Re: non function firefox
Op 2020-03-18 om 3:27 schreef David Wright: > My advice would be to shrink a partition to free up some space, and > install a vanilla Debian installation onto it. After all, interacting > with the rest of the world (companies, shops, etc) through one's > computer has quickly become a part of Real Life that's difficult to > avoid. What about using a virtual machine? less risk than shrinking a partition I think. Regards Vincent Lammens
Re: non function firefox
On 2020-03-18, Felix Miata wrote: > Fred composed on 2020-03-17 18:14 (UTC-0700): > >> In Gene's original post he said FF wasn't working with Walmart's search >> function. Maybe Walmart's search function was temporarily down when >> Gene tried it. Has it been tried again? > > I tried the same walmart.com search for > > Kraft Sweet 'n Sour > > in both Palemoon 28.8.4 and Mozilla.org's Firefox 68.5.0ESR and achieved > apparently identical success with both. I too searched for toilet paper (being unfamiliar with Kraft Sweet 'n Sour, the very sound of which does not inspire any visions of culinary excellence) on the Walmart site in both Chrome and Firefox with success; I did note that the 12-roll (working from pure memory here as I don't feel like going back to Walmart) "Angel" something or other pack, their most popular item in what's rapidly becoming quite the hot commodity in these viral times, is only available "in store." BTW, around here, the Parisians, bona fide members of one of France's major clusters, have seen fit to violate every ethical and medical principle (as well as the recent decree) by cramming themselves like sardines into trains in order to pass their confinement in the rural comfort of their provincial summer homes. And so it goes. -- "When we encounter computer output that looks like what we produce by thinking, we are liable to credit the computer with thought... By that rule of inference, there would have to be an orchestra somewhere inside your CD player and a farm in your refrigerator." --David Halpern
since almost 4 years: missing icon for "save session" in plasma
Hi folks, since almost 4 years I see the icon missing in the plasma menu "save session". This is fixed in kubuntu, but not in debian. I fixed this for myself in my systems, but I forgot how I did it during the long time. As far as I remember, I wrote a workaround for the list, but this I can not find any more. Maybe someone would like to fix this little issue. If I will find my report again, I will of course inform you. Best regards Hans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
OT: Crisis food. Was: non function firefox
Hi, Curt wrote: > being unfamiliar with Kraft Sweet 'n Sour, the very sound of which does > not inspire any visions of culinary excellence Each country has its own crisis preparation food. According to the state of our supermarket shelves, the german dish is noodles with toilet paper. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9BoH6z1zw74/XmEpV37CDKI/4IQ/Z10kBR9ktSQTiMoG2V4HmyMnDYJtJ8sSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Corona-Rezepte.jpg Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: non function firefox
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:27:05 PM David Wright wrote: > But as far as FF is concerned, it's often very difficult to help Gene > because his systems are so distant from being Debian installations, > with real-time kernels, unusual desktops, and configurations that > have been hacked and nuked into submission (much of it narrated here > on this list), so that ornery suggestions just don't work. Sometimes I just can't resist: ornery suggestions may be exactly what are needed. ;-)
Re: ifup && iptables error
William Torrez Corea wrote: > Still don't get results positive. Now, i get the following message: > > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1 > Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > can't create /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases: No such file or directory > Cannot find device "eth0" > Failed to get interface index: No such device > > If you think you have received this message due to a bug rather > than a configuration issue please read the section on submitting > bugs on either our web page at www.isc.org or in the README file > before submitting a bug. These pages explain the proper > process and the information we find helpful for debugging. > > exiting. > ifup: failed to bring up eth0 > Run ip l Does it show eth0? I bet it got renamed out from under you. -dsr-
Re: OT: Crisis food. Was: non function firefox
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:12:51 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Each country has its own crisis preparation food. > > According to the state of our supermarket shelves, the german dish is > noodles with toilet paper. > > https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9BoH6z1zw74/XmEpV37CDKI/4IQ/Z10kBR9ktSQTiMoG2V4HmyMnDYJtJ8sSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Corona-Rezepte.jpg Good one! :D Best regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. -- Kirk, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.8
emacs problem: M-x write-abbrev-file does not seem to work.
Hey, been working on this emacs problem all day. I'm running Unstable, up to date. Cinnamon DE. 64-bit. dummy@dummy:~$ sudo aptitude show emacs [sudo] password for default: Package: emacs Version: 1:26.3+1-1 New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Priority: optional Section: editors Maintainer: Rob Browning Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 76.8 k Depends: emacs-gtk (>= 1:26.3) | emacs-lucid (>= 1:26.3) | emacs-nox (>= 1:26.3) Provided by: emacs-gtk (1:26.3+1-1), emacs-lucid (1:26.3+1-1), emacs-nox (1:26.3+1-1) Description: GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest recommended Emacs variant (currently emacs-gtk). Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Tags: devel::editor, role::dummy, role::metapackage, role::program, suite::emacs, suite::gnu, use::editing I'm trying to learn Emacs, using: "Learning GNU Emacs". Old, but it would still seem to be a reputable and authoritative source. It says edit .emacs thus: (setq-default abbrev-mode t) (read-abbrev-file "~/.abbrev_defs") (setq save-abbrevs t) Emacs does NOT like that. It wants the read-abbrev-file to be in emacs.d instead, and not a hidden file, so: dummy@dummy:~$ ls ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs -rw-r--r-- 1 dummy dummy 1020 Mar 18 16:38 /home/dummy/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs and .emacs is like this: dummy@dummy:~$ cat ~/.emacs (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(ansi-color-faces-vector [default default default italic underline success warning error]) '(ansi-color-names-vector ["black" "red3" "ForestGreen" "yellow3" "blue" "magenta3" "DeepSkyBlue" "gray50"]) '(column-number-mode t) '(custom-enabled-themes (quote (whiteboard))) '(display-time-mode t) '(save-place-mode t) '(size-indication-mode t)) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(default ((t (:family "DejaVu Sans" :foundry "PfEd" :slant normal :weight normal :height 181 :width normal) ;; insert date and time (defvar current-date-time-format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z (%a)" "Format of date to insert with `insert-current-date-time' func See help of `format-time-string' for possible replacements") (defvar current-time-format "%H:%M:%S (%a)" "Format of date to insert with `insert-current-time' func. Note the weekly scope of the command's precision.") (defun insert-current-date-time () "insert the current date and time into current buffer. Uses `current-date-time-format' for the formatting the date/time." (interactive) (insert (format-time-string current-date-time-format (current-time))) (insert "\n\n") ) (defun insert-current-time () "insert the current time (1-week scope) into the current buffer." (interactive) (insert (format-time-string current-time-format (current-time))) (insert "\n\n") ) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-d" 'insert-current-date-time) (global-set-key "\C-c\C-t" 'insert-current-time) ;; customizations manually added by me: (setq column-number-indicator-zero-based nil) (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) (setq-default fill-column 79) (setq-default flyspell-mode t) (setq-default abbrev-mode t) (read-abbrev-file "~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs") (setq save-abbrevs t) I re-start emacs in abbrev-mode (with .emacs, as above). Now add a word abbreviation: C-x a i g [Enter] teh [Enter] the [Enter] C-x C-c Emacs saves it in ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs (not ~/.abbrev_defs, as shown in book.) Re-start emacs. It loads the word abbreviation from ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs, and it works as expected. BUT, now to REMOVE the word abbreviation from ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs . . . The book says: "You can edit the word abbreviation list by typing M-x edit-abbrevs [Enter]". Then (the book says): "To delete any abbreviation, delete the line for that abbreviation and save the file by typing M-x write-abbrev-file." So, do: M-x edit-abbrevs [Enter] then delete the entry in question, then do: M-x write-abbrev-file It prompts with: "Write abbrev file: ~/.emacs.d/" At the prompt, I add "abbrev_defs" like this: "Write abbrev file: ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs" [Enter]. The prompt disappears, no error message. Good. Then do: C-x b to switch to default buffer. Then do: C-x C-c to exit emacs. Now re-enter Emacs. THE WORD ABBREVIATION I ENTERED STILL WORKS! IT WAS NEVER REMOVED FROM ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs! (Yes, I am shouting. After spending much of the day fighting with this, I am not happy.) Note: I can edit ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs, remove the entry, and the
Re: since almost 4 years: missing icon for "save session" in plasma
Hans wrote: Hi folks, since almost 4 years I see the icon missing in the plasma menu "save session". This is fixed in kubuntu, but not in debian. I fixed this for myself in my systems, but I forgot how I did it during the long time. As far as I remember, I wrote a workaround for the list, but this I can not find any more. Maybe someone would like to fix this little issue. If I will find my report again, I will of course inform you. Best regards Hans Hi Hans, I'm on sid and it's there in my menu in the "leave" tab under "session". I don't use it often but I don't remember it being missing. Regards, Geoff
