There are some times when you want to install a package that is labelled as ‘i386’. Unless your system is set up to use ‘multiarch’ you won’t be able to install it.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386,If you use ‘lightdm’ to log on with and Debian jessie/testing, you will have a problem at your next reboot! Yesterdays upgrade of ‘lightdm’ broke the configuration, with bug #762211.
The solution is to do sudo leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and comment out both of these two lines ...
Having done a restore and re-install recently of my Debian wheezy box, I made notes on what exactly I did. This was a ‘planned’ restore in that I decided at about 1430 to start the restore now rather than wait for doing it tomorrow. Whilst Obnam was completing ...
more ...Cairo-Dock is a pretty, fast and customizable desktop interface. You can see it as a good alternative/addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, KDE-panel, etc. Its installable from the repos and has its home page at ’GLX-dock’ http://glx-dock.org/ where it has a good set of documentation, a ...
more ...Although I have a very modern and up-to-date computer with 4 gigs of RAM, I do like the desktop environment of LXDE, which has a very light footprint. I have customised it to my needs and preference, with a top panel for everything and cairo-dock in the bottom panel place ...
more ...Yesterday I heard of someone running MATE on Debian wheezy, which is something that I’ve been wanting to do myself. MATE is a fork of Gnome 3, essentially going back to Gnome 2 but updating it slightly, and today I logged into it. And it works beautifully! I’ve ...
more ...I have been a fan of Tony Buzan’s mind-mapping for many years, and have used several programmes for it, primarily kdissert and now freemind.
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or ...
more ...Although I use GNOME there are certain programmes that I use from KDE, like Kontact and konqueror and krusader. I have long had a gripe that I can’t read the tasks in Kontact because the red colouring of them obscures the text. So today I did something about it ...
more ...On logging into gmail yesterday morning on iceweasel I got the following message - “You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly” - are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should I install a more ...
more ...Ever since I’ve been using debian and kde especially one thing has always bugged me, the date bars in kmail! These separate the mails into small chunks according to the day they were received, which sounds like a good idea until you see it implemented, and then you realise ...
more ...By default under KDE, Debian 6 indexes files using nepomuk which can be suspended on the desktop, but that is only valid
for one session. If you reboot then you have to suspend it again, so I’ve been looking for a way of turning it off completely.
And here ...
more ...I’ve been using CentOS for the last four years and got to know it quite well, but I’d become stale, it wasn’t fun anymore. I needed a change, so I tried out Ubuntu, and Kubuntu as I like KDE, but neither really satisfied me. So I tried ...
more ...I’ve moved over from CentOS 5.6 to Debian 6 as I felt like a change and wanted to learn more, so from now on I’ll be concentrating on Debian and documenting my progress with it, or not, as the case may be :)
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