Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 28/02/2024 02:17, Jack wrote: On 2/27/24 20:54, Adam Carter wrote: To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with shell

[gentoo-user] Heads-up: grub-mkconfig generates bad configs for root-on-ZFS with fully-updated pool

2024-02-28 Thread Remy Blank
This is a quick heads-up for folks who use grub, have their root filesystem on ZFS and boot from it with an initramfs (i.e. not directly from grub), and have fully upgraded their pool to 2.2.2. In that configuration, grub-mkconfig (grub-probe, actually) fails to recognize the pool, and it gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --primary --output HD

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Dale
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: > > xrandr --output

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale wrote: > > Paul B. Henson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > . I ended up adding thi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. > Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as > far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be > double-quoted, and the quotes are stripped on import. > Thanks - looks like quoting

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:25 PM Adam Carter wrote: >> >> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. >> Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as >> far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be >> double-quoted, and the quo