Mouse middle button issue (more)

[Satellite]

Well... Now after reboot middle mouse emulation is enabled 
again:


   |xinput list-props 8 (my mouse ID)
   libinput Middle Emulation Enabled (291):   1|

While the next string from the output 
says:


   |libinput Middle Emulation Enabled Default (292):   0|

Seems that .xsessionrc doesn't work now and that's a bug, I guess. But I 
don't know what package might have caused this issue.

Mouse middle button issue (probably libinput)

[Satellite]

Hello, guys!

I'm running stable Stretch 64-bit and yesterday I upgraded MATE from 
1.16 to 1.20 (from 
backports):


   |sudo apt install -t stretch-backports mate-desktop-environment-extras|

I'm experiencing an issue with my mouse buttons. My mouse is Logitech 
M318e (simple gaming mouse with a wheel/button and backward/forward 
buttons on the side).
I wouldn't have noticed that actually but I regularly play 
Openarena/Quake games. Now I simply cannot rocket jump anymore (when 
left+right buttons pressed almost at the same time).


After running the following command I see that now 1) pressing on the 
wheel button and 2) pressing left+right buttons simultaneously are 
handled as the same event - button 
2:


   |xev | grep ', button'|

left button - button 1
right button - button 3
pressing the middle wheel - button 2
pressing left+right buttons simultaneously - button 2

Fortunately I have Jessie installed on another drive. So I tested it 
there and the result is:


left button - button 1
right button - button 3
pressing the middle wheel - button 2
pressing left+right buttons simultaneously - button 1 and button 3

I'm aware that Debian has switched to libinput 
 
instead of synaptics, but there's nothing libinput related in the APT 
logs  and everything was OK prior to that 
MATE upgrade.


I don't even know what package might have caused this issue in order to 
file a proper bug report.


I'm using now a temporary solution via .xsessionrc:


   |xinput --set-prop DEVICE_ID "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled" 0|

Where your DEVICE_ID can be found via xinput.

*P.S.* I've also found something relevant (but old and archived) in the 
Debian Mail Lists 
 and Bug 
tracker .

Bug after unstable upgrade

[Satellite]

 Yesterday, after within an upgrade I issued also 'dist-upgrade' and it 
upgraded 'cups' package. I'm also using Canon i-SENSYS MF4120 
multifunctional printer/scanner, so I had drivers from the official 
Canon site installed ('cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386' and 
'cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.00-2_i386').
But the upgrade removed these two packages and I now the printer doesn't 
work and I can't install them back.


Thank you in advance.

Alexander


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Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)

[Satellite]

 After an upgrade yesterday CUPS removed my network Canon i-SENSYS 
MF4120 official printer drivers ('cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386' и 
'cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.00-2_i386'):


Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-common.
(Reading database ... 181386 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-ufr2-uk.
Unpacking cndrvcups-ufr2-uk (from cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.00-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common:
 cndrvcups-common depends on cupsys; however:
  Package cupsys is not installed.
 cndrvcups-common depends on gs-esp; however:
  Package gs-esp is not installed.
dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-ufr2-uk:
 cndrvcups-ufr2-uk depends on cndrvcups-common (= 2.00); however:
  Package cndrvcups-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-ufr2-uk (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cndrvcups-common
 cndrvcups-ufr2-uk


NOTE:
1) there is no 'cupsys' in repos (seems that it's deprecated or not used)
2) 'gs-esp' and some other one (don't remember) were also removed by 
'cups'.



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Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)

[Satellite]

 2Wolodja Wentland:

1) your commands return nothing for me ( neither aptitude search 
?provides(cupsys) nor aptitude search ~Pcupsys)

2) I installed these two packages again ('gs-esp' and 'ghostscript-x')

Still, while trying to install official Canon drivers I get this:

Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-common.
(Reading database ... 181399 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-ufr2-uk.
Unpacking cndrvcups-ufr2-uk (from cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.00-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common:
 cndrvcups-common depends on cupsys; however:
  Package cupsys is not installed.
dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-ufr2-uk:
 cndrvcups-ufr2-uk depends on cndrvcups-common (= 2.00); however:
  Package cndrvcups-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-ufr2-uk (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cndrvcups-common
 cndrvcups-ufr2-uk


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Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

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The way emacs sets up the meta key is somewhat a mystery to me.

Here is the output on my machine from `xmodmap':

xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift   Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lockCaps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1Alt_L (0x40)
mod2Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3Mode_switch (0x71)
mod4  
mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

So if you get Alt_L bound to mod1, you should be back in
business. 

Strange things happens if you start moving modifiers around to other
mod's or have the Meta key bound in somewhere, at least enough that it
made my head spin once I tried setting up Caps_lock as yet another
modifier key. (can't have too many of these with emacs :-)


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Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

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 Greg == Greg Strockbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped
 tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar,

Greg well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs  :-)

Just to make the note: emacs is able to browse tar files, even if
compressed, and I believe there is also support for .debs somewhere.


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Re: apt-get byte compile problem

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

What packages are we talking about? (You can use `dpkg -S' to match a
particular file to its package).

Some of the larger emacs packages has the .el files in separate
packages in order not to needlessly swamp the system. This includes
emacs itself. 


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Re: How do I allow empty passwords?

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

 Riku == Riku Saikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Riku passwd -d guest seems to remove the password for the user guest on
Riku my potato system

One can also do 

usermod -p  guest

Beware, however, that PAM may not be configured to allow empty
passwords.


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Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

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 Jonathan == Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Jonathan I think the best comment over the emacs thing was; someone
Jonathan said it's not an editor, it's a virtual machine Now that
Jonathan makes great sense!  Now someone needs to come up with
Jonathan something as clever to explain vi... :)

I once heard the quote: UNIX has a better editor than Emacs, but
Emacs has a better operating system.


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Re: Configuration management

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under
CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it
yet.

My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use
the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch
off (on that file only) and do it. The trick would be to have a
consistent tag naming scheme that would automate the process in the
other direction. One could then run CVS through some apropriate
scripts that would examine the tag structure and do the right thing.


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Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I think there is a rather simple reason why .rpms are everywhere but
.debs isn't.

The rpm based distributions are so much smaller that important
functionality is missing, thus forcing many people to go and build
rpms for their favourite software. Since debian is so big, there is
very little software not already presented by a debian developer.

And I disagree that rpms are very simple to do. Been there, done that,
hated it - a lot. Doing a package is no more difficult with dpkg
than with rpm. Doing a *good* package, catering for all the different
and impossible situations it may be presented to is a tough job, no
matter what system you are using. The standards are probably somewhat
higher in the debian world, and that may be what put people off.


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Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

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I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that
this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have
anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality.

First note that X11 distinguishes between an applications *class* and
its *name*.

So you could try writing

Emacs.background: Black

To set a default for all applications in the Emacs class.

I guess that lowercase entries are then referring to actual
application names. The (resource) name of an application defaults to
the executables name, but may be modified with the standard X11 option
of -name. Thus you could also have written:

foobar.background: Black

and then invoke emacs as

emacs -name foobar -title my-foobar

The -title is just to set the titlebar of the window.

This may also explain why the emacs. setting was working from
.xsession but not with fvwm. You were referring to the name, but if
fvwm somehow changes this (resource wise), you will be in trouble.

You can experiment from a shell. Apparently, emacs looks into
.Xdefaults whenever it starts. Just add -q to avoid reading your
.emacs.

You could also handle this from within your .emacs. You could say
stuff such as:

  (if (eq window-system 'x)
  (progn
(setq default-frame-alist 
  (cons (cons '(background-color . white)
'(foreground-color . black)
default-frame-alist )))
(modify-frame-parameters nil default-frame-alist)))



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Re: ISDN modem problems (SOLVED)

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I have now my Zyxel Omni.net plus ISDN modem up and running. The
crucial informaton seemed to have comed from the Serial-programing
HOWTO and involves IRQ priorities. Enabling `irqtune' in
/etc/rc.boot/hwtools seems to have done the trick.


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Re: ISDN modem problems

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

 Jens == Jens B Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Jens I use a Zyxel OMNI TA 128U (almost the exact same beast) with a single 64K
Jens channel. It has no problems. My server machine is a P90 overclocked to 
100 with
Jens 40MB of memory. Perhaps you're getting buffer overruns on your serial 
port. What
Jens baud rate are you running your serial  port at?

I am using 115200 in my pppd options file, and use setserial with the
spd_vhi flag on the device. And I am only using a single channel.

I have made some progress though. I was using an extra serial port I had
installed. Though there should be no IRQ conflicts, removing that
board and using the builtin one (COM2) made the whole thing run much
better.

However, I am still not able to get the ISDN line up when X11 is
running (due to massive ppp frame fcs problems). 

I am suspecting that I am experiencing IRQ priority problems (could be
that X increased the latency of some higher priority IRQ), but having
spent a couple of hours with my nose in Serial-programming HOWTO did
not help much. Irqtune did not seem to make any difference to that
problem.

Is my PC just too slow?


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ISDN modem problems

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I have just got myself an ISDN line and a Zyxel Omni.net plus modem,
but I have problems in getting it to work smoothly.

The problem is that I keep getting error messages saying something to
the effect of:

ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 4de9

The more trafic (for instance with ping) I generate, the less packages
comes through. The limit seems to be around packet sizes of 2048/4096.

If I stress my machine (which is a pentium 75 with 48Mb of RAM, a
couple of years old), more packages are dropped.

If my machine is only lightly loaded, pppd will only come up if I use
the option:

kdebug 7

Otherwise it fails rather eraly in the initial negotiations when a
ConfReq never sees the corresponding ConfAck.

However, if I run a heavy job (such as a kernel compilation), the
kdebug is not necessary to get pppd up. It will drop a few packages
with ping -s 4096, but now silently. With ping -s 8192, almost nothing
gets through.

If I run X11, the connection can not get up (with kdebug 7).

Does anybody have an idea where and how I should investigate? Should I
suspect my serial port? Is my machine simply too slow to handle a
64kps connection? Is there any kernel option I can set?


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Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

I am not sure whether this can help you at all (or whether it has been
brougth up before), but the following hack, posted to a debian list a
long time ago, works for me in rewriting headers with smail.

I am using my university account to connect to the internet, and I
want all replies (regardless of who sent it locally) to arrive at that
account.

This is the smtp entry from my `/etc/smail/routers' file:

smtp:   driver=tcpsmtp, 
remove_header=From, 
insert_header=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($sender_name on satellite),
max_addrs=100,  # limit on number of addresses
-max_chars,  
inet;   # use route-addr addresses for routing
-use_bind,  # resolve MX and multiple A records
defer_no_connect,   # try again if the nameserver is down
-local_mx_okay, # fail an MX to the local host
defnames# use standard domain searching

Note the remove_header/insert_header lines.

I am using smail 3.2.0.92-1.


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Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

 Carey == Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Carey It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors,
Carey but pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the
Carey moment, IMO.

Wouldn't it be sort of possible to plug in an ascii terminal to the
serial port, hide the screen under the table, move the keyboard over
to that second monitor and write some fairly simple program that would
read characters of the serial port device and forward them to the
Xserver?


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ppp-off not stopping dialup-connection

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

When I was using pppd, I also had a little script, which basically
just did what the init.d script was doing, ie. something like:

/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon --$action --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd -- 
connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript$long

with $action being `start' or `stop'. I have been using diald for some
time now, so I do not know if it still works.

If all else fails, you could consider just doing an

echo ATZ  /dev/modem

in you script. That should really take care of things.


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rxvt sporadic problem

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

 Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 rxvt
Peter rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting

This could be a problem of running out of pseudo tty's which is a
limited ressource. However, I do not remember seeing such a thing on
any singleuser computer (ie. in most ordinary conditions; it takes
more than a few users to use up the defaults).

Are you running a server with lot of users or do you create
extraordinary many sessions (xterms/rxvt/login/rsh)? Each session
takes a tty, so most X sessions takes quite a lot, though I personally
never had problems. However, if a rogue script is executing rsh's or
rxvt's in an infinite loop, you will of course run dry at some point.

Peter I get this error under a non-root account, and then 10 minutes
Peter later the command works again.

Certainly sounds like `to few ressources with too many consumers'.

Try doing a `who' command. I believe that lists all allocated ttys.

I do not know how to enlarge the number of tty's on a linux box, but
there is undoubtedly a guru on this list that knows.

Peter xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry.

Somewhat strange. The xterm terminal definition definitely is in the
standard database. 

Perhaps your environment is pointing to something non-standard. Check
for settings of the TERMCAP or TERMINFO environment variables, and
unset them if present.

You can also try to check the directory:

/usr/lib/terminfo/x

which should contain a file named `xterm'. If that is present, the
database should be ok, I guess. 

On my system, that directory looks like:

x10term   x820  xerox820  xterm-color   xterms-sun
x1700 xenix xl83  xterm-nic
x1700-lm  xerox xtalk xterm-pcolor
x1720 xerox-lm  xterm xterm-sun
x1750 xerox1720 xterm-boldxterms

If you get really desparate, it is a rather small thing to install a
new xterm terminfo entry (though you probably want to find out what is
going on). 

You can even have a personal ~/.terminfo directory, complementing the
system entries, which just is yet another thing that shows how
wonderfull a UNIX system linux really is.


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E-Mail address

[Christian Lynbech on satellite]

 I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at
 home. My account name is joe on the linux box, and I want all
 outgoing mail to say it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do
 this?

I use smail, configured as the `satellite' option. I did the following
in the `transports' file to resolve the name problem:

smtp:   driver=tcpsmtp, max_addrs=100, -max_chars, inet,
remove_header=From, 
insert_header=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($sender_name on satellite);
use_bind, defer_no_connect, -local_mx_okay, defnames

which means that on outgoing posts (delievered via SMTP which is not
the default I believe), the from header is first removed and a new is
inserted. This gives me ordinary handling on local mail (internal on
the linux box) and my account name on everything that goes outside.


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