On 5/15/25 14:30, Default User wrote:
Hi.
I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.
Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current
(2023) low-end Dell laptop.
Intel Core i3 processor.
8Gb ram.
UEFI booting.
Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage.
Partitions:
nvme0n1 259:0
On 15/05/2025 15:52, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian
Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what
audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for
Developers, with clusters of pa
On 15/05/2025 22:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
Given this function.
You have not described use cases
ev () { case $# in
0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
*) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
Can improvements be suggested?
Install shellcheck
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.
> Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current
> (2023) low-end Dell laptop.
> Intel Core i3 processor.
> 8Gb ram.
> UEFI booting.
> Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for
Hi.
I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.
Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current
(2023) low-end Dell laptop.
Intel Core i3 processor.
8Gb ram.
UEFI booting.
Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage.
Partitions:
nvme0n1 259:00 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 2
On 5/14/25 15:02, Van Snyder wrote:
When I start up, my 1920x1200 monitor is in a 1280x1024 mode, no matter
whether I use GDM or SDDM. But the login manager is trying to project a
1920x1200 picture. The result is that the little icon in the lower
right corner is about two inches beyond the ri
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 12:45:10 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I don't have a good answer to your questions, I'm afraid, but one of the
> problems I see in the world of GNU/Linux is this tendency to have
> "per-distribution" documentation for thing which are not specific to
> a distribution,
+1
>
On 5/15/25 11:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
Hi,
Given this function.
ev () { case $# in
0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
*) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
Can improvements be suggested?
When you refer to a variable you should wrap it i
* pe...@easthope.ca [25-05/15=Th 08:42 -0700]:
>> ev () { case $# in
>> 0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
>> 1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
>> *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
>> Can improvements be suggested?
* ? [25-05/15=Th 18:23 +0200]:
> you can shorten ev to
> ev(){ ev
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given this function.
>
> ev () { case $# in
> 0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
> 1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
> *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
>
> Can improvements be suggested?
"Too many arguments." doesn't seem quite right. If evinc
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM peter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Given this function.
>
> ev () { case $# in
> 0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
> 1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
> *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
>
> Can improvements be suggested?
quoting $1
I don't know about evinc
Jonathan Dowland [2025-05-15 09:52:23] wrote:
> On Wed May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project
>> would say that Arch is based on Debian.
> ACK
>> It is certainly the case that their documentation is good, and
>> although not
you can shorten ev to
ev(){ evince -d ${DISPLAY=:0} ${1+"$@"};}
you might wanna background it from your tty
ev() { evince ${1+"$@"}&}
unless you need to see the display errors
or have an rm $pdf waiting to not fire prematurely
Op do 15 mei 2025 om 18:00 schreef :
> ev () { case $# in
> 0) /
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 09:33:27 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> on every single page. The right thing for the Debian Wiki would
> be:
>
> Documentation → Debian 12 Bookworm
> Stable Version: 12 Bookworm
> Long Term Support Version: 11 Bullseye
> Unsupported Versions: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2
Hi,
Given this function.
ev () { case $# in
0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
*) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
Can improvements be suggested?
Thx, ... P.
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> Tim Woodall :
>> What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1?
> Yes. It's 2.2 from 2000.
Wow! Talk about blast from the past!
Potato was my first debian version.
I created a netboot floppy for potato and used it to install debian on
several computers, downloading everything over the net.
On 2025-05-14, Gregory Forster wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wednesdays, I volunteer at a Senior Center to teach computers.
> Well, few, if any, showed up. I'm now known as, "Greg, the gadget guy."
Going way back to my parents' era, that used to be called a Stella Dallas
party.
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian
> Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what
> audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for
> Developers, with clusters of pages for Debconfs
On Wed May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project
would say that Arch is based on Debian.
ACK
It is certainly the case that their documentation is good, and
although not universally applicable to Debian packages, can be a
dece
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