On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul E Condon
pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote:
I'm learning to use icedove after a long and happy relationship with mutt. I
remember having this question from before I knew about mutt and it still
puzzles me: Why the checkbox labeled Always check to see if
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 08:26 +0100, AG wrote:
In light of this, which is the best candidate to use: the non-free
mozilla flash plugin or another?
I don't know whether you're on Lenny or Squeeze or Sid, or whether your
running a 64-bit or 32-bit Debian system, so this may not pertain.
But ...
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:44 +0300, Angelin Lalev wrote:
I'm growing old and impatient. Years ago I'd wait a several days in
which I'd dissect the problem. It appears that I have somehow
activated offline mode. That's why evolution would not let me push
Send/Receive button.
(Debian Squeeze
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 13:03 -0500, ZephyrQ wrote:
Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb
on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be
aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable).
What might be a major issue for you
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:35 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
b...@iguanasuicide.net was heard to say:
Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before
Squeeze)
so that we can have versioned dependencies on
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 12:05 +0530, Foss User wrote:
I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or
xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to install xmonad?
aptitude update
aptitude install xserver-xorg xmonad
You may want to install 'xorg' rather than
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Tony Baldwin writes:
I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client
should stop the incoming connections from seeking the ip, so I'm a
little confused, and curious about the matter, now that you've brought
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:22 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
I madea nice debian wallpaper for my desktop already:
http://tonytraductor.livejournal.com/123789.html
Very nice wallpaper! I was going to suggest you upload to
Debianart.org, but I see you already did. :-)
Enjoy Debian.
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On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi:
Following the lines of successful setup of 3D nvidia driver with lenny
amd64, i met failure with lenny i386 on a old K7S5A Elite mainboard
with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2). I also lost OpenGL, which I used
for several
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:30 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 22 May 2009 13:33:50 Jason Filippou wrote:
Daniel Burrows the maintainer of aptitude is a member of this
list.
Perhaps he might find some time to respond. I did look into the
same
question a while back. I believe what it
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:32 +0100, AG wrote:
H.S. wrote:
AG wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 20090521183512.gb7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote:
Yes, I removed them and now KDE is broken. I even tried to get just
konqueror back to
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:19 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote:
On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote:
It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load glx
module and remove dri or GLCore modules, under the
Module section;
and that you need to change the driver
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:37 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good hardware diagnostic or burn-in program?
I have used memtest86 and will try that, but ideally I'd like to
stress test more of the system than just the memory. Something that
can run on Debian Etch while the
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:50 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote:
Aniruddha wrote:
I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it
offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As
far I can
I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'),
so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here:
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-of-date (for one,
because it keeps talking about Etch), especially
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:15 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Charlie Dorff wrote:
Hi,
I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks. Charlie
I found The Debian System, by Martin Krafft, a good
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
However, on the web page at
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting , under the heading
4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386
is
Only one of the four primary MBR partitions can be used for booting
OpenBSD (i.e., extended partitions
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote:
* Peter Crawford creature...@hotmail.com [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]:
Does /etc/hosts begin thus?
127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost
127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer
If so, try commenting the 2nd
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 11:45 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com
wrote:
Open up synaptic or aptitude or whatever interactive package manager you
prefer and look for fonts for whatever language(s) you need. Most fonts
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:09 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Does debian flavor of gnome come with sound that can play on the sound
card when gnome starts up? If so, what needs to be done to turn that
capability on?
Gnome menu:
System - Preferences - Sound
Sound preferences (2nd tab:
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
As opposed to KDE, Conky is a full-blown PITA to configure in Gnome.
Funny, I just installed conky and it works fine (using GNOME/Metacity on
Debian Lenny). I haven't rebooted or logged out of GNOME since I did
it, so maybe the problems you
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:56 +0100, AG wrote:
The commented line is one of the suggestions Gav made yesterday, so I
tried it, but realised I didn't like the placement. But otherwise I'd
say that there is a pretty decent consistency between our respective
Conky(ies?) files.
You might look
Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a new system running Lenny, amd64 architecture and 8 core Xeon
chips. It has been crashing regularly, often after less than 24 hours
uptime.
Could it be the powernow-k8 kernel module?
That appears to have been the source of system-freezing problem I was
having. I
I recently installed gmrun, which is working fine. However, there are
certain changes users can make to its behavior via ~/.gmrunrc or
/etc/gmrunrc. From /usr/share/doc/gmrun/README.Debian:
Please see /etc/gmrunrc for an example configuration file.
Place it in ~/.gmrunrc if you wish to
mond wrote:
On Mar 6, 3:30 pm, Frank debianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote:
Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a
few icons which are not really suitable...that
Robert Latest wrote:
Hello Kelly,
As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two
way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo
(off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such
as splashy or usplash.
Yeah, but I don't want the penguin
Frank McCormick wrote:
What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all
the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters
so the display is wierd.
Midnight Commander works great with URxvt, the unicode version of rxvt.
The Debian package I have
Kelly Clowers wrote:
I disagree. Sure, some people use a tabbed term with awesome, but
I use urxvt, and based on the mailing list and IRC I feel like most users
use xterm or (u)rxvt.
FYI, in case you were not aware of this, urxvt can also be a tabbed
terminal. There's a perl extension that
mhep...@gmail wrote:
So what package would I file the bug report against ? I mean it wasn't
technically a failure of grub, since grub never got installed, but why
didn't grub get installed during setup ? Would this get submitted to the
d-i team ?
That would be my guess. The install
Andrew McGlashan wrote:
IMAP folders works strangely too... the [Gmail] folder is weird in
itself. To delete messages properly from the Inbox, I need to drag
them to the Trash folder and then delete them [and do a purge].
You do? Doesn't work that way for me. I have my Thunderbird (er ...
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +, Aneurin Price
aneurin.pr...@gmail.com was heard to say:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +,
Daryl Styrk wrote:
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was
something wrong with Mepis I would not suggest you trying it, saying
that, Mepis has one click tools that Debian don't have, like it will
repair grub for you with a click or reinstall a
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Or, if nautilus is not a
dependency of gdm, then why is it automatically installed because of
gdm? I still feel like I'm missing something.
Because:
gdm Depends: gnome-session
gnome-session Recommends: nautilus
Thanks for the clarifications, and the tip
Andrew Reid wrote:
On Saturday 21 February 2009 20:34:09 Michael M. Moore wrote:
Maybe there is no magic package that is keeping these things installed
and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the
packages that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote:
But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might
Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800
Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net wrote:
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/21/2009 03:19 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Volkan YAZICI wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf k.joseph1...@gmail.com writes:
What is the best DVD writing solution without GUI? :D
wodim.
wodim does not support to write DVDs.
Then how am I able to burn DVDs, even
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other things. I also removed evolution.
But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina
rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the
official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch.
Recently, many times I've been needing to use a
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote:
Michael M. Moore writes:
Many people have no problem with doing updates daily or nearly that
frequently. I don't like to be updating quite so often, and I don't like
it taking very long when I do it. Sid always has a lot
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman pyeat...@ucsd.edu wrote:
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that
would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed
on the system without actually installing the package if so. This
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 21:26 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote:
Ahh... I think iceape was called mozilla-iceape in Etch, and so I looked
for mozilla in aptitude and of course didn't find anything. I see it's
there as just iceape, so I have a fallback position. Has anyone tried
vimperator with the
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Sebastian Günther
sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote:
* Umarzuki Mochlis (umarz...@gmail.com) [27.01.09 04:27]:
I tried making boot-time script for deluge like below
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/deluge
Then I ran update-rc.d to the deluge script hat I saved in
from the command line.
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
add missing categories:
audio player:
* quodlibet
cd-ripper:
* abcde
desktop OR window manager:
* GNOME or Openbox
disc burner:
* Nautilus
e-mail
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:59 +1100, hce wrote:
Hi,
Is the firefox the best browser?
I can say definitively that Dillo is the best browser.
There, that's settled.
Next question?
(p.s. I can also settle the vim vs. emacs question once and for all,
but I charge for that. I take Amex, Visa,
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 19:02 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:33:00PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
So exercising an abundance of caution I usually stick with synaptic.
Maybe on my next install I'll look into Aptitude.
What do you do when X dies or needs
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:50 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
As far as the fam vs. gamin problem is concerned,
aptitude figured out the correct course of action all by
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 12:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
[...]
I found a few problems on my system (Lenny/testing) after I replaced fam
with gamin:
1) Menus in OO.org took many seconds to open -- at least 15, perhaps
20.
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