Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me I could find what I wanted at: http://kbdlayout.info/ and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` > There's no such table: it cannot exist. Which unicode number would you > assign to CapsLock, or RightShift. There are several

Useless use of "dd"

2021-07-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2021-07-01 20:43:09-0700, David Christensen wrote: > To "take an image", the script invokes dd(1) and pipes the output to > gzip(1), copying raw device octets to a file. To "restore an image", > the process is reversed. Sounds like the classic "useless use of dd". For general educational purpos

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-07-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/22/21 9:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. H

Re: Whole Disk Encryption + SSD

2021-07-01 Thread David Christensen
On 7/1/21 7:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2021 at 13:36:35 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: I do not set the 'discard' (trim) option in fstab(5). If and when I want to erase unused blocks (such as before taking an image), I use fstrim(8). Can you elaborate on a couple of things:

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 06:47, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:39:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:08:40 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > > > When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel > > > versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose

Re: Whole Disk Encryption + SSD

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 28 Jun 2021 at 13:36:35 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > I do not set the 'discard' (trim) option in fstab(5). If and when I > want to erase unused blocks (such as before taking an image), I use > fstrim(8). Can you elaborate on a couple of things: How do you "take an image". Is this

Re: why is package mono-vbnc missing from Buster?

2021-07-01 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-01 5:52 p.m., Mark Copper wrote: > mono-vbnc is a package in stretch and sid but not buster. Why is that? > You can get a version that is compatible with Debian by using this repo. https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/ sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg c

Re: why is package mono-vbnc missing from Buster?

2021-07-01 Thread Mark Copper
Thank you. On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:55 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 03:52:42PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > > mono-vbnc is a package in stretch and sid but not buster. Why is that? > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mono-basic > > According to this, it was removed from testi

Re: why is package mono-vbnc missing from Buster?

2021-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 03:52:42PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > mono-vbnc is a package in stretch and sid but not buster. Why is that? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mono-basic According to this, it was removed from testing in 2019. You can click the links to see why.

why is package mono-vbnc missing from Buster?

2021-07-01 Thread Mark Copper
mono-vbnc is a package in stretch and sid but not buster. Why is that?

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 16:34:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2021-07-01 21:05 (UTC+0100): > > > On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:40:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > >> Dunno what to tell you. Maybe t

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:46:01 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz > ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file > or directory > $ > > Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? > ~ No idea. That was

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:39:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:08:40 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > > > When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel > > versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose from. If no > > selection is made within a few seconds

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2021-07-01 21:05 (UTC+0100): > On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:40:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Dunno what to tell you. Maybe that's because I always include also >> tasks=standard > Ext

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/01/2021 11:40 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2021-07-01 08:00 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500): I don't recall just when I did it but I had tried including "install-recommends=false" somewhere in the command lin

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:40:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2021-07-01 08:00 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500): > > >>> I don't recall just when I > >>> did it but I had tried including "install-recommend

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:08:40 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel > versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose from. If no > selection is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the > default entry is booted. Sounds a

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-07-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 01 Jul, 2021 at 18:52:42 +0800, kaye n wrote: >On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole ><[1]liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: > >Hello guys > >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli > >Retrieving [1

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 20:08:40 (+0200), Steve Keller wrote: > When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel > versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose from. If no > selection is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the > default entry is booted. > > I'd

GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread Steve Keller
When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose from. If no selection is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the default entry is booted. I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that menu.

debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-07-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific for exam

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Given the baseline option a user chooses as "language" during > installation, the codes sent by the keyboard should be interpreted. > There should be files with the associations of (unicode) numbers and > keys on a keyboard. I d

Re: Ibus info needed

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jun 2021 at 17:36:29 (-0700), tony mollica wrote: > Yes, that's the one. Thanks, IL KA, I went through it again > > and still the only thing I'm getting from the info is that Ibus > handles different language inputs (characters) which isn't really > needed if English is used and is pre

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file or directory $ Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? ~ $ file /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc: ASCII text

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2021-07-01 08:00 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500): >>> I don't recall just when I >>> did it but I had tried including "install-recommends=false" somewhere in >>> the command line. It failed.

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 08:00:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/30/2021 01:39 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500): > > > > > I don't recall just when I > > > did it but I had tried including "install-recommends=false" somewhere in > > > the comman

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 01:59:41 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number <-> > gliph for each language. > From where can I get them? I'm not quite sure I can reconcile your subject line and text. For the body text, you could look at a site li

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 18:52:42 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: > > >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli > > >Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration... > > >Traceback (most recent call las

How do I get back the GRUB menu with the blue background?

2021-07-01 Thread Stella Ashburne
The partition table scheme is GPT and UEFI with Secure Boot is enabled. I do not use legacy BIOS with master boot record. Below is the partition layout of my SDD: 536.9MB EFI system partition (ESP) 511.7MB /boot (unencrypted) 100GB encrypted logical volumes (contains 99GB of / partition, 1GB of

Unidentified subject!

2021-07-01 Thread Stella Ashburne
The partition table scheme is GPT and UEFI with Secure Boot is enabled. I do not use legacy BIOS with master boot record. Below is the partition layout of my SDD: 536.9MB EFI system partition (ESP) 511.7MB /boot (unencrypted) 100GB encrypted logical volumes (contains 99GB of / partition, 1GB of

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/30/2021 01:39 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500): I don't recall just when I did it but I had tried including "install-recommends=false" somewhere in the command line. It failed.

Re: problem with speedtest-cli

2021-07-01 Thread kaye n
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:28 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun, 2021 at 00:08:51 +0800, kaye n wrote: > >Hello guys > >kaye@laptop:~$ speedtest-cli > >Retrieving [1]speedtest.net configuration... > >Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli",

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

2021-07-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > > There are a bunch of loonies out there who don't like other > > people based on gender, sex, skin color, religion, geography, or > > merely the fact that their computer is unsecured. > > > > Thanks, I didn't know the word loonies applied to yoursel

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Will Mengarini
* Albretch Mueller [21-07/01=Th 01:59 -0400]: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number > <-> glyph for each language. From where can I get them? Does have what you want? If not, try `locate kmap`.