Long time since last post - thought I’d welcome FF3rc1. They are getting there!
Installing Firefox in Debian is not as straight forward as in Ubuntu due to Iceweasel and something about copyrighted (not GNU) firefox logo (or whatever). I downloaded the source from mozilla.com and run Firefox in the directory. So it’s not really installed [...]
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Jeez - how annoying that system beep is!
As root, do the following:
echo “blacklist pcspkr” >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
rmmod pcspkr
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update-rc.d is a command to set and edit the scripts within the different runtimes. For instance - when you make a script which you need to run each time you start runlevel 2 ( default in debian based systems ), you run the command:
sudo update-rc.d script default
I have had some trouble with mpd not being [...]
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I thought maybe I would be satisfied with Decibel, and I am quite satisfied. But you got to love the idea of MPD! Along side the required MPC, the command line player, you have everything you would ever need from a simple audio-player.
Setting it up was not straight forward. It is not enough to install [...]
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Well, I have not actually posted that I have tried and installed MPD yet, but I found a bug. Suddenly the cpu usage jumps form around 2-5 % upto 25-30%! This is totally unacceptable!
Bug-report had already been filed, with a proposed tweak. I confirmed the bug, and that the tweak apparently works.
Tweak - fix sudden [...]
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For those following my posts, I have a pretty bare install at the moment, ( Debian Lenny using LXDE+Openbox). So, in my search for a simple and intuitive mp3 player, I came across Decibel (see homepage). It is a lightweight audio-player, with a simplistic layout; a file-browser were you can change the root, and a [...]
Filed under: Debian, Linux, Software | Tagged: conky, audio player, decibel, exaile, listen, mpg123, mp3 player, 9 | 3 Comments »
I installed update-manager on my Debian Lenny today. This installed an update-notifier daemon. I noticed a sudden jump in ram usage.
Top reports of a shared-memory-usage of 8.5 MB,and a total of 11 MB. For a new computer with sufficient resources, this is acceptable. Also on my current laptop ( Dell Latitude 1.8GHz 1MB ram ) [...]
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I like the update-manager using Debian. This is default in any *buntu install, so you probably have no problem with this.
My problem occurred last night when I tried to launch the update-manager. True enough, the gksudo app was loaded, but nothing happened. I was asked to type in my password again, and again….
Fix
gksu and gksudo [...]
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I have succesfully installed LXDE - Linux X11 Desktop Environment. I have updated the packages in the repo’s from source, and are looking at a 45.62 MB ram usage upon startup!
Update: Ram usage after firing up: 39.98 MB ram usage!
From Ubuntu to Debian
My main goal was to use the Ubuntu minimal install as a base/core [...]
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The most usefull post: howto configure ‘xterm’.
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