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

2025-07-10 Thread debian-user
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm at a chat in Debcamp about the experience for new Linux users and > people new to Debian. It can be intimidating to use Debian and also > to front up and ask questions. > > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if > they need u

Re: seeking new laser printer

2025-06-11 Thread Default User
FWIW, with Debian 12 Stable (Bookworm), until recently I used an HP LaserJet M209dw laser printer (does black an white printing only). Worked, except for the HP configuration and control software. IIRC,  did not need any drivers installed. IDK if it is still made. With Debian 12 Stable (Bookworm),

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 6/6/25 14:44, Dan Ritter wrote: > > ps auwx | grep wm > gene@coyote:~$ ps auwx | grep wm > gene        3863  0.0  0.3 924916 109904 ?       Sl   07:10   0:00 > /usr/bin/akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent --identifier > akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent > gene       22155  0.0 

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-04 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 6/3/25 17:06, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 03/06/2025 21:27, gene heskett wrote: > >> I'm using tbird 139, and it has grown vertically to expect the > >> full screen of 1040 lines, meaning the bottom 2 tect lines that > >> tbird uses for advirory msgs of attachment showing

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/2/25 2:03 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I'm over 80. My only phone just died. > >> I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule > >> 5"x7" manual. > >> Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of ma

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-22 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-20, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > > > It seems you've encountered an obsolete wiki page (at the bottom it > > says "AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps (last modified 2022-10-31 > > 14:03:10)" ). The subject is being discussed in another thread at > > the moment, but

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

2025-05-20 Thread debian-user
"Jonathan Dowland" wrote: > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM BST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. > > > > Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian > > version" pages. So, when someone edits a page, they don't edit the

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

2025-05-20 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-20, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. > > > > Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian > > version" pages. So, when someone edits a page, they don't edit the > > "DebianBootstrap" page, but t

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread debian-user
Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android > apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps > > Following the latter web page, the fol

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

2025-05-19 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-16, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Thu May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> The most prominent issue I can see is that there is no unified > >> sense of chronology. That is, I can look at a page and not have > >> any idea whether it is correct for current

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

2025-05-18 Thread Default User
Thanks, Andy! I'll give it a try.

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread Default User
n Now". :) As mentioned previously, if the target usb drive B is not attached, rsync by itself will create a mount point with the name of the usb drive B in /media/[user home directory], and write to that until / fills up. Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A  to usb d

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Default User
Hi. Thanks for the replies! Concerning the points raised: 1) sudo df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 8.7G 13G 41% / /dev/nvme0n1p5 1.8G 140K 1.7G 1% /tmp /dev/nvme0n1p6 199G 53G 136G 28% /home /dev/nvme0n1p3 9.1G 2.9G 5.8G 34% /var /dev/

Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread Default User
Hi. I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.  Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current  (2023) low-end Dell laptop.  Intel Core i3 processor.  8Gb ram. UEFI booting. Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage. Partitions: nvme0n1 259:00 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1

Re: Shell function.

2025-05-15 Thread debian-user
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Given this function. > > 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? "Too many arguments." doesn't seem quite right. If evinc

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Greg wrote: > > > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > > > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying > > a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded > > energy in a

Re: Request for Snapdragon X Plus Support and Development for ASUSQ5507QA-S15 Laptop

2025-05-06 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 5/6/25 03:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:53:54AM +0330, Reza Bojnordi wrote: > >> Dear Debian > >> > >> I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to inquire > >> about the possibility of enhanced support and development for the > >

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-22 Thread debian-user
songbird wrote: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > ...keyboard sometimes stops working... > > I have that problem occasionally. I just unplug the USB connector > > then plug it back in and the keyboard works again. > > yes, but it also may indicate a poor connection or a > bad cable so perhaps

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

2025-04-21 Thread debian-user
Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21): > > $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; > > if ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘ > > I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the > symmetrical ASCII one; then I noticed the single quotes, and I

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of > > > > using "regular expression

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread debian-user
Bernard wrote: > On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > >>> Hi to Everyone ! > >>> > >>> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > >>> > >>> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only > >>> plays their audio

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread debian-user
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Looking at > > https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/ospo.onramp/2025-03/msg1.html > > as an example, it appears your text may become blue if you precede > > your message with and follow > > it with > > Yeah, making it a link might render it blue. > If you do that, I

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread debian-user
Roger Price wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 17.04.2025 19:06, Roger Price wrote: > > > Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". > > > Problem solved. Roger > > > > > I'd use software called GIMP. &shrug; > > Your 1.png is neat.

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-16 Thread debian-user
Serkan Kurt wrote: > (Solved) Hello. I solved the problem as follows; I'm pleased to hear you solved the problem :) > 1- I created a file named "disable_usb3.conf" in the > "/etc/modprobe.d/" directory. > 2- I added the line "options xhci_hcd no_usb3=1" to the file and > saved it. I'm curious.

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-15 Thread debian-user
Jan Claeys wrote: > On Sun, 2025-04-06 at 17:42 +0300, Serkan Kurt wrote: > > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I > > connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the > > other USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to > > about 0.

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

2025-04-10 Thread debian-user
Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2025, 06:47:13 CEST schrieb Titus Newswanger: > > On 4/9/25 22:42, Petric Frank wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2025, 00:13:10 CEST schrieb Andy Smith: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 05:46:

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

2025-04-09 Thread debian-user
James Freer wrote: > Hi members > > I've just done my install of Debian 12 Live XFCE version. Been a user > of Xubuntu for 15 years and thought i would change. Tried some of the > derivatives and chose Debian to go with. > > I would be grateful if someone could expl

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-07 Thread debian-user
Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry > Pi 5, which I run Linux on. You don't say which version of which linux you use. Most people with R Pis run Raspberry Pi OS, which is derived from Debian but is not Debian. If you run that

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-06 Thread debian-user
Nicolas George wrote: > Serkan Kurt (HE12025-04-06): > > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I > > connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the > > other USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to > > about 0.5 meters. Normally 10

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-04 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm just going to assume that it worked similarly to traditional X > sessions (e.g. the ones on HP-UX), where it looked up the system's > hostname, and used whatever IP address that returned for connections > between the X client and server. I'm confused. Traditional X ses

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-03 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256: > > They are different modules. > > https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256 > https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA > > Digest::SHA256

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-02 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 . > When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it > identifies itself as version 1.30.0 . I've also just noticed that NM 1.30 belongs on an older release of Debian than 12.

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-02 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 . > When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it > identifies itself as version 1.30.0 . > There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ > which results in a 404 error. I think the link sh

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > > > GET index.html > > should be: > > GET index.html HTTP/1.0 > > (Strictly speaking you should close off with twice , but > most web servers are tolerant if you just send two ) > > Not sending a HTT

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 17:52:55 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > The server is on the LAN side of the router (192.168.1.65). It's > > not in the DMZ. My server isn't running Apache ACLs or iptables or > > TCP wrapper. The router is running a firewall.  I've forwarded > > WAN-si

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread debian-user
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: [snip] > If you make the storage server the access point What storage server? I thought this was about live video display from a drone?

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread debian-user
e, although I'd now qualify it by saying that that's the default position and it can now be overridden. And I try not to respond with rude responses, although sometimes it is difficult. > And, as someone pointed out, ganesha NFS (a user-space server) > seems to explicitly al

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread debian-user
Eben King wrote: > On 3/19/25 15:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote: > >> I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the > >> nas via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the > >> mount point appears empty, eve

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-15 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > I don't want to look at the outside of the hull, I want to look > inside right down in the bilges under the engine. This is quite > inaccessible and one of the cameras that are advertised mostly as > 'endoscopes' would make looking around down there more possible. > > As I

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Default User
On 2025-03-14 [FR], Russell Harris wrote: I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the backup system. Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I switch to the terminal and execute git commit. To check the previous state of a file, Emacs provides git-timemachine.

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread debian-user
Harri Suutari wrote: > On 14/03/2025 08.07, tim wade wrote: > > > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > > backup? > > Dirvish - "Disk based virtual image network backup system." > >     Dirvish can create user br

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: > > > > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the > > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > I've never come across one for the general public, but then it would > never have occurred to me to sear

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
nything beginning with "xdg". > I'm looking for the specific MATE tool. ;} I believe the MATE file browser is called Caja. (I've never used it, so be careful about what I say) According to the user guide I found at https://learnubuntumate.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/8/4/108446579

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
D MacDougall wrote: > On 3/8/25 12:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any > > length? > > > Very odd.  On my phone I see exactly what you see plus several

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > D MacDougall wrote: > > >> https://duckduckgo.com > > > > > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > > D

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread debian-user
D MacDougall wrote: > > On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote: > ... > > > I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for > > > years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the > > > point that I seldom have cause to use any other.  Along the way I > > > discovered that th

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Default User
parameters? Also, a big chunk of /var is taken up by /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects, which takes up 2.5Gb of the 10 Gb /var. Note: I only use very few flatpaks, just Flatseal, LibreWolf, and DB Browser for SQLite, and some system stuff not user added. So I don't know why /var/lib/flatpak/repo/ob

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

2025-02-21 Thread debian-user
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 > >> > > of food purchased for a week, by age-gender group, 2006 > > > > I don't read PDFs /in/ the br

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

2025-02-20 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. > I need only the first and last columns. > > Can someone point me in a suitable direction? > > TIA > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-14 Thread debian-user
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the > Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit > through snail mail. > > In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine > for display purposes.

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-12 Thread debian-user
gt; > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for > > > > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the > > > > > changes it has made. > > > > > > > > Chris, for something like testing i would just set up >

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread debian-user
Gregory Forster wrote: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug > into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux > 12.8? Everything I find specify s for Windows. There's a useful page at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/#known-w

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-11 Thread debian-user
nd unset all the changes > > > it has made. > > > > Chris, for something like testing i would just set up > > another user. > > > I guess that's a possible way. However my use of epiphany tends to be > "oh, this web page doesn't work in viv

Re: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-08 Thread debian-user
"Gary L. Roach" wrote: > I have been trying  to find a software package that would allow me to > do math calculations along with running documentation.I have tried > using -Octave but it doesn't allow modification of content once you > hit the enter key. After a few mistakes and corrections things

Re: Unnamed Popup from Klaro about cookies

2025-02-06 Thread debian-user
But as Kent said, if its going to produce popups it really, really needs to announce itself properly including a link to some docs that are written from the point of view of a user rather than the point of view of a website developer! :( It'll totally fail on my system (I hope), anyway, si

Re: finding package for reportbug

2025-02-05 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:46:23 +0100 > Franziska Menti wrote: > > > Hi Charles [snip] > What I had in mind here is something like: > > dmesg | less -X > > then use the search function (the / key) to search for snd_hda_intel > and (separately) snd_sof_pci_intel_mtl. Check

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-04 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:04:16 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > - apt-patterns(7) > > > > > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from

Re: mlterm configuration

2025-01-26 Thread debian-user
Darac Marjal wrote: > On 26/01/2025 18:29, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > >>> My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I > >>> create a file .mlter

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 05:04:16PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:13:09PM +, > > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > I just use IP addresses for local web services, so I can use > > > > DOH

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:13:09PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > [...] > > > I just use IP addresses for local web services, so I can use DOH in > > my browser. > > I'm at a loss why somebody would want to do that (although I pretty > well know why Google wants every

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread debian-user
George at Clug wrote: > I had forgotten to mention about "DNS over HTTPS", which besides > encrypting DNS traffic, usually use a trusted Internet based DNS > service, instead of local DNS settings. > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https > > This maybe why your web browser does n

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread Default User
Hi, Charles! Thanks for the reply. I will have to ponder that.

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread Default User
Hi, Eben! I hate to sound stupid, but how would I do that. I have never used mkfs before.

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread Default User
uot;/run/*","/mnt/*","/media /*","/lost+found"} /media/user/DRIVE1/ /media/user/DRIVE2/ ; date BTW, thanks for the tip about xxsum. I will have to give that a try!

rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread Default User
ckup daily using Borgbackup Version 1.2.4 from the Debian Stable repositories, and rsnapshot Version 1.4.5-1, also from the Debian Stable repositories. It also has a whole bunch of other archival programs, data and image files on it as well. sudo df -h /media/user/DRIVE1 Filesystem  Size 

rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread Default User
ckup daily using Borgbackup Version 1.2.4 from the Debian Stable repositories, and rsnapshot Version 1.4.5-1, also from the Debian Stable repositories. It also has a whole bunch of other archival programs, data and image files on it as well. sudo df -h /media/user/DRIVE1 Filesystem Size

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-12 Thread debian-user
rk tolerably well without javascript. > > It does. I was indicating that a I surf with JavaScript disabled. > When enabled on a case-by-case basis it can be useful. > > > And the > > application itself has a Help menu that can bring up various useful > > documents.

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-11 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > As I'm over 80 and a computer *user* since introduction via Hollerith > cards and line-printers in 60's (q.v. CORC & CUPL - BASIC didn't > exist) and later using an Acoustic coupler with an RBBS, I'm not a > newbie per se. > &g

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-08 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible > > alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new > > machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic > > Package Manager,

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread debian-user
e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 12/29/24 12:51, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Eben King wrote: > > > >> My motherboard is a Gigabyte H170 > > > > That doesn't seem to be precise enough. They make multiple boards > > with that general name and all but one support UEFI. But the > > GA-H170TN doe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread debian-user
Eben King wrote: > My motherboard is a Gigabyte H170 That doesn't seem to be precise enough. They make multiple boards with that general name and all but one support UEFI. But the GA-H170TN does not mention UEFI, although its spec does say "Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS".

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread debian-user
Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 17 Dec 2024 06:45 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de: > >> Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*. > > > > Do you have a reference? > > > > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my > > advice, too). Seeing what Schneier has to sa

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-17 Thread debian-user
songbird wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > ... > > Why does your mother need to memorize all of your dead stepfather's > > identities? Just let them die with him. > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it > is much easier to just continue using the credentials as >

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-15 Thread debian-user
y nor > any other natural or artificial or divine intelligence? i know this > sounds like a question for debian-devel or debian-policy but i m > dumping it onto debian-user as as of now i m not subscribed to any > other. Why does your mother need to memorize all of your dead stepfathe

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread debian-user
Van Snyder wrote: > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute > or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 > processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. > Wh

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread debian-user
Roger Price wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 > workstation. I have done this before successfully. When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the editor of your choice. You

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-12-02 Thread debian-user
David Wright wrote: > Funnily enough, I'd never even thought about page numbering in > connection with man pages. But I notice now that the page contents > of my Letter PDF and Debian's A4 version are identical, and the > footers on the A4 are very high, so I'm guessing that the document > was o

Re: Suggestions on pre -installation of Chinese input method for Debian

2024-11-28 Thread debian-user
张昊彧 wrote: > Dear Debian team, > > Hello! > > I am a Debian user who appreciates the stable and secure operating > system provided by Debian. During the use process, I noticed that the > system has pre -installed Japanese input method, which is very > convenient fo

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Default User
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 18:59 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > [...] > > > Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an > > explanation of: > > > > "Of course, this UUID

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Default User
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 17:59 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > > > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > > > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manual

Re: DefinitionS sleep/suspend/hibernate/etc - was [Re: help: disable all manner of sleep/suspend/hibernate - Debian 12]

2024-11-22 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > Michael mentioned https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend and I found > https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation . > > I, and other inexperienced users, need proper definitions of > sleep/suspend/hibernate/etc to use those pages and solutions to be > described here. Definitions c

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-18 Thread debian-user
hree months ago, a guy in Australia and a guy in England > > > reported the same problem (blank white screen). > > > > I was the 'guy in England', but that's irrelevant because the > > problem there was sites that were discriminating based on the >

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-18 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually > > > > change the I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other > > > > sets of c

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-18 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 08:25:33PM +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color > > > > > when t

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > > > > It's

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > I routinely get that "blank white page" result in firefox here, and > find that fiddling with the settings in the noscript plugin often > fixes it. OTOH, if a web site wants to be *that* obnoxious I'll > often decide that they're not worth the trouble of bothe

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread debian-user
that nobody else has been able to reproduce the > >OP's failure. > > Two or three months ago, a guy in Australia and a guy in England > reported the same problem (blank white screen). I was the 'guy in England', but that's irrelevant because the problem there

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-15 Thread debian-user
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Extremely long References header shortened. =8~/ > > From: Timothy M Butterworth > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:21:20 -0500 > > SSHD is packaged and available on Debian. > > Timothy, for a console on localhost do you use ssh exclusively? > Never xterm or simila

Re: How do I submit a game to a distribution?

2024-11-12 Thread debian-user
Steven Peckham wrote: > >I would really want to address this in detail after the Copyright > >goes through. > >No. After the Copyright is in effect, I will be happy to provide the > >code under the GPL3 license restrictions. It doesn't sound like you understand copyright and licensing very well.

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread debian-user
Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): > > Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets > > (including four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation > > to this, would be required, or, a proper server, with all of the >

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread debian-user
today. I looked at that page and what I immediately learned is that it seems to have been written by a presumably young person who has forgotten or never knew the meaning of multi-user. Multiseat is one particular form of multiuser computer. There are lots of other forms. A computer where one person

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-07 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > Todd Zullinger wrote: > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 25 > > lines --] > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of > > > wrapping/isolating collections of code and programs in Debian > > > (well in

Re: YAML: How to add additional lines after a specific line?

2024-11-06 Thread debian-user
Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: > Hello community, > > I have a YAML file for example `resource.yaml`. > I want to find in this file all the lines ( actually it should be > only one ), with the following string: "resource_type: apple" and > immediately after that line add the following lines: > > ```

Re: Unable to Resize Playlist Window in Qmmp Player

2024-11-01 Thread debian-user
Patrick Wayodi wrote: > I'm not able to resize the playlist window in Qmmp Player. The > playlist window's height is longer than my screen and I'm not able to > see its bottom part. Can you see the top part? If so resize it by moving the top border down. > $ qmmp -v > QMMP version: 1.6.2 > Comp

Re: Script typeface.

2024-10-31 Thread debian-user
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:06:02 + > > Have you looked at https://elementor.com/blog/handwriting-fonts/ ? > > Looked since you mentioned. The heading I cited appears to be > in Pacifico font. > > Elementor is charging us

Re: Script typeface.

2024-10-30 Thread debian-user
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently the page here was constructed using something called > Elementor. https://www.friendsofthegulfislands.ca > > The heading is in a script style of typeface. > > I'm interested to find a free, open source replacment font. Not > necessarily the same i

Re: Support forum for pdfminer.six [especially pdf2txt]

2024-10-30 Thread debian-user
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 30 Oct 2024 at 04:53:27 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm attempting to read a USDA document "Thrifty Food Plan,2021" that > > seems to be only available as a PDF document > > [ > > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf > >

Re: Support forum for pdfminer.six [especially pdf2txt]

2024-10-30 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to read a USDA document "Thrifty Food Plan,2021" that > seems to be only available as a PDF document [ > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf > ]. No direct answers from me, I'm afraid but some suggestions. (1) Alt

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread debian-user
"Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > I've already accumulated pretty long list. They all point to > different ISP networks in China. > The only thing I'm certain of is that they use "bttracker.debian.org" > to get peer information. > Maybe this is somehow tied to "webseed peer" of > "debian-12.5.0-

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