Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > > which uses dvo

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 sep 21, 12:35:13, Myron wrote: > Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb > of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the > primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What > I'm after is getting a 16 Gb

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 08:43:50 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:54:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > In site.local I found > > > > # The following is a space-separated list of where additional user home > > # directories are stored, each must have a trailing '/'. Direc

Re: Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 10:22:24 (+0800), Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 19/9/21 9:55 am, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > Em 18/09/2021 22:42, Jeremy Ardley escreveu: > > > I'm running Mate on Debian 10. > > > > > > The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change > > > the size of a win

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > which uses dvorak as an example. > > Thanks for your reply. > Yes I seen thi

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 05:37:43 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 15 Sep 21:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I think what your system is doing is as follows: > > > > You probably have in your (default) /etc/Muttrc: > > In my case, /etc/neomuttrc, and the following does exist. > > My assu

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:14:39PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > My window manager is Mate Desktop. The terminal i most use is its own. > And i use vim a lot, > After the upgrade, when i quit vim, the terminal title becomes empty, > instead of returning to the default title "Terminal". The real q

Re: Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

2021-09-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 19/9/21 9:55 am, Dedeco Balaco wrote: Em 18/09/2021 22:42, Jeremy Ardley escreveu: I'm running Mate on Debian 10. The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change the size of a window seems to be only 1 pixel wide. I've heard of this problem in gnome along with som

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 18/09/2021 22:49, Jeremy Hendricks escreveu: > I apologize for assuming you upgraded from 9 to 11 directly (skipping > 10). It’s a common misconception that is acceptable. > No problem. Actually, my first try to update was directly from a not completely updated Debian 9 to the current Debian

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
I apologize for assuming you upgraded from 9 to 11 directly (skipping 10). It’s a common misconception that is acceptable. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:46 PM Dedeco Balaco wrote: > I did not leap any release. I did everything correctly, step by step. > > The issue is not being reprodutible. I do no

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Dedeco Balaco
I did not leap any release. I did everything correctly, step by step. The issue is not being reprodutible. I do not find a clear condition to make it happen. Searching about your suggestion, I found that vim has a few very important arguments, where 2 of them interest me a lot, to isolate this iss

Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

2021-09-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
I'm running Mate on Debian 10. The problem is that the width of the window edge that you pull to change the size of a window seems to be only 1 pixel wide. I've heard of this problem in gnome along with some fixes, but I've not found any solution for Mate. Suggestions? -- Jeremy OpenPG

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
Generally it’s not recommended to leap frog over releases and you should upgrade in order (Ex. From 9 to 10). I suspect you might need to delete some of the config files in your home directory (rename them it .bak) as the version of vim, etc might be considerable different from 9 to 11 and might ha

A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-18 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Hello, I recently upgraded my Debian 9 to Debian 11. But there are strange or wrong things happening right now, that did not exist before. My window manager is Mate Desktop. The terminal i most use is its own. And i use vim a lot, and i basically never use gvim, i prefer it through a terminal win

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread piorunz
On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 which uses dvorak as an example. Thanks for your reply. Yes I seen this page. ckbcomp dvorak command outputs the layout details and everything.

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 4:35 AM, Myron wrote: Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What I'm after is getting a 16 Gb Class 10 A1 Mi

Re: Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
John Conover wrote: > > Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. > > But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? Under *any* circumstances? Yes. Those circumstances include: - a broken lock position sensor on the SD card reader - the SD card i

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 12:02:49 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > I use Colemak layout instead of Qwerty, because it's so much better and > efficient. > Today I repositioned keys on my laptop too, so I have two computers with > Colemak. > However, my laptop uses full disk encryption (Debian 11). > At boot

Re: Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread David Christensen
On 9/18/21 10:28 AM, John Conover wrote: Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? My assumption is that the lock tab on SD cards is read by the controller inside the SD card, which then provides rea

Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread John Conover
Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:19 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: My experience is that toner does degrade over a period of years. To get full life you need to use your advertised pages within a year or so. Agreed. I've seen toner cartridges go bad. Of course, they had been sitting on a shelf for *many* years. -- JH

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The direction of travel for printing is entirely driverless, so this is less important than it used to be. Really? If true, that is exceptionally good news. The last time I looked at new printers, the "direction of travel" was entirely driver-depend

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Fred
On 9/18/21 2:00 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Charles Curley wrote: I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend to go bad before they empty, Rarely printing? I would suggest a laser I agree. Toner does

Re: installing debian 11.0

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 03:40:18PM +0700, Ngọc Dũng Tạ wrote: > When installing debian 11.0, it asks to scan the additional media "debian > gnu/linux 11.0 _ bullseye _ - official amd64 dvd binary-1", so where can I > get it? > Thanks. > -- Hi, How are you installing Debian 11? What file are you

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Myron wrote: > Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb > of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the > primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What > I'm after is ge

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Reco
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 08:39:41AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm used to seeing ISOLINUX for bootable CDs, and something (I've never > been sure what) for bootable USB drives, but have/had never learned what > was/is used for bootability on SD cards. It's simple. First, you look at the processo

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

2021-09-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:54:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > In site.local I found > > # The following is a space-separated list of where additional user home > # directories are stored, each must have a trailing '/'. Directories added > # here are appended to @{HOMEDIRS}. See tunables/home

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-09-18 at 08:34, Reco wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 08:01:34AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-09-18 at 07:53, Reco wrote: >>> 1) Plug-in source card, use dump(8) to backup the contents of its >>> filesystem. >>> 2) Plug-in target card, create appropriate partition(s) on it. >>>

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Reco
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 08:01:34AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-09-18 at 07:53, Reco wrote: > >> No clue how to do this with Linux. > > > > 1) Plug-in source card, use dump(8) to backup the contents of its > > filesystem. > > 2) Plug-in target card, create appropriate partition(s) on it. >

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-09-18 at 07:53, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Myron wrote: >> This is relatively easy to do on Windows. > > This is true only if you're using that sad excuse for a filesystem > called NTFS. > >> No clue how to do this with Linux. > > 1) Plug-in s

Re: How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Myron wrote: > This is relatively easy to do on Windows. This is true only if you're using that sad excuse for a filesystem called NTFS. > No clue how to do this with Linux. 1) Plug-in source card, use dump(8) to backup the contents of its f

How do I clone a Debian Distro from a 32Gb Class 10 MicroSD card to a 16Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card?

2021-09-18 Thread Myron
Never done this one with Linux before. I know that there is less than 16Gb of data written to the Class 10 32Gb MicroSD card which is used as the primary system storage on a single board system-on-a-chip computer. What I'm after is getting a 16 Gb Class 10 A1 MicroSD card and clone the entire sys

Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread piorunz
Hi all, I use Colemak layout instead of Qwerty, because it's so much better and efficient. Today I repositioned keys on my laptop too, so I have two computers with Colemak. However, my laptop uses full disk encryption (Debian 11). At boot time, and in GRUB, I don't have Colemak, but default layou

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

2021-09-18 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Roger Price wrote: In Debian 11, evince has an appamor profile which floods the kernel log with hundreds of messages of the style: Not only at Debian 11, even Debian 10 has it. [...] (evince:2869): GVFS-WARNING **: 22:18:18.510: can't init metada

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 04:38:27PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age. > Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the > large ones. > > First question: > > I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply, Reco! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Thanks Sven! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply Andy! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Darac Marjal writes: > On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails. > > Just want to check that you've not missed som

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
hi Andrei, Andrei POPESCU writes: thank you for your answer. > On Sb, 11 sep 21, 18:55:56, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails.

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 18/9/21 5:00 pm, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Charles Curley wrote: I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend to go bad before they empty, Rarely printing? I would suggest a laser I agree. Toner doe

Re: Debian bullseye

2021-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:54:50AM +1200, Dawn Dorsett wrote: > I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to > Bullseye and I wish I hadn't. It has some bug fixes in it (which were > more like minor inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW. Its getting > to be as ba

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Charles Curley wrote: I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend to go bad before they empty, Rarely printing? I would suggest a laser I agree. Toner doesn't spoil sat there doing nothing for long pe

installing debian 11.0

2021-09-18 Thread Ngọc Dũng Tạ
When installing debian 11.0, it asks to scan the additional media "debian gnu/linux 11.0 _ bullseye _ - official amd64 dvd binary-1", so where can I get it? Thanks. -- - *TA NGOC DUNG (Mr)* *Job:* Marketing Online *Mobile:* 0962 597 563

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Charles Curley wrote: > I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend > to go bad before they empty, Rarely printing? I would suggest a laser, even if the price for printouts is higher. Brand? The situation current is this, that only HP released their printer drivers as

Re: USB Install Fails: does not detect the installer USB drive

2021-09-18 Thread Teemu Likonen
I am replying to an old thread which described the same or similar problem that I had. I have a solution which may be useful to store in the mailing list archives. The thread started with this message: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/05/msg00391.html * 2018-05-11 11:11:42-0500, Ken

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-17 23:41, Charles Curley wrote: I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age. Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the large ones. I suspect I could buy a printer for what four large cartridges would cost me. Requirements: * I print