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Tips from our Members
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Great howto, comes with screenshots of the installation, best one i've seen:
The Perfect Desktop - Debian Lenny - by Falko Timme
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-d ... bian-lenny
The Perfect Desktop - Debian Lenny - by Falko Timme
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-d ... bian-lenny
Devuan Jessie - IceWM - vimperator - no DM
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
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Welcome!
Devuan Jessie - IceWM - vimperator - no DM
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
Re: Tips from our Members
I just want to suggest new users, not to mess with things too much unless they understand how Debian works.
And another tip, Google your questions before asking here...
That's it! Have fun!
And another tip, Google your questions before asking here...
That's it! Have fun!
AMLJ**0-1-47
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tip for openbox users -
volumeicon -http://www.softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html
works well from the tint2 system tray, better and lighter weight then kmix.
best volume control thing-a-ma-bob i've found so far.
volumeicon -http://www.softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html
works well from the tint2 system tray, better and lighter weight then kmix.
best volume control thing-a-ma-bob i've found so far.
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The nerve.MeanDean wrote:ehhh....I just stick a shortcut to my favorite mixer on my panel
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excellent idea, however can't do that with tint2. and i kinda dig using the scroll wheel..MeanDean wrote:ehhh....I just stick a shortcut to my favorite mixer on my panel
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so why are you using tint2?bmc5311 wrote: excellent idea, however can't do that with tint2. and i kinda dig using the scroll wheel..
okay...so...
a menu shortcut to your favorite mixer
a keyboard shortcut to your favorite mixer
a keyboard shortcut to raise the volume 5% along with a keyboard shortcut to lower the volume 5%
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MeanDean wrote:so why are you using tint2?bmc5311 wrote: excellent idea, however can't do that with tint2. and i kinda dig using the scroll wheel..
okay...so...
a menu shortcut to your favorite mixer
a keyboard shortcut to your favorite mixer
a keyboard shortcut to raise the volume 5% along with a keyboard shortcut to lower the volume 5%
tint2 seems to work best (two monitors and i only want a panel on one of them) for me
- fbpanel and every other one i tried except gnome panel (and i've been slowly but surly de-gnomeifing my system) want to stretch across both monitors
already have a menu shortcut, but can't one click mute or use the scroll
did the shortcut key too - ummm, can't remember what i set it to, or pretty much any other shortcut i set up... they say memory is the 2nd thing to go....
do you use openbox?
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nah...why use openbox when icewm does so much more and uses less memory
although I often find myself using e17...it has a volume panel gadget
edit - oops....didnt notice what section/thread I was in....excuse the chit-chat
although I often find myself using e17...it has a volume panel gadget
edit - oops....didnt notice what section/thread I was in....excuse the chit-chat
Re: Tips from our Members
Oh, another tip:
I'm tired of seeing our experienced users use apt-get, and noobs will also learn from them and that's not good.
Use aptitude!!!
I'm tired of seeing our experienced users use apt-get, and noobs will also learn from them and that's not good.
Use aptitude!!!
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While Debian it's self recomends aptitude because of it's ability to handle dependancies better. Both tools have their uses and are good tools. There is nothing wrong with one using apt-get as long as they are aware of it's abilities and limatations. The same can be said of using Synaptic (I believe a GUI front end to apt-get).AMLJ wrote:Oh, another tip:
I'm tired of seeing our experienced users use apt-get, and noobs will also learn from them and that's not good.
Use aptitude!!!
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AMLJ wrote:Oh, another tip:
I'm tired of seeing our experienced users use apt-get, and noobs will also learn from them and that's not good.
Use aptitude!!!
apt-get forever!!!
There is absolutely no reason to not use apt-get. There is a ton of Debian documentation that refers to apt-get. For example:
The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - Basics of the Debian package management system
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html
The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - The Debian package management tools7.13 How do I install a source package?
Debian source packages can't actually be "installed", they are just unpacked in whatever directory you want to build the binary packages they produce.
Source packages are distributed on most of the same mirrors where you can obtain the binary packages. If you set up your APT's sources.list(5) to include the appropriate "deb-src" lines, you'll be able to easily download any source packages by running
apt-get source foo
To help you in actually building the source package, Debian source package provide the so-called build-dependencies mechanism. This means that the source package maintainer keeps a list of other packages that are required to build their package. To see how this is useful, run
apt-get build-dep foo
before building the source.
7.14 How do I build binary packages from a source package?
The preferred way to do this is by using various wrapper tools. We'll show how it's done using the devscripts tools. Install this package if you haven't done so already.
Now, first get the source package:
apt-get source foo
and change to the source tree:
cd foo-*
Then install needed build-dependencies (if any):
sudo apt-get build-dep foo
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html
8.1.2 APT
APT is the Advanced Package Tool and provides the apt-get program. apt-get provides a simple way to retrieve and install packages from multiple sources using the command line. Unlike dpkg, apt-get does not understand .deb files, it works with the packages proper name and can only install .deb archives from a source specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. apt-get will call dpkg directly after downloading the .deb archives[5] from the configured sources.
Some common ways to use apt-get are: *
To update the list of package known by your system, you can run:
apt-get update
(you should execute this regularly to update your package lists)
*
To upgrade all the packages on your system (without installing extra packages or removing packages), run:
apt-get upgrade
*
To install the foo package and all its dependencies, run:
apt-get install foo
*
To remove the foo package from your system, run:
apt-get remove foo
*
To remove the foo package and its configuration files from your system, run:
apt-get --purge remove foo
*
To upgrade all the packages on your system, and, if needed for a package upgrade, installing extra packages or removing packages, run:
apt-get dist-upgrade
(The command upgrade keeps a package at its installed obsolete version if upgrading would need an extra package to be installed, for a new dependency to be satisfied. The dist-upgrade command is less conservative.)
Note that you must be logged in as root to perform any commands that modify the system packages.
Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages as default and is the preferred program for package management from console to perform system installation and major system upgrades for its robustness.
The apt tool suite also includes the apt-cache tool to query the package lists. You can use it to find packages providing specific functionality through simple text or regular expression queries and through queries of dependencies in the package management system. Some common ways to use apt-cache are:
To find packages whose description contain word:
apt-cache search word *
To print the detailed information of a package:
apt-cache show package *
To print the packages a given package depends on:
apt-cache depends package *
To print detailed information of the versions available for a package and the packages that reverse-depends on it:
apt-cache showpkg package
For more information, install the apt package and read apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and install the apt-doc package and read /usr/share/doc/apt-doc/guide.html/index.html.
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Debian - "If you can't apt install something, it isn't useful or doesn't exist"
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My Giant Sources.list
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Aptitude is a more powerful front-end to apt-get, that's why I recommend using it...
--aptitude offers easy access to all versions of a package.
--aptitude makes it easy to keep track of obsolete software by listing it under "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages".
--aptitude includes a fairly powerful system for searching particular packages and limiting the package display. Users familiar with mutt will pick up quickly, as mutt was the inspiration for the expression syntax.
--aptitude can be used to install the predefined tasks available.
--aptitude in full screen mode has su functionality embedded and can be run by a normal user. It will call su (and ask for the root password, if any) when you really need administrative privileges.
Thanks in advance.
--aptitude offers easy access to all versions of a package.
--aptitude makes it easy to keep track of obsolete software by listing it under "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages".
--aptitude includes a fairly powerful system for searching particular packages and limiting the package display. Users familiar with mutt will pick up quickly, as mutt was the inspiration for the expression syntax.
--aptitude can be used to install the predefined tasks available.
--aptitude in full screen mode has su functionality embedded and can be run by a normal user. It will call su (and ask for the root password, if any) when you really need administrative privileges.
Could you please tell me the advantages. I guess I didn't see it in the documentation I read sometime ago, about Debian package management. Maybe I just missed that part.MeanDean wrote:forget them both....use wajig
Thanks in advance.
AMLJ**0-1-47
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potayto - potahto
tomayto - tomahto
6 of one and a half dozen of the other.
tomayto - tomahto
6 of one and a half dozen of the other.