Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 21:28:50 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 6/2/25 2:03 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> I'm over 80. My only phone just died. > > >> I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set whic

Re: aptitude configuration

2025-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 10:33:57 (+0200), Frank Guthausen wrote: > I use ``aptitude'' with configuration below ``/etc/apt/''. > > From some old legacy configuration and an online manpage[1] recommended > packages are included or excluded by ``Aptitude::Recommends-Important'' > option when using ``ap

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 May 2025 at 18:00:30 (+1000), rob stone wrote: > if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in > /etc/default/keyboard? I had a British Latitude D430, and I had: XKBMODEL="latitude" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

Re: exim configuration.

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 17 May 2025 at 15:11:14 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf has > [smtp] > client = yes > accept = localhost:106 > connect = mail.easthope.ca:465 > > Then > swaks -s localhost -p 106 -f pe...@easthope.ca -t pe...@easthope.ca > sends a test message. > > Whereas ex

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: > > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I > > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I > > can use in any desktop/laptop) wi

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 May 2025 at 14:57:15 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 16:39:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host > > > numeric and names > > > where do they come from > > > > Assuming you are using

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 May 2025 at 09:06:22 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/13/25 8:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > On 5/12/25 10:25 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I see where it says that the wlp2s0 is DOWN > > > > > > I'm not

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 May 2025 at 19:04:55 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > > > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file p

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 May 2025 at 07:36:36 (+), Tim Woodall wrote: > These are the older debian versions with their release dates > #wheezy 7 2016-06-04 > #squeeze 6 2012-03-10 My notes show: 6 squeeze 2011-02-06 7 wheezy 2013-05-04 8 jessie 2015-04-25 9 stretch 2017-06-17

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 May 2025 at 22:01:18 (+0200), Rafał Lichwała wrote: > Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? If so, > what "image" should I use? See below. > Hardware spec: > > CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz > RAM: 32MB > HDD: 6GB > BIOS year: 1998 > CD-ROM, FDD 1,4MB, RS-232, 1x USB

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

2025-05-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Apr 2025 at 11:40:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 08:12:02 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You > > should therefore always have command source ~/.bashrc at the end of > > your .bash_profile i

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 May 2025 at 06:22:45 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory > under /media. > > I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but > when I mount the the key on it the ownsrhip reverts to root. There

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > possible that the Debian v

Re: keyboard light MacBook Pro mid 2009 running Debian.

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 13:12:06 (-0700), latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Does somebody know how to turn on the keyboard light of a MacBook Pro mid > 2009 running Debian? Please. In my experience, laptops having this facility will have the keycap engraved, usually as a small horizontal rectangle with r

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult > > to see whether anything had changed. > > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it > > m

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Apr 2025 at 13:39:23 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > bd@debian-stretch:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l > [ … ] > 10 april must be the date I installed that awful ISPY/Agent package > 17 april 2023 must be the date of install of my current Bullseye > > then : > > bd@debian-stretch:/usr/local/lib$ ls -u

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Apr 2025 at 13:46:18 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:12:10 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 08:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Your run levels are incorrect.  "3" included the graphical Display > > > Manager and "2" did not. > > > > Level

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 15:29:39 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-25, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> Considerable extra typing susceptible to error, and as I suffer from a > >> digital deformity, I prefer less to more. > > > > You could read man bash

Re: systemd misses services

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 09:24:14 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin are not > recognized > services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim and spanassassin are not > listed. > > So when I do > > # systemctl start exim.service > RR

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up > > > the

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 14:23:52 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-25, Lee wrote: > >> > >> I never run 'apt list --upgradable' because 'apt upgrade' shows the same > >> info, while offering the chance to say no. > > > > ^shrug^ > > it's harder to fuck up 'apt list --upgradable' if all you want is a

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 12:01:57 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 13:55 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > > > > On 4/2

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > > On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > When I had an IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect > > > as a windows key

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 19:00:25 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > I use an IBM PS-2 keyboard, the kind with 102 keys, and therefore no > "Windows" key. > > How do I set up a windows key, for example "Pause" or "Ctrl-Pause"? > > I tried > > XKBOPTIONS=Pause:Menu > > and > > XKBOPTIONS=pause:menu > >

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated >

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 18:03:09 (+), Arbol One wrote: > As stated in the OP, with the USB containing the installation files for > Debian 12 already inserted in the computer, I booted up the computer and > instead of going to the installation files, as it should, I get a message > saying > >

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Apr 2025 at 11:09:52 (+0800), jeremy ardley wrote: > On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I don't know how to approach the problem. > > What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file > > containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of > > [ > > https://

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstab

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 15:38:45 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > I am doing a cross install from my current Debian daedalus systm to a target > disk /dev/nvme1n1. > > I enter chroot, and create /etc/festab on the target. I use the UUIDs repored > by # blkid for > the target disk, > > Then I attemt

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 20:30:01 (-0400), Arbol One wrote: > > In my Debian 12, the keyboard stopped working all of the sudden, i > tried using the 'Screen Keyboard', but it didn't work either. Coming > from the world of Windows 10, I intended to reinstall the Debian. > With the memory stick contain

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 18:03:04 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > I did reply to your message, sending the output of suggested aptitude > search below... but my reply does not appear to the list messages, > maybe because there were too many lines in it. In any case, I didn't > find anything meaningfull to m

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

2025-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 23:55:22 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > On Sunday, 20-04-2025 at 01:12 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Debian 12 here, obtained by upgrading Debian 11. > > > > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You > > should therefore always have command source

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 07:27:12 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using > "regular expressions". > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be > helpful if I could

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 16:32:26 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > > ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays > their audio part : > > « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » > (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) » > >

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > > Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job > > than -layout at preserving the columns widths over the page break. > > (Perhaps the text at the bott

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 10:17:54 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I > > ssh > > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up > > like > > that). > > For about a decade,

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Apr 2025 at 13:09:29 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use > > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instea

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Apr 2025 at 07:21:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > > Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15): > > > > I don't know how to approach the problem. > > > > What I would like to end up with is a CSV

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic > > > resources on a

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 13:07:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put > > >

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 07 Apr 2025 at 21:34:42 (+0200), coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me wrote: > > > I am curious what nmcli subcommand reports when the cable is plugged in, > > but the connection has not activated manually. > > > Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available to >

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > > [...] > > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > > something to coyote.coy

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub > > "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed." > "This is a fatal error." > > how to solve it? Presumably that error message was f

Re: Does secure old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining > >> available > >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it'

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 17:35:18 (+0300), J wrote: > Every time i restart the PC i have an error message while rebooting > process: "[FAILED] failed unmounting *disk-mount-point*..." > > It didn't bother me really, because this message usually just immediately > disappeared. But last time the *compu

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > > > I don't know why you have problems with usin

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > Thank Wright! i have solved it on m

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v.Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > I don't know why you have problems with using /etc/hosts for lookups > > on your LAN. I use it here without any problems, and it has to work > > because there's

DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 11:19:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet > peeve. That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to > those of us who have been using hosts files for local dns since back > in the late 90's  I have n

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 15:40:07 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a > cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom... Yes

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > > > spurious email

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > spurious emails. > The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to > the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" mailing list. On Fri 28 Mar 2025 at 08

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 22:14:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or > > lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login, > > a

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 17:05:56 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, David Wright wrote: > > > > As posted earlier today, a file in sudoers.d/ makes trivial admin > > tasks like monitoring and logging easier, particularly where the > > programs concerned can cause dama

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 13:58:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > >

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 12:23:26 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ > > /bin/su --login > > Password: > > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05 > > host 09:57:59 ~# cd

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:37:41 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I assumed it was effectively the same as power down and then logging in > > as root on power-up. > > It is. But it's unnecessary and dangerous to run your entire DE as root. > Or maybe you log in t

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 10:03:59 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 9:55 AM, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > If he hasn't noticed yet, I doubt it. > > > > > > I agree. > > > If I understand what people want to accomplish by using command-line > > > options

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:24:21 (+0300), J wrote: > ср, 26 мар. 2025 г. в 16:10, Greg Wooledge : > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > > > the t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 11:38:25 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 wrote: > > > > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or > > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying window

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 23:19:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > > phrase. I was able to t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:14:47 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400 > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already > > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know > > what the misfire is, b

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
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 >

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
> > > 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

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

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
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).

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-12 Thread David Wright
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

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-11 Thread David Wright
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

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread David Wright
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

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
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 (?).

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
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

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
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

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
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

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
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

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
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 > > >>

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-19 Thread David Wright
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

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

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
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

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
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

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
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

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-16 Thread David Wright
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

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-15 Thread David Wright
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

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
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 (

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
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

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

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
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

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* appl

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: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
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.)

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread David Wright
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

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