Re: one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

2020-10-13 Thread riveravaldez
On 10/14/20, kaye n wrote: >> >> > Let's say there are three files with the names - >> > apple-pie >> > banana-split >> > orange-juice >> > >> > On the file manager window, I would type the letter o and the file >> > 'orange-juice' would be selected. However, I would also want the >> > ability to

Re: one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

2020-10-13 Thread Weaver
On 14-10-2020 14:21, kaye n wrote: >>> Let's say there are three files with the names - >>> apple-pie >>> banana-split >>> orange-juice >>> >>> On the file manager window, I would type the letter o and the file >>> 'orange-juice' would be selected. However, I would also want the >>> ability to sel

Re: one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

2020-10-13 Thread kaye n
> > > Let's say there are three files with the names - > > apple-pie > > banana-split > > orange-juice > > > > On the file manager window, I would type the letter o and the file > > 'orange-juice' would be selected. However, I would also want the > > ability to select that file by typing j (for ju

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 18:01, David Christensen wrote: Boot the Debian 9 or 10 installer, run the following commands, and post the console session: # smartctl -i /dev/sda My bad -- d-i does not include smartctl(8). What I'm after is make, model, interface, and firmware version information. It coul

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 08:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of t

Re: needed: a way to eliminate wasted disk space due to unneeded locale files

2020-10-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/13/20, L Godioleskky wrote: > There are hundreds of MBytes of wasted disk space due to un-needed locale > files. > Most users only use one or two languages, so why should they devote huge > amounts of disk space to locale files they dont need/use ? > > App localepurge eliminates some, but fa

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-13 Thread didier gaumet
My bad , you 're right :-) Not only apt and apt-get play safe here but even aptitude does not react as I was thinking it would: the three of them refuse to install a package when they meet a forbidden dependency

needed: a way to eliminate wasted disk space due to unneeded locale files

2020-10-13 Thread L Godioleskky
There are hundreds of MBytes of wasted disk space due to un-needed locale files. Most users only use one or two languages, so why should they devote huge amounts of disk space to locale files they dont need/use ? App localepurge eliminates some, but far from all of these un-needed files

Re: Hiding an app

2020-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/13/20 1:37 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 10/13/20 12:17 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running the Mate desktop on Debian Bullseye. I just installed TZclock after removing the Mate clock from the taskbar. One annoyance is TZclock appears on the taskbar. Does anyone know how to prevent thi

Re: Hiding an app

2020-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On 10/13/20 12:17 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running the Mate desktop on Debian Bullseye. I just installed TZclock after removing the Mate clock from the taskbar. One annoyance is TZclock appears on the taskbar. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Is it in the Notification Area? Right

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread Weaver
On 13-10-2020 23:26, D. R. Evans wrote: > I see that the latest official updates to debian stable want to remove > enigmail and install a new version of Thunderbird. > > I recall a couple of years ago the same thing happened, and encrypted e-mail > was effectively broken for a couple of months unt

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Marks wrote on 10/13/20 9:37 AM: >> So I'd like to know if anyone who uses encrypted e-mail has taken >> the plunge and installed the newer version of Thunderbird that the >> official buster repository is offering (and also, therefore, removed >> enigmail); and, if so, have there been any issu

Hiding an app

2020-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running the Mate desktop on Debian Bullseye. I just installed TZclock after removing the Mate clock from the taskbar. One annoyance is TZclock appears on the taskbar. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread Felix Miata
Dennis Wicks composed on 2020-10-12 21:19 (UTC-0500): > I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red > cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but > when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I > have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive?

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 16:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of t

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread Greg Marks
> So I'd like to know if anyone who uses encrypted e-mail has taken > the plunge and installed the newer version of Thunderbird that the > official buster repository is offering (and also, therefore, removed > enigmail); and, if so, have there been any issues with using encrypted > e-mail following

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux s

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread john doe
On 10/13/2020 5:14 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 10/13/20 8:25 AM: On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:26:28AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: repository. But I seem to recall reading somewhere a while back that the enigmail functionality was going to be incorporated into Thunderbird upst

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 10/13/20 8:25 AM: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:26:28AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> repository. But I seem to recall reading somewhere a while back that the >> enigmail functionality was going to be incorporated into Thunderbird >> upstream. > > This is true, AFAIK, fro

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have no knowledge of this matter, but from what I understand from > sse2-support package page (1), by forbidding its installation you will get > rid of your error message without being rid of the error: that is précisely > its purpose to warn you, by failing to install, that a package that has

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:26:28AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I see that the latest official updates to debian stable want to remove > enigmail and install a new version of Thunderbird. > > I recall a couple of years ago the same thing happened, and encrypted e-mail > was effectively broken for a

Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread D. R. Evans
I see that the latest official updates to debian stable want to remove enigmail and install a new version of Thunderbird. I recall a couple of years ago the same thing happened, and encrypted e-mail was effectively broken for a couple of months until a version of enigmail compatible with the updat

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-10-13 Thread Christoph K.
Am Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:41:55 +0100 schrieb Tixy : > # > ~$ cat Desktop/test.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > Terminal=true > Exec=/home/tixy/test.sh %F > Name=Test launcher > Icon=/home/tixy/test.svg > >

Re: backups Was: SSD and HDD

2020-10-13 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > On 2020-10-13 00:46, Dan Ritter wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > > > > > This looks like good advice, thanks Dan and all. > One thing I wonder about if I reboot and change boot order to start windows > is if I might create some confusion on the network as pfsense PC does DHCP >

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-13 Thread john doe
On 10/10/2020 6:25 PM, john doe wrote: On 10/10/2020 5:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:16 +0200 john doe wrote: No, I'm not even getting the grub bootloader. If you aren't even getting to to GRUB, then your problem isn't an encrypted /boot partition, it's something el

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Stefan, I have no knowledge of this matter, but from what I understand from sse2-support package page (1), by forbidding its installation you will get rid of your error message without being rid of the error: that is précisely its purpose to warn you, by failing to install, that a pack

Re: backups Was: SSD and HDD

2020-10-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-13 00:46, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits of programmi