t make it work on > xterm with ‘emacs -nw’. But (again), if you are using X, why use > ‘-nw’? :)" Waiting for a remote system's w

Re: Posting a message on all desktops

2016-02-02 Thread Timothy Marion
Would shutdown -k work ? On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 22:34 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:59:13 -0500 > ken wrote: > > > > Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of > > > all the machines on a LAN ? > > > If all the desktops are just terminals (tex

Re: SID Update Feb 02

2016-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Allen wrote: Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in browser, both Google-Chrome and IceWea

grub-installer: NVMe boot drives not supported ?

2016-02-02 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
Hello, We just purchased 4 Dell e7470 Laptops for work. 512GB Samsung NVMe drives. We are trying to install Debian Stable but it doesn't detect the drive. We are trying to install Debian testing but it doesn't detect the drive. I see a ticket 786149 which is marked as fix. Can you give a confirma

Re: Posting a message on all desktops

2016-02-02 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I haven't tried yet, but shutdown -k "message" should work. However, the message would not flash on the GUI screen of all systems. Moreover, all users need to be connected to same host. Rather, you could create on indicator, with python backend, listening messages from a particular socket or port o

RE: root login in Jessie

2016-02-02 Thread Tobias Weiß
You probaly forgot to restart ssh after changing the config? Best, Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:43:40 +0500 Subject: root login in Jessie From: sir...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Dear All, I have two machines for testing some services on jessie. however i can not allow access to ro

Re: root login in Jessie

2016-02-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Tobias, it was a mistake of just a single "d" :) Thanks Alot. Yousuf On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Tobias Weiß wrote: > You were looking into the wrong fiie for the PermitRootLogin directive. I > have overseen this when I first replied to you. I am sorry :) > > It is /etc/sshd_config