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by dblake2
2019-08-06 00:56
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

i decided to try all the available desktops in debian 9 & made 2 discoveries. 1) there are 8 choices & root term access works in all of them (with root pw, not user pw like deb10) except 'gnome on wayland' which acts exactly like 'gnome' on deb 10, sounds like what head-on-a -stick was talki...
by dblake2
2019-08-06 00:19
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

i decided to try ALL of my desktop choices available after entering username & the root term access works in all of them except 'gnome'. they all work by entering user pw, not root pw. the choices are: gnome classic-works ok gnome on xorg=works ok default x session=works ok (this is xfce) xfce s...
by dblake2
2019-08-05 21:07
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

based on shep's post i tried entering the command manually from a normal terminal as reg user (gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator). this produced same result as clicking on 'root terminal' icon, ie, pw prompt where i am unable to enter characters (i type but nothing appears, click ok & get login ...
by dblake2
2019-08-05 00:29
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

it's a problem because it's sitting/available on the menu & it doesn't work.

i'm very aware of sudo in a regular terminal.
by dblake2
2019-08-04 18:42
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

Are you saying there should be no root terminal icon in buster (monitor icon on activities menu with magenta/purple face that sez 'root terminal')? after googling .Xauthority & xauth it would be easier to just delete it than try & fix it. But curious as to what it's doing there in the first ...
by dblake2
2019-08-01 22:41
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

yeah, i agree with your grandfather. this was an upgrade from deb9 & both gnome & xfce carried over. thankfully xfce is the default. i did find out how to login to a session with gnome,by googling, but that didn't affect the original problem with the root terminal if i'm logged in as reg use...
by dblake2
2019-08-01 18:58
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

not to interrupt the argument but i got around the problem by logging in with xfce desktop rather than gnome. now that i think about it i recall having problems with root & gnome b4. gnome seems especially picky about root logins/usage. i might look into it later-if there's a root term on the me...
by dblake2
2019-08-01 01:09
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

ill try sudo -i but thats not the problem. the root terminal icon itself is unusable. normally it just asks for the root pw & your off & running this one gives the error msg- maybe i have to configure the root terminal itself? i have deb 9 on this computer, on another partition, (used to be ...
by dblake2
2019-08-01 00:05
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

Re: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

i get the normal prompt for user pw & am able to log on as root.
if i then try & open a root terminal it fails & i get the same error msg.
by dblake2
2019-07-31 20:43
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no root term after upgrade deb 9-10
Replies: 54
Views: 21271

no root term after upgrade deb 9-10

i upgraded from debian 9 to 10 & now get error msg when try to run root terminal, ie:
"failed to run /usr/bin/xterminal emulator as user root"
"unable to copy the users Xauthorization file"
i am in the sudoers list.
any ideas/hints?
by dblake2
2019-07-23 20:25
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: debian9-stretch-gnome login sound
Replies: 4
Views: 2632

Re: debian9-stretch-gnome login sound

This is frustrating (welcome to linux). I seem to have all the files but the login refuses to play on gnome I switched to xfce desktop & was able to get it going there but xfce startup app allows you to enter the command line manually whereas gnome startup apps has only a list of preselected pro...
by dblake2
2019-07-23 01:34
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: fd0 error on boot-SOLVED
Replies: 2
Views: 2011

Re: fd0 error on boot

no floppy in drive.

problem fixed by running update-initramfs -u command.

I had corrected the swap file uuid's in fstab (kindly changed to the wrong values by a ubuntu 16-18 upgrade) & didn't realize it had to be run (thanks to google).
by dblake2
2019-07-23 00:17
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: debian9-stretch-gnome login sound
Replies: 4
Views: 2632

Re: debian9-stretch-gnome login sound

I found the tweaker. it already had 'login sound' in there but nothing was playing. I tried to open it no luck so I deleted it thinkng to add it back but it wasn't in the list. this new version doesn't seem to offer the option of inputting manual commands like debian8 with xfce. I've got a desktop-l...
by dblake2
2019-07-23 00:14
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: fd0 error on boot-SOLVED
Replies: 2
Views: 2011

fd0 error on boot-SOLVED

Debian 9-stretch, recently upgraded from Debian 8-I'm getting ~20 lines of 'blk-update-request,i/o error,dev fd0,sector 0' messages on boot. I notice fd0 spinning on boot, there's obviously something trying to access it. Anyone know what file or program it might be? I looked at fstab but it's the sa...
by dblake2
2019-07-21 21:03
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: debian9-stretch-gnome login sound
Replies: 4
Views: 2632

debian9-stretch-gnome login sound

I was running xfce desktop but decided to add gnome & now can't find 'startup apps' or whatever it is that plays sound when you login.

I can play it manually but it's silent when I log in.
by dblake2
2019-07-11 00:07
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no login sound for xfce or kde-SOLVED
Replies: 5
Views: 2048

Re: no login sound for xfce or kde

I got login sound in xfce session by checking settings-session & startup-application autostart-”GNOME login sound…..”.
I had previously set it up in gnome which required a bunch of installs.
This was in Debian7. I just upgraded it to Debian8.
by dblake2
2019-07-10 20:35
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no login sound for xfce or kde-SOLVED
Replies: 5
Views: 2048

Re: no login sound for xfce or kde

thanks, but I got it by poking around the menu-settings & checking the correct boxes for both xfce & kde.

I also installed mpg123 & vorbis-tools in xfce.
by dblake2
2019-07-10 01:35
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: no login sound for xfce or kde-SOLVED
Replies: 5
Views: 2048

no login sound for xfce or kde-SOLVED

Debian/jessie-I have gnome/xfce/kde desktops & only gnome has the login sound.
Anyone know the procedure for getting same in xfce or kde?
I do have sound in xfce & kde just no login sound.
by dblake2
2016-03-16 01:56
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Solved] restore min/max buttons in debian 8.3
Replies: 2
Views: 793

Re: restore min/max buttons in debian 8.3

well that was easy

i tried logging on with xfce & there they were. i guess i was thinking it was a system problem when it was just a gnome problem.

thanks.
by dblake2
2016-03-15 19:50
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Solved] restore min/max buttons in debian 8.3
Replies: 2
Views: 793

[Solved] restore min/max buttons in debian 8.3

i'm trying to get the minimize/maximize buttons back for open windows in debian 8.3 been googling this like crazy & none of the answers seem to work. in gnome-tweak-tool the button field is blank with no options. dconf-editor also does not have the relevant field (wm) mentioned in the answers. i...