Re: why some wifi connection method is better than other

2022-04-02 Thread lou
Thanks! it's same hardware, bullseye is in hard disk while opensuse live image is copied to usb disk

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

2022-04-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/2/22, Haines Brown wrote: > > Thank you. The problem turned out to be that my hostname somehow > changed. It was originally but then it became > -10. The only way I can account for this is my senility > (87). This is my third email attempt at this. I started to say that sounds odd. I

Re: why some wifi connection method is better than other

2022-04-02 Thread Pankaj Jangid
a writes: > to setup wifi, i edit /etc/network/interfaces in bullseye and run > ifup/ifdown to take effect > > iface wlx12345 inet dhcp >     wpa-ssid netgear >     wpa-key-mgmt NONE > > it works if wifi signals is good > > if wifi signals is 2 on scale of 3 shown by cell phone, it can't

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:53:18 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: ... > - double authentication: "When using a SSH tunnel to connect to a SPICE > console, it's recommended to have ssh-agent running to avoid getting > multiple authentication prompts." > > (take a look at virtsh, virt-manager, virt-viewer

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:40:30 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of > > some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have > > public key access to root@remote_system. When I do: > > > >

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 03:43:10 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > > > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > >> What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > >> line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > >> VMs - why am I being prompted for the

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 21:56:00 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file > > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that > > its three entries haven't

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 08:05:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > > VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? > >

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:53:18 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Hello, > > Disclaimer: I do not use ssh, nor remote virtual machines, so this is > far from an expert answer :-) Thanks for the suggestions! > You could be confronted to several possible problems: > - root access: you could try

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that > its three entries haven't been changed in donkey's years. unicorn:~$ ls -a /etc/skel ./ ../

indicador de batería para notebook

2022-04-02 Thread Marcelo Eduardo Giordano
Amigos. No me sale el indicador de carga de la batería para mi notebook en Bullseye. Gracias a la lista (Volviendo al querido Debian desde Arch)

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 20:35 (UTC-0400): > That is the desktop version. Mine is built into my toshiba laptop. > Go5200 is the laptop version. Nvidia seems to use Go a lot to > distinguish the difference between desk and lap and, they do take > different drivers. NVidia may do

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... > If i wanted to expand my knowledge towards x86-related firmware, > bootloaders, and the Linux kernel i would probably begin at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS > https://uefi.org/specifications > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/ >

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 15:17:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > > accounts by adduser. No other program should

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-02 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:00:02 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 17:21 (UTC-0400): > >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the

Problema con repositorio

2022-04-02 Thread Marcelo Giordano
Estimados: Al poner este repositorio deb [arch=amd64] http://security.debian.org/ bullseye/updates main contrib el sistema me dice que no encuentra la ip y me da error. *Es necesario tenerlo?* *Muy agradecido*

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLUTION)

2022-04-02 Thread Nathanael Schweers
Haines Brown writes: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: >> That’s how most window managers are designed to work. I certainly do >> something similar with i3. > > Nathan I copied over the .fluxbox hierarchy. It turned out this can be > done, but lines left in

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 17:21 (UTC-0400): > I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the > display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any > reference on the web that shows

toshiba video problem

2022-04-02 Thread Noah Sombrero
I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there are some before xrandr when

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 03:17:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > > accounts by adduser. No other program

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: > Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. > Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the > middle of the new set of options you will see 'Document Status'. > > Be sure it is not checked. Thanks.

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Celejar writes: Hi, I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have public key access to root@remote_system. When I do: virt-manager -c 'qemu+ssh://root@remote_system/system?

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in > hindsight which books would you have picked? I only know about the small bridges between computer firmware and the first custom program to be started, which usually is a bootloader.

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in > /etc/skel. > > Therefore, if a program needs

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 08:43:11 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > fluxbox. > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. > > I'd like to know why this happened and how to fix it. It's Debian policy: 10.7.5

Re: exit bash during installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Apr 2022 at 06:56:31 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:00:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2022-03-31 at 09:38, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP > > > address in order to configure the network

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 11:22:25 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: Hello Charles, >gets marked as "dirty", i.e. it has changes, and should be saved. How >do I turn off marking the file as dirty? I think what you want is; Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' --

Fermetures intempestives de session ou poweroff demandé par systemd

2022-04-02 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Bonjour à tous, J'ai une machine diskless (i9 10th gen. 20 threads, 64 Go de mémoire, swap sur iSCSI) que j'utilise avec Windowmaker (deux écrans). De temps en temps, totalement aléatoirement, soit la session Windowmaker se ferme, soit la machine s'arrête. Ce soir, j'ai

Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
My search-fu has failed me. When I print a text document from Libreoffice, the file being printed gets marked as "dirty", i.e. it has changes, and should be saved. How do I turn off marking the file as dirty? libreoffice-core 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u1, amd64 -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-04-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/04/2022 à 06:17, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : Dan Ritter writes: In any case, you seem to have answered your own question: Oracle is the supplier of virtualbox. If you don't trust them, there are many fine alternatives to virtualbox, most of which are built on the work of kvm, qemu or Xen.

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLUTION)

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: > > Haines Brown writes: > > > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > > fluxbox. > > > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. > > I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? Celejar Apologies for replying to the wrong message - I've deleted the

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Albretch Mueller writes: imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in hindsight which books would you have picked? I do not know of any books about bootloaders, but having a look at multiple different bootloaders (documentation and possibly source code) should be a

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: > Haines Brown writes: > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. Did you run it? > > Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be > > copied over from a working system? > That’s

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Nathanael Schweers
Haines Brown writes: > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > fluxbox. > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but I don’t use a DE either. For what it’s worth, I use i3, which also does not place a

fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then fluxbox. Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. I'd like to know why this happened and how to fix it. Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be copied over from a working

why some wifi connection method is better than other

2022-04-02 Thread a
to setup wifi, i edit /etc/network/interfaces in bullseye and run ifup/ifdown to take effect iface wlx12345 inet dhcp     wpa-ssid netgear     wpa-key-mgmt NONE it works if wifi signals is good if wifi signals is 2 on scale of 3 shown by cell phone, it can't connect but gnome in

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? > > Celejar > > Aren't you required to copy the key over to the

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I do not use ssh, nor remote virtual machines, so this is far from an expert answer :-) You could be confronted to several possible problems: - root access: you could try using an ordinary user instead - "system" problem: virt-manager/virt-viewer propose "system" and

which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in hindsight which books would you have picked? I am OK with Math and technology of any kind and I am more of a Debian kind of guy. In fact, I am amazed at how Debian Live would pretty much boot any piece of sh!t you would feed to it,