Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic > > > resources on a

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 13:07:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put > > >

Re: Make tuplets evenly spaced

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Apr 2025 at 19:57:31 (+0200), Helge Kruse wrote: > When notes are written, they should look nice so that they are easier to > read. For example, the notes in triplets should have roughly the same > spacing. > > When writing vocal music, however, we are dealing with syllables of > differe

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 07 Apr 2025 at 21:34:42 (+0200), coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me wrote: > > > I am curious what nmcli subcommand reports when the cable is plugged in, > > but the connection has not activated manually. > > > Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available to >

Re: Why would Lilypond be replacing capital N in lyrics with U+1ECA

2025-04-09 Thread David Wright
On Wed 09 Apr 2025 at 16:00:48 (-0600), Mike Stay wrote: > For some reason I can't fathom, every capital N in my lyrics is being > replaced with U+1ECA (Latin Capital Letter I with Dot Below). I'm on > macos Sonoma 14.6 running Frescobaldi 3.3.0, which calls out to > lilypond 2.24.4. What could pos

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > > [...] > > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > > something to coyote.coy

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub > > "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed." > "This is a fatal error." > > how to solve it? Presumably that error message was f

Re: Does secure old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining > >> available > >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it'

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 17:35:18 (+0300), J wrote: > Every time i restart the PC i have an error message while rebooting > process: "[FAILED] failed unmounting *disk-mount-point*..." > > It didn't bother me really, because this message usually just immediately > disappeared. But last time the *compu

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > > > I don't know why you have problems with usin

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > Thank Wright! i have solved it on m

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v.Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > I don't know why you have problems with using /etc/hosts for lookups > > on your LAN. I use it here without any problems, and it has to work > > because there's

DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 11:19:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet > peeve. That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to > those of us who have been using hosts files for local dns since back > in the late 90's  I have n

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 15:40:07 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a > cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom... Yes

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > > > spurious email

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > spurious emails. > The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to > the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" mailing list. On Fri 28 Mar 2025 at 08

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 22:14:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or > > lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login, > > a

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 17:05:56 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, David Wright wrote: > > > > As posted earlier today, a file in sudoers.d/ makes trivial admin > > tasks like monitoring and logging easier, particularly where the > > programs concerned can cause dama

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 13:58:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > >

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 12:23:26 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ > > /bin/su --login > > Password: > > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05 > > host 09:57:59 ~# cd

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:37:41 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I assumed it was effectively the same as power down and then logging in > > as root on power-up. > > It is. But it's unnecessary and dangerous to run your entire DE as root. > Or maybe you log in t

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 10:03:59 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 9:55 AM, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > If he hasn't noticed yet, I doubt it. > > > > > > I agree. > > > If I understand what people want to accomplish by using command-line > > > options

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:24:21 (+0300), J wrote: > ср, 26 мар. 2025 г. в 16:10, Greg Wooledge : > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > > > the t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 11:38:25 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 wrote: > > > > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or > > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying window

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 23:19:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > > phrase. I was able to t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:14:47 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400 > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already > > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know > > what the misfire is, b

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots > into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the >

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed. On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 10:44:40 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: > After today's upgrades, I note that RM1 showed these autoremove > messages "Removing linux-headers-6.1

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their mountings and microphone spacing. > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Mar 2025 at 11:11:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 14:33:11 -, Greg wrote: > > My robot says: > > > > One result: > > > > yt-dlp "ytsearch:QUERY" > > > > But for the life of me, after searching for twenty minutes, I can't > > determine whether this is co

Re: Barline confusion/question

2025-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Mar 2025 at 20:53:05 (-0500), Lilypond-User wrote: > Sorry for the late response. Using \bar ".|:-||” accomplished what I > needed, albeit confusingly. Since the II precedes the .|: on the output PDF, > why isn’t the correct syntax for this command \bar “||-.|:” ? I had > actuall

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 06:48:33 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 08:04:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be > > illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the L

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure

Re: problem with `alignAboveContext`

2025-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Mar 2025 at 06:34:45 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> > If you have two staves, and a voice were to change staves, would > >> > you expect the lyrics to leap about too? > >> > >> Actually yes :-) Can you imagine a situation where this shouldn't > >> happen? > > > > You're asking me t

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:08:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed? > > > > I'm not sure h

Re: problem with `alignAboveContext`

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:00:37 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> However, if I use `alignAboveContext = "V1"` instead, it doesn't > >> work, and I get the warning > >> > >> ``` > >> warning: alignAboveContext not found: V1 > >> ``` > >> > >> Why? > > > > Does it make sense? If you have two st

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 17:55:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > I have always wondered if the decimal numbers in the smartctl(8) > "RAW_VALUE" column are actual event counts, or a decimal > representation of some binary bit field whose correct interpretation > only the manufacturer knows (?).

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote: > On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote: > > my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install > > python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use > > to ergonomically present installed candid

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > With Synaptic, I tried reinstallation of Evolution, but that did not > change the response. > > Evolution has a dozen or so dependencies, so a complete removal may > wreck my computer. > > My past messages (few of which have vaulu

Re: problem with `alignAboveContext`

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 04:06:59 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote: [ … ] \new Voice = "V1" [ … ] % alignAboveContext = "V1" [ … ] > which yields the attached image, correctly aligning the lyrics 'Above' > above the staff. However, if I use `alignAboveContext = "V1"` > instead, it doesn't work, and

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 21:12:32 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > The "Mail Authentication Request" has only a blank (already filled in) > > > for a password which (very stupidly) is shown as a line of dots, > > > rather than in pl

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So, I rechecked. > > After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what > did I find? > > A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly > "*.postinst" files. > > Where are they comin

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote: > The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary > package > could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named "grub-efi-amd64- > unsigned". That suggests to me (with no experience of this) that its a script

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 17:44:37 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So my idea was just to write to the live-file-maintainers, to ask them, to > remove the dependency of the missing package in theire configurations or > point > it to another package, i.E. grub-efi-amd64-signed. Presumably you meant "remove

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 09:47:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/23/25 00:00, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > [ … ] > > > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made > > > good hard

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 22:13:55 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > With mupdf, I don't even > > know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around. > > I have not tried it, but... > https://manpages.debian.org/b

Re: temporary polyphonic passage

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Feb 2025 at 13:41:58 (+0100), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > The implicit instantiation of items is something almost always creating > problems for me. I agree that without it, the code would be very verbose > even for very simple situations but in the end, I have the impression that > it does

Re: temporary polyphonic passage

2025-02-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Feb 2025 at 07:58:19 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 16:18, Gianmaria Lari wrote: > >> When I need to write a temporary polyphonic passage my code looks similar > >> to this: > >> \fixed c' \new Staff > >> { > >> \incipit %monodic > >> << > >> \new Voice

Re: Fwd: A bug fix for \bar ".|:-|" between 2.22 and 2.24?

2025-02-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Feb 2025 at 10:02:27 (-0500), Aleksa Jakovljevic wrote: > I assume you want a repeat barline? The syntax in 2.22 and later would be > \bar".|:" . > > { > c1 \bar".|:" c1 > } > No, the behaviour of that barline is quite different, as shown in the attached. There's a mention of

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: [ … ] > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made > good hard drives. One of my cnc'd machines has a 250G in it, shut off > only for new installs, still running wheezy. No reallocated sectors, > the last time I l

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 17:13:17 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as > > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 2006 and 2021 pages. I can't be > > bothered trying

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 21:20:45 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 14:30:08 (-), Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > > > > > >> > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 > > >>

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Feb 2025 at 12:14:08 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:31:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > I'm not sure this is a bug per se: if what you want is a fully offline

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/02/2025 08:00, David Wright wrote: > > I dragged the mouse > > across the Males table and dumped it in a file. > > David, I recall you mentioned xpdf in your messages. It allows to > select rectangular

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 13:52:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/20/25 11:20 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > > > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. > > > I need only

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 00:22:14 (+0500), Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > I suggest you to check out this link: > https://wiki.batocera.org/hardware:compatible_dongle_list#tested_on_pc_x86_64 > Personally, I have Asus BT500 USB adapter, which is based on a > controller chip from Realtek and it works

Re: Glissando to nothing example in docs

2025-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 19 Feb 2025 at 09:35:24 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM Richard Shann wrote: > > > > This looks promising and I would like to try to understand what the two > > duration parameters 8.. and 32 are doing in this context. > > The only documentation I have found f

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Feb 2025 at 09:53:18 (-0500), Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David Wright writes: > > >> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play > >> anything. > > Davi

Re: Glissando to nothing example in docs

2025-02-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Feb 2025 at 17:56:02 (+), Richard Shann wrote: > At https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/glissando > under the section > Contemporary glissando > is this example (without the whole bar rest at the end). > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8>< > \ve

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 13:36:09 (-0500), Laura Conrad wrote: > > This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS user, so he was > presumably using the default browser with watever default MIDI player > that uses. > > There are no error messages when I run lilypond. > > I have used both tim

Re: BalloonText help

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 21:43:43 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > I have tried both your suggestions and I get no errors, but no output > whatsoever. I am using the standard Ubuntu package of > Frescobaldi+Lilypond. > > Amended MWE attached Your attachment (this version) works, and produces the att

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 09:02:11 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote: > > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or > > claws-mail? > > I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while > ago, but before I did

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 00:56:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/16/25 20:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > [ … ] > > > > > The boot menu still > > > starts the debian version which quickly beco

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > > > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > > a different userid t

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: [ … ] > The boot menu still > starts the debian version which quickly becomes non-responsive, > quickly being about 30 seconds. What's the boot menu? > So I killall it, and run the beta by > opening an xfce4 shell and typing ./thunderbi

Re: Error when using lilypond-book

2025-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 17:52:38 (+0100), SK wrote: > since a few days I cannot use a script involving lilypond-book anymore. > It's really strange cause I don't remember to change anything for the > script, the included python or lilypond itself. Only thing I did was > cleaning up the output directo

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of > > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince > > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvw

Re: [OT] PDF manipulation mystery

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 16:03:48 (+), bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Peter Chubb suggested that I was shrinking the > scores twice which was something I had begun to suspect. I changed the 'A4' > to 'A3' in my script and my PDF viewer shows something a bit different from

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 16:40:24 (+), Chris Green wrote: > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet > > > M15W I see four possible printers to add:- > > > > > > HP LaserJet M15w (

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 13:59:11 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search > function That's because Grub wasn't installed in the MBR, hence explaining why the FreeBSD loader wasn't touched. > 2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, ins

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 22:54:15 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 12/02/2025 22:09, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-12, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard > > > (XDG) way to configure media types and applications associations. > > > > > Unfort

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Feb 2025 at 23:04:42 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 11/02/2025 08:08, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: > > > On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > I am against suggestions to *kill* appl

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 08:33:57 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > Thank Curley again! manually editing grub.cfg is amateur as it is > auto-generated. but my stanza is simple, it's easy to add it if > removed. > > if it were Windows, it would be much easier > > i examine syslog, among many lines probing each

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 12:00:23 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: > > On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > > Attached is a MWE. > > > > > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that > > > they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4"

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is > > the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in > > browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.)

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz > > Memory: 93% 7.2GiB > Swap: 31% 2.7GiB Kill it and restart it occasionally. If you keep a lot of tabs open, then either avoid visiting

Re: Cancel email address debianl...@mailfence.com

2025-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 17:48:53 (-0500), Thomas George wrote: > I can no longer receive emails at debianl...@mailfence.com. I tried to > cancel this online but had no way to receive and complete the > conformation. > > If possible please change my subscription to > debian-u...@debian.list.org to po

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

2025-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2025 at 15:03:09 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > On 07/02/2025 13:57, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 13:21 07/02/2025 +, you wrote: > > > Sometimes a song has slightly different rhythms in different verses, ... > > > Is there a neat way of setting such songs? All the ways that I > >

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

2025-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Feb 2025 at 21:20:18 (+), Russell Stinnett wrote: > I didn't realize that the posts would be so delayed, or that they > were going through at all. I hoped that they would just outright fail > until one finally went through and that would be it. > > So, again, I apologize for the spam

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 18:38:34 (+0100), Ben Engbers wrote: > It showed that fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-common were > already installed. I only had to add fluid-soundfont-gs. > > I also found this page: > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-midi-audio-on-fedora-with-fluidsynth

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 12:15:32 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > - apt-patterns(7) > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from apt(8) or apt-get(8) or aptitude(8)? > I just checked all three, and it's not on any of them. > > That's slight

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 08:44:19 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM Ben Engbers wrote: > > I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth > > soundfiles? > > FluidSynth and QSynth use soundfont files, I believe (at least on my > machine [Ubuntu] they

Re: filtering unwanted lyrics with Devnull

2025-02-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Feb 2025 at 16:40:29 (+0100), Arne Ploese wrote: > I tried to align the lyrics by filtering unwanted text with \new > Devnull. > In the second verse the last underline is extended through out the coda > section.  > This looks to me like a bug - is it one? An extender runs as far as the

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > &

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:06:57 (+0200), Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > The same (now that I am using backports): > > $ yt-dlp --version > > 2025.01.15 > > Due to the nature of this program (Google plays the cat and mouse > game), new versions a

Re: google-chrome printer/copier error

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 19:39:55 (-0800), John Conover wrote: > > [2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \ > Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \ > object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \ > Did not receiv

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > > > Description: > > > >

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:55:56 (+0900), Mailing List wrote: > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > Description: > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > fai

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 22:11:16 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > As I have previously said, the issue of zoom was previously discussed > on this list, and, people interested in considering zoom, should have > searched the list archive, and, found previous discussions relating to > zoom. > > One report

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 07:05:32 (+1100), George at Clug wrote: > Is there a way to search for "zoom" in some debian-user archive? > > I found https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ ? But I am way to lazy to > search through all those pages looking to see if at any time some had made a > comment

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote: > > > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :- > > >

Re: Align lyrics under the stem, not the notehead

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 09:13:42 (-0800), Stu McKenzie wrote: > On 2025-01-29 03:55, Valentin Petzel wrote: > > > > > I sometimes add sticking to drum scores to assist readers by showing the > > > preferred hand for each stroke. > > > > > > I'm aware of the ability to change the horizontal position

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 05:52:02 (-0800), Will Mengarini wrote: > * Roger Price [25-01/30=Th 13:59 +0100]: > > $wrongCodeForCheckingWhetherAliasExists && unalias w3m > > When I want to unalias something that might already be unaliased (as > when it's in .bashrc), I just code > unalias foo 2>/dev/

Re: chant text underlay

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 15:58:06 (+), bobr...@centrum.is wrote: > Greetings from Iceland, > > A friend of mine here has been working on publishing the Þorlákstíðir* for > some years now. He has rendered the chant notation using the Meinrad font > within LibreOffice Writer. He would like to ad

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote: > I ran, as root :- > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb Running apt install path-to/ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb will check for dependencies etc. (You must include the path.) It will also log a record of what was installed or removed

Re: Align lyrics under the stem, not the notehead

2025-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Jan 2025 at 19:04:46 (-0800), Stu McKenzie wrote: > > I sometimes add sticking to drum scores to assist readers by showing > the preferred hand for each stroke. > > I'm aware of the ability to change the horizontal position of lyrics > using '\override LyricText.self-alignment-X'. > >

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