Re: Who's the window manager's boss? [was: Firefox and XFCE]

2024-12-27 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-27, Andy Smith wrote: >> An hallucination is a perception without an object, which is closer to >> describing the vocabulary of your conceit than my eventually erroneous shell >> scripts. > > I think the main difference though is that no one is going to mistakenly > try to put the voca

Re: Who's the window manager's boss? [was: Firefox and XFCE]

2024-12-27 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-27, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 12:09:23AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 04:11:49PM -0000, Frank Jezzer wrote: >> > In short, well-designed software empowers the user rather than >> > dictating t

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-26 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-16, Poon Weng Chee wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is u= > sed to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious I= > P address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. > Despite attempting to su

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-26 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-14, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 10:36:55 +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: >> Let's do a small experiment to confirm it: >> >> # mount | grep steam >> portal on /var/data/steam/.cache/doc type fuse.portal >> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1001,group_id=1001) > > Curio

Re: Firefox and XFCE

2024-12-26 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-26, wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 10:17:02PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > >> The idea that your application should do its own window management >> because the user's chosen WM may differ from what you, the developer, >> wanted is utter hubris. Especially when you can't

Re: bashrc question

2024-12-26 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-26, hen...@privatembox.com wrote: > Hello > > I have these settings in .bashrc of my home dir: > > $ cat .bashrc > export TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 > export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=-1 > > but every time after i login the system, the settings are not activated. > I have to source it by hand to

Re: repository setup and apt-file usage

2024-12-25 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-18, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > I try to setup a repository with a similar structure as Debian's > original, just smaller. In the Debian repository, e.g. bookworm main[1] > there are a lot Contents-*.gz files. My repository is created with > reprepro following the wiki[2]. But I cannot f

Re: fail message dirmanager

2024-12-24 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-22, koffie wrote: > Ubuntu / Oracular > Hello, > > It is not possible to download an iso file. > It takes hours to get it but it doesn't boot > The sha is fail permanently. > > On today I've got a fail message during a test - download on youtube. > It mentioned there is no dirmanager bu

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-24 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-23, Arbol One wrote: > > Hello. > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser > in Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? When you install Brave using Snap on Debian 12, the execu

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-22 Thread Frank Jezzer
On 2024-12-17, John Hasler wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook writes: >> the nonsense about about not changing them ignores the obvious. > > What is that? > >> My bank performs security checks by requesting a sub-set of my >> password. > > Sounds like a reason to find a new bank, in the meantime changin