Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, September 14, 2020 1:43 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Hi neighbor! Hi, Ralph! > I've been in Denver now for 3 yrs. As you well know, the > weather here can vary greatly by neighborhood. I like weather > und

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote: > > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > > I only mention it because once in a while, someone sees something like > > > it and freaks out, thinking the computer is locked u

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 9/13/20 12:49 PM, ghe2001 wrote: [snip] > That sounds like a reasonable solution -- tried it. Nice -- it answers to > either weather and weather-util. My ZIP is 30303 (Boulder, CO): [snip] > I tried a couple other Boulder ZIP codes, and they didn't exist. > [snip] > -- > Glenn English Hi

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but >> that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation >> always fails. >> >> How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? >> >> I tried to put a "hold" on the package with >>

Re: xfce4 widget problem -- oops

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, September 13, 2020 6:49 PM, ghe2001 wrote: I'm in ZIP 80303, not 30303. Weather-util works fine with the correction. Sorry... -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail ws

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > To get the party started after installation, you type in "weather > --info" plus city name or zip code. There may be other ways, too. I've > only used city name until JUST NOW. That sounds like a reasonable solution -- tried it. Nice -- it answe

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500): > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > tty1-tty4? 1,3,4 are not available shells. IIRC: tty1 is devoted to the installer tty2 is an available shell tty3 & 4 are devoted to various logging/status or inst

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/12/20, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Yeah, I've wondered how accurate it can be from Norway -- but it's > (sometimes) close enough for government work. OTOH, I live in Boulder, > Colorado, and one day last week it said it was sunny out. But it wasn't;

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:14, David Wright wrote: > Does anyone know why sunshine recorders are so sparse in the US? > In fact, I'd say they're virtually unknown. In the UK, they're > scattered all over, eg it was seven miles to my local one at: > http://www.weathercast.co.uk/world-weather/weathe

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Sep 2020 at 05:15:38 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells > on tty1-tty4? > > All I've found are passing mentions in > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.en.html > https://www.debian.org/releases/stabl

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:10, David Wright wrote: > Create a permanent mount point with the permissions set to ugo= > ie nothing. I do this for all my permanent mountpoints and then set the immutable bit on them. This prevents accidental writes and the bonus is that ls -l /mnt shows clearly w

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Sep 2020 at 03:01:15 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > On Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:39 PM, Charles Curley > charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: > > > According tohttps://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin, > > the weather source (met.no) provides forecast data only, so wh

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:10:48 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within > a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I don't have that LUKS filesy

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > I buy your explanation. It clears up my total bewilderment. I'll keep that > link, too :-) > > I've looked for a better weather widget, but couldn't find one for xfce4. > Anybody know of one? Maybe even one that gets data from the known working > airport a couple miles from he

Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Fabrice Bauzac wrote: > Hello, > > 12 sept. 2020 14:09:14 Dan Ritter : > > > John Conover wrote: > >> > >> Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? > >> > > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanning > > ports, yes. If you want to effectively block IPs

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/13/2020 05:45 AM, David wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 20:16, Richard Owlett wrote: Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4? The installer is a running Linux system. What you ask about is a standard feature that is compiled into most Linux kerne

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 20:16, Richard Owlett wrote: > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > tty1-tty4? The installer is a running Linux system. What you ask about is a standard feature that is compiled into most Linux kernels, and the feature exists because it

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Linux-Fan
Richard Owlett writes: Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on tty1- tty4? I am not sure how much documentation there is on it, but how about this (section 6.3.9.2): https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html#di-miscellaneous HTH Linux-Fan [.

Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4? All I've found are passing mentions in https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.en.html https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, Same issue from my side. A bug report is already ongoing with XFCE [1]. There seems to be some API issues according to Debian BTS [2]. Best regards, l0f4r0 [1] https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/27 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925561