bullseye: GNOME, Thunderbird, font styles?

2020-12-22 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; unsure whether this belongs here (apologies if not): Using Thunderbird 78 and GNOME on Debian bullseye, I wonder whether there is any way to make Thunderbird comply with the font (size, style) settings of the rest of the desktop? Spent a fair amount of time trying to tweak this, but re

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 01:25:05AM +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:06:45AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > > > > > If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread elvis
On 21/12/20 4:27 pm, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-20 20:38, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:05:45 + mick crane wrote: It's a more or less new bullseye installation. The installer kindly set up a Volume Group and added Logical Volumes of a couple of the partitions on the dis

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-22 Thread George Shuklin
On 20/12/2020 00:42, Dan Ritter wrote: George Shuklin wrote: On 12/18/20 9:55 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: George Shuklin wrote: I continue to choose hardware carefully, and the next issue (I found a lot on it) is support for tiling displays. They uses multiple streams inside DisplayPort to achieve h

Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

2020-12-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 08:12:28PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last I read wayland had serious accessibility problems. How does fvwm > work with screen readers and similar accessibility items and is fvwm > going the way of xWindows? I have no experience with screen readers, and very little know

Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

2020-12-22 Thread Javier Barroso
El mar., 22 dic. 2020 14:07, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 08:12:28PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Last I read wayland had serious accessibility problems. How does fvwm > > work with screen readers and similar accessibility items and is fvwm > > going the way of xWindows?

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-22 Thread Dan Ritter
George Shuklin wrote: > On 20/12/2020 00:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > George Shuklin wrote: > > > On 12/18/20 9:55 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > George Shuklin wrote: > > > > > I continue to choose hardware carefully, and the next issue (I found > > > > > a lot > > > > > on it) is support for tiling

Re: "Service restarts being deferred"

2020-12-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 20 Dec 2020 at 17:01:31 (+0100), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > On 2020-12-19 21:05, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > > Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > > > > I run Buster with unattended updates configured to allow reboots. > > > > > > > > > > Sometimes after an update, the log contains: > > > > > > Service re

Good tutorial on how to setup Gnome and KDE on the same machine?

2020-12-22 Thread Jan Girke
Hi I am searching for a good tutorial for setting up Gnome and KDE as my desktops with a screen at the start to choose which one I want today / this start. Can anybody give me the link to a good one? Best, Jan

Re: Good tutorial on how to setup Gnome and KDE on the same machine?

2020-12-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Jan Girke wrote: > Hi > > I am searching for a good tutorial for setting up Gnome and KDE as my > desktops with a screen at the start to choose which one I want today / > this start. sudo apt install xdm and whichever of the following makes you happy: task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | ta

Re: Good tutorial on how to setup Gnome and KDE on the same machine?

2020-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 dec 20, 11:13:59, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jan Girke wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am searching for a good tutorial for setting up Gnome and KDE as my > > desktops with a screen at the start to choose which one I want today / > > this start. > > sudo apt install xdm > and whichever of the followi

Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread rhkramer
See the quoted paragraph, below, quoted from the [[https://wiki.debian.org/LVM#Encrypted_LVM][LVM#Encrypted_LVM]] wiki. It seems to me that the idea of creating and saving backup passwords is something of a red herring (to borrow a "Briticism"). The way I see it: * if, in the future: "som

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:11:19PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > My point is this: I think creating and saving backup passwords is of minimal > value. Maybe to you as a single user. However, I have worked in places where resources are protected by multiple passwords. For instance ther

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread rhkramer
Roberto, Thanks for the reply! Good points, both of them. I might (or might not) add your use case (the multiple user case) to the wiki as it sounds like a more plausible need. On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:34:12 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:11:19PM -0500, rhkra

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:26:36 PM CET, elvis wrote: The LVM howto is your friend there are also plenty of man pages! greetings...

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-22 21:04, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:26:36 PM CET, elvis wrote: The LVM howto is your friend there are also plenty of man pages! greetings... You mean like RTFM or something ? The man pages generally assume you know why you are reading them. I've noticed a lot

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58:14 PM CET, mick crane wrote: You mean like RTFM or something ? indeed, i had something like this in mind... ;) agreed, the quality of man pages is not, what it used to be back in the day, when i was young, but lvm is old, and hence the man pages provide mor

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread elvis
On 23/12/20 7:58 am, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-22 21:04, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:26:36 PM CET, elvis wrote: The LVM howto is your friend there are also plenty of man pages! greetings... You mean like RTFM or something ? The man pages generally assume you know wh

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-22 22:19, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58:14 PM CET, mick crane wrote: You mean like RTFM or something ? indeed, i had something like this in mind... ;) agreed, the quality of man pages is not, what it used to be back in the day, when i was young, but lvm is old,

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-22 09:11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: See the quoted paragraph, below, quoted from the [[https://wiki.debian.org/LVM#Encrypted_LVM][LVM#Encrypted_LVM]] wiki. It seems to me that the idea of creating and saving backup passwords is something of a red herring (to borrow a "Briticism"). Th

transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the maximum is 50 Mbs per file. Would you expect

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Bob Weber
On 12/22/20 7:55 PM, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the maximu

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/23/20 2:55 AM, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have > gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. > Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed > per file, either scp or rsync the

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 8:55 am, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the maxim

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 9:40 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: rsync is never particularly fast as there is a lot of handshaking and file examination at each end prior to a transfer. I wouldn't be surprised at 50 Mbps. scp should be a lot faster as there is no handshaking other than establishing the session; a

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:10:20PM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-12-22 22:19, Michael wrote: > >- pvcreate to add a partition to a pool of physical volumes […] > I have only skimmed reading the fine manual and other things but I'm > guessing that if the partition is full I'll either

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:55:58AM +, mick crane wrote: > I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have > gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit; that is 10⁹ bits per secon

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2020-12-23 03:37, Andy Smith wrote: <..> e.g. if you install a drive and it shows up in your OS as /dev/foo of size 1TB, then: # pvcreate /dev/foo # vgcreate myvg /dev/foo Now you have a volume group called "myvg" with ~1TB (some space reserved for metadata) available for allocation. This