Re: Logon loop after upgrade

2024-04-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, maybe the keyboard layout used by the display manager's greeter doesn't fit the used keyboard. Perhaps the used greeter has got a panel that allows to change the keyboard layout at login and it might be that this can be changed by accident with the mouse wheel. Some GUI designs are tricky. Ve

Re: Brother MFC L2700DW an MX-Linux libsane-extras

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, auf Deutsch, das Paket gibt es offen sichtlich nicht mehr, die lange Antwort in englischer Sprache: Hi, On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 20:14 +0200, Norbert Nowicki wrote: > sudo apt-get install -y libsane-extras ^^The computer god has been kind to you and

Re: Suggest enhancement to cp utility.

2023-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 15:31 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I want to know transfer statistics, i.e., max speed, min speed, avg > speed when I copy to/from a usb device to/from hdd/ssd. > Please enhance cp utility to provide this info. A cmdline switch could > request this report. Hi, the Int

Re: ekiga not found

2023-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, do you have a question? Obviously this software hasn't been updated for 10 years, which could possibly be the reason why it isn't made available through any repository. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe a

Re: Icons on desktop

2023-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:18 -0800, Coburn Ingram wrote: > I found it, but I'm not telling you where, because I'm afraid that > you'll delete it, too. Hi, my first guess is dconf. $ gsettings list-recursively | grep gnome | grep icons org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false [snip]

Re: [si] Modify pre-installed keyboard layouts for specific language

2023-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
off topic Unfortunately, very aesthetic native lettering invite problems in the context of modern technology. Reminds me of the Turkish alphabet revolution anticipating future benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet. IMOH aesthetic native scripts or phonetic mixed forms o

Re: Tomcat9 - Ubuntu 20.04 x64

2022-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 16:00 +, Brad Turnbough wrote: > Can someone look into getting this package updated in order to resolve > this vulnerability? Hi, why should a release model distro, especially a long term support release model distro, update to another software version? This doesn't make

Re: Package Update for Ubuntu

2022-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 22:45 +0200, Maxime Pietrucci-Blacher wrote: > Good evening, I have come to contact you to find out if the nginx- > common and nginx-core packages are going to be updated soon, as there > are many problems with the use of TLS on these two packages as they > are no longer up to

Re: Ubuntu-drivers-common

2022-05-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 19 May 2022 23:25:19 -0400, Isaac Encina wrote: >Hello I was wondering if you guys knew where it would be possible to >download a specific Ubuntu-drivers-common package? Hi, starting points are probably https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common https://packages.ubuntu

Re: Missiing bacula-fd for 9.6.7-3 Ubuntu 2204

2022-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 May 2022 10:48:21 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote: >All the other packages for bacula (director, sd) are available but not >bacula-fd. bacula cannot run without it. Hi, what Ubuntu release are you using? Did you run "sudo apt update" before trying to install it? Oops, while writing I noti

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:24:33 +0530, Amit wrote: >There is no menu in the default Ubuntu desktop GUI. Hi, I suspect that still several Ubuntu flavours have got an application menu by default, much likely even for the latest release. At least Xubuntu 20.04 has got an application menu by default, th

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:44:03 +0530, Amit wrote: >I have used both windows and linux gui systems a lot. So you should be able to describe what from your point of few are the pitfalls of a Linux desktop environment and the pros of Windows. As already pointed out, I suspect Jane the elementary schoo

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:06:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >no WM at all Oops, I at least should correct this typo. It should read "no DE (desktop environment) at all". Of course, openbox is a WM (window manager). However, most new users nowadays are likely in favour of a desktop env

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:06:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I'm a child of the 80th, born in 1966, so I never migrated from Windows >to Linux. I do not come from Windows, as well as a lot of Linux users >of my age or who are way older than I am. > >My first machine with something

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm a child of the 80th, born in 1966, so I never migrated from Windows to Linux. I do not come from Windows, as well as a lot of Linux users of my age or who are way older than I am. My first machine with something Microsoft alike was an Atari ST with a 80286 hardware emulator, IOW a PCB containi

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:38:56 +0530, Amit wrote: >On Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 10:27 PM Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> >> Windows is easier available, since it's installed by default on >> almost all discounter desktop computers (and laptops...). "Available >>

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm not interested in reading another market share link. I'm quite sure that most computer devices used via a GUI are smartphones and I doubt that Windows is the most used OS on smartphones. However, given that most desktop computers likely are equipped with Windows only, the market share still isn

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:08:01 +0530, Amit wrote: >Microsoft Windows is there on about 90% of all (computer) systems >mainly because it is very easy to use. Hi, that's complete bogus for several reasons. >Windows is not a great OS but it is so easy to use that first timers >and older people also u

PS: change "/tmp" deletion from the time of boot to the time of shutting down to prevent data loss

2021-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:19:09 +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote: >You can pass `init=/bin/bash` as kernel boot parameter through GRUB and >then copy the temporary files to a safe place. I can't comment on GRUB. While my machine has got more than one Ubuntu install, too, I'm in favour of syslinux. Howeve

Re: change "/tmp" deletion from the time of boot to the time of shutting down to prevent data loss

2021-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:19:09 +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote: >However in general, /tmp is not intended to have important data which >is worth regretting. Let alone that tmp could be mounted as tmpfs, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs . However, even if it's not a tmpfs, a systemd unit might cl

Re: firebird3.0 install on Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

2021-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:27:30 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: >Be aware though: 16.04.7 goes past End of Standard Support this month >- you should consider upgrading 16.04 to 18.04 before the end of >standard support happens. Doesn't do-release-upgrade after April work anymore? I suspect that it at least

Re: [NEWS]: "Katarina Rostova"

2021-04-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, this is a misuse of protonmail, as well as of the Ubuntu mailing lists. Please remove the accounts from this individual, who acts under a faked name. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2021-April/303874.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2021-April/019001.

Re: Power problem with Radeon 7750 card and Nouveau driver

2021-02-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 16:51:51 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >Does anyone have suggestions how to troubleshoot this further? Hi, it's probably not a driver related issue. At least you don't care for the correct driver. The Radeon driver is pre-installed and used for your Radeon graphics. The nouvea

Re: Feature request: Better start up time of Ubuntu like on version 16.04

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 08:19 +0100, Damian wrote: > > some versions ago (16.04) a cold start to me 16 seconds. > > With all later versions even with SSD harddrives it takes over a > > minutes. > > Which time frame do you measure that takes a minute? I measure 15 > seconds from hitting enter in grub

Re: install nwipe

2020-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:30:24 +0700, D.Bosch wrote: >Pls give me instructions how to install and run nwipe. > >what are the terminal programs. Hi, installing the package: sudo apt update sudo apt install nwipe https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nwipe "/usr/sbin/nwipe" - https://packages.ubuntu.

Re: Hot to Upgrade from Linux-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS

2020-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:26:45 -0400, Santosh K. Saha wrote: >*How can I upgrade from Linux-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS* ? Hi, your request belongs to https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users . If you should have questions related to the following howto, please use the above m

Re: Jolly Jumper as of Lucky Luke

2020-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:08:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:25:57 +0200, André Pirard wrote: >>Jolly Jumper. It would make a delicious Ubuntu mascot. > >I suspect you are thinking of an Ubuntu codename (release name) and a >mascot for this Ubuntu release

Re: Jolly Jumper as of Lucky Luke

2020-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:25:57 +0200, André Pirard wrote: >Jolly Jumper. It would make a delicious Ubuntu mascot. I suspect you are thinking of an Ubuntu codename (release name) and a mascot for this Ubuntu release. This most likely would cause a legal issue. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list U

Re: Cydia/APT(M): x11proto-xext-dev (7.3.0-1)

2020-01-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 20:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 19:00:55 +, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 06:41, David Carissimi wrote: > > > I have been installing all debs for Ubuntu on my iPhone with > > > terminal and it seems to

Re: Cydia/APT(M): x11proto-xext-dev (7.3.0-1)

2020-01-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 19:00:55 +, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 06:41, David Carissimi wrote: >> I have been installing all debs for Ubuntu on my iPhone with >> terminal and it seems to magically work. Didn’t know if you had >> anything else that could modify deep in the system ov

Re: The alternative implementation of Ubuntu user statistics

2019-12-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 21:56:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >/proc/cmdline provides some information about pitfalls such as >"mitigations=off audit=off" which might vs a new kernel in combination >with a new microcode, by still using

Re: The alternative implementation of Ubuntu user statistics

2019-12-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 23:23:41 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >Hello, > >I've recently initiated a new statistical project based on anonymously >collected outputs of hwinfo, smartmontools and dmidecode utilities >called "Linux Hardware Trends". The report for Ubuntu is now here: >https://github.com

Re: Enhancement: Make "Keyboard settings" (keyboard layout) easier accessible

2019-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 04:32:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >To cut a long story short, different desktop environments provide >different keyboard layout related GUI dialogs. Some of them follow your >logic, other don't. In then end all of them just steer kind of a middle ^ th

Re: Enhancement: Make "Keyboard settings" (keyboard layout) easier accessible

2019-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: In theory Ubuntu developers could change it for Ubuntu only, but you better report your concern against upstream. Keep in mind that portability might be important, too. A user might migrate from one Linux distro to another, or even might migrate from Linux to FreeBSD, or vice versa. Disclaime

Re: Enhancement: Make "Keyboard settings" (keyboard layout) easier accessible

2019-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, selecting the wanted keyboard layout is tricky. A single user machine vs a multi-user system where each user might use a different language and/or keyboard. There are different levels on how to set up the wanted keyboard layout, let alone that some apps are more or less smart. An example, e

Re: Announcing release 3.48 of reposurgeon

2019-10-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:22:16 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >If every developer sent this list an email every time there was a new >release, this email list would become usable. ^^^ ^^ a Freudian slip ;) or

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, installing "alien" packages, based upon a different package management via apt, is a bad idea. This is not functional, it's dysfunctional. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

2019-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On 6/23/19 12:51 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: >> My apologies for my long mail, and the kind-of rant. Hi, while I agree on many of your statements, those are not really related to the 32-bit issue. Ubuntu still will support 32-bit for some while, Arch Linux for example has already dropped

Re: Anacron/Cron needed by default anymore?

2019-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:59:01 -0800, Bryan Quigley wrote: >Subject: Anacron/Cron needed by default anymore? ^^ Oops, I missed that part :D. You don't want to drop it completely. -- Ubuntu-devel-discus

Re: Anacron/Cron needed by default anymore?

2019-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:59:01 -0800, Bryan Quigley wrote: >Based on a disco desktop current jobs: >apport - clean all crash reports which are older than a week. >apt-compat - says to prefer the systemd timers >bsdmainutils - BSD mainutils calendar daily maintenance script >cracklib-runtime - make a

Re: How install gcc with deb

2018-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:11:57 +, Caipenghui wrote: > My computer is loaded with ubuntu18.04 LTS, but my computer is not > connected to the Internet, so I can't install GCC online. So I have a > network in another computer from > https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/devel/gcc download de

Re: blacklist pcspkr

2018-11-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:19:07 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: >isnt it great that ubuntu allows you to modify the default (that >pleases the majority of users) I seriously doubt that the majority of users is pleased by a blacklisted pcspkr. It isn't great that Ubuntu defaults to something stupid, the

blacklist pcspkr

2018-11-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, when upgrading Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS right now I noticed something alarming. "Configuration file '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your optio

Re: Gui of slic3r

2018-09-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 16:34:57 +0200, Markus wrote: >The gui of > >slic3r > > >and the gui of > >slic3r-prusa > > >does not work within the distribution, that you maintain. Hi, I'm not a developer or maintainer. Given that Artful 17.10 exceeded End of Life and that Cosmic 18.10 is a future release,

Re: Not download Ubuntu software

2018-06-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:11:06 +0530, umang agola wrote: >Not proper working download tux paint pls send me link proper Hi, "tuxpaint" is provided by the "universe" repository for all supported releases, Trusty, Xenial, Artful and Bionic as well as for the future release Cosmic. Your request belong

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 13 May 2018 18:57:46 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 04:25:25PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: >> However, killing i386 support globally could introduce issues, >> including but not limited to certain upstream softwares having to go >> away entirely, due to the interdependenc

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On 11 May 2018 at 16:32, Fiedler Roman wrote: >> b) Those, who do not want to consume more resources due to ethical >> considerations (that's the one for me): how many people could fed or >> how much CO2 prevented, if all systems were some percent smaller on >> disk/RAM, including IT-system produ

Re: Seeking advice/help for custom linux requirement

2018-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 07:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Just autostart the browser with this specific website. And before doing this, autostart the user session ;). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: ht

Re: Seeking advice/help for custom linux requirement

2018-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, your request belongs to the users mailing list. Have you already done some research by yourself? Without any experiences in this domain and any research the following comes to my mind. On Mon, 7 May 2018 02:28:07 +0530, Nipun Pruthi wrote: >I need to make a custom version of linux with follow

Re: extlinux dependent issue

2018-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I'm surprised that "syslinux{,-common}" are in "main", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/syslinux{,-common} and "extlinux" is in "universe", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/extlinux, while all belongs to the same upstream source. Arch doesn't split syslinux. $ pacman -Ql syslinux

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

2018-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 08:56:25 +, Colin Law wrote: >On 2 February 2018 at 16:08, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: >> I had to copy my `/home` folder over to a USB stick >Of course you will have backed up everything before hand >anyway just in case something goes wrong. Let alone that a user regularly s

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 22:17:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I didn't read the complete Hagakure, not because I suffer from >dyslexia, but because the content of the Hagakure was much

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:31:12 +0100, Xen wrote: >I think Kohlhaas was actually pretty sympathetic ;-). Indeed, but don't confuse the way of Kohlhaas, with the way of the worrier, as described by the Hagakure, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure ;). You sometimes sound like somebody doing a soft

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:31:12 +0100, Xen wrote: >I am pretty sure that if the upstream devs would have taken a more >considerate approach, businesses would actually have been willing to >fund security maintenance, since it would have cost them much less >than making the transition. See https://li

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 21:22:34 +, Robie Basak wrote: >Assuming we do ship Python 2 in main in 18.04, which seems likely, you >will be able to use Python 2 in 18.04 until 2023. It's quite possible that Arch Linux (I mentioned it by a previous reply) might move python2 back to the Arch User Reposit

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 08:44:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:24:52 +, Colin Watson wrote: >>In any case, there is really very little point in tilting at this >>windmill now > >Don Quixote doesn't need to worry about thinking about something >

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:24:52 +, Colin Watson wrote: >In any case, there is really very little point in tilting at this >windmill now Don Quixote doesn't need to worry about thinking about something idiotic, since actually it's Sancho Panza who has to face the music. However, the analogy fits pe

Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models - Bug #1734147

2017-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:35:17 +0100, Xen wrote: >Ralf Mardorf schreef op 28-11-2017 19:22: > >> There are far more known issues, Google is your friend. I doubt that >> you will find a lot, if any known issues caused by Linux >> distribution, but there are a vast number o

Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models - Bug #1734147

2017-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:06:19 +0100, Tobia wrote: >I know that you are extremely busy I would like to report this bug >since it's very, very serious and I do not know if you already know >this issue. > >Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models - Bug >#1734147 > >All of us affected c

Re: [Feature Request] Support alias cls='clear' Officially

2017-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:08:13 +0800, 蔡瑋倫 wrote: >Dear two professional developers I'm not a developer. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: [Feature Request] Support alias cls='clear' Officially

2017-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Off-topic One of my favourite aliases is alias mad='LANG=de_DE.utf8 man' :D "mad" is for "man" and "de", fortunately many German manpages are bananas, so the alias fits well. Regards, Ralf PS: Be careful when you go on a mushroom foray http://bananasinpyjamas.wikia.com/wiki/Bananas_in_Pyjam

Re: [Feature Request] Support alias cls='clear' Officially

2017-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, > On 15 Oct 2017, at 09:53, Xen wrote: > Ralf Mardorf schreef op 15-10-2017 6:22: >> >>> On 14 Oct 2017, at 15:52, 蔡瑋倫 wrote: >>> 1. From the perspective of keyboard typing, "cls" is much easier to type >>> than "clear." >>

Re: [Feature Request] Support alias cls='clear' Officially

2017-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, > On 14 Oct 2017, at 15:52, 蔡瑋倫 wrote: > 1. From the perspective of keyboard typing, "cls" is much easier to type than > "clear." what is speaking against using Ctrl+L ? > 2. The corresponding command under Windows is "cls." By googling for some > related materials, I have figured out tha

Re: nvidia-304-dev

2017-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:04:37 -0300, Jaime de Paula wrote: >If I choose to work with another window manager (Enlightenment, >Cinnamon, etc...) it works perfectly, and so I guess it's an >incompatibility between Unity and my video card. But Unity is better >for me. Hi, Unity is discontinued, so con

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:47:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Regarding >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1551273 >it might be, that by design it only shows apps with a GUI :p. My apologies, this bug seems to be about another software installer GUI. It seems

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 23:10 +0300, Коля Гурьев wrote: > 26.08.2017 19:16, Nrbrtx пишет: > > Let's assume that we need to install libgtk2.0-dev from gnome-software. > > How to do it? Simple search of libgtk2.0-dev produces no results (note: > > software-center finds and installs this package). Any

Re: Hi guys

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:38:03 -0500, Eder Rafo Jose Pariona Espinhal wrote: >How I can download and install tdsodbc, *but from source or manually.* It's available by official repositories for all supported Ubuntu releases, e.g. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=zesty&searchon=names&keywords

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:04:56 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >I have never used auto-apt. Neither have I. I installed it just in case it should be useful some day. >In Debian Stretch it works very stable. It is pre-installed as >recommendation for Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQT, LXDE and other desktops In my e

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: "auto-apt search Xlib.h" - http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Auto-apt "sudo auto-apt run ./configure" - https://www.howtogeek.com/106526/how-to-resolve-dependencies-while-compiling-software-on-ubuntu/ FWIW I only run tool update or tool upd to upgrade everything, since I wrote a sc

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:36:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >http://www.debiananwenderhandbuch.de/auto-apt.html The text I found is in English, on the left there is a selection box were you could chose the language, seemingly the original link is in German. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing l

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:32:34 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >>anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use >>a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. >lol :) > >In other words gnome-soft

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Btw. sometimes I want tabs and sometimes I want individual windows. IMO it's strange to provide multiple desktop workspaces, but making it hard to chose between a new tab or a new window for some apps. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Xfw is missing features and eye candy, but as a quid pro quo there are never issues, e.g. regarding /run/user/*/dconf/user permissions. I prefer pluma and xed (and for some tasks nano) over xfw, but sometimes xfw is helpful for my workflow as well. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 18:58:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:26:56 +0200, Xen wrote: >>Linux does not have a good single-window (no tabs) text editor. Xed >>comes closest (from Mint) but is multi-tab. > >[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ xed & xed --new-

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:26:56 +0200, Xen wrote: >Linux does not have a good single-window (no tabs) text editor. Xed >comes closest (from Mint) but is multi-tab. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ xed & xed --new-window & xed --new-window opens no tabs, just three instances of xed -- Vote for apulse!

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:51:13 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: >What does ROXTerm do that no other terminal application does? If you need to ask this question, then it's irrelevant for your workflow. If you should miss something by using other terminals, you might find it, when using ROXterm. Unfort

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:23:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I need to complain about the ongoing Windows vs Microsoft >discussions. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. IOW if you migrate from >Windows to Linux, please don't force native Windows use

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:26:56 +0200, Xen wrote: >Linux does not have a good single-window (no tabs) text editor. Perhaps xfw is "good" for your purpose? >The only viable solution for copy and pasting in terminals Given that you could use the completion feature via tab-key and history features via

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologies, it wasn't intended to send a duplicated message, let alone that I forgot to change the signature to... Death of ROXTerm https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/ ...because it describes the ROXTerm issue. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-d

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:26:47 +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >We're seeking your input on your favorite apps for the Linux desktop. Hi, it would be nice, if a team with the skills and the time to do so, would fix, IOW rewrite the discontinued ROXTerm. As far as I know, there's no terminal availab

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Favorite Apps

2017-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:26:47 +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >We're seeking your input on your favorite apps for the Linux desktop. Hi, it would be nice, if a team with the skills and the time to do so, would fix, IOW rewrite the discontinued ROXTerm. As far as I know, there's no terminal available

Re: Old Qbittorrent Version on APT

2017-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, my apologies, there was an issue with a signature in my previous mail, instead of deleting it, I copied it into the text by accident. As already pointed out, actually zesty already providers 3.3.7, so the OP could easily do a release upgrade. Regards, Ralf -- Vote for apulse! echo $(w3m http

Re: Old Qbittorrent Version on APT

2017-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 01:42:42 -0400, Harley Lorenzo wrote: >The qbittorrent version on apt is out of date and needs updating. The >version on apt is 3.3.1 and the current version is 3.3.13. I can say >that version is very stable based on my own testing and that an >upgrade should be pushed onto apt

Re: Simple scan doesn't recognize my scanner Brother DCP-7060D

2017-07-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 14:04:09 +0200 (CEST), Norbert SIROT wrote: >Linux Mint 18.1. Hi, first of all, chances to get help are better when sending a request to the Ubuntu users mailing list, than when asking for support on the devel discussion mailing list. However, Linux is _not_ Mint! Subscribe to

Re: LibreOffice bug - cannot run office because of 'missing file' in 5.1.4.2 28 June, 2017

2017-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:17:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:49:06 -0700, paulwhee...@cox.net wrote: >>Frustrated, and falling behind in my work, because of your bug. > >No, because you are ignoring the messages you get by synaptic PS: If you would use an Ubun

Re: LibreOffice bug - cannot run office because of 'missing file' in 5.1.4.2 28 June, 2017

2017-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:49:06 -0700, paulwhee...@cox.net wrote: >Frustrated, and falling behind in my work, because of your bug. No, because you are ignoring the messages you get by synaptic, as well as sending tons of requests, instead of just one smart request and apart from this you are sen

Re: CVE-2017-1000364 kernel fix brake user-space programs

2017-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:52:40 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >It is not OK. >Do you plan to revert this security patch? Hi, I'm not an Ubuntu developer. Did you read about CVE-2017-1000364, https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ubuntu+CVE-2017-1000364 ? Do you really expect a fix for a _high severity_ vuln

Re: [kernel-hardening] Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:52:04 -0700, Brendan || Lyn Perrine wrote: >On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:17:53 + aconcernedfoss...@airmail.cc wrote: >> Oh exaulted one, I am so sorry to have wasted your inbox space. >> You see we all live for you, exalted aryan queen! Hi, should we tolerate the above tone o

Re: Issue installing Jenkins and get "Depends: daemon but it is not installable" Can you help?

2017-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: FWIW https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users seems to be a better place for requests like yours. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Issue installing Jenkins and get "Depends: daemon but it is not installable" Can you help?

2017-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:05:47 -0500, Scott Fenech wrote: >https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2363054 Hi, if IIUC the issue is solved now? As a site note 1. Users should always run sudo apt update before "install". 2. sudo gdebi path/package as well as sudo dpkg --force-dep

Re: gnome-sudoku

2017-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 29 May 2017 07:00:08 + (UTC), Ηλίας Ηλιάδης wrote: >The discussion is not about gnome having it fixed (or gnome doing >anything else). Is about "IF UBUNTU" must have such games in its >standard repositories. Hi, if it's part of GNOME, than why not providing it by the official reposito

Re: gnome-sudoku

2017-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 5 May 2017 08:41:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >You need to provide the version that is installed. To get the version, >you could open a terminal and run > >dpkg -l 'gnome-sudoku'|grep ii|awk '{print $3}'|cut -d: -f2|cut -d- -f1 > >Maybe you jus

Re: gnome-sudoku

2017-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 5 May 2017 04:22:05 + (UTC), Ηλίας Ηλιάδης wrote: > gnome-sudoku1. The new interface is hiding the numbers via the pop-up > (when a cell is clicked). This is very annoying. The player cannot > see the "full image". Hi, you should report this upstream, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ , sin

Re: Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

2017-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, a small error has crept in. This... On Tue, 2 May 2017 08:47:45 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: should read... On Tue, 2 May 2017 00:40:49 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >What is the future of unity-control-center? Unity desktop will be discontinued soon. Regards Ralf -- "Access to all la

Re: Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

2017-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2 May 2017 08:47:45 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >What is the future of unity-control-center? Unity desktop will be discontinued soon. Regards Ralf -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.co

Re: Feedback and User requests

2017-04-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:20:11 -0600, Keith Hayward wrote: >Feedback 01 - Submitting feedback on user experience >Apparently to provide feedback on the Ubuntu experience you have to >sign up to a mailing list via a web interface I have not seen since >the 1990's. Compared to other organisations like

Re: backports for trusty

2017-04-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 06:32:47 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >I've collected several packages which I maintain locally (eg. right >now I'm packaging recent cairo w/ drm patches applied) and I'd like >to put that into bigger community. Hi, I'm neither an Ubuntu developer, nor do I maintains some back

Re: XPenguins on Linux Mint 16 (Sarah)

2017-03-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:07:47 +1100, Timothy Herrmann wrote: >Currently XPenguins doesn't work on Linux Mint 16 (currently 2017) and >instead says: "Redrawing overwritten desktop icons". I assume that the >message is saying that it is redrawing icons that were overwritten by >penguins mining them

Re: Package: virtualbox-ext-pack

2017-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:12:09 +0300, Андрей Воронов wrote: >I use VirtualBox 5.1 from repository: > >deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib > >but the package virtualbox-ext-pack is trying download version 5.0: Hi, you are using a third party repository. It's not an o

Re: Gnash

2016-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 17:07 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote: > Due to the path above, I think the culprit isn't apt but synaptic. It  > should probably use a path outside the /root directory. I was thinking about "user '_apt'", not "apt", but you a right, the path /root/ is an issue. Not for synaptic an

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