Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

Rico Secada wrote: > I'll have to stick with Lenny or change the distro if quanta isn't > part of squeeze. Before upgrading to KDE4, I just put quanta on hold, along with the other applications of kdewebdev: # aptitude hold quanta kfilereplace klinkstatus kommander kxsldbg I have Quanta Plus 3.5

Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

I wrote: > Another option is to install hfsutils and use xhfs to exchange data > with the hfs-formatted floppy. s/hfsutils/hfsutils-tcltk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

Peter Easthope: > A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995. > According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported. > http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem > > How reliable is this capability? AFAICS, the only thing you need to do is 'modprobe hfs'. Or add the line 'hfs' (without

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

Michael Fothergill: > Doug: > > Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably > > this one) that there are a couple of repos you can get to from > > Debian that hold proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat. > > I have the debian non free mulltimedia link set up in my ap

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

Michael Fothergill: > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it > > > > didn't quite succeed. > > > > > > Flashplayer-nonfree 9 is known to have some glitches, but 10.2 > > > beta, downloadable from > >

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

Op Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't > quite succeed. Flashplayer-nonfree 9 is known to have some glitches, but 10.2 beta, downloadable from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html appears

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:35:44 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAICT there is currently no way to tell update-grub that some (or > even all) of the partitions found by os-prober are not needed in the > menu. Well, at least you could edit /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober. Line 35 reads: OSPROBED="`os-pr

Re: iceape locks up on some web sites

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:22 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > This is an occasional problem. For most web sites iceape works > perfectly. > > To identify the source of the problem I started iceape from a terminal > window and found failure to pre-load libaoss.so is part of the > problem. > > alsa-os

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:28 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > I do almost everything on command line. Maybe the only GUI tool I > need is the sound volume control tool, but I don't have it any more > -- I used to use tkmixer. Now that it's obsoleted, I'm yet to find a > GUI sound mixer plain and simple en

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing > some fonts, or is there somet

Re: hp deskjet 2050 scanner not working

Jozsef Vadkan wrote: > I bought a $subject "all-in-one" printer/scanner. > > i just want to use the scanner. why doest kooka, xsane recognize it? Before buying a scanner, you should have checked whether it is supported, at www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html BTW, I guess you mean 'Scan

Re: printing stopped after sid update

Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:07:09 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/05/2010 01:10 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:53:25 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > > > After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue > > > but never get to the pri

Re: printing stopped after sid update

Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:53:25 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue but > never get to the printer. The printer (HP2200) will print a test > page from it's console just fine. I had a similar problem, but I found this solution: in the CUPS inter

Re: playing online radio

Celejar wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > A .asx file is a so-called playlist file. Other playlist files > > are .asf, .pls, .m3u, .smil files, for example. > > > > Unlike other media players, mplayer does not detect these files > > itself, so yo

Re: playing online radio

T o n g wrote: > Anyone know if there is a switch for mplayer to be more tolerant for > online radio? This is what I get: > > $ mplayer > 'http://mfile.akamai.com/80871/live/reflector:20168.asx?bkup=20883&prop=n' > Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 3128... > Cache size set to 320 KByte

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

Andrei Popescu: > Ron Johnson: > > Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, > > Write, FF & Tbird. > > That's too bad. The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded in Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

Op Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:37:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:24:24 -0600, Timothy Legg wrote: > > (...) > > > Would it suffice to just copy the TTF file into any directory that > > already has a TTF file stored in it (there's about 20 of them on my > > machine) or are there ad

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

Francesco Pietra: > Unfortunately, for dealing with most editors of scientific journals, > and for personal use of the scientific literature, either as author or > referee, neither the readers you mention, nor any one other I know > except acroread, are enough. You can use Adobe Reader for Linux

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

Peter Easthope: > What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? If you mean: extracting a picture which is in the pdf, the best way would be to use 'pdfimages', providing the image in its original resolution. It is part of 'poppler-utils' as well as 'xpdf-utils'. -- To UN

Re: which debian i should install?

John Jason Jordan: > Several years ago Mark Shuttleworth decided that it was time for Linux > on the desktop. He founded Canonical, and the fact that Ubuntu now > *owns* the Linux desktop market has proved him right. > > A couple years ago I had front row seats to a speech he gave about his > expe

Re: trouble playing streaming video

Steve Kleene: > Camaleón: > > Mmm, try with this: > > > > mplayer -wid 0x1201a26 -vf scale=640:-3 -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick \ > > -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer \ > > -nomouseinput -cache 512 mms://70.61.148.132/WXOD/WCT%2018120.WMV? > > MSWMExt=.asf > > > > Note

Re: Running xmodmap breaks keyboard layouts

Op Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:39 +, George wrote: > I added the following lines into my .xmodmaprc and I call xmodmap at > startup to configure my keys how I want them: > > remove Lock = Caps_Lock > remove Mod4 = Super_L > remove Mod1 = Alt_L > remove Control = Control_L > add Lock = Super_L > add Lo

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

sys49...@hushmail.com: > I do wish the font management was more simplified and structured > though, but I guess we can't have everything. Thanks to fontconfig, I do find it rather simplified and structured. Just put your new fonts into ~/.fonts (locally) or /usr/local/share/fonts (system wide) and

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

Frank McCormick: > Sjoerd Hiemstra: > > Frank McCormick: > > > [...] state...strangely enough it's in a file called "status" :) > > > I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, > > > removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resa

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

Frank McCormick: > Andrew Sackville-West: > > Frank McCormick: > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > I don't think you're there yet... that's a pretty drastic measure. > > Well I reconsidered:) I googled until I found what I was looking for > exactly where apt keeps the

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

Op Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:17:05 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > r...@squeeze:~# aptitude reinstall adobe-flashplugin > [.] > The following packages will be REINSTALLED: > adobe-flashplugin > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove > and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B o

Re: How to set localhost name?

Op Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:45 -0600, Phil Roan wrote: > When I installed debian, I set the local host name on my computer to > local2. For a long time, everything was fine. Recently, I'm getting > mail returned to me when I send it to Windows Live Hotmail accounts. > I think the problem is that my mai

Re: Grub2 Question

Op Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:07 -0400 Wayne wrote: >When I select the kernel entry in the grub2 selection screen, the > next screen contains a message of some sort. It clears so fast I > can't read much of it. > >Can anyone tell me, 1. how to get that page to display longer or > 2. Just what is

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

Op Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:33:28 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm on T-Bird 2.0.0.23 (latest) and I don't have a reply-to-list > option. Is this something I have to set manually in about:config? > Sure would save me some time manually editing the recipient list with > each reply. For T-Bird/Icedove th

Re: Grub: error 15

Jason Filippou wrote: > I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and > executed the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After that, when I > rebooted my system, I receive the message > > GRUB Loading stage1.5 > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 15 > > Is there anythi

Re: avisynth.dll ???

steef: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > steef: > > > does somebody know if a kind soul made a (free) version of > > > (microsoft) *avisynth.dll* for debian linux? > > > > > > mplayer tells me now: > > > mplayer http://www.myspace.com/djch

Re: avisynth.dll ???

steef: > does somebody know if a kind soul made a (free) version of > (microsoft) *avisynth.dll* for debian linux? > > mplayer tells me now: > ... > Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, > ... See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/11/msg01751.html + follow-ups. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

Chris Jones wrote: > Another thing is that I would like to be able to display all the > glyphs of a given font so I can tell at a glance what scripts are > covered. gucharmap is a great app for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: equivalent to mepis-network

Op Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:44 -0400 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to install mepis-network on debian lenny, because, it gives > network assistant for wireless > in particular scan access points for wireless, while the debian > hasn't it, I have diffrent accesses the choice is not easy. > Is

Re: Playing ASX streams from Iceweasel

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:29 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > I occasionally listen to a ASX streams and for a long time I've used > the Mozilla plugin for Mplayer which does the job but leaves much to > be desired in the style department. So I set about trying to use the > various players run from Icewe

Re: mplayer screensaver

Tony Asnicar: > how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? 1. Use option -fs (= full-screen) with mplayer? 2. In the manpage of gnome-screensaver-command I see this option: -d, --deactivate If the screensaver is active then deactivate it (un-blank the screen)

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

ronggui wong: > I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 > format. What software should I use? > I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something > goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audacious player. Never tried it myself, but AFAIK it goes

Re: screen grab of scrolling window?

Op Sun, 31 May 2009 11:47 -0700 Eric De Mund wrote: > I have an on-screen image that, unfortunately, is not all on the > screen; it's too big to fit on screen and there are scrollbars for me > to scroll to view this and that portion of the image. > > Question: Is there a program that can perform a

Re: Controlling Fonts and Font Sizes in GTK Applications

Op Fri, 22 May 04:43 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: > Still can't find an app that sets GTK font sizes directly -- if > someone knows of one, it'd be nice to know what it is, if only just > for the record. Using Gnome, the GTK system font and font size are set in Gnome's Control Center. To do the same w

Re: mplayer slowness and kernel

Jan Willem Stumpel: > Florian Kulzer: > > It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use > > hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem > > with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but > > less likely, IMHO.) > > > > What do you get from: > > > > lspci

Re: KDE update wants to remove konqueror and other packages

Op Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:21 -0400 Edward C. Jones wrote: > A while ago a big KDE update was put into unstable. I have not done > the upgrade because synaptic wants to remove the following packages: > > ... > kde-core > kdeaddons > kdebase > ... > > Removing konqueror, kdebase, kde-core, and kcon

Re: .img_bestanden

Kelly Clowers: > what is ".img_bestanden"? That's some prose of someone who, for some mysterious reason, does not fully realize he's on an English-speaking mailing list. 'bestanden' = files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

Robert Menes: > Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? It's in the Debian Reference. 8.1.4 "Let me disable X on boot!" www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-no-x-start Sid is mentioned here, but it works for squeeze and lenny as well. -

Re: openoffice font problems

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:50 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > For some documents that were apparently prepared with a proprietary > application for users of a proprietary OS, some characters (mainly > greek letters in mathematics) are not correctly displayed in > openoffice.org. I tried both lenn

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago > in Sid? Hm, I miss Quanta Plus. Under 'Web Development', there's no differently named html editor either. Has it gone? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: .Xresources problem

On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54 +0300 Kybernetiker wrote: > I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm > installed. When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the > "~/.Xresources" file. > The file "~/.Xresources" contains the only line: > > XTerm*font: -*-terminus-*-*-

Re: VMware

On 21 Mar, Justin The Cynical wrote: (about VMware Server 2.0) > And if you find a better way to access the server under Linux that > that $%#$^%! web UI crap, please let me know!!! Use version 1 instead? 1.0.8 is the latest, it was updated even after 2.0 was released. It is far less resource hun

Re: VMware

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > The older gcc 4.1.3 is not available in debian.snapshot.net . > > But it is available from the Debian mirrors in the gcc-4.1 package: > > , > | % LANG=C gcc-4

VMware

Trying to install VMware in sid, just to run another OS locally. As far as I can see, VMware Server 2, obtainable from www.vmware.com/freedownload is what I would need. Installation was successful. But during the configuration new kernel modules are built, and this error shows up: Your kernel

Re: pppd curiosity

Op Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:21:13 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied > --> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky. > --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied > --> --> CHAP (Challenge Hands

Re: Keep current version with aptitude

Op Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:39 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-12 19:44 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > To keep a package at its current version during an > > 'aptitude safe-upgrade', I issue the command: > > > > aptitude hold > > >

Keep current version with aptitude

Hi, Using Sid. To keep a package at its current version during an 'aptitude safe-upgrade', I issue the command: aptitude hold But this only lasts for one upgrade. During the next 'safe-upgrade' I am proposed to upgrade that package again. Is there a way to make it permanent? In Synaptic th

Re: Scanner problems

Op Sun, 01 Mar 18:35:46 -0500 Frank wrote: > Just installed Debian squeeze...and am looking for help. Seems xsane > will only run as root...made myself a member of scanner group, but > still have to run gksudo to get it to find the scanner. > > Advice ?? I'd suggest to follow the steps for scanne

Re: OT: Need Printer Reset Command

Op Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:37:20 -0500 Thomas H. George wrote: > Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) > into a printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of > pages each containing one line of jibberish. > > It does no good to clear the print queue, To term

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

Ron Johnson: > Daniel Cliff: > > Ron Johnson: > > > Daniel Cliff: > > > > _ rename the files according to some pattern (eg > > > > 20090101_001.jpg, 20090101_002.jpg etc) > > > > > > jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.jpg > > > > I definitely loved this one! > > I make an alias defined in /etc/bash_aliases

Re: Printer in Linux?

Zach Uram wrote: > I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set > it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux > before. What should I do? For a beginner, one of the easiest ways to setup a new printer is to use the printer setup utility that KDE or Gnom

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

kj: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > kj: > > > If you can live without Windows compatibility, using HFS (instead > > > of HFS+) would work, since Linux can write to it. > > > > HFS+ sounds like a good idea here. > > Just to be clear, Linux can not write to HFS+ (last time I tried), > only to HFS. ?? For

Re: adding a font

Op Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:57:30 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a .fonts folder, but it is emtpy. All of my fonts are > in /usr/share/fonts. and I did run fc-cache, and once I restarted > kmail, the new font was available.. so I think I have my answer. In order to stay away from the realm of t

Re: Locale testing

Dotan Cohen wrote: > I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app > that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude > that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file > an issue. The locale setting for Open Office is in OO itself. Tools > Optio

Re: Strange "news" problem

Op Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:51:09 +0100 Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Icedove, which I use for mail and news, does not download headers > from subscribed newsgroups anymore. On the 29th of November it > still worked fine; I received some message headers (only a > handful) dated November 30; nothing since

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

Op 23 Nov 2008 23:23:20 GMT, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On 2008-11-18, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to > > gpm my mouse, and haven't for years. I knew how long ago, but gpm > > is not easy these days. What protocol do

Re: Grub problem

Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > The two menu.lst entries: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > root=UUID=5dd1a349-c311-40ca-82f4-a7a39ca134a3 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2

Re: Dialup connection timer

Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been > connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for a > less technical user. Thanks in advance. pppcost seems to be what you are looking for. Haven't tried it though. There's a screenshot here:

Re: Can I expand VBox disk drives?

Op Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:48:56 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives > but the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is > there any way I can expand the available space for VBox vdi drives? It is not impossible, but it

Re: Totem Media Player plugin not working ...

Op Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:20:32 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > >totem http://stream11.finetra.co.uk/minack > > > > Works fine here, using Totem 2.22.2. &g

Re: Totem Media Player plugin not working ...

Patrick Wiseman: > http://www.minack.com/dayvisitors/stream.html > > My system is amd64, testing. The media player plugin is > Totem > 2.22.2. I get a failure to load Media Player at the above site. Any > thoughts? The Totem media player plugin works prett

Re: virtual box version mismatch

Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:01:44 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > You need to add for future reference between m-a and modprobe > > rmmod vboxdrv > > else you still have the same error since apparently modprobe > silently does not replace already loaded modules. Probably even better: aptit

Re: virtual box version mismatch

Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:22:26 -0500 Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but > > both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox > > I get the

Re: Grub dilemma

Op Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:28:11 -0400 Frank wrote: > I've been using Debian for years but this Grub stuff is above me ! There's an article about Grub at newbie level that might interest you. www.tuxmagazine.com , click 'Download' at the right side, download issue #8 and read pages 31 through 38: 'Giv

Re: Totem and audio/video codecs

Op Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:10:14 -0400 David Bernier wrote: > I usually use the Iceape/1.0.9 browser. > (...) > I'm still having problems with audio/video plugins. > When I go to the Bloomberg page: > http://www.bloomberg.com/ and click on > the radio icon, I get the message: > > "Totem could not play

Re: palm syncing woes

Winfried Tilanus: > On 09/20/2008 Neil Watson wrote: > > I did some research and found some information that suggest that > > using the userspace libusb instead of the visor kernel module would > > allow a more reliable sync. I attempted this but now I cannot sync > > at all. Is pilot-link built

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

Dotan Cohen" wrote: > 2) Can Inkscape work with more than a single page? I have 20 > documents, 10 pages on average each, and the test is next week! At least you can use pdftk to split the pdf into its individual pages. pdftk in.pdf burst BTW, KWord, part of KOffice, used to be able to open

Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 21:09:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 14:27:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10:47 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > >

Re: play mms streams in firefox

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:49:35 +0300 Bogdan Marian wrote: > I installed the "mozilla-mplayer" package and added the > mplayerplug-in.so library to .mozilla/plugin. Still, iceweasel says > it has no protocol associated with mms. Can anybody help? I can only say that I have totem and totem-mozilla in

Re: X affecting console text color??

Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10:47 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > My console text has the default light gray color - until X is > > started. > > > > When going from X to the console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, the c

X affecting console text color??

Hi, My console text has the default light gray color - until X is started. When going from X to the console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, the console foreground color has turned to dark gray, hardly readable on the black background. Even after logging out of X, back into the console, the console text remains

Re: changing xterm colors

Op Thu, 29 May 2008 18:51:43 +0100 Jamie Griffin wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory > > (or create it if it does not exist). > > > > Put the following lines in the file: > > > > xterm*

Re: apt-get joke

On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png > > heh, I still like `apt-get moo` The inventor of 'aptitude moo' has sense of humour as well -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to install a font?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to > put the file `simsun.ttf' in the directory > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add the following lines to the > files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.sc

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

Chris Bannister wrote: > I think xmms is no more anyway. A number of distros have dropped xmms. As far as I vaguely remember, the reason is that it still uses gtk1, and there were certain problems preventing it from being upgraded to gtk2. Audacious is one of its successors, you could use that on

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which > updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser > plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was > pointing to the

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:42:49 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > In /usr/local/share/fonts you could create any hierarchy you like. > > A few examples: > > > > > > Thanks for the detailed info

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Whilst the package manager puts its fonts into /usr/share/fonts, > > the correct place for you to put yours would be > > /usr/local/share/fonts, or any subdirectory thereof, such as

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

Chris Bannister: > Ron Johnson: > > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > My question is, how do I go about installing [the Liberation > > > fonts] and using it exclusively? > > > > They are at debian-multimedia.org as ttf-liberation. > > Not for Etch there's not. > ># apt-cache search ttf-liberation >

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts > > available as standard packages that "just work". > > Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those > fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. There is ttf2pt1, a TrueType t

Re: Usermount

Frank wrote: > Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ?? Well, using Synaptic to look for packages that have 'mount' in their names or descriptions, I see a few that look interesting. I'd suggest to have a look at all of them, and take the one you like best. mountapp A dock app

Re: Usermount

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. > Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Starting usermount, I get this message: "There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmou

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19 + Stephen Allen wrote: > There are Reader permissions to annotate but AFAIR only with the > latest Acrobat v 1.7, which have to have been enabled by the author > using the Arobat Pro application. But yes one can annotate with the > free Reader, if a specific PDF is suc

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Op Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:50:41 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > A simple example is the ability to right- or left- align text. For > Hebrew and Arabic users, this is a must. No other mailer provides > that. In Sylpheed I see your Hebrew text right aligned. > And the Virtual Identity extension makes the Fr

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

Jochen Schulz: > Ron Johnson: > > Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader > > doesn't thread? > > No, and that's the way he prefers to take part in mailing lists. Am I the only one who dislikes this kind of gossip? It certainly does not comply with Debian's moral standar

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:12:06 +0100 Nigel Henry wrote: > I have a separate mailbox for the Debian-user list, and when the spam > flood was in full flow everything turned up in this mailbox, ham, and > spam, so no spam from the Debian list was sent to the wastebin. I've got Sylpheed with bogofilter

Re: OOo window in fluxbox

Mark Grieveson wrote: > Whenever I open OpenOffice.org writer in my fluxbox setup, the > window opens with the OOo bar on the top frame, with the OOo menu > options (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc), rather than the window frame > with the minimize, maximize, and close options in the top right > corn

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

Ron Johnson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > my memory of Netscape is always kind of unpleasant. I remember > > struggling to get it to work properly > > Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.5 for Linux has just been released. Works fine, looks good. Get it here: http://browser.netscape.co

Re: pdftk in Lenny

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Well, when I did need it, I could reboot into etch which I've still > > got, and where it works fine. > > Since I used it only now and then, that was just a minor annoyance. > > If you have the etch install on

Re: pdftk in Lenny

On 2007-12-22 00:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2007-12-21 23:41 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine > > > (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). > > >

Re: pdftk in Lenny

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2007-12-21 20:47 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Apparently this is fixed in version 1.41 You just have to be > > patient until that version hits Lenny. > > Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine > (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine)

pdftk in Lenny

Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? Trying to install it, aptitude says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up... Abort.

Re: Local list archives

Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > How can I obtain archives of this list on my local machine? Just one idea: to download all messages of December 2007: wget -r -l 1 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12 Then use a browser to open ~/lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12/index.html. And get the

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

Mark Grieveson wrote: > Also, I use kmix for a volume control, because this seems the only > application that provides a small speaker applet on the fluxbox panel > to control sounds. I'd like to get rid of it, and the kde libs that > accompany it. So, is there a fluxbox-specific volume control t

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based > on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my > life can be a little easier. I use sarge and etch.

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