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by hbrand
2020-11-26 00:41
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: login screen becoming black
Replies: 5
Views: 3812

Re: login screen becoming black

I've been having similar issues with Debian Sid for a few months now with a NVIDIA GTX 960. Previous to that, everything was fine. Switching between X and the other consoles and back to X used to work just fine - now it usually locks up X. I'm using KDE and screen locking and even screen power savin...
by hbrand
2013-08-13 04:11
Forum: Programming
Topic: C++ classes and object reference
Replies: 6
Views: 5056

Re: C++ classes and object reference

tomazzi, You appear to have muddled two separate topics together when they are totally separate - 1) creating objects on the stack sv the heap, and 2) memory leaks etc. Further, I didn't even mention static objects, I just asked if the poster intended method1() and method2() to be static methods. Th...
by hbrand
2013-08-12 05:32
Forum: Programming
Topic: C++ classes and object reference
Replies: 6
Views: 5056

Re: C++ classes and object reference

Its hard to know the intentions behind the code. My first rule - never use "new" when construction on the stack will do (and is possible), i.e. Prefer: Object myObject(params); to Object* obj = new Object(params); ... delete obj; This certainly prevents "wasting" memory and issue...
by hbrand
2012-01-28 05:12
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Icedove Icewesel
Replies: 16
Views: 2783

Re: Icedove Icewesel

With icedove 8.0 and probably earlier you can set it in the preferences:
icedove - Edit=>Preferences - Attachments Tab : Content Type http and https - set to /usr/bin/iceweasel
Works for me - hope it works for you.
by hbrand
2010-04-10 22:25
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Grub2 and framebuffer
Replies: 53
Views: 158425

Re: Grub2 and framebuffer

Don't know if this helps, but here's what I've done in "testing" to get my personal background image to load and it seems to be immune to all upgrades I seen so far (and I upgrade daily just for fun :) ), etc.: I found that /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme sources /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_b...