Thanks for Debian ^^^

2023-06-10 Thread 황병희
Hellow Debian hackers, Today i did upgrade Debian with successfuly: from 11 to 12. All things are good. No error No failure! Thanks again! soyeomul@yw-1130:~$ uname -srm Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 x86_64 soyeomul@yw-1130:~$ lsb_release -d No LSB modules are available. Description:Debian GNU

OT: Thanks and Margaret Thatcher (was: Re: scripts, was Re: TBird mail)

2022-12-08 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to David Wright and Greg Wooledge for their replies. Thanks also to David for the reference to the article on Margaret Thatcher -- I'm trying to obtain a copy through my local library (ILL). On Wednesday, December 07, 2022 11:53:18 AM David Wright wrote: ... > Margaret Thatc

Re: Thanks for help!

2021-07-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 7/11/21 9:18 PM, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > How repaired hdd in old osx 8.6 mac i386. > A live usb with debian 10.9 buster did it asked to change from Bios boot > to Uefi boot & reinstalled hdd. Laptop works. So now can put distro in > usb, & try which debian based distro works best on Mac osx

Thanks for help!

2021-07-11 Thread Gunnar Gervin
How repaired hdd in old osx 8.6 mac i386. A live usb with debian 10.9 buster did it asked to change from Bios boot to Uefi boot & reinstalled hdd. Laptop works. So now can put distro in usb, & try which debian based distro works best on Mac osx 10.13.6. MX, PsychOS, Manjaro, Debian? I liked the

Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-15 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 08:46:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > "remind" is the appropriate tool. > It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on. > With appropriate script it can "nag" me ;} > q.v. > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html >

Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-15 Thread Richard Owlett
"remind" is the appropriate tool. It does NOT rely on anything other than computer being turned on. With appropriate script it can "nag" me ;} q.v. https://manpages.debian.org/buster/remind/remind.1.en.html https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ On 08/15/2020 06:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:52:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > TIA > >

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:52:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > There's one thing I don't understand - erasure of previous history. > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 states it as: > >... it overwrites the existing history with the new version. That's because it reads the

[Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA Using 'cat ~/.bash_history' gives desired format (i.e. without the line numbers

[RESOLVED/Thanks] Re: Debian Perl or Brew Perl for production application?

2019-07-04 Thread Didar Hossain
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 01:36:52PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 7/2/19 11:20 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:30:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> I tend to stick to Debian packages as my primary choice, resorting > >> to off-distribution packages when needed

More better thanks to the stretch digikam folks

2019-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
I had just bought a new camera, a cannon with more capable glass than my now elderly nikon with its very flaky usb socket. Wheezy was never aware the camera was even plugged in, but I'd just installed a modified stretch the linuxcnc folks are testing to a test machine, so I took it to that

Thanks for the help today folks

2019-03-22 Thread deb
I will summarize them all up. Thanks

Re: Thanks Mart -- Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread Brian
On Tue 12 Mar 2019 at 19:20:34 -0400, deb wrote: > Fortunately Brian has blocked me, Eh? You'll have to explain. -- Brian.

Thanks Mart -- Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread deb
On 3/11/19 5:08 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: And yeah, Debian is an upstream distribution, so you will have a lot of people who are being overly purist about Linux solutions, because they have the luxury of working in homogenous environments. Unfortunately a lot of them are lousy communicators.

Thanks Dan. Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread deb
Thank you. On 2/13/2019 9:11 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: deb wrote: On 2/13/2019 8:46 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:41:33AM -0500, deb wrote: #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-05 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> ok, looks like the two versions are the same in >> the first sector (netinst for i386 and amd64) so >> the fix should work... > > The fix should apply to all Debian i386 and amd64 ISOs which were made > with isohybrid functionality. The bug was

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > (It would be embarrassing if a different Thomas was meant.) songbird wrote: > context is good... i dislike posting last names to usenet/mailing lists. Well, germany is full of baby-boomer Thomases. :)) > > http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~ams/tmp/isohdpfx.bin.170324 > i hope the

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-04 Thread songbird
gt;> machine (the bug with the cd image not being >> able to find isolinux.bin also was affecting >> the netinst i386 cd-image i had downloaded). > > I assume you mean > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857597 > > In this case i have to share the th

Re: Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
cd-image i had downloaded). I assume you mean https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857597 In this case i have to share the thanks with David Christensen, who reported the bug and bravely tested, and Martin Str|mberg, who produced the fixed code. > the dd to copy the bytes as p

Thanks Thomas!

2017-04-04 Thread songbird
your recent efforts helped me get an install going via USB stick on this ancient machine (the bug with the cd image not being able to find isolinux.bin also was affecting the netinst i386 cd-image i had downloaded). the dd to copy the bytes as posted to the bug (see cd-image bug list for

Thanks all - was [Re: Which version of Debian from which physical device?]

2016-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/8/2016 12:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-10-08 10:47 (UTC-0500): ...today, while chasing down an intermittent problem, I needed to know which point release was active... cat /etc/debian_version I never had need of "cat" before. Exploring /etc was

Re: Okay thanks michael and tim but.......

2015-08-29 Thread Riley Baird
a aurgument up against my dad? I really do want to use steam and alot of my friends use it too. Thanks! Steam is made by Valve Software. You might want to tell your Dad that Debian has a steam package. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/steam pgpWZ32jhp6OP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Okay thanks michael and tim but.......

2015-08-29 Thread Betterthan You
makes the game and who runs steam. Can you please tell me tye anser that way I can make a aurgument up against my dad? I really do want to use steam and alot of my friends use it too. Thanks!

Re: Can't Write to dvdrw Device - Thanks, Now I Understand

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
selections were deleted to reduce the play list to 39 minutes Brasero burnt the cd with no problems. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Solved: Re: Icedove Mail Forwarding Problem - Thanks for the Solution

2015-06-21 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/21/2015 10:55 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] Thanks I just tested Shift-Forward and it worked like a charm. With this problem solved Icedove works perfectly for me. Great! Nice to hear. Regards, Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly? Thanks

2015-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On 06/12/2015 03:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance. BUT then a friend

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

2015-05-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote (and corrected himself): This conversation made me revisit my own prompt which I have now modified. I thought I'd share it with you in case any part of it should be helpful.

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

2015-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate being able to understand the meaning

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate being able to understand the meaning of the prompt. This conversation made me revisit my own prompt

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction (correction)

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): export PROMPT_COMMAND+= || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^} $(tty) ${HOSTNAME^^}\a' Forgive the typo; that || was in the penultimate version that I accidentally included. It should of course be ; otherwise the title only

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

2015-05-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:31:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I entered the following in .bashrc PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' to

Re: Thanks for all your suggestions regarding Xfce!

2015-03-06 Thread Wilko Fokken
I'll give it a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150306130524.ga6...@fok02.laje.edewe.de

Great, Fábio now has your contact info. Thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Brewster
Thanks

Great, Fábio now has your contact info. Thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Brewster
Thanks

Re: ALSA - Multiple Sources...? / Thanks

2014-11-27 Thread hobie
Just a note of thanks to Joel, Andrei and Florent. :) I'll carry my situation to the Audio users list and see what happens. Thanks for the time and the courteous comments. --hobie On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 04:56:12AM -0500, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: On Jo, 27 nov 14, 03:03:33, ho

Thanks for your mail

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Re: Thanks for your mail

2014-09-26 Thread Doug
On 09/26/2014 09:13 AM, Rajavel wrote: Thanks for your mail. Please keep on listening to Love Guru, only on Radio City 91.1FM, Monday to Saturday - 9pm to 1am. You can listen to Love Guru, from any part of the world through, Radio City Tamil web radio. The link is available

Re: Thanks for your mail

2014-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 September 2014 16:53:56 Doug wrote: On 09/26/2014 09:13 AM, Rajavel wrote: I wouldn't listen to that garbage if it was the only radio station in the world! Must you reply to spam. :-( It makes life harder for the filters. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Thanks, Guys :-) was: Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 14 June 2014 11:57:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 13 June 2014 22:02:06 Bob Proulx wrote: Just to plug a good tool I like using pwgen to generate truly random passwords.  A long random password is sufficiently difficult to exploit.  If you are using passwords that are easy to

Thanks! Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:26:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve it? :-- cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B I have been away from my computer for a

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-10 Thread Kailash
installed so that GTK3 and GTK2 apps look nearly identical. Thanks. Adwaita's not too bad either. A theme is another thing I'd like to create one day - cross-desktop, cross-display engine, highly-customizable theme. Now my text box in firefox is no longer expandable - hopefully will fix itself

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
, I have the clearlooks-phenix-theme package installed so that GTK3 and GTK2 apps look nearly identical. Thanks. Adwaita's not too bad either. A theme is another thing I'd like to create one day - cross-desktop, cross-display engine, highly-customizable theme. Yes, thanks Kailash. I had

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/5/13, Kailash listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 01 September 2013 08:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. Evince error: (evince:15620): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: Not using units is

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. Evince error: (evince:15620): Gtk-WARNING **:

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
. Thanks. Adwaita's not too bad either. A theme is another thing I'd like to create one day - cross-desktop, cross-display engine, highly-customizable theme. Now my text box in firefox is no longer expandable - hopefully will fix itself on restart. That's all folks, and thanks again, Zenaan

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-04 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 01 September 2013 08:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have been happy since. I find it adequate;

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 02:02 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: http://upmart.org/gedit-menus-example.jpg That's really odd :(. When using gedit on Xfce (different distros, including Ubuntu/Debian) it's ok on my machine. I agree there seems to be some lib(s) missing. Xfce was and for some installs

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 13:32 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 08/31/2013 10:21 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Hmm. I think I have seen that kind of thing once, some years ago, but not recently. I think it was with a less stable version of LXDE (running a Fedora security tools live USB). I've seen it before too, but don't remember the reason for this,

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Xfce hasn't done anything interesting in years, and I've seen big bugs in Xfce that still need fixing that are even more glaring than most of

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 01.09.2013 08:22, schrieb Joel Rees: 've been looking at geany, and it looks interesting functionally, but I'm not at all sold on it. Don't like lots of tool panes all over. It's part of the reason I can't quite bring myself to use either netbeans or eclipse regularly. Most of them can be

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2013 03:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Could, could, could. So what? I've seen conflicts of the same nature in the official repositories.

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:47:54 +0200, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net wrote: On 09/03/2013 03:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Could, could, could. So

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/31/2013 06:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Don't

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 September 2013 17:24:56 Conrad Nelson wrote: I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop environments around to being one of the absolute slowest. The fast, flexible environment is still

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Jeff
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 September 2013 17:24:56 Conrad Nelson wrote: I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop environments around to being one of the absolute slowest. The fast, flexible

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/02/2013 03:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 September 2013 17:24:56 Conrad Nelson wrote: I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop environments around to being one of the absolute slowest.

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu bar of gedit (and I've seen it elsewhere I think), all the menus are jammed up against each other - no nice spacing between them. Anyone know what I ought to install

Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good DE) or recommending Fluxbox and LXDE (good DEs too) isn't

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have been happy since. I find it

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Joe
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 12:54:07 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have been happy since. I

Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Weaver
On Sat, August 31, 2013 11:19 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good

Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 02:15 -0700, Weaver wrote: On Sat, August 31, 2013 11:19 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Jape Person
On 09/01/2013 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: ... I've been looking at geany, and it looks interesting functionally, but I'm not at all sold on it. Don't like lots of tool panes all over. It's part of the reason I can't quite bring myself to use either netbeans or eclipse regularly. ... As an

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/1/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu bar of gedit (and I've seen it elsewhere I think), all the menus are jammed up against each other - no nice

Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2013 10:21 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 9/1/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu bar of gedit (and I've seen it

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ever installed xfce, not gnome. Manually installed gedit. I'm guessing there's some libs to isntall... Manually, as in ...? :) Thanks, even apt and aptitude have differences which can be relevant. Or as in using apt-get install or synaptic, or what, exactly? apt-get install gedit apt-get

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Joel Rees
titles in the menu bar of GNOME apps, such as gedit and evolution. I only ever installed xfce, not gnome. Manually installed gedit. I'm guessing there's some libs to isntall... Manually, as in ...? :) Thanks, even apt and aptitude have differences which can be relevant. Or as in using apt-get

Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Thod Motte
Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Don't! Install Xfce, IMO the best DE that can

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Xfce isn't GNOME 2, but it's ok. Yeah! XFCE is great. Tried it, too, on my netbook. It is fast and well usable. I also was very pleased with LXDE, which is also very lightweight and highly usable. In fact, I still could not find a decision, which one is better or faster. So I did the bst

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:01:42 -0400 Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com wrote: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Instead of shooting the upgrade

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago

XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have been happy since. I find it adequate; ~8months now; I am however reasonable with the command line. I

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread taz man
- Original Message - From: Joe Pfeiffer Sent: 09/01/13 02:21 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Thanks Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Weaver
On Sat, August 31, 2013 8:14 pm, taz man wrote: - Original Message - From: Joe Pfeiffer Sent: 09/01/13 02:21 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Thanks Thod Motte tmo...@mail.com writes: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hello Hugo, mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread staticsafe
On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 01 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hello Hugo, mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 May 2013 09:40:28 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Hello Chris, I think the point is that it has nothing to do with age. Ah, I see. Obviously, I'm not as wise as I am old. :-) -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Yes, thanks - already done that. I'm enjoying my exploration of FreeBSD

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:36:53 +0200 Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Hello Siard, AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:47:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, I installed Claws-Mail and only the Fancy plugin. It works, sort of: Format HTML correctly, but doesn't show images. Config problem? Don't know. Yet. Yes. Even if the Load images option is set to

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Siard
John Hasler writes: Siard writes: AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/ manufacturers/developers. That has not been my

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Siard writes: AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/ manufacturers/developers. That has not been my

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hello Hugo, mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know their moral stance) when choosing a product/app/whatever? --

Re: Thanks to All

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hello Hugo, mine neither Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Siard
Patrick Bartek wrote: google-chrome '%s' works. Don't forget the hyphen. I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead of me having to switch to a different workspace where google-chrome is running all the time. Instead of google-chrome, you could try midori, and

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Siard
Lisi Reisz: Siard: Check whether you can open chrome + url from the command line like this: $ chrome www.google.com If this works, then  chrome '%s'  should work with the 'Open' menu option mentioned above. I type google-chrome (without the and ) in the launcher to get Crome opened.

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 06:41:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:36:06 +0200, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: [cut] google-chrome '%s' works. Don't forget the hyphen. I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead of me having to switch

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:45:46 +0100 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 06:41:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:36:06 +0200, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: [cut] google-chrome '%s' works. Don't forget the hyphen. I

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:41:50 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 04/28/2013 09:41 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead of me having to switch to a different workspace where google-chrome is running all

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:07:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To what extent I don't know. Haven't gotten that far in the manual. Since Claws is a fork, maybe, they are similar. Look 'n' feel is similar, but one of the reasons for

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/29/2013 10:10 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:41:50 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 04/28/2013 09:41 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead of me having to switch to a different

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Siard
Brad Rogers: Patrick Bartek: Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To what extent I don't know. Haven't gotten that far in the manual. Since Claws is a fork, maybe, they are similar. Look 'n' feel is similar, but one of the reasons for the split was the ever increasing difficulty of merging

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:41:17 +0200 Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Hello Siard, Using Sylpheed, I once tried Claws. For messages marked with a color in Sylpheed, the colors got lost. It had a couple of extra bells and IDK why that happened. I never used colouring in Sylpheed, so can't

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Siard
Brad Rogers: Siard: But that horrible logo just about put the lid on it. It was a picture of a bird's claw. Then I realized: I'm not of their kind. Back to Sylpheed! Each to their own, of course. I don't care about logos, etc. If the program does what I want, then it's fine by me.

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2013-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Siard writes: AFAIK, in general, the older one gets, the less important technical aspects become w.r.t. the choices one makes, and the more important the extent gets to which one can identify himself with the makers/ manufacturers/developers. That has not been my experience. -- John Hasler

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:21:54 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:07:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To what extent I don't know. Haven't gotten that far in the manual. Since Claws is a fork,

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