Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-03 Thread Chris Green
lasses are **very** cheap, between £1 and £5 hereabouts so I have pairs scattered all over the place. (Oh, I'm approaching 80, so well above "50 years old") -- Chris Green ·

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-02 Thread Chris Green
Gilles Mocellin wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 34 lines --] > > Le dimanche 1 juin 2025, 19:38:17 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Chris Green a > écrit : > > Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > Le dimanche 1 juin 2025, 12:11:05 heure d’

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Chris Green
Marco Moock wrote: > On 01.06.2025 12:30 Uhr Chris Green wrote: > > > Up until now I have always stayed with Intel CPU and Intel Graphics > > because of the solid Linux support but the alternative AMD Ryzen > > processors on the T14/P14 seem attractive. Is support for th

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Chris Green
Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le dimanche 1 juin 2025, 12:11:05 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Chris Green a > écrit : > > I am thinking of getting a new (well, refurbished) laptop to replace > > my long serving Thinkpad T470. The front runners seem to be either > > T14 or

Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Chris Green
the solid Linux support but the alternative AMD Ryzen processors on the T14/P14 seem attractive. Is support for these pretty solid now? (Thay have been around for quite a while!) -- Chris Green ·

Re: How to set umask for apache2

2025-05-28 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 15:34:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > ... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:- > > > > chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf > > [service] > > UMask=0002 &

How to set umask for apache2

2025-05-28 Thread Chris Green
I am running apache2 on my debian 12 system. I am trying to set the umask for apache2 to 0002 but I'm failing miserably. I have set umask in both /etc/apache2/envvars:- chris$ tail -10 /etc/apache2/envvars ## Enable the debug mode for maintainer scripts. ## This will prod

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread Chris Green
rectory. Try doing the same in a different directory. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-29 Thread Chris Green
George Kirkham wrote: [snip disk drive question] > PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the > any other good email clients that support email threading and are > packaged in Debian? I use mutt, command line MUA, excellent. -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > > > > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras > > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon > > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it

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

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB e

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
know them. I do use .rsync-filter to filter out things that either don't need backup or that change so frequently that they make backups pointless, things like .bash_history and .xsession-errors for example. -- Chris Green ·

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
gene heskett wrote: > > That sounds most interesting Chris. Something that can work as you work > w/o interfering with your work. > Exactly! For example one can sometimes get in a real mess editing a file and you want to get back to where you were an hour, or a few hours ago.

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
apshots, but rsync alone does not allow you > to recover a file you damaged, which is part of the job description of a > backup tool. > Ah, yes, that's the one I was trying to remember when I suggested rsyncbackup. rsnapshot is the one I used to use before I wrote my own. -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
as that are advertised mostly as 'endoscopes' would make looking around down there more possible. As I said before the only reason I used the word endoscope was that it's the best way to actually get hits on the type of device I'm after. Another search term that can work is 'inspection camera'. -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
Joe wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras > > > so I can poke around

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

2025-03-13 Thread Chris Green
s of ordinary webcams which aren't what I want. -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-03-12 Thread Chris Green
ate with a computer and there's UVC support in Debian (guvcview et al.) Can anyone confirm that I have this right? Does anyone here actually use one of these cameras with Debian? Actual recommendations of specific suppliers/cameras would be very welcome, eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, I'm not f

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Chris Green
/master/hosts The first few lines of the file contain links to further information. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Chris Green
lots of disk space but are far too large for smaller systems. On systems I have with limited space I modify /etc/systemd/journald.conf to reduce disk usage, I set the SystemMaxUse and MaxRetentionSec parameters. -- Chris Green ·

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-06 Thread Chris Green
r, i.e. in my router using a blacklist, the advantage being that it blocks ads on for all systems on my home LAN. -- Chris Green ·

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Chris Green
ess it's > fine. With modern systems booting so fast I wonder why anyone bothers with hibernate or sleep. -- Chris Green ·

Debian Trixie: monitor via HDMI not used after installing bumblebee

2025-03-01 Thread Chris Jölly
packages. Bumblebee blacklisted nouveau and the external screen was not detected anymore. Thats the first issue: can I still use the external monitor even though I have bumblebee running? I tried the following command to see if offloading works: chris@laptop:~$ primusrun glxgears -info primus

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-28 Thread Chris Jölly
On 2/24/25 22:25, Felix Miata wrote: Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-24 21:52 (UTC+0100): modestting is the X display driver required by either the in use Intel 530 GPU or the inactive NVidia GPU. Ok, so modesetting is the X display driver, not how I expected the intel or nouveau driver

Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Chris Jölly
Hello, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P50, which has the following setup: chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za Graphics:   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID

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

2025-02-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-13, Chris Green wrote: > > Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 13/02/2025 01:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > Now Debian has*two* completely separate > >> > ways to specify a default application for a role. > >> > >

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
gt; - *browser alternatives > - BROWSER environment > - mailcap for text/html > - XDG configuration > > sensible-browser, "open", and xdg-open just use some of these options. There's also all the MIME confguration. -- Chris Green ·

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install?

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
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 (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-12, Nicolas George wrote: > > Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12): > >> I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented. > > > > At worst, the source code is the documentation. > > I think Chris had the right idea. Install Epiphan

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
Nicolas George wrote: > Chris Green (12025-02-12): > > I'm just wondering if a way round the issue may be to unistall > > vivaldi, then install epiphany, then re-install vivaldi. It might be > > that just doing 'apt reinstall vivaldi' will get me back to whe

How to choose which 'printer' to install?

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
t M15w (HP LaserJet M14-M17) So which one should I choose? Does it matter? -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:02:13 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > The other user does NOT have the same settings as me. They have > > > their own set of plugins and settings as Tomas has pointed out. You

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > songbird wrote: > > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > > > It would

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

2025-02-12 Thread Chris Green
Anssi Saari wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > > Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the > > configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything. > > Have you considered you may get better information if you actually > define this &q

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 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > songbird

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 fo

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

CUPS test page prints but nothing else can print

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
job disappears. I have discovered that using lpr from the command line works (just plain text in other words). This printer used to work fine, all I have changed is the WiFi connection because I changed the router. The driver being used is drvless.ppd. What might be wrong? -- Chris Green ·

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

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
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

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

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45:06 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in > > epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a > > browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphan

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

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
Anssi Saari wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that > > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it > > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install > >

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

2025-02-10 Thread Chris Green
o which is very frustrating, I only want to run it explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.? (I've got my vivaldi default settings back by purging epiphany but that's a bit extreme!) -- Chris Green ·

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

2025-02-07 Thread Chris Green
read via Usenet groups > (<https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/>): "Furthermore, you can browse > our mailing lists as Usenet newsgroups." > > I've never seen the Usenet equivalents documented anywhere. Do you > know what they are? Maybe something like comp.debian or > comp.linux.debian? > This one is called linux.debian.user, it's where I use it. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Chris Green
27;s .profile so that a root login that's idle for 15 minutes automatically logs out. -- Chris Green ·

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

2025-02-04 Thread Chris Green
ems, adding it to my Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? -- Chris Green ·

Re: SMTP servers

2025-02-04 Thread Chris Green
Tom Browder wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 19 lines --] > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:10 Chris Green wrote: > > > ... > > > > Has anyone been able to buy the ebook and convert it to Kindle > > > satisfactorily? > > > &g

Re: SMTP servers

2025-02-04 Thread Chris Green
onvert it to Kindle > satisfactorily? > No, it's one of the reasons I use Kobo readers, they are much more friendly to standard format e-publishing. -- Chris Green ·

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
Nicolas George wrote: > Chris Green (12025-01-22): > > I wrote a RestructuredText plugin for Dokuwiki that means (not > > surprisingly!) that you can use RestructuredText markup in Dokuwiki. > > You can even simply name a text file with a .rst suffix and the plugin > >

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
e to work with MarkDown. Is there a simple single executable program to convert MarkDown to HTML (as there is for RestructuredText)? -- Chris Green ·

Re: ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:29:41PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to > > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using > > ssh but not to others (t

Re: ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 13:29:41 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to > > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using > > ssh but not to others (to which I c

ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
at run an ssh server and I can cannect to all these systems from my home desktop and laptop machines using ssh. Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose its failure to connect to all of 'my' systems. -- Chris Green

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 37 lines --] > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 10:46:16AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > I somehow have got the feeling that we are talking

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 34 lines --] > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:45:55AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --] >

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
oved nearly all the 'extra' DNS configuration (i.e. anything like systemd's resolver and local DNS caching) in my main Linux systems. I run dnsmasq on my router with a blacklist configuration so ad-blocking works for every system on the LAN (it confuses visitors sometimes when they don't see the usual adverts on their 'phones). I run Vivaldi and it seems to behave fairly as one would expect in this environment. -- Chris Green ·

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread Chris Green
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. > How do I do that via the Gmane/Usenet gateway? -- Chris Green ·

Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english > > > wbritish-huge:

Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Chris Green
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 hav

Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 29 lines --] > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > > English but now it has somehow di

British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Chris Green
nt what do I need to do to get UK English back? :-) -- Chris Green

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-28 Thread Chris Green
y that (the speed) is down to how fast the particular ARM or X86 system is. There's fast ARM systems and slow X86 ones (though I woiuld guess that the fastest X86 ones are faster than the fastest ARM ones). -- Chris Green ·

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

2024-12-28 Thread Chris Green
parts of the E-Mail and feed the text/html bit to my browser with 'm' (view-mailcap). To do this second bit I have the following in ~/.mailcap:- text/html; /home/chris/bin/muttview %s html This comes before the line that calls lynx, I can't quite remember how it works, I

Re: bashrc question

2024-12-26 Thread Chris Green
yway) .bashrc should be used for settings that are needed for interactive shells whereas .profile is used for settings that are used by all programs not just interactive ones. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-20 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 24 lines --] > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:22:29AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote: > > > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/pass

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-20 Thread Chris Green
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote: > > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently > > (lots of > > different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be > > useless. > > Generate

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-19 Thread Chris Green
rd that needs to be **extra** secure I suppose I could use a written down password. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Debian 12.8 synaptic refuses, calling for firmware in /media/cdrom

2024-12-18 Thread Chris Green
do it from a non-existent CD/DVD. This was a new installation done from an ISO on a USB stick. Easy to fix if you know what the problem is (and if you like using vi, as I do). -- Chris Green ·

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Chris Green
John Hasler wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > Surely no one "has perfect knowledge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I > > have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't! > > But which things about you can you be sure no one else has

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Chris Green
(6^5)^6 or > about 2^77. > But how do you remember it? It's no more memorable than a string of numbers, in fact I find numbers easier to remember than words. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Chris Green
dge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't! -- Chris Green ·

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Chris Green
installed a keylogger, there's also likely > some kind of screen recording software, so this seems like security > theater. > Yes, I think things like key loggers or even simple 'shoulder surfing' are the commonest ways of passwords being 'broken'. -- Chris Green ·

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:31:16AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > > but on previous systems I

How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread Chris Green
ra terminus fonts haven't become available. Is there some other step I need to take to make the fonts available? -- Chris Green ·

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-06 Thread Chris Green
itself). What you meant (and it took me a while to realise) was that the machine was given to you. -- Chris Green ·

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread Chris Green
> As I understand it the slots in the M2 SSD connector can tell whether it's SATA or NVMe or both. I have an M2 SSD which I believe will work either with a SATA connection or with NVMe, and it has two slots in its connector. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-12-05 Thread Chris Green
Karl Vogel wrote: > Sorry, I'm a bit behind on mail. > > On Sun 17 Nov 2024 at 10:50:31 (-0500), Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large > > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey > &g

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Chris Green
useful to try 'help ' as you don't then have to wade through the *huge* bash man page to find what you want. For example 'help cd' gives a nice man page like summary of how to use cd. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-26 Thread Chris Green
n /etc. With a new install I make a backup copy of the old /etc and refer to it to make similar changes to the new system. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-18 Thread Chris Green
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > > > So, do any of the cursor

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of c

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:40:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > So, do any of the cursor themes in xcursor-themes actually change the > > I-Beam cursor? I've looked at a couple of other sets of cursor themes > > and they don't chang

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Felix Miata wrote: > Chris Green composed on 2024-11-17 15:40 (UTC): > > > I'm running Debian 12 on two systems, on both of them I use large > > terminal (xfce4) windows quite extensively and I use a light grey > > background in the terminal windows. > > >

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > It's not the terminal cursor so I don't think th

Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Green
the colour of the I-Beam would help, it's obviously designed to be most visible on a dark background. Please note this is the X/mouse cursor I'm talking about, not the text cursor that shows where you are entering text in a terminal window. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Chris Green
gt; That has the logic I want. > *BUT* it searches a local cache. > I want to search the Debian repository. apt-file searches the repositories, you'll probably need to install it as it's not installed by default. -- Chris Green ·

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-16 Thread Chris Green
my case) desktop. All you need to do at the Windows end is allow access using RDP and it all 'just works'. -- Chris Green ·

Re: ssh config file not working as I think the man page describes

2024-11-13 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > I have quite a long ~/.ssh/config file. > > I have been trying to rationalise it a bit and share bits that are > common to several systems. So I have two sections referring to a > host that I call 'caracal', the first is:- > > # >

ssh config file not working as I think the man page describes

2024-11-13 Thread Chris Green
~/.cfg/ %h:.cfg/ AddKeysToAgent=yes # # # 'global' options # Host * User chris ~ ~ So, to my mind when I enter 'ssh caracal' at the command line the user name used by ssh should be chrisisbd as that's the first value for User that applies

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-12 Thread Chris Green
Anssi Saari wrote: > Chris Green writes: > > > But there is no Python 2 available for Debian 12... > > That's just what's in the package manager. Python source code is > available and from that any Python version can be built. Pyenv is a tool > which makes

Re: I have found a container system that works for my Python 2 app

2024-11-10 Thread Chris Green
Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > Thanks to various people here helping me to understand a bit more about > > > containers and some searching and experimentation I now have a > > >

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-09 Thread Chris Green
for converting Python code, however Chris' real problem was > with a C extension module (compiled as .so, whose source code is > unavailable AFAIUI). > You have it in one! :-) Proprietary source code, or at least no one at OKI prepared to release it. However, as I have reported, I h

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-09 Thread Chris Green
songbird wrote: > Lists wrote: > > On 2024-11-08 16:51, Chris Green wrote: > > > >> Well, yes, it sounds like it doesn't it. However, apparently, there > >> are various things that prevent one from creating a python 2.x virtual > >> environment on

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-08 Thread Chris Green
Lists wrote: > On 2024-11-08 13:57, Chris Green wrote: > > songbird wrote: > >> Chris Green wrote: > >>> songbird wrote: > >>>> Chris Green wrote: > >>>> ... > >>>> > >>>>i haven't needed them a

I have found a container system that works for my Python 2 app

2024-11-08 Thread Chris Green
ntinue to 'just work'. :-) -- Chris Green ·

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-08 Thread Chris Green
Florent Rougon wrote: > Hi, > > Le 08/11/2024, Chris Green a écrit: > > > No use at all! :-) It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and > > I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it > > in E-Mail or whatever. > > D

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-08 Thread Chris Green
songbird wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > songbird wrote: > >> Chris Green wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into > >> them. > >> > >> > >> > I'm particul

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-08 Thread Chris Green
songbird wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > ... > > i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into > them. > > > > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye > > within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for some

Re: kmail + akonadi + trouble

2024-11-07 Thread Chris Green
ither backup or main server) it gets duplicated to the other system by syncthing. This works perfectly, I can read mail on either system using mutt and everything looks identical and keeps in step. Syncthing is a very clever bit of software. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-07 Thread Chris Green
Todd Zullinger wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 25 lines --] > > Chris Green wrote: > > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating > > collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I >

Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-07 Thread Chris Green
ap but although they might be able to do what I'm after they're not quite what I want and do seem very complex to build. From where I am, running virtualbox will be (much) simpler. -- Chris Green ·

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