Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 02:08:20AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 13.01.2022 01:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Now, now, there. There are people who like that (not me), so leave them > > their mileage too. > I'm not against the feature itself, but against the fact that it is not

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:54:38 +0100 "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:53:01 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:00:12 +0100 > > "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > > > > > I found a python script to extract debian packages, but every > > > package is extracted i

Re: OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.01.2022 07:56, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero 6 router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing? 2 concerns of mine are: - cloud based private network management - Amazon owned Thanks I've never us

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:53:01 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:00:12 +0100 > "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > > > I found a python script to extract debian packages, but every > > package is extracted in a directory named after the packagefile, so > > this structure is formed: >

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:31:25 +0100 "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > Is this possible on the commandline? Yes. The following untested code should do it: cd / mv dir1/dirA . mv dir2/dir* . rm -r dir1 dir2 In particular, you will lose any files in dir1 and dir2 not specified in the relevant mv. Also,

Re: Firefox insists to be default !?

2022-01-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/1/22 3:52 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and respond to that asking by click on 'd

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:00:12 +0100 "sp...@caiway.net" wrote: > I found a python script to extract debian packages, but every package > is extracted in a directory named after the packagefile, so this > structure is formed: What are you trying to do? From your limited selection of files, it appea

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread sp...@caiway.net
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:41:49 +0100 Emanuel Berg wrote: > sp...@caiway.net wrote: > > > I have this foldertree tree: > > > > /dir1/dirA/dirB > > /dir2/dir* > > > > I want the foldertree to become: > > > > /dirA/DirB > > /dir* > > > > Is this possible on the commandline? > > Any idea is welcome >

Re: restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 13/1/22 15:31, sp...@caiway.net wrote: I have this foldertree tree: /dir1/dirA/dirB /dir2/dir* I want the foldertree to become: /dirA/DirB /dir* Is this possible on the commandline? Any idea is welcome Thanks! Question - why do you have these directories in / If they really are

restructure folders

2022-01-12 Thread sp...@caiway.net
I have this foldertree tree: /dir1/dirA/dirB /dir2/dir* I want the foldertree to become: /dirA/DirB /dir* Is this possible on the commandline? Any idea is welcome Thanks!

OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-12 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
Hi folks, Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero 6 router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing? 2 concerns of mine are: - cloud based private network management - Amazon owned Thanks

Re: Request of urgent help....

2022-01-12 Thread David Christensen
On 1/12/22 10:00 AM, fran...@libero.it wrote: Hi. I inadvertently deleted the Mac and EFI partitions of an HD inserted on a Macbook Pro (2009). Fortunately I have the Linux one (with Debian XFCE) that I am writing from. I tried to recover with Gparted (by installing gpart), but after more than

Re: Firefox insists to be default !?

2022-01-12 Thread Frank
Me too. Firefox 95.0.2 in Mate fully updated. I have had this problem before but it always sorted itself out later. On 2022-01-12 14:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be defau

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.01.2022 02:12, Dan Ritter wrote: apt install libgtk3-nocsd0 From the description: Library to disable Gtk+ 3 client side decorations (CSD) libgtk3-nocsd is a small LD_PRELOADable library used to disable the client side decorations (CSD) of Gtk+ 3. I use it. -dsr- Thanks. I've tri

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 13.01.2022 01:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:46:20AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > > > > Although consistency gets ruined by forced garbage features from GTK3 like > > > Client-Side Decorations (custom title bar). > > > Who

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.01.2022 01:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:46:20AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [...] Although consistency gets ruined by forced garbage features from GTK3 like Client-Side Decorations (custom title bar). Who thought that moving dialog window buttons (Ok, C

Firefox insists to be default !?

2022-01-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'. Furthermore, Thunderbir

KVM max CPU speed to guest

2022-01-12 Thread basti
Hello, first of all the most modern CPU in the last 10 years (I gues) use so called speed-stepping. As I can see I was wondering why that speed stepping is not set in a KVM guest, even if I use "host-passthrough" in the cpu config of the guest. virsh dumpxml almalinux | grep -i cpu 2 The c

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:46:20AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [...] > Although consistency gets ruined by forced garbage features from GTK3 like > Client-Side Decorations (custom title bar). > Who thought that moving dialog window buttons (Ok, Cancel, Save, etc) from > usual bottom side

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.01.2022 20:52, c. marlow wrote: I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. If it looks dated just change the theme lol. Xfce is lightweight, efficient and fast even on legacy hardware. Xfce is reliable, rich with features and not bloated

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Jan 12, 2022, at 9:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:52:01AM -0600, c. marlow wrote: > > [...] > >> I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE > > Uh, oh. This is asking for trouble ;) > >> To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. > > perhaps... >

Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

2022-01-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Slightly late to the party ;) On Jo, 30 dec 21, 19:48:05, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Debian 11 is easily arranged so that "startx" or "weston" can be > issued at the console command line. That allows simple qualitative > comparisons. > > In weston, keyboard response can be hyper-typem

Request of urgent help....

2022-01-12 Thread frantal
Hi. I inadvertently deleted the Mac and EFI partitions of an HD inserted on a Macbook Pro (2009). Fortunately I have the Linux one (with Debian XFCE) that I am writing from. I tried to recover with Gparted (by installing gpart), but after more than an hour I stopped having no recovery signal. Th

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:52:01AM -0600, c. marlow wrote: [...] > I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE Uh, oh. This is asking for trouble ;) > To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. perhaps... > YMMV, I guess. That's *exactly* the point. Mileage varies wildly, especially

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 11:27 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > c. marlow wrote: > > I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE > > > > To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. > > It works; it rarely breaks after a version upgrade; and it is > configurable. > > That's three advantages over G

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:52:01AM -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE > > To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. You say that like it's a bad thing. For many people, a user interface that keeps changing every few years is incredibly annoying. There

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Dan Ritter
c. marlow wrote: > > I honestly don't see what people see in XFCE > > To me, XFCE looks VERY DATED and out of the 90s. It works; it rarely breaks after a version upgrade; and it is configurable. That's three advantages over GNOME. -dsr-

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:48:38 am David Wright wrote: > And now you want to aimlessly zap a few more directories for no better > reason than the fact that they look unused. Well, take a look at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00308.html > where I measured how much disk spac

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread c. marlow
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:43:00 -0500 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/12/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A KHANNA wrote: > >> How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not > >> having options > >> available in ubuntu. > > > > It seems that a program named "mousetweaks"

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:02:56 pm David Christensen wrote: > On 1/11/22 10:25 AM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives > > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many > > versions of the same pack

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/12/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > A KHANNA wrote: >> How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not having >> options >> available in ubuntu. > > It seems that a program named "mousetweaks" is in charge for this. > I understand that its option --dwell is what you are looki

Re: bashrc problem

2022-01-12 Thread Yamadaえりな
Thanks a lot @Will Mengarini On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 8:21 PM Will Mengarini wrote: > * Yamada??? [22-01/12=We 20:10 +0800]: > > Do you mean if .bash_profile exists, .bashrc will be ignored? > > Sometimes. From `man bash`: > When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a > non

Re: bashrc problem

2022-01-12 Thread Will Mengarini
* Yamada??? [22-01/12=We 20:10 +0800]: > Do you mean if .bash_profile exists, .bashrc will be ignored? Sometimes. From `man bash`: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I'm thinking about two options: > - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it > - Buying a pine64 or alike > - Any other alternative? regarding arm or aarch64 I tried with RPi4, but it could not meet all requirements (not all applications I use can be compiled f

Re: bashrc problem

2022-01-12 Thread Will Mengarini
* Yamada??? [22-01/12=We 19:49 +0800]: > I have a .bashrc file in my home dir, whose content is shown as follows. > But every time I log into the system, I have to source this file by hand. > > $ which scala > /usr/bin/scala > > $ cat .bashrc > #THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR SDKMAN TO

Re: bashrc problem

2022-01-12 Thread Yamadaえりな
Do you mean if .bash_profile exists, .bashrc will be ignored? Thanks. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 8:07 PM Will Mengarini wrote: > * Yamada??? [22-01/12=We 19:49 +0800]: > > I have a .bashrc file in my home dir, whose content is shown as follows. > > But every time I log into the system, I have to

bashrc problem

2022-01-12 Thread Yamadaえりな
Hello list I have a .bashrc file in my home dir, whose content is shown as follows. But every time I log into the system, I have to source this file by hand. $ which scala /usr/bin/scala $ cat .bashrc #THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR SDKMAN TO WORK!!! export SDKMAN_DIR="$HOME/.sdkman" [

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread 황병희
john doe writes: > Debians, > > i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop > dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. > > I'm thinking about two options: > - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it > - Buying a pine64 or alike > - Any other alterna

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, A KHANNA wrote: > How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not having options > available in ubuntu. It seems that a program named "mousetweaks" is in charge for this. I understand that its option --dwell is what you are looking for. My impression comes from Google results w

Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread A KHANNA
Hi I have a query that I would appreciate if you can help out as I am new to Linux How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not having options available in ubuntu. Many thanks Regards A Khanna

Re: How do I change disk ?

2022-01-12 Thread Pierre Couderc
Sorry to insist... but even for  btrfs RAID1 disks of différent size ? OK, I shall try but I am surprised it is so simple... ;) On 1/11/22 20:01, Hans wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 17:22:08 CET schrieb Pierre Couderc: Yes, should be so by default. Good luck! Hans Thank you. I am surp

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 12/1/22 4:12 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: The only requirement is to have virtualisation available. My advice is if you are going to be doing any virtual work is get a laptop with - decent processor ( I use Ryzen mid range ) - Expandable memory to 32G - NVME PCIe system drive (256G upward

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/12/22 09:54, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop > dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. > > I'm thinking about two options: > - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it > - Buying a pine64 or alike > -

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-12 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 12/1/22 3:54 pm, john doe wrote: Debians, i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. I'm thinking about two options: - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it - Buying a pine64 or alike - Any other alt

Re: rsync copyed systemd-nspawn container won't start

2022-01-12 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, [...] > Jan 11 15:22:55 dhanna systemd-nspawn[21268]: Failed to create > /init.scope control group: Operation not permitted [...] > Then I try it with > > debootstrap --variant=minbase --include > systemd,vim,libterm-readline-gnu-perl,iproute2,dialog,dbus stretch > /var/lib/machines/foo > >