[gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
The Thinkpad has vertical and horizontal arrow keys. But it does not have arrow keys corresponding to 7, 9, 1, and 3 on a regular keyboard. Yes, I know how to "enable numeric keypad" on a Thinkpad. While that does emulate numbers, it does not emulate the arrows. I happen to need the angled arr

[gentoo-user] KDE plasma desktop view shows files that don't exist

2022-08-24 Thread Jack
Checking here for any ideas or suggestions before I report as a KDE bug. I have my KDE Plasma desktop set to show my ~/Desktop folder. Two days ago, I created a script.pl Perl script in that folder. (No, I don't generally do work in that folder, but I just needed a quick script to deal with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Jack
On 2022.08.24 08:16, Walter Dnes wrote: The Thinkpad has vertical and horizontal arrow keys. But it does not have arrow keys corresponding to 7, 9, 1, and 3 on a regular keyboard. Yes, I know how to "enable numeric keypad" on a Thinkpad. While that does emulate numbers, it does not emulate

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Jack wrote > On my keyboard, those corner keys on the keypad are End, PgDn, PgUp, > and NumLock, all of which have their own keys elsewhere on the > keyboard.. When you say angled arrow keys, do you mean that literally, > or are you just talking abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Jack
On 2022.08.24 17:21, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Jack wrote > On my keyboard, those corner keys on the keypad are End, PgDn, PgUp, > and NumLock, all of which have their own keys elsewhere on the > keyboard.. When you say angled arrow keys, do you mean that li

[gentoo-user] Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
What's the easiest way to get a remote desktop working for a Gentoo server with a Windows 10 client machine? A lot of sources recommend xrdb since Windows comes with a native RDP client. But there is no ebuild for xrdb in portage -- though I found one in an overlay. VNC would probably be OK, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 8/24/22 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: What's the easiest way to get a remote desktop working for a Gentoo server with a Windows 10 client machine? net-misc/freerdp has a server USE flag. I never used it, but from what I read, it can be used as a RDP server like you would a Windows mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 05:45:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so. For a new 3.5″ drive, I find this quite slow, even for the slowest part near the centre of the spindle. I tend to use hdparm for a quick info, but that’s been mentioned in anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 06:26:14AM +0200 schrieb David Haller: > Hello, > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Dale wrote: > >Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> Part. # SizePartition TypePartition Name > >>> 1007.0 KiB free spac

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread Wol
On 24/08/2022 23:39, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: That’s a WD Red Plus. WD introduced the Plus series after the SMR debacle do differentiate between the „now normal“ WD Reds which can (or maybe always) have SMR and the Plus, which are always CMR. Yup. The new reds are always SMR, the Red Pluses ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-08-24, Grant Edwards wrote: > What's the easiest way to get a remote desktop working for a Gentoo > server with a Windows 10 client machine? > > A lot of sources recommend xrdb since Windows comes with a native RDP > client. But there is no ebuild for xrdb in portage -- though I found > o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Julien Roy
On 8/24/22 19:48, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2022-08-24, Grant Edwards wrote: Of course, there's still the inescapable brokenness of apps like Chrome and Firefox which insist only one instance per user can run at any time. Apparently the concept of multiple GUI sessions running simultaneously on

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 3:15 PM Dale wrote: >> Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive >> down a fair amount? This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about >> 49.51MB/s or so. > Encryption won't impact the write speeds themselves of course, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: [..] Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like inodes, which can be another bit. When I for