Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:


Try:

about:config

browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

Change boolean value to false.

Restart browser.


  Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox versions,
  the field name is

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled

   and I don't need to restart the browser

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:


Try:

about:config

browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

Change boolean value to false.

Restart browser.


  Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox 
versions,

  the field name is

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled

   and I don't need to restart the browser


Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.


--
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Consultant
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(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled 
made no difference.


 rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly,
 and immediatly (i.e without restarting firefox)
 PS: and it's not an April fool!

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: How to shut down

[Siard]

solitone:
> Don Armstrong:
> > You can use either. `shutdown -h now` on a machine with systemd
> > actually invokes systemctl with the equivalent of systemctl poweroff
> 
> Yes, I've checked again and now 'systemctl poweroff' does power off
> the machine. No idea on what changed.

FYI:

By default, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the machine.
As has been pointed out once in this list (thanks to Michael Biebl),
you can have Ctrl-Alt-Del power off the machine by adding a link
/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target pointing to
/lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target.

# ln -s /lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target 
/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target

However: if you then keep Ctrl-Alt-Del pressed for a second, the
machine still reboots.
That way, you could use Ctrl-Alt-Del for both poweroff and reboot.

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On 04/01/2018 08:24 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.


 rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly,
 and immediatly (i.e without restarting firefox)
 PS: and it's not an April fool!

best regards,
I'm rapidly coming to the solution that my system is a bit to the funky 
side.  I guess I'll just live with it for the time being.


--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype: smolnar1

utf

[mess-mate]

Hi,

howto change the system utf to eu character set ?

regards

3 screens

[mess-mate]

Hi,
I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them.
GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970.
regards

Re: 3 screens

[mess-mate]

On 04/01/18 16:12, mess-mate wrote:

Hi,
I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them.
GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970.
regards


Ok... SOLVED/Found

Re: 3 screens

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 01 April 2018 10:41:12 mess-mate wrote:

> On 04/01/18 16:12, mess-mate wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them.
> > GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970.
> > regards
>
> Ok... SOLVED/Found

But how did you solve it, so its in the list archives for the next person 
who needs to know?

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Re: utf

[Curt]

On 2018-04-01, mess-mate  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> howto change the system utf to eu character set ?

https://wiki.debian.org/Locale

(if it's not wrong or hopelessly out of date).

The last I checked--and as far as I know--(with administrative privileges),

  dpkg-reconfigure locales
 
was the way to go.

Now you tell us how you solved the 3 screens problem (you know, for
posterity).

> regards
>
>


-- 
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of
aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious
intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality
being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with
our sorrow.  --Samuel Beckett

Re: utf

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă]

On  1-04-2018, at 16h 05'41", mess-mate wrote about "utf"
> Hi,
> 
> howto change the system utf to eu character set ?
> 
> regards


What is "eu character set"? 


None of the Latin-x or iso8859-y can cover all the gliphs of all the
countries in Europe. So, without knowing what do you think is "eu
character set", I would say that you must stay with UTF-8. I really
mean this.

Ionel

Re: utf

[Andre Majorel]

On 2018-04-01 16:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote:

> howto change the system utf to eu character set ?

If, by "eu", you mean ISO 8859-1 or -15, here is the procedure
that works for me :

1) Run

 dpkg-reconfigure locales

   and select some appropriate non-UTF-8 locales. When asked
   what the default locale should be, select a non-UTF-8 one.

2) In your ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc or whatever is relevant, make
   sure that none of LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES and
   friends name a UTF-8 locale. You may not have to be so
   drastic but then you will have to understand the somewhat
   counter-intuitive rules of precedence among those variables.

3) Run

 dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

   and make some sensible choices. Annoyingly, the scripts or
   programs that configure the console (/dev/tty1 .. /dev/tty6)
   in Debian set the keyboard to UTF-8 despite your preferences.
   The incantation to (temporarily) fix that is

 setupcon -k -v
 stty -iutf8

Note that I don't use any fancy desktop environments. I wouldn't
be surprised to learn that those who do must follow different
procedures.

-- 
André Majorel 
lists.debian.org, an essential online resource for spammers.

Detect if polkit user-agent is running

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

is there any way to detect if a policykit user-agent is running before
actually calling pkexec to display the dialog with the login prompt?

>From the pkexec man page it looks like calling

pkexec --disable-internal-agent 

should be sufficient as test, since the exit code 127 should tell me no
user-agent is running. However here with lxpolkit I also get the "127"
when the user hits the "Cancel" button, so this does not seem to be
reliable.
So, does anyone know if it is possible to check the presence of the
user-agent before I actually call pkexec?

Best regards

Michael

.-.. .. ...- .   .-.. --- -. --.   .- -. -..   .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-.

No more blah, blah, blah!
-- Kirk, "Miri", stardate 2713.6

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

[Patrick Bartek]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:20:36 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar"
 wrote:

> 
> On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote:
> >
> >> Try:
> >>
> >> about:config
> >>
> >> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
> >>
> >> Change boolean value to false.
> >>
> >> Restart browser.
> >
> >   Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox 
> > versions,
> >   the field name is
> >
> > browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled
> >
> >and I don't need to restart the browser
> >
> >
> Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch.  Changing 
> browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference.

Changing to "flase" worked on my Openbox window manager-menu-lxpanel
only version of Wheezy Firefox 59.0.2. Ditto in Stretch similarly
configured running in VirtualBox.  Both using DuckDuckGo.  Search in
both in URL bar didn't work at all if I used Google search engine.

B

Re: Storing "real" user data: was: Re: Update: Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

[David Wright]

On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 12:15:18 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, March 30, 2018 11:17:32 AM Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > There's ~/.config
> > (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#~/.co
> > nfig) . Many apps use it, but still the majority uses ~ directly (and
> > probably allways will).
> 
> And now to comment on the above (again)--yes, true, but even if they all used 
> ~/.config, that wouldn't really satisfy me.

But this should convince you that your "vice versa" is a dead duck:
you can only attempt to move people's personal information and leave
the configuration side to evolve as it is doing. I suppose the
creation of ~/{Desktop,Documents,Public,Templates,…} is a step in that
direction.

Cheers, David.

Re: XFCE problems

[David Wright]

On Sat 31 Mar 2018 at 10:54:23 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> In my (also XFCE4) case, what likely happened appeared *possibly*
> related to memory.. *possibly* not. I lost "control" of the cursor for
> a few seconds. Could move it around, but that was it. Neither left
> click nor right click *appeared* to respond.

The problem when the cursor sticks, and clicks produce no response, is
that the actions can stack up and get executed a few moments later.
Where on the screen those clicks end up clicking is anybody's guess,
because the invisible cursor movements in between that you made
unintentionally have also been stacked up.

> I'd be paranoid in my case if it wasn't for keeping a constant eye on
> "free -m" lately. 6GB of memory keeps vanishing with my Opera browser.
> Seems a rational causative.
> 
> Important factor is that yes, that much [lost] memory is definitely
> directly tied to the browser. That memory's consumed as soon as I
> refresh all opened tabs before logging onto the Net on a fresh reboot.

I've stopped using Opera since using my mega /etc/hosts file (with
13000 hosts pointing at 127.0.0.1), but it seemed to me that when you
start it up, it immediately tries to reload all the tabbed pages that
were open when you finished last time.

OTOH while Firefox displays the little tabs in the tab bar, each one
is reloaded only when you actually switch to it, as evidenced by the
spinning circle before the page appears.

When memory is scarce, the difference is dramatic. Opera thrashes
swap which makes it difficult to display the one page you're now
interested in. FF doesn't thrash, so you can click on the tab you
really want and it gets displayed more quickly.

> Then again, I *am* paranoid in my case because the uncontrollable
> actions are not happening endlessly while computer memory has been
> maxxed 24/7 for weeks.

Do bear in mind that linux can appear to use a lot of memory merely
because it's there to be used. IOW why free any memory until you need
it for something else. Leave it cached there in case the data needs
to be used later.

> So far, uncontrollable incidences have only occurred on two different
> days while involving three distinct, non-intended actions. All three
> incidences have involved a total of possibly 30 seconds of my
> conscious awareness.

Cheers,
David.

Re: utf

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote:

howto change the system utf to eu character set ?


Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes:
http://utf8everywhere.org/

What are you trying to do, and why do you thing a non-UTF encoding might 
help you to do it? You will likely be able to achieve your goals with a 
UTF locale.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: Completely disable Hibernation

[coco...@t-online.de]

Hi,

@Felix Miata:
It was the unfamiliar phrase, "bootloader stanza" that threw me.  Once I
realised that what you were suggesting was adding "noresume" as a kernel
parameter at boot time, I had a look here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

"noresume" is described as so:  "Disables resume and restores original
swap space."
However, the "nohibernate" option also exists: "Disable hibernation and
resume."

I applied the latter and found that not only was hibernate now absent
from the DE shutdown dialog, but it was also greyed-out in the login
screen's shutdown menu.  I'm going to suggest that this kernel parameter
is the best practice method I've been looking for.  

I haven't yet checked to see whether it modifies available options in
power management settings, but suspect it probably does.

My opinion is that "noresume" doesn't prevent the creation of
hibernation images, just the use of them when booting.  I suspect it
also discards any existing image.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Re: utf

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 4/1/18, Ben Caradoc-Davies  wrote:
> On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote:
>> howto change the system utf to eu character set ?
>
> Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes:
> http://utf8everywhere.org/
>
> What are you trying to do, and why do you thing a non-UTF encoding might
> help you to do it? You will likely be able to achieve your goals with a
> UTF locale.


Sometimes it takes seeing certain words together to trigger a thought.
Ben's words made me wonder if maybe OP is missing a font package. That
thought occurred because I use UTF-8 and find fonts missing sometimes
(too?)

Cindy :)
-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* hops with duct tape *