Re: Missing KDE "Switch user" command in Stretch

2017-11-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hat reinstall. That would be one reason why reinstalling doesn't always fix things. It might be about the dependencies being the ultimate cause of some problem or anther at hand.. I figured out a fairly easy work-around recently regarding additionally reinstalling dependencies with minimal brain strain finding them, but unfortunately just this second I can't remember what that work-around was... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
m an rsync and tweak to be bootable. #FAIL. There *are* fixes that I've successfully used in the last year or so, but I got sidetracked and never tracked that back down this last time. But that readonly might put the kibosh on any hope at any kind of fix in your case unless something like parted or gparted helps with that first.. Just thinking out loud (about something I might try).. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Iceweasel woes

2017-11-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
we close our browsers down. I haven't seen that toggle switch in a few months, but it does feel like I've seen it in at least the last year. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

TEA: Hefty Graphical Text Editor

2017-11-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
that. *pronto!* Anyway, am highlighting this new text editor find since the topic has come up before... AND... so far the very few "debian-user/tea" references in my inbox are "not my cup of tea" and "price of tea, yada-yada". Hope this helps someone. It does look no

Re: Re: Reproducible bug

2017-11-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
) But like in my case just now, I making sure I was referencing the correct log file... and found mine has a warning about a power button conflict of interest going on under the hood.. along with a bunch of other interesting things I keep forgetting to go back and play with for the purpose of learning more about Debian. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Cannot connect to WiFi.

2017-11-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
at you need that odd amount. It seems like that occurred in multiple unrelated places, too, while I was "grasping at straws". :) If I come across my specific case use again, it's at least wishlist worthy to have some kind of advisement/reminder, e.g. at least a cursor hover triggere

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot connect to WiFi

2017-11-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
rks. To accommodate those who don't like or need tooltips, there is often some way of turning them off universally, too. Speaking firsthand, I can't *stand* those oversized tooltips that are sometimes available for browser tabs. :) Tooltips are a handy usability feature. To me, they fall under accessibility, too, because they're very *cognitively friendly*. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/20/17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:43:30AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: >>

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

2017-11-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
with last used tabs, text editor with last multiple accessed files, etc. That was NOT expected behavior on a fresh reboot. :) With "free -m", I'm seeing inconsistencies in what comes in and out of SWAP after mine goes into some level of sleep/hibernation. Sometimes it will clear out c

Re: Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

2017-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
imagining is testing via a memory stick'ish or external hard drive situation. Not scientific, but it might yield something of possible use, anyway... Or not. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Firefox freezes

2017-11-29 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
but the gist was that it can skyrocket one's resource usage in a heartbeat. One or more browsers is working on ways to take control of it, either cherry pick what can run or block completely. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-29 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
r tried running something like this from within a terminal? It's been my favorite thing to try when something's not running properly. If you go that route, hopefully it might spew out one or more warning or error messages that might give you an idea of what's going on.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hy a password was needed at the terminal but not from within the GUI's "Applications > Log Out" menu path. I think I finally came to the (potentially misguided) a-sumption that one rationale *might* have something to do with having to sit here in person to click the GUI's menu

MATE needs testers for Atril PDF accessibility

2017-12-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
f download so I'm going to give it a peek as a potential new alternative PDF viewer. PS Wasn't quite sure how to forward this so I left it attached in whole directly below. That will make it easier to delete my rambling while grabbing the whole of the original if it turns out to be of in

Re: Stretch/Xfce: five xclock's running on startup

2017-12-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ere sat Thunar like it was open when it hadn't yet been used after a fresh reboot. A Developer apparently caught it or accidentally fixed it while addressing some other issue or feature because I haven't seen that occur in a while now... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Stretch/Xfce: five xclock's running on startup

2017-12-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 12/18/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/18/17, Roger Price wrote: >> Hi, command "inxi -S" reports >> Host: maria Kernel: 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 >> >> The user has defined $HOME/.config/autostart/xclock.desktop as >>

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ngth by showing the wrong number of asterisks. I've seen it go either way where there are more asterisks or less asterisks than the actual length of website access passwords. If I encounter that feature again soon, I'll come back and update with where it was seen. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 12/18/17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/18/17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Jeroen Mathon wrote: >> >> Don't forget to cc root kea, (s)he isn't on

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

2017-12-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nd.. If and when they take you up on this... and they potentially run into questions: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/ Not near as active as it used to be, but there are still some LONG time active, quality folks monitoring that list regularly. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Sony Memory Stick problem on Debian 9 stable

2017-12-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ard not formatted. Meanwhile the problem could ultimately be traced to a broken dedicated processor board or similar for that memory card slot. Nothin' is going to read nothin' for nothin' in Debian until that gets fixed first. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with #photog envy *

Re: port scans (OT?)

2017-12-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
nes. That traffic may have always been there in my case, but something else coincided that makes me wonder if this is something new Especially coincidentally to Glenn noticing his.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: OT: AOL fees (Re: Youtube - newbie guidance)

2017-12-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
single hour then paid by each single minute thereafter.. His daughter and her boyfriend ran up the bill one time, and he wanted MY bank account to pay for it. I don't remember the amount now, but it was no petty $10... or even $50. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: OT: AOL fees (Re: Youtube - newbie guidance)

2017-12-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
300 references to Studebaker TOTAL circa 1998, 1999. That number has slightly increased since then. Today, anyone with a phone where they're sick at their stomach having to monitor the data usage has a taste of what it was like back then :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Saving Sent Messages with Thunderbird

2017-12-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
understand (on any but an intellectual level) why anyone would > want to have it off. I accidentally stumbled upon being able to use ALT+F to bring up the toolbar without toggling it into (semi-)permanent view. I think I meant to hit CTRL+F to "find" something once upon a time and click

Re: Saving Sent Messages with Thunderbird

2017-12-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 12/28/17, Dan Purgert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> [...] >> >> I accidentally stumbled upon being able to use ALT+F to bring up the >> toolbar without toggling it into (semi-)permanent view. I thi

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
's Thunar only offers disconnect for BOTH device entries... which both (furthermore) look the same name-wise this second, too, by the way and now that you consciously brought this topic up. I always fence sit when I see this going on. It's distracting as freak for *my* brain, but i

Re: cli_ how to find_ firefox versions available in all suites

2023-10-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/21/23, జిందం వాఐి wrote: > On 2023-10-21 18:00, Dan Ritter wrote: >> జిందం వాఐి wrote: >>> * i want to check package versions >>> available in various suites [ stable, testing, >>> experimental, etc.. ] using cli >>> * for example_ firefox >> >> >> apt can look for versions available in the

Re: Panic again

2023-10-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/26/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > Good afternoon > Thank You for help. > > I ll answer into Your email > with > +++ > > > Von: Andrew M.A. Cater > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2023 12:04 > An: Schwibinger Michael > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Panic again any idea IV > > On Wed, Oct 25, 202

Re: Part II dd copy destroyed DVD

2023-11-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/18/23, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 18.11.2023 um 15:42:57 Uhr schrieb Schwibinger Michael: > >> I put in a "good" DVD. >> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/path/to/dvdcopy.iso >> is working and I can convert the ISO >> But I put in the damaged DVD >> dd cannot start. > > What is the error message? > > Are you

Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

2023-11-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 11/20/23, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> What happens when a timer should have been triggered at a time the >> computer >> was sleeping ? > > systemd.timer(5): > >OnCalendar= >[...] >When a system is tempora

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Please forgive me if I somehow messed up the quote attribution. There was a lot of stuff I was able to cull. :) On 12/5/23, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/5/23 10:33, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue mode as root and > > entered startx at the

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/14/23, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:01:19 -0500 > David Sawyer wrote: > >> This may seem to be a simple problem. I set up Debian with a password >> that I wrote down to be sure. > > Password for what? Your user account? A root password? Disk encryption? > > (This is why, w

Finding i386 After Support Ends (Was: differences among amd64 and i386)

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/17/23, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 06:10:49AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM Tixy wrote: >> > Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs >> > for the next release. >> > >> > [1] >> > https://lists.debian.org/

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/16/23, Pocket wrote: > > On 12/16/23 08:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I >> selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default >> sizes of the partitions. >> >> When I ran sudo apt update this morning I re

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/19/23, local10 wrote: > Dec 19, 2023, 15:30 by hfollm...@itcfollmann.com: > >> I have to ask: are you currently located at a remote location like the >> ISS >> station or similar? > > No, nothing like that. > >> Why would you go down this rabbit hole when the right >> thing is to replace fau

Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

2023-12-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
As Andrew did, I also CC'd.. :) On 12/25/23, 이 강우 wrote: > how to clone apt repository to newest only? > Fedora/Red Hat will organize the repository by copying only the most recent > packages from that distribution if you give it the "reposync --newest-only" > option, but Debian doesn't seem to

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 11:05 -0600, Mike McClain wrote: >> If I recall correctly, Firefox used to have a checkbox in the >> preferences to permit or deny auto updates. In this version 121.0 for >> the Raspberry PI, that's no longer so and I'm quite sure that FF >> updated

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Mike McClain wrote: > Mr. Martinez, > I tried every thing I could think of with little success: > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > apt update && apt -y full-upgrade > apt-get reinstall firefox > None of these restores firefox's black menus Just out of curiosity, did you

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Logging out as my normal user and then logging back in as same user > didn't fix anything visually so I rebooted. The desktop environment > immediately returned to normal and has stayed that way so I flat out > forgot this happened.

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/27/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/27/23, Mike McClain wrote: >> Mr. Martinez, >> I tried every thing I could think of with little success: >> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade >> apt update && apt -y full-upgrade >> apt-get re

Re: Vmware Workstation help opens abiword

2024-01-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/10/24, Valerio Vanni wrote: > The issue began after update from debian 10 to 11. And it persists in 12. > > Before, Vmware Workstation help was shown in default browser (it's an > html guide). > After, guide was not showing anymore. Calling it (click on "help" on > Vmware application) began o

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor >> >> I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than >> "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the >> entire

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/16/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:41:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: >> > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time >> > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. >> >> >> Wh

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/19/24, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > I won, and you lost >> >> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in >> the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > > That'

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/13/23, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> No. I meant, some people pre-installed some packages on debian and >> release >> it, which is declared as xxx-debian. > > What does "it" refers to? > > "some packages" meaning "some Debian packages" or "some non-Debian > packages"? > >> I am just not sure about

Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

2023-03-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/23/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I am using this (yes, visually cr@ppy ;-)) code snippet to set back > the time 5 hours. hwclock tells me it worked fine but the terminal > windows opened before and after running hwclock still give me the > "old" time setting? > > _HRS_PM=-5 > > ### > # > htt

Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

2023-03-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/23/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 3/23/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I am using this (yes, visually cr@ppy ;-)) code snippet to set back >> the time 5 hours. hwclock tells me it worked fine but the terminal >> windows opened before and after running hwclock stil

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/26/23, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. > > This morning, I got a mail from unattended-upgrades, which said: > >> Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: >> Debian stable: >>guile-2.2-libs w3m > > and >> Package guile-2.2-libs is kept back because

Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.

2023-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/26/23, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > Debian Bullseye here up to date. Browsers installed: Firefox, Opera, > Vivaldi, and Google Chrome. > > I'm having a weird problem streaming movies from archive.org. The movies > are lagging & keep buffering in all browsers but Google Chrome. Googl

Re: gradle wants openjdk-11 even if a newer version is installed? ...

2023-03-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/28/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/28/23, Nicolas George wrote: >> I suggest you show the contents of this file instead ... > > Did you mean you would rather have me post both 348 line files > instead of showing that they are the same? (I had eyeballed them, BTW) Has "diff" come up in

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: > I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and > swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I > went back to check the setting which was in "multitasking" before, that > tab has gone. Where is the hot corner setting

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/23, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >>> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. >> >> Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/4/23, Christoph Pleger wrote: >> > Hello, > >> I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last >> security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages: >> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 >> gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 >> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 >> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 > > Ah,

Re: PANIC Debian 11 LXDE After update no booting is possible

2023-05-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/19/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good afternoon > > I did the update and > when doing new start: > Crash Hi, Sophie.. While you're waiting for others to respond, am typing to say I just went through this a couple days ago. Our situations are all so different so this is a recap of what ha

Re: PANIC Debian 11 LXDE After update no booting is possible

2023-05-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/19/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/19/23, Schwibinger Michael wrote: >> Good afternoon >> >> I did the update and >> when doing new start: >> Crash > < snipped for relevance > > > > And they're perping it in a different way. Adobe

Re: debían fans

2023-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/23/23, Aleix Piulachs wrote: > Couldn’t turn on laptop fans but fixed with pwmconfig Cool. I have no experience nor knowledge with that program. Didn't locate it with an "apt-cache search" run, but also didn't give up. Tried one more time with "apt-file find pwmconfig". That landed the fanc

Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/24/23, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > there is a little problem, I am trying to fix. > > After upgrade to bookworm the keyboard layout has changed from German to US > > (de to us). > < snipped for relevance > > > Some thing I noticed at bootup: When the kernel is started (or before kernel > > s

Re: os-prober Just a Rant

2023-05-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/25/23, Andrea Borgia wrote: >> updates cause my edits to be overwritten... that sucks >> >> > Ah, ok, I wasn't seeing ghosts, then! Last time you all chatted this up, I went in and poked around. Now that GRUB is FINALLY working again, it's only registering one operating system. That's after

Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/15/23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I was checking my logs and this came up: > > Security Failed to receive portal pid: org.freedesktop.DBus, error, > NameHasNoOwner: > > Sender: pipewire > > Time: 12:12:39 AM > > Message: Failed to receive portal pid: org.freedesktop.DBus, error, > NameHasNoOw

Re: Want to report a bug, don't know which package

2023-06-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/27/23, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I recently updated from Bullseye to Bookworm and noticed that font hinting >> settings in >> `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf` are ignored. This was not the case on >> Bullseye and I'd like to >> report this as a bug. When I run reportbug it asks for a package

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-06-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/29/23, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 11:50 (UTC-0400): > >> First of all, I don't have a cat, so let's forego any further cattiness. > > It really wasn't meant to be humorous. Horizontal configurations with top > vents > are attractive to cats napping, leading

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/7/23, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-07 15:17 (UTC-0400): > >> I have just installed Bookworm without any problems. > >> However, synaptic has developed a problem: > > 1920x1080 is working now??? > >> Google has not found a solution that works. > >> I would appreci

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : >> I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. >> I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, > > Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? > >> and then merge them into one volume

Re: The Application Konsole weired behaviour

2023-07-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/21/23, Hans wrote: > I have an issue with the application "konsole" of KDE. The problem looks > weired: > > When opening konsole. i get the usual window with the prompt (black > background, white > letters). > > But it looks like there are invisible tabs set, as after the prompt there is > a

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
debian-user@lists.debian.org On 8/2/23, piorunz wrote: > On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: >> The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which >> draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. >> The Red Devil specifies a minimum system power of 450 w

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/19/23, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:19:48 +0200, > Christoph K. wrote: >> >>I'm unsatisfied with the default sans font in debian for use in the >>graphical user interface (in my case XFCE). >> >>My main concern with the default sans font (I guess it's Bitsream Vera, >>but

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/20/23, gene heskett wrote: > I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in > Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Well, I started out attempting to play along in xfce4-terminal and received: bash: tmp/cmd.log: No such file or directory Next I

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/28/23, songbird wrote: > gene heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> odd request: >> >> Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that plays at >> max volume, usually around 2 AM or slightly later, that is very similar >> to the 40 yo doorbell in this house. A bing-bong sound tha

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-08-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/31/23, Wang Yizhen wrote: > > I recently noticed a bug for the emacs package in sid. I have not > reported a bug before, so I wrote this email to seek for help. > > After upgraded to emacs 29.1+1-5, I found that the emacsclient command > is not working. More specifically, the following comman

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/11/24, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 10 Feb 2024 19:54 -0500, from hunguponcont...@gmail.com (Default User): >> Any recommendations for a GOOD alternative [IRC client]? > > If you describe what you like about hexchat and dislike about other > alternatives, that would ma

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/16/24, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:16 -0500 > Neal Heinecke wrote: > >> I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software >> sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads >> "Ubuntu Software" > > I have no idea what a "software s

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/17/24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 04:00:14PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. >> >> Another possibility is a (few) large file(s) that is/are still open for >> some process(es) but have been `rm` (`unl

Re: filesystem info

2024-03-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ologies for potential email formatting glitches. Boogeyman Gmail finally forced its dynamic'y version on us text folks. Standard line length options are "indisposed". I had to manually hack them down to size. FAIL. - Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

2024-03-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
hared object file: No such file or directory), > /usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so (/usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so: undefined > symbol: mysqlnd_global_stats)) in Unknown on line 0 > mysqli Just observing out loud: What's generating that double slash, i.e. "//usr," in the start of the message? That seems like a possible show stopper. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
oints appeared. I only manually mounted them once each. Manually umount'ing each point until none were left fixed whatever trouble that seemed to inflict on apt-get. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
st meet. That's heartbreaking. Cindy. PS Another apology for however this email might display. Still haven't found the switch to set the line length to circa 80 characters. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: can not find repo

2024-04-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM wrote: > > i don't see an armel repo on any of the mirrors i checked > it was there a week ago > has it been deleted or am i just old and blind > Hi.. I just took a quick poke at this by using the following k/t debootstrap: http://deb.debian.org/debian By clicki

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-Original Message- From: gene heskett To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Top Posting Date: 05/14/24 10:54:50 On 5/14/24 10:09, Richard wrote: Just because something isn't an official ISO standard doesn't mean it's not standard behavior. And how it relates to this mailing l

Re: OT: Top Posting

2024-05-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-Original Message- From: Greg Wooledge To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Top Posting Date: 05/14/24 13:41:17 On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:01:31PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > how many times has this top post crap been dug up > don't y'all have any thing better to

Re: Evolution & ThunderBird

2024-06-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 15:16 -0400, Jerry Mellon wrote: > > Hello, > > New user having trouble with evolution. I think that I have it setup > correctly, but it will not login > > to my email accounts. At the bottom of screen it is scanning the email > server from my login but then >   > a box po

Re: glob path question

2024-08-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Please forgive any formatting glitches. I'm still a brand newbie at sending emails out of Evolution. :) On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 8:08AM Michael Kjörling wrote: > > But this file is not listed by 'ls' command. > > > > # ls /etc/policyd-spf.conf > > ls: cannot access '/etc/policyd-spf.conf': No such

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > > I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another > > app. Rarely do I w

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 11:26 -0500, Eben King wrote: I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by EFI. I have: Storage boot option control UEFI only Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only (other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabled") The boot de

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 17:50 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content? > > Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is > loaded? Hi! What type(s) of ads are you seeing? In other words, are they for random consumer products

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

2025-02-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 07:05 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Rainer, > > I believe others have responded. > > Just for my curiosity, Is Network Manager installed?  Would you be > able to use nmclli to set a static IP address? Or maybe systemctl ? I was going to respond with something similar yes

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 22:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 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 > > What do you expect us to tell you? > > Web browsers are bloated monste

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 12:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? > > I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. > The > problem is, the Function-keys are not working. > > Not working means: The second level

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 12:10 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:52:34 -0500 > songbird wrote: > > Hello songbird, > > > warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already > > installed by openjdk-9 > > I've seen similar messages.  Certainly about openjdk, maybe oth

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 10:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > > > > > > You might try Google, with "Debian" (in quotation marks) added to &g

Re: EFI partition - some questions

2025-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 14:20 +0100, Hans wrote: Apologies, this is (another) long email. I tried to cover my experiences that were tied to that directory. tl;dr How did you install GRUB and/or EFI? It might be as simple as that. > I am using UEFI now for the first time. Everything is worin

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2025-01-26 at 04:12 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/1/25 00:33, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-01-25, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > > Someone has already claimed ownership of the first of the two; > > > about > > > bucketing the CIA. > > > > OT. > > > > relevant to thread, curtsy sue Happ

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

2025-02-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > > >   > > > > > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 > > > > > >   Table ES-1. Thrifty Food Plan market baskets, > > > > > > quantities > > > > > >

Re: Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 20:41 +1300, Lee Hinkleman wrote: > Hi debian-user: > Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Lee > > > " > DDependency resolution failed: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: > Breaks: lib

Re: no-code web builder application for Linux

2025-03-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 10:42 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:16:18AM -0500, Arbol One wrote: > > > Hello to all. > > > > > > I find myself looking for a way to increase productivity with the > > > aid of an > > > all purpose no-code web builder application for Linu

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 01:51 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On my Debian 12 desktop, I installed Evolution, primarily for easy > access to HTML messages.  Also, it gives me a second mail address. > > Several days ago, Evolution began causing a "Mail Authentication > Request" popup which preve

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