On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 12:16:53 (+1000), David wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > There are many ways to work around it. My preferred way is to clear
> > the screen with Ctrl-L (ESC Ctrl-L for me, because I use bash in vi
> > mode). That will redraw the shell promp
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14:54PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote:
> > > And regarding "just hit the enter key ... and all is fine", this
> > > behaviour does not just occur at a login prompt.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14:54PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote:
> > And regarding "just hit the enter key ... and all is fine", this
> > behaviour does not just occur at a login prompt. If you login quickly
> > as root to a minimal install as I o
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 21:45:34 (+1000), David wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400):
> > > I only mention it because once in a while, someone sees something like
> > > it and freaks out, thinking the computer is locked u
Hi there.
On 11/09/2020 01.40, Michael Morgan wrote:
I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for
scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed
the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I
decided to remove
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:18, Felix Miata wrote:
> Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400):
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted
> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 10:35:46, David Wright wrote:
>
> I don't use a DE so I can't check. Who owns the X server nowadays
> when running a DM? (With no DM running, ownership changed from root
> to the user some time ago.)
As far as I know it depends on the DM, e.g. with lightdm it's root, at
least o
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 15:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400):
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted
> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian
Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400):
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01030.html
>> (which dealt mainly with a more serio
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01030.html
> (which dealt mainly with a more serious problem).
>
> I never install a DE/DM and all that stuff
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 10:35:19 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > I am actually curious, what SystemD does, if it expects graphical.target,
> > yet the tools (x11, desktop, etc) are no longer available?
>
> It boots just as you would
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I am actually curious, what SystemD does, if it expects graphical.target,
> yet the tools (x11, desktop, etc) are no longer available?
It boots just as you would expect. If there is no display manager
installed, then none will be e
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 AM Henning Follmann
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote:
> > Dear friend,
> >
> >
> >
> > I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it
> for
> > scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reas
Thanks for the explanation of the autoremove intent (I had never seen that
explanation before (never looked for it, didn't think I needed it (so far),
but the understanding is helpful).
Nothing new below this line.
On Friday, September 11, 2020 07:53:26 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In the more gen
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote:
> Dear friend,
>
>
>
> I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for
> scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed
> the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine.
So, not the current stable release
> What is the correct way to
> completely remove GUI?
Well, in this *particular* case, your best course of action would probably
be a clean ins
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:33:21 -0500
"Michael Morgan" wrote:
> Dear friend,
>
>
>
> I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use
> it for scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some
> reason, I installed the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during
> i
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 09:32:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> When removing them you might need to add
>
> -o APT::Autoremove::SuggestsImportant=no
>
> and even
>
> -o APT::Autoremove::RecommendsImportant=no
Err, these won't do much on removing the package, they work only in
combination
On Jo, 10 sep 20, 23:33:21, Michael Morgan wrote:
>
> So it seems the desktop package was removed. But why it still has GUI?
As you found out, removing collections of packages is more difficult
than installing them.
Try running this:
apt -o APT::Autoremove::SuggestsImportant=no autoremove
Dear friend,
I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for
scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed
the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I
decided to remove them. These two commands were executed
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