Re: Change file picker in browsers

On 27/09/2024 21:01, J wrote: So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. I expect that to use thunar as a file picker it should provide file picker desktop-portal D-Bus interface and DE should allow alternative d

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 27/09/2024 06:47, tom arnall wrote: the hardware is a bluetooth headset  LG-HBS-XL7. thanks for getting back to me. ___ Hopefully Kamala Harris will be a president whom all of us end up both respecting and loving. If God-centered people are working for her, the chances of that happe

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 27/09/2024 18:53, George at Clug wrote: 3) I am not confident that constant switching between display manager, e.g. LightDM, SLiM, XDM, GDM, SDDM, KDM, Ly will not cause issues. Besides the frustration of changing the configuration each time you want to jump into another DE. Is it really n

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 25/09/2024 14:24, Anssi Saari wrote: Max Nikulin writes: On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono Is it a Bluetooth headset? That case see Debian wiki for limitations. Which part of the wiki? There seem to be a bunch of

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

On 03/10/2024 07:14, Gary Dale wrote: host does not support domain type kvm with machine "pc-0.12' for virtualization type 'hvm' with architecture 'x86_64' [...] I haven't tried using the Windows XP VMs in years, I have never tried virt-manager, so I have no idea what 'hvm' may mean. Support

Re: I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input

On 03/10/2024 03:55, tom arnall wrote: I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input. It was working a week ago: On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: When I set output to headset and then set input to headset, the output setting immediately chan

Re: battery tester

On 23/10/2024 22:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: 1) download the applications from ANCEL website. www.anceltech.com [...] Installing software from a Chinese vendor does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. The question is whether there is an a

Re: battery tester

On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point there's a menu on its screen. Start "journalctl -f" as root before connecting the device. Logs may contain some hints how to communicate with it. Perhaps "udevadm monitor"

Re: utelnetd

On 24/11/2024 23:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: An embedded system may have one terminal connected. A connection to an external network is not necessary for communication between utelnetd and telnet client. If the connected system is also connected to an external network, a firewall can prevent i

Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another gap separating man and info. Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually "less" is used as a pa

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote: $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf What is the point in converting man when the same content is available as texinfo source? Moreover, PDF file is ready to use: /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.html /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf /usr/share/doc/b

Re: Debugging systemd-tmpfiles

On 29/11/2024 02:24, jman wrote: Erwan David writes: However, those directories are not cleaned. What should I check ? I've not yet used systemd-tmpfiles but the first thing that comes to my mind, if I had to use it, would to be very careful and mindful of the "purge" command, which can have

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

On 19/11/2024 22:22, Hans wrote: The strange thing is: When watching a video with "smplayer" or with "mpv", then the screen is not going blank. My guess is that mpv properly inhibits screensaver, likely using a D-Bus call. S

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

On 18/11/2024 11:20, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 10:30:06AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Are there any errors in Console ([Ctrl+Shift+K])? Right click on any entry allows to copy or to save all messages. The message id is russell#1 I suspect that GL canvas on an error

Re: Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 AMD. Unable to resume from suspend.

On 09/11/2024 05:57, AFB wrote: The only way to get back control of the laptop is to hold down the power button and do a hard reset. Video drivers are not uncommon source of suspend and hibernate issues. Are network services working in this state? Can you login using ssh (if ssh daemon is ins

Thunderbird-128 folder cache corruption

Hi, Just a warning. Thunderbird-128.4.0 have arrived to bookworm https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00217.html [DSA 5803-1] thunderbird security update Support for the 115.x series has ended, so starting with this update we're now following the 128.x series. However the

Re: BD backup?

On 17/11/2024 05:37, e...@gmx.us wrote: > eben@cerberus:~$ vlc /dev/sr0 > VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8) > keydbcfg.c:701: No valid AACS configuration files found > aacs.c:121: No usable AACS libraries found! > dec.c:197: aacs_open() failed: -2! > bdj.c:61

Trees (was: Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository)

On 17/11/2024 17:30, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: " How Ecosia works: Like other search engines, we make money from ads. We then use 100% of our profits for the planet. The result: 200M trees and counting!" Just a warning: the following article mentions Ecosia as an example of transparency, while t

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 01:16:57 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: The only customization I made was to install xfce rather than gnome. I am using the browser (Firefox ESR) which was installed automatically with the desktop (xfce). Hope, you did *not* log in into a Firefox account to sync bookma

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

On 18/11/2024 09:47, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 09:18:27AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: You may try to open Web Developer Tools (under "More tools" in the hamburger menu, [F12] or [Ctrl+Shift+I]). Are there any errors in Console ([Ctrl+Shift+K])? A bunch.  Too m

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

On 20/11/2024 22:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:13:20 -0500, eben wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed This line has one trailing space. [...] This line has two leading and two trailing spaces.

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

On 20/11/2024 11:31, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Does smplayer or mpv register a systemd inhibitor? Try: systemd-inhibit --list --no-pager --no-legend Sounds like a tool that may help to run rmmod for a TV receiver card before suspend (from a kaffeine thread several months ago) and to wait till

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

On 30/11/2024 01:29, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: On 28/11/2024 11:13, David Wright wrote: $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - /tmp/bash.pdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bash.pdf /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/bashref.pdf ¹ With Letter size in xpdf, I press 3

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

On 25/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs. The idea of UUIDs is that they are "unique", so you can run two OS installs automatically without the disk IDs colliding. We l

synaptic search (was: Re: A more fundemental error?)

On 30/11/2024 01:00, Richard Owlett wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: As the OP's link explicitly referenced "debian" I used Synaptic's search function. There were no packages with "Erling" in package name, but several in description field. *MY* reference to  "Erling" *IS* a t

Re: where is mail.log

On 30/11/2024 03:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user knows the answer to this. systemd for Administrators, P

Re: From SSD to NVME

On 02/12/2024 23:49, Hans wrote: I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. At least some NVME drives report that shipped with, 512 bytes blocks, they would have better performance switched to 4k ones. I would not clone partitions to a drive with different block size, it is bet

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: 1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted. Therefore, enter the BIOS of the computer and let it running for ca. an hour. Then restart the computer. I am curious which w

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions:   1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? Is it different from docs available in khelpcen

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

On 04/12/2024 22:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/4/24 9:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Is it different from docs available in khelpcenter? To what URL do you refer? I mean local

Re: From SSD to NVME - oops!

On 06/12/2024 05:58, Felix Miata wrote: Felix Miata composed on 2024-12-05 17:52 (UTC-0500): Here ya go (Pastebinit on Bookworm refuses to accept images.): https://paste.opensuse.org/a556a79e8015 expires in 7 days, shows DFSee menu open for "Convert an MBR disk to GPT". Oops. My mistake. Tabl

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On 06/12/2024 23:31, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is "idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that the device should not be in some deep power sa

Re: Firefox and XFCE

On 25/12/2024 14:11, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: Max Nikulin writes: does switching between regular window title and client-side decorations changes anything? (right click menu for toolbar, "customize toolbar") That was exactly it. It fixed the unwanted raising of firefox's w

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

98138] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: CACHE_ERROR - ch 5 [systemd-logind[502]] subc 0 mthd 0060 data beef0201 Note: Before installing the firmware, I installed the nvidia drivers from sid. But the graphical interface did not open and I had to reinstall it. Do you have any other advice? Max Nikulin ,

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

On 06/01/2025 14:09, gene heskett wrote: On 1/5/25 21:21, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/01/2025 23:28, gene heskett wrote: As for bug number, I'm not the OP, just a canary. Then ask the author to add the bug number. Tell them that without a link you were not be able to check current sta

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

On 05/01/2025 23:28, gene heskett wrote: As for bug number, I'm not the OP, just a canary. Then ask the author to add the bug number. Tell them that without a link you were not be able to check current state of affairs and, as a result, you have secured your reputation as a liar.

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computer arrivingsoon]

On 03/01/2025 05:01, gene heskett wrote: sudo apt install sgdisk unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Suitable substitute? Display is wayland so X is out. root not allowed. Gene, have you tried to type this command name into a search engine prompt? Have you read "man man

Re: booting by UEFI?

On 31/12/2024 18:43, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-12-31): Are you sure that fwupd will never try put a large enough file to update firmware of some device? Firmware updates are exceptional and critical operations. They should not be left to unattended daemons. The system

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 01/01/2025 20:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: In the great number of cases most look to Archlinux for setting up and running packages. Why because the wiki is no nonsense and just works in almost every case. debians wiki is woefully incomplete and contains old out dated information which in mos

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

On 01/01/2025 01:50, Hans wrote: # apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver firmware-misc-nonfree Do NOT update any other packages, even if aptitude is suggesting it. Most people in the past believe, they must upgrade other packages, too. This is NOT necessary and break your system! You have

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

On 31/12/2024 18:07, Serkan Kurt wrote: nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv84_xuc00f (-2) nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv84_xuc00f (-2) nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv84_xuc00f failed with error -2 Have you trying to find

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

On 31/12/2024 01:15, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: it was less sharp than I get with my old Epson Perfection 2400 (from 2004) It might be difference due to technologies. The older one likely use "white" lamp and color filters over CCD array. New cheaper approach is a line of red, green, an

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 01/01/2025 23:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: You forgot this one. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail Description=Fetchmail After=network.target [Service] User=fetchmail ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail --pidfile /run/fetchmail/fetchmailrc.pid -f /etc/fetchmailr

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 01/01/2025 00:55, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:32:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Good question Marc. I'm searching for someone who knows how to combine 4 ea 4T SSD's into one volume for use with amanda, the lvm docs are somewhat confusing, lacking the context that actu

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 31/12/2024 11:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: What about LVM?  Is it usable (or even useful) with UEFI? Do you expect expect UEFI boot from purely LVM drives? Out of the box EFI system partition (fat) must be outside of LVM volumes. There is a chance that somebody has written a LVM driver for UEFI

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 02/01/2025 09:36, poc...@homemail.com wrote: From: "Max Nikulin" On 01/01/2025 20:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Try to get it corrected and you will/must be attacked. My experience does not match yours. Of course it doesn't, people here are not 100% against you What

Re: Monitoring a single process

On 07/01/2025 21:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the filesystem, MB/s written to the filesystem Just some ideas, perhaps to be discarded after evaluation. It seems io

Re: getting started with pipewire

On 08/01/2025 00:08, Haines Brown wrote: I have no idea how to use pipewire. Do you simply run the comand $ pipewire to get an interface like alsamixer? Why are you trying to start pipewire manually? Systemd should do it for you as a part of user session. It is not an application with GUI. Y

Re: booting by UEFI?

On 30/12/2024 00:19, e...@gmx.us wrote: eben@cerberus:~$ ls /boot/efi ls: cannot access '/boot/efi': No such file or directory Create EFI System Partition: it should have proper partition type UUID and it is not recommended to make it too small (<500 MB). Configure mounting it to boot/efi, cr

Re: How to update fonts

On 29/12/2024 02:28, Alain D D Williams wrote: I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean). [...] They fail to display in either Mate terminal 1.26 or in Firefox 128.5 so I suspect it is a system

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

On 28/12/2024 23:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 17:21:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: root@titan ~ /etc/init.d/fetchmail --quit Not starting fetchmail daemon, disabled via /etc/default/fetchmail. The correct way to use a legacy sysv-rc init.d script to stop a service is:

Re: booting by UEFI?

On 30/12/2024 16:17, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-12-30): Create EFI System Partition: it should have proper partition type UUID and it is not recommended to make it too small (<500 MB). Only if one wants to have the bootloaders for other systems on it. I have been using

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

On 29/12/2024 20:50, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 02:16:42PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail What is your point? There is a native systemd service unit for fetchmail in the next release of Debian. Your constant

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

On 29/12/2024 01:06, gene heskett wrote: It runs when it gets around to it, opening a local file is an automatic lockup for 30 seconds. And no one has identified that problem. Nobody can guess what the mess you are able to create on your machines. If you did not hate systemd then you would hav

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

On 29/12/2024 10:18, John Hasler wrote: On Unstable: toncho/~ 20 systemctl cat fetchmail.service # /run/systemd/generator.late/fetchmail.service ^ # Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator ^ [...] [Service] Type=forking Re

Re: booting by UEFI?

On 29/12/2024 23:26, Eben King wrote: I swear I ran a program that showed me EFI boot vars (if they exist) and it showed nothing. efibootmgr -v however you need to boot in UEFI mode at first, e.g. using a live media. Alternatively if firmware boot menu allows to pick an .efi file then you

Re: Where is my Brave executable

On 24/12/2024 21:25, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/24/24 4:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/23/24 8:26 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/12/2024 19:56, Richard Owlett wrote: Is 'command' documented somewhere? Déjà vu... <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/722ee1ce-bfb6-facd-2

Re: Firefox and XFCE

On 26/12/2024 16:42, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote: On Thursday, 26 December 2024 00:10:47 -03 Max Nikulin wrote: You may try to search for mozilla, window manager (fvwm?), gtk bugs or discussions related to client-side decoration and rising on click. Are there other applications that use

Re: upgrade debian + postfix/dovecot

On 27/12/2024 02:41, Thomas Anderson wrote: I did get them from Debian sources, so I should be good. "Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian 11 (bullseye)" from "Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm)" suggests

Re: google-chrome printer/copier error

On 02/02/2025 10:39, John Conover wrote: [2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \ Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \ object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \ Did not receive a reply. Does anyone k

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

On 02/02/2025 22:51, Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote: On the other hand, I've checked that with Debian 12 and GNOME it is not enough to logout and login to see that a user is added to a group. Any comments? Wait a bit longer before next login (and check there is no VT or ssh logins at the same time).

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On 05/02/2025 02:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: Start with aptitude(8). Instead of talking about some "aptitude reference manual", it should just say "see apt-patterns(7)". No, it should not. Query languages are similar, but still are not identical

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On 04/02/2025 23:12, Mike Castle wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: apt list '~o' Where is '~o' documented? - https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#obsolete - apt-patterns(7) However "aptitude search" is a bit more pow

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

On 02/02/2025 21:01, Rainer Dorsch wrote: root@outdoor:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces [...] auto wlan0 Is there a chance that "allow-hotplug wlan0" might help? I use NetworkManager for WiFi interfaces, so my remarks may have no sense. Simply ignore them that case. My expectation is that hot

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

On 07/02/2025 22:55, Boyan Penkov wrote: I uninstalled firmware-iwlwifi (this machine is wired either way...), and the problem has not reared its head in a few hours -- not sure if that means its solved... I believed that crashes related to iwlwifi affect just network connectivity, but nothing

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 10/02/2025 22:25, Chris Green wrote: It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes it has made. Installing an application may change order of candidates in

Re: Firefox

On 10/02/2025 13:12, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 10/2/25 16:06, David Wright wrote: On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:[...] Kill it and restart it occasionally. Rather than kill it, what I do is: Ctrl Shi

Re: Firefox

On 10/02/2025 10:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: Web browsers are bloated monsters. (side note: just as desktop environments or even operating systems.) Does anybody have a bookmark for an article with a balanced view on degree of responsibility of - web site developers, - users, - browser develope

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

On 05/02/2025 18:57, Hans wrote: In console and in Plasma the Brightness can not be adjusted, but in XFCE it can. However, I could not get, which keyboard setting XFCE is using, does pne know? Save output of the following command executed in XFCE and KDE setxkbmap -print and compare it to

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

(debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org is dropped from Cc:) On 06/02/2025 06:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: With respect to other operating systems, like Solaris, root is a role, not a user. Jeffrey, it is interesting topic to discuss, but I am afraid, this stuff and SELinux may confuse K0LNY even

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

On 07/02/2025 13:57, Boyan Penkov wrote: Anybody else seeing this in the current testing kernel? Notice that most of call traces in your log are related to some python processes (and btrfs) rater than to iwlwifi. Taking into account your gnome-shell issue, your troubles may be related to RAM

Re: how to prevent evolution from archiving mails?

On 07/02/2025 12:51, hw wrote: [1] https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/evolution [...] and I don't like forums. At least the discourse instance at discuss.python.org allows to reply through email. I have not tried to start new topics. Unfortunately it is unable to handle interleaving email quot

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

On 11/02/2025 05:11, Boyan Penkov wrote: Is this a btrfs software issue? My hard drives all pass smartctl with no errors. I would check filesystem consistency. Have you tried to boot an older kernel? Do you have any clue what python processes cause failures? I have no idea if Oops: invali

Re: Firefox

On 11/02/2025 08:08, David Wright wrote: On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in browser profile (list of

Re: Firefox

On 12/02/2025 17:24, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 2/11/25 à 23:39, e...@gmx.us a écrit : Is there a way to manually suspend or crash a tab? I don't know if you can do this natively in firefox, about:processes right column. The button appears on hover. I have no idea what "crash a tab" should

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 17:23, Nicolas George wrote: If you want a Linux way to solve the issue: first, read the documentation of xfce-terminal to see how it decides which web browser to run; I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented. Perhaps XFCE has a configuration menu. Most GUI app

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 20:55, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12): I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented. At worst, the source code is the documentation. Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard (XDG) way to configure media types

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 22:09, Greg wrote: On 2025-02-12, Max Nikulin wrote: Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard (XDG) way to configure media types and applications associations. Unfortunately, as Greg Wooledge has already pointed out, there is no universal standard

Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports

On 02/02/2025 01:24, Roger Price wrote: I find the instructions for synaptic at https://wiki.debian.org/Backports are incorrect and misleading. It seems to me now that synaptic is not the correct tool for managing backported packages, apt on the command line is much preferable. The page does n

Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports (was: Re: Firefox and Video DRM)

On 01/02/2025 02:34, Eddie wrote: In Synaptic go to "Settings" - 'Preferences" - "Distributions" then select "Prefer Versions From" - backports Do not do it. It is not a supposed way to use backports. It is therefore recommended to only select single backported

Re: LightDM and .dmrc

On 30/01/2025 17:11, Nicolas George wrote: I want a display manager that Do you have a choice if some users need GNOME? I recall it complained when started by any DM other than GDM. The latter has some D-Bus methods in addition to "standard" XDG org.freedesktop.* ones. (For me there was a bl

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

On 10/12/2024 06:23, Charlie Gibbs wrote: 1. Do a network install on the new drive; It was advised assuming that you would not do the following, otherwise it is wasting of time:     sudo rsync -av /etc   /mnt/backup     sudo rsync -av /lib   /mnt/backup     sudo rsync -av /lib64 /mnt/ba

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

On 09/12/2024 19:53, Anssi Saari wrote: I think every desktop environment has this. Even X has this. 'This' being a timer since last mouse or keyboard event and the ability to trigger a command on the timer. I looked recently but didn't really find a way to do the Windows like thing, turn off scr

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On 09/12/2024 00:14, Michael Stone wrote: Not all drives support 4k, and many that do get no benefit from such a configuration. [...] # nvme id-ns -H /dev/nvme0n1 | grep Rel LBA Format  0 : Metadata Size: 0   bytes - Data Size: 512 bytes - Relative Performance: 0x2 Good (in use) LBA Format  1

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 12/12/2024 11:51, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your gateway and/or access points: - Enable WPA2/WPA3 security and set a secure password. - Enable MAC filtering, enter the MAC addresses of your devices, and block all other MAC addresses. MAC filtering adds almost nothing to pr

Re: Orca install repeating - can't reproduce [WAS Re: Installer andassistive technologies]

On 15/12/2024 20:27, gene heskett wrote: On 12/14/24 23:00, Max Nikulin wrote: /var/log/installer/hardware-summary that is quite lengthy, 75+ kilobytes, what would I be looking for? ^ I am interested in some

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 14/12/2024 23:38, David Christensen wrote: On 12/14/24 07:43, Max Nikulin wrote: systemd-analyze verify rsyslog.service [...] My daily driver, for comparison: # systemd-analyze verify rsyslog.service I noticed an imprint of a sledgehammer in Gene's "dpkg -V". Config

Re: Orca install repeating - can't reproduce [WAS Re: Installer and assistive technologies]

On 15/12/2024 05:27, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Installing using the standard installer: Have you tried it when some stepper motor drivers are connected using USB to serial port adapters? I do not remember if I explicitly chose some installer menu to save logs, but I have /var/log/installer/

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 14/12/2024 23:44, gene heskett wrote: ● gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service loaded failed failed Virtual filesystem service - digital camera moni> Have you managed to fix it? The most suspicious entry in relation to camera issues. On 14/12/2024 21:26, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:~$

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 15/12/2024 03:24, gene heskett wrote: On 12/14/24 12:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Our std night shift procedure was to pump the big tank down to under 2 or 3 psi, which put the bottles up around 7400 to 7800 psi at midnight. The morning shift at 8AM had 5200 psi to play wit

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 14/12/2024 23:44, gene heskett wrote: What is suricata, first I've heard of it I was expecting that you would walk through every item reported by "dpkg -V" and "systemctl --failed". For the former, you have enough data locally to get more info dpkg -S /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml and

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 16/12/2024 06:15, gene heskett wrote: This is your t-bird doing that, beta is working fine, you are reading it. To be fair, the comparison must include new user profile for the ESR release packaged in Debian. By the way, the ESR branch is approximately half a year old. Beta is for tester

Re: Enc: Option menuSearch in fluxbox init

On 15/12/2024 21:07, Paulo Igor Barra Nascimento wrote: 1.3.5. It seems 1.3.7 is scheduled to be present in Trixie (Debian 13). [...] 1. So, to compile 1.3.7, I had to make a "build" directory on my $HOME where I untar fluxbox-1.3.7.tar.xz (got from fluxbox.org) and get into th

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

On 16/12/2024 15:45, Roger Price wrote: So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation. This took me to the GRUB command line. Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB stick? Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

On 18/12/2024 04:56, Roger Price wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead of USB3 or vice versa)? Try full power cycle, not just reboot. All the 10 USB ports on my T5820 are specified as USB 3.1 Gen 1.  I always

Re: Firefox and XFCE

On 17/12/2024 18:55, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: I have grepped through prefs.js and haven't found anything that sounds related, A shot in the dark: does switching between regular window title and client-side decorations changes anything? (right click menu for toolbar, "customize toolbar") I

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 12/12/2024 15:44, gene heskett wrote: So I wound up finding and rm'ing the executables. Having orca yelling every keystroke at around 130 db, during which time other keystrokes are missed makes using a computer VERY frustrating. Warping your system with a sledgehammer certainly may cause ha

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver[...]>   bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device   bInterfaceSubClass  1 Boot Interface Subclass   bInterfaceProtocol  2 Mouse So it is a HID and should not

Re: Thunderbird imap certificates

On 14/12/2024 14:09, Dima wrote: Using VPN via SOCK5 Got a message notification pop-up "Certificate for imap.google.com does not come from the trusted source." with a button "activate". Likely imap.googlemail.com For HTTP, providers sometimes use "captive portal" to request user authenticat

Re: directories I can't get rid of

On 14/12/2024 20:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 10:36:55 +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: portal on /var/data/steam/.cache/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1001,group_id=1001) Curious. I have steam running, and I don't have this. I can say nothing relate

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