Re: Combine PDF files

On 22/09/2025 01:49, Michael Paoli wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM Tom Browder wrote: The PDF Tool kit (pdftk) can be used if you're smart enough to decipher the man page\ $ man pdfunite | col -b | expand | sed -ne '/SYN/{N;p};/EXA/{N;p;q}' SYNOPSIS pdfunite [options] PDF-source

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

ACPI errors are relevant. On 19/09/2025 05:02, Max Nikulin wrote: It seems, I failed to describe the test clear enough. Suspend the laptop using the sleep button, close the lid and leave for > 2.5 hours. If you are patient enough then you may open lid afterward and leave the laptop for anot

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 17/09/2025 18:17, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 17/09/2025 04:40, Max Nikulin wrote: Perhaps you may change s2idle to another power state for "sleep". Unfortunately, my laptop does not support it: root@snoopy:~# echo deep >/sys/power/mem_sleep -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Re: OT: Insight into speed of dd seeks and skips

On 19/09/2025 08:07, rhkramer wrote: I have to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20140806023041/https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey ... at least once more -- i'm not sure my approach to writing something in each GB of the card will work as there are a

Re: OT: Insight into speed of dd seeks and skips

On 18/09/2025 08:32, rhkramer wrote: Background: I'm vaguely thinking (maybe not very seriously) of writing my own tester for things like SD/TF cards and flash drives to confirm the capacity. I hope, you are aware of various existing projects: f3 (Fight Flash Fraud) specifically for capacity;

Re: Tripple boot Debian 12, Debian 13, openSUSE EFI

On 18/09/2025 05:09, Richmond wrote: sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=debian12 [...] /boot/efi/EFI# ls -l total 20 drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Oct 31 2014 Boot drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 2023 debian drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Sep 17 17:

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 16/09/2025 10:13, Max Nikulin wrote: You see, I have run out of ideas. Perhaps you may change s2idle to another power state for "sleep". I have never tried to do it, so I do not know how to configure it.

Re: trixie: can't log in from lightdm.

On 17/09/2025 08:38, David wrote: Line 392 of your paste maybe related to this, not sure if important: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087449 For lightdm it should be rather "lightdm reports warnings on utmpx missing" It seems, it is rea

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

So the files with the same name are not identical. I would check the upstream repository if a version for your graphics card is available there. On 15/09/2025 04:29, Max Nikulin wrote: Have the period of resumes changed? What tasks are executed accordingly to journalctl? The period is the s

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 15/09/2025 04:36, Jeffrey Walton wrote: If you choose UEFI, then disable Systemd power state functions. [...] If you choose Systemd, then go to your BIOS/UEFI setup, and disable S3, S4 and S5 power states. Those power states are sleep, suspend and hibernate. Systemd will now control them.

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 15/09/2025 00:26, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 13/09/2025 05:27, Max Nikulin wrote: I expect, you may make it a bit shorter by installing firmware-nvidia- graphics. I have this package installed, but ad107 subdirectory is empty, cf. https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-nvidia-graphics

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 13/09/2025 19:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 12:26:44 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Is checked KeepDebs for apt-get above a typo? No. It's right there in the changelog entry that you cited: My bad. I am sorry, Greg. I can not figured out why I decided that this r

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 13/09/2025 16:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: gnome-themes-standard-data for which i find no package tracker page. A search engine suggested #709549 with "Source: gnome-themes-standard". redirects to

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 2025-09-12 07:18:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: Command NewPkgs RmvPkgs KeepDebs --- --- --- apt-get upgrade✓ apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs✓ ✓ apt upgrade

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 13/09/2025 01:03, Thomas Schmitt wrote: # dpkg -r --force-depends gnome-themes-extra-data dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnome-themes-extra-data which isn't installed I have realized that I do not know which way apt tracks pending tasks. I recall apt and aptitude might have diff

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 12/09/2025 19:17, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 12/09/2025 03:55, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/09/2025 22:30, Eugen Dedu wrote: I have a weird problem with suspend-to-ram with my Dell Precision 3591 laptop, which awakes alone/itself, without touching it [...] Thu 11 Sep 04:42:30 CEST 2025 Thu 11 Sep

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

On 11/09/2025 22:30, Eugen Dedu wrote: I have a weird problem with suspend-to-ram with my Dell Precision 3591 laptop, which awakes alone/itself, without touching it [...] Thu 11 Sep 04:42:30 CEST 2025 Thu 11 Sep 05:55:58 CEST 2025 Thu 11 Sep 07:09:26 CEST 2025 Have you tried to read logs to

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 12/09/2025 04:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: E: Unable to read /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-cvyXki - opendir (2: No such file or directory) I hope, you have checked for obvious issues like no free space on /tmp tmpfs. Any idea how to solve this "OpenSSL version mismatch" while the VM is still runni

Re: how to use fcitx5 in trixie live lxde cd

On 10/09/2025 09:05, hlyg wrote: Thank Cater! how to change language in trixie live CD? default is US/English i want to change it to Chinese for fcitx5 If there is nothing useful related to fcitx5 on https://wiki.debian.org/ then perhaps it is better to ask on

Re: Choosing the window manager

On 06/09/2025 14:28, Van Snyder wrote: On Sat, 2025-09-06 at 11:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: You may read docs how to configure default session type. You may read LightDM Gtk greater docs how to configure login screen, Thanks for the clear explicit advice about exactly where and what to read

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

On 07/09/2025 03:36, Frank McCormick wrote: On 9/6/25 8:36 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: According to APT all gvfs packages are installed On 9/5/25 11:15 PM, Max Nikulin wrote:  >Next step is  busctl  to see if org.gtk.vfs.Daemon is there. I see no org.gtk.vfs.Daemon in that output or

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

On 06/09/2025 03:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM Frank McCormick wrote: Specifically rox-filer takes upwards of 30 seconds to display. (ROX-Filer:8578): GVFS-WARNING **: 12:45:56.924: Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.Dae

Re: Choosing the window manager

On 06/09/2025 01:48, Van Snyder wrote: I still think it would be useful if gdm3 and sddm put their "choose a window manager" widget at bottom center, not bottom right. On 06/09/2025 04:12, Van Snyder wrote: It would be better if gdm3 and sddm put the widget at bottom center instead of bottom r

Re: Debian 13: Mini Display Port not accessible any more (worked flawlessly with Debian 12)

On 02/09/2025 11:44, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2025-09-02 09:31 (UTC+0700): where are some traces of proprietary nvidia drivers in Johannes's message ("kernel non-free: series: 340.xx"). That language is simply stating which proprietary (non-free) kernel

Re: convert html to xml

magnification in a viewer, pdffonts). Making PDF files convenient for users and search engines is more complex than just adding a couple of options to your favorite TeX engine. On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 10:09:12AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I do not believe in magic, I expect that other CMS and static

Re: Debian 13: Mini Display Port not accessible any more (worked flawlessly with Debian 12)

On 02/09/2025 04:44, Felix Miata wrote: Unfortunately, besides getting a newer laptop, I'm out of other ideas Felix, I am not familiar with inxi, so the following may be wrong or irrelevant. It seems, in output you posted, it is purely nouveau, while where are some traces of proprietary nvidi

Re: convert html to xml

On 31/08/2025 14:51, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 03:22:58PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Does "pdftotext FILE.PDF -" is able to extract readable text? Yes. OK, I was afraid that TeX-specific encoding may be an obstacle for crawlers. Does "pdfinfo FILE.P

Re: Choosing the window manager

On 31/08/2025 02:03, Van Snyder wrote: The output is DVI-I. I use an adapter to connect to a VGA cable. The monitor has only a VGA connector. It also has HDMI, but NVidia FX 1300 doesn't. Walk through your TV ("monitor") menu looking for an entry like "adjust" related to video input. As Fel

Re: convert html to xml

On 30/08/2025 11:17, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have a growing bunch of studies which I compose in LaTeX markup.  I currently these post in PDF format, on-line and freely-accessible.  I created the web site with the Debian package make4ht. But in their present form, the studies are not readily f

Re: After fullscreen mode - Window bigger than screen

On 29/08/2025 21:02, Hans wrote: However, maybe it is already fixed in 6.4, but Debain/trixie did this version not contain it its stable release. Any case release cycles of upstream projects would not be synchronized with Linux distributions having stable versions. KDE 6.4 might have even mor

Re: Anubis for Debian Server?

On 28/08/2025 04:33, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I'm looking for Anubis [0] for Debian Server. It appears Anubis was removed after Wheezy,[1] but I was not able to locate the reason why. Perhaps it should be added to FAQ. Usually the reason why some package has been removed from Debian repositories

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 25/08/2025 21:57, Sander Marechal wrote: Still no fix for the built-in camera, but I can live with that for now. I have a separate USB webcam both at home and at work. Have you checked firmware (BIOS) settings? It may explain why the camera appears neither in lspci not in lsusb. I have hear

Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI

On 24/08/2025 02:11, tomas wrote: - Vi has lately changed its defaults for copy-paste (in an X terminal, at least). I always have to "set mouse=" to get my old behaviour back (and secretly curse at whoever had this brilliant idea). I have "set mouse=" in my vimrc as well, but writing abou

Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI

On 25/08/2025 04:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: As far as Ctrl-V in terminals goes, I've never seen any terminal where that would initiate a paste operation. Ctrl-V is usually bound to the "lnext" (literal next) character via stty(1). Enough terminal application use [Ctrl+Shift+C] and [Ctrl+Shift+V]

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 21/08/2025 15:04, Sander Marechal wrote: snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0 After a reboot the snd-hda-intel is now used, but still no sound from my laptop speakers unfortunately. Actually I had in mind something like rmmod snd-sof-pci-intel-mtl modprobe snd-hda-intel watching "journalctl

Re: Synaptics clickpad issue, which package to report?

On 22/08/2025 02:15, Ignacio Dominguez wrote: I'm on trixie and I've been having an issue with my Synaptics clickpad [...] While still on Bookworm, I was preparing to upgrade to Trixie. I MIGHT have made an upgrade to Bookworm's latest version that MIGHT have included a libinput or kernel upgr

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 20/08/2025 22:47, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2025 20:39, Sander Marechal wrote: I can probably work without a camera, but I'd really like to get the internal speakers working. <https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:8086-7e28> does not look encouraging. My bad, it seems "de

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 20/08/2025 20:39, Sander Marechal wrote: I can probably work without a camera, but I'd really like to get the internal speakers working. does not look encouraging. It seems 2 kernel modules are registered for these devices: snd-hda-intel and s

Re: UEFI grub install fails

On 20/08/2025 03:51, Van Snyder wrote: Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without blowing away the partition table. I have seen this one: -g, --mbrtogpt Convert an MBR or BSD disklabel disk to a GPT disk. As a s

kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db (was: Re: Trixie terminal list as computer boots up)

On 19/08/2025 10:06, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2025-08-19 09:56 (UTC+0700): Felix Miata wrote: Aug 17 15:16:02 gx780 kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [...] Everything working AFAICT. :D dpkg -S regulatory.db wireless-regdb: /lib/firmware/regulatory.db

Re: Trixie terminal list as computer boots up

On 18/08/2025 02:25, Felix Miata wrote: Aug 17 15:16:02 gx780 kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db dpkg -S regulatory.db wireless-regdb: /lib/firmware/regulatory.db-debian wireless-regdb: /lib/firmware/regulatory.db.p7s-debian wireless-regdb: /lib/firmware/regulatory.db-upstream wirel

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

On 16/08/2025 09:09, Felix Miata wrote: Vincent Lefevre composed on 2025-08-16 03:46 (UTC+0200): On 2025-08-15 01:15:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

On 14/08/2025 07:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 05:57:27 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: from tkinter import tix ImportError: cannot import name 'tix' from 'tkinter' (/usr/lib/python3.13/tkinter/__init__.py) There is no clue of the package named tix. Try installing tix. S

Re: GameSir-G7 idle disconnect

On 12/08/2025 19:07, Thomas Southerland wrote: Aug 12 07:30:49 tas kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 9 Aug 12 07:30:51 tas kernel: usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd As soon as the device is no longer kept open, it starts up again: Shooting dark: may it

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

On 12/08/2025 09:30, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Red Hat has a pretty good article about stable names for disks [1]. Debian's page is not as good [2]. [1] 

Re: How do I reinstall grub-efi?

On 12/08/2025 04:26, gary wrote: I gave up and resigned myself to a clean install of Debian 13. However that also failed to provide any relief, as grub refused to install on the boot device. Is NVRAM boot entries on your headless machine points to proper partitions (efibootmgr -v)? Do you s

Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!

On 08/08/2025 20:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2025-08-07 18:52:47 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 06/08/2025 10:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Note that passwords can easily be leaked. I see, earlier I even mentioned protocol that allows clipboard manager to ignore text copied by password

Re: Including ' in a sed command

On 08/08/2025 14:24, Bob McGowan wrote: On 8/7/25 07:17 PM, Tim Woodall wrote: sed 's/["'"'"']//' [...] Have you considered using '-f scriptfile'? Your regex goes in the file and completely eliminates issues of collisions with shell metacharacters. I am realizing that Tim's case may be ha

Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!

On 06/08/2025 10:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2025-08-06 09:33:12 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I believe, proper tags are neither security+critical not wishlist, but something in between. Note that passwords can easily be leaked. I see, earlier I even mentioned protocol that allows clipboard

Re: purge --autoremove

On 07/08/2025 07:23, Alex Wahl wrote: Just double checking my syntax, is the way to get rid of all removed packages with remnant config apt purge --autoremove? Are tying to remove packages in "config files" state that are reported by the following commands? apt list '?config' apt lis

Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!

ug 05, 2025 at 09:43:03 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I agree with Vincent that without *explicit* user consent applications should not send to remote servers what they gathered by listening for changes of primary selection or clipboard. Even if upstream packages (source code, flatpak, snap) have similar

Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!

On 05/08/2025 08:52, Maytham Alsudany wrote: On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 10:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2025-08-04 14:40:25 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: Yes, that's a feature: it will lookup your selections in local and online dictionaries, and by default it searches English-Chinese diction

Re: transferring boot

On 01/08/2025 00:18, Eben King wrote: I want the SSD to boot using UEFI.  Is that possible, and if so, what's the best method to go about it? I recommend to install new (minimal) system on a SSD just to have some experience with UEFI. Try efibootmgr, inspect files on EFI System Partition. Aft

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

On 01/08/2025 02:07, Andy Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:01:56PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: On Wed, 2025-07-30 at 19:55 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g. in a prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all. Tha

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

On 31/07/2025 02:41, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 07:55:12PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g. in a prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all. That would be a neat trick. That's an interesting idea

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 26/07/2025 04:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: true/false I would imagine. See: https://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/latest/udisks.8.html and: https://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.html Ah, that's where those HintFoo thingies are documented. It

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

On 25/07/2025 18:41, Richard Owlett wrote: [I'm running Debian 12.8 which is behind by three *point* releases.] I am in doubts if you have real reasons to do so. It may mean seeking some trouble. Trixie(Debian 13) will be the next major version. It is still in testing and not yet in full fr

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

On 24/07/2025 22:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream lengt

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 24/07/2025 20:55, Stefan Monnier wrote: I found the culprit: system logs revealed it's done by `plinth` (part of FreedomBox). I think, the package appeared in the warning message when you tried to uninstall udisks2. It seems, developers are aware of UDISKS_IGNORE (HintIgnore is present i

Re: Automount USB storage like in GNOME but on the console

On 24/07/2025 04:34, Anders Andersson wrote: Some solutions like "pmount" seems to do part of it, but still requires hardcoding devices to allow. udisksctl is close to pmount, but it is less convenient due to more verbose arguments and inability to explicitly specify mount point name. There

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 23/07/2025 10:16, Stefan Monnier wrote: Max Nikulin [2025-07-23 08:58:56] wrote: On 23/07/2025 07:11, Stefan Monnier wrote: On one of my (Debian stable) machines, all the partitions that aren't mentioned in /etc/fstab end up mounted in /media/root/, and that's apparently a &q

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 23/07/2025 10:00, Stefan Monnier wrote: On one of my (Debian stable) machines, all the partitions that aren't mentioned in/etc/fstab end up mounted in /media/root/, and that's apparently a "feature" of `udisks2`. How can I tell udisks2 to refrain from doing that? FWIW, this is a headless SB

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 23/07/2025 07:11, Stefan Monnier wrote: On one of my (Debian stable) machines, all the partitions that aren't mentioned in /etc/fstab end up mounted in /media/root/, and that's apparently a "feature" of `udisks2`. Is it another attempt to solve the earlier raised issue? Stefan Monnier to de

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

On 23/07/2025 07:40, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: On one of my (Debian stable) machines, all the partitions that aren't mentioned in /etc/fstab end up mounted in /media/root/, and that's apparently a "feature" of `udisks2`. How can I tell udi

Re: Activate additional monitor

On 22/07/2025 06:10, Van Snyder wrote: xrandr --listmonitors lists only the monitors that were connected at boot. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and output of "journalctl -b" "journalctl -b -1" (as root) with proper boot number or ID references to compare logs when monitors are connected before or

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

On 20/07/2025 09:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 09:02:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I have no idea to which degree the following is portable: strip_zeroes() { zeroes="${1%%[!0]*}"; printf '%s\n' "${1#"$zeroes"}"; } That's POS

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote:  unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory Do you have lib -> usr/lib and lib64 -> usr/lib64 symlinks in / ? Perhaps you may run statically linked tools busybox sh If it is not installed, you may extract t

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

On 19/07/2025 19:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 10:14:49 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: A mathematical trick may be used instead even if external processes like sed are considered as undesired overhead for i in 0 09 008 59 080; do i1=1$i; i2=2$i; echo "$i = $((2*i1 - i2))&q

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

On 18/07/2025 05:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 23:39:02 +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS"; jq '.duration_string,.duration' m.info.json "2:10:14" 7814 Taking into account earlier posts, I think that o

Re: Why are bug comment numbers multiples of 5?

On 16/07/2025 16:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: My best guess is https://sources.debian.org/src/debbugs/2.6.4/cgi/bugreport.cgi/?hl=331#L331 push @log, handle_record($record,$ref,$msg_num, ... But there $msg_num looks like being incremented in single steps, Some entries are omitted (see $skip_

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: Where did my character selection tool go?

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 tool is gucharmap (GNOME Character Map). Greg (cu

XCompose wiki article (was: Re: Where did my character selection tool go?)

dding all kinds of Desktop Environment crap, and now Max is saying that the page is "outdated". There's a reason I use the original ~/.XCompose stuff and a simple xmodmap command to establish the Compose key, and that reason is: IT WORKS ON EVERY DEBIAN SYSTEM THAT RUNS X11 I

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 11/07/2025 09:41, David Christensen wrote: AIUI SSD over-provisioning combined with setting the discard flag in fstab(5) provides maximum performance for write intensive workloads. Is it better than fstrim.timer mentioned in this thread? Some years ago there was a warning on the

XCompose wiki article (was: Re: Where did my character selection tool go?)

On 12/07/2025 11:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 09:51:19 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 12/07/2025 05:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: 1) Configure a Compose key, then pressto make ° 2) Do a web search for something like "UTF-8 degree symbol" grep -i degree /usr

Re: Package identification

On 12/07/2025 01:28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Whatever, the Debian question is whether "apt upgrade" changed this EFI setting forth and back. Is fwupd running on this machine? It might be direct update of firmware either of the machine or of the dock station unrelated to .deb packages and apt.

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 12/07/2025 05:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: 1) Configure a Compose key, then pressto make ° 2) Do a web search for something like "UTF-8 degree symbol" grep -i degree /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose : "°" degree # DEGREE SIGN : "°" degree # DEGREE S

Re: Package identification

On 11/07/2025 02:13, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Wolf wrote: My default settings in EFI was Thunderbolt security: OFF. Today, I changed security from OFF to "User Authorization" and now keyboard is working. I tested changing back from "User Authorization" to OFF and the keyboard became unusable again.

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

On 03/07/2025 21:35, Federico Kircheis wrote: The only issue I have with tasksel, is that sometimes I wish a more minimal environment. [...] And often I do not know which one I'm interested one, but I know those I do not want. Have you considered pinning with negative priority in apt preferen

Re: old sysv init scripts dropped without replacement?

On 02/07/2025 15:49, Harald Dunkel wrote: what has happened with the old sysv init scripts that were provided by Debian's sysvinit package, eg hwclock dpkg -S hwclock suggests that it is handled by udev: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-hwclock.rules It seems, hwclock is not supposed to

Re: strange behaviour in LibreOffice Calc save to CSV

On 18/06/2025 19:15, Gary Dale wrote: If I open a .csv file containing e-mail addresses then save it back as a .csv, underscores and "@" get translated into a character code. It does this whether I use save or save as. However, if I check the box in the save as dialog to edit the filter setti

Re: Unable to locate printer "HOSTNAME.local", help with troubleshooting CUPS and mDNS once and for all

On 17/06/2025 00:03, Uroš Mikanovič wrote: `host -t SOA local` returns: local has SOA record local. nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 604800 10800 It is either from your router or from your ISP. Try to add an ISP DNS server address to the "host" command. You may try to adjust dnsmasq configuration

Re: Unable to locate printer "HOSTNAME.local", help with troubleshooting CUPS and mDNS once and for all

On 16/06/2025 05:31, Uroš Mikanovič wrote: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns [...] `ping` can't resolve `BRNBCF4D4182ECD.local`, not sure if it's supposed to. It should (while host, dig, nslookup, and other DNS tools shouldn't). However a more direct test for libc res

Re: Run script after package install, update?

On 15/06/2025 23:08, tomas wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:33:09AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: According to the apt.conf(5) man page: Pre-Invoke, Post-Invoke [...] That's clear as mud. What is "list notation"? [...] Aaah. I guess they mean Perl-y lists, like ["foo", "bar", "baz"]

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

On 05/06/2025 03:21, Van Snyder wrote: This isn't exactly useful if you don't have a Windoze key. I love my old "Model M" IBM PS-2 keyboard. Reliable for the last thirty five years. Lovely "feel." Built like a brick sh¡thouse. Can I create a Windoze key by remapping something, say "Pause?"

Re: how to install debian to external USB ssd harddisk

On 05/06/2025 01:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not cooperate with my UEFI firmware. I think, installer assumes default use case with loaders for all OSes installed to the same EFI System Partition. Create another EFI System

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On 03/06/2025 05:15, Van Snyder wrote: I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bu

Re: How to set umask for apache2

On 28/05/2025 21:34, Chris Green wrote: chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf [service] UMask=0002 [...] chris$ systemctl show apache2.service | grep -i umask UMask=0022 So why can't I set it!!?? I think, you can, but you need to fix a typo

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 28/05/2025 09:06, accipiter wrote: but also had IP4 parameters with the 169.254... crap. Ignore it, it should not harm as an additional address. It is a link-local address and it should not prevent routing to the gateway. It *may* mean that some tool is trying to get an IP address through

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 28/05/2025 06:44, accipiter wrote: Oh - sorry forgot: there's *nothing* in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ While I have no reason to not trust you, it would be more convincing to post exact command and its output, e.g. grep -RE '^\s*[^#]' /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.d In

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 27/05/2025 02:20, accipiter wrote:    nmcli c edit eth0 [...] Attempting to delete/remove the connection entry with the wrong data simply caused the defective connection entry to be replicated, only now with yet another UUID. Is there a chance that NetworkManager is under control of netp

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

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

Re: Shell function.

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

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 14/05/2025 11:29, tomas wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of integration with ifupdown while README.Debian from iw explicitly states that no helpers are provided. Do you use in /etc/network

Re: Dell wifi switch

On 14/05/2025 10:15, xuser wrote: Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side In the past I had an ASUS laptop where the "hardware" switch, the LED, and the actual WiFi card were living their independent lives. The switch generated state change events, but I did not find a

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 13/05/2025 22:55, tomas wrote: sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning To avoid a tool that is claimed to be a deprecated one: sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are far more knowledgeable folks than me around here). Tomas, since Paul has written

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 12/05/2025 02:00, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:02:38 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: I have tried booting with the last several kernels that I have installed doesn't seem to work. I also can't find iwconfig. iwconfig comes in the package wireless-tools. You may need to (re)instal

Re: Open source, multiplatform password manager with sync capability

On 06/05/2025 16:25, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: I put keepassxc database in ~/Sync folder and use it on every comp + phone (keepass2android), sometimes simultaneously. Even if i does not have link to any other device (sometimes internet is broken), i can use credentials from local copy of database.

Re: Open source, multiplatform password manager with sync capability

On 05/05/2025 21:59, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: - install keepassxc, create a master password and a database file [ alternative: keepass2, but mono dependancy ] - make sure that database file is on a git, pushable to a remote repository (I like git-on-SSH), and push/commit it when required

Re: gnome-shell: can't change PATH at gnome-shell level

On 02/05/2025 12:19, Max Nikulin wrote: On 01/05/2025 14:37, Farid Cheraghi wrote: I expect that when I press alt+f2 and type an executable name which is present in `~/.local/bin/` to be executed. See below for some ideas for debugging. As a workaround you may try to change Environment for

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