Re: gnome terminal not running in GNOME 3 Jessie - total disaster

2015-04-30 Thread Ricardo Yanez
Unimaginable! I reinstalled GNOME3, xorg, started from scratch, short of reformatting the disk and NO. In xterm, $ gnome-terminal Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal:

gnome terminal not running in GNOME 3 Jessie - total disaster

2015-04-30 Thread Ricardo Yanez
Folks, I upgraded to jessie a few moments ago and I cannot run gnome-terminal. What's up? I ran root-terminal and it broke my desktop completely. What's up? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.04.2015 um 21:59 schrieb deloptes: Have you checked what you can do regarding powermanagement - I don't recall reading this in your postings $ qdbus --system org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower | grep Hibernate property read bool org.freedesktop.UPower.CanHibernate

[SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting deloptes delop...@yahoo.com: looks like gnome specific. did you check permissions? I think this was in policykit Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button) is missing in the menu. My relative now

Re: [SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread deloptes
W. Martin Borgert wrote: Quoting deloptes delop...@yahoo.com: looks like gnome specific. did you check permissions? I think this was in policykit Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button) is missing

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-19 Thread deloptes
W. Martin Borgert wrote: On 2015-04-17 20:23, deloptes wrote: I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum No suspend in XFCE without systemd) to get it work again. It looks like upower dropped the freedesktop actions exposed to dbus and now the system dows not know of

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-18 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-04-17 20:23, deloptes wrote: I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum No suspend in XFCE without systemd) to get it work again. It looks like upower dropped the freedesktop actions exposed to dbus and now the system dows not know of such possibility - however

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-17 Thread W. Martin Borgert
-status-button/ though. Seems to work fine here on Gnome / Jessie. That fails my requirement must be in Debian. RFP https://bugs.debian.org/782741 filed :~) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-17 Thread deloptes
://extensions.gnome.org/extension/755/hibernate-status-button/ though. Seems to work fine here on Gnome / Jessie. That fails my requirement must be in Debian. RFP https://bugs.debian.org/782741 filed :~) I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum No suspend in XFCE without systemd

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Biebl
, sleep button and lid switch events (via dconf-editor or gsettings [1]), ttbomk there is no config option to adjust gnome-shell and you'll need to resort to a extension for this. You can try https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/755/hibernate-status-button/ though. Seems to work fine here on Gnome

Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants hibernate. Any idea how to get this back? Please without

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/16/2015 06:40 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 02-02-15 om 22:39 schreef Geert Stappers: Contro: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:41:00PM +0100, Frans Spiesschaert wrote: Ik heb het probleem voorgelegd aan de debian ontwikkelaars van Gnome (https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2015/02/msg0.html) en het antwoord

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Geert Stappers
Contro: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:41:00PM +0100, Frans Spiesschaert wrote: Ik heb het probleem voorgelegd aan de debian ontwikkelaars van Gnome (https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2015/02/msg0.html) en het antwoord is dat ze het probleem ernstig genoeg vinden en

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 02/02/2015 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 02-02-15 om 11:28 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: Volgens mij verwijst https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-menus naar: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html en dat is volgens mij een generieke spec en geen specifieke

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 02-02-15 om 13:16 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: On 02/02/2015 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 02-02-15 om 11:28 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: Volgens mij verwijst https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-menus naar: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html en dat

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 02/01/2015 04:43 PM, Frans Spiesschaert wrote: Dag Paul, Frans Spiesschaert schreef op vr 30-01-2015 om 00:21 [+0100]: Dag Paul, Paul van der Vlis schreef: Het lijkt me nu dat het probleem in het pakket gnome-menus zit: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-menus Ik heb het source

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 02/02/2015 02:08 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 02-02-15 om 13:16 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: knip source links De screenshots op: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gnome-menus zijn van: $ alacarte maar dat staat er niet bij. Dat is inderdaad niet correct. Daardoor was ik vanaf

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-02 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 02-02-15 om 16:10 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: On 02/02/2015 02:08 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 02-02-15 om 13:16 schreef Jan-Rens Reitsma: knip source links De screenshots op: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gnome-menus zijn van: $ alacarte maar dat staat er niet bij. Dat

Re: Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Frans Spiesschaert
Dag Paul, Frans Spiesschaert schreef op vr 30-01-2015 om 00:21 [+0100]: Dag Paul, Paul van der Vlis schreef: Het lijkt me nu dat het probleem in het pakket gnome-menus zit: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-menus Ik heb het source-pakket van gnome-menus eens bekeken, maar

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hoi Frans en anderen, Op 01-02-15 om 16:43 schreef Frans Spiesschaert: Ik ben hier wat kort door de bocht gegaan, door in de broncode enkel naar het debian-specifieke deel te kijken. De fout blijkt wel degelijk te zitten in gnome-menus, maar dan wel in de upstream tarball. De laatste

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-01-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
kunnen worden. Er is niet iets als een gnome-l10n-nl. Het lijkt me nu dat het probleem in het pakket gnome-menus zit: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-menus Een volgende keer moet ik eerder goed testen... Met vriendelijke groet, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-01-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, January 28, 2015 23:35, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 28-01-15 om 12:08 schreef Paul van der Vlis: Op 28-01-15 om 10:02 schreef Geert Stappers: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hoi, Ik zie iets raars in Jessie in Gnome Classic. In het menu-item

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-01-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hoi, Ik zie iets raars in Jessie in Gnome Classic. In het menu-item Toepassingen zie ik twee keer het item Hulpmiddelen. Beide hebben een inhoud, deze is echter niet hetzelfde. Dit zou een fout in de vertaling kunnen

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-01-28 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 28-01-15 om 10:02 schreef Geert Stappers: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hoi, Ik zie iets raars in Jessie in Gnome Classic. In het menu-item Toepassingen zie ik twee keer het item Hulpmiddelen. Beide hebben een inhoud, deze is echter niet hetzelfde

Re: Raar probleem met Gnome in Jessie

2015-01-28 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 28-01-15 om 12:08 schreef Paul van der Vlis: Op 28-01-15 om 10:02 schreef Geert Stappers: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hoi, Ik zie iets raars in Jessie in Gnome Classic. In het menu-item Toepassingen zie ik twee keer het item Hulpmiddelen. Beide

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 August 2014 23:33:54 Charlie wrote: That's also what I thought? But I assume this thread is pertaining to the person who installs the software through the installer. Rather than just a bare bones Debian without any GUI that will boot. Then through CLI just install the software

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:56:53PM -0400, Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Your vote has no affect whatsoever on what the default DE will be. The only way you can influence the decision is to install

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the new Xfce to a brighter color. Thanks for all

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/08/14 11:00 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the new

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/08/14 18:28, Gary Dale wrote: I've never been a fan of Gnome although this stems mainly from my preference for Konqueror and Dolphin as file managers. They both have options that I find very helpful, like actually listing the files you are about to delete instead of just telling you how

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.08.2014 17:00, schrieb Stephen Powell: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:54 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: My main objection to GNOME as the default desktop environment is that it *requires* 3D graphics acceleration from the X driver, ... Not quite true. On graphics

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Joe
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:49:23 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/08/14 17:49, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: My main objection to GNOME as the default desktop environment is that it *requires* 3D graphics acceleration from the X driver, something which is not available from all

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread John Holland
Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer. On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:54 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: On Sat, 16

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 19:01:40 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/08/14 18:28, Gary Dale wrote: The installer, to my way of thinking, should either go with the most popular choice or give you the choice of desktop environments as part of the install process. I'm fully in

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 14:14:01 -0400, John Holland wrote: Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer. fvwm is wonderful, but not likely to make it into d-i. Back in 1996 it was a default (on Red Hat at

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 August 2014 18:01:40 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Anyway, I think the installer should offer *all* the DEs. *All*, including Mate and Cinnamon and Trinity and Unity, in addition to Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, and . etc. ?? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 August 2014 19:14:01 John Holland wrote: Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer. Sorry, I left that one out. It was in the etc.! I knew that I had not got a complete list. But the

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 August 2014 20:24:31 Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 14:14:01 -0400, John Holland wrote: Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer. fvwm is wonderful, but not likely to make it into

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/08/14 02:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 19:01:40 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/08/14 18:28, Gary Dale wrote: The installer, to my way of thinking, should either go with the most popular choice or give you the choice of desktop environments as part of the install

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 17:27:27 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/08/14 02:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 19:01:40 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/08/14 18:28, Gary Dale wrote: The installer, to my way of thinking, should either go with the most popular choice or give you the

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 21:32:23 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2014 20:24:31 Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 14:14:01 -0400, John Holland wrote: Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Joe
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:57:17 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 21:32:23 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2014 20:24:31 Brian wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2014 at 14:14:01 -0400, John Holland wrote: Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:32:23 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent: Here's an idea: Why not give users a choice (if they want it) after they have installed the OS? Or even before? Installation of a desktop environment shouldn't be obligatory. It isn't. Lisi That's also what I thought? But I assume

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-15 Thread Stephen L. Novak
I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the new Xfce to a brighter color. Thanks for all the work on Wheezy. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to