On 4/2/22, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> Thank you. The problem turned out to be that my hostname somehow
> changed. It was originally but then it became
> -10. The only way I can account for this is my senility
> (87).
This is my third email attempt at this. I started to say that sounds
odd. I init
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 21:56:00 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file
> > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that
> > its three entries haven't been
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file
> that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that
> its three entries haven't been changed in donkey's years.
unicorn:~$ ls -a /etc/skel
./ ../ .bas
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 15:17:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”)
> >
> > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user
> > accounts by adduser. No other program should r
Haines Brown writes:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote:
>> That’s how most window managers are designed to work. I certainly do
>> something similar with i3.
>
> Nathan I copied over the .fluxbox hierarchy. It turned out this can be
> done, but lines left in
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 03:17:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”)
> >
> > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user
> > accounts by adduser. No other program should
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”)
>
> The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user
> accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in
> /etc/skel.
>
> Therefore, if a program needs a
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 08:43:11 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then
> fluxbox.
>
> Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up.
>
> I'd like to know why this happened and how to fix it.
It's Debian policy:
10.7.5 U
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote:
>
> Haines Brown writes:
>
> > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then
> > fluxbox.
> >
> > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up.
>
> I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote:
> Haines Brown writes:
> > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up.
Did you run it?
> > Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be
> > copied over from a working system?
> That’s how
Haines Brown writes:
> After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then
> fluxbox.
>
> Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up.
I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but I don’t use a DE either. For
what it’s worth, I use i3, which also does not place a
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