Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 10:30:06AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 18/11/2024 09:47, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:18:27AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: You may try to open Web Developer Tools (under "More tools" in the hamburger menu, [F12] or [Ctrl+Shift+I]). Are there any er

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/11/2024 09:47, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:18:27AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: You may try to open Web Developer Tools (under "More tools" in the hamburger menu, [F12] or [Ctrl+Shift+I]). Are there any errors in Console ([Ctrl+Shift+K])? A bunch.  Too many for me

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:28:14PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I tested https://www.chewy.com/ on a clean install of FireFox ESR with no plugins and the site works fine. Try purging Firefox and reinstalling. sudo apt purge firefox-esr sudo apt install firefox-esr Google Chrome also wo

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 02:47:32 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:18:27AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > Hope, you did *not* log in into a Firefox account to sync bookmarks, > > add-ons, and some preferences. > > No, I did not. > > > > You may try to open Web Developer

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:18:27AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Hope, you did *not* log in into a Firefox account to sync bookmarks, add-ons, and some preferences. No, I did not. You may try to open Web Developer Tools (under "More tools" in the hamburger menu, [F12] or [Ctrl+Shift+I]). Are t

Trees (was: Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository)

2024-11-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/11/2024 17:30, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: " How Ecosia works: Like other search engines, we make money from ads. We then use 100% of our profits for the planet. The result: 200M trees and counting!" Just a warning: the following article mentions Ecosia as an example of transparency, while t

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 02:21:20 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 08:33:25PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup reports a location of Texas for > > this address, so server-side Geo IP blocking seems unlikely. > > A rural area a little sout

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I tested https://www.chewy.com/ on a clean install of FireFox ESR with no plugins and the site works fine. Try purging Firefox and reinstalling. sudo apt purge firefox-esr sudo apt install firefox-esr Google Chrome also works fine with no issues as well. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The univer

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 01:16:57 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: The only customization I made was to install xfce rather than gnome. I am using the browser (Firefox ESR) which was installed automatically with the desktop (xfce). Hope, you did *not* log in into a Firefox account to sync bookma

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 02:06:12PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:39:36 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: I have here a spare machine. In the hope of resolving the matter in the company of experts, I propose to do another installation of Debian, using netinst with the "exp

Re: BD backup?

2024-11-17 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM wrote: > On 11/16/24 18:31, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > > > note that vlc on debian reads and play BlueRay disks just fine :) (just > be > > sure sure that libluray is installed) > > I have libbluray-2. However it says "NB: Most commercial Blu-Ray are > rest

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes > > > and they don't change the I

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 02:41:24PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Anyway, as I think we all mostly agree, there is some misconfiguration going on here that is causing OP's web browsing experience on Debian to be compromised. I have here a spare machine. In the hope of resolving the matter in the com

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes > > and they don't change the I-Beam at all, they just change all

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + Chris Green wrote: > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes > and they don't change the I-Beam at all, they just change all the > other ones. Yes. I get a ni

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Felix Miata wrote: > Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC): > > > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large > > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey > > background in the terminal windows. > > > This means that the default X cursor is

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:39:36 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > I have here a spare machine. In the hope of resolving the matter in > the company of experts, I propose to do another installation of > Debian, using netinst with the "expert" option. Possibly this is overkill. Try shutting down yo

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > > > > It's

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC): > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey > background in the terminal windows. > This means that the default X cursor isn't very visible when it's > somew

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Darac Marjal
You might try the "chameleon-cursor-theme" package. There are several coloured cursors in that, hopefully one of theme is more visible. On 17/11/2024 15:40, Chris Green wrote: I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 17 November 2024 12:11:37 pm Joe wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:47:20 -0600 > John Hasler wrote: > > > Joe writes: > > > Yep, if a web designer can't put a single character on a screen > > > without using JS, the rest of his offering is not likely to be worth > > > making an effort to

Re: BD backup?

2024-11-17 Thread eben
On 11/16/24 18:31, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: note that vlc on debian reads and play BlueRay disks just fine :) (just be sure sure that libluray is installed) I have libbluray-2. However it says "NB: Most commercial Blu-Ray are restricted by AACS or BD+ technologies and this library is not

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > > It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think the terminal can do anything aboout

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 05:39:36PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 02:41:24PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Anyway, as I think we all mostly agree, there is some misconfiguration > > going on here that is causing OP's web browsing experience on Debian to > > be compromised.

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm pretty sure you can set that. Go look? -dsr-

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > Yep, if a web designer can't put a single character on a screen > without using JS, the rest of his offering is not likely to be worth > making an effort to look at. They don't use JS. They use "website builders" that produce unreadable masses of HTML and JS that pull in chunks of J

Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey background in the terminal windows. This means that the default X cursor isn't very visible when it's somewhere in one of the terminal windows and I often have troubl

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:24:55PM +, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:30:20 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Except the OP in this thread claims he has never disabled Javascript > > (didn't even know what that *meant*), and in fact does not yet know > > what's causing the problem. >

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:30:20AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:34:00 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > I was the 'guy in England', but that's irrelevant because the problem > > there was sites that were discriminating based on the user-agent string > > s

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:34:00 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >I've been thinking about this some more, and I'd like to try to list > > >all the ways the OP might have caused this to fai

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Corey
November 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM, "Cindy Sue Causey" mailto:butterflyby...@gmail.com?to=%22Cindy%20Sue%20Causey%22%20%3Cbutterflybytes%40gmail.com%3E > wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 10:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:30:46 -0500 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy, >I haven't researched the others, but it already feels >like ultimately there are only a couple actual search engines, lol. There's Mojeek. Unlike Startpage (and some of the others using google or bing as a back end) Mojee

Re: Bump: systemd version 256.7-2 on Debian testing disabled UTMP support

2024-11-17 Thread Farblos
On 2024-11-15 22:19, Farblos wrote: > any comment from your side on below mail or a general pointer on > "the future of Debian and utmp"? Ok, my bad. I have been focusing on/searching in debian-user, but debian-devel would have been the more appropriate place. If anybody else comes across this

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: ... if a web site wants to be *that* obnoxious I'll often decide that they're not worth the trouble of bothering with. :-) +1 My +1 as well, Roger

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 10:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > > > > > > You might try Google, with "Debian" (in quotation marks) added to > > > your > > > search terms. You will als

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > I routinely get that "blank white page" result in firefox here, and > find that fiddling with the settings in the noscript plugin often > fixes it. OTOH, if a web site wants to be *that* obnoxious I'll > often decide that they're not worth the trouble of bothe

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
"Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >I've been thinking about this some more, and I'd like to try to list > >all the ways the OP might have caused this to fail. > > > >We start by observing that nobody else has been able to reproduce the >

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > > > > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > > > I'm usua

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > > I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another > > app. Rarely do I w

Re: Re: question about apt upgrade facing locally build packages

2024-11-17 Thread tomas
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 08:41:24PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > > That's why I ended up with the suffix and letting the sysadmin > > (often me, with a different hat on ;-) making that preference > > explicit in the APT machinery. > > But could it be the a nice feature for apt to have a list a