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

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 > >

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

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 > > F

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

2025-05-19 Thread debian-user
; any idea whether it is correct for current Stable. > > That's what I said more succinctly. Keep the wikis up to date (I > thought it went without saying "for Debian stable," though there's > always a myriad of ways to be misunderstood but normally only one way > t

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. > > >

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 possibilit

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 > >>> > >>> ⇒

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

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

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

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread debian-user
at this is the correct IP adderss, and if it is, > figure out why it can't be routed-to from the outside world. > $ telnet 47.229.8.99 80 Trying 47.229.8.99... Connected to 47.229.8.99. Escape character is '^]'. GET index.html HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:00

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
wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk (HE12025-03-20): > > > It's not a workaround. It's expected behaviour. You told the NAS > > > to share some of its contents with alexandria. That's w

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 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 browseable (daily) backup directories. I use di

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
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also > > has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click > > menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up > > dialog a

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 se

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

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian
On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I ended up installing Brave.  Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock Origin (even though it's supported right now).  But it has its own b

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: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread debian
On 3/6/25 12:32 PM, songbird wrote: i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it. would like to try something else. currently running testing. any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker. songbird h

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
Chris Green wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > songbird wrote: > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > &

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/integratio

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

2025-02-11 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > songbird wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > ... > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for > > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes > > > it has made. > >

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
5, 13:08 by we...@acu.edu: > > > On 2/6/25 13:06, Kent West wrote: > > > >> On 2/6/25 13:01, Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>  A few times recently, while using Debian unstable with KDE on > >>> Wayland, browsing with Firefox Nightly,

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
ed (--installed), > > upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all available > > (--all-versions) versions. > > Hah. All the things I asked for in the message I wrote 5 minutes ago > are apparently already done in some future version of Debian. I think part of the confus

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: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-23 Thread debian
They make KVM over IP aka KVM over Ethernet switches. I am not sure whether you can get the functionality for the additional devices (speakers & thumb drive). This setup will let you switch your keyboard, monitor & mouse between several computers (maybe one or more in the closet and one or mor

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 05:04:16PM +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:13:09PM +, > > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > I j

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:13:09PM +0000, 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

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: Virtual network fails to start: dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for 192.168.122.1: Address already in use

2025-01-14 Thread debian
Whenever I restart dnsmasq (including a system restart), I have to start with a new (empty) DHCP leases file. Your DHCP leases file is specified in your dnsmasq configuration file (*.conf). Your config file appears to be /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf Your DHCP leases file appears to b

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-12 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/11/25 8:06 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > *SNIP* > >> > >> Due to vision and perception issues, I avoid sites over using > >> graphics or requiring JavaScript. For support I look for

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. > > However I'm making practical use of mp3 files

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

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 c

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 ab

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread debian
On 12/11/2024 3:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 12/12/24 04:43, deb...@kcburns.com wrote: On 12/11/2024 3:08 PM, 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

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread debian
On 12/11/2024 3:08 PM, 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

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 choic

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: 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
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:34:00 +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >I've been thinking about this some

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 +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > > > &

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
"Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >I've been thinking about this some more, and I'd like to try to list > >all the ways the OP might have caused this to fail. > > > >We start by observing that nobody else has been able to reproduce the >

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 exclu

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
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you > > read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > Oh. I've learned something

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 collect

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
mp -v > QMMP version: 1.6.2 > Compiled with Qt version: 5.15.6 > Using Qt version: 5.15.8 > > $ cat /etc/os-release > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > ... > > > Thank you.

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. >

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 someho

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread debian-user
lready 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-

Request for Clarification on Debian Installation Modes

2024-10-15 Thread debian
Dear All, A few days back, I had the opportunity to dive into the OpenWISP / OpenWRT project, and I learned that it is best supported on Debian. While studying, I encountered four different modes of installation for Debian, and I would appreciate it if someone could explain the differences

Re: How to load new firmware?

2024-10-15 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:27:23 -0400 > Lee wrote: > > > # backports so I can get the latest Realtek wifi drivers > > deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main > > non-free-firmware deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian > >

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-13 Thread debian-user
Karl Vogel wrote: > Removing the --quiet flag and using something like safesys() would: > > * let systemctl write something (hopefully an error message), > * show exactly what arguments are being passed to it, and > * show its exit value. Your safesys includes basically exactly the code

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread debian-user
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > Hi, > > > > John Cassidy wrote: > > > > Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke > > > > line 148. > > > > Greg Wooledge wrote:

Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread debian-user
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > John Cassidy wrote: > > > Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line > > > 148. > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > That's a very strange and specific error message. Is your systemctl > > command missing, or has incorrect permissions or someth

Re: Mozilla's apt repository; was: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-11 Thread debian-user
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:37:03 + > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >That sounds like an even better argument for not pinning _everything_ > >coming from that repository at priority 1000. > > Maybe, but; > > As an experiment, I added the mozilla repo and

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread debian-user
"James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > > One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an > > optician. > > Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an > ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for >

OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread debian-user
Larry Martell wrote: > What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and > would love to know about them. As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or astigmatism, another reason for not being able to drive at night is cataracts. If so the [only] solution is

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-08 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting > text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by > fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or a

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-07 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > This started with be exploring "regular expressions". > I discovered some tutorials that were using Bash in their samples. > One {lost the reference at the moment} was almost a match for a real > world problem I have. > > But I've not used Bash in eons and have forgotten

Re: Is "How-To use MATE" documented?

2024-09-05 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I found: > 1. https://mate-desktop.org/ >-- no mention of user oriented documentation > 2. https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ >Titled "Welcome to the documentation" >Under the heading "Good Documentation" it explicitly says: > > Every a

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