Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: I have an example app which can be run only as "app3 -h test1 -s foo" or "app3 -h test2 -s bar". So I decided to provide it with a small manual completion for convenience. [vas@test2 ~]$ ./list.sh -h test1 -s foo -h test2 -s bar [va

Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-26 Thread davidson
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Victor Sudakov wrote: davidson wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 Victor Sudakov wrote: [dd] BTW on my current Debian system I don't see the space character in $COMP_WORDBREAKS. If you have xxd installed, what does xxd show you? I actually looked with `hd` and expect

Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-26 Thread davidson
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Victor Sudakov wrote: davidson wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: I have an example app which can be run only as "app3 -h test1 -s foo" or "app3 -h test2 -s bar". So I decided to provide it with a small manual comple

Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-26 Thread davidson
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 davidson wrote: Two corrections to previous message. [dd] % Proposal C In that case, you could get all but the last argument completed like so: $ complete -A hostname -P '-h ' -S ' -s' 1. At the end of the line above, the command name is miss

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread davidson
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: Hi. I saw at the Debian Lists' archive that my attached files were not shown as attached (as in the BTS archive), but instead as inserted into the body of the message. I have not examined your how-to in detail, but from brief examination I am impr

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Debian from a hard disk with Windows to a USB stick

2021-04-27 Thread davidson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 davidson wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: Hi. I saw at the Debian Lists' archive that my attached files were not shown as attached (as in the BTS archive), but instead as inserted into the body of the message. [dd] Is there some other way to a

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-04-28 Thread davidson
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 mick crane wrote: I think Google tailors results according to what they know about you. Even if you reset the router to a new IP and clear all the cookies they still seem to know. I've wondered if the browser has an identifying number. Supplementing the observations made h

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-28 Thread davidson
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: On Thu 22 Apr 2021 Dan Ritter wrote: What you lose this way (besides time) is having apt calculate which supporting packages you need. However, https://packages.debian.org will happily tell you all the dependencies of any given package, and then y

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-28 Thread davidson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: Or toggle "javascript.enabled" to false in "about:config" - no extensions required. the assumption being that you would use, trust firefox. A well-documented, XML-based open source kind of proxy/gateway through which all requests are sent and received

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-28 Thread davidson
On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: [snip] I will get "married" to Debian (why not? some people would marry their pets ... ;-)) if it includes the following startup options right of the live DVD: * toram * memtest * testCD In my opinion none of those functions are hard to include at al

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-30 Thread davidson
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: What is "alpha-offset format"? we, corpora research kinds of folks, need to process thousand of files as other people process bytes. That was a helpful clue, that it could be a term of art in corpus linguistics. After some searches in that directio

OT: alpha-offset format (was Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...)

2021-04-30 Thread davidson
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: [dd] about the alpha-offset encoding, please, givie me some time to answer your questions, Of course. Whenever. No hurry. write up the idea more fully, clearly I won't discourage anyone determined to explain the tools of their specialty to the la

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

2021-05-06 Thread davidson
On Wed, 5 May 2021 David Wright wrote: [dd] One thing I didn't learn is why .pwd.lock is in /etc/ rather than, say, /run/lock/. Perhaps related, why are there dotfiles in /etc/ anyway. (.git/, .java/, .etckeeper, .gitignore are the others.) What are they hiding from? [dd] I would assume that t

OT: dotfile generalities (was Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?)

2021-05-06 Thread davidson
On Thu, 6 May 2021 davidson wrote: [dd] To that end, I can occasionally do something like $ ls -Rp | less and make a point of examining the first couple of things that look unfamiliar. This misses out dotfiles. [dd] So when I look for what I'm missing out on, and do... $ shopt -s glo

Re: why btdownloadcurses can't open it

2021-05-09 Thread davidson
On Sat, 8 May 2021 Long Wind wrote: when i open attached torrent with  btdownloadcurses, Which debian package is this "btdownloadcurses" command from? As far as I know, it could be from either bittorrent or bittornado. it says: got bad file info - path ~最新最快影片每日更新.url disallowed for security

Re: generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files

2021-05-09 Thread davidson
On Sun, 9 May 2021 Emanuel Berg wrote: How can I generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files? Tho one would think this to be quite a simple tool of parsing the HTML and outputting the RSS XML dialect, I can't find any tool... XSLT is a language that is sort of made for describing this kind o

Re: generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files

2021-05-12 Thread davidson
On Mon, 10 May 2021 Emanuel Berg wrote: ...and this somewhat more complex-looking one... "W3C RSS 1.0 News Feed Creation How-To" https://www.w3.org/2001/10/glance/doc/howto Great, but stops on and , Elsewhere in the thread you seem to have moved on from XSLT to more promising options, but

Re: Form filling, etc.

2021-05-12 Thread davidson
On Wed, 12 May 2021 Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings, My bank and credit company use javascript or something similar to build the login screen so my password manager can't find the user-id and password fields to fill them in. The fields don't show up in the downloaded source code or in the source

Re: Thunderbird: how can I set permanent custom headers?

2021-05-14 Thread davidson
On Fri, 14 May 2021 Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, For the lack of a dedicated Thunderbird mailing list, I am forced to ask here. I am using Debian Buster. I have set up a custom header (X-no-archive) using this guide: https://www.lifewire.com/arbitrary-custom-heading-email-thunderbird-1173089 It

Re: Howto disable automounting of all removeable media

2021-05-15 Thread davidson
On Sat, 15 May 2021 Richard Owlett wrote: I have disabled auto-mounting of removable media on my Stretch install with MATE. Here was Brian's advice for doing this on jessie with MATE: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/09/msg01077.html [...] Try gsettings set org.mate.media-handli

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread davidson
On Mon, 17 May 2021 Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/17/2021 08:50 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 17 May 2021 at 04:58:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Some mailing list save posts in mbox format. Is there any way to download specific threads from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format? I've wondere

Re: Downloading from lists.debian.org/debian-user in mbox format

2021-05-17 Thread davidson
On Mon, 17 May 2021 davidson wrote: [dd] It seems to me that this rationale depends on a couple of unstated premises: 1. If published, each mbox would contain one month's worth of messages, all of the messages in one file. 2. it is significantly easier for spammers to download a single

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-04 Thread davidson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and to my astonishment found that GNOME "progressed" t

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-04 Thread davidson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-08 Thread davidson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 davidson wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-09 Thread davidson
On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/08/2022 01:18 AM, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for *OFFLINE* use. The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] l

Re: Openbox and multiple screens.

2022-04-18 Thread davidson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, This system has two screens. https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox#Files lists ~/.config/openbox/autostart. Autostarting works except that I haven't found a way to configure the location or screen where a new window opens. How is that done? $ man 7

Re: Openbox and multiple screens.

2022-04-18 Thread davidson
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 davidson wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, This system has two screens. https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox#Files lists ~/.config/openbox/autostart. Autostarting works except that I haven't found a way to configure the location or screen where

Re: apt-get -qq install

2022-08-02 Thread davidson
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, I'm trying to quiet apt's output by using `apt-get -qqy` in a CI/CD pipeline, however I still see ugly stuff like this in my CI/CD log: Selecting previously unselected package php-common. (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% (R

Re: apt-get -qq install

2022-08-02 Thread davidson
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 Victor Sudakov wrote: davidson wrote: I'm trying to quiet apt's output by using `apt-get -qqy` in a CI/CD pipeline, however I still see ugly stuff like this in my CI/CD log: Selecting previously unselected package php-common. (Reading database ... (Reading data

Re: wrong from field with alpine

2020-10-21 Thread davidson
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, when I send a mail with alpine, the from field becomes "frenk...@laposte.net" instead of "p.frenk...@laposte.net" One thing you could try is go to config settings in alpine Main menu >> Setup >> Config search for the setting "Customized Header

Re: wrong from field with alpine

2020-10-21 Thread davidson
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 davidson wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, when I send a mail with alpine, the from field becomes "frenk...@laposte.net" instead of "p.frenk...@laposte.net" One thing you could try is go to config settings in alpine Main men

Re: wrong from field with alpine

2020-10-22 Thread davidson
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, david...@freevolt.org wrote: One thing you could try is go to config settings in alpine Main menu >> Setup >> Config search for the setting "Customized Headers", and set it to something like this: Customized Headers = From: P

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread davidson
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 Nicolas George wrote: Siard (12020-10-29): ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i <(for f in ./*.mp4; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; done) -c copy output.mp4 The method that I know is slightly different. I once took it from https://medium.com/abraia/basic-video-editing-for-social-media-wi

Re: column - how to get it updated?

2019-07-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Richard Hector wrote: On 25/07/19 3:26 PM, Andrew Punnett wrote: Hi, Debian currently uses the `column` command from FreeBSD. However, the `column` command included in the util-linux package from the Linux Kernel Organisation is much more useful. There is a bug report abo

Re: column - how to get it updated?

2019-07-26 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Jul 2019 at 02:57:40 (+), davidson wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Richard Hector wrote: On 25/07/19 3:26 PM, Andrew Punnett wrote: Hi, Debian currently uses the `column` command from FreeBSD. However, the `column` command included in the

Re: DPMS

2019-07-28 Thread davidson
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019, Christopher M wrote: In Deb 9 KDE on Deb 9 as soon as I logged in DPMS would be disabled and my screen would not turn off. Your question is one about power management for the display under KDE. I have no experience with KDE, and very little understanding in general of disp

Re: DPMS

2019-07-28 Thread davidson
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, davidson wrote: Step 1. Go to /etc/X11 ~# cd /etc/X11 /etc/X11# Step 2. If there is no xorg.conf.d directory there, then create one. Make it the current working directory: /etc/X11# mkdir -v xorg.conf.d mkdir: created directory 'xorg.conf.d' /etc/X11# cd xorg.c

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-05 Thread davidson
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Long Wind wrote: Thank David!it seems it's bug of X  tail -100 .local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log To me it looks like the log below is telling you that your power key was either being held down or stuck in that position. That is all. [ 21261.465] (EE) libinput bug: Key count

Re: Installing Debiam

2020-03-24 Thread davidson
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Chocolate Island Prince wrote: This information is wowfactor 10! This opener is a spamfactor 11. I never knew any of this. We have no idea what "this" is, or what you are talking about. You are burying the lede. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lede#Verb On

Re: Desktop environments

2020-04-10 Thread davidson
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, mick crane wrote: Well I was thinking is a valid question. What's the deal with these desktop environments ? I wonder this too. I thought is like a desktop with pictures so you know where everything is and then you click and start a program that does something They're

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread davidson
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:51:27, Chris Ramsden wrote: I'd invite Andrei to define what he means by "bounce". I thought I already did in follow-ups. The Debian specific instructions explicitly mention mutt as an example. As far as I can tell it is what W

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-21 Thread davidson
On Thu, 14 May 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote: The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of issues. For checksums, mtree(8) from package mtree-netbsd might be worth a look. +===

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-21 Thread davidson
On Thu, 21 May 2020, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-05-21 08:52, davidson wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote: The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread davidson
On Fri, 29 May 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 29 May 2020 15:50:38 David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 13:21:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 29 May 2020 13:00:58 David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 18:49:26 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 29 mai 20, 14:26:25

OT: the art of reviewing unix log files

2020-06-01 Thread davidson
On the topic of reviewing unix log files, what have you read before and found useful later? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518471 alexk already addressed your concern: your keys, preferably issued by your org's CA (instead of being generated by you) should be short-lived, oftentimes fo

Re: OT: the art of reviewing unix log files

2020-06-01 Thread davidson
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: [dd] Having an appropriate tool helps a lot: https://lnav.org/ lnav - ncurses-based log file viewer The log file navigator, lnav, is an enhanced log file viewer that takes advantage of any semantic information that can be gleaned from the files b

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-16 Thread davidson
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, D. R. Evans wrote: Virgo Pärna wrote on 6/11/20 1:27 AM: On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:10:45 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: For example: if I type the "-" character twice in a row, Thunderbird displays only one, even though both characters are present in the text Speculation in t

Re: Need commands

2020-06-16 Thread davidson
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-14 12:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:23:15PM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-13 19:51, Darac Marjal wrote: ... >The full list of commands depends on what's installed, but you can >retrieve that list by opening a term

Re: bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-18 Thread davidson
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: 16 juin 2020 à 10:47 de david...@freevolt.org: I hear some people find bash-completion helpful. Personally, though, no. Do not want. Interesting/intriguing point of view. I will remember this polite new way to call somebody a weirdo. Why would s

Re: bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-18 Thread davidson
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: [dd] 16 juin 2020 à 13:23 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org It's flaky and full of errors. (Many of these errors end up on the bash mailing lists as bug reports in bash, but nope, they're from bash-completion.) It bloats bash, using a lot of memory, and taking

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread davidson
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian Link? instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: "allowlist" and "rejectlist" shitlist and shortlist. Santa's naugh

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread davidson
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: [snip] Most things described as master/slave aren't actually very well matched by that metaphor. Source/sink, boss/worker, Woah there. "Team Leader" / "Team Member", please. -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518471 alexk already addressed your con

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread davidson
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2020 17:42:51 -04 davidson wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian Link? https://gwolf.org/2020/06/on-masters-and

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, davidson wrote: [snip] Blacklist/whitelist are folksy names for the dual concepts of filter/ideal, respectively. This is false, and I am duly embarrassed. I will see myself out now. -- @almightygenie 8 Jun 2020 | @Windex Thanks, Windex. That’s a relief. Your drink is

Re: one liner, how do you know which match happened ...

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote: _X=".\(html\|txt\)" _SDIR="$(pwd)" _AR_TERMS=( Kant "Gilbert Ryle" Hegel ) for iZ in ${!_AR_TERMS[@]}; do find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -exec grep -il "${_AR_TERMS[$iZ]}" {} \; done # iZ: terms search/grep'ped inside text files; echo

Re: one liner, how do you know which match happened ...

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, davidson wrote: Gah. $ find . -type f \ \( -name "*.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]" -o -name "[Tt][Xx][Tt]" \) \ -o -name "*.[Tt][Xx][Tt]" -- @almightygenie 8 Jun 2020 | @Windex Thanks, Windex. That's a relief. Your drink is even more refreshing

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Brian wrote: On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 11:26:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? Bu

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? Building a device to rock the mouse back and forth at 1

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? Building a

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-20 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I shut the

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread davidson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 07:23:44AM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: [...] Hi also, Yep, it is true that working on the symptoms does not cure the malady. [...] Thanks for this balanced assessment. IMO the important thing is the process. Of course, i

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread davidson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, John Hasler wrote: mick writes: Barbary pirates, Ottoman Empire enslaved over 2 million Europeans but you don't see their descendants so much because they were castrated. It really is not white man bad black man good. During the same period European serfs were really slav

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread davidson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/21/20 2:55 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: Personally, if I were a moderator on this List, I would order this thread terminated with extreme prejudice. Agreed. Speaking as someone who hosts a lot of email lists - it really gets annoying when di

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread davidson
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, davidson wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/21/20 2:55 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: Personally, if I were a moderator on this List, I would order this thread terminated with extreme prejudice. Agreed. Speaking as someone who hosts a lot of email

Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files

2020-06-22 Thread davidson
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: Hi davidson, I share your great answer (see below) with the whole list as I think your explanations are very didactic, relevant and could be beneficial to anyone. I've just tested and it works so thank you very much :) Lol. Good news! It is go

Re: from screen to tmux

2020-06-22 Thread davidson
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, I'm trying to switch from screen to tmux and for the life of me cannot make it work the way I like. I have screen create multiple windows on startup, by the following lines in ~/screenrc: screen -t localhost 0 screen -t foo 1 screen -t

Re: from screen to tmux

2020-06-23 Thread davidson
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 Victor Sudakov wrote: davidson wrote: [Victor Sudakov OP wrote:] I'm trying to switch from screen to tmux [snip] I've thought about the same thing, but inertia is seductive, and I have remained --so far-- unaware of specific reasons to bother changing. The

Re: [debian-reference manual] bullet point sign and its content misplaced

2020-06-23 Thread davidson
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Finn wrote: Charles Curley wrote: Before you do that, are you sure what you see isn't Firefox's reaction to buggy HTML? Have you run the code through an HTML validator? Thanks for reminding that. HTML validator shows only one error, with "width" attribute[1]. [1]: https:/

Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature

2020-06-24 Thread davidson
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 sebarosa...@protonmail.com wrote: Hi! I have been trying to veify the debian live iso signature, but I can't find the command to import the debian gpg keys for the sha256sum.sign file. What is the command? OP appears satisfied with answers already received, all of which app

Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature

2020-06-24 Thread davidson
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 davidson wrote: One clarification... [dd] Here are three mutually exclusive cases, of what a system may tell you, depending on how your reality conforms to conditions (1) and (2) above. ...regarding the third case: SIGNING KEY UNKNOWN, bailing out: When (2) is NO gpg

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

2020-06-24 Thread davidson
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Dear users, In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non Debian-related things and infringing the Code of Conduct[0] of the Project in the same time. Oh, crap. I think I know what this is about. Sorry everybody. The Community Te

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

2020-06-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 deloptes wrote: davidson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Dear users, In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non Debian-related things and infringing the Code of Conduct[0] of the Project in the same time. Oh, crap. I think I know

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

2020-06-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 elvis wrote: On 25/6/20 1:31 pm, davidson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Dear users, In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non Debian-related things and infringing the Code of Conduct[0] of the Project in the same time. Oh

Re: Newbie

2020-06-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 Weaver wrote: On 26-06-2020 07:26, Arun Mathai wrote: Hello Guys, I am a total newbie for debian. I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask. Could anyone please tell me how to proceed. [Begins evaluating OP against checklist below] First, make

Re: Problema instalación debian

2020-06-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 miguel diaz_durany wrote: Hola, es la primera vez que escribo, y soy muy novato en él mundo de linux. Le cuento, estoy instalando debían 7 en un ordenador antiguo de 32 bits. Compré un cd de instalación porque el ordenador no puede acceder a internet. La instalación la hace s

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

2020-06-25 Thread davidson
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Le jeudi 25 juin 2020 à 09:42:44+, davidson a écrit : On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 deloptes wrote: davidson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Dear users, In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non Debian

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-26 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-27 Thread davidson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread davidson
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment $> systemctl set-default graphical.target If this is already setup, and

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread davidson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Intentionally cross posted) This reply is to Debian List with BCC to OP so he would have my email address The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music no

Re: Override default post-install starting of services [was Return a Debian system to a pristine state]

2020-07-05 Thread davidson
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 David Wright wrote: On Sun 31 May 2020 at 16:28:34 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 21:57:06 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: [big snip] I, too, was surprised by some Debian features like its tendency to start daemons with a vanilla c

Re: terminator freezes desktop

2020-07-05 Thread davidson
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 0...@caiway.net wrote: Hi, terminator, after years of superb stability, started to freeze my desktop sometimes. I have never used it. This behavior started some 3 months ago. Freeze happens sometimes when I start another window with terminator. Does it look like anythin

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-06 Thread davidson
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: Hi, I am new to Linux and Debian. That is good news. Welcome. I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). That sounds like an interesting challenge. Your original message appears to be in html

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-06 Thread davidson
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: [snip] I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). [snip] The problem I am trying to tackle: One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more

tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

2020-07-06 Thread davidson
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote: I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section. Probably not. Here we have $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/XCompose.3.gz .so man5/Compose.5 $ realpath /usr/share/man/man5/XCompose.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz and hence $

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-06 Thread davidson
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: [snip] The problem I am trying to tackle: One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its geminate form which is composed of three unicode charcters ങ ്ങ (U+0D19 U+0D4D

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-07-07 09:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I did install it and it is a single package. It runs fine in parallel with the esr release. Hopefully the maintainers will continue the practice of having fir

Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-07-07 09:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I did install it and it is a single package. It runs fine in parallel with the esr release. Hopefully the maintainers

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 Zenaan Harkness wrote: I'm not sure if it's been asked or stated by you, but which desktop are you using? Elsewhere in the thread, https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/885539452.3315628.1594115314...@mail.yahoo.com OP mentions using Konsole and Kate, to test changes ma

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 iul 20, 21:41:11, Andy Smith wrote: I still wouldn't use OP's system for anything except curiosity or maybe propping a door open. That's probably the only use for which it is better than a Raspberry Pi (or equivalent) ;) Isn't OP's system l

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 Davide Lombardo wrote: Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; DRAM: 64 MB SDDR GPU: RIVA TNT-2 HARDISK: 10 GB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE MODEM 56K In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today... Do you think I can insta

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 iul 20, 21:41:11, Andy Smith wrote: I still wouldn't use OP's system for anything except curiosity or maybe propping a door open. That's probably the only use for which it is better than a R

Re: [offlist] Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote: Hi David, As a rule, send replies to the listserv address:     debian-user@lists.debian.org 2. In-Line replies, instead of Top-Posting 3. I apologise for being a Terrible Person I didn't pay attention to the fact that the from address in the email was

Re: [not-so-offlist] posting style [was Re: Using .XCompose]

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote: Hi David, Debian conformant style looks like this instead: Do I understand the style correctly now? LOL. Probably not. Maybe I should have allowed your discovery of the mailing list's quoting conventions to take its natural course. It was maybe silly

Re: [offlist] Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-07 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:59:20AM +, Ajith R wrote: Hi David, As a rule, send replies to the listserv address:     debian-user@lists.debian.org 2. In-Line replies, instead of Top-Posting 3. I apologise for being a Terrible Person Hey! I tho

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-09 Thread davidson
(xterm and mlterm) and a couple of graphical web browsers (firefox-esr and qutebrowser): davidson@bbhuit:0 ~$ dpkg-query -l --no-pager xterm mlterm firefox-esr qutebrowser Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(

Re: Using .XCompose [resend of xev_output_annotated.txt]

2020-07-09 Thread davidson
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: [snip] Finally, in case it is of interest to anyone, in the attached file "xev_output_annotated.txt" is some xev(1) output with commentary that gives a detailed close-up of performing steps 4 through 6 in an xterm. (As with the system synopsis, if

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-09 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote: Hi Zenaan, > Under the "Layout" tab, I have the option for "Compose key" - this > is a drop down list, and I chose the "Scroll Lock" key as my > compose key. Similar options are there for KDE too. I tried setting the Compose key from the KDE settings menu aft

Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

2020-07-10 Thread davidson
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 Intense Red wrote: I want to set up a deluged server on Debian stable. I don't know anything about deluge. I am idly curious. Given how many bittorrent clients there are to choose from, may I ask whether there is anything about deluge/deluged in particular that makes you

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