Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say >> > how to obtain it. >> >> i'd put in my .bashrc the line: >> >> TERM="vt102" && export TERM > > That's unwis

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say > > how to obtain it. > > i'd put in my .bashrc the line: > > TERM="vt102" && export TERM That's unwise. It'll screw you up *hard* any

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say > how to obtain it. i'd put in my .bashrc the line: TERM="vt102" && export TERM > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. no, phosphors were white, green and amber. songbird

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The most used client is probably Element, formerly called Riot >> (https://element.io/). The link to its Linux version is not placed >> nicely visble, it is below the Desktop Clients for Win and Mac >> behind the comment "Also available on Linux", which points to a >> repository which can be use

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

2021-05-31 Thread deloptes
Marco Möller wrote: > Could someone explain for a raw beginner concerning the usage of PGP the > difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, what the typical work case is for > the one and the other, what important feature the one and the other is > missing? > apt-cache show kleopatra Description-e

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread deloptes
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Is the connector blue?  It's a convention to make USB 3.0 connectors > blue, while USB 2 connectors aren't.  My machine has a mix. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0 I would also start with this. USB3 (not only 3.0 but 3.x) are blue. Then you can use dd to determi

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, > well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of > user and transfer agents. It's called e-mail. Actually, matrix.org aims to be that as well. It probably doesn't yet qualify for "rich choice" (e.g. there is a mat

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If output shows ehci, then you are using usb 2, and if output shows xhci, > then you can use usb 3. ^^^ Can, indeed, but that still depends on other things, such as the actual setup of the physical port. IIUC most modern Intel chipsets don't come with EHCI any more and their xHCI han

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> hwinfo --usb-ctrl > > And after doing > > lsusb -t Thanks. I wasn't familiar with the `-t` arg to `lsusb`, it's very informative (e.g. it gives you the actual speed negotiated, so I can see that my USB C phone still uses 480Mb/s) Stefan

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-05-31 5:14 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:47:13AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 2021-05-31 3:01 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:53:33AM +, Long Wind wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps lsusb is your frie

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 2021-05-31, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-05-30 9:53 p.m., Long Wind wrote: > >> Jude, it sounds foolish, there has to be some better way >> and i don't have usb 2.0 disk >> >> my usb disk is new, it supports usb3 >> stretch must support usb3 because usb3 is supported ever

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-31, Dan Ritter wrote: >> > >> > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences >> > >> > curl cht.sh/cp\?T >> > >> > curl cheat.sh/:help >> >> Thank you. That addresses the immediate *SYMPTOM*. >> >> I'll repeat my statement from my original post: >> > I'll have to reconfigure something

Matrix (was Re: thunderbird)

2021-05-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-31 at 11:38, Marco Möller wrote: > On 31.05.21 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: [that to...@tuxteam.de wrote:] >>> Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, >>> well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of >>> user and transfer agents. It's called

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:38:48PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 31.05.21 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, > >>well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of > >>user and transfer agents. It's called e-mail. > > > >

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Marco Möller
On 31.05.21 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of user and transfer agents. It's called e-mail. Actually, matrix.org aims to be that as well. It probably doesn't yet qualify

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread James Wallen
On 5/31/21 5:55 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-05-30 at 20:59, James Wallen wrote: On 5/30/21 8:03 PM, rust wrote: On 5/30/21 9:00 PM, James Wallen wrote: If I could find a text / TUI mode calendar to work with mutt I'd certainly like to switch. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "w

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl > > > cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/ > > > > > > > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI se

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to > obtain it. > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. > Web search gives no useful information. > Help please. > TIA > > MATE terminal is

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to > obtain it. That's because it's unified with other terminal emulators. You need TERM environment variable set to vt102 as per term(7). If u

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not > say how to obtain it. > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. > Web search gives no useful information. The "VT102" emulation refers to compatibili

Re: [Bullseye] package bloat for video playback

2021-05-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:47:26PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Who reads a message who doesn't see the subject line??? > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 09:15:22AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> it is not clear which version of Debian you are using. There's one. > # dpkg -l | egrep 'mpv|mplayer' > # ap

Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread Richard Owlett
The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to obtain it. IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. Web search gives no useful information. Help please. TIA

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-31 at 09:03, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 31/05/2021 à 13:45, rust a écrit : > >> Sunbird huh? I'll have to take a look. Part of what led me (back) >> to Thunderbird was the calendar. There are surprisingly few >> standalone, graphical calendars that are still being developed for >> linux

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Erwan David
Le 31/05/2021 à 15:03, didier gaumet a écrit : Le 31/05/2021 à 13:45, rust a écrit : Sunbird huh? I'll have to take a look. Part of what led me (back) to Thunderbird was the calendar. There are surprisingly few standalone, graphical calendars that are still being developed for linux. I think

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/05/2021 à 13:45, rust a écrit : Sunbird huh? I'll have to take a look. Part of what led me (back) to Thunderbird was the calendar. There are surprisingly few standalone, graphical calendars that are still being developed for linux. I think Sunbird has not been developped for 10 years On

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/ '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences curl cht.sh/cp\?T curl cheat.sh/:help Than

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-30 at 20:59, James Wallen wrote: > > On 5/30/21 8:03 PM, rust wrote: >> On 5/30/21 9:00 PM, James Wallen wrote: >> >>> If I could find a text / TUI mode calendar to work with mutt I'd >>> certainly like to switch. >> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "work with mutt", but >> khal

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-31 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> vgcreate vg2t /dev/sda /dev/sdb > lvcreate --type raid0 -name lv-stg --size 16700GiB vg2t I solved the problem by manually activating it initially. On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 10:41 PM Tom Dial wrote: > > > > On 5/28/21 12:58, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > >> Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populat

Re: OpenVpn Mac Address Filter

2021-05-31 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> Mac address is available only on the local network. You usually do not > get the mac address of the openvpn client but the mac address of nic of > the last router facing your openvpn server. You are right. I will try Google 2fa. On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 9:57 PM Erwan David wrote: > > Le 29/05

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:47:13AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-05-31 3:01 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:53:33AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > > Perhaps lsusb is your friend. Watch which bus your device > > is hanging off. > > > >

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:36:59AM +, Long Wind wrote: > i see, usb 3 isn't used though kernel sees my usb3 disk("new high-speed") > i have thought my lenovo and hp are modernThanks to all that reply and help! > > to tomas:i've been blunt in using "foolish"hopefully, Jude isn't hurt. I'm sure

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 31.05.21 08:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >(...) > >How does "web based" and PGP go together, anyway? Web based > >means mail handling (and thus encryption/signing) is done > >on other people's computers. > >(...) > > Web based app

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-05-31 4:36 a.m., Long Wind wrote: > i see, usb 3 isn't used though kernel sees my usb3 disk("new high-speed") > i have thought my lenovo and hp are modern > Thanks to all that reply and help! > > to tomas: > i've been blunt in using "foolish" > hopefully, Jude isn't hurt. https://www.ch

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-05-31 3:01 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:53:33AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > Perhaps lsusb is your friend. Watch which bus your device > is hanging off. > >> Jude, it sounds foolish, there has to be some better wayand i don't have >> usb 2.0 disk > > C

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread Long Wind
i see, usb 3 isn't used though kernel sees my usb3 disk("new high-speed") i have thought my lenovo and hp are modernThanks to all that reply and help! to tomas:i've been blunt in using "foolish"hopefully, Jude isn't hurt.

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Marco Möller
On 31.05.21 08:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: (...) How does "web based" and PGP go together, anyway? Web based means mail handling (and thus encryption/signing) is done on other people's computers. (...) Web based apps can process data locally at your own computer, for instance by using JavaScri

Re: thunderbird

2021-05-31 Thread Marco Möller
I forgot to mention another weak point if using it under KDE Plasma: I did not find how to sync its calendar with the calendar widget of KDE (the calendar popping up when clicking on the clock in the system task bar of KDE Plasma). I never have had need to sync it with other entities and theref

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:53:33AM +, Long Wind wrote: Perhaps lsusb is your friend. Watch which bus your device is hanging off. > Jude, it sounds foolish, there has to be some better wayand i don't have usb > 2.0 disk Calling people who try to help you "foolish" is not nice (and might end