As I said in my previous query I have recently aquired a new computer, a Nofan A470 from QuietPC.com with on-board audio Realtek ALC650 6 channel, and I have installed Debian Testing/Jessie from scratch.
I have done a lot of internet searching regarding these problems but have not found anything which works.
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I'm using Fluxbox as my desktop although I have some KDE applications installed. The audio seems to work without problems with any KDE applications but not with anything else.
For example - I use mail-notification which shows as an icon in the bottom toolbar and I can set it to play a sound when new mail arrives. That can be set in the configuration, an it is, and which also allows a test play but there is no sound. I believe that mail-notification is Gnome based.
I have also installed Timidity plus the standard patch files but can't get any sound although it appears to be playing.
There are some Phonon and Alsa packages installed.
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Also with mail-notification I should be able to click the icon and get it to open Balse, my mail reader, but clicking does nothing. When mail- notification was installed it started Evolution when the icon was clicked but I didn't want Evolution and uninstalled it. I can't find any way to set mail-notification to open Balsa.
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The last thing is that I use Krusader as a file manager and I want text files, by default, to be opened using Mousepad. At present the default is Libre Office and I haven't been able to change that. In the Krusader configuration there is an option to set which editor to use and I have set it to /usr/bin/mousepad but that appears to be ignored.
Any pointers would be gratefully received.
On 8 August 2014 10:30, Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
The last thing is that I use Krusader as a file manager and I want text files, by default, to be opened using Mousepad. At present the default is Libre Office and I haven't been able to change that. In the Krusader configuration there is an option to set which editor to use and I have set it to /usr/bin/mousepad but that appears to be ignored.
Does this work? Right mouse-click on a text file, and choose 'open with other application'. Navigate to /usr/bin and select mousepad. Check the box that says 'use as a default for this kind of file'.
Jenny
On 19/08/14 22:11:01, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 8 August 2014 10:30, Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
The last thing is that I use Krusader as a file manager and I want text files, by default, to be opened using Mousepad. At present the default is Libre Office and I haven't been able to change that. In the Krusader configuration there is an option to set which editor to use and I have set it to /usr/bin/mousepad but that appears to be ignored.
Does this work? Right mouse-click on a text file, and choose 'open with other application'. Navigate to /usr/bin and select mousepad. Check the box that says 'use as a default for this kind of file'.
Jenny
Yes it does work! Many thanks for that. The annoying thing is that I've been using 'open with' and picking from a list but I didn't think of trying 'open with other'. Silly old me.
I'd like to know where the change is made though.
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