Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread didier gaumet
Gnome-Commander (packaged in Debian) could be of interest for you: GUI but two-panel mc-like, several color themes, color set-up, advanced search and rename tools, etc... https://gcmd.github.io/shots.html

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-09-26 06:47 (UTC-0500): > On my laptop the default font size is unsuitably small. My .Xresources makes Xterm fonts nice size: xterm*faceName: Droid Sans Mono:antialias=true xterm*faceSize: 11 xterm*vt100.geometry: 120x43 -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdo

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 07:42 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 06:47 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:24 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Also your phraseology joggled my thought process. Perhaps "file manager" hints at much more power than I need. I only w

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Dominic Knight
On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 06:47 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/26/2018 06:24 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [...] > > > Also your phraseology joggled my thought process. Perhaps "file > > > manager" > > > hints at much more power than I need. I only wish to _move_ > > > f

ncurses problem

2018-09-26 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
Hi there, I compiled following test program: == #include #include int main() { initscr(); int key; while ((key = getch()) != 27) { if (key == KEY_RESIZE) { clear(); mvprintw(0, 0, "COLS = %d, LINES = %d", COL

Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-09-26 Thread Gary Dale
For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document still show the preview. When I expo

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > What you describe is exactly how the dropbear/initramfs integration > works. The data stored in /boot is the initramfs, and within that, the > only material you might consider sensitive is an SSH server keypair > (public&private) for the SSHD instance in the initramfs env

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:07:33PM +0100, Joe wrote: You're only moving the problem around. Some completely standard piece of code *somewhere* has to know what is the right place to insert such a rule. I'll give you an example: neither the beginning nor the end of my INPUT chain is the right plac

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:14:42PM +0200, deloptes wrote: so how can we do it with initram and without some external key server? Imagine I have only boot not encrypted on the server. I want to boot the machine and get a prompt via SSH or something like SSH, where I can type in the password and de

Re: Forgotten MATE tools

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 10:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 9/26/18 11:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine with MATE desktop. Some time back I had been pointed to two very convenient tools. One added an option to the Caja that when clicking on a file/directory allowed opening as

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread deloptes
Igor Cicimov wrote: > An example for automation with AWS using SSM and KMS services > https://icicimov.github.io/blog/server/LUKS-with-AWS-SSM-and-KMS-in-Systemd/ > It can be modified for initramfs. so how can we do it with initram and without some external key server? Imagine I have only boot no

Re: Forgotten MATE tools

2018-09-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/26/18 11:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine with MATE desktop. Some time back I had been pointed to two very convenient tools. One added an option to the Caja that when clicking on a file/directory allowed opening as administrator. The other was a tool used whe

Re: Forgotten MATE tools

2018-09-26 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> One added an option to the Caja that when clicking on a file/directory > allowed opening as administrator. probably caja-admin Hope that helps Olivier

Forgotten MATE tools

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm setting up a new machine with MATE desktop. Some time back I had been pointed to two very convenient tools. One added an option to the Caja that when clicking on a file/directory allowed opening as administrator. The other was a tool used when two or more windows were open. A single clic

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Joe
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:39:41 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 08:21:55PM +0100, Joe wrote: > >And there you have the problem: it would be necessary for the > >installation of certain packages (e.g. MTA) to automatically poke > >holes in the firewall. > > We agree this fa

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:53:26PM +, Curt wrote: [...] > You start by telling him not to call it open source [...] A very daring interpretation of my e-mail (and there were other bits in there, mind you). > Nothing gets past you guys. Absolut

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-26, wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:57:14PM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2018-09-26, John Hasler wrote: >> > Look at ledgersmb: >> > >> >> I looked briefly but remained unconvinced this is an ecommerce platform. > > It is an accounting application, aka ledger (surprise!) > > htt

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/26/18 10:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:57:14PM +, Curt wrote: On 2018-09-26, John Hasler wrote: Look at ledgersmb: I looked briefly but remained unconvinced this is an ecommerce platform. It is an accou

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:57:14PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-26, John Hasler wrote: > > Look at ledgersmb: > > > > I looked briefly but remained unconvinced this is an ecommerce platform. It is an accounting application, aka ledger (surprise!

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-26, John Hasler wrote: > Look at ledgersmb: > I looked briefly but remained unconvinced this is an ecommerce platform. -- “An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer is an animal. A sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable.” Russian school book.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:27:51PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: And there are also reasons not to install by default one. And this is what the OP was about. The default is to not install listening services a thus no need for a firewall. You must have misread or misunderstood my message, becau

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 08:21:55PM +0100, Joe wrote: And there you have the problem: it would be necessary for the installation of certain packages (e.g. MTA) to automatically poke holes in the firewall. We agree this far. For this to be practical, a completely standardised iptables architect

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-09-26 06:47 (UTC-0500): > On my laptop the default font size is unsuitably small. > A quick web search revealed that is not a mc parameter. > It is a function of the terminal emulator used. I have a MATE desktop. > How do I determine what terminal emulator is in us

Re: bless hex editor - unexpectedly ends

2018-09-26 Thread Steve Kemp
> program - Bless hex editor > When I export to a text file I have the following error and the > program ends unexpectedly Please report your issue upon the Debian bug-tracker, rather than sending it to all users upon this list. If you've never reported a bug this page will be helpful:

bless hex editor - unexpectedly ends

2018-09-26 Thread zkubin...@gmail.com
program - Bless hex editor When I export to a text file I have the following error and the program ends unexpectedly $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch) Release:9.5 Codename: stretch $ uname -a Linux debian-pc 4.9.0-4-686 #1 SMP Deb

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > [...] > > On my laptop the default font size is unsuitably small. > A quick web search revealed that is not a mc parameter. > It is a function of the terminal emulator used. I have a MATE desktop. > How do I determine what terminal emulator is in use? I think it's gnome-te

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread John Hasler
Look at ledgersmb: Description-en: financial accounting and ERP program LedgerSMB is a full featured double-entry financial accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning system accessed via a web browser (Perl/JS with a PostgreSQL backend) which offers "Accounts Receivable", "Accounts Payable" an

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 12:58, mick crane wrote: On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager open - [o

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 06:24 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Also your phraseology joggled my thought process. Perhaps "file manager" hints at much more power than I need. I only wish to _move_ files. Which got me thinking that Tcl/Tk may be appropriate. I'll experiment with mc first.

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2018-09-26 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home > directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better > match how I work. > > I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager

Re: OT: The vagaries of English [Was: Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 25.09.18 20:19, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> >> > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness >> > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension >> > in the mind >> >

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > [...] > Also your phraseology joggled my thought process. Perhaps "file manager" > hints at much more power than I need. I only wish to _move_ files. > Which got me thinking that Tcl/Tk may be appropriate. I'll experiment > with mc first. Or perhaps just bash? Although

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 05:26 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Suggestions? Is it even possible? Never seen that myself. Wouldn't know where to start, honestly -- perhaps skipping the GUI would be a better option -- maybe something like mc or one of the other terminal-based managers w

OT: The vagaries of English [Was: Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-26 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 25.09.18 20:19, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness > > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension > > in the mind > > > > That also works with America

Re: Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > [...] > Suggestions? > Is it even possible? Never seen that myself. Wouldn't know where to start, honestly -- perhaps skipping the GUI would be a better option -- maybe something like mc or one of the other terminal-based managers would be more what you're looking for? I

Distinguish instances of GUI file manager by color

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm setting up a new machine and copying files from the old machine's home directory. At the same time I'm creating a new directory structure to better match how I work. I found it expedient to have at least three instances of the file manager open - [one for source directory and at least two

Re: btrfs and deduplication

2018-09-26 Thread Markus Raps
On 2018-09-26 00:40, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Markus Raps wrote: Hi there, currently iam trying to get deduplication working in debian/btrfs #so i created a btrfs filesystem mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb1 mkdir /mnt/btrfs mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt/btrfs # create some random

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 04:06:27PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Everyone gets good faith from me first shot out of the box. The OP had it, but subsequently it was withdrawn. You are entitled to have your own personal policy on good faith for your own personal communication but this is a public m

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2018 03:59 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:00:59AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Good afternoon from Singapore, There are far too many choices when it comes to open source ecommerce solutions. This i

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:52:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: I also wish I knew how to get ssh into initrd and the whole networking, so that I could do it remotely when needed. That's easy enough: install the dropbear package, reconfigure the keys / authorized_keys files in /etc/initramfs-tools to

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:37:45AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: So, make /boot a big larger, say couple GiBs, and set data=journalled BTW, am I the only one here bothered that his 250MB /boot partition tends to fill up, even though a 500MB HDD was plenty to hold the whole OS plus lots and lots

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:36:22AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: This sounds like you put /boot/efi on the same filesystem as /boot which is not recommended or supported at all[1]. On my laptop there is only a single file under /boot/efi, namely /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi - which will be writ

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:00:59AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good afternoon from Singapore, There are far too many choices when > it comes to open source ecommerce solutions. This is a good thing, isn't it? (BTW: I prefer to spel

Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Good afternoon from Singapore, There are far too many choices when it comes to open source ecommerce solutions. Are there any credible rankings of open source ecommerce platforms? Which open source ecommerce solution do you think is the best and tell me why. Thank you. ===BEGIN SIGNATURE=== T