On IP addresses and bus tripe [was: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones]

2022-04-08 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > You didn't like my bus analogy, did you? I did like it. Nevertheless, I thought something's missing: > What makes you think that knowing a bus number and destination > provudes information for where it departs from? > > What makes y

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-08 17:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you don't want to read the background information, the question is: How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the correct one, apart from trial and error? I think you'd set up a printer on your machine with 'ipp://ip-address

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-08 Thread davidson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 davidson wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) s

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Apr 2022 at 14:58:03 (-0400), Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > On 2022-04-05 7:06 p.m., David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 15:42:46 (-0400), Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > > > On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: > > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > > [ … ] > > > > > Sorry

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 20:43:40 (+0100), Darac Marjal wrote: > On 08/04/2022 20:27, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 07:18:28 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" fo

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 23:44:29 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 16:20:54 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > What I understood Greg as asking about is how to get CUPS to *tell* you > > what the IP address it knows about for a given printer object is. That > > doesn't seem to be an unreason

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread The Wanderer
(This is probably both overly long and overly repetitive, among possibly other undesirable things, but I'm running short on time.) On 2022-04-08 at 18:44, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 16:20:54 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-04-08 at 15:52, Brian wrote: >> > You didn't like my

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:05:01AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 21:07:18 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > I wasn't expecting a different IP address but, given Greg's experience, > > I think we have a differnet understanding of what The OP's experience > was. I knew the printer's IP address b

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 21:07:18 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:18 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 17:59:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > >

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 16:20:54 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-04-08 at 15:52, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:22:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > >>> Now contact you highly paid sys admins to ask them to add a >

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 12:19:10 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of having > something like /var/log/syslog loaded in the Mousepad text editor. It > will keep announcing that

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > You didn't like my bus analogy, did you? I don't think it's a very good analogy for this situation. > What makes you think that knowing an IP address tells you where > any machine of any description is located? Because the device is (was)

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-04-08 at 15:52, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:22:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: >>> Now contact you highly paid sys admins to ask them to add a >>> "Location" field to whatever the server/printer is advertising. >> >>

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:18 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 17:59:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > > > addresses of the autodetected printers that were presented

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:24:00PM +0100, Brian wrote: > avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp > > is better. That one actually works. It completes in under 1 second, and it includes IP addresses in its output. Out of curiosity, I tried omitting the -r option, to try to figure out what "resolve" means i

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/04/2022 20:27, David Wright wrote: On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 07:18:28 (+0100), Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:22:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the > > > correct one, apart from trial and err

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:30:13 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:28:31PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > > CLI: > > > > # avahi-browse -r _print-caps._tcp > > (from the avahi-utils package) > > I tried this with and without the -r (which according to the man page > asks to

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 15:22:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the > > > correct one, apart from trial and er

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Fred
On 4/8/22 10:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 06:03:47PM +0100, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 17:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP addresses of the autodetected pri

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:28:31PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > CLI: > > # avahi-browse -r _print-caps._tcp > (from the avahi-utils package) I tried this with and without the -r (which according to the man page asks to "resolve services", but it doesn't say what kind of resolution it's doing).

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 07:18:28 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for > > *OFFLINE* use. > > > > The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] > > lead *

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 08:17:14 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 8 April 2022 07:32:00 EDT Curt wrote: > > On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: > > >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets > > >> updated when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 20:08:22 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the > > correct one, apart from trial and error? > > Fancy an analogy? > > My local bus intercange has display s

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 20:28:31 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Perhaps, try:  > > GUI: > > avahi-discover from the avahi-discover package presents a network tree: > you can find the IP adresses of the printers > > CLI: > > # avahi-browse -r _print-caps._tcp > (from the avahi-uti

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the > > correct one, apart from trial and error? > Now contact you highly paid sys admins to ask them to add a "

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 17:59:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > > addresses of the autodetected printers that were presented to me. > > If I go to http://localhost:631/printers/ and

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [Misconceptions snipped. It would take too long to comment on and refute every single one of them, interesting though they may be.] > After all this, I have two final comments: > > 1) To whomever received two surprise printer test pages:

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Greg, Perhaps, try:  GUI: avahi-discover from the avahi-discover package presents a network tree: you can find the IP adresses of the printers CLI: # avahi-browse -r _print-caps._tcp (from the avahi-utils package) In my case it's sufficient to detect my network printer but I do not know

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 12:19:10PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: [...] > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of having > something like /var/log/syslog loaded in the Mousepad text editor. It > will keep a

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 06:03:47PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 17:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > > > addresses of the autodetected printers that were presented

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 17:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > > addresses of the autodetected printers that were presented to me. > > If I go to http://localhost:631/printers/ I shou

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > addresses of the autodetected printers that were presented to me. If I go to http://localhost:631/printers/ and click on my printer it shows amongst other information: Con

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> >> LO: MS Word does it, so LO does it / because fields in the document may be >> automatically updated prior to printing > > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' >> > >> Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? Mor

CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
If you don't want to read the background information, the question is: How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the correct one, apart from trial and error? == Today I had to print something at work

Re: Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.04.2022 14:23, didier gaumet wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2022 à 13:48 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : I've had "virtio-win-guest-tools" installed inside Win10 guest does it appear in the list of the Windows installed applications list (Windows parameters menu)? I just verified: th

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 8 April 2022 07:32:00 EDT Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: > >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets > >> updated when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option > >> in that case. > >> > >> Not sure of the accuracy of either re

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: >> >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets updated >> when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option in that case. >> >> Not sure of the accuracy of either report... > > … nor of my memory. > > I was never a wysiwy(d)

Re: Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 08 avril 2022 à 13:48 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : > > I've had "virtio-win-guest-tools" installed inside Win10 guest does it appear in the list of the Windows installed applications list (Windows parameters menu)? I just verified: that's the only thing I installed in th

Re: Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.04.2022 13:19, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, RHEL/Fedora provide guest (virtio) drivers and agents. I have installed the whole bunch (ISO) into a Win10 KVM guest and the copy/paste is working properly but I think what is required here is only the Spîce guest agent. https://github.com/virtio-

Re: Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 07 avril 2022 à 18:18 -0500, Dennis Wicks a écrit : > It doesn't work for me and the suggested solutions I have > found are referring to a linux guest. > > TIA for pointers, suggestions, solutions! > Denniis > > Hello, RHEL/Fedora provide guest (virtio) drivers and agents. I have i