Re: [DNG] How to adjust mouse characteristics?

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 On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:28:16 -0800 Fred  wrote 


Hello,

Devuan Beowulf AMD64

Is there a configuration file somewhere that allows adjustment of mouse 
resolution and acceleration?  Gpm is not installed by default and I 
haven't been able to find anything (USB) mouse related.

Best regards,
Fred
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It is my understanding that persistent changes to xorg settings can be 
accomplished by adding files

to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory.



Temporary changes can be made using xset.



There are examples in the archlinux wiki at 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration



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Re: [DNG] no sound on the brasswell acer chromebook. not from headphone or speakers

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 On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:21:39 -0800 Chris via Dng  
wrote 


only dummy output in pulseaudio

alsamixer shows chtmax98090 and HDA Intel PCH for sound cards.



thanks.



chris price

westminster, md




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Did you try $ amixer sset Headphone unmute




?



And make sure the volume/gain for the headphones is turned up using alsamixer.



Hope this works for you.



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Re: [DNG] Beowulf: 32bit or 64 bit?

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 On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:07:19 -0800 Fred  wrote 


>Hello,

>I recently upgraded from Debian Jessie to Devuan Beowulf.  I tried to 
>run a program (ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage) which would not run.

>bash: ./ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage: cannot execute binary file: Exec 
>format error

>I asked for help on the Debian user mail list (because of previous 
>discussion) and was told I am running a 32 bit version.

>uname -m
>i686

>lspci
>Architecture:i686
>CPU op-mode(s):  32-bit, 64-bit
>(the rest cut)

>So, is Beowulf 32 bit or 64 bit?

>Best regards,
>Fred
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Devuan 3 Beowulf is available for i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64



It appears that you installed the 32 bit version, i.e. i386



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Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

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 On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 01:45:20 -0800 Florian Zieboll via Dng 
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Am 15. November 2020 01:03:05 MEZ schrieb Marc Shapiro via Dng 
:

> I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring 
> an MTA.
> 
> I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I would 
> like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed. 


'msmtp' is a lightweight and simple option for sending messages to remote smtp 
servers from shell scripts. with a variable (e.g. "$mailcmd") it can be used as 
drop in replacement for mailx.

libre grüße,
florian



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msmtp works well for these type of things.  

Beware though as the package includes an apparmor profile which can cause 
problems

if you don't use the defaults.



Don't ask me how I know this.



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Re: [DNG] No Sound in XFCE Beowulf - Pulsaudio

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 On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:34:30 -0700 Michael K.  wrote 



*establishing connetion to pulsaudio, please wait *

(a fresh installed Beowulf wth XFCE has no Sound. )

There was a hint once before on the list to edit "something" in a
Pulsaudio file. But I can't find this info anymore.

What do I have to do to get back in contact with the sound mixer?

Thanks in advance

Michael




I cannot remember either.

So

I checked my configuration and the only

file changed is in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/



which has 00-disable-autospawn.conf



the contents of which are



 On linux systems, disable autospawn by default

# If you are not using systemd, comment out this line

# autospawn=n



I am sure someone with definitive knowledge will come along, refresh

my memory and help you.



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Re: [DNG] XFCE in Beowulf confuses left and right

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 On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:14:27 -0700 Michael K.  wrote 


Heyho, 
 
I have setup a Desktop with Beowulf and XFCE. The install was done with 
only one Monitor (Acer 24" HDMI) 
 
I put on a other Monitor (Acer 20" VGA) and yes i get "Figure 3. 
Configure new displays dialog." (*) In this display dialog i see the 
first "confuses of left and right" The 20" stands *left* from 24" (for 
medical reasons i need it) I drag and drop the Icons to te right places, 
how my monitors are positioned. I set 24" as default. And XFCE use the 
20" as default?! 24" shows only the default XFCE Background. (***) 
 
"if i want to reach the monitor left with the mouse i have to move the 
mouse to the right." 
 
Although, the 24" is the *default* Monitor XFCE give me the Menu and 
other Desktop Items on the small one 20" ?? E.g. open Thunar  
 
I *disable* the Small on 20", and the Monitor Icon for the 20" goes 
automatically to the right side. See screenshot (**) 
 
I make this settings as a "normal user" non root privileges. (***) 
 
what can I do to make this program do what I want? 
 
Thank you in advance and have a nice weekend 
 
Michael 



 


I setup my multi monitor location and configuration in

Preferences->LXQt Settings->Monitor settings



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[DNG] AppArmor documentation and packaging

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I don't know to whom these should go to, or how to get them fixed.



Documentation:



Having read the fine manual:



Neither 

man apparmor

or

man apparmor.d



have any mention of apparmor.d/local



There is no mention of proper formatting of apparmor.d/local files.



At https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Policy_Layout

there is a mention of


${APPARMOR.D}/local/

and

${HOME}/.apparmor/



but there does not appear to be any documentation on

formatting of the files in the local subdirectory, 

which is different from the profiles.



But they also say that the Debian distribution includes

the documentation and Debian specific notes.



So, can you trust documentation that contradicts itself?





Profiles and packaging:



FIREFOX-ESR

There is no apparmor profile for FIREFOX-ESR



There is a firefox profile in apparmor-profiles-extra.deb 

which appears to work after changing the name appropriately.



MSMTP

The apparmor profile is part of the package.





The point of these last items is the inconsistent packaging.



There should probably be a guideline that profiles go with the package

or in a separate package.



I discovered this after installing MSMTP and having it mysteriously fail

when the log directory was changed.



I imagine that I am not the first person to have the learning opportunity

that inconsistent packaging creates.



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[DNG] Beowulf upgrade from Ubuntu

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Beowulf install.



Hardware:Thinkstation c30-1095, 2xe5-2680, 56GB ram, 2 500 GB WDC disks (1 with 
win 10 pro, 1 with /home and swap) 120gb adata ssd, 500 gb nvme adata on 4x 
pcie card, Quadro 2000D video card, two monitors.



Upgrading from ubuntu 18.04 (done with systemd, snap, etc).



1) Thanks for all the work.



2) Using DVD iso on usb stick in order to install LXQt at install time.



3) Manual partition, retaining /home and swap (/dev/sdc), / on 120 ssd 
(/dev/sda), Win10 Pro on /dev/sdb/. /var/lib/postgresql on /dev/nvme0n1p1.

Postgresql will be installed after everything else is running.



4) Install goes smoothly until grub.  Grub says that it doesn't see any

other operating systems and recommends install onto partition as opposed to 
native device (dev/sda1 vs dev/sda), as it could clobber any other os that it 
doesnt see.

I go with the recommendation so as not to have to fix a Windows install.

Remove usb stick, reboot and go directly to grub rescue, which doesnt seem to 
respond to anything.

Reinsert usb stick and reboot, go to repair or rescue (dont remember name),

eventually get to grub, install it on /dev/sda, exit installer reboot and 
voila.., grub now shows devuan and Win10, both work, and I get to the devuan 
login screen.



5) Started adding a couple packages and apt asked for cdrom.  I assumed it 
wanted usb stick, mounted it and nope, it wants a cdrom.  Go in and delete

cdrom from apt sources and we are running again.



6) Desktop came up mostly fine, both monitors recognized and placed correctly.  
Trash can icon has no empty trash menu item !?.  The trash can in pcmanfm does 
though.  Start fixing my custom menu items for various machines that I log into 
and even though the .desktop files are changed, the menu items don't change and 
neither does the behaviour of the menu items.  Some caching problem?  Previous 
lxde installations have caught the changes immediately.



After changing the background from basic black the icons disappeared.  I got 
the icons back by turning them on in pcmanfm, but the menus for the items are 
different than they were.  Is it possible that two different things (pcmanfm 
and ?) are attempting to be in charge of desktop icons?



Strange power management messages, 53% battery, etc.  I am not on a laptop.

Remove the power management applet from the system tray and that keeps it from 
bothering me.



On to setting up the network.  Having never used connman before there are some 
unfamiliarities. It assigned the local gateway address  to the ntp server.  Put 
in a real ntp server, it accepts it, but doesn't delete the local gateway 
address.  Find the underlying file and it has the real ntp address only.  How 
it is retaining the now second, address is beyond me.

ConnmanUI has massive space for entering things like ntp and dns server.

It leads on to believe it is one entry to a line.  Couldn't get multiple DNS 
servers to show until I just entered a comma seperated list.  The large amount 
of whitespace (or grayspace) for ntp and dns was misleading to me.



Go back and create some new .desktop files for the machines I SSH into and 
delete the old desktop files. Qterminal comes up in some goofy small size.

Lots of searching and reading about this issue dating back 5 years or so, talk 
of the -profile option which didn't seem to want to work with a saved .ini file 
and still isn't documented.  Finally get a big hammer and use X11 geometry to 
get correct terminal window sizes.  Yes, I know that it remembers the last 
size, but just because I wanted to check CPU usage of all 32 cores in one 
terminal window, doesn't mean I want all terminal windows to be that size when 
they are opened.



Everytime I login, I get a message about not being able to register Ctrl-Alt-D. 
 A search leads me to believe that problem has been there a while.



Hope this information helps.



GREAT job people!



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