Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 intoa2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 03:01:53PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > Which is why I catalogue MBA's in the same box as all the lawyers Bill S. > said he would kill first. I don't think killing is a good idea. Still, I'd be happy if the nerd community had the brains to not flock towards those ba

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

2024-10-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/10/2024 10:52, Mike Castle wrote: Another option is the web app catching up on a backlog of messages suddenly streaming in. At least, if it has been a few hours (e.g., overnight or away from the computer). You may enable timestamps in Firefox dev tools and may try to correlate events wi

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

2024-10-08 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:06 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > The question is if Firefox for some reason believes that network state > is changed. A simple test (unrelated to downloads though) is to try in > dev tools console > > window.addEventListener("onl

Re: qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

2024-10-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:52:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/10/2024 07:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > > Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE > > launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being > > set.  Which means something is runni

Re: Firefox codecs

2024-10-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/10/2024 23:47, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used. Now I'm writing from a computer where Firefox supports AAC that has neit

qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

2024-10-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/10/2024 07:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being set.  Which means something is running a not-login shell, something between startx and xfwm.  It's defined in ~

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 Oct 2024 at 06:37:43 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:44:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote: > > > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ? > > > > It was 18 years ago so I can'

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Ash Joubert
On 2024-10-09 13:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settin

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 10/8/24 19:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy Let me provide a di

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread eben
On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx. The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small. It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settings. Under XFCE, I use qt5ct and set the

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 09/10/2024 00:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy I've relied on P

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Ash Joubert
On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settings. Under XFCE, I use qt5ct and set the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMT

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Ash Joubert
On 2024-10-09 12:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy keepassxc -- As

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread eben
On 10/8/24 19:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy I use (and like) ke

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread KISER JD
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, at 00:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager > i've always used firefox's builtin manager > but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time > it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords > and i'm lazy

Re: password manager

2024-10-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager keepassxc here. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

password manager

2024-10-08 Thread fxkl47BF
what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 07:52:55PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I've used rsnapshot for several years now with no such issue. My > rsnapshot repository resides on ext4, on its own LVM logical volume, on > top of an encrypted RAID 5 array on four four terabyte spinning rust > drives. > > /cr

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Oct 2024 11:29 -0400, from d...@randomstring.org (Dan Ritter): >> The disk has been running continuously for seven years now and I am >> running out of space anyway, so I already ordered a replacement. But I >> do not fully understand what is happening. > > The drive is dying, slowly. In this

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread eben
On 10/8/24 16:07, Jochen Spieker wrote: | Oct 06 14:27:11 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361257600 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 150 prio class 3 | Oct 06 14:27:30 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361275264 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 161 prio class 3 | Oct 06 1

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Andy Smith: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> The way I understand these messages is that some sectors cannot be read >> from sdb at all and the disk is unable to reallocate the data somewhere >> else (probably because it doesn't know what the data should be in th

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Dan Ritter: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> The sector number mentioned at the bottom is increasing during the >> check. > > So it repeats, and it's contiguous. That suggests a flaw in the > drive itself. It definitely looks like that: | Oct 06 14:27:11 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 intoa2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread gene heskett
On 10/8/24 14:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 02:28:44PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 10/8/24 08:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: [...] Synaptic now finds nvidia-settings, but wants 72 other packages to be loaded, i

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 02:28:44PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 10/8/24 08:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Synaptic now finds nvidia-settings, but wants 72 other packages to be > > > loaded, including gcc whic

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > The way I understand these messages is that some sectors cannot be read > from sdb at all and the disk is unable to reallocate the data somewhere > else (probably because it doesn't know what the data should be in the > first pl

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread gene heskett
On 10/8/24 08:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: [...] Synaptic now finds nvidia-settings, but wants 72 other packages to be loaded, including gcc which I took as a health and safety warning. This is DKMS [1]: NVIDIA's kernel module isn't

[SOLVED?] Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-08 Thread local10
Oct 4, 2024, 19:59 by loca...@tutanota.com: > After upgrading to Firefox v128 from v115, Firefox seems to have stopped > using some mouse cursors as per the active KDE theme (the Oxygen White theme, > in my case). For some reason, instead of showing the white arrow mouse cursor > as per the the

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 10:41:33AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > I add dateext parameter for logrotate so old logs keep the same name. This is another drawback to the design of rsnapshot. It doesn't matter that the files in your backup retain the same path: if they differ at all in any way,

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

2024-10-08 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 10:42:39PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is it doable with any of the other network configuration frameworks > (systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, netplan, …)? It's not directly doable in ifupdown but can be bodged with hook commands. It's not doable in netplan. There is a wis

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Jochen Spieker wrote: > I have two disks in a RAID-1: > > | $ cat /proc/mdstat > | Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] > [raid4] [raid10] > | md0 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdc1[0] > | 5860390400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > | bitmap: 5/44 pages [20KB],

I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hey, please forgive me for posting a question that is not Debian-specific, but maybe somebody here can explain this to me. Ten years ago I would have posted to Usenet instead. I have two disks in a RAID-1: | $ cat /proc/mdstat | Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not using nvidia's proprietary drivers, which which case you don't/didn't need `nvidia-settings` because `xrandr` (and the various front-ends for it) should have worked fine. Here is what

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x256

2024-10-08 Thread Hans
Sorry, just dicovered, it is not the full xorg.conf. This is the correct one, and below you can see, where the resolution can be forced. Using xorg.conf is nice, when you need special settings. Hope this helps (and sorry again, to attach a file, but I suppose, this makes it for the op easier).

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Hans
Instead of using nvidia-settings, you could also create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edit the settings you need. Yes, xorg.conf ois no more needed, as the driver itself checks the settings, but in some cases xorg.conf might help. I allow myself to attache mine here from the old days, it is for nvid

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I took the risk, clicked on "apply", watched the packages load but during > the installation got the message "Free nouveau kernel module conflicts with > non free nvidia module. Reboot". I saw several messages of the form: Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not usi

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: [...] > Synaptic now finds nvidia-settings, but wants 72 other packages to be > loaded, including gcc which I took as a health and safety warning. This is DKMS [1]: NVIDIA's kernel module isn't GPL compatible (but the GPL allows you, t

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-08 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote: I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own password, and now works correctly. It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you. The desktop icon

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Xiyue Deng wrote: Roger Price writes: Is there some way of getting to this package? Looks like nvidia-settings comes from "contrib". Have you enabled the contrib repository in your apt settings? Something like below: | deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main co

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-07, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was > a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the > file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a separate archive > Maildir, that sort of thing). It

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-10-07 21:06, Dan Ritter wrote: Possibly of interest: Debian package rdfind: Description: find duplicate files utility rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links. It is a command line program written in c