Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
On August 26, 2024 9:10:48 PM PDT, Martin Krafft wrote: >I'll send you a book if you pay postage from Germany. Commands have evolved. >The described ones still work, but there are now improved tools/commands like >apt, which are not covered. > How do we

Re: tbird hot keys.

2024-08-26 Thread eben
On 8/25/24 14:06, Stefan Monnier wrote: Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but all the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all. Sometimes Maybe you have a touchpad and accidentally made the "select all" gesture by brushing it when passing? --

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/08/2024 01:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platforms, pseudo-mouse USB devices, and even software emulated mice. This case it would be e

Re: Subscribing to bug updates.

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/08/2024 00:08, Tim Woodall wrote: The emails to control and to the bugs themselves all worked, it's only the emails to the subscribe address that seem to have vanished. It precisely describes my experience as well.

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> a flash drive or CD-ROM are suddenly nontrivial: I need > to get Debian's netinst using Windows, with whatever > browser is there, then write it with Windows tools. So: In the past I've successfully used https://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ tho I'm not sure if it's still working (it doesn't

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:39:52 -0700 Will Mengarini wrote: > I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means > it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used > Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance. Not necessarily; some vendors (Silent PC, e.g.) will sell you bare metal. However, that won't

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> - most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen > blanking for security (or power saving). There's also "burn in" for some monitor technologies. Stefan

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400): > ¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard, > to defeat it. Are you sure? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_keyboard_-.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT_keyboard_original_layout.png https://

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-26 15:29, gene heskett wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. In Settings>Power Manager I selected "do nothing" or "never" for all the options. If want to blank the monitor I use t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, > screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in If everything else fails: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platf

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me > ou

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed > garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. > Gene, First things first: where did the image come from? Is it originally from Raspberry Pi OS?

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread fxkl47BF
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a > closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. > > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an > 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. IME, this is a bit of an uphill battle, sadly. Basically, lots of tools can request/cause some kind of "screen blanking" so you can never be sure you've disable

Re: Subscribing to bug updates.

2024-08-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon Aug 26, 2024 at 9:08 AM BST, Tim Woodall wrote: Is there some magic needed to subscribe to bug updates? … I've managed to do this in the past. Not sure what I've done wrong or has changed. Can you outline what you tried this time? Sent

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread tomas
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed > garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. [...] You have provided lots of details which don't help us help you. But, alas, you left out the in

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/08/2024 00:37, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# journalctl -b --grep="acpi MSFT0101" Aug 25 10:28:38 debian kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16 My impression is that some ACPI errors are not rare. I have no idea concerning severity of this one. My question was if

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/08/2024 18:37, Erwan David wrote: On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent The question is why emacs.service is started before /usr/lib/openssh/agent-launch or plasma copies SSH_AUTH_SOCKET value to systemd environment. [...] Al

need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread gene heskett
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous

Re: Subscribing to bug updates.

2024-08-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon Aug 26, 2024 at 9:08 AM BST, Tim Woodall wrote: > Is there some magic needed to subscribe to bug updates? … > I've managed to do this in the past. Not sure what I've done wrong or > has changed. Can you outline what you tried this time? -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonath

Re: reporting an issue in debian based OS

2024-08-26 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 12:55:32PM +, b.mc6 wrote: > I have an issue to report but don't know how to go about it. Here is the > issue- > > Hello, > There seems to be some issues with the 'ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2' and some > operating systems that are based on Debian. I am not sure if this

Re: ain't it time to fix #790955 (couldn't find any console keymaps)?

2024-08-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harald Dunkel: > > trying to change console keymaps using standard localectl I > stumbled over https://bugs.debian.org/790955 and the > recommendation on > > https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1257/how-to-fix-missing-keymaps-debian-ubuntu-localectl-failed-read-list > > to install the missing k

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-26 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:08:49AM CEST, Erwan David said: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 05:17:35AM CEST, Max Nikulin > said: > > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: > > > > Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random > > > >

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread tv.debian
Le 26/08/2024 à 09:42, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb proposes https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Another possibility is a tool named Rufus. I would use i

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Joe
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:39:52 -0700 Will Mengarini wrote: > I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means > it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used > Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance. > > A special complication is that I just had a computer > apocalypse in which a Power Surge F

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:06 AM martin f krafft wrote: > > Regarding the following, written by “jeremy ardley” on 2024-08-26 at 09:58 > Uhr GMT: > > It’s almost 20 years old now but it’s still pretty relevant since Debian > hasn’t changed that much. > True. However, systemd is also not Debian-

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread jeremy ardley
On 26/8/24 15:16, Michel Verdier wrote: (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11? (I don't know yet what Windows I'll end up with.) I don't remember but I could do that. If you don't find a way you could install cygwin and

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:19 AM Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:07:59 -0700 > Joe B wrote: > > > On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." > > wrote: > > > >The last laptop I used, left it plugged in all the time and > > >eventually the battery deteriorated, something wen

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-26 Thread Joe
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:07:59 -0700 Joe B wrote: > On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." > wrote: > >The last laptop I used, left it plugged in all the time and > >eventually the battery deteriorated, something went wrong and it > >wouldn't charge up any more. > > So do

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-26 Thread Erwan David
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 05:17:35AM CEST, Max Nikulin said: > On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: > > > Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random > > > socket name... > > > > > > And I do not see what starts it (I see the pr

ain't it time to fix #790955 (couldn't find any console keymaps)?

2024-08-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, trying to change console keymaps using standard localectl I stumbled over https://bugs.debian.org/790955 and the recommendation on https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1257/how-to-fix-missing-keymaps-debian-ubuntu-localectl-failed-read-list to install the missing keymaps using upstrea

Subscribing to bug updates.

2024-08-26 Thread Tim Woodall
Is there some magic needed to subscribe to bug updates? I added patches for three trixie RC bugs at the weekend and tried to subscribe to uodates but I didn't get the subscribe confirmation email. Do I need the word subscribe in subject or body perhaps? debian.org/Bugs/Developer says subject an

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb proposes https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Another possibility is a tool named Rufus. I would use its "dd" mode rather than the other mode which unpack

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-08-25, Will Mengarini wrote: > (1) Will an HTTPS download in Windows > suffice to get me an uncorrupted netinst? > (Anything I need to know about "binary mode"?) yes > (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash? > Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11? > (I d