Re: Problem Installing Debian

On 6/5/2020 11:56 PM, Analis Dannen wrote: Greetings This is Analis Dannen. I really want to replace my crappy windows operating system with Debian. As a blind user, I rely on ORCA Screen Reader to get around in Debian. Well, I have an issue. Orca will not respond when I try to navigate the insta

Re: Buster install using debootstrap. (SOLVED)

On 6/5/20 6:31 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have th

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: r

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On 6/5/20 13:48, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jun 2020 at 09:28:21 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > >> Family is using Zoom, International. >> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > > Seems straightforward. Just get on with it. > >> I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR >> >> I am conc

Re: Zoom- best practice?

>> Family is using Zoom, International. >> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > >Seems straightforward. Just get on with it. Don't. Zoom is not necessary to stay in touch with family. If you cannot get another video conferencing provider, use a phone. But do not prove to providers su

Re: Zoom- best practice?

Peter Ehlert writes: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order of preference: 1. Use a separate Debian alongside my daily d

Problem Installing Debian

Greetings This is Analis Dannen. I really want to replace my crappy windows operating system with Debian. As a blind user, I rely on ORCA Screen Reader to get around in Debian. Well, I have an issue. Orca will not respond when I try to navigate the installer. It simply says the name of the program

Kio

I upgraded the package kio recently on testing, after that I receive the following message every time that open Dolphin: Unable to create io-slave. klauncher said: Error loading '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'. This is very annoying and make Dolphin unusable. Sent with [P

KDE run Dolphin as root?

Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and installed kde on it. I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but I can not seem to run Dolphin or Konqueror as root. Searching online, I

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Fri 05 Jun 2020 at 09:28:21 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > Family is using Zoom, International. > They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. Seems straightforward. Just get on with it. > I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR > > I am concerned about security, duh! Really? Just get on

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On 6/5/20 9:56 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 05. Jun, 2020 schwätzte Peter Ehlert so: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On 6/5/20 9:47 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert > wrote: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about securit

Re: OT: Spam level on Debian Users list.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 12:36 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/5/20 9:02 AM, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:54 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > >> Do we need to beef up Filters on this List? > > I don't think so. There's about 3 or 4 get through a week. > agreed. Stronger filters = more false

SOLVED -- Re: Minor glitch moving to Buster

On 06/05/2020 10:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Sometime back someone had pointed me to some goodies that allowed Caja to open a directory or file as root. I can't remember the package name. Can someone jog my memory? TIA Searched after another cup of coffee. caja-gksu is answer.

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 09:28:21 -0700 Peter Ehlert wrote: > Family is using Zoom, International. > They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. Zoom also has a native client. Consider using a virtual machine. You will need to get sound to and from the VM, which I don't believe works on qemu. --

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

Well, OK, yeah. It is not entirely impossible. Few things are. On 6/5/2020 10:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: As already mentioned, this simply will not work. As already mentioned in this thread, this isn't strict

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On 6/5/2020 6:28 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order of preference: 1. Use a separate Debian a

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:56:00PM +, der.hans wrote: > Does zoom work just in the browser without installing software? > > I have to use it in a couple places for work. In my experience, it demands > installing software on both debian and Ubuntu. zoom does provide a package > with insufficien

Re: Zoom- best practice?

Am 05. Jun, 2020 schwätzte Peter Ehlert so: Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order of preference: 1. Use a separate Debi

Re: Zoom- best practice?

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:45 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > Family is using Zoom, International. > They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. > > I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR > > I am concerned about security, duh! > Looking for ideas. > Look into Big Blue Button and see if you can ge

Zoom- best practice?

Family is using Zoom, International. They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR I am concerned about security, duh! Looking for ideas. my current thoughts, in order of preference: 1. Use a separate Debian alongside my daily driver, and use Only for

Re: OT: Spam level on Debian Users list.

On 6/5/20 9:02 AM, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:54 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: Do we need to beef up Filters on this List? I don't think so. There's about 3 or 4 get through a week. agreed. Stronger filters = more false positives Unfortunately there's probably a dozen more because

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

If you're used to the common keystrokes for copy/cut/paste/undo of C-c/C-x/C-v/C-z, then you'll want to enable CUA mode. There are caveats that certain commands won't mirror the tutorial exactly but as far as I use Emacs, it is a benefit. I do disable CUA mode when I use Org mode as it uses the S

Re: OT: Spam level on Debian Users list.

On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:54 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Do we need to beef up Filters on this List? I don't think so. There's about 3 or 4 get through a week. Unfortunately there's probably a dozen more because people reply to the spam, then a load more noise from people telling other people

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 2020-06-05 at 11:38, Victor Sudakov wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >> David Wright writes: >> >>> That begs the question of what pristine means, because it has >>> never been defined even by the OP. >> >> I thought that we had learned that what he really wanted was to be >> able to identify p

OT: Spam level on Debian Users list.

Do we need to beef up Filters on this List? Kenneth Parker

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

John Hasler wrote: > David Wright writes: > > That begs the question of what pristine means, because it has never > > been defined even by the OP. > > I thought that we had learned that what he really wanted was to be able > to identify packages that have not been used recently and remove them.

Minor glitch moving to Buster

Sometime back someone had pointed me to some goodies that allowed Caja to open a directory or file as root. I can't remember the package name. Can someone jog my memory? TIA

Re: dmenu and xmonad in buster not working together

Philipp Kemmeter wrote: > When I start dmenu, the input of neither mouse nor keyboard is registered > anymore, and as xmonad freezes by purpouse until dmenu returns something, I'm > stuck. The only way to work further is switching to a non-X terminal and > killing dmenu. FWIW, dmenu works fine fo

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

On 06/05/2020 09:58 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-05 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Typical *text editors* set distance between stops to one specific value. If I understand correctly. I

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > As already mentioned, this simply will not work. As already mentioned in this thread, this isn't strictly true. There is USB "on the go" (aka OTG [1]); this has even a protocol to switch masters. That makes sense for mobile dev

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

On 2020-06-05 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Typical *text editors* set distance between stops to one specific value. If I understand correctly. I had a look and you can set the tab distanc

Re: OT: Using a USB hub with 3 computers, 1 printer, 1 external drive (for backup for any of the three PCs)

As already mentioned, this simply will not work. Why are you wanting to employ USB Ethernet / TCPIP is the way to go. Make the external drive a NAS, and you are good to go. Many NAS systems support printer sharing, or you can roll your own. On 6/4/2020 1:46 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:

THANK YOU!!!! -was- [Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small]

On 06/05/2020 07:07 AM, John Hasler wrote: Richard Owlett writes: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Emacs. Took me <30 seconds to set Help text font to legible size. Not sure why it took me that long *ROFL* The tutor

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > > What am I missing? > > /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

Richard Owlett writes: > Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set > tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Emacs. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

On a LUG mailing list I asked for a *text editor* which could set tabs at arbitrary column locations. I was referred to LibreOffice Writer. Clicking the Help button yields unreadably small text. How do I set the Help system's font size to something legible? Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary >>> files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  >>> What am I missing? >> >> /tmp (a

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > > What am I missing? > > /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 04.06.20 21:46, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-06-04 at 10:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jun 2020 at 12:15:02 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: The short answer to this thread is that unfortunately Debian is not prepared with a simple solution for this simple task, but sophisticated workaroun