Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 20:34 (UTC-0400):
Gene Heskett wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 17:02 (UTC-0400):
> > check but not amd64
> That can't be good. :-(
Why, its a 32 bit install.
The inclusion of "not" made me think you were describ
On Monday 13 June 2016 01:31:10 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 18:09:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving
> > > only that which was in memory & running. It did not accept an
On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:11:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:51:50 Felix Miata wrote:
> > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 17:02 (UTC-0400):
> > > Felix Miata wrote:
> > >> ii alsa-utils1.1.0-2
> > >> amd64Utilities for co
On Sunday 12 June 2016 18:09:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving
> > only that which was in memory & running. It did not accept another
> > q, nor a ctl+c. Bad dog, no dinner.
>
> So you op
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 19:54 (UTC-0400):
mc has been around for north of 30
years I believe, actually dateing back to dos-2.0 days or before.
MC is a 22 year old clone of Norton Commander for DOS (which at the time of
NC birth was v3.2, prior to existence of extended HD partition
Grep -e is the same as egrep. Read the man and you'll see.
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:51:50 Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 17:02 (UTC-0400):
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >> ii alsa-utils1.1.0-2
> >> amd64Utilities for configuring and using
> >> ALSA
> >
> > check but not amd64
>
>
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:21:10 Sven Hartge wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:23:47 Felix Miata wrote:
> >> # dpkg -l | sort | egrep
> >> 'alsa|arts|imedia-l|libasoun|mix|pavuc|phonon|pulse|space-libs' ii
> >
> > egrep apparently not in my $PATH, can't find it even after
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > > It seems obvi
On Sunday 12 June 2016 23:19:27 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > Yes, OK. But it was the topic that I was answering to, not the
> > individual. I was trying to keep the thread rational -- possibly
> > unsuccessfully.
>
> You replied to my messag
Nicolas George composed on 2016-06-12 23:57 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> # dpkg -l | egrep -i 'kodi|mpeg|h264|mplay|vlc'
...
> The decoder that almost all Libre software use for H.264 is in libavcodec. I
> do not know how your grep could miss it, since it is a prerequisite for
> these
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> Yes, OK. But it was the topic that I was answering to, not the individual.
> I
> was trying to keep the thread rational -- possibly unsuccessfully.
You replied to my message, quoted it and did not include any explanation,
what did yo
On Sunday 12 June 2016 23:10:13 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > The thread was about running xterm inside a DE by all sorts of
> > complicated methods instead of simply clicking a couple of buttons in
> > Konsole-Trinity!
>
> My message was about
On Sunday 12 June 2016 22:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I can attest that Debian jessie's Konsole doesn't work quite right in
> every situation with the "TERM=xterm" and Debian's terminfo, for
> example.
Gene is in fact using, or not using, Konsole-Trinity, not KDE-Konsole.
Lisi
On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving only
> that which was in memory & running. It did not accept another q, nor a
> ctl+c. Bad dog, no dinner.
So you opened a terminal and typed:
$ q
and all hell let loose?? Come
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> The thread was about running xterm inside a DE by all sorts of complicated
> methods instead of simply clicking a couple of buttons in Konsole-Trinity!
My message was about the font selection in XTerm (and most Xt-based
applications), not
On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:15:08 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > > If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and
> > > an Xft name instead of -fn / font for an X11 fot is probably a good
> > > idea: it gives anti-aliasing
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Felix Miata a écrit :
> I don't know how to translate what I have installed to what you actually need
> to play what you want to play, but here's what I have on that machine:
>
> # dpkg -l | egrep -i 'kodi|mpeg|h264|mplay|vlc'
> ii ffmpeg
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 17:02 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> ii alsa-utils1.1.0-2
>> amd64Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
> check but not amd64
That can't be good. :-(
...
> what about h264 stuff?, I can't find a pl
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:23:47 Felix Miata wrote:
>> # dpkg -l | sort | egrep
>> 'alsa|arts|imedia-l|libasoun|mix|pavuc|phonon|pulse|space-libs' ii
> egrep apparently not in my $PATH, can't find it even after a re-install.
egrep is in /bin/egrep and in the package grep.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> > cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corruption.
> > > Gene, Is this when you
On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:23:47 Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 16:05 (UTC-0400):
> > While I was able to reinstall both iceweasel and firefox, I can't
> > play any videos now, so what is everyone else using, both for flash,
> > and for h264 stuffs?
>
> This is what I have
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 08:57:10
From: Charlie Kravetz
To: terryc
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Non-firefox browser?
Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:52:41 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:0
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 16:05 (UTC-0400):
> While I was able to reinstall both iceweasel and firefox, I can't play
> any videos now, so what is everyone else using, both for flash, and for
> h264 stuffs?
This is what I have for Youtube, VLC and system sounds working in TDE on
Stretc
> xterm *does* have a configuration menu, it's just hidden behind a rather
> obscure (and painfully "vintage X11") UI gesture. (Control + right-drag).
Works like a charm except that the changes aren't persistent.
--
Bob Holtzman
A man is a man who will fight with a sword or
conquer Mt. Everest i
Greetings;
While I was able to reinstall both iceweasel and firefox, I can't play
any videos now, so what is everyone else using, both for flash, and for
h264 stuffs?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Ple
On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:43:53 Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 14:19 (UTC-0400):
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >> What's wrong with MC's editor running in Konsole?
> >
> > That, in case you haven't noticed, is in fact nano.
>
> How would I know what it is "in fact" on your sys
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 14:19 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
What's wrong with MC's editor running in Konsole?
That, in case you haven't noticed, is in fact nano.
How would I know what it is "in fact" on your system :-? It isn't Nano here:
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/mc4817config.
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and an
> > Xft name instead of -fn / font for an X11 fot is probably a good idea: it
> > gives anti-aliasing and the choice of fonts nowadays is slightly larger.
> >
> >
On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:45:51 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Siard a écrit :
> > xterm*VT100.font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
>
> If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and an
> Xft name instead of -fn / font for an
On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:55:18 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:42:51 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > not that I've found, but the sob is tearing down my system down even
> > as I gave it a q after looking at a list of packages it wants to
> > remove. If I cannot control it, it will NEVER be
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:19:49 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:54:36 Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 12:42 (UTC-0400):
> > > I am left with nano as the only editor I can find...
> > >
> > > So, it has emasculated my system, all the editors except
On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:54:36 Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 12:42 (UTC-0400):
> > I am left with nano as the only editor I can find...
> >
> > So, it has emasculated my system, all the editors except nano are
> > gone,
>
> What's wrong with MC's editor running in Konso
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Curt a écrit :
> I believe ~/.Xdefaults is what they call deprecated and ~/.Xresources
> should be used.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/x_resources
It is a bit more complicated than that.
~/.Xresources is loaded into the resources database of the X11
On 2016-06-12, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> You did 'xrdb ~/.Xresources' to reread the file after making the
>> changes?
>
> No, it assumed it was read when needed.
Funny.
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and
so entirely in harmo
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:42:51 Gene Heskett wrote:
> not that I've found, but the sob is tearing down my system down even as I
> gave it a q after looking at a list of packages it wants to remove. If I
> cannot control it, it will NEVER be used here again. It will take days
> to re-install the st
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 12:42 (UTC-0400):
I am left with nano as the only editor I can find...
So, it has emasculated my system, all the editors except nano are gone,
What's wrong with MC's editor running in Konsole?
--
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
w
On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:23:48 Curt wrote:
> On 2016-06-12, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> XTerm.font: 9x15
> >>
> >> into your ~/.Xresources file.
> >
> > Did that, no change. What did make it usable was checking the use
> > trutype fonts box. That made the font about 4x bigger so I was able
> > to
On Sunday 12 June 2016 11:43:05 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:18:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > with aptitude, like mc, whatever terminal its running IN, MUST DO
> > ncurses emulations. And that is compulsory!
>
> Gene, that is rubbish. aptitude at the CLI is just that. At the CLI.
Curt:
> Siard:
> > Besides that, settings can be entered in ~/.Xdefaults. I have these
> > lines in it:
>
> I believe ~/.Xdefaults is what they call deprecated and ~/.Xresources
> should be used.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/x_resources
~/.Xresources does not work here (Stretch); ~/.
On 2016-06-12, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> XTerm.font: 9x15
>>
>> into your ~/.Xresources file.
>
> Did that, no change. What did make it usable was checking the use trutype
> fonts box. That made the font about 4x bigger so I was able to set that
> back to middle sized.
>
You did 'xrdb ~/.Xreso
On Sunday 12 June 2016 10:27:54 Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:17:42 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > FWIW. there is a 3rd choice in the system menu, called UXTerm. Looks
> > identical to xterm, totally non-configurable like xterm. So thats
> > more wasted hd space to me.
On 2016-06-12, Siard wrote:
>
> Besides that, settings can be entered in ~/.Xdefaults. I have these
> lines in it:
>
I believe ~/.Xdefaults is what they call deprecated and ~/.Xresources
should be used.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/x_resources
--
Hypertext--or should I say the ideolog
On 2016-06-12, Michael Lange wrote:
>
> actually it is not that hard to configure xterm (or other "old-fashioned"
> terminal apps), for example to change xterm's font size simply put a line
> like
>
> XTerm.font: 9x15
>
> into your ~/.Xresources file.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
I have the f
On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:18:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
> with aptitude, like mc, whatever terminal its running IN, MUST DO ncurses
> emulations. And that is compulsory!
Gene, that is rubbish. aptitude at the CLI is just that. At the CLI. Like
any other CLI command. The n-curses interface is vol
On Sunday 12 June 2016 10:27:03 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:17:42 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Konsole can also be made usable I believe. The std "schema" needs a
> > few changes to its current defaults but it can be made quite usable,
> > so its a possible alternative.
> >
> > Regard
It may depend on the version of apt-get.
Version 1.2.13 has
apt-get purge avahi-daemon
Regards,
jvp.
On Sunday 12 June 2016 09:49:11 Martin Read wrote:
[...]
> xterm *does* have a configuration menu, it's just hidden behind a
> rather obscure (and painfully "vintage X11") UI gesture. (Control +
> right-drag).
Here, its ctrl(left, didn't try right) and what pops up doesn't need a
drag, but its 3
On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:37:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:08:54 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > 2
> > > firefox
> > > firefox-esr
> > > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few
> > > months long in the toot
Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Siard a écrit :
> xterm*VT100.font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and an
Xft name instead of -fn / font for an X11 fot is probably a good idea: it
gives anti-aliasing and th
On Sunday 12 June 2016 08:42:51 David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 02:02:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 David Wright wrote:
> > > On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:08:54 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 2
> > firefox
> > firefox-esr
> > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few
> > months long in the tooth.
>
> They are different. Uninstall the one you don't want. es
Martin Read:
> Gene Heskett:
> > Found xterm but it opens a window about 2.75"x3.5", and uses a text
> > font so small it gets 80 columns out of that 3.5", so its almost
> > unreadable, and has no configuration menus at all over and above what
> > I can do to it thru the tde configuration facility,
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:02:34 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 07:02:45 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Basically, when you back up
>
> What does "back up" mean in this context? (Remember that pond, Gene -
> or is this Gene-speak or my aphasia???)
The small one yes, the Titanic is on the bot
Hi,
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:17:42 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> FWIW. there is a 3rd choice in the system menu, called UXTerm. Looks
> identical to xterm, totally non-configurable like xterm. So thats more
> wasted hd space to me.
>
actually it is not that hard to configure xterm (or other
On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:17:42 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Konsole can also be made usable I believe. The std "schema" needs a few
> changes to its current defaults but it can be made quite usable, so its
> a possible alternative.
>
> Regards Lisi.
Konsole can very easily be made very usable. I use it
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:00:10 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and
> > will be until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the
> > whole screen instead of leave a kilobyte of text c
On 12/06/16 14:23, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:00:03 Martin Read wrote:
If ncurses programs that other people use without incident are
screwing up the contents of your terminals, my first port of call
would be checking that the value of the TERM environment variable
matches rea
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:00:03 Martin Read wrote:
> On 12/06/16 07:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And I have never not seen it. On several different mother boards,
> > and probably 2x the video cards. If there is a difference, I've not
> > a clue.
>
> If ncurses programs that other people use witho
On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 02:02:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the p
On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:26:36 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:08:54AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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> [...]
>
> > # aptitude purge firefox-esr
> > (since that seems to be the one you don't want). Or equivalent. I don't
> > kn
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:08:54AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
[...]
> # aptitude purge firefox-esr
> (since that seems to be the one you don't want). Or equivalent. I don't
> know
> the correct apt-get incantation for purge [...]
Just use 'remove
On 06/12/2016 01:53 PM, Bob wrote:
> Hello Lars,
>
> Thanks for your attention. I can see tmux presently doesn't have the
> read-only solution as screen. And I like to make it simple without
> touching sshd. I appreciate your solution regarding rwx by socket.
> Though in screen we can change the a
Hello Lars,
Thanks for your attention. I can see tmux presently doesn't have the
read-only solution as screen. And I like to make it simple without
touching sshd. I appreciate your solution regarding rwx by socket.
Though in screen we can change the acl through command mode. Say many
users in
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:08:54 +0100
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 2
> > firefox
> > firefox-esr
> > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few
> > months long in the tooth.
>
> They are different. Uninstall the one you don't wa
On 12/06/16 07:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
And I have never not seen it. On several different mother boards, and
probably 2x the video cards. If there is a difference, I've not a clue.
If ncurses programs that other people use without incident are screwing
up the contents of your terminals, my fi
On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 2
> firefox
> firefox-esr
> And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few months
> long in the tooth.
They are different. Uninstall the one you don't want. esr is long term
support.
# aptitude purge firefox-esr
(since tha
On Sunday 12 June 2016 07:02:45 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Basically, when you back up
What does "back up" mean in this context? (Remember that pond, Gene - or is
this Gene-speak or my aphasia???)
On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be
> until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen
> instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real
> estate. And it been that
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:05:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I do use apt-get, when I can easily copy/paste what I want it to do, but
> it hates my spelling otherwise. Thats my fault of course, but there it
> is.
That's where tab completion comes in very handy. :)
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