Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 12/01/2024 21:36, Valerio Vanni wrote: Tried, it works on DVB play. dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.kaffeine /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop The question is if this action can be a replacement for killing kaffeine before unloading the dvb kernel module. What is baloo'

Re: xfce screen detachment

On 13/01/2024 14:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Some days I'm glad I stuck to the most primitive window manager I could get. XFree86 (X11 server) had a similar feature a quarter of century ago and it worked in any window managers. If an application had overloaded GUI that did not fit to support

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 13/01/2024 04:39, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 12/01/2024 17:24, Max Nikulin ha scritto: On 12/01/2024 21:36, Valerio Vanni wrote: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.kaffeine /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop It seems implementation of MPRIS in kaffeine differs from what other

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

On 13/01/2024 22:37, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 13/01/2024 16:20, Max Nikulin ha scritto: And this is one with a --lastchannel launch: lrwx-- 1 valerio valerio 64 12 gen 20.52 34 -> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 lsof for the same process may be more informative, but currently it does

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On 14/01/2024 04:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: And use of HTTP in other fetches is dangerous, and HTTPS should be used. See . https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3462 states that this particular

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 13/01/2024 09:17, gene heskett wrote: Go to Thunderbird -> Edit -> Account Settings -> ghesk...@shentel.net -> Server Settings.  What is the value of the field "Server Type"? IMAP MAIL Server There is a little chance that messages are still on the server. Set "mark as deleted" for delet

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 15/01/2024 08:25, David Christensen wrote: /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-3.net/msgFilterRules.dat /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-2.net/msgFilterRules.dat /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-1.net/msgFilterRules.dat /h

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 16/01/2024 04:19, David Christensen wrote: $ ll -1 .thunderbird/dpchrist/*/*/msgFilterRules.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist   25 2024-01-15 12:50:34 .thunderbird/dpchrist/ImapMail/november.he-1.net/msgFilterRules.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 1011 2024-01-15 13:07:32 .thunderbird/dpc

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 16/01/2024 15:18, Tom Furie wrote: /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar. I have heard that some devices expose a USB mass storage interface out of the box

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 16/01/2024 12:36, David Christensen wrote: My Debian, Thunderbird, and message filters are working very well.  :-) My experience is that enough garbage appears in thunderbird profiles after several years of usage. Unsubscribed NNTP groups, IMAP caches that thunderbird considered corrupted,

Re: Problem with sound disappearing

On 16/01/2024 13:04, Maureen Thomas wrote: My sound has been working just fine the day before that.  Now nothing. Have a look into PipeWire articles in ArchLinux and Debian wiki.

normally start new xterms [was: Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help]

On 18/01/2024 04:20, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I normally start new xterms by xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg wheat -fg black -sl 1 +sb & Options may be put into ~/.Xresources xterm*vt100.saveLines: 1 xterm*VT100.background: wheat xterm*VT100.foreground: black ! etc Use xrdb to merge c

Re: Correction to last message for Debian 11 and Debian 12

On 17/01/2024 15:28, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:31:40PM +, Jeff Jennings wrote: Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice that Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. [...] That's served via https from cdimage.debian

Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

On 14/01/2024 00:19, Charles Curley wrote: charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & [2] 33609 charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed charles@jhegaala:~$ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/

Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

On 19/01/2024 04:08, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:02:44 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: Have you faced real issues namely with hardware acceleration? Other than this, not that I know of. I do not think the message concerning iHD is related to any real issue. I see "oops&qu

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On 18/01/2024 12:45, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 1/14/24, Max Nikulin wrote: Generally just pay attention that GPG keys for repositories are obtained through trusted channels. How do you functionally (that is, give me the step-by-step command line statements, ... in order to) do that

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On 1/19/24, Max Nikulin wrote: When adding a third-party repository, evaluate that GPG key you are going to add really belongs to repository maintainers. The sentence above is important to get the next phrase right. On 19/01/2024 22:22, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 1/19/24, Max Nikulin wrote

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 19/01/2024 06:10, gene heskett wrote: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013 085 085 010P

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

On 21/01/2024 06:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: [GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection. [...] Any idea what might be going on? Any hint how I could diagnose the problem? I would start from comparison of "vainfo" output and related sections in about:su

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 21/01/2024 03:23, gene heskett wrote: On 1/20/24 10:24, Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/01/2024 06:10, gene heskett wrote: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   071   049   000    Old_age Always

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On 21/01/2024 12:35, gene heskett wrote: I'm trying to get our states Attorney General to exert some influence over a cell phone bill I don't owe. The AG has sent me a form letter PDF with fill in the blanks for all the info. Do we have an editor in our arsenal that can do that to a pdf? Hav

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 21/01/2024 03:23, gene heskett wrote: Right now nothing in the system is north of 32C, might get to 36C at the end of a 9 minute build of something in OpenSCAD. I would say that 53°C and even 44°C is well above 36°C you expected: On 21/01/2024 12:48, gene heskett wrote: SCT Status Vers

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 21/01/2024 06:55, phoebus phoebus wrote: My role is strictly technical, focused on providing unbiased, pragmatic, and fact-based assessments of solutions, whether they are proprietary or open source. From my point of view, you are trying hard to avoid discussion of technical issues. It is

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI firmware related

On 21/01/2024 23:33, Geert Stappers wrote: The repair: wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb sudo dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#n

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

On 22/01/2024 04:26, Charles Curley wrote: You and I seem to be having similar problems. No, you don't. Charles, your graphics adapter is supported by i965, but not iHD and vainfo reports a number of profiles https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20240113101948.0a880f26@hawk.localdomain Chrom

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 22/01/2024 05:44, phoebus phoebus wrote: Handling Returns: When the filter receives returns from the serial printer, it directly transmits them to the terminal application without any modification or addition. Thus, information from the serial printer is relayed as is to the terminal applicati

Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

On 19/01/2024 04:08, Charles Curley wrote: charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium chrome://gpu libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed ^C Killed charles@jhegaala:~$ I did a killall -9 in another window to kill it. Does it happen in the case of a new system user and a new

chromium http://localhost:80

On 22/01/2024 02:50, gene heskett wrote: browser: chromium It was also true here using the file:// prefix, trying look at the html versions of the man pages in /usr/share/local/docs. /usr/share may be unavailable inside snap or flatpack sandboxes, so it is expected. Even /etc/hosts, /etc/re

Powered USB hub [was: Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help]

On 23/01/2024 10:55, gene heskett wrote: hub: Purchasing a

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On 23/01/2024 19:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: Also from the "weird results" category: if I mangle the URL by using two slashes instead of three, Chrome appears to treat that as a relative pathname, attempts to open usr/share/whatever instead of /usr/share/whatever, fails, and gives me an error page.

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 22/01/2024 22:33, Stefan Monnier wrote: That's the way it was built -- just mimicking the "real terminal cum firmware" which was replaced with "DOS/Windows PC cum terminal application". I think it's more than that. It's a design that makes a lot of sense: it would be more complex having to

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

On 24/01/2024 06:29, Miroslav Skoric wrote: # df -h /dev/mapper/localhost-root  6.2G  4.7G  1.2G  81% / Taking into account size of kernel packages, I would allocate a few G more for the root partition. dpkg -s linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 | grep -i size Installed-Size: 398452 Notice that

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

On 24/01/2024 03:34, Charles Curley wrote: So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 The current kernel is linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 Perhaps you have not restored your sources.list or apt preferences after the accidents with kernel bugs. Check that nothing extra is added and n

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI

On 24/01/2024 04:18, Geert Stappers wrote: |root@nero:~# nmcli device | grep -e wifi -e gsm |ttyACM1 gsm unavailable -- |wlp2s0wifi unavailable -- If the devices are hard-blocked then you may need to enable them in firmware (BIOS) setup. Old lap

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 24/01/2024 00:16, David Wright wrote: On Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 00:00:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: Server-side code mixing 2 data streams into single channel may be a bit more simple than association of 2 connections with the same client, but the price is this long thread. OTOH we'v

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On 23/01/2024 08:52, phoebus phoebus wrote: "Xterm 216" is unclear for me. > PuTTY documentation in 4.4.3 Changing the action of the function keys and keypad explain it by "In Xterm 216 mode, the unshifted function keys behave the same as Xterm R6 mode. But pressing a function key together with

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

On 25/01/2024 20:42, Henning Follmann wrote: The issue is a usb hub. Somehow GNOME thinks this hub is a mouse. Try lsusb --verbose --tree perhaps somebody plugged in a tiny receiver for a wireless mouse and forgot about it.

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

On 24/01/2024 04:28, Stefan Monnier wrote: But since `pactl` seems to still be useful for Pipewire, I tried `pavucontrol` and it shows me no device from which to select in the "Output Devices". Now, how do I figure out why that is? The problem might be in between of lspci -vnn and p

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

On 24/01/2024 02:13, Marcelo Laia wrote: After recently upgrade, my external keyboard and external mouse (both USB) stopped working after after the screen brightness automatically decreased. This has occurred a few times, and I can only solve it by rebooting the laptop. Were your experiment

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

On 26/01/2024 03:33, D. R. Evans wrote: $ snap run acrordrdc unknown command: run $ I was amazed that I simply couldn't find anything about actually running installed packages Desktop environment GUI launcher or menu. Have you performed relogin after installing snap? When I tried it on Ubun

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

On 25/01/2024 21:42, Max Nikulin wrote: Try     lsusb --verbose --tree I have received a private reply. Please, send messages to the mailing list in such cases. I intentionally combined -vt options and I find output more convenient than for just "lsusb -t". The "-t&

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

On 26/01/2024 07:09, Stefan Monnier wrote: systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber which shows that `wireplumber` failed to start. I was assuming that systemctl --user --failed journalctl --user --boot and as root systemctl --failed journalctl --boot were

Re: Playing a sound when initrd wants a password

On 28/01/2024 00:07, Curt wrote: (Anyway, this is what my personal robot explained to me and may be subject to imperfection and error.) I find it over-sophisticated and, being put after the recipe, extremely unfriendly to those who get it in search engine results. Unfortunately bootup(7) is r

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

On 29/01/2024 04:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 03:57:30PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: systemctl mask packagekit I don't think you're looking at the right thing. "packagekit" seems to be an interface to dbus. By itself, it doesn't do what you think it does. Perhaps

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: Let me test that as well [...] unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file "okular" is important here. Only limited set of file name suffixes are allowed for some commands. You do not need to have okular installed, completion rules are part of

Re: How to insert symbols into emails

On 29/01/2024 22:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:54:44PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: Those symbols are very nice, which tool have you used to insert them? Easy. I configured my CAPSLOCK key (which is usele

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: . Press HOME, . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), . Press END, The escape "Esc /" workaround has been posted in this thread already. It uses built-in readline path completion instead of BASH programmable completion. It may

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

On 30/01/2024 08:21, Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: nm-online nmcli nmcli connection nmcli device /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --print-config apt list '~i~nnetwork-manager' E.g. the network-manager-config-connectivity-debian package sets connectivity test URI tohttp://network-test.debian.org/nm  see Ne

Re: Issues after upgrading 11 -> 12; was: Is 12.4 safe, or should I wait for 12.5?

On 31/01/2024 01:14, Charlie Gibbs wrote: [Sorry about the broken threads; I read this group on Usenet.] I use a NNTP gateway as well. That seems the obvious conclusion.  I was pretty gobsmacked, though, when my system came up in a totally different graphical environment. May it happen that

Re: How to insert symbols into emails

On 31/01/2024 03:36, Franco Martelli wrote: It happens something strange, when I type "crocodile" into the search bar of "kcharselect" I get an empty square visualized, if I click to "Copy to clipboard" button and then paste to Thunderbird I can see the crocodile but not in "kcharselect" … do

Re: Request about Boot Repair Disk

On 28/01/2024 01:03, fran...@libero.it wrote: If I use SuperGrub cd by manual booting I can access to debian and boot it. So I used Boort Repair Disk 64 to try to repair, but it gave me a report advicing me to ask online with that report here under: (it is a long report) I have no idea co

Re: How to insert symbols into emails

On 30/01/2024 07:14, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: so i defined my compose key in "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" file i see a definition how do i type this The 22a5 key presents in some apl and de layouts grep -ri 22a5 /usr/share/X11/xkb/ You can either add another layout

Re: chrony date months off

On 31/01/2024 17:54, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I think you want "maxstep". It's in the man page chrony.conf(5). But if the time is "months off" perhaps you've got another problem to fix first? I think, the problem is no RTC on some *pi board, certainly chrony out of box setup is not ready to su

Re: Can't list root directory

On 29/01/2024 23:42, Gary Dale wrote: "ls -l /" just hangs It may dereference symlinks, call stat, etc. to colorize output. May it happen that you have automount points or something related to network mounts? Does "echo /*" hangs? Even bash prompt may do some funny stuff. I would try it fr

Re: chrony date months off

On 31/01/2024 20:24, didar wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 05:32:26AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: How do I setup /etc/chrony/chrony.conf so it slams the system clock to the current time on the first cycle as its rebooting? There was 20 yeas back, an ntpdate command that would do that. You can us

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 01/02/2024 22:54, Marco Moock wrote: Am 01.02.2024 schrieb Dmitry: Use gdisk for that. You can create an EFI partition there. Choose Type EFI (EF00), 100MB. Format it with FAT32. 550MiB is recommended in "Preparing your ESP" http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/#installing see also https://w

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 02/02/2024 01:46, Dmitry wrote: 3. Now I want to boot using that Flash. 1. ESP is a partition that stores GRUB Binary. /boot/EFI/Name/grub64.eif On a *removable* drive EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi (that is actually /usr/lib/shim/shimx64.efi.signed that loads grubx64.efi) may allow to boot without

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

On 01/02/2024 05:45, hw wrote: It would make sense that all the UEFI BIOSs would be fixed so that they do not create this problem in the first place like they shouldn't. Besides regular boots, sometimes it is necessary to update firmware and .efi files loaded for this purpose may write logs or

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 02/02/2024 21:06, Dmitry wrote: Need additional research what to do with a FlashStick with several partitions to make a LiveCD from it. Just copy files from LiveCD (it should have EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi) to the ESP partition on the USB stick.

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 03/02/2024 02:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Just copy files from LiveCD (it should have EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi) to the ESP partition on the USB stick. The /EFI/boot directory of a bootable Debian ISO usually does not contain the full GRUB equipment for EFI. Important parts of

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 03/02/2024 02:15, Tim Woodall wrote: $ cat /boot/efi/EFI/XEN/xen.cfg [...] I'd be interested if there's a way to tell grubx64.efi to look for a particular partition UUID. An example of such grub.cfg from EFI/debian has been posted already in this thread https://lists.debian.org/msgid-sea

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 03/02/2024 22:32, Dmitry wrote: 2. sudo bash sudo -i 3. cd /boot/efi/EFI/Mangaro 4. strings grubx64.efi 5. And at the output of strings there is UUID and /boot/grub. I am unsure what UUID you mean. Summary: GRUB installation not only involves configuration of text files, but also it i

Re: script/history

On 04/02/2024 16:46, Gareth Evans wrote: Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make commands run during a script session appear in bash history too? [...] man script says "SEE ALSO csh(1) (for the history mechanism)" but $ man csh No manual entry for csh echo $SH

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

On 30/01/2024 12:50, David Wright wrote: On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: . Press HOME, . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), . Press END, [...] However, using my "wrong" command method, Tab Tab lists are complete all the way down the path. You can then corr

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

On 05/02/2024 17:40, Dmitry wrote: > It would not work with secure boot Yes. But secure boot is usually turned off. It is a standard advice during Linux installation. That advice may be standard for distributions that do not provide signed shim and grub. Likely it is applicable for Arch an

Re: Many systemd units do not start anymore

On 05/02/2024 23:28, Christoph Pleger wrote: This is the output of systemctl list-jobs : JOB UNIT TYPE STATE 102 autofs.service start waiting 82 mlocate.timerstart waiting 80 e2scrub_all.timerst

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 06/02/2024 06:14, David Christensen wrote: Enter a Zip Code of "12345", highlight the first result, copy it to the clipboard, [...]> But if I close the above Firefox window, start a Firefox instance, browse to: If you terminate an application handling selection then content is not availab

Re: Many systemd units do not start anymore

On 06/02/2024 03:46, Michael Biebl wrote: If you are not using systemd-timesyncd, you could also consider disabling systemd-time-wait-sync.service (via systemctl disable). My guess is that this board does not have RTC, so NTP is a must have and dependency on time synchronization is intentional

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

On 06/02/2024 03:59, Michael Kjörling wrote: Pretty sure /etc/default/keyboard has been a thing on Debian for just about forever. GNOME developers decided that they do not want to support all "bells and whistles" of XKB, e.g. layout switch using CapsLock and Shift+CapsLock. So some features c

Re: what keyboard do you use?

On 05/02/2024 18:37, hw wrote: With xmodmap, I was able to adjust the layout as needed. With wayland, I can't do that anymore Untested: https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/02/user-specific-xkb-configuration-part-1.html User-specific XKB configuration - part 1 and I have heard about a low-level t

Re: Mixing HDD and SSD in lvm

On 06/02/2024 18:18, Kamil Jońca wrote: 1. now VG has two PV. Both are raid1 with two HDD. 2. I want to have VG with one PV as RAID1 with 2 HDD's and second PV as RAID1 with 2SSD's Just a warning. It seems, it is necessary to ensure that drives use the same block size, however my impression ma

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 06/02/2024 13:28, David Christensen wrote: On 2/5/24 19:03, Max Nikulin wrote:     xclip -o -selection PRIMARY     xclip -o -selection CLIPBOARD That is useful. I expected that you would try both commands when vim is unable to paste. It would allow to discriminate whether it is Firefox

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 06/02/2024 18:33, Ralph Aichinger wrote: As others have written, vim has changed copy+paste defaults some time ago. Some even call this changing defaults "they broke copy+paste" 😉. I am using vim in GUI terminal applications and I have not noticed it. Vim is a rare application that provides

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 06/02/2024 19:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:28:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: Continuing from above in Vim in Insert mode, if I then simultaneously press the Ctrl, Shift, and v keys, and then release all keys, Vim inserts the contents of the clipboard; as confirmed

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 06/02/2024 21:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: Anything that came from a desktop environment is pretty exotic to me. I'm pretty old-school. If xterm can't do it, then I'll call it exotic. Rewrap on window resize is a convenient feature of libvte. Ctrl+Shift+V for xterm: xterm*vt100.translations:

xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim]

On 07/02/2024 00:38, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-02-07): Shift Ctrl C: CtrlInsert is the standard counterpart to ShiftInsert. It may be a convention for applications other than terminals, however I am unsure what "standard" means for terminals. Konsole has

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 07/02/2024 00:35, Ralph Aichinger wrote: On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 21:31 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: is active in terminal, it is possible to hold [Shift] to get mouse events handled by terminal instead of Vim or another application running in terminal. I think pressing shift does not work here

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

On 07/02/2024 19:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 11:02:09PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: * Pressing " then + then p seems to paste from the default Vim buffer -- what I seem to recall being referred to as the "yank buffer" (?). * Pressing " then * then p seems to paste from

Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim]

On 07/02/2024 19:20, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-02-07): It may be a convention for applications other than terminals, however I am unsure what "standard" means for terminals. I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it is more “standard” fulls

Re: Things I don't touch with a 3.048m barge pole: USB storage (Was Re: Unidentified subject!)

On 08/02/2024 22:36, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 03:30:29PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [629241.074187] scsi host37: usb-storage 1-2:1.0 USB storage is for phones and cameras etc, not for serious computing. Do you mean that a proper backup drive should use uas (USB Attached Sto

Re: Drag-and-drop actions broken for Firefox 122.0.1 under Wayland

On 08/02/2024 09:41, Jake Herrmann wrote: I'm running Debian 12 (bookworm), using GNOME 43.9 under Wayland. I installed Firefox 122.0.1 from the Mozilla binaries as described on the Debian Wiki [1]. Drag-and-drop actions with Firefox seem to be broken under Wayland. Does drag-n-drop work for y

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

On 25/03/2023 07:07, Albretch Mueller wrote: I am using right now a DELL laptop which had Windows 11 installed but I expect that the following should work smoothly enough: - Hardware clock is in UTC - Both Debian and Windows installed on the hard drive are configured to your local time zone

Re: shim boot-loader problem

On 25/03/2023 04:48, KCB Leigh wrote:     > Through about May of 2022 I was able to also boot with       Ubuntu, with no problems... but some time in the last half       of 2022, I updated Debian, & now, although the Ubuntu option       exists in the GRUB boot loader menu, when I select it, I

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

On 25/03/2023 10:39, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 3/25/23, Max Nikulin wrote: - Both Debian and Windows installed on the hard drive ... Thank you for the steps and the logical elucidations that may certainly help someone else, but I can't do that "because" all electronic devi

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

On 25/03/2023 10:39, Albretch Mueller wrote: You can't physically alter a DVD[+|-]R once it is burned ... Do you customize images to change preferences, e.g. to make OS aware that hardware clock is set to local time? If you do not than OS almost certainly assumes that system time is in UTC,

Re: Playing Card Symbols

On 28/03/2023 03:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: In all 3 terminals, Ctrl-Shift-U simply acts like Ctrl-U. If there's already text typed at the bash prompt, it's all erased. If there's no text typed at the bash prompt, it beeps. It may depend on X inputMethod setting in xterm, whether ibus or some

Re: Unable to open Thunderbird as default calendar app

On 29/03/2023 05:01, John Boxall wrote: I am trying to launch Thunderbird as my calendar application when opening a webcal link. Your description is too general, it lacks details. E.g. you did not provide exact commands and their output that you use to check that defaults are set properly.

Re: Unable to open Thunderbird as default calendar app

On 30/03/2023 08:01, John Boxall wrote: "xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/webcal org.gnome.Evolution.desktop" To express it explicitly: handling of "text/calendar" .ics files and webcal: (webcals:) URI schemes are configured independently. From your original message it was unclear

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

On 01/04/2023 14:59, DdB wrote: In fact, unfortunately, i did not understand the necessity to wrap the output, as i am happily using the synchronised scrollbar (inside meld) in such cases, but ofc, that may not fit your use case. If it is prose text formatted as a line per paragraph then wrappe

Re: questions about cron.daily

On 08/04/2023 19:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: Have you ever actually *made* a systemd --user unit file? If so, for what purpose? For LXC unprivileged containers that are stopped on logout. Do you mean it is exceptional case when default user units need adjustment? /usr/lib/systemd/user director

Re: questions about cron.daily

On 08/04/2023 22:17, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Have you ever actually *made* a systemd --user unit file? If so, for what purpose? I have one. It starts emacs server for me when I login. There is ready to use one: /usr/lib/systemd/user/emacs.service Perhaps there is no such file in buster.

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

On 08/04/2023 23:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: One of the basic goals of structured programming languages was to eliminate reliance on line numbers -- which were the hallmark of many other languages in use at the time. or reliance on labels (represented by numbers) for goto destination as in early

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

On 11/04/2023 07:12, songbird wrote: the bios did let me turn down the temperature so we'll see how that works next time i need to do an upload. I am curious if it affects /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone* I have never tried to do anything with this interface. I decided to look into sysfs

Re: questions about cron.daily

On 09/04/2023 14:54, Michel Verdier wrote: Le 8 avril 2023 Max Nikulin a écrit : There is ready to use one: /usr/lib/systemd/user/emacs.service Perhaps there is no such file in buster. /usr/lib/systemd/user is for global system running. If you want to change something in the service you copy

Re: how to change default nameserver?

On 12/04/2023 00:36, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you're deafblind and using a Braille reader - it looks for a serial tty. That's the only way it can work. It can't ask you first necessarily. Since new class of users has been identified, namely those who have serial port adapters, but no brltty

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

On 13/04/2023 08:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:12:23AM +, David wrote: $ echo [^0-9]* 11 22 <-- new behaviour by dash [...] The correct negation syntax in POSIX sh globs is [!chars]. The shellcheck utility gives this suggestion as well. Their wiki have

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

On 14/04/2023 09:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 09:08:08AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3026 Help by adding links to BashFAQ, StackOverflow, man pages, POSIX, etc Well, it's not clear how to actually add such a link. I guess you're s

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

On 15/04/2023 12:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 11:02:03PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 09:44:03AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: As to [^c] vs. [!c], unfortunately the latter can not be always used as portable variant. It is treated as history expansion

Re: Commands service and systemctl.

On 14/04/2023 22:05, peter wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd has many occurrences of "service", none referring to the service command. See systemd.unit(5). Besides services, systemd has sockets, timers and other unit types. For several somethings, the result of command, service so

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

On 15/04/2023 19:37, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:02:12AM +, davidson wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 Max Nikulin wrote: The problem is to prevent history expansion while keeping pattern matching (glob) active. du -ks -- .[!.]* | sort -n | tail Are there versions of

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