Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: > xfce4 > In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select > blocks > of text. > Is there some way by a combination of key presses/drag mouse to > select > separated sections of text? > eg. > alpha > beta > charlie > delta > se

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 01:51 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On my Debian 12 desktop, I installed Evolution, primarily for easy > access to HTML messages.  Also, it gives me a second mail address. > > Several days ago, Evolution began causing a "Mail Authentication > Request" popup which preve

Re: no-code web builder application for Linux

2025-03-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 10:42 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Arbol One wrote: > > > Hello to all. > > > > > > I find myself looking for a way to increase productivity with the > > > aid of an > > > all purpose no-code web builder application for Linu

Re: Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 20:41 +1300, Lee Hinkleman wrote: > Hi debian-user: > Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Lee > > > " > DDependency resolution failed: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: > Breaks: lib

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

2025-02-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > > >   > > > > > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 > > > > > >   Table ES-1. Thrifty Food Plan market baskets, > > > > > > quantities > > > > > >

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 22:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 21:18:31 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz > > What do you expect us to tell you? > > Web browsers are bloated monste

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 12:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? > > I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. > The > problem is, the Function-keys are not working. > > Not working means: The second level

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

2025-02-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 07:05 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Rainer, > > I believe others have responded. > > Just for my curiosity, Is Network Manager installed?  Would you be > able to use nmclli to set a static IP address? Or maybe systemctl ? I was going to respond with something similar yes

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 17:50 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content? > > Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is > loaded? Hi! What type(s) of ads are you seeing? In other words, are they for random consumer products

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

2025-01-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 12:10 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:52:34 -0500 > songbird wrote: > > Hello songbird, > > > warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already > > installed by openjdk-9 > > I've seen similar messages.  Certainly about openjdk, maybe oth

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2025-01-26 at 04:12 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/1/25 00:33, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-01-25, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > > Someone has already claimed ownership of the first of the two; > > > about > > > bucketing the CIA. > > > > OT. > > > > relevant to thread, curtsy sue Happ

Re: EFI partition - some questions

2025-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 14:20 +0100, Hans wrote: Apologies, this is (another) long email. I tried to cover my experiences that were tied to that directory. tl;dr How did you install GRUB and/or EFI? It might be as simple as that. > I am using UEFI now for the first time. Everything is worin

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 11:26 -0500, Eben King wrote: I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by EFI. I have: Storage boot option control UEFI only Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only (other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabled") The boot de

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
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: glob path question

2024-08-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Please forgive any formatting glitches. I'm still a brand newbie at sending emails out of Evolution. :) On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 8:08AM Michael Kjörling wrote: > > But this file is not listed by 'ls' command. > > > > # ls /etc/policyd-spf.conf > > ls: cannot access '/etc/policyd-spf.conf': No such

Re: Evolution & ThunderBird

2024-06-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 15:16 -0400, Jerry Mellon wrote: > > Hello, > > New user having trouble with evolution. I think that I have it setup > correctly, but it will not login > > to my email accounts. At the bottom of screen it is scanning the email > server from my login but then >   > a box po

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-Original Message- From: Greg Wooledge To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Top Posting Date: 05/14/24 13:41:17 On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:01:31PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > how many times has this top post crap been dug up > don't y'all have any thing better to

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-Original Message- From: gene heskett To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Top Posting Date: 05/14/24 10:54:50 On 5/14/24 10:09, Richard wrote: Just because something isn't an official ISO standard doesn't mean it's not standard behavior. And how it relates to this mailing l

Re: can not find repo

2024-04-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM wrote: > > i don't see an armel repo on any of the mirrors i checked > it was there a week ago > has it been deleted or am i just old and blind > Hi.. I just took a quick poke at this by using the following k/t debootstrap: http://deb.debian.org/debian By clicki

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
ologies for potential email formatting glitches. Boogeyman Gmail finally forced its dynamic'y version on us text folks. Standard line length options are "indisposed". I had to manually hack them down to size. FAIL. - Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/17/24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 04:00:14PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. >> >> Another possibility is a (few) large file(s) that is/are still open for >> some process(es) but have been `rm` (`unl

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/16/24, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:16 -0500 > Neal Heinecke wrote: > >> I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software >> sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads >> "Ubuntu Software" > > I have no idea what a "software s

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/11/24, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 10 Feb 2024 19:54 -0500, from hunguponcont...@gmail.com (Default User): >> Any recommendations for a GOOD alternative [IRC client]? > > If you describe what you like about hexchat and dislike about other > alternatives, that would ma

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/19/24, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > I won, and you lost >> >> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in >> the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > > That'

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/16/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:41:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: >> > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time >> > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. >> >> >> Wh

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor >> >> I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than >> "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the >> entire

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/10/24, Valerio Vanni wrote: > The issue began after update from debian 10 to 11. And it persists in 12. > > Before, Vmware Workstation help was shown in default browser (it's an > html guide). > After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on > Vmware application) began o

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
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 reinstall firefox > None of these restores firefox's black menus Just out of curiosity, did you

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 11:05 -0600, Mike McClain wrote: >> If I recall correctly, Firefox used to have a checkbox in the >> preferences to permit or deny auto updates. In this version 121.0 for >> the Raspberry PI, that's no longer so and I'm quite sure that FF >> updated

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

2023-12-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
As Andrew did, I also CC'd.. :) On 12/25/23, 이 강우 wrote: > how to clone apt repository to newest only? > Fedora/Red Hat will organize the repository by copying only the most recent > packages from that distribution if you give it the "reposync --newest-only" > option, but Debian doesn't seem to

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/19/23, local10 wrote: > Dec 19, 2023, 15:30 by hfollm...@itcfollmann.com: > >> I have to ask: are you currently located at a remote location like the >> ISS >> station or similar? > > No, nothing like that. > >> Why would you go down this rabbit hole when the right >> thing is to replace fau

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

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/16/23, Pocket wrote: > > On 12/16/23 08:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I >> selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default >> sizes of the partitions. >> >> When I ran sudo apt update this morning I re

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

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/17/23, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 06:10:49AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM Tixy wrote: >> > Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs >> > for the next release. >> > >> > [1] >> > https://lists.debian.org/

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/14/23, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:01:19 -0500 > David Sawyer wrote: > >> This may seem to be a simple problem. I set up Debian with a password >> that I wrote down to be sure. > > Password for what? Your user account? A root password? Disk encryption? > > (This is why, w

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Please forgive me if I somehow messed up the quote attribution. There was a lot of stuff I was able to cull. :) On 12/5/23, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/5/23 10:33, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue mode as root and > > entered startx at the

Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

2023-11-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/20/23, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> What happens when a timer should have been triggered at a time the >> computer >> was sleeping ? > > systemd.timer(5): > >OnCalendar= >[...] >When a system is tempora

Re: Part II dd copy destroyed DVD

2023-11-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/18/23, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 18.11.2023 um 15:42:57 Uhr schrieb Schwibinger Michael: > >> I put in a "good" DVD. >> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/path/to/dvdcopy.iso >> is working and I can convert the ISO >> But I put in the damaged DVD >> dd cannot start. > > What is the error message? > > Are you

Re: Panic again

2023-10-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/26/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > Good afternoon > Thank You for help. > > I ll answer into Your email > with > +++ > > > Von: Andrew M.A. Cater > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2023 12:04 > An: Schwibinger Michael > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Panic again any idea IV > > On Wed, Oct 25, 202

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

2023-10-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/21/23, జిందం వాఐి wrote: > On 2023-10-21 18:00, Dan Ritter wrote: >> జిందం వాఐి wrote: >>> * i want to check package versions >>> available in various suites [ stable, testing, >>> experimental, etc.. ] using cli >>> * for example_ firefox >> >> >> apt can look for versions available in the

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-08-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/31/23, Wang Yizhen wrote: > > I recently noticed a bug for the emacs package in sid. I have not > reported a bug before, so I wrote this email to seek for help. > > After upgraded to emacs 29.1+1-5, I found that the emacsclient command > is not working. More specifically, the following comman

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/28/23, songbird wrote: > gene heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> odd request: >> >> Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that plays at >> max volume, usually around 2 AM or slightly later, that is very similar >> to the 40 yo doorbell in this house. A bing-bong sound tha

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/20/23, gene heskett wrote: > I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in > Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Well, I started out attempting to play along in xfce4-terminal and received: bash: tmp/cmd.log: No such file or directory Next I

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

2023-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/19/23, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:19:48 +0200, > Christoph K. wrote: >> >>I'm unsatisfied with the default sans font in debian for use in the >>graphical user interface (in my case XFCE). >> >>My main concern with the default sans font (I guess it's Bitsream Vera, >>but

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
debian-user@lists.debian.org On 8/2/23, piorunz wrote: > On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: >> The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which >> draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. >> The Red Devil specifies a minimum system power of 450 w

Re: The Application Konsole weired behaviour

2023-07-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/21/23, Hans wrote: > I have an issue with the application "konsole" of KDE. The problem looks > weired: > > When opening konsole. i get the usual window with the prompt (black > background, white > letters). > > But it looks like there are invisible tabs set, as after the prompt there is > a

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : >> I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. >> I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, > > Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? > >> and then merge them into one volume

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/7/23, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-07 15:17 (UTC-0400): > >> I have just installed Bookworm without any problems. > >> However, synaptic has developed a problem: > > 1920x1080 is working now??? > >> Google has not found a solution that works. > >> I would appreci

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-06-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/29/23, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 11:50 (UTC-0400): > >> First of all, I don't have a cat, so let's forego any further cattiness. > > It really wasn't meant to be humorous. Horizontal configurations with top > vents > are attractive to cats napping, leading

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

2023-06-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/27/23, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I recently updated from Bullseye to Bookworm and noticed that font hinting >> settings in >> `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf` are ignored. This was not the case on >> Bullseye and I'd like to >> report this as a bug. When I run reportbug it asks for a package

Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/15/23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I was checking my logs and this came up: > > Security Failed to receive portal pid: org.freedesktop.DBus, error, > NameHasNoOwner: > > Sender: pipewire > > Time: 12:12:39 AM > > Message: Failed to receive portal pid: org.freedesktop.DBus, error, > NameHasNoOw

Re: os-prober Just a Rant

2023-05-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/25/23, Andrea Borgia wrote: >> updates cause my edits to be overwritten... that sucks >> >> > Ah, ok, I wasn't seeing ghosts, then! Last time you all chatted this up, I went in and poked around. Now that GRUB is FINALLY working again, it's only registering one operating system. That's after

Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/24/23, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > there is a little problem, I am trying to fix. > > After upgrade to bookworm the keyboard layout has changed from German to US > > (de to us). > < snipped for relevance > > > Some thing I noticed at bootup: When the kernel is started (or before kernel > > s

Re: debían fans

2023-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/23/23, Aleix Piulachs wrote: > Couldn’t turn on laptop fans but fixed with pwmconfig Cool. I have no experience nor knowledge with that program. Didn't locate it with an "apt-cache search" run, but also didn't give up. Tried one more time with "apt-file find pwmconfig". That landed the fanc

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
On 5/19/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good afternoon > > I did the update and > when doing new start: > Crash Hi, Sophie.. While you're waiting for others to respond, am typing to say I just went through this a couple days ago. Our situations are all so different so this is a recap of what ha

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/4/23, Christoph Pleger wrote: >> > Hello, > >> I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last >> security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages: >> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 >> gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 >> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 >> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 > > Ah,

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/23, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >>> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. >> >> Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: > I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and > swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I > went back to check the setting which was in "multitasking" before, that > tab has gone. Where is the hot corner setting

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

2023-03-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/28/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/28/23, Nicolas George wrote: >> I suggest you show the contents of this file instead ... > > Did you mean you would rather have me post both 348 line files > instead of showing that they are the same? (I had eyeballed them, BTW) Has "diff" come up in

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

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/26/23, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > Debian Bullseye here up to date. Browsers installed: Firefox, Opera, > Vivaldi, and Google Chrome. > > I'm having a weird problem streaming movies from archive.org. The movies > are lagging & keep buffering in all browsers but Google Chrome. Googl

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/26/23, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. > > This morning, I got a mail from unattended-upgrades, which said: > >> Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: >> Debian stable: >>guile-2.2-libs w3m > > and >> Package guile-2.2-libs is kept back because

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
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 still give me the > "old" time setting? > > _HRS_PM=-5 > > ### > # > htt

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/13/23, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> No. I meant, some people pre-installed some packages on debian and >> release >> it, which is declared as xxx-debian. > > What does "it" refers to? > > "some packages" meaning "some Debian packages" or "some non-Debian > packages"? > >> I am just not sure about

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

2023-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/4/23, davidson wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 Keith Christian wrote: >> Several versions back, we could download the source code >> on various iso files for previous and current releases. > >Debian CDs/DVDs archive >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ I like to get mine from pac

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

2023-02-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/22/23, daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > > There is an unidentified process that decides it's ok to delete and > recreate /etc/resolv.conf without asking user/admin, > The problem is, the problematic process is not work's VPN related and > creates the file with wrong resolver's IP. The IP corre

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
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 my inbox this morning, and it just sounds like it might help some Users having booting problems similar to what I've e

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

2023-02-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/17/23, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >> The logs show regular deactivate events like the following every 20 >> seconds: >> >> ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time >> >> I saw this: >> >> https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-blank >> >> I guess I

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

2023-02-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/16/23, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:59:58 +0100 > Nicolas George wrote: > >> pa...@quillandmouse.com (12023-02-15): >> > Here's why you would partition a drive. Reinstalling (which I end up >> > having to do every time Debian comes out with a new version >> >> Debian is not Ubuntu, ma

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

2023-01-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/20/23, Anssi Saari wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > >> I wonder if blkid might be a bit more informative. > > I don't know, I usually run mount without arguments to see what's > mounted or look in the file /proc/mounts. A super simple grep, e.g. "mount|grep sdc", works on it, too. I do it

Re: Xfce desktop problem

2023-01-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/1/23, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 01 Jan 2023 at 15:31:04 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: >> How to can restore my last configuration? > > So I assume your "last configuration" is in ~/.config/xfce4-session/ > and ~/.config/xfce4/ . > >> Try resetting to defaults > > I assume that by th

Re: Topic: Problems with USB Sticks

2022-12-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/30/22, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:16:31 + > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> > >> > 1 >> > How can I repair USB stick which is readable but not writable? >> > >> > question 2 >> > What did I do wrong to create this problem? >> >> You didn't tell us what you actually did, and

Re: Killing bluetooth dead

2022-12-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/5/22, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 08:42:14 -0600 > d...@sherohman.org wrote: > > Hello d...@sherohman.org, > >> mentioning "blue", "tooth", or "bt" - there aren't any, so the obvious > > what about 'blue*'? > > Found bluedevil, bluez and bluezobexd here, where 'blue' alone found

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

2022-11-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/30/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:36:43AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > [...] > >> What I have noticed in Debian that I do not at all like, is when I boot >> to >> multi-user.target for the specific purpose of apt or apt-get upgrading, >> even when >> systemctl get-

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
> Von: Gareth Evans > Gesendet: Montag, 21. November 2022 06:56 > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II > > So there seem to be two ways to clear cookies and site data when closing > Firefox, but I'm not sure if the options under History > Setting

Re: FIREFOX is killing the whole PC PART II

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/21/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 20 Nov 2022, at 10:53, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > >> How can I find by terminal all dirt which is produced by browsers (Chrome, >> Firefox, Midori ...)? >> I did try something like cache, but there were no new files. > > I think it would be easier to cl

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

2022-11-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/23/22, 谢 运生 wrote: > Dear Debian, > > I have a question about stabilizing the warehouse: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/apt.zh-cn.html#sect.apt-sources.list.stable > > Four bullseye are mentioned in this link, Would it make any difference if > only bullseye and bulls

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

2022-11-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/22/22, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well... that would basically be MacOS, or a GUI that looks like MacOS > running on another BSD. Apologies, am not totally following this thread, but this post popped up just now. What about... apt-cache search bsd emulator That was a very short query. It bro

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

2022-08-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/31/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 03:25:36PM +0200, ppr wrote: >> I would appreciate advice from the community about a failing hard drive. >> > > [...] > >> I did not try to mount the HDD. I plugged an external HDD (ext4) and >> launched ddrescue. After two days it has

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
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 didn't name which desktop environment you're using so I'm sharing what I found in LXQt

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/22/22, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a > second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting > regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". > > cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[2] - the

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/19/22, David Griffith wrote: > > I don't want to go through multiple clicks and the open/close of a dialog > box. Sometimes I get files/streams that are so quiet that even the max > provided by that method of 153% is not enough. I don't want a dialog > popping over what I'm doing. I was pr

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/4/22, Ishaan Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > This is the line I have got - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH > --disabled-password --gecos "" $USERNAME && \ > echo "$USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME && \ > chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/USERNAME > However, I keep getting

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/18/22, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >>> Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, >>> as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there >>> for about $300. They run Linux just fine. > > "Local laptop store?" > > Not quite sure I've heard of such a

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/17/22, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: >> I used apt install to install the standard debian package and used apt >> purge to uninstall. Further, I used rm -r to clean up the directories >> that were left. If it helps: >> > > Were I to install

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

2022-07-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/10/22, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 10 Jul 2022 at 15:24:11 (-0700), L L wrote: >> How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back? > > I usually look at the output of apt-cache show . I accidentally stumbled upon that I can "apt-get upgrade " and see what is likely the trigger for

Re: Stop XFCE saving the state?

2022-07-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/5/22, Ash Joubert wrote: > On 06/07/2022 10:53, John Conover wrote: >> How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE? > > Uncheck the box "Applications (XFCE X with mouse icon) / Setting / > Session and Startup / Logout Settings / Automatically save session on > logout".

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
On 6/27/22, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: >> Hi, >> >> apt-get --only-source --download-only source >> >> will download the latest version of the source package. >> >> Is there a one liner that will give me the version of the package >> (

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/17/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? > > I can't find any such info on > > https://lists.debian.org/ > > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > > but a couple of recent large-ish messages (one ~270K with two s

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/28/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: >> > Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> Bookworm? >> SID? > > In any case: Not Testing ! > > Currently a zillion of packages get marked for autoremovial from Testing > becau

Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

2022-05-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/17/22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrea Monaco wrote: >> >> I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects >> to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it. >> >> I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic >> security updates. Any

Re: no update possible

2022-05-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/3/22, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 5/3/22 06:29, Schwibinger Michael wrote: >> Good afternoon >> >> Thank You >> >> Terminal >> and root terminal do say >> >> command not found. > > please post Exactly what the command is that you entered > > > and Exactly what the error message is > > > *copy

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