Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

Dan Ritter writes: > The package name is udhcpc. Yes, and it's very cool. Well, poorly documented so it was a little hard to understand. Mostly my problem was the script it wants to run for various events and how to fix that to do the stuff I need and not do stuff that messes up my network setup

which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

i use twm for bullseye i want to record screen with ffmpeg, it allows me to select some region of screen i need a program that can display X/Y coordinates of mouse pointer as i move mouse

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

lou wrote: > i use twm for bullseye > > i want to record screen with ffmpeg, it allows me to select some region of > screen > > i need a program that can display X/Y coordinates of mouse pointer as i move > mouse xdotool getmouselocation does it once. You may wish to run it via watch in a tiny

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

On 5/9/22 7:09 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: xdotool getmouselocation Thanks! are you sure that xterm can be made always-on-top in twm?

Re: Networking pb

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 5:06 PM Hussein Yahia wrote: > > > I can connect from my mac to the Linux desktop. But I can't connect > from the Linux to the mac: when I go in the "Network" directory, the > mac does not appear. I installed smb on the Linux desktop. > > I'm suspecting that you need to go

Re: Networking pb

On 2022-05-08 22:58, Hussein Yahia wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, sorry if my question is naive. I just installed debian 11 on my computer. It's wire-connected to internet. I have another computer, a mac, which is connected through wifi. I can connect from my mac to the Linux desktop. But I can't

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

lou wrote: > > On 5/9/22 7:09 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > xdotool getmouselocation > > > Thanks! > > are you sure that xterm can be made always-on-top in twm? No, I've never used twm. fvwm, sawmill/sawfish, and xfwm can all do that. Probably most others. -dsr-

Needing help in knowing what package to report a bug

Hi, Description of problem: After suspend only one screen activates (dual screen system) and the mouse seems to be unresponsive. Basic System Using AMD cards (Radeon 5600XT and 5500XTY) My system is setup as a mult-seat system with one seat having two monitors and the other with one monitor. Usin

Re: macchanger - is it still working?

On Mon 09 May 2022 at 08:52:39 (+0200), Hans wrote: > So, tried again. > > The param in /etc/default/macchanger is set to "=true" > > > > > # before bringing up any network interface, run macchanger. Careful, this is > # not guaranteed to prevent leaking your real MAC add

Re: fstab problem [FIXED]

On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/8/22 15:00, ghe2001 wrote: > > On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > > > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defa

Re: macchanger - is it still working?

Hi David, > I don't know what you searched for. > I searched for all files below /etc of a string "IFACE", then looked at something like "IFACE=all" or "IFACE=--all" or similar. > v > What does your /etc/network/interfaces (and subdirectories) contain? > Only this: a

USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

On 5/9/22 10:21, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: >> As noted by another reader in another thread, the Debian 11 installer >> appears to always assign /dev/sda to d-i USB installation media; in >> spite of decades of standard practice of using

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On 5/8/22 18:54, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to copy to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, there's enough room). This are EFI drives. I can use "dd", but I don't know the proper parameters, and as I un

Re: USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

Hi, David Wright wrote: > > Dec 13 03:02:16 kernel: [3.155962] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI > > removable disk > > Dec 13 03:02:48 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount succeeded: device=/dev/sda1 > > fstype=iso9660 > > Dec 13 03:02:48 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount succeeded: device=/dev/sda1 > > fsty

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:54:16AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/8/22 18:54, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > Folks: > > > > Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to copy > > to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, there's > > enough room). T

Re: USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

On Mon 09 May 2022 at 11:30:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/9/22 10:21, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > >> As noted by another reader in another thread, the Debian 11 installer > >> appears to always assign /dev/sda to d-i US

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 19:18 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > Alternatively, you can plug in the new drive and do a minimal install on it. > Use > > dpkg --get-selections > somefilename > > to get a list of packages installed on one system and write it into somefile. > > dpkg --set-selec

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On 2022-05-09 at 15:18, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:54:16AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> I would take the KISS approach -- backup the system configuration >> files and data, remove the 500 GB drive, install the 250 GB drive, >> do a fresh install onto the 250 GB dr

booting from install usb

Greetings, I haven't done serious system work for many years. I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. I am in rescue mode from the USB stick used for install and have mounted the root file system and done: chroot /mydisk (where my root file system is mounted) I am

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Mon, 9 May 2022 11:54:16 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 5/8/22 18:54, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > Folks: > > > > Situation: I have a 500G boot drive (root, swap, home) I'd like to > > copy to a new 250G drive which must then also be bootable (yes, > > there's enough room). This ar

Re: booting from install usb

Paul Scott composed on 2022-05-09 12:25 (UTC-0700): > I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. Not in the way you think... > /dev.sda2 which is "ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" This should be the key, suggesting strongly that your Linux installation is installed in UEFI mode. If

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 04:47:44PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Unfortunately, this is precisely what I was trying to avoid. For example, to accommodate the graphics on my CPU, I had to use a later kernel from backports. That's one of many wrinkles. Under other circumstances, I probably

Re: macchanger - is it still working?

On Mon 09 May 2022 at 19:49:11 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > I don't know what you searched for. > > > I searched for all files below /etc of a string "IFACE", then looked at > something like "IFACE=all" > or "IFACE=--all" or similar. It's always worth searching for the parts separately, even thoug

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

On 5/9/22 9:21 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: No, I've never used twm. fvwm, sawmill/sawfish, and xfwm can all do that. Probably most others. -dsr- Thanks! i have success with icewm, not with fvwm xeyes knows mouse movement, it's too bad it doesn't show X/Y coordinates

Re: USB Debian 11 installer and target drive device node [was fstab problem]

On 5/9/22 12:58, David Wright wrote: On Mon 09 May 2022 at 11:30:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 5/9/22 10:21, David Wright wrote: On Sun 08 May 2022 at 23:39:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: As noted by another reader in another thread, the Debian 11 installer appears to always

Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

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Re: which program can show X/Y position of mouse pointer

On Mon 09 May 2022 at 19:20:25 (-0400), lou wrote: > > On 5/9/22 9:21 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > No, I've never used twm. fvwm, sawmill/sawfish, and xfwm can all > > do that. Probably most others. > > > > Thanks! i have success with icewm, not with fvwm > > xeyes knows mouse movement, it's too b

Re: booting from install usb

On 5/9/22 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Paul Scott composed on 2022-05-09 12:25 (UTC-0700): I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. Not in the way you think... /dev.sda2 which is "ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" This should be the key, suggesting strongly that your Linux inst

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

On 5/9/22 11:54, David Christensen wrote: Resizing and moving a Debian instance from a 500 GB drive to a 250 GB drive requires a lot of expertise. Maybe I'm misremembering. But doesn't clonezilla or using partclone directly accomplish this? i'm sure i've used it to do

Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

Hi, Am 09.05.2022 um 20:54 schrieb David Christensen: > Resizing and moving a Debian instance from a 500 GB drive to a 250 GB > drive requires a lot of expertise. I fully agree. And i am missing some information from the OP: Was the 500 GB drive UEFI already? Will both drives live on the same co