Mint Application Launcher Menu question ...
As you can see in this image link: https://upquick.com/temp/gdoclink.jpg On my Linux Mint Application Launcher Menu there is a link for: "temp - Google Docs" I don't know how that link got there, but I would like to know how to add an additional link to open a second or different google document to this launcher menu. Also, how can I change what occurs when I click on that link? For example, when I click on that "temp" link now, if I have a chrome browser open, that "temp" document opens as a new tab in that currently open chrome browser. But if there is no chrome browser open, the "temp" link does not open at all. Also, how can I set that link to open in a new chrome window or perhaps open into a firefox browser tab? How could I achieve that? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Synaptic question re Firefox
On my Linux Mint system (which is up to date), synaptic shows Firefox 66.0.3 as the latest version, as shown in this link image: https://upquick.com/temp/ffversion.jpg But as you can also see in that link image, when I open a google document with Firefox, I see the message that says "This version of Firefox is no longer supported." So what can I or should I do about that? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Which audio/video formats are best and why?
Please help ... After searching the 'net for information about which audio and video formats are best, and why, I am more confused than ever. On my system, I came across some old audio files with the file-name suffix .mid but I could not get those files to play with vlc, smplayer, amarok, or audacity. So, I went to several online file conversion sites trying to find one that would work best to do some file conversions, and that confused the subject further. So, I'm hoping that the PLUG brain trust can provide better information about this. The only file conversion site that I found that could deal with the .mid files was: www.zamzar.com When I converted one of my files, music.mid to mp3, the file played fine, but it increased the file size from 6329 to 3163566, which seemed weird? Why so? --6329 Apr 12 2003 music.mid ---3163566 May 11 19:41 music.mp3 ---3362836 May 12 00:28 music.ogg --37962478 May 12 00:29 music.wav I also gried to convert the same file to .ogg and to .wav with the size results seen above. This makes no sense. Why would such a small source file be blown up to such huge sizes and all sound the same? Similar question about video files: 46235648 Jul 18 2018 workshop2.VOB 16811516 Jul 18 2018 workshop2.mkv 51575152 May 12 00:14 workshop2.mp4 Which of these three is a preferable format? The all seem to look identical (to me) when played. Why would the conversion from the original VOB to mkv become so much smaller a file size and why would the conversion from VOB to mp4 increase the size? Hope so someone can help me make sense of this. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: How to make this simple html menu work?
Perhaps I might ask the question a different way: Is there a way to invoke or "exec" 'vlc' from within an html menu? In other words, from the commandline, I can use: vlc splash.mp4 and the video displays fine. Surely there must be some simple way to execute that from within an html " Thanks Brian, but I had read that page and tried to > implement everything suggested there. Couldn't get any of it to work. The > article describes doing this on a windows box and I'm on Linux. > > Splash 3 > Splash 4 > Splash 5 > > The code I shared in my original question did use > similar syntax to what the article suggests, but it doesn't work. The > closest I got was a result that showed the following message: > > "No video with supported format and MIME type found." > --- > May 9, 2020 12:41 am, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >> I believe this page has a well worded answer to your question: >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18246053/how-can-i-create-a-link-to >> -a >> -local-file-on-a-locally-run-web-page/18246357 >> >> Brian Cluff > --- >> On 5/8/20 11:14 PM, Joe wrote: >> >>> How can I get the simple html menu >>> (example code shown below) work to view mp4 videos >>> from a menu link on my local computer in the same way that I can view >>> jpg images (and when all the same files are uploaded as at this >>> link: >>> >>> https://upquick.com/viewpix/ >>> >>> Below is the simple code example: >>> >>> Click to view each image: >>> >>> the end >>> todo list >>> together >>> toilet paper >>> TP wedding dress >>> Turkey Bacon >>> >>> But none of the examples below work on my computer. Why? >>> Splash 1 >>> Splash 2 >>> On the command line this works: vlc >>> splash.mp4 What would be the simplest code to be able to >>> just click on a menu link to view an mp4 video? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: How to make this simple html menu work?
Thanks Brian, but I had read that page and tried to implement everything suggested there. Couldn't get any of it to work. The article describes doing this on a windows box and I'm on Linux. Splash 3 Splash 4 Splash 5 The code I shared in my original question did use similar syntax to what the article suggests, but it doesn't work. The closest I got was a result that showed the following message: "No video with supported format and MIME type found." --- May 9, 2020 12:41 am, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I believe this page has a well worded answer to your question: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18246053/how-can-i-create-a-link-to-a > -local-file-on-a-locally-run-web-page/18246357 > > Brian Cluff ------- > On 5/8/20 11:14 PM, Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >> How can I get the simple html menu >> (example code shown below) work to view mp4 videos >> from a menu link on my local computer in the same way that I can view >> jpg images (and when all the same files are uploaded as at this link: >> >> https://upquick.com/viewpix/ >> >> Below is the simple code example: >> >> Click to view each image: >> >> the end >> todo list >> together >> toilet paper >> TP wedding dress >> Turkey Bacon >> >> But none of the examples below work on my computer. Why? >> Splash 1 >> Splash 2 >> On the command line this works: vlc >> splash.mp4 >> What would be the simplest code to be able to >> just click on a menu link to view an mp4 video? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
OT: How to make this simple html menu work?
How can I get the simple html menu (example code shown below) work to view mp4 videos from a menu link on my local computer in the same way that I can view jpg images (and when all the same files are uploaded as at this link: https://upquick.com/viewpix/ Below is the simple code example: Click to view each image: the end todo list together toilet paper TP wedding dress Turkey Bacon But none of the examples below work on my computer. Why? Splash 1 Splash 2 On the command line this works: vlc splash.mp4 What would be the simplest code to be able to just click on a menu link to view an mp4 video? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: wine temp files question ... Thanis!
Thanks Bob ... That is a very helpful response. -- April 24, 2020 at 8:22 pm, Bob Elzer wrote: > The fact that the name of the directory is temp means you > can delete it. I wouldn't give the files a second thought. > I would try and figure out which program is leaving them. > If it is PSP then maybe it has something to do with running > it in wine. Delete all the files run PSP and then check again. > Keep checking until you find it. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Opening a google doc file from command line ...
When I use the following string (1) to open a google doc file from the command line, it works fine, but gives the ERROR message quoted (2) second below: (1) google-chrome --app --new-window https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtuZyh-vXIvOk4J8sCLFpKTKHUtw4j5m_UqaPMpIdbM/edit (2) [16506:16506:0426/192107.652606:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc(100)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters (32 were expected). Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank" Opening in existing browser session. Can anyone tell me why and how to stop or remedy this error? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: wine temp files question ...
Still hoping for an answer for this: Subject: Question re .wine Temp files ... Date:Sun, April 12, 2020 12:01 pm To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org I just discovered a thousand or so huge .tmp files in a /hme/joe/.wine/drive_c/Users/joe/Temp subdirectory dating back to 2017 and I have no idea what is in those files. most are 1 to 3 megabyte each. The most recent are 30 files from April 6, 2020 over a span of about 10 minutes, but none since then even though I have been using the one and only program that I use under .wine and older version of Paint Shop Pro 7 (which works great, by the way) I tried to view some of the files with several different image viewers to see what was in them, but no success. Any suggestions how I might find out what is in any of those files? and/or if it would be risky to delete all of those otherwise apparently space-wasting files? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Question re .wine Temp files ...
I just discovered a thousand or so huge .tmp files in a /hme/joe/.wine/drive_c/Users/joe/Temp subdirectory dating back to 2017 and I have no idea what is in those files. most are 1 to 3 megabyte each. The most recent are 30 files from April 6, 2020 over a span of about 10 minutes, but none since then even though I have been using the one and only program that I use under .wine and older version of Paint Shop Pro 7 (which works great, by the way) I tried to view some of the files with several different image viewers to see what was in them, but no success. Any suggestions how I might find out what is in any of those files? and/or if it would be risky to delete all of those otherwise apparently space-wasting files? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
