Problems with emacs+ess

Hello! I am on a debian stable+testing system, with cinnamon. For quite some time emacs (gui) is misbehaving. I have installed both emacs 24 and emacs25 packages, same issue with both. I have installed ess (emacs speaks statistics) which is very useful with R. Usually, I run emacs, and open a

Re: emacs menu line disappeared

better! Kjetil On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen < kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6=128288 sems to have > relevant information. > > Kjetil > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Jör

Re: emacs menu line disappeared

Thanks! http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6=128288 sems to have relevant information. Kjetil On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I've filed a bug already (#822944) without remedy so far. It's due to > changes in > gtk-3. That's also the

Re: emacs menu line disappeared

Thanks, did, its in .emacs now, but has NO effect! Kjetil On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:15 PM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:03:36PM +0200, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen > wrote: > > On one

emacs menu line disappeared

On one of the latest updates (I am running unstable+sid) emacs is behaving strangely. Usually it shows a menu line with large icons, now there is only the titles with small fonts. The menus work as before, though. But the movement bars on the right have disappeared. And when I am< opening a .tex

Re: I wish to advocate linux

see inline. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013/2/26 3:53 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: -snip- Unfortunately, this is about as interesting to the average person as the engine manufacturer in their motor vehicle -snip- Wrong! Wrong!

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

at 02:58 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When

Re: hardware identification

open a terminal and type lspci kjetil On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Robert Holtzm hol...@cox.net wrote: I seem to remember a program that gave a lot of detail about the system hardware ie video card name, manufacturer, gpu chipset, IIRC it even had a gui front end. Lshw comes close but

Re: problems with nautilus

see inline! On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:00:47PM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a terminal window

problems with nautilus

This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a terminal window and issuing: sudo nautilus --- nothing happens, no nautilus, no error message. the issuing only nautilus which opens nautilus, and gives an error message:

gnome classic: how to set default applications

Hola! This is debian Wheezyome sid, amd64. I am now back og Gnome classic. I don't like much document reader, and want to set defaul application for reading pdf's to okular. ¿How can I do that? Kjetil -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face -

Re: octave versus scilab

see below: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 05:12, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview about advantages and disadvantages for each.

wheezy: problems installing tex-live

Hola! I have an mostly wheezy system with a few packages from sid (r-base, r-cran mostly) Now I cannot install texlive! kjetil@kjetil:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive --fix-broken Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be

Re: wheezy: problems installing tex-live

see below: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:08, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 08:53:41, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I have an mostly wheezy system with a few packages from sid (r-base, r-cran mostly) Now I cannot install texlive! Please post

Re: wheezy: problems installing tex-live

Thanks! see below. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 09:40:38, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: kjetil@kjetil:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive --fix-broken Why the --fix-broken, do you have broken packages on your

problems with apt-get

Hola! I am given the command sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran but gets Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

see below. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:46, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nzwrote: [Please!, don't top post in this mailing list.] On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

see below. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 19:12, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: see below. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:46, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: [Please!, don't top post in this mailing list.] On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

see below: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 22:39, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: see below. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 19:12, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: see below. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:46, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz

Re: synaptic bombs!

see below. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:33, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: see below! On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 09:33, Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.ukwrote: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: This is debian testing, with recent updates

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

password twice) exec init and then giving new password. Does not work, I cannot get into my system Whats happening=? Kjetil On 2012-03-16, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! My system, debian wheezy amd-64

Re: synaptic bombs!

see below. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 07:26, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: This is debian testing, with recent updates. When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: E: Unable to increase

Re: synaptic bombs!

see below. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:46, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:43:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. thanks! sudo apt-get clean

last wheezy updates is disconfiguring my system!

Hola! Starting with the updates this monday, my wheezy/xfce4 system is disconfigured! For instance, the three boxes on each window, close/maximize/minimize have disappeared! Also, while I can resize windows, I cannot any longer move them!. So my ability to easily switch between windows

Re: last wheezy updates is disconfiguring my system!

see below. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:10, godo go...@dobosevic.com wrote: On 01/19/2012 04:33 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! Starting with the updates this monday, my wheezy/xfce4 system is disconfigured! For instance, the three boxes on each window, close/maximize/minimize

Re: last wheezy updates is disconfiguring my system!

see below. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 13:04, godo go...@dobosevic.com wrote:   I did reboot, which do not help (also after today' s updates). There are other problems, too. 1)  The XFCE menubar misbehaves, for instance, the panel applet allowing changes between four virtual desktops stopped to

Re: XFWM4 window manager failure? Sid/Wheezy

see below. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 21:26, Joseph Lenox lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/08/2011 09:10 AM, Joseph Lenox wrote: I'm not quite sure how, but I managed to get XFWM4 (current sid version 4.8) to not start with my session (or not to be saved). I don't recall doing anything

Re: last wheezy updates is disconfiguring my system!

see below. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:15, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: see below. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 13:04, godo go...@dobosevic.com wrote:   I did reboot, which do not help (also after today' s updates). There are other problems, too. 1)  The XFCE menubar

debian wheezy how to configure Desktop environment/windows manager as an alternativ to Xfce4/xfwm4

Hola! In an earlier mail I told about problems with Xfce4/xfwm4 caused by updating. Now, I try to find out how to test alternatives, like enlightenment. I installed enlightenment (e17) through synaptic, but that was not enough to run it! So how can I set up the system to have a possibulity to

xfce4

Hola! I am among those running over from gnome3 to xfce. Mostly everything works (better than) in gnome, but two Qs: 1) How to define multiple keyboard layout (I need to switch between english, spanish and norwegian). In the settings menu, there is a keyboard item, but for me it doesnt work.

Re: xfce4

see below. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:11, Joao Ferreira Gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 09:58 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: 2=) How to change the system time? Kjetil try Applications Menu - Settings - Time and Date My Applications Menu

Re: xfce4

Kjetil On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 14:46, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:58:58 -0600 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: Hola! I am among those running over from gnome3 to xfce. Mostly everything works (better than) in gnome, but two Qs: 1) How

Re: setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

I have the same problem as the original poster! In synaptic I have installed the relevant driver packages for my broadcom wifi card. Here are outputs from some of the commands suggested to use above: kjetil@kjetil:~$ lspci | grep BCM 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311

Re: setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same problem as the original poster! In synaptic I have installed the relevant driver packages for my broadcom wifi card. Here are outputs from some of the commands suggested to use above: kjetil@kjetil:~$ lspci | grep BCM 03:00.0 Network

live-magic

Hola! I am on wheezy, amd-64 with Xfce4 desktop. I installed, with synaptic, the program live-magic to make live debian iso's. The program starts fine, and I walk past the menus. But the final menu, checking the button Apply, nothing happens! Any ideas? Kjetil -- If you want a picture of the

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

) Wheezy with Xfce4 is working well Any ideas? Kjetil On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 08:36, Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsut...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/11/11 15:31, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I just got to reinstall debiann vause my harddisk fried. I wanted to use the opportunity to change from

Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

Hola! I just got to reinstall debiann vause my harddisk fried. I wanted to use the opportunity to change from gnome to Xfce4. This worked well when I installed stable, but when upgrading to wheezy the problems arrived. First some output from lspci: VGA compatible controller : nVidia corporation

Re: Wheezy with Xfce4 --- problems with 3.0.0-1-amd64 kernel

see below. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 13:20, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 08:31 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I just got to reinstall debiann vause my harddisk fried. I wanted to use the opportunity to change from gnome to Xfce4

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

see inline below. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: (...) Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??) Hum... it's not GNOME3 but gnome-shell what you don't like. And nope, as soon as I

debian wheezy 64 bit --- on HP Pavillion dv6921la Notebook --- driver question!

Hola! I have debian Wheezy 64 bit installed, and just installed the new skype for 64bit debian. It works OK, but it cannot access my camera --- it can receive video, but not send. Then I tried to start Cheese, which worked earlier when I had 32 bit linux on this same machine, but no says it

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

I ran this command on my laptop, and the returned list includes: gdb-doc - The GNU Debugger Documentation ?Why the hell is gdb-doc not free? Kjetil On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:36, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud

Re: new hard drive usb WD My Passport essential SE 1Tb

I should add that the package says it has usb 3.0 On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:27, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have

new hard drive usb WD My Passport essential SE 1Tb

I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian (squeeze)? Kjetil -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human

Re: problems with sound

Thanks! see below: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:56, deloptes delop...@yahoo.com wrote: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Any ideas? some: amixer | grep -i off kje...@kjetil:~$ amixer | grep -i off Front Left: Playback 74 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 74 [100%] [0.00dB

problems with sound

Hola! This is debian squeeze on amd64. Today, sound stopped functioning on my system! Such problems often atre solved by a reboot, but today that did'nt help. Any ideas? Kjetil -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

see below. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:58, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script  which is nso resource-hungry … (In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one directory

Re: one process occupying the whole cpu

see below. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen: This si my shell (bash) script: # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, # to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend . #  for FILE in ~/R

one process occupying the whole cpu

At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script which is nso resource-hungry that absolutely nothing else on the computer (amd64 laptop, cpu with two cores) got done . Even the clock stands frozen at 16.10 for many hours! I thought that with a modern, time-sharing OS like linux

Re: Packages - what's the best way?

see below. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 00:54, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rob Hurle wrote: Does anyone have advice on the best way to handle a .deb package? The easiest way is to not handle .deb files at all.  Instead allow apt-get to install the package and any dependencies from the

bash history

Hola! This is debian squeeze amd64. I am reading the laudauble site http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/bash.html about using bash history. So I'm trying to use Ctrl-R to do reverse search in the history. Thia is what happens; I try to search for white: kje...@kjetil:~$ history | tail 284

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

? As you can see from above, the package libgtk2-perl do not seem to exist (I have tried three mirrors, multiple times). kjetil On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:45:21 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

see below. On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:18, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote:  Please don't top post. On 11/13/2010 01:00 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: As you can see from above, the package libgtk2-perl do not seem to exist (I have tried three mirrors, multiple

how to start gnome from the command line

I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment. But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the command startx do not work. How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

see below. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:39:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

see below ... On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:15, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:20, Camaleón wrote: What error did you get? Maybe a problem with your VGA card? I had done apt-get install

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...] I had done apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment then startx gives an error along the lines of : startx: unknown

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

below ... On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...] I had done apt-get install

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

see below. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done did

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

see below. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:01, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:31:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

If I do apt-get install gnome-core and then dpkg --list | grep gnome- then gnome-core is NOT included in the list. ¿What is happening? Kjetil On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:01, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:31:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Nov

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

see below. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:08, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com wrote: Hi, wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot the problem. Here it goes:  # ifconfig wlan0 up Now, you

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

see below. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:07, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 04 nov 10, 22:27:45, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

see below. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:08, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com wrote: Hi, wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot the problem. Here it goes:  # ifconfig wlan0 up Now, you

Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this