color border in image, drop everything outside of it

2020-11-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
Hello, is there a tool/command/script anywhere that can overwrite with a single color (or make transparent) every pixel to the left, above, right, and below a certain other color? e.g., if one draws a loop of black, tell the program black is the border, the result would be only what is within the

How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but to do it I need

Re: RAID installation at boot questions

2020-11-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:00:35 +0100 Toni Mas Soler wrote: > I have more or less the same configuration. I am a no-systemd user > (yet?) so I cannot show you the full example. > You could verify: > - Is there a mdraid1x module in your grub menu entry? > - If I not wrong you made your RAID by mdadm

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread John Hasler
Charles Curley writes: > True. But it does require emacs. Which in the context of the OP's > requirement, stands for "Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping" :-) It was "eight Megs and constantly swapping": eight Megs was huge on a Vax. In the 90s I ran text-mode Emacs on a 386 box with 16M with no

Re: RAID installation at boot questions

2020-11-14 Thread Toni Mas Soler
I have more or less the same configuration. I am a no-systemd user (yet?) so I cannot show you the full example. You could verify: - Is there a mdraid1x module in your grub menu entry? - If I not wrong you made your RAID by mdadm metadata version 1.2. I think in this version metadata is located at

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:41:40 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > >And has the further virtue of not requiring a GUI, only ncurses. > > Gnus doesn't even require ncurses. True. But it does require emacs. Which in the context of the OP's requirement, stands for "Eighty Megs And

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread John Hasler
Charles Curley writes: >And has the further virtue of not requiring a GUI, only ncurses. Gnus doesn't even require ncurses. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: RAID installation at boot questions

2020-11-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 08:12:41 +0100 john doe wrote: > > > > What do I do to automate that? > > > > > > Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated? Well, I thought it was At first I got the UUID for the RAID device, /dev/md0: root@hawk:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0:

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Felix Miata
Miroslav Skoric composed on 2020-11-14 17:02 (UTC+0100): > I understood from this thread that after distro upgrade > from 8 to 9 shall work in CLI, and then look for a simple window manager > & light mail processor. I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. Last night I performed a fresh installat

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:49:05 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > In my opinion, mutt is the best mail user agent of all. It's > also one of the most efficient. And has the further virtue of not requiring a GUI, only ncurses. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://ch

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 11/12/20 9:53 AM, Michael Lange wrote: > > In any case, I understood from this thread that after distro upgrade from 8 > to 9 shall work in CLI, and then look for a simple window manager & light > mail processor. In my opinion, mutt is the best mail user agent of all

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 3:52 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Beware that LTS support for jessie ended in June 2020. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ That system should be upgraded to some release with security support as soon as possible, especially since it's dealing with e-mail as far as I understand

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 9:29 PM, David Wright wrote: I would have thought that Debian has made kernel testing just about as easy as they can since: jessie installs with 3.16 but 4.9 is also available, stretch installs with 4.9 but 4.19 is also available, buster installs with 4.19 so there's full overla

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/12/20 9:53 AM, Michael Lange wrote: A really good option in this field is IceWM. It has everything a typical user needs out-of-the-box and is extremely lightweight (and themeable). From my own experience I agree about that. Still, the tricky part will be to choose other gui programs

if you want to see Debian (no one have seen it before! ;-)

2020-11-14 Thread Davide Prina
Hi, I'm not inscribed to debian-user, so if you want I read your replies then CC me Also, very few of you (no more then 10 of the 2-3 people that will read this eamil) will note that I'm not a very good English writer. I have seen that Tulip is reentered the Debian repository :-) and I made

Re: Help: br0 brings down ethernet

2020-11-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Alain D D Williams wrote: > Most of it works nicely; one problem is starting a network bridge takes down > the ethernet connection. > > Can anyone please offer any clues: > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0 contains: > iface br0 inet static > bridge_ports enp3s0 This tells br0 to eat enp3s0

Help: br0 brings down ethernet

2020-11-14 Thread Alain D D Williams
I'm upgrading my desktop from CentOS-6 to Debian -- CentOS-8 has Gnome 3 that I can't abide, Debian has Mate. Most of it works nicely; one problem is starting a network bridge takes down the ethernet connection. Can anyone please offer any clues: /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0 contains: iface br0

Lenovo Miix 720

2020-11-14 Thread Roderick Joseph
Good day, I have a Lenovo Miix 720 and I would like to I need a physical keyboard to install ubuntu on it and what kind touchscreen support there is?