Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 14/07/2025 21:38, Chris Green wrote: Jan Claeys wrote: The reason is that 'gucharmap' is not part of XFCE, but Xubuntu installs it by default (it’s a dependency of the 'xubuntu-desktop' metapackage in Ubuntu). Debian currently doesn’t have a similar metapackage with an "opinionated selection

Re: kmail: Sound at sending mail

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:29:33 +0200 Hans wrote: > is anyone using kmail? > > I have added a rule, when a string is in the subject, let us say for > example "advice", then a wav file is played. > > But this is also played, when I am sendin a mail with the word > "advice" in the headline. > >

Re: kmail: Sound at sending mail

On Mon 14 Jul 2025 at 18:29:33 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > is anyone using kmail? > > I have added a rule, when a string is in the subject, let us say for > example "advice", then a wav file is played. > > But this is also played, when I am sendin a mail with the word "advice" in >

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Jul 14, 2025, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new > > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not > > allowed to take it apart and start probing around. > >

Re: Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

Stefan Monnier wrote: > > How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than > > Message #1, #2, #3, ...? > > You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ? But not https://bugs.debian.org/1095866 which starts with 5 and has a lot of multiples of 3 in it. -dsr-

Re: Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

> How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than > Message #1, #2, #3, ...? You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ? Stefan

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

Somehow, the newlines in your post got lost (?). On 7/14/25 11:12, Borden wrote: 2025-07-14 11:37:17 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ perl -pe 's/>/\n>>/g' foo | perl -pe 's/\. ?/.\n> /g' My unsolicited, unprofessionl, free advice: >> Is it better than fstrim. > timer mentioned in this thread? >> >> Some ye

Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than Message #1, #2, #3, ...? [This page](https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting) contains no explanation for it.

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

My unsolicited, unprofessionl, free advice:> Is it better than fstrim.timer mentioned in this thread?> > Some years ago there was a warning on the> > > page that Intel did not recommend continuous TRIM aka discard. Currentlythere are some

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

> Right, but her laptop is pretty much dead (won't charge any longer and > has only 4 gb of RAM) and cannot be revived for any sensible amount of > money, so she must buy a new one. Side note: the "new" one doesn't have to be literally new, it could be second-hand as well. Stefan

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Greg (HE12025-07-14): > Sure. All the old hands (Hasler, Wright, tomas, Wooledge et. al.) are > using Gnome, the default Debian desktop. Any evidence to support that claim? -- Nicolas George

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

> On 14 Jul 2025, at 16:52, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-07-14, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:18:03PM -, Greg wrote: >>> the old dinosaurs hold them in a certain disdain >> >> You don't understand irony, do you? >> > > Sure. All the old hands (Hasler, Wright, tomas, Wooled

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get > > >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...] > > > > > > But that's

kmail: Sound at sending mail

Dear list, is anyone using kmail? I have added a rule, when a string is in the subject, let us say for example "advice", then a wav file is played. But this is also played, when I am sendin a mail with the word "advice" in the headline. This suddenly appeared, but I could not find, why thi

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On 2025-07-14, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:18:03PM -, Greg wrote: >>the old dinosaurs hold them in a certain disdain > > You don't understand irony, do you? > Sure. All the old hands (Hasler, Wright, tomas, Wooledge et. al.) are using Gnome, the default Debian desktop.

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400 Dan Purgert wrote: > > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not > allowed to take it apart and start probing around. It probably actually runs on something somewher

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:27:46 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Is it a underhanded plan to have the experienced users quietly by > themselves? No, it is a sneaky underhanded plot to leave the email lists entirely to the old hands and rid us of pesky boring newbie questions like "Where's the power sw

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:18:03PM -, Greg wrote: the old dinosaurs hold them in a certain disdain You don't understand irony, do you?

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get > >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...] > > > > But that's why she has you, right? :) > > > > Right, but her laptop is pretty

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 07:02 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > OP here.  I installed Debian 12 with XFCE on my desktop and my laptop > > something like a year ago. I moved from xubuntu which I had used for > > many years.  These were clean, from scratch, installations but I had > >

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...] > > But that's why she has you, right? :) > Right, but her laptop is pretty much dead (won't charge any longer and has onl

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 07:02 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > OP here.  I installed Debian 12 with XFCE on my desktop and my laptop > something like a year ago. I moved from xubuntu which I had used for > many years.  These were clean, from scratch, installations but I had > my 'list of added packages' f

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-14, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg (HE12025-07-12): > >> That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. > > > > As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw > > in any way… > > I do completely acknowledge that.

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On 2025-07-14, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg (HE12025-07-12): >> That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. > > As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw > in any way… I do completely acknowledge that. >> The thrust of the OP seems to be directe

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 2025-07-14, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/07/2025 23:06, Greg (curtyshoo) wrote: >> On 2025-07-13, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> >>> This is what I originally wrote on > [...] >> The OP was specifically about Debian 12 with XFCE, for which the >> character selection t

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 11:27:46AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg (HE12025-07-12): > > The thrust of the OP seems to be directed towards the *majority* of > > *new* users, who ain't gonna be using Gnus to read this mailing list, > > please get real. > > So, you would have a webforum with

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

David Christensen wrote: > On 7/13/25 13:23, David Christensen wrote: >> `dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M /dev/sdX` > > I apologize -- that command is wrong, in more than one way. Here is an > console session from when I zeroed a 1 TB HDD: ... i didn't zero mine out since it was already zeroed. but tha

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Greg (HE12025-07-12): > That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw in any way… > The thrust of the OP seems to be directed towards the *majority* of > *new* users, who ain't gonna be using Gnus to read t