Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Greg, thank you very much for your quick reply! Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, I had to "manually" copy the text from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/05/msg00154.html here I also did not mention that there is a related thread on guix-bugs mailing lis

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Greg, thank you very much for your quick reply! Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, I had to "manually" copy the text from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/05/msg00154.html here I also did not mention that there is a related thread on guix-bugs mailing lis

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, OK. > Actually I'm not configuring it in any way, the systemd user environment > ("systemdctl > --user show-environment") I get is the result of the default Debian

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Greg and David, as I said, please leave me in Cc: as I'm not subscribed Greg Wooledge writes: > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: >> Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, > > OK. > >> Actually I'm not configuring it in any way, th

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > On my laptop, inside LXTerminal: > > systemd---gdm3---gdm-session-wor---gdm-x-session---lxsession---lxpanel---lxterminal---bash---pstree Aha. It's a (grand)child of lxsession, just as with David's. > I'm sorry I was not clear

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread David
On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm > display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment) > > I need to customize some variables so I can see Guix installed > applications in my desktop menu, in particular I ne

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 12:36:59AM +1000, David wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > > I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm > > display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment) > > > > I need to customize some variables so I can see G

[SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread peter
From: David Wright Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:08:28 -0600 > I can't understand this. In a freshly installed Debian, /etc/passwd sets the home directory for root at /root. Here /etc/passwd sets the home directory for root at /home/root. No problem observed. > You may hit snags. Some pro

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Greg, Greg Wooledge writes: > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] >> No , because in my ~/.xsessionrc (and only there) I have this variable: >> >> export XSESSION_WAS_HERE="Yes" >> >> and if I check that variable via "env | grep HERE" in an LXTermin

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:24:35AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What I'm doing is similar to using DOS years ago; although DOS > predates experience of most people reading now. I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list.

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello David, thank you for your help David writes: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] >> The problem is that the lightdm (and LXDE) XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing >> "/home/patrizia/.guix-profile/share" and this is the reason why >> applications installed with Guix are n

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 6 May 2022 13:11:13 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:24:35AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > What I'm doing is similar to using DOS years ago; although DOS > > predates experience of most people reading now. > > I think you're vastly underestimating the average

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
On Freitag, 6. Mai 2022 13:11:13 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:24:35AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > What I'm doing is similar to using DOS years ago; although DOS > > predates experience of most people reading now. > > I think you're vastly underestimating the average

Re: [OT] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Nicolas George
Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE (12022-05-06): > > I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers > > on this list. > yeah, I started with CP/M on Z80 You need to be very old to have used these machines indeed, but probably not old enough to change the average age of a list with thousan

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2022-05-06 at 19:07 +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] > environment of lxsession: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > > g@renaissance:~$ sudo sh -c "tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/16876/environ | grep XDG" > [XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/s

Spanned Wallpaper (multi-monitor) | Plasma | Wayland

2022-05-06 Thread Lance Simmons
Spanning wallpaper across monitors in Plasma is a pain. A github project, "superpaper," works fine on X. But it doesn't work on Wayland. Does anyone know how to span wallpaper across monitors, in Plasma, using Wayland? (I'm running Sid.) -- Lance Simmons

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on > this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? VIC-20 users don't get old. Since most of the posters here are of over average age we should immediately drop the whole concept i

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Greg, Greg Wooledge writes: > On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 12:36:59AM +1000, David wrote: [...] > There's been a whole discussion about the environment variable being > set right or wrong in a *terminal*, but is that really relevant? What's relevant is that lxsession does not have a proper X

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/05/2022 à 20:24, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? VIC-20 users don't get old. Since most of the posters here are of over average age

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on > > this list. > > Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? I never used the word "old". > Since most of the po

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 08:33:49PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > What's relevant is that lxsession does not have a proper XDG_DATA_DIRS You might be misreading things. > Sorry I made confusion: I'm not concerned about LXTerminal (or other > terminals), it's just that I need a terminal to chec

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello David and Greg, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] >> On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > [...] > >>> The problem is that the lightdm (and LXDE) XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing >>> "/home/patrizia/.guix-profile/share" and this is the reason why >>> applications installed with

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 5/6/22 13:24: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? I am 83. First desktop was an IBM PC running IBM DOS Version 1, I think. Also saw my firs

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 06 May 2022 09:24:35 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > although DOS > predates experience of most people reading now. Maybe, maybe not. I got started with a KIM-I: 6502 running at 1 MHz, just over 1 kilobyte of RAM. Six seven segment displays and a hex keyboard for data entry. I still hav

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/6/22 1:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: Maybe, maybe not. I got started with a KIM-I: 6502 running at 1 MHz, just over 1 kilobyte of RAM. Six seven segment displays and a hex keyboard for data entry. I still have one. I remember *reading about* the KIM-I (and the Altair, and a few others) in

Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm (and in general?)

2022-05-06 Thread David
On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 03:16, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > Hi, you wrote a lot of other stuff that I have trimmed, but from > > what I have quoted above it seems that your complaint is that > > when you use a login shell you get a XDG_DATA_DIRS value > > you want, and when you login via lightdm yo

Re: Dino

2022-05-06 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 3/13/22 08:24, Stefan Kropp wrote: On Sa, 2022-03-12 23:00:33, Mongoose wrote: When may we see Dino messenger included in Debian stable? The dino XMPP IM Messenger is part of Debian [1] Version 0.2.0-3 in stable Version 0.3.0-2~bpo11+1 in stable backports [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pk

smtp.frontier.com and exim4

2022-05-06 Thread mike . junk . 46
I'm having no luck sending email through frontier.com. Their setup page says to use port 465 but that causes their server to disconnect immediately. Using port 587 I get a lot further but it dies on 'SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=3093 <>: Sender address rejected: Access denied' Though I've play

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread John Hasler
James H. H. Lampert writes: > I started with a TRS-80 Model I myself (and with high school > programming classes on an IBM 370/135 at the District Office, with > terminals connected over a pair of multiplexed phone lines [and a > maximum terminal speed of 300 Baud]). Punch cards and an IBM 1620 at

Re: Dino

2022-05-06 Thread Antti Talsta
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 10:17:14AM +0900, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > How many of you use XMPP chatting clients? I use Gajim on the desktop and Conversations on Android. I should properly test Dino, it seems like a nice client. > I was just trying some of those available on LINUX including this D

Re: smtp.frontier.com and exim4

2022-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 01:52:41AM +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > Their setup page says to use port 465 but that causes their server to > disconnect immediately. Sounds like a call to their tech support may be appropriate. > Using port 587 I get a lot further but it dies on > 'SMTP>> MAIL

Re: Dino

2022-05-06 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 5/7/22 11:14, Antti Talsta wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 10:17:14AM +0900, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: How many of you use XMPP chatting clients? I use Gajim on the desktop and Conversations on Android. I should properly test Dino, it seems like a nice client. I was just trying some of tho

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-05 03:57, Stephan Seitz wrote: Am Do, Mai 05, 2022 at 09:30:42 +0200 schrieb Klaus Singvogel: I think there are more. Yes, I only know wtf as „what the fuck”. Stephan Actually, it's "what the frack" - a nod to the Battlestar Galactica TV/movie franchise, which uses frack as t