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

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 39 lines --] > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:21:02PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > songbird wrote: > > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > ... >

Re: (solved) anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-11 Thread hlyg
Thank Wright! i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search function 2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, installer seems to parse their grub.cfg, making log very long Feb 11 08:54:28 in-target: Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version^

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* applications as well, unless it is > > > > the la

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

2025-02-11 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:21:02PM +, Chris Green wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > songbird wrote: > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > > > > another browser) **not** to try an

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: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/02/2025 22:13, Michel Verdier wrote: Emacs org mode can handle mixed code / documentation Specifically for octave some examples are provided in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-octave.html (use the .org suffix to get the source file). Using "bare" engine promp

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread Russell S.
Gregory Forster writes: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug > into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux > 12.8?  Everything I find specify s for Windows. I'm currently using this one in Debian 12, KDE Plasma 5. Works great. TP-Link USB B

Re: (solved) anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-11 Thread hlyg
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 partition for OS, i can't find how i specify installation targe

Re: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-11 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 2/7/25 17:28, Gary L. Roach wrote: I have been trying  to find a software package that would allow me to do math calculations along with running documentation.I have tried using -Octave but it doesn't allow modification of content once you hit the enter key. After a few mistakes and corre

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 05:04, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit : >> Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > Hello William. > I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension. > It will save you a few gigs of RAM by putting unused tab

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 23:17, Gregory Forster wrote: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my > desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8?  Everything I > find specify s for Windows. I have one of these: Bus 001 Device 025: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Sili

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

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > songbird wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > ... > > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for > > > > everything, rather than having to try and

Re: Debian download

2025-02-11 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 11-02-2025 at 13:20 Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it I usually take "newbie" to mean "I am new to Debian", so I would ask did you know the current production of Debian was Bookworm.? I was curious why yo

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-11 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey Jeff -- yes, good point; I just looked at the manufacturer's page and saw a bunch of BIOS updates; I'll try this next here (well, at the next crash...). Cheers! On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > > Anybody else

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Anybody else seeing this in the current testing kernel? I am not experiencing the problem; but I used wired ethernet, and not wifi. Is the machine's BIOS/UEFI up to date? That is the very first place I would start. dmidecode is usually a goo

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 04:05:25 am Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/2/25 09:08, David Wright wrote: > > > > Yes, that is my daily experience, though I almost always start FF > > with a script that opens the local wunderground 10-day forecast. > > I close that before pressing Restore. > > Whilst I

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-11, Max Nikulin wrote: >>> >>> If Firefox is killed or crashes I believe you get the 'Restore Session' >>> page instead of the home page when you restart it (i.e. exactly the >>> option to retrieve your open tabs at the moment of the kill or crash). > > Are you killing Firefox just to a

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread debian-user
Gregory Forster wrote: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug > into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux > 12.8? Everything I find specify s for Windows. There's a useful page at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/#known-w

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

2025-02-11 Thread debian-user
Chris Green wrote: > songbird wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > ... > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for > > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes > > > it has made. > >

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread Max Nikulin
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* applications as well, unless it is the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in browser profile (list of open

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/02/2025 05:11, Boyan Penkov wrote: Is this a btrfs software issue? My hard drives all pass smartctl with no errors. I would check filesystem consistency. Have you tried to boot an older kernel? Do you have any clue what python processes cause failures? I have no idea if Oops: invali

Re: CUPS test page prints but nothing else can print

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > I have just [re]installed an HP Laserjet Pro M15w printer on my T470 > laptop which runs Debian 12. > > The CUPS test page prints succesfully but nothing else seems able to > print. The CUPS Print Status window shows the job for a few seconds > but then it flashes the red cr

Running containers with systemd-nspawn works, but machinectl fails

2025-02-11 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Dear list, In the past, if I wanted to clone a baremetal server to another server, I just copied its root directory (/) and chrooted to it. Then, I could run services via old sysv init scripts. (/etc/init.d/service start/stop/status) It is no longer the case now with debian 12, (surely even befo

CUPS test page prints but nothing else can print

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
I have just [re]installed an HP Laserjet Pro M15w printer on my T470 laptop which runs Debian 12. The CUPS test page prints succesfully but nothing else seems able to print. The CUPS Print Status window shows the job for a few seconds but then it flashes the red cross indicating an error and the

Re: (solved) anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:44:58 +0800 hlyg wrote: > Thank Curley, but i have solved on my own Excellent. > > isn't installer syslog supposed to record my choice during > installation? Yes, and a couple other files in /var/log/installation. > > i let bios boot 2nd disk, which also has deb12, ru

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-11 Thread Hans
Hi Nicolas, I do not think it is so easy! But let me go further into details. I am running plasma5 from Debian/stable, but also XFCE is installed as well as LXQT and some parts of GNOME. The GNOME parts are installed, because these are dependencies of some applications, which are GNOME relate

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

2025-02-11 Thread songbird
Chris Green wrote: > songbird wrote: >> Chris Green wrote: >> ... >> > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another >> > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather >> > than having to try and unset all the changes it has made. >> >> Chris, for s

Re: internal microphone stops working

2025-02-11 Thread songbird
Janet C wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running bookworm on a Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD and am having an issue with > the internal microphone. Using the kernel from bookworm, the microphone > doesn't work at all, so I installed kernel 6.12 from backports. Now the > microphone works when I boot, but at some

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-11 Thread Nicolas George
Hans (12025-02-10): > All keys are working. > > For example: > > xxd /dev/input/event12 > (This example is for FN+screen_brightness_up and > FN+screen_brightness_down.) Then your problem is easy. If some keys did not generate events, getting them to work might have been a nightmare or impos

Re: internal microphone stops working

2025-02-11 Thread john doe
On 2/11/25 02:05, Janet C wrote: Hello, I'm running bookworm on a Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD and am having an issue with the internal microphone. Using the kernel from bookworm, the microphone doesn't work at all, so I installed kernel 6.12 from backports. Now the microphone works when I boot, bu

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/2/25 09:08, David Wright wrote: Yes, that is my daily experience, though I almost always start FF with a script that opens the local wunderground 10-day forecast. I close that before pressing Restore. Whilst I use the wunderground 10 day forecast and PWS dashboard, both for a local we

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread Ceppo
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:17:37PM -0600, Gregory Forster wrote: > Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my desktop PC USB port > that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8? I don't know about Amazon, but the one from Technoethical [1] is advertised as fully compatible. I didn't try it, but