Re: recommended way disable recommends using apt

2022-08-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, jindam, vani wrote: hello debian users, i want to install again debian, i dont want to install recommended packages and i checked (ex: $ apt show libreoffice) my list of packages to be installed & i see no problem. i always use $ sudo apt to install packages. my plan: (1)

Re: recommended way disable recommends using apt

2022-08-22 Thread jindam, vani
On 23 August 2022 2:41:30 AM UTC, "jindam, vani" wrote: >hello debian users, > >i want to install again debian, i dont >want to install recommended packages >and i checked (ex: $ apt show libreoffice) >my list of packages to be installed & >i see no problem. i always use $ sudo apt to >ins

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Bret Busby wrote: > > And, after all of that, in looking in my Appearance -> Themes, through > the Yaru stuff, and noticing that the YaruGreen looks like the > TraditionalGreen, I also noticed that the YaruOk looks like the > TraditionalOkBrave. I've tried all the Yaru* themes and none of them

recommended way disable recommends using apt

2022-08-22 Thread jindam, vani
hello debian users, i want to install again debian, i dont want to install recommended packages and i checked (ex: $ apt show libreoffice) my list of packages to be installed & i see no problem. i always use $ sudo apt to install packages. my plan: (1) install debian base (2) disable recommen

Re: Debian 11 Cinnamon Lock Screen Issue

2022-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Aug 2022 at 14:35:29 (+), Ajay R wrote: > I am using the Cinnamon desktop environment on Debian 11. All but one thing > has been great so far. > When I wake my laptop from suspension by opening the lid, before the lock > screen shows up, I see > a brief flash of the desktop behind.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Aug 2022 at 07:46:24 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:55:33PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > The attraction of a one-liner

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

2022-08-22 Thread Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ
On Montag, 22. August 2022 14:47:15 -04 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or > > > one on a specific VM stac

Re: Bookworm: Firefox v102 seems to be hanging quite often

2022-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
local10 (12022-08-21): > Have upgraded to FF v102 a couple of days ago but it looks like > something isn't quite right with this version of FF. Have to restart > it once or twice a day because FF just stops responding. The issue > doesn't seem to be related to any particular site. Same hardware, sa

Re: Bookworm: Firefox v102 seems to be hanging quite often

2022-08-22 Thread local10
Aug 21, 2022, 18:28 by loca...@tutanota.com: > Have upgraded to FF v102 a couple of days ago but it looks like something > isn't quite right with this version of FF. Have to restart it once or twice a > day because FF just stops responding. The issue doesn't seem to be related to > any particul

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

2022-08-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? > > At this point, I've requested two books on

Re: Mail Transfer Agent

2022-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/22 23:36, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:  Hi,  I'm having problem with my actuel email provider (the one that goes with  my web hosting plan) ... ... would you have any suggestion for a service ? On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, David Christensen wrote: I have had a domain host plan (

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-22 Thread john doe
On 8/22/2022 2:41 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 21:39 step...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/17/22 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote: Tom Browder [2022-08-17 05:53:05] wrote: I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with reasonable respons

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

2022-08-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: It just seems documentation ought to be better / simpler / easier to use than that. There's an inverse correlation between completeness and simplicity. If you don't want to read a 700 page book, the other alternative is to sp

Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

2022-08-22 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? I applaud someone wanting / willing to read a book ;-) (I'm smiling, but I am serious.) I also applaud the recommedati

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Curt (12022-08-22): > What about 'gtk3-nocsd'? > > Description-en: Disable Gtk+ 3 client side decorations (CSD) > gtk3-nocsd LD_PRELOADs a small library to disable the client side > decorations (CSD) of Gtk+ 3. > > ... > > Or maybe this isn't the remedy to the ills referred to in the thread.

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 8/22/22 4:07 AM, Nicolas George wrote: . . . A manifestation of the “we know better than you” mindset of the GNOME people. . . . *JUST* the GNOME people? I've found that, in general, the "we know better than you" mindset is even worse with Apple and M$. And getting worse still, especially wi

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Victor Sudakov (12022-08-22): > > # Gtk+3 sucks > > Style "Application Class" !MWMDecor > > Style "Gajim" !MWMDecor > Where do you put this magic? Hopefully it could help me fix Lens and > Teams? I hate applications to bring their own decorations. In ~/.fvwm2rc, so I doubt it will be useful for yo

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Nicolas George wrote: > > It is, I have found, a problem with most Gtk+3 applications. A > manifestation of the “we know better than you” mindset of the GNOME > people. I have not found a solution to disable it globally, short of > patching Gtk+3 itself. The best I have found is to force my WM to

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:02:22AM +, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Any applications using standard decorations (Firefox, MATE Terminal, > > Google Chrome etc). > > It's worth pointing out, perhaps, that Google Chrome does *not* use > the standard window manager decorations

Fwd: Virtual Machines

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Browder
Arg, forgot again (maybe I can blame my iPhone) -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Browder Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:04 Subject: Re: Virtual Machines To: Chuck Zmudzinski On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:09 Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > C

Re: Mail Transfer Agent

2022-08-22 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, August 21, 2022 01:09:09 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Well, if we are going to plug services, shellworld is fantastic! > Even under new management service remains profoundly wonderful. > My personal site is hosted here too, with my paying $60 for both > accounts. Is that shellworld.net?

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-22 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/22/22 08:41, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 21:39 step...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/17/22 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Tom Browder [2022-08-17 05:53:05] wrote: >> I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable >> enough to use with re

Re: openssh server

2022-08-22 Thread Ángel
On 2022-08-22 at 08:42 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:33:42PM +0200, Radwan Daoud wrote: > >I want to install an old version of openssh server on my Debian 11. > >I want to install Debian 9 ssh version on Debian 11 , is that possible: > >[1]https://packag

Re: Virtual Machines

2022-08-22 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as  base)? > > Thanks. > > -Tom This looks like a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date online book: https://linuxhandbook.com/virtualization/

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-22, Nicolas George wrote: > > It is, I have found, a problem with most Gtk+3 applications. A > manifestation of the we know better than you mindset of the GNOME > people. I have not found a solution to disable it globally, short of > patching Gtk+3 itself. The best I have found is to fo

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:00:34 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a > second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting > regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". > > cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active r

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/22/22, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a > second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting > regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". > > cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[2] - the

how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[2] - the newly added drive is showing up as

Virtual Machines

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Browder
Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 21:39 step...@gmail.com wrote: > On 8/17/22 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Tom Browder [2022-08-17 05:53:05] wrote: > >> I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be > reliable > >> enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just Office 360,

Re: openssh server

2022-08-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:33:42PM +0200, Radwan Daoud wrote: >I want to install an old version of openssh server on my Debian 11. >I want to install Debian 9 ssh version on Debian 11 ,  is that possible: >[1]https://packages.debian.org/stretch/openssh-server >Please don't ask me ,

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 18:46, Victor Sudakov wrote: Bret Busby wrote: [dd] I use the Theme named "TraditionalOk", with the panel at the bottom of the screen, and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the interface that I prefer. I don't have any "TraditionalOk" theme there, just countless var

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12022-08-22): > It's worth pointing out, perhaps, that Google Chrome does *not* use > the standard window manager decorations by default. There is, however, > an option you can toggle to make it do so. It is, I have found, a problem with most Gtk+3 applications. A manifestation of

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:02:22AM +, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Any applications using standard decorations (Firefox, MATE Terminal, > Google Chrome etc). It's worth pointing out, perhaps, that Google Chrome does *not* use the standard window manager decorations by default. There is, however, a

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Bret Busby wrote: [dd] > >> I use the Theme named "TraditionalOk", with the panel at the bottom of > >> the screen, and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the > >> interface that I prefer. > > > > I don't have any "TraditionalOk" theme there, just countless variants of the > > Yaru

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 18:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: The titlebar colors of active and inactive windows are the same which is very inconvenient. In the previous version of Ubuntu/Mate, the color of the active window's titlebar was distinct. Hello

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Bret Busby wrote: > On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > The titlebar colors of active and inactive windows are the same which > > is very inconvenient. In the previous version of Ubuntu/Mate, the > > color of the active window's titlebar was distinct. Hello Bret! > > 1. The Ubuntu u

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 16:43, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now I have switched to 22.04.1 with MATE

Re: Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now I have switched to 22.04.1 with MATE 1.26.0 and come across an unfortunat

Color of the active window title bar in ubuntu-mate?

2022-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a better mailing list if you feel it right. I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now I have switched to 22.04.1 with MATE 1.26.0 and come across an unfortunate thing: The titlebar colors of active a