Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. >> English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a >> placeho

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
David Wright writes: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at >> times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. >> >> My drive structure is: >> >> comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk >> NAME MAJ:

Re: ntp-client does not sync with server

2019-02-28 Thread Stefan K
Hi John, yes there are synced, if I run 'ntpdate timeserv.domain.ag' they syncd everything fine, if I start ntp-server after 2-3Days I've an delay of few seconds. Maybe I schould ask on the ntp-mailing list?! best regards Stefan On Friday, March 1, 2019 7:01:32 AM CET john doe wrote: > On 2/2

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/28/19, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > >> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a > placeholder, unnecessary if > any other option is specifie

Re: ntp-client does not sync with server

2019-02-28 Thread john doe
On 2/28/2019 9:49 AM, Stefan K wrote: > Hallo, > > we have our own ntp-server which is running Ubuntu 14.04.LTS. > This Server works fine: > ntpq -pn > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ==

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a placeholder, unnecessary if any other option is specified. Man mount doesn't make it clear to me.

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at > times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. > > My drive structure is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Dekks Herton
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at times > abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. > > My drive structure is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:00 465.8G 0 disk

Re: fake transparency urxvt fails

2019-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonas Hedman wrote: > On 19-02-28 11:53, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Jonas Hedman wrote: > > > > from the frequently useful archlinux wiki: > > > > > > ! Xresources file > > > > URxvt*inheritPixmap: true > > URxvt*transparent: true > > ! URxvt*shading: 0 to 99 darkens, 101 to 200 lightens > > U

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:14:52 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 20:23:46 (+), Brian wrote: > > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 11:15:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > [Verocious snipping but the subject under discussion is the xpdf pdf reader] > > > > > Eh? You can bind keystroke

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 19:46:03 (+), Brian wrote: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 18:52:36 -, Curt wrote: > > On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Pressing 'o' brings up the file browser here, but navigating away from > > > > the > > >> > current directory requires modifying the 'Filter', whic

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 20:23:46 (+), Brian wrote: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 11:15:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [Verocious snipping but the subject under discussion is the xpdf pdf reader] > > > Eh? You can bind keystrokes to a large number of commands (there are > > defaults configured). Si

User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-02-28 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Stretch and after much trial and tribulation, and at times abject horror, I have succeeded in installing a new SSD. My drive structure is: comp@AbNormal:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:10 457.9G 0 part / ├─sda2

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 11:15:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: [Verocious snipping but the subject under discussion is the xpdf pdf reader] > Eh? You can bind keystrokes to a large number of commands (there are > defaults configured). Similarly it supports myriad-buttoned mice which > you can configur

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 18:52:36 -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: > > > > Pressing 'o' brings up the file browser here, but navigating away from the > >> > current directory requires modifying the 'Filter', which ain't exactly > >> > convenient in the modern sense. > >> > >> That'

Re: systemd bacula-director.service masked

2019-02-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Hodges wrote: > I installed Debian 10 through synaptic. I previously had a jumbled up > sources.list having accidentally moved from jessie to buster so on > advice from the forum I reduced the entries to two both referring to > 'buster' > Synaptic uninstalled quite a few packages, and then insta

font size printing from terminal

2019-02-28 Thread mick crane
hello is buster I can print from command line with "lp filename" but not with "lpr filename" when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much paper. apparently "enscript -FCourier10 filename" for example is supposed to work but that sends it to lpr which doesn't. Can try to ge

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: > > Pressing 'o' brings up the file browser here, but navigating away from the >> > current directory requires modifying the 'Filter', which ain't exactly >> > convenient in the modern sense. >> >> That's for o, which just gives you the current directory. Try pressing

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.02.2019 21:51, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/28/2019 06:48 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from

Re: [Bacula-users] systemd bacula-director.service masked

2019-02-28 Thread Hodges
I installed Debian 10 through synaptic. I previously had a jumbled up sources.list having accidentally moved from jessie to buster so on advice from the forum I reduced the entries to two both referring to 'buster' Synaptic uninstalled quite a few packages, and then installed OK except that I

Re: fake transparency urxvt fails

2019-02-28 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 19-02-28 11:53, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jonas Hedman wrote: > > from the frequently useful archlinux wiki: > > > ! Xresources file > > URxvt*inheritPixmap: true > URxvt*transparent: true > ! URxvt*shading: 0 to 99 darkens, 101 to 200 lightens > URxvt*shading: 110 > > Using the URxvt*backgr

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 09:12 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 12:56 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2019-02-28, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't have the protocol (hkp) - but the point was to remove > > > > the > > > > keyserver > > > > from dirmngr.conf - not sure if it i

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 11:20:07 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 16:32:16 (-), Curt wrote: > > On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > Had problem installing via Synaptic - reported not able to find correct > > > version of some cups related files. As I don't have a

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 16:32:16 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Had problem installing via Synaptic - reported not able to find correct > > version of some cups related files. As I don't have a printer on the > > machine, I continued. > > > > Although the man p

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 10:42:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/28/2019 09:51 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Wed 27 F

Re: fake transparency urxvt fails

2019-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonas Hedman wrote: > Just a small update on this problem. > > On my laptop, if I comment the line > URxvt*tintColor: green > in my .Xresources and run xrdb ~/.Xresources then the transparency works > if and only if the shading is set to 100. Any value gives me a white bg. > > This tells me

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/28/2019 06:48 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote: I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril. I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisf

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/28/2019 09:51 AM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: Is there a Debian package to read

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Had problem installing via Synaptic - reported not able to find correct > version of some cups related files. As I don't have a printer on the > machine, I continued. > > Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening > any files",

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible me

Re: fake transparency urxvt fails

2019-02-28 Thread Jonas Hedman
Just a small update on this problem. On my laptop, if I comment the line URxvt*tintColor: green in my .Xresources and run xrdb ~/.Xresources then the transparency works if and only if the shading is set to 100. Any value gives me a white bg. This tells me nothing but someone more knowledgabl

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page o

Re: fake transparency urxvt fails

2019-02-28 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 19-02-26 22:38, dekkz...@gmail.com wrote: > > which version of compton are you using on each machine? > I don't use any compositor on any of the machines due to it being a little too resource intensive for my taste. Maybe I misunderstood things but according to https://ctkarch.org/documentati

Re: get my ip address

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
tony; I am aware that I can call ip a and parse the result. [...] Is there any other way to obtain this data, maybe from /sys? just call libc.getifaddrs() directly. * http://programmaticallyspeaking.com./getting-network-interfaces-in-python.html

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 12:56 +, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > > > I don't have the protocol (hkp) - but the point was to remove the > > > keyserver > > > from dirmngr.conf - not sure if it is right for your DE though. > > > > Thanks for that, testing that now! > >

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >> I like to use "evince". > > It has the same pale green highlight. > Instead of starting search on a specific page, it brings up a clickable > list of all pages on which a match occurs. That satisfies the "end goal" > and may have advantages. > > Thank

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> I don't have the protocol (hkp) - but the point was to remove the keyserver >> from dirmngr.conf - not sure if it is right for your DE though. > > Thanks for that, testing that now! Perhaps unrelated to your plight, but have you tried another pool? ping

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril. >>> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results. >>> >>> I have two problems us

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page of the document? Xpdf does that. Black on whit

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote: I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril. I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results. I have two problems using the "find" command. 1. When the keyword is found, it is

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:43:57PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > [beginning to deviate from topic] > > I wrote: > > > Tcl is not the most comfortable programming language, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Hey! this is the first time I (mildly) have to disagree with you. > > Once I got to

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, [beginning to deviate from topic] I wrote: > > Tcl is not the most comfortable programming language, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hey! this is the first time I (mildly) have to disagree with you. > Once I got to grips that Tcl is a kind of "inside-out" Lisp > (or a flip-backwards-and-a-half-tur

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 10:24:48 -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: > > >> There's 'dialog'. Not sure it can do self-explanatory buttons, though > >> (jocular remark). > > > > A default label used for a button can be overridden. > > I'm just going to flat out admit I don't understan

Re: dirmngr, can't live with it, can't live without it

2019-02-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 08:03 +0100, deloptes wrote: > by all the time I mean each time Evolution opens a signed mail. I use > Trinity Desktop and there - I only see that signature could not be > verified. Ah, i see. For me (Stretch/Cinnamon) dirmngr is started when Evolution encounters the first s

Re: Wireless Connectivity - Hot Spot vs Corp

2019-02-28 Thread ray
Thank you for your reply. I am trying to set up this configuration to run Xen which seems to require manual management.

[Bug - Thinkpad X240] Touchpad not responding after a sospension

2019-02-28 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, for a few days the touchpad of my Thinkpad X240 does not work after resuming from a sospension to ram and I need to restart the computer: it worked well in past years. So I think this is a bug due to some upgrade but I cannot understand the package to report the bug. What could be t

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, Brian wrote: >> There's 'dialog'. Not sure it can do self-explanatory buttons, though >> (jocular remark). > > A default label used for a button can be overridden. I'm just going to flat out admit I don't understand what this means and let myself be the object of any forthcoming d

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:04:10 -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-28, mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. > > Memory seems no so good these days. > > I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but > > when I go

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:10:03AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, [...] > If there is already a program with full functionality but complicated > user interface, then i'd consider Tcl/Tk for the graphical frontend. Good point. > Tcl is not the most comfortable programming language, Hey! th

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any > page of the document? Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the previous

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but when I > go back and look at them think " now what does that do and what did I type > to make it work". > I'm thinking that if I do something now I should make a little GUI with > buttons to click on that

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-28, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. > Memory seems no so good these days. > I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but > when I go back and look at them think " now what does that do and what

ntp-client does not sync with server

2019-02-28 Thread Stefan K
Hallo, we have our own ntp-server which is running Ubuntu 14.04.LTS. This Server works fine: ntpq -pn remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == *178.63.9.110129.69.1.153 2 u

Re: advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:10:41AM +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. > Memory seems no so good these days. > I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but > when I go back and look at them think " now wha

advice sought for program with GUI

2019-02-28 Thread mick crane
hello, I'm not very good at this stuff, have remembered bits here and there. Memory seems no so good these days. I've done pieces of simple calculations on 2D images in the past but when I go back and look at them think " now what does that do and what did I type to make it work". I'm thinking t