Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ate them. Quick lesson learned was that dragging to include the space after the desired word fixed that. If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have something to do with how the webmaster coded the page. Hope this helps. It's nice to know for the future. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
led Evolution a few months ago. PHEW! Thank you, Developers and Maintainers! That would have been a devastating loss had they been purged, too. :) Just thinking out loud, I guess. :) PS For those Users looking for places where hard drive is quietly eaten up, that .local location has "seve

Re: no-code web builder application for Linux

2025-03-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page, similar to wiki software, another type of web site development software. Concrete CMS allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. As of 2021, there are over 62,000 live websites that are built with Concrete CMS." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_CMS Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ry single day, I still marvel at the cumulative success of package interoperability while watching apt-get perp its magic. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
he HTML webpage. I don't think I've ever seen one display that way before. I'm used to receiving that popup asking where to download the file, instead. Am keeping that webpage to see how hard it is to read how they coded that feature. It's definitely the PDF because I was able to toggle

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ny tabs at the same time for those two alone. If I stay away from them, I can have thousands of tabs open for many hours with no problems. No, those tabs are not all being actively used at the same time, but a quick peek at cookies under Settings shows that parts of some of those pages (that I have

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
able or disable the "Fn Lock" option to change the default function key behavior. +++ ENG INTERNET SEARCH RESULT +++ DISCLAIMER: Those unsolicited AI answers sometimes unintentionally warp their directions. I'm just hoping that blurb hits close enough to the right path to help others find that setting. Best wishes... Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

2025-02-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t; shows network-manager brings it in with which is great if and when that's already installed. THANK YOU, Developers... yet again! Best wishes... Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ast offensive DRM possible, and that the install is then silently applied universally around the Internet. As an afterthought for newer Users who want to poke around in their own Firefox, I found my DRM add-on under: about:addons (in address field) > Plugins (tab found in vertical menu) Click the "..." and choose "Manage" to alter DRM's behavior if it's found there. Best wishes.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
antly fixes that dreaded message that says my long list of packages was already installed and has now been marked as manual. GACK. PPS On a related command note, "apt-mark showmanual" is my best friend during debootstraps. It throws a list of the packages that have been cherry picked and manually installed over time. PPPS man apt-mark... Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
. heartwarming.. and validation for the open source lists on which that occurred/occurs. Wish I could remember what branch of US government it was... Off to see if my life-sustaining water has thawed out yet.. Best wishes from North Georgia. Cindy (Sue) :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *

Re: EFI partition - some questions

2025-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ve the proper permissions to create a brand new directory through that single terminal command. Lastly, there's that efibootmgr package. I installed it while battling my past fails but never used it. I've seen it mentioned here at Debian- User so someone here likely knows if and/or how

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
/boot/efi. Twice yesterday, debootstrap looked like it did install on its own. Next time I'll try to remember to reboot before the grub-install step to see what happens. Good luck with yours. FINALLY fixing this a couple years ago was so empowering. Without boot, we got no computers. :) Cin

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 &g

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ian, but packaged in a .deb file. It is your decision > whether to trust such software. > > I just tested the following in Google with perfect results (for me): dragonfly site:deb.debian.org That might not be universal across search engines so a quick query such as the following might

Re: glob path question

2024-08-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ve brain pain many dozens of times over the last few years. PS Yeah, I know, some directories go very deep. I'm pretending those don't exist just this second. Searches I've performed are much specific than just "wi" so the results list would remain small for deeper queries. Works for my humble single user needs. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Evolution & ThunderBird

2024-06-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
heir own fails at this. Just thinking out loud. I'll say this, Evolution email has real-l-l-ly worked out for me _this time_ after I had not had a good experience with it multiple times in the past. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with backups of Evolution just in case (click that hamburger  to find backup and restore under "File") *

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
daily upgrades methodically unfold as each package successfully coordinates its place in line with the others is pure magic. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, North Georgia * runs with birdseed! *

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
s to touching older emails. If there's a work-around for that, I never found it. I simply (and immediately) purged the email software, instead. With Evolution, I'm instantly looking at emails I haven't seen in ~20 years. I was having a horrible time accessing those same emails in G

Re: can not find repo

2024-04-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rvers over the years, I've had success by e.g. snipping from "dists/" on then searching on that part plus the name of whatever mirror I was favoring at the time. That worked about 95% of the time and helps spread the server download wear-and-tear across the Net.. Hope that somehow helps.

NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
st meet. That's heartbreaking. Cindy. PS Another apology for however this email might display. Still haven't found the switch to set the line length to circa 80 characters. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
oints appeared. I only manually mounted them once each. Manually umount'ing each point until none were left fixed whatever trouble that seemed to inflict on apt-get. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

2024-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hared object file: No such file or directory), > /usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so (/usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so: undefined > symbol: mysqlnd_global_stats)) in Unknown on line 0 > mysqli Just observing out loud: What's generating that double slash, i.e. "//usr," in the start of the message? That seems like a possible show stopper. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: filesystem info

2024-03-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r/share/doc/linux-doc-6.6/html/index.html. Sounds pretty good, in fact just downloaded for myself. For those who haven't found them yet, you can also install various Debian centric handbooks using similar searches, e.g. for "admin". Empowered users, yada-yada! Cindy :) PS Ap

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ngs. If it starts up again, there will possibly be a new thread asking about potential tracking packages. Current instant fix? Tweet very loudly about the issue and its potential source Cindy :) NB See Also: Minnesota burglaries via suspected WIFI jamming (e.g. on reddit). -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rated approximately 1,320 "apt-file find" results. Kind of a nice little "the more you know" treasure hunt for the curious, actually.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
f would be fabulous. I'm actually about to point "generative AI" at deprecated code myself because *some* folks are having luck with that newfangled option making their lives easier. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > > That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost." I won and you lost, but we can still be friends. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with memories of a North Georgia English teacher sayin

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
flawlessly ticking until it eventually does not. I'm most often then able to ALT+CTRL+F3 and make a fast browser history backup via a root login before rebooting to reconnect everything again. No complaints, just very grateful it even works long enough to perp those sanity preserving backups Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with good intentions *

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
As Mick says, hold down the ALT key and scroll the mouse rodent's wheel back and forth. I just blew up my desktop background to where it was basically one rendition of the small gif file that's normally tiled. It seems to be for commendable visual accessibility purposes, but it's su

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
been there, done that, many years ago. Ended up rendering my entire computer system useless while in Dolphin via Knoppix, I think it was. *oops* File managers can be pretty darn powerful. They're one of my favorite multi-times daily tools. Thank you, Developers! Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with rain drenched birdseed *

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/27/23, Mike McClain wrote: >> Mr. Martinez, >> I tried every thing I could think of with little success: >> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade >> apt update && apt -y full-upgrade >> apt-get re

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Logging out as my normal user and then logging back in as same user > didn't fix anything visually so I rebooted. The desktop environment > immediately returned to normal and has stayed that way so I flat out > forgot this happened.

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
enced compared to yours and by also pointing to this Debian thread via e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/. If they haven't already had other reports, maybe the similarities and differences in what triggered that system wide fail and how it looked visually for just the two of us will still help somehow. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with Happy New Year's noise makers *

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
"just" something about the permissions level when the package is installed. Permissions would explain one part of what happened. I'm going to respond to the other part in a few.. That toolbar thing is a party of two Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

2023-12-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t webpage is being tapped. The more text content and less HTML, the better. Wget does work as expected, does keep digging into child directories, too, because I just tested a Debian repository related webpage under /debian/dists. That's all I have for now. Just let us know... An aside to wget a

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
, in that case it might be purely about the appearance of gaming and not the mechanics, but those mice still lasted longer so something was thankfully also tougher under the hood, maybe just enough to satisfy average (novice) consumers' expectations. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
y named in this thread's subject. NOTABLE: This has been occurring for "several" years. A quick search of my inbox shows I posted about it here on Debian-User at least going back to 2017.02.12. How I ever found out was an accident, was a pure blessing of the luck of my brain capably functioning one day while fumbling around with mount binding something unrelated. I was encountering discrepancies in what data would present while mount binding. The experience of debootstrap emphatically complaining "I have no name!" eventually came to mind that day, and here we are now... :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * still running with that Linux LiveDVD wishlist as Happy New Year's Resolution #1*

Finding i386 After Support Ends (Was: differences among amd64 and i386)

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
strap. When I encountered those 3 years or so of permanent GPT-induced GRUB boot fails recently, I tried to find a replacement operating system because others were still booting just fine from LiveDVDs. Never stumbled on anything as cognitively friendly as debootstrap.. and so here we still are. Thank you, Developers! Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with her Happy New Year's Linux wishlist champing at the bit *

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ra user. I gave my user, snowball, the same password as before. The command was processed without it complaining that a password was reused. I got the feeling that was a nice extra tidbit to know in this instance. For others, new passwords can be forced as needed. Just need to track down the tips on how to set that up. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
option at the time. That's all I've got. Best wishes fixing this soon... By the way, the dbus-launch error has happened for me on both xfce4 and lxqt desktop environments. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

2023-11-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hat highly generic query only received 10 results for Trixie. Maybe there's still something in there that's useful. Two of those results, etherwake and nvram-wakeup, look interesting. Since they already exist as packages, they must be being used somewhere... which might help short track

Re: Part II dd copy destroyed DVD

2023-11-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rch engine results for my "will drm block dd from copying dvd" query. I've seen Handbrake mentioned here a couple times already, but there it is again. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Panic again

2023-10-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
dev and /proc come first to mind as examples there. That knowledge came from working through the manual steps necessary during debootstrap installs, in case that ever helps anyone else. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with a retirement state of mind *

Re: cli_ how to find_ firefox versions available in all suites

2023-10-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r name: $ apt-cache search --names-only firefox In my case, that query brought up firefox-esr (which I just flat out couldn't remember, lol). >> To search for versions available in repositories that you have >> *not* enabled, you need to do a network search of >> packages.debian.org. >> >> For example: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-08-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ighter" every year, i.e. less forgiving of things that really shouldn't have ever worked in the first place. That's a good thing that reflects on how Developers are perennially honing their combined skills while presenting the most dependable software packages possible... at any given nanosecond in Time. Cindy :) [0] https://chrisbracco.com/curly-quotes/ -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ous sound file types? Personal experience is that manually viewing e.g. /usr/share isn't 100% perfect. It's been a couple years, but I've also seen sound files stored more locally within some given package's own parent/child file hierarchy. That helps make our favorite file search programs priceless. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
message are you receiving IF you are receiving error feedback? Mine's now acting like it would perform properly if "cmd" was installed. Cindy :) N.B. Now remember why konsole is installed. It's still majorly doing all kinds of hinky BAD things with text input. It's st

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ittle overwhelming for a first time visit into a program like it. There's an option to install fonts through font-manager's GUI. I don't have a test case to try first, but I do remember using it successfully in the past, most likely while focused on typeface in GIMP. An afterthought just came to mind. Fonts are being created to specifically aid persons with dyslexia. Maybe a search on that will land a desired user-friendly font.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e.com/threads/is-it-possible-i-destroyed-my-psu-by-using-a-wrong-cpu-cable.3721595/ Wishing you the best of luck on this.. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a system that boots when it gets a mind to.. *

Re: The Application Konsole weired behaviour

2023-07-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
light color. It's giving the effect that it's built using some base program that's interactive along the lines of the way that something like autocomplete works on the fly for Internet keyword searches in web browsers.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a downed, live power line that's waiting on Georgia Power to put it back in bowl *

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ep on clicking depending on how one's system is set up. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
of needing to hunt for it on > Brother's website. Am having a can-do kind of day so I took a poke at it, too. Searched for brscan4 alone: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brscan4 Gives some insight into package interoperability. It became instantly clear this was about printers

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-06-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t monitor settings so my success is an apples to orange [anecdote]. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Want to report a bug, don't know which package

2023-06-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
/fonts.conf The first part is the associated package name. I can't swear that will help, but it's a neat little trick learned here on Debian-User a few years back. The original fuller path didn't generate anything. I can only a-sume that's because it's individually generate

Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rep'ing dmesg with Moe's "org.freedesktop.DBus" because that and the reference to "name" sounded familiar. I'm still with Bookworm in its testing release. Haven't upgraded to Trixie yet (no hard drive room, lol). Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: os-prober Just a Rant

2023-05-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the possibility of that action inflicting damage. Good to know for programs beyond GRUB Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
aring in your thread here? If this was happening to me, I'd go the full reboot after the file name change just to be confident the kernel was basically in full control. Hoping there's an easy solve. You all have already touched on my favorites, those two "dpkg-reconfigure" ones. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: debían fans

2023-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
pwmconfig". That landed the fancontrol package name: fancontrol: /usr/sbin/pwmconfig fancontrol: /usr/share/man/man8/pwmconfig.8.gz Sharing in case newer users were likewise curious and also couldn't locate the same. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: PANIC Debian 11 LXDE After update no booting is possible

2023-05-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/19/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/19/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: >> Good afternoon >> >> I did the update and >> when doing new start: >> Crash > < snipped for relevance > > > > And they're perping it in a different way. Adobe

Re: PANIC Debian 11 LXDE After update no booting is possible

2023-05-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g it this time. And they're perping it in a different way. Adobe had gone straight down the line and changed everything directly under "/" to a third party username. No root, no 1001 for that one back then. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-announce/2023/msg00088.html The bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035469 The security involvement appears to be that one current fix is to downgrade which "leaves the user with an unpatched version of WebKit". Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
user's entire ~/. We.. try not to do that anymore. What a mess. :) It's all about available cognitive abilities while computing for my usage case.. Cindy :) N.B. because it might catch the eye of a curious newbie: I don't do npm these days. I had fun while the experience lasted. Ther

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
int's LiveDVD. The experience lasted about 90 seconds. My mouse usage is too erratic, moves around the screen too much so the otherwise helpful effect got old really quick. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: gradle wants openjdk-11 even if a newer version is installed? ...

2023-03-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
"diff" come up in this thread yet? That might catch a show stopper that appears visually normal otherwise.. Just thinking out loud. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rom 2500 according to hardinfo. In the past, other laptops have fluctuated all over their respective ranges. Probably overkill in sharing, but you never know what ultimately might be a causative. Cindy :) Update: Pinterest is still not working. PlutoTV's CSI is still running much more smooth

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
m administrators manually address its upgrade. That gives sysadmins the opportunity to review the kernel's changelog and verify that their production machines will continue to work as flawlessly as possible after each upgrade. For my usage of Sid, I would look at: https://metadata.ftp-master.deb

Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

2023-03-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/23/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 3/23/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I am using this (yes, visually cr@ppy ;-)) code snippet to set back >> the time 5 hours. hwclock tells me it worked fine but the terminal >> windows opened before and after running hwclock stil

Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

2023-03-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
x27;ve never gone there so I don't know. My CHOICE is UTC because a tip many years ago advised that doing so helps our computers stay in sync more seamlessly with the rest of the World. Whether that's true or not, I don't know that, either, but going this route sure has taken the pain

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
an," "Debian Pure," and "Debian Pure Blends" still lurking in my emails. The "Pure Blends" instance sounds like it might be the ultimate fit here.. maybe. Freedombox and Distro Watch: Good News for Debian Pure Blends; 2019.09.06 https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2019/09/msg2.html Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with determination*

Re: Trying to find the source iso's for debian buster and bookworm

2023-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
under /var/lib/apt/lists was another fun place to play back then, too. Was one of my favorite ah-ha moments in figuring out how Debian performs with such consistent accuracy. Hope that helps someone. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable

2023-02-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
file" so that would explain why it's not resetting on my end. Resolvectl is also pulling up as not found. Those all definitely explain why I'm able to type online right now. If I was feeling brave right now, I would try messing around with doing what it takes to get resolvectl in c

Re: FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Found a brand new 2023.02.15 Debian bugs reference for this.. On 2/19/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi.. This is just regurgitating something related to my coincidentally > referencing several years of GRUB non-boots yesterday. The latest on > this Linux From Scratch thread came into

FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
less it somehow ultimately benefits Testing/Unstable's developers. :) See you all out here.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * gettin' giddy about the next new unstable! *

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r only power managing. My memory recall is that the conflict kept locking my Debian install up to the point of requiring a hardware button reboot. That obviously kills anything you have open and are working on at that moment. If I get my newest debootstrap booting, I'll play with it, to

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

2023-02-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
that will finally push it over the edge to success. Doing exactly that helped me a couple years ago for something unrelated so I'm laying hope on it based on prior experience. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: partition appears to be mounted, but not according to umount or lsblk

2023-01-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
grep sdc", works on it, too. I do it all the time because it filters out the (visual) noise. Every since I realized that, my chroot dismounts never fail. Prior to that, I was having to mostly reboot to dislodge a chroot that had some or another too "busy" to umount mount point tha

Re: Xfce desktop problem

2023-01-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
The glitch that *might* be occurring is that maybe XFCE4 is instantly throwing up new but same config files as soon as the old are deleted, else crash and burn if it is in current use. It would end up being an endless battle because those instantly returning config files will reflect whatever personal ch

Re: Topic: Problems with USB Sticks

2022-12-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
at keeps getting mounted even though I'm not touching it this week. I can't help wondering if that plays some part in how that partition ended up locked down when it wasn't used as the primary operating system.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Killing bluetooth dead

2022-12-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
he package name. If you do know a piece of the package name, you can... $ apt-mark showinstall | grep That's done with no asterisk (wild card). Be forewarned, I just sent mine to a text file that ended up being 1,787 lines. Each line represents a single, separate package ready to be pondered individually. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

2022-11-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r to do so, but I'll try both "apt upgrade" and dist-upgrade. Dist-upgrade was already a to-do item. Will be my first use of that one so who knows what else might possibly go wrong... or not. Wondering out loud as I exit Stage Right: Is there any kind of trace/strace or whatever that fancy deal is to see if that outputs anything? Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
followed through on the idea. Anacron is coming to mind because it just suffered a glitch where the scripts silently didn't run after a recent upgrade. That's how I know what it does to then offer it as a suggestion. :D Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
the "Open previous windows" selection. That makes a user feel like the browser is maybe getting paid to alternatively provide potentially sponsored content with no immediately visible "Off" button.. Maybe. Or not. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: About /etc/apt/sources.list | Warehouse for users of the stable version

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
st https://people.debian.org/~koster/www/mirror/list It doesn't hurt to have those in mind in case a favored first choice repository happens to be down when a user is in a hurry to update for whatever reason. As an aside, that "bullseye-proposed-updates" looks interesting. Never

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Basilisk II." Only knew to try that because I tripped over similar for Android. You still have to have some of "their" software to work on top of that, but maybe it at least points toward something else similar with better possibilities. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County

Re: failing HDD, ddrescue says remaning time is 7104d

2022-08-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
he human error of accidentally skipping over directories, I'll run the entire setup one last time at the end. Doing so does on occasion catch something I've missed. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 11 - KDE and NumLock

2022-08-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/26/22, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/26/22, Amn wrote: >> Hi there!! >> Every time I restart my Acer Aspire E5-771G running Debian 11 I find >> that NumLock is off, is there a way to set up Deb11 to automatically >> turn on the NumLock? > > > Hi.. You d

Re: Debian 11 - KDE and NumLock

2022-08-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
bian if my home directory is used across e.g. both Bullseye and Bookworm. It's no big thing. It's just about them being ever progressively different, period. Yay, Developers! Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
to be what they're saying there ("Notice that there is no device 3.")... Maybe. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
thing stated on here, too. pavucontrol is my weapon of choice to get anything resembling sound. Didn't used to work for me. Had been using aumix for years then it stopped working. Now pavucontrol(-qt) works mostly dependably, although I have to log out and back in a couple times a week wh

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
That stood out as different. If that's not it, I'm totally out on a very thin limb (beyond my payscale) here. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
are/were competitively priced in spite of their size. Local Yellow Pages, if you can even find those for free these days, were where I first learned of the businesses I used. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
nal's entire output when apt-get shows off a list of packages that are no longer needed after upgrades make them obsolete. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back?

2022-07-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
k. At the end of the day, though, I just go straight for the real upgrade. For me so far, that route has been informative and has worked safely #1 because it doesn't continue until I hit the ENTER key again. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Stop XFCE saving the state?

2022-07-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ith that single change. Seriously, this thread for the win! I'll bet you all help a lot of people when we figure out why those two desktop environments are having these two different reactions at startup. A dedicated partition for each is a quick fix that many Users don't have the resources to do. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g.2-10+b1. That just shows it is capable of plucking out the difference in those. I usually miss something obvious that negates anything I typed so my apologies in advance if and when I did here. :) Hope that helps somehow. Maybe the output from showsrc might be fun to look at for distraction or something Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t, Debian had a version of it for its own packages not too long ago. The caveat for either of the above is that there's often a self-destruct mode that is based on either time length or click views. That's understandably about wear and tear on the host's server(s). Best wishes on w

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Have mercy, it's all the bigger chat topics: edbrowse, espeakup, fenrir, *orca*. I've NEVER seen that quantity before and especially not those packages, but that's likely just because of which lists I follow. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

2022-05-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
uldn't connect to the website.. or it just flat out failed.. or something. Very odd, scary moment in all this. That TRUST kept things copacetic... :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: no update possible

2022-05-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
to view is likely a deal breaker for some users relative to their geographical location. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

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