Re: Firefox Gah. Your tab just crashed.

2024-11-28 Thread John McCue
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 02:14:11PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2024-11-28, John McCue wrote: Also note, for me /etc/firefox-esr/unveil.main also changed, If you don't modify the /etc/firefox*/unveil.* files yourself, they will automatically get updated with the package. Thanks,

Re: Firefox Gah. Your tab just crashed.

2024-11-28 Thread John McCue
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 02:25:42PM +0100, Robert Palm wrote: Thanks, Peter. I think there was an update of /etc/login.conf incoming lately and by accepting the default file I did override my settings. Let's see how it works now... Also note, for me /etc/firefox-esr/unveil.main also changed,

Re: Script at boot

2024-11-13 Thread John McCue
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:56:18AM +, Corey wrote: does BSD's crontab have any difference than GNU/Linux's? Yes, but nothing to be concerned about assuming you have used cron(8) in the past. You should do a 'man 5 crontab'. OpenBSD cron can be looked like an enhanced cron. One difference

Re: Ncurses vert/horiz lines rendering after upgrade to 7.6

2024-10-18 Thread John McCue
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 12:39:22PM -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote: Hello. Hi After upgrading to OpenBSD 7.6, the rendering of vertical and horizontal separator lines in ncurses based application like tmux and cmus seems to be messed up. tmux looks good to me on my system (7.6/amd64). But my loca

Re: I want to contribute to OpenBSD. Where should I begin?

2024-09-08 Thread John McCue
Hi This is the best information I have run across for your question. https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-05-03-contributing-to-openbsd.html Regards On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 11:39:21PM +0530, Neel chakraborty wrote: Hello everyone, I have recently begun using OpenBSD regularly and am impressed

Re: emacs/w3m cannot retrieve url

2024-08-31 Thread John McCue
Hi I can get to https://lobste.rs/ on OpenBSD 7.5 without any issues. But I installed emacs-29.4-gtk2 instead of the gtk3 package. The gtk3 package has issues on my machine. On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 02:02:06PM -0400, Jon Fineman wrote: In emacs when I try and browse https://lobste.rs via M-x w

Re: exFAT & NTFS

2024-07-28 Thread John McCue
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 09:40:29AM -0400, openbsd_fr...@mail2tor.com wrote: Can OpenBSD write to exFAT and NTFS partitions? Thanks. See 'man 8 mount_ntfs' (ro) and I think mount_msdos(8) for exfat. The manuals on OpenBSD are very good and update to date :) Regards

Re: amd64 bsd.rd for 7.0, 7.1, 7.2equentially. However it looks like

2024-06-03 Thread John McCue
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:02:57AM +0200, Quentin Carbonneaux wrote: Hi, I want to upgrade an amd64 system running 6.9. I do not know your setup, but upgrading from 6.9 to 7.5 may be an issue. Somewhere along the line I believe the default partition sizes changed. That means one of the upgra

Re: Bash instead of ksh

2024-04-01 Thread John McCue
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set it up that way? Bash is already installed. I would follow the suggestion in Nick Holland's email. I have one more thing to add. Using pdksh, ksh(1), o

Re: chrome + twm -> context menus disappear

2024-01-06 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +, Roderick wrote: When I use chrome with twm, context menus, for example the ones that appear by clicking the right mouse button on a link, disappear immediately after clicking, so that I do not have time to select anything. This does not happen with fvwm

Re: xscreensaver-settings keeps on crashing

2023-10-18 Thread John McCue
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 03:46:51AM -0500, Luke Small wrote: I discovered that if I run xfce desktop that I have on here for thunar file manager, that it works. I don???t know why. AFAIK, xfce now has its own internal screensaver, it stopped using xscreensaver a release or 2 ago. I can???t run

Re: xscreensaver-settings keeps on crashing

2023-09-29 Thread John McCue
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Luke Small wrote: I attached ???.xscreensaver??? I had to change the file type to send it. I ended up installing xscreensaver-6.05.1 via pkg_add(1) and xscreensaver-demo and xscreensaver works good for me. You can get my old .xscreensaver from: ht

Re: xscreensaver-settings keeps on crashing

2023-09-11 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 12:16:43PM -0500, Luke Small wrote: This is incredibly frustrating and has remained a problem throughout upgrades! Do I rebuild xenocara? Anyone know how to fix this? xscreensaver-settings crashes: " $ xscreensaver-settings xscreensaver-settings: 13:47:37: X error: xscr

Re: OpenBSD/i386 7.3 on a Macbook 2006

2023-04-29 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:42:27AM +0200, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello, I???ve installed OpenBSD/i386 7.3 on a Macbook 2006. It works, but the fan is running at maximum all the time. Is there anything I can do to optimize the system for such machines? Here???s the output from dmesg and ???sy

Re: Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

2021-06-16 Thread John McCue
Hi I have a R51e and OpenBSD i386 works great on it. I upgraded memory its from 1 to 2gig, but 1gig is plenty. John On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 08:14:14PM -0400, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello everyone, I was looking to get a laptop to run OpenBSD. The one I am looking at in particular is the Thinkpa