Hi,
i wrote:
> > Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ?
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Yes. That's exactly the design of the packaging here: the -bin
> packages contain the binary grub code that you're looking for, and
> grub-pc and grub-efi-$arch do the configuration to use o
Thomas wrote:
>
>i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need
>the directories
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi
>alongside the already installed
> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
>in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together.
>Gentoo and Arch obviously
. installed grub-pc-bin. I will see what happens with the
next booting.
grub-pc-bin suffices for my purpose. In order not to stress my luck,
i refrain from installing grub-efi-ia32-bin. (If i find out how to put
my EFI into legacy emulation i could probably boot by an installed
grub-pc. An i386
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need
> the directories
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi
> alongside the already installed
> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
> in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together.
> G
ld try to change my GRUB bootloader, which i don't
want to do. I just need the directories with the files for the ISO.
Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ?
Does somebody have
/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
and
/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
installed together and can remember how ?
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 15:34:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > ... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:-
> >
> > chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
> > [service]
> > UMask=0002
>
> Shouldn't that square-bracket heade
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
Shouldn't that square-bracket header be capitalized? [Service]
instead o
On 28/05/2025 21:34, Chris Green wrote:
chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
[service]
UMask=0002
[...]
chris$ systemctl show apache2.service | grep -i umask
UMask=0022
So why can't I set it!!??
I think, you can, but you need to fix a typo
On 5/28/25 10:34 AM, 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
It may necessary to reset UMask first, i.e.:
[Service]
UMask=
UMask=0002
--
Šarūnas Bur
sk in the systemd apache2.service:-
chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
[service]
UMask=0002
But the apache2 services are still running with umask 0022. How can I
get it to change?
(I have restarted apache2 and even rebooted the system, to ne effect)
syst
n 30s but I haven't bothered to try to work out exactly how
much shorter it can safely be.
Tim.
sync should do it, but there are important details to check
which i hope are explained by the man page or the referenced
items at the bottom:
I tried sync but it didn't work - the key probl
t
> shorter than 30s but I haven't bothered to try to work out exactly how
> much shorter it can safely be.
>
> Tim.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set -e
>
> ROOT=mount
> DEV=container_mount/pv1
>
> rm -f container
> rm -fr container_mount
> rm -fr mount
&g
still needed the sleep.
At least on my system, with a fs of 50G it always unmounts quickly
enough for the e2fsck to pass, at 500G it sometimes does, and at 5T it
seems to always fail without the sleep (which can probably be a bit
shorter than 30s but I haven't bothered to try to work out e
Dear users and developers,
I Am running The latest stable Debian with The Mate desktop
environment. because I do not see at all I have installed The system by
using very professionally prepared Debian netinst installer.
But I would like to know, if there is AN reliable way how to migrate
Hi,
On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Thank you , David. My problem was a simple blunder, but your respose was
> usefully informative.
It would be helpful to say what the blunder was so that other people
who find this thread by search later on may not be left wonde
Thank you , David. My problem was a simple blunder, but your respose was
usefully informative.
On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 02:12:23PM +, David wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown wrote:
> Now to assist you, here's an actual example cut and pasted from the machine
> I'm using ri
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
Am Samstag, 3. Mai 2025, 12:22:45 CEST schrieb Haines Brown:
> 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. As the
>
Hi,
On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 06:22:45AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory
> under /media.
Are you talking about the automatic mounting under /media of a user's
removable media devices (USB keys etc) under a desktop environment,
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown wrote:
The private message that I have quoted here ...
> On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 10:51:17AM +, David wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory
> > > u
On Sat, 3 May 2025 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. As the
> r
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote:
> I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory
> under /media.
Hi, what type of filesystem is on the USB key? extt4? vfat?
Something else?
> I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but
>
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. As the
result a user cannot copy files to the key. I would enable the user
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:06:42 +
David wrote:
Hello David,
>So the issue arose because DMO splits 'handbrake' into 3 packages
>(handbrake, handbrake-cli,handbrake-gtk) one of which contains nothing
>executable. Whereas Debian uses only 2 packages and puts the GUI
>version into the 'handbrake'
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 12:32, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:01:06 + David wrote:
> >Because you are running this:
> >
> > https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-arm64/package/handbrake
> >which is not packaged by Debian.
>
> Good point, well made.
>
> I fail
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:01:06 +
David wrote:
Hello David,
>Because you are running this:
>
> https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-arm64/package/handbrake
>which is not packaged by Debian.
Good point, well made.
I failed to spot that - because I'm so used to having Debi
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 11:53, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2025-04-26 07:32, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:15:41 -0400
> > Gary Dale wrote:
> >> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
> >> Handbrake but can't figur
On 2025-04-26 07:32, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:15:41 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
Hello Gary,
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
Install handbrake-gtk.
The entry for Handbrake should b
On 2025-04-25 15:22, Eben King wrote:
On 4/25/25 12:15, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the command li
On 2025-04-25 20:39, David wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 16:55, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the co
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:15:41 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
Hello Gary,
>I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
>Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
Install handbrake-gtk.
The entry for Handbrake should be found in Multimedia.
--
Regards _
On 2025-04-25 13:06, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 16:55, Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
> Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
>
> The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
> menu and the command line pro
On 4/25/25 12:15, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the command line program has too many options for
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
> Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
>
> The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
> menu and the command line pro
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the command line program has too many options for me to sort
through. I was hoping the GUI
ow screens (so it is not uncommon on e.g. Android) or
when a user needs really large fonts. However I have never tried to
evaluate what free tools are able to make PDFs suitable for reflow.
Another question is how to represent a wide table on a smartphone
screen, otherwise it is not "everywhere" nowadays.
On 24/4/25 16:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Informal advice is always "Write it in Word, then let Word convert it to
PDF" That works if the author is disciplined and knows how to tag,
heading orders and so on - but it can still produce tagged PDFs that
are nominally accessible to scre
est but the $$ versions.
Informal advice is always "Write it in Word, then let Word convert it to
PDF" That works if the author is disciplined and knows how to tag,
heading orders and so on - but it can still produce tagged PDFs that
are nominally accessible to screen readers but pract
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
>
> On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote:
> >
> > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a
> > dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best
> > source for data extraction.
>
>
> ISO 14
ncoded.
Again have not tried it, just spotted the title after reading your reply:
<https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes-text.html#how-to-extract-text-in-natural-reading-order>
"How to Extract Text in Natural Reading Order"
It matches my expectation that an application
On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote:
By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a
dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best
source for data extraction.
ISO 14289 is an accessibility standard for PDF. It allows for the
creation of a "Tagged
On 23/4/25 10:37, Max Nikulin wrote:
I would be great if a data extractor warned users when text from
document (either really text or embedded OCR layer for scans) does not
match text recognized from rendered document. Besides routine sanity
checks, document author might try to intentionally
On 22/04/2025 09:51, jeremy ardley wrote:
Some LLM can also accept pdf for input but you'd need to snip out the
pages you are interested in. I consider that slightly more risky as what
you see rendered or printed and what some programs see internal to the
pdf varies
I would be great if a data
On 22/4/25 10:43, David Wright wrote:
I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page
and ask a good Large Language Model to give you a table.
Assuming you took a photograph of the screen, I wouldn't be too
surprised about its confusing 8 and 0. Everything is so grey on
gr
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 10
- and I'm talking about honours
graduates in IT.
Now I am more productive than literally 10 junior developers. Me and
Claude that is. The difference is I know how to code and how to craft
instructions to smart LLMs like Claude.
I agree. To a certain extent I know my way around python. Ja
27;ve just installed it.
How can I exactly duplicate your default mc settings?
Is there perhaps a configuration file?
[ I'll continue with Caja for my routine usage. ]
My interpretation after a quick read turned out to be a "red herring".
All that is needed is xpdf itself - see below.
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://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TF
On 4/17/25 10:09 PM, 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://fns-prod.azureedge.us/site
and a
hex representation thereof. (I configured these choices in mc.)
A quick read of https://midnight-commander.org/ suggests that the
combination of xpdf *and* mc plays a significant role in your success.
As mc is in the Debian repository, I've just installed it.
How can I exactly dupl
eful due to all the checking and unit
testing and such, plus they quite often have comprehension problems and
are unable to follow instructions - and I'm talking about honours
graduates in IT.
Now I am more productive than literally 10 junior developers. Me and
Claude that is. The differe
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 01:35:19PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
>
> On 18/4/25 13:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and
> > > ask
> > > a good Large Language Model to give you a table.
> > After this, I'd double-check each indivi
On 18/4/25 13:35, jeremy ardley wrote:
Another strategy is to use two models and compare the outputs or use
the same model in two sessions.
I tried the two model approach and compared perplexity with Claude
Sonnet and asked Claude Sonnet to check the results.
*Query*
I have checked you
e.
I've been doing this for a couple of years now scanning bank statements etc.
I had previously tried the online pdf to text servers with varying
results. I also tried using PDF to text programs that often got poor
results for tabular data as what you see is not necessarily how it is
store
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:09:52AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
[...]
> I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and ask
> a good Large Language Model to give you a table.
After this, I'd double-check each individual number. You'll never know
if they are being made up,
)
> I navigate to Table A4.14 without problem.
> No problem selecting a rectangular area of interest.
Yes, it should create a black (?inverse) rectangle over the area.
> BUT how do I copy it somewhere useful?
I can either press the middle (paste) mouse button, or I can
press Shift-Insert
On 4/17/25 21:24, Richard Owlett wrote:
Selected text can be copied to the clipboard (with the edit/copy menu
item). On X11, selected text will be available in the X selection buffer.
Where is a Toolbar with a sidebar button?
I've never seen such a "sidebar button".
However, on the left ma
On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote:
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 li
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.
> > >
On 4/16/25 7:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote:
$ pdftotext -f 106 -l 107 TFP2021.pdf TFP2021.txt
As I replied to Nicolas I'll try both that and also a run with the
"-layout" option.
I typed the wrong line here (I should have copied/pasted); it should be:
On 4/15/25 12:56 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/15/25 07:19, 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://fns-prod.azureedge
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 formatted file containing the
two
left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&am
On 4/15/25 10:31 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 formatted file containing the two
left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of
[
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/defa
On 4/15/25 07:19, 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://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/
TF
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 formatted file containing the two
> left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of
> [
> https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/re
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://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf
].
Suggestions?
TIA
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 formatted file containing the
> two
> > left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&am
On 4/7/25 10:58, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 07/04/2025 10:36, hlyg wrote:
in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt
disks
if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr
and gpt disks
It seems you have solved your issue (using BIOS menu), so feel f
On 07/04/2025 10:36, hlyg wrote:
in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt disks
if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr and
gpt disks
It seems you have solved your issue (using BIOS menu), so feel free to
ignore my question. It is pure c
to Max Nikulin:
perhaps my optiplex is quite old, it hasn't uefi compatibility mode
though i have installed latest version
in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt disks
if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr and
gpt disks
On 05/04/2025 21:54, hlyg wrote:
i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show
under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian
but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work
[...]
how to remove them?
I am curious which way you boot Debia
are resulted from previous installation on gpt disks
>
> how to remove them?
Use efibootmgr. Gentoo has a nice page on using it.
Jeff
On 2025-04-05, Hans wrote:
> Maybe for someione interesting: As I also have Windows on my drive, there is
> an entry for Windows. I deleted this, because then I only have the entry
> "debian". And this is tarting grub, which got an entry for Windows.
> Dunno, if this is a good way, but it is w
Thank Hans! it is really Dell issue. i follow your instruction, it works.
ably they are resulted from previous installation on gpt disks
>
> how to remove them?
I have a DELL Latitude, dual boot (Debian and Windows), should have same BIOS
than yours.
Go into the BIOS-setup, then look General -> Boot Sequence , on the right side
you can delete or deativat
i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show
under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian
but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work
most probably they are resulted from previous installation on gpt disks
how to remove them?
), some randomness,
experience(overall and magical), as well as what you are carrying and how you
approach the situation. You will find some occasional humor. It is 2D with some
small amount of aspect ratio thrown in in some fight scenes. It requires a good
keyboard, and at least 800x600 monitor
@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-34-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.234-1 (2025-02-24)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
When i plug-in my copy of 12.90, immediately l get all connection from
other servers in my local group drop there connections.
I'm at a loss how config
I have a working install of 12.90. But am experiencing a minor hiccup.
When i plug-in my copy of 12.90, immediately l get all connection from
other servers in my local group drop there connections.
I'm at a loss how config this to stop?
Marco Möller wrote:
> Often during boot, not always though, and never after KDE Plasma already
> began to start, I observe a kernel panic. The system is Debian stable
> "bookworm", but using kernel 6.12.12 from backports. I know, this is not
> the officially recommended way to use Debian stable.
backported kernel will soon run stable Trixie, I think it wouldn't harm
to anyway provide a bug report.
Concerning a bug report,
how to activate the proper log file, and where to find it then?
I assume the best would be to have the log file collecting the necessary
data about several boots,
I'm running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 [Caja file manager]
I've been running MATE since it was released as alternative to Gnome3.
Over time /home/richard/Desktop has had many additions and deletions.
The combination of that with manually manually arranging icons related
to a current project res
2025-03-06[Thu]15:23 🦓 read that
2025-03-06[Thu]08:38 Geoff wrote
You can use dpigs from debian-goodies package:
debian-goodies' dpigs does a great job:
debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ dpigs -H
142.3M libgl1-mesa-dri
79.3M libpython3.7-dev
65.2M emacs-common
57.7M libllvm7
43.1M guile-2.
Greg Wooledge writes:
> Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing
> packages?
>
> For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's
> because *data* files are piling up, and may be in need of some trimming.
Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often fre
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also
> > has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click
> > menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up
> > dialog a
On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote:
xdg-mime query default application/pdf
Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or
xdg-open will use the reported handler.
E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit
different way.
exo-open (that i
On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote:
I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this
instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used
to supposedly "solve" the problem.
A wrong assumption.
On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
Before toda
On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote:
I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer.
Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install
another application that may open PDF files. If media type association
is not explicitly configured then
n Caja, right click on a PDF file. Click on "Properties". Click on
the "Open With" tab, select Atril.
That worked as expected the FIRST time a PDF document was chosen
[i.e. that action selected a DEFAULT viewer].
It subsequent use could select an alternate viewer for curre
On 08.03.2025 17:30 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
> Before today I never heard of anything beginning with "xdg".
Now you have heard about it, so use it.
> I'm looking for the specific MATE tool. ;}
I think that is maybe handled by the file manager. Which one do you use?
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On 3/8/25 7:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3
tions" (in
the "Personal" section). In the window that appears, click on the
"Office" tab. Set "Document Viewer" to Atril.
2. In Caja, right click on a PDF file. Click on "Properties". Click on
the "Open With" tab, select Atril.
I don'
cannot easily guess
which user-facing frontend made the change to your MIME type
associations, but you have been given instructions on how to change it
to what you want.
> Suggestions please.
I suggest to stop assuming you know better than everyone else when you
ask for help.
Thanks,
Andy
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On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote:
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
P
On 3/8/25 8:52 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:41:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferen
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
PDF file, select the program desired,
On 3/8/25 8:30 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
On 08.03.2025 14:50 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
But under Browser->Helper Applications i
On 3/8/25 7:55 AM, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2025 at 8:41 AM
From: "Richard Owlett"
To: "debian-user"
Subject: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clickin
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:41:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
>
> It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
> I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
>
> I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
> But und
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