Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > solved.. It only creates a new thread if you have an inferior MUA. Those respecting

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's n

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On 14/01/2025 07:53, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and have the ability to show an em

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: > > headers. > > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what > >

To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

Hi, On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and > have the ability to show an email 'thread'. I use mutt which d

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 07:47:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > > > > > Glad to hear it. > > >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other > information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one > makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making > reading the enti

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:28:55 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as > > solved. > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > solved.. Th

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:47:04 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Also, the use of prepending, involving the "square brackets", > generally indicates the name of a mailing list, for example, [GNC] > for GNUcash. OK, then how would you do it? "Re: British English has disappeared: SOLVED"? > If a person in

Re: keyboard repeat

On 1/13/25 11:26, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. Sid: /usr/sbin/kbdrate https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/kbd/filelist Bookworm: /sbin/kbdrate https://packages.d

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: Anyway I have it back now. :-) Glad to hear it. For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum.

Re: What is going on with firefox

So are we saying that chromium is not allowing youtube to do that and that is why it is more responsive On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: > > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > Glad to hear it. > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum. Please do not change the title

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 07:21, Greg Woo ledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other t

Re: What is going on with firefox

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 21:34:39 +, Daniel Harris wrote: > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am > watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos > playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager > tab.

[SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: > Anyway I have it back now. :-) Glad to hear it. For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: British English has disappeared

Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +, Chris Green wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish-huge: /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge > > > wbriti

Re: What is going on with firefox

only ublock origin and one youtube page no video playing consumes 1GB ram that seems a lot On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote: > > So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I > > am watching the process Manager,

Re: What is going on with firefox

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's not possible with chromium either.

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 05:34, Daniel Harris wrote: So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager tab.  The cpu keeps spiking from

Re: What is going on with firefox

So the strange thing is (and this could be completely normal) that as I am watching the process Manager, so I have 3 youtube pages open but no videos playing, and without switching to any other tab, only the process Manager tab. The cpu keeps spiking from .25% to over 100% on different youtube pro

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +, Chris Green wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english > > wbritish-huge: /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge > > wbritish-insane: /usr/share/dict/british

Re: British English has disappeared

Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > The British English dictionary is missing from > > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english. > > I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one > of several /usr/

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. Try

Re: What is going on with firefox

On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox > window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time, with > one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open. > > at present, on a system with 128GB RAM

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 01:35, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM From: "Bret Busby" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable,

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:43:04 -0600 Nate Bargmann wrote: > As part of the scripting I plan is to monitor the local temperature > from my weather station and adjust accordingly in ways such as the > time to power the heater or even whether to turn it off should a > temperature rise occur through th

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 + Chris Green wrote: > The British English dictionary is missing from > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english. I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one of several /usr/share/dict/british-english* files. Are

Re: What is going on with firefox

> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:35:41PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't have any rams, but I do have some ewes. > > Poking

Re: What is going on with firefox

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:35:41PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: [...] > I don't have any rams, but I do have some ewes. Poking fun at people because of some typo is not only lame, but also infantile. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: playstation 4 kernel module

I just want to be able to use my PS4 controllers. I saw that they have gyro, and it should be supported in the module, but dolphin doesn't seem to understand it. On January 12, 2025 9:07:23 AM EST, "tv.debian" wrote: >On 12/01/2025 03:54, nsrxnst wrote: >> does the stock kernel come with this

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

* On 2025 13 Jan 04:07 -0600, Rafał Lichwała wrote: > If I understood you correctly, the key problem here is "being exposed to > outdoor". > > I think you may search for "outdoor wifi plug": > > https://www.amazon.com/outdoor-smart-plug/s?k=outdoor+smart+plug Thank you. Coming up with the right

Re: What is going on with firefox

> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox > > On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what > > on earth is

Re: What is going on with firefox

Thanks Bret. I didnt know about Process Manager. Its probably over my head but its helpful to know its there when things slow down. with dxtrade it slows down usually within hours youtube is a bit more unpredictable. I tend not to ever shutdown my computer only suspend every night. I have jus

Useful information on packages for Gene [WAS Re: keyboard repeat]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:13:40AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 10:46:18 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/13/25 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which > > > is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. > > Please read Wil

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 00:14, Daniel Harris wrote:   Now its possible something to do with ublockorigin but the two sites that show a slowdown are youtube and another piece of software called dxtrade (I think i disabled ublock on dxtrade).  Everything seems to start off fine but the longer the windows a

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 1/13/25 9:55 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow Can you give a specific example o

Re: British English has disappeared

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --] > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, m

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 00:33, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if t

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated mail

Re: keyboard repeat

Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which > > is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. Sid: /usr/sbin/kbdrate https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/kbd/filelist Bookworm: /sbin/kbdrate https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/kbd/filelist Th

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated mailing list is not the way to file bug r

Re: What is going on with firefox

Sorry Bret now sent to the list 2 windows open that dont use the same profile: so when running in private mode I am not running as the same user logged on to the other instance(window). so I am not logged into youtube when surfing in private mode but in normal mode (eg the other window) I am signe

Re: keyboard repeat

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 10:46:18 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/13/25 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I handle this kind of thing with the kbdrate program, which > > is in the Debian package named 'kbd'. > gene@coyote:~$ pinfo kbd > Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.13 > Error: could not open info fi

Re: keyboard repeat

On 1/13/25 08:16, Frank McCormick wrote: On 2025-01-13 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [25-01/13=Mon 03:15 -0500]: Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, selecting diffe

Re: keyboard repeat

On 2025-01-13 15:46, gene heskett wrote: So while apt says its installed, bash can't find it to run it. I like catfish for finding where a file might be. mick

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow Can you give a specific example of a situation when the browser is slow? Whic

Re: keyboard repeat

On 1/13/25 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [25-01/13=Mon 03:15 -0500]: Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, selecting different keyboards, the whole maryann before I can

Re: keyboard repeat

On 1/13/25 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [25-01/13=Mon 03:15 -0500]: Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, selecting different keyboards, the whole maryann before I can

Re: ext4 FS Crash

Just an Update to this thread. It was actually a software bug in desktop-portal (or something like that). Once that was removed my system has been rock solid. Thanks Dan On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 3:41 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/12/2024 00:14, Michael Stone wrote: > > Not all drives > > suppo

Re: What is going on with firefox

12 Gen i9 processor 16 core 24 threads 64GB ram onboard intel Alderlake GT1 gpu should be sufficient to run firefox pretty well with not many tabs running and light cpu usage and lots of free mem. Thanks Dan On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris w

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 13/1/25 23:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. So,

Re: Bridge without bridge-utils does not work

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 01:31:30PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Debian doesn't, ifupdown does, which is perfectly believable since ifupdown is quite an old package with not many people working on it. It simply hasn't been updated to stop using brctl. More importantly, who cares? It gets the job don

Re: What is going on with firefox

Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to say that reluctantly I have started using

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

On 1/12/25 1:05 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Jan 2025 at 06:58:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: [ … ] However I'm making practical use of mp3 files for the first time (currently a dozen lectures). I looked for an mp3 player whose GUI took up a very minimal amount of screen real estate. I w

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. So, how many RAMs do you have, and, what

Re: What is going on with firefox

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:26:06PM +, Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. So it disappeared from your browser, not from the world.

What is going on with firefox

Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. I have to say that reluctantly I have started using chromium, and i must say it is so m

British English has disappeared

I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. How did that happen? I'm sure I used to have the UK English dictionaries installed. More to the point what do I need to do

Re: Bridge without bridge-utils does not work

Hi, On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:35:53PM -0300, Luís Felipe wrote: > If I create a bridge directly using "ip link add name br0 type bridge" > it works normally, but I want to leave it in etc/network/interface so > that it is a persistent and automatic configuration. Please, I need > some help with t

Re: keyboard repeat

On 2025-01-13 08:03, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [25-01/13=Mon 03:15 -0500]: Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, selecting different keyboards, the whole maryann before I

Re: keyboard repeat

* gene heskett [25-01/13=Mon 03:15 -0500]: > Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I > have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, > selecting different keyboards, the whole maryann before I can get the repeat > to work gain. > > Thi

Re: playstation 4 kernel module

On 2025-01-12 14:07, tv.debian wrote: On 12/01/2025 03:54, nsrxnst wrote: does the stock kernel come with this driver? if not, how can I get it? Hello, If you are asking about the controller, Debian kernels are built with "CONFIG_HID_SONY=m", so the "hid-playstation.ko" should be available f

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

If I understood you correctly, the key problem here is "being exposed to outdoor". I think you may search for "outdoor wifi plug": https://www.amazon.com/outdoor-smart-plug/s?k=outdoor+smart+plug Also, I think there is nothing wrong with that the given solution is proprietary. The only downsi

Re: Bridge without bridge-utils does not work

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:35:53 -0300 Luís Felipe wrote: > > If I create a > bridge directly using "ip link add name br0 type bridge" it works > normally, but I want to leave it in etc/network/interface so that it > is a persistent and automatic configuration. Please, I need some help > with this be

keyboard repeat

Got an odd problem. xfce settings>keyboard repeat is lost on a reboot, and I have to spend an hour or more, playing around with the repeat settings, selecting different keyboards, the whole maryann before I can get the repeat to work gain. This keyboard is an escapee from a failed windows all