Solved: it was down to laptop-mode-tools, which I installed as part of this post two weeks ago. I uninstalled that package and my laptop is shutting down properly again.
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Since today[*], with Debian Wheezy stock kernel (3.2), my Thinkpad SL410 reboots instead of shutting down when it's running on battery. Works fine when on mains power. During shutdown it says 'Will now halt', then reboots.
Similar to what's seen in this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=86316&start=15, but shutting down X seems to have no effect. Googling seems to yield a lot of hits for thinkpads and ideapads.
Annoying and no idea why.
The support for SL410 under Debian Wheezy has actually gotten worse during the past year -- now 'mute' doesn't work anymore, and from today it doesn't shutdown on issuing e.g. sudo shutdown -h now.Finally, recently the behaviour of the kernel (3.8) has lead to slowdowns on computer with i915 (intel) graphics, which would include a majority of laptops (a fix is on the way though).
Looking at /var/log/apt/history.log my kernel was updated (not a new version, so a bit confused), two days ago. Nothing else looks important enough.
[*] Given that removing laptop-mode-tools solved it, and that I installed that on the 23rd of March, I must've been running my laptop off of mains power for the past two weeks...alternatively, newer kernels fix this (supposed to be due to the combination of laptop-mode-tools and an apci bug in the kernel) since I've been running 3.7.10 for the past two weeks, and only switched back to 3.2 yesterday.
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06 April 2013
378. Briefly: Windows/Dialogues that are too large for a laptop screen
Short post which is probably just revealing something which a lot of people are already familiar with.
A really annoying thing with Evolution (and ECCE as well, actually) is that it doesn't play well with notebook screen. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad SL410 which has a 1366x768 screen and this is what I see when e.g. editing an account in Evolution:
Note the lack of buttons to click -- the Close and Apply dialogues don't show on the screen
I might be imagining, but I get the impression that GNOME projects don't like you to resize windows -- and you can't resize this dialogue.
The workaround:
In gnome, use alt+click and drag to move the window so that the buttons are revealed.
A really annoying thing with Evolution (and ECCE as well, actually) is that it doesn't play well with notebook screen. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad SL410 which has a 1366x768 screen and this is what I see when e.g. editing an account in Evolution:
Note the lack of buttons to click -- the Close and Apply dialogues don't show on the screen
I might be imagining, but I get the impression that GNOME projects don't like you to resize windows -- and you can't resize this dialogue.
The workaround:
In gnome, use alt+click and drag to move the window so that the buttons are revealed.
05 April 2013
377. Wine 1.5.27 and Office 2003: Equation editor now supported!
I prefer using TeX, but collaboration is a reality of academia, and sometimes it's just easier to shut up and use Word.
To install Office 2003 under Wine on Debian, see here: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/307-installing-office-2003-in-wine-on.html
In post 376 I compiled and installed wine 1.5.27. Starting word under wine I noticed that an old mathtype install was now recognised (if not completely functional), and that gave me hope that Equation Editor would be installable.
Equation Editor
Here's how to get it up and running
1. Control panel
If you've already installed Office under Wine, try using add/remove programs:
and click on Add/Remove programs, then modify your Office installation. That didn't work for me since my Office install wasn't listed for some reason.
If that doesn't work, then
2. (Re-)Install
And start the installation.
Start word, go to Insert/Objects
To install Office 2003 under Wine on Debian, see here: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/307-installing-office-2003-in-wine-on.html
In post 376 I compiled and installed wine 1.5.27. Starting word under wine I noticed that an old mathtype install was now recognised (if not completely functional), and that gave me hope that Equation Editor would be installable.
Equation Editor
Here's how to get it up and running
1. Control panel
If you've already installed Office under Wine, try using add/remove programs:
wine control
and click on Add/Remove programs, then modify your Office installation. That didn't work for me since my Office install wasn't listed for some reason.
If that doesn't work, then
2. (Re-)Install
sudo mount -o loop OFFICE11.iso /mnt wine msiexec /i /mnt/pro11.msi
And start the installation.
Start word, go to Insert/Objects
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