Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

[Pascal Hambourg]

Le 21/04/2019 à 23:09, Erik Josefsson a écrit :


I now think I should copy to /dev/disk/by-id/sda


That does not exist. The symlink points to /dev/sda.

Re: how to display html files on google drives

[didier gaumet]

Le 21/04/2019 à 23:40, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit :
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2019, didier gaumet wrote:
> 
>> What I gather is that Google did not announce end of html support (It's
>> the heart of its ecosystem) but end of life of its Google Drive PC
>> tools, in order to access Google Drive via... html (Chrome as the
>> central tool) :-)
>>
> I saw:
>    "Deprecating web hosting support in Google Drive Beginning August 31,
>     2015, web hosting in Google Drive for users and developers will be
>     deprecated. Google Apps customers can continue"

web hosting is based upon html, but it is not html.
Google Drive is accessed primarily via http (so, html)

> 
>   In a previous post, I said:
>> what I want to do is to give access
>> to other people to the html file, in order that they can display
>> the images together with the comments contained in the html.
> 
>    more precisely, I want to give access to the images AND their associated
>    comments (generally 1 or 2 lines)
>    If not html, what do you suggest to do that?
>    (the html support was is also discontinued in Dropbox)

potentially, html file <> web page <> web site
particularly, pics are not included in an html files, and their path can
be absolute or relative

I just saved a webpage with menus and pics (from internet) on Google Drive:
- when saved on Google Drive as simple html, the page rendered by
firefox from Google Drive is blank
- when saved on Google Drive as complete web page (so: html file plus an
entire folder), the page rendered by firefox from Google Drive is
identical to that rendered by firefox from internet

So it seems to me that publishing at least a small webpage with its pics
on Google Drive is still possible

I do not know what kind of volume (3 or 3000 pages) you need to publish,
if you are knowledgeable in html, if you create your pages (and if there
is a script language like PHP) or if you want to privately give access
to web pages you did note create and only saved (for example: pages from
a paywalled site), or... etc...

And in fact what you really want is perhaps more a shared photo album
with comments (like Google Photos)?

or, depending on your needs,
 either a full-fledged website hosted by an actual web hosting service
(Google: Google Domains?), not a momentarily available commodity like
web hosting on Google Drive
 or if you have a small number of web pages: you can print them as one
or several pdf that you put on Google Drive (that's what I do when I
want to save a webpage with its pictures)

Sorry, I stop there, being far from expert in this domain :-)

Re: is xdvi broken?

[rlharris]

On 2019.04.22 06:51, Bill Wood wrote:


Is there a reason not to use pdflatex?  My workflow then is
= In emacs, save the doc foo.tex
= switch to a virtual terminal
= execute "pdflatex foo.tex" (as many times as needed)


Why would it be necessary to execute pdflatex more than once?


= execute "evince foo.pdf"
= when desired, select "Print" from the "File options" menu of evince
= switch back to emacs


But to print from evince requires that I take my hand off the
keyboard and reach for the rodent in order to print.

Kindly forgive my lack of perception, but I do not see why it is
advantageous to introduce into my work routine a PDF file and a PDF
viewer such as evince.

In order to write say, an article, I fire up Emacs, write for a while,
using LaTeX markup, now and then in Emacs executing "Ctrl-x s"
to save the document (I dislike to be interrupted by the auto-save
feature of Emacs).

Occasionally I print out a paper copy of the incomplete article and
move to my reading chair, using a pen to make revisions and correct
typographical errors.  To print a copy, I:

= use Alt-TAB to switch to a terminal

= execute "latext foo.tex"
  (if I am running latexmk with the -pcv option,
  this occurs automatically)

= execute "dvips foo.dvi"
  (if I am running latexmk with the -pcv option,
  this occurs automatically)

= execute "lpr foo.ps"

= use Alt-TAB to return to the Emacs screen

Sometimes I simply need to glance briefly at the document in typeset
form, without printing it out on paper.  For this, I:

= use Alt-TAB to switch to a terminal

= execute "latext foo.tex"
  (if I am running latexmk with the -pcv option,
  this occurs automatically)

= use Alt-TAB to advance to the xdvi screen

= use Alt-TAB to return to the Emacs screen

Re: is xdvi broken?

[tomas]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 08:06:01AM +, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On 2019.04.22 06:51, Bill Wood wrote:
> 
> >Is there a reason not to use pdflatex?  My workflow then is
> >= In emacs, save the doc foo.tex
> >= switch to a virtual terminal
> >= execute "pdflatex foo.tex" (as many times as needed)
> 
> Why would it be necessary to execute pdflatex more than once?

Index generation, cross references, things like that (pagination
decisions are taken at the latest possible moment, so references
to the current page (number) and more so references to following
pages are not resolvable in the first pass. If you're nasty, a
page break might depend on the width of a not-yet-known page number
which depends itself on... you get the idea).

Other things potentially needing more than one pass: long tables
spanning several pages.

> But to print from evince requires that I take my hand off the
> keyboard and reach for the rodent in order to print.
> 
> Kindly forgive my lack of perception, but I do not see why it is
> advantageous to introduce into my work routine a PDF file and a PDF
> viewer such as evince.

Dvi workflow is pretty minimal, and I love it when I can get away
with it. OTOH, pdflatex (and lualatex) have tricks which the more
traditional workflow can't play.

For some examples, go browse http://www.texample.net

Sometimes, a good visualization is worth a lot.

Cheers
-- tomás


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Re: how to display html files on google drives

[Curt]

On 2019-04-21, Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:
>
> more precisely, I want to give access to the images AND their associated
> comments (generally 1 or 2 lines)
> If not html, what do you suggest to do that?
> (the html support was is also discontinued in Dropbox)
>

In drive open the image file (double-click); on the upper right of the
screen next to the printing icon click the cross + (add a comment).
You're asked what part of the image you wish to comment upon (area
selection). The comment appears beside the selected image area (in the
margins). 

Share image.

Re: how to display html files on google drives

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Curt wrote:


On 2019-04-21, Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:


more precisely, I want to give access to the images AND their associated
comments (generally 1 or 2 lines)
If not html, what do you suggest to do that?
(the html support was is also discontinued in Dropbox)



In drive open the image file (double-click); on the upper right of the
screen next to the printing icon click the cross + (add a comment).
You're asked what part of the image you wish to comment upon (area
selection). The comment appears beside the selected image area (in the
margins).

Share image.


  I'm not convinced: after doing what you suggest, I only see under the image
  "commented by you today", but no visible comment...

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: how to display html files on google drives

[Curt]

On 2019-04-22, Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:
>>
>I'm not convinced: after doing what you suggest, I only see under the image
>"commented by you today", but no visible comment...


Oh, shit, you must've toggled the "make my comments invisible and only
reveal the fact itself that I've commented" switch somehow!

> best regards,

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 08:30:53PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Drifting off the subject, but the banking I use invokes javascript. I 
> would have thought that unnecessary.  Should be possible to accomplish 
> the results with processing on the server and HTML5 on the client.
> Technology bloat?

It has been my experience that the more IMPORTANT a web site is
(government, bank, insurance, etc.), the WORSE it is.

Eventually I got to the point where I simply GAVE UP trying to use any
important web sites under Firefox + NoScript.  Even if I allowed all
the dozens of foreign Javascript domains that each web page relied on,
it would still fail due to  violations.

Your dream of a banking site that uses competent, non-broken web technology
is going to have to remain a dream, I'm afraid.

Re: how to display html files on google drives

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Curt wrote:


On 2019-04-22, Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:



   I'm not convinced: after doing what you suggest, I only see under the image
   "commented by you today", but no visible comment...



Oh, shit, you must've toggled the "make my comments invisible and only
reveal the fact itself that I've commented" switch somehow!

  it must be an hidden switch, and may-be I hit it blindly .)
  more seriously, this procedure may be useful for a small number of images,
  but for 50 or more, nothing replace the power of a text editor.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: bug-report help : whole user input events freeze: doubts about the right package to submit against

[bw]

In-Reply-To: <3685896c-ded1-395b-6312-cef63a9d2...@pouzenc.fr>

>Ludovic Pouzenc 

>I have doubts about the right package to submit against (gnome-shell, 
>pulseaudio, wayland, udev, kernel)

>Poor work-around :
>
>- enable accessibility feature "visual-bell". The problem vanishes,


Since the workaround is changing an a11y feature, you could try one or 
more of the suggestions here to eliminate some of your list of possible 
pkgs for the bug report?

https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Troubleshooting

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

[humbert . olivier . 1]

- Mail original -
De: "Rodolfo Medina" 
Envoyé: Samedi 20 Avril 2019 09:33:17
Objet: Trying to install Audiveris

> I'm experimenting difficulty in installing Audiveris...  Anyone has already
> installed it...?  Please help.

I've got a working package of 5.1.0 in a testing phase.

You can find the package (32 and/or 64 bits) here :
https://download.tuxfamily.org/librazik/decepas/pool/main/a/audiveris/

I'm very interested about feedback if you test it.

Hope that helps.
Olivier

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

[David Wright]

On Sun 21 Apr 2019 at 20:30:53 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: David Wright 
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:13:11 -0500
> > I run two instances of FF, one as me (for banking etc) and one as
> > another user (for browsing).
> 
> Interesting.  Thanks.  For banking & etc. you have a dedicated user id 
> and login?

The other way round: I bank as me, and browse as user "flash", hence
$ my-deblis-on-flashfirefox
which looks after changing user and allowing flash to display on
the X display. (It also checks that I don't try to run a browser if
I'm not using the most recent Debian version on that particular host.)
Thus, my own files are inaccessible by the flash browser.

> Drifting off the subject, but the banking I use invokes javascript. I 
> would have thought that unnecessary.  Should be possible to accomplish 
> the results with processing on the server and HTML5 on the client.
> Technology bloat?

Yes. Banks, like everyone else, seem to feel the need to indulge their
graphics fantasies on their websites. I guess it's pandering to the
smart phone generation. Speaking of which, I guess we're lucky to
still have Internet banking on computers; so much is now aimed at
mobiles. For a period, I had to login to Chase twice to get a
proper interface—the first login would give me the mobile's site,
with just two impotent buttons, period.

> > I just checked out clean shutdowns and restarts with my own 
> > instance of FF and it's all OK.
> 
> OK, thanks.  The complaint at firefox startup here is probably only 
> following a crash of firefox.   Curt's suggestion to set 
> browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 seems appropriate.
> 
> > Does the behaviour reported in your OP cause you *great* concern?
> 
> No.  Just wastes time.  Opening a simple local HTML home page requires 
> roughly a minute rather than roughly a second.

I tend to forget that, because my /etc/hosts file has ~14000 lines,
pages appear a lot faster here.

> > I tried Opera on a slow laptop ...
> 
> Thanks for mentioning that.

Yes, disappointing. The fix, for me, was /etc/hosts:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
The only downside (which I don't understand) is that
# scp -p 
threatens to list ~14000 filename completions
(IOW every hostname in /etc/hosts), but *only* as root.

Cheers,
David.

Re: is xdvi broken?

[David Wright]

On Mon 22 Apr 2019 at 08:06:01 (+), rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On 2019.04.22 06:51, Bill Wood wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason not to use pdflatex?  My workflow then is
> > = In emacs, save the doc foo.tex
> > = switch to a virtual terminal
> > = execute "pdflatex foo.tex" (as many times as needed)
> 
> Why would it be necessary to execute pdflatex more than once?

If you don't check for the re-run message at the end of your final
run (LateX book p128), then a second run should rectify any
cross-references that have moved (unless you have a pathological
document that flipflops across two pages). In general, you need to
ascertain that the contents of the .aux file is completely up-to-date
before the final run.

> > = execute "evince foo.pdf"
> > = when desired, select "Print" from the "File options" menu of evince
> > = switch back to emacs
> 
> But to print from evince requires that I take my hand off the
> keyboard and reach for the rodent in order to print.

My workflow does not involve a mouse at all.
(Very few of my workflows do.)

Iteration 1:
emacs filename.tex
edits
^X^S
Win¹-Right (to next viewport)
pdfl² filename
Win-Right
xpdf filename.pdf
Win-Left Win-Left

Subsequent iterations:
more edits
Win-Right
Up Return (repeats pdfl command from commandline's history)
Win-Right
r
Win-Left Win-Left

To print a copy (from the middle viewport):
Up .pdf Home Space p8500 ESC-d Return
which will edit "pdfl filename" into " p8500³ filename.pdf" and
execute it without polluting the commandline's history.

¹ Win is left of Alt.
² pdfl is a bash function that checks pathname.tex exists, generates
  pathname.pdf, runs lualatex in pathname.tex's directory with
  -halt-on-error -synctex=1, moves the .log file into my "trash
  directory" under /tmp, and moves .aux too if its contents are
  solely \relax .
³ p8500 is a bash function that prints a file on the portrait queue
  (as opposed to l8500 for landscape).

I've ignored the fourth viewport that I use for occasional detailed
layout work, and which displays a temporary rendition of a page from
some previous iteration, so I can do A-B-A-B comparison (as I
described in an earlier post). It's far quicker than having to make
ephemeral PDF copies for preserving the earlier rendition.

> Kindly forgive my lack of perception, but I do not see why it is
> advantageous to introduce into my work routine a PDF file and a PDF
> viewer such as evince.

It's always difficult to keep up with changes in programs that you
don't use, but I think it's still true to say that latex can only
include graphics in EPS format.

OTOH pdflatex and lualatex handle PNGs, JPEGs and PDFs. That nicely
covers diagrams, images and documents (the latter recursively).
So you only need one set of tools for each of these formats.
I do all my document post-processing with scripts/functions invoking
programs like pdftk and pdfjam, all operating on PDFs.

Cheers,
David.

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

[Andrea Borgia]

Still no solution but an interesting tidbit: I've tried running
pm-hibernate from the console with debugging.

This meant that X session was not locked and, now after resuming, the apps
are still there and the mouse moves. Thing is, nothing else works: can't
click anywhere, alt-tab does nothing, only switching back to console works.
Clock is stuck at 20 minutes ago, too.

Also, the mouse pointer occasionally changes shape when I hover above
certain spots and weirdly enough it uses the desktop icon.

Any ideas?

OT Calibre

[Bob Bernstein]

Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?

Thank youse.


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Re: OT Calibre

[Andrea Borgia]

Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto:

Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?


It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without 
problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the 
window (using xfce4).

Re: OT Calibre

[Paul Sutton]

On 22/04/2019 20:58, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto:
>> Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?
>
> It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without
> problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the
> window (using xfce4).
>

Hmm,  from a UX / UI viewpoint won't new users expect a close / quit
button or menu option,  ? 


Paul

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Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts."

[peter]

From: David Wright 
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:43:46 -0500
> Yes. Banks, like everyone else, seem to feel the need to indulge their
> graphics fantasies on their websites. I guess it's pandering to the
> smart phone generation. Speaking of which, I guess we're lucky to
> still have Internet banking on computers; so much is now aimed at
> mobiles. For a period, I had to login to Chase twice to get a
> proper interface—the first login would give me the mobile's site,
> with just two impotent buttons, period.

A mobile site can be accessible to firefox on a desktop and can be 
more efficient than the desktop site.  Eg.
https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/m/
vs.
https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/Personal/

Can debian imitate a mobile system to a server?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.






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Re: OT Calibre

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:01:40PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> 
> On 22/04/2019 20:58, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> > Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto:
> >> Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?
> >
> > It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without
> > problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the
> > window (using xfce4).
> >
> 
> Hmm,  from a UX / UI viewpoint won't new users expect a close / quit
> button or menu option,  ? 
> 
I don't think so.  I just started using it a few months ago and I
actually never noticed the absence of close/quit menu options and/or
buttons until reading this thread.  I find that the toolbar layout works
really well, and naturally supports clicking the "X" in the top of the
window border to close/quit.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Re: OT Calibre

[Jack Dangler]

On 4/22/19 5:10 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:01:40PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:

On 22/04/2019 20:58, Andrea Borgia wrote:

Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto:

Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?

It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without
problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the
window (using xfce4).


Hmm,  from a UX / UI viewpoint won't new users expect a close / quit
button or menu option,  ?


I don't think so.  I just started using it a few months ago and I
actually never noticed the absence of close/quit menu options and/or
buttons until reading this thread.  I find that the toolbar layout works
really well, and naturally supports clicking the "X" in the top of the
window border to close/quit.

Regards,

-Roberto

And there's the other kill switch... kill -KILL ... that should make it 
quit.

Re: OT Calibre

[Siard]

Jack Dangler:
> Roberto C. Sánchez:
> > Paul Sutton:
> > > Andrea Borgia:
> > > > Bob Bernstein:
> > > > > Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?
> > > >
> > > > It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it
> > > > without problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right
> > > > corner of the window (using xfce4).
> > >
> > > Hmm,  from a UX / UI viewpoint won't new users expect a close /
> > > quit button or menu option,  ?
> >
> > I don't think so.  I just started using it a few months ago and I
> > actually never noticed the absence of close/quit menu options and/or
> > buttons until reading this thread.  I find that the toolbar layout
> > works really well, and naturally supports clicking the "X" in the
> > top of the window border to close/quit.
>
> And there's the other kill switch... kill -KILL ... that should make
> it quit.

Even simpler: Ctrl-Q makes it quit.  (Calibre 3.39.1, testing)

Re: OT Calibre

[Bob Bernstein]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Siard wrote:

Even simpler: Ctrl-Q makes it quit.  (Calibre 3.39.1, 
testing)


Egad! Who knew? I trust that is documented in some easily 
accessible reference document, yes?


Thank you!

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