Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote: Try: about:config browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete Change boolean value to false. Restart browser. Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox versions, the field name is browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled and I don't need to

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote: Try: about:config browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete Change boolean value to false. Restart browser. Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox versions, the field name is browser.u

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch. Changing browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference. rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly, and immediatly (i.e without restarting firefox) PS: and it's not an April fool

Re: How to shut down

2018-04-01 Thread Siard
solitone: > Don Armstrong: > > You can use either. `shutdown -h now` on a machine with systemd > > actually invokes systemctl with the equivalent of systemctl poweroff > > Yes, I've checked again and now 'systemctl poweroff' does power off > the machine. No idea on what changed. FYI: By default,

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 04/01/2018 08:24 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Yes, the OS is Debian Stretch. Changing browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled made no difference. rather strange. I made an other test just now, and it works perfectly, and immediatly (i.e without re

utf

2018-04-01 Thread mess-mate
Hi, howto change the system utf to eu character set ? regards

3 screens

2018-04-01 Thread mess-mate
Hi, I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them. GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970. regards

Re: 3 screens

2018-04-01 Thread mess-mate
On 04/01/18 16:12, mess-mate wrote: Hi, I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them. GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970. regards Ok... SOLVED/Found

Re: 3 screens

2018-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 April 2018 10:41:12 mess-mate wrote: > On 04/01/18 16:12, mess-mate wrote: > > Hi, > > I've 3 working screens and my mouse can access only 2 of them. > > GPU=nvidia geforce gtx970. > > regards > > Ok... SOLVED/Found But how did you solve it, so its in the list archives for the next p

Re: utf

2018-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2018-04-01, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > > howto change the system utf to eu character set ? https://wiki.debian.org/Locale (if it's not wrong or hopelessly out of date). The last I checked--and as far as I know--(with administrative privileges), dpkg-reconfigure locales was the way to go.

Re: utf

2018-04-01 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 1-04-2018, at 16h 05'41", mess-mate wrote about "utf" > Hi, > > howto change the system utf to eu character set ? > > regards What is "eu character set"? None of the Latin-x or iso8859-y can cover all the gliphs of all the countries in Europe. So, without knowing what do you think is "eu

Re: utf

2018-04-01 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2018-04-01 16:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > howto change the system utf to eu character set ? If, by "eu", you mean ISO 8859-1 or -15, here is the procedure that works for me : 1) Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select some appropriate non-UTF-8 locales. When asked what the defau

Detect if polkit user-agent is running

2018-04-01 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, is there any way to detect if a policykit user-agent is running before actually calling pkexec to display the dialog with the login prompt? >From the pkexec man page it looks like calling pkexec --disable-internal-agent should be sufficient as test, since the exit code 127 should tell

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:20:36 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote: > > > >> Try: > >> > >> about:config > >> > >> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete > >> > >> Change boolean value to false. > >> > >> Restart browser.

Re: Storing "real" user data: was: Re: Update: Re: Password Manager opinions and recommendations

2018-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 12:15:18 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 30, 2018 11:17:32 AM Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > There's ~/.config > > (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#~/.co > > nfig) . Many apps use it, but still the majority uses ~ dir

Re: XFCE problems

2018-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 Mar 2018 at 10:54:23 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > In my (also XFCE4) case, what likely happened appeared *possibly* > related to memory.. *possibly* not. I lost "control" of the cursor for > a few seconds. Could move it around, but that was it. Neither left > click nor right click *

Re: utf

2018-04-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote: howto change the system utf to eu character set ? Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes: http://utf8everywhere.org/ What are you trying to do, and why do you thing a non-UTF encoding might help you to do it? You will likely be able

Re: Completely disable Hibernation

2018-04-01 Thread coco...@t-online.de
Hi, @Felix Miata: It was the unfamiliar phrase, "bootloader stanza" that threw me. Once I realised that what you were suggesting was adding "noresume" as a kernel parameter at boot time, I had a look here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt "noresume" is d

Re: utf

2018-04-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/1/18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote: >> howto change the system utf to eu character set ? > > Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes: > http://utf8everywhere.org/ > > What are you trying to do, and why do you thing a non-UTF encoding m