On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote:
>
> On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary
> AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots
> into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the
>
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > > All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed.
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 10:44:40 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
> After today's upgrades, I note that RM1 showed these autoremove
> messages "Removing linux-headers-6.1
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote:
> >
> > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work.
Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their
mountings and microphone spacing.
> The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).
On Wed 12 Mar 2025 at 11:11:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 14:33:11 -, Greg wrote:
> > My robot says:
> >
> > One result:
> >
> > yt-dlp "ytsearch:QUERY"
> >
> > But for the life of me, after searching for twenty minutes, I can't
> > determine whether this is co
On Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 06:48:33 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 08:04:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be
> > illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the L
On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:08:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
> >
> > I'm not sure h
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 17:55:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> I have always wondered if the decimal numbers in the smartctl(8)
> "RAW_VALUE" column are actual event counts, or a decimal
> representation of some binary bit field whose correct interpretation
> only the manufacturer knows (?).
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
> On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
> > my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
> > python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
> > to ergonomically present installed candid
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> With Synaptic, I tried reinstallation of Evolution, but that did not
> change the response.
>
> Evolution has a dozen or so dependencies, so a complete removal may
> wreck my computer.
>
> My past messages (few of which have vaulu
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 21:12:32 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > The "Mail Authentication Request" has only a blank (already filled in)
> > > for a password which (very stupidly) is shown as a line of dots,
> > > rather than in pl
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So, I rechecked.
>
> After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what
> did I find?
>
> A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly
> "*.postinst" files.
>
> Where are they comin
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary
> package
> could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named "grub-efi-amd64-
> unsigned".
That suggests to me (with no experience of this) that its a script
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 17:44:37 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So my idea was just to write to the live-file-maintainers, to ask them, to
> remove the dependency of the missing package in theire configurations or
> point
> it to another package, i.E. grub-efi-amd64-signed.
Presumably you meant "remove
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 09:47:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/23/25 00:00, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> > [ … ]
> > > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made
> > > good hard
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 22:13:55 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > With mupdf, I don't even
> > know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around.
>
> I have not tried it, but...
> https://manpages.debian.org/b
On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
[ … ]
> read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made
> good hard drives. One of my cnc'd machines has a 250G in it, shut off
> only for new installs, still running wheezy. No reallocated sectors,
> the last time I l
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 17:13:17 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as
> > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 2006 and 2021 pages. I can't be
> > bothered trying
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 21:20:45 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 14:30:08 (-), Greg wrote:
> > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote:
> > >
> > >> > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006
> > >>
On Sun 02 Feb 2025 at 12:14:08 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:31:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > I'm not sure this is a bug per se: if what you want is a fully offline
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 21/02/2025 08:00, David Wright wrote:
> > I dragged the mouse
> > across the Males table and dumped it in a file.
>
> David, I recall you mentioned xpdf in your messages. It allows to
> select rectangular
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 13:52:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 2/20/25 11:20 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1]
> > > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age.
> > > I need only
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 00:22:14 (+0500), Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> I suggest you to check out this link:
> https://wiki.batocera.org/hardware:compatible_dongle_list#tested_on_pc_x86_64
> Personally, I have Asus BT500 USB adapter, which is based on a
> controller chip from Realtek and it works
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 09:02:11 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or
> > claws-mail?
>
> I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while
> ago, but before I did
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 00:56:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/16/25 20:04, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> > [ … ]
> >
> > > The boot menu still
> > > starts the debian version which quickly beco
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied:
>
> > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a
> > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on
> > a different userid t
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
[ … ]
> The boot menu still
> starts the debian version which quickly becomes non-responsive,
> quickly being about 30 seconds.
What's the boot menu?
> So I killall it, and run the beta by
> opening an xfce4 shell and typing ./thunderbi
On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of
> > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince
> > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvw
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 16:40:24 (+), Chris Green wrote:
> 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 (
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 13:59:11 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search
> function
That's because Grub wasn't installed in the MBR, hence explaining
why the FreeBSD loader wasn't touched.
> 2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, ins
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 22:54:15 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 12/02/2025 22:09, Greg wrote:
> > On 2025-02-12, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard
> > > (XDG) way to configure media types and applications associations.
> > >
> > Unfort
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* appl
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
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 opened tabs, passwords, etc.)
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote:
> Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:
>
> I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz
>
> Memory: 93% 7.2GiB
> Swap: 31% 2.7GiB
Kill it and restart it occasionally.
If you keep a lot of tabs open, then either avoid visiting
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 17:48:53 (-0500), Thomas George wrote:
> I can no longer receive emails at debianl...@mailfence.com. I tried to
> cancel this online but had no way to receive and complete the
> conformation.
>
> If possible please change my subscription to
> debian-u...@debian.list.org to po
On Thu 06 Feb 2025 at 21:20:18 (+), Russell Stinnett wrote:
> I didn't realize that the posts would be so delayed, or that they
> were going through at all. I hoped that they would just outright fail
> until one finally went through and that would be it.
>
> So, again, I apologize for the spam
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 12:15:32 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > - apt-patterns(7)
>
> Why isn't this linked/referenced from apt(8) or apt-get(8) or aptitude(8)?
> I just checked all three, and it's not on any of them.
>
> That's slight
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote:
> > &
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:06:57 (+0200), Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > The same (now that I am using backports):
> > $ yt-dlp --version
> > 2025.01.15
>
> Due to the nature of this program (Google plays the cat and mouse
> game), new versions a
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 19:39:55 (-0800), John Conover wrote:
>
> [2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \
> Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \
> object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \
> Did not receiv
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote:
> > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects
> > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well.
> >
> > Description:
> >
> >
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:55:56 (+0900), Mailing List wrote:
> I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects
> 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well.
>
> Description:
>
> A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO
> fai
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 22:11:16 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
> As I have previously said, the issue of zoom was previously discussed
> on this list, and, people interested in considering zoom, should have
> searched the list archive, and, found previous discussions relating to
> zoom.
>
> One report
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 07:05:32 (+1100), George at Clug wrote:
> Is there a way to search for "zoom" in some debian-user archive?
>
> I found https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ ? But I am way to lazy to
> search through all those pages looking to see if at any time some had made a
> comment
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote:
> > > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :-
> > >
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 05:52:02 (-0800), Will Mengarini wrote:
> * Roger Price [25-01/30=Th 13:59 +0100]:
> > $wrongCodeForCheckingWhetherAliasExists && unalias w3m
>
> When I want to unalias something that might already be unaliased (as
> when it's in .bashrc), I just code
> unalias foo 2>/dev/
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote:
> I ran, as root :-
>
> dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
Running apt install path-to/ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
will check for dependencies etc. (You must include the path.)
It will also log a record of what was installed or removed
On Tue 28 Jan 2025 at 20:42:49 (+0100), didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 28/01/2025 à 19:39, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> [...]
> > hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024
> > dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service ->
> > /lib/syst
On Tue 21 Jan 2025 at 06:26:17 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: didier gaumet
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:25:10 +0100
> > I would look at theses packages:
> > ...
> > hfsplus/stable 1.0.4-17 amd64
> > ...
> > hfsprogs/stable 540.1.linux3-5+b1 amd64
> > ...
> > hfsutils/stable 3.2.
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 03:22:59 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote:
> > 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 dis
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
> >
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.
> > >
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
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 was referred to
> several overpowered
On Thu 09 Jan 2025 at 02:29:37 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM Stefan Monnier
> wrote:
> >
> > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
> > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable
> > > space.
> >
>
On Fri 03 Jan 2025 at 10:54:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> Heh. I remember a 300 baud modem where you had to dial the number on a phone
> and then flip the switch on the modem when the other end answered. Whether
> you selected the answer or originate mode was a crap shoot, there we
On Tue 07 Jan 2025 at 21:00:39 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran (12025-01-07):
> > I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I
> > was first enlightened.
>
> Mostly something anybody should learn in junior high school physics,
> freshman high-school at wors
On Fri 10 Jan 2025 at 02:46:13 (+0100), Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Michael Stone writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > >Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
> > >of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk o
On Sun 05 Jan 2025 at 17:17:32 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> Anil F Duggirala (12025-01-05):
> > sudo mv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-
> > gdm.rules.bak
>
> Unrelated to the actual issue: IIRC you can achieve the same result of
> disabling a system udev rule by cr
On Sat 04 Jan 2025 at 05:19:23 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> I also have a couple radio clocks that self set in the wee hours when
> skip from WWWV in Boulder CO is best, they indicate good signals, but
> are off an hour, like the timezone files are duff. However, when I
> went to check them at 04
On Wed 01 Jan 2025 at 16:46:37 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote:
> "Gene is a special case in that he uses non-standard hardware to do
> things that the rest of us don't do, working in ways that we don't
> work. We do our best, but that's often not good enough".
>
> The ha
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 16:20:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2024 03:34:20 pm George at Clug wrote:
> > With the popularity of XFCE, I would have expected that "network
> > browsing in the thunar file manager" would be fully supported by
> > default by now.
I underst
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 14:10:16 (+1100), George at Clug wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31-12-2024 at 12:12 David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 07:34:20 (+1100), George at Clug wrote:
> > > I think I found the "fuse" package was not installed. Should I install
> &g
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 07:34:20 (+1100), George at Clug wrote:
> In Debian Bookworm installations, why is gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse
> not installed by default when installing Debian with XFCE?
Because gvfs will function without those backends, so it would
be against policy to depend on those pa
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 13:17:57 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Top big must-have *for me* was a dedicated partition for EFI.
That's true if you're booting in EFI mode. It's not clear whether
the OP is.
> Somewhere
> I read that HAS to be an extremely early partition on the hard drive.
> Today
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 20:24:46 (+), Joe wrote:
> The answer is to modify /etc/default/grub and run update-grub again:
>
> To restore the old behavior, open a terminal and issue sudo echo
> GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false >> /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub
>
> Note that you will need to d
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 11:26:38 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
> I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by
> EFI. I have:
>
> Storage boot option control UEFI only
> Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only
> (other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabl
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 01:20:17 (+0100), Rafał Lichwała wrote:
>
> I plan to switch completely from Windows 11 to Debian on my laptop,
> but as a first step I'd like to configure double-boot setup to give it
> a try, look around and check if all hardware works fine under Debian.
>
> Current state:
On Sat 28 Dec 2024 at 01:07:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> On 12/27/24 23:36, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 20:26:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff
> > > blind is a pita. I want to
On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 20:26:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff
> blind is a pita. I want to SEE whats available.
I know you won't use aptitude, so why don't you try running
synaptic on wayland, decide what changes you want, and then
On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 11:27:18 (-0500), eben wrote:
> On 12/27/24 11:18, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 01:16:31 (-0500), Alex Wahl wrote:
> >> Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled
> >> if I don't have a specific
On Thu 26 Dec 2024 at 14:30:38 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/26/24 11:35, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 December 2024 08:14:11 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > Set the machine to boot in UEFI
On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 01:16:31 (-0500), Alex Wahl wrote:
> Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled
> if I don't have a specific technical reason? The reason I asked
> it really just because I'm wondering if I accidentally set a unit
> to that in the past I shouldn't have; I
On Mon 23 Dec 2024 at 06:45:54 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/22/24 9:02 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 07:13:01 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > On 12/21/24 9:48 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 06:33:07
On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 07:13:01 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/21/24 9:48 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 06:33:07 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I'm running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
> > > I wish to launch applications by click
On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 06:33:07 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
> I wish to launch applications by clicking on an icon on the MATE panel.
>
> Questions/Problems:
>1. What icons are displayable on a MATE panel (i.e. specs)?
>2. How do I search for ap
On Wed 18 Dec 2024 at 18:02:46 (+), Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:07:45 +0100 (CET)
> Roger Price wrote:
>
> > I tried using synaptic to load packages in my new Debian 12.8. After
> > I specified many packages, I clicked on "Apply" and received the
> > message:
> >
> > "Please inser
On Tue 17 Dec 2024 at 13:44:22 (-0600), John Hasler wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook writes:
> > the nonsense about about not changing them ignores the obvious.
>
> What is that?
>
> > My bank performs security checks by requesting a sub-set of my
> > password. It doesn't take a genius to work out th
On Sun 15 Dec 2024 at 11:00:18 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 15/12/2024 05:27, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Installing using the standard installer:
>
> Have you tried it when some stepper motor drivers are connected using
> USB to serial port adapters?
>
> I do not remember if I explicitly ch
On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 12:26:11 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
>
> Well, that's interesting. I have one of those; I'm using it right now.
> I vaguely recall buying it
On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 18:56:02 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/10/24 10:53 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 05:54:24 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > Those raised the question "How do I go to point x minutes into a file?"
> >
>
On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 15:03:46 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Tue Dec 10 14:05:20 2024 David Wright wrote:
>
> > You still haven't said what files cause you concern in /usr/bin/.
>
> There are a lot of them, e.g. xscreensaver, zip, sox...
>
> > All the file
On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 13:08:09 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote:
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/mozillavpn shows the packages listed
> as backports
I saw those, but they appear to be for rather unusual architectures,
and I thought you'd have mentioned that.
Cheers,
David.
On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 21:25:59 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Mon Dec 9 20:53:54 2024 David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 15:23:18 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> >
> >> Some of you may recall my account of trying to install a new disk (in
> >> my ca
On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 05:54:24 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm using Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
> I date back to days of Z80 systems using CPM.
> Never had need for audio.
>
> Now have lectures I want to listen to and was referred to audacious.
> Install and initial trial went well.
> Its m
On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 15:23:18 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Some of you may recall my account of trying to install a new disk (in
> my case a 1TB NVMe stick) for use as a boot device. There has been
> another thread or two from other people dealing with the same issue,
> so it seems to be a hot
On Sat 07 Dec 2024 at 08:39:54 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > Unencrypted login sessions, with passwords being
> > sent in the clear over a network, are inherently insecure.
>
> You give a password every time a xterm or similar is opened? To my
> understanding, most users just open the ter
On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 19:14:51 (+), Chris Green wrote:
> nsrxnst wrote:
> > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --]
> >
> > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot
>
> That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to m
On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 16:26:45 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote:
> pocket composed on 2024-12-05 22:17 (UTC+0100):
>
> > The real issue is that the efi partition if I recall correctly has to be a
> > primary partition.
>
> The ESP filesystem must be on a GPT partition. GPT is compatible with
> legacy
On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 22:03:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 03:15:36PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 20:01:29 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> > > Use the Microsoft tools to create a Windows .iso file
> > &
On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 21:01:12 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> On 12/2/24 19:21, hlyg wrote:
> >
> > Thank Wright!
> >
> > i install inxi and run it:
> >
> > model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
> > charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
> > model: Logitech Wireless Mouse
> > charge: 5% (shou
On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 20:01:29 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Use the Microsoft tools to create a Windows .iso file
>
> Install Windows from a .iso file. Use Windows drive tools to shrink Windows
> on the drive to make some space.
>
> Then use something like gparted to move the Windows to t
On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 20:24:05 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in
> BIOS
> (my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive.
Why did you stick with MBR partitioning rather than GPT?
> Now I am hasseling with the drive, a
On Wed 04 Dec 2024 at 13:13:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/4/24 12:17 PM, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> > Richard Owlett writes:
> >
> > > I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I
> > > work and a specific personal project I have. Get idea that I like it ;}
> > >
On Wed 04 Dec 2024 at 09:00:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/4/24 6:11 AM, Michel Verdier wrote:
> > On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF.
> > > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html .
On Sat 30 Nov 2024 at 22:10:32 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 30/11/2024 01:29, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote:
> > > > $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf
&g
On Mon 02 Dec 2024 at 16:02:27 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> i try some gnome live cd, it warns that my battery of wireless
> keyboard is low
>
> my deb12 haven't gnome, which command can show that info?
Here, inxi -Bx shows:
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K520 charge: High
sta
On Sat 30 Nov 2024 at 21:20:15 (+), Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 04:03:05PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > >> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > >> > > To make it permanent, either add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf or add a
> > >> > > new file in /et
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