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you fixed my problem it seems. I still go into sleep mode but I have no problems logging back in. Sleep-suspend is built into this laptop but stopping it in the os has stopped the problems I had getting back my display. thank you.

If you don't mind a GUI that works well, try MELD.

just my luck that i tried the wrong gui. Kompare either does not as advertised or I am not smart enough to get it to work even with it's help file.

Trying to campare two text files and output to a third one. tried diff but it does not do what I want and after reading about it I found out should not. diff is for writeing patch files. not what i want to do. I am trying to save hours of work it would take to delete everything that is the same in t...

Thanks for the info. I ran the command to shut off the suspend/sleep feature since it is one i don't need but bookmarked the page so I could run the debug feature it told about when I have more time. maybe i can find out what is happening. so thank you..

ok, I made a backup of my deb after removing the stuff I don't want A hint of sorts, something you should consider, your back up copy should be put on a storage device A good ideal. Some of your debate seems to defeat itself. , with Linux, we have many distros, (distributions), versions, Now I wond...

bash, apt and apt-get all list installed apps and i can pipe them to a text file. writing linux scripts for begginers will get me started. Not really sure if anyone is interested in this but someone might be someday.

They did think of this, and a long time before windows even existed. sorry but windows was invented first. and I will never stop trying to turn linux into the os I want instead of the one you want it to be, Theres a lot of good info in this post. will be doing a lot of reading about aptitude. sounds...

I think you can think of a file system like css. it basically controls your software. while software issues your commands, the file system organizes it and presents it in a way you can understand it and use it. back in the window 95 days, before css. the way to learn html was to find a website you l...

i use apt to install and synaptic to uninstall. I also use synaptic to do stuff like fix broken packages. I do apt update. apt upgrade. apt-dist-upgrade then apt autoremove everytime I install or uninstall anything and both times I noticed autoremove removed a lot. I think it was installs i did. I a...

tried a lot of flavors but liked debian best.

i use rsync with a gui

ok, I made a backup of my deb after removing the stuff I don't want but it dawned on me there should be a way I can build a a version of the windows feature that boots to the last good boot record. or something sort of like that. The reason I want this is twice I have booted to find out that somethi...

the whole argument is not worth the time. whether windows or linux is better depends on the person asking it. windows has allways been a point and click system while linux will never be. The poeple who program it don't think like that.So it depends on why you want to switch. if asked you you will fi...

when my system goes to sleep I have to log out then log back in before I can get to desktop. could not get linux to stop going to sleep so I think my laptop does it. I could not stop sleep function with windows either. If you have any sugestions please offer.

I can be a right cunt sometimes Oh, don't worry about. I am doing it too, perhaps slightly encoded ;) I mainly tried to emphasise that we are pretty much in the same boat - we help people in best effort manner, but we can't solve all the problems and help everyone. sort of asked that question rude....

the tab bar works works like that up to this point in install but on this screen the tab bar selects and deselects the items you want to install. I did find another option to this problem. I found a live usb someone built and loaded it and did a install from it. thank god for generous users and mega...

I am trying to install debian stable from usb and everything goes fine till it comes to desktop selection part, there is a box that you can use your error keys to go up and down and pick from about 5 or six things with a choice of back on left bottem corner or continue on right bottem corner. I can ...