Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Dec 2020 at 17:49:02 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:15:40 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > It's worth pointing out that even on buster, "su -" does in fact clear > > the value of DISPLAY, which is not really a surprise, since you > > explicitly requested a "clean

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2020-12-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 04:12:25PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print si

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread Mark Neyhart
On 12/31/20 12:50 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > I am using Bullseye as updated to yesterday. It is my custom to log in > to XFCE as my regular user, then "su -" in order to run as root, > including GUI programs. In the process, in the past $DISPLAY has been > set. > > I now find on bullseye that $DI

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:02:18 +0100 wrote: > > > > How do I allow root to use the display? > > Most probably you have to copy the user's [1] ~/.Xauthority file to > root's home. No go. But thanks for the thought. I also tried moving .Xauthority aside, logging out of the regular account, log

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:15:40 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > It's worth pointing out that even on buster, "su -" does in fact clear > the value of DISPLAY, which is not really a surprise, since you > explicitly requested a "clean" login session as the new user. > Perhaps you are mis-remembering what

Unresolved mime type.............

2020-12-31 Thread Charlie
Thoughts from my Keyboard: Hello Debian viwers, Using Debian Bullseye 5.9.0-4-amd64 Dell Inspiron 15 3000 laptop, updated and upgraded this morning with geoclue-2.0 on hold Have received this whenever gwenview was brought up: $ gwenview org.kde.

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2020-12-31 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 1/1/21 6:12 am, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print single labels from my ad

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:02:18PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > I am using Bullseye as updated to yesterday. It is my custom to log in > > to XFCE as my regular user, then "su -" in order to run as root, > > including GUI progr

Label printer Debian compatible

2020-12-31 Thread Tom Browder
Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print single labels from my adress db with a suitable specialty printer a

Re: Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I am using Bullseye as updated to yesterday. It is my custom to log in > to XFCE as my regular user, then "su -" in order to run as root, > including GUI programs. In the process, in the past $DISPLAY has been > set. > > I now find

Bullseye: setting and using $DISPLAY after su -

2020-12-31 Thread Charles Curley
I am using Bullseye as updated to yesterday. It is my custom to log in to XFCE as my regular user, then "su -" in order to run as root, including GUI programs. In the process, in the past $DISPLAY has been set. I now find on bullseye that $DISPLAY is not being set. However, even if I set DISPLAY m

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi Celejar, To find out the capabilities of your camera, you can install v4l-utils and execute: v4l2-ctl --list-devices v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext Check also the other /dev/video* files. Another method is to use qv4l2 (provided by the homo

Re: Totally on topic

2020-12-31 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 12/31/20 11:33 AM, mick crane wrote: Happy New Year to all concerned and thanks for the handy tips and information on Debian users in 2020 mick and my Best to you Sir

Totally on topic

2020-12-31 Thread mick crane
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Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2020 10:59:36 Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) > > didier gaumet wrote: > > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > > [...] > > > > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I > > > see that Cheese

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote: I don't know how to evaluate this. But still, if the camera is reporting 720p, shouldn't the applications default to that? The optical quality on most small web cams is so bad that increasing the resolution just means significantly more

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) didier gaumet wrote: > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > [...] > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > > but a di

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:02:31 -0800 (PST) didier gaumet wrote: > Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : > [...] > > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > > but a di

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 06:18:29PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 03:06:34PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Datasheet says: > > > > * Enhanced Power-Loss Data Protection with Tantal capacitors > > It does not have a battery = it does not have a BBU. > Samsung can dance around

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Reco
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 03:06:34PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:42:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > It's a cheap model (relatively), and lack all those fancy BBU features, > > but it works for my employer: > > > > # smartctl -a /dev/sdj > > ... > > Vendor: SAMSUNG

Minitube in the stable branch

2020-12-31 Thread Davide Lombardo
What is the point of packaging such software for the stable release ? Doesn't the package maintainer know the application stop working after some time because Google is constantly changing things on their side. I think would be a better policy doesn't packaging such software for the stable bran

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:42:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > It's a cheap model (relatively), and lack all those fancy BBU features, > but it works for my employer: > > # smartctl -a /dev/sdj > ... > Vendor: SAMSUNG > Product: MZILT1T9HAJQ/007 Datasheet says: * Enha

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:14:37PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Can someone recommend server or NAS grade (SATA) SSD - a reliable one > for RAID use? It's a cheap model (relatively), and lack all those fancy BBU features, but it works for my employer: # smartctl -a /dev/sdj ... Vendor:

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 09:17:03AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 07:25:54AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >What do you mean by power loss protection -- do you mean, for example, that > >the host computer is on a UPS, or is that a feature of some SSDs? > > It's

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 07:25:54AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by power loss protection -- do you mean, for example, that the host computer is on a UPS, or is that a feature of some SSDs? It's a feature of server SSDs. I wouldn't worry about it on a consumer device, espec

Re: Sound does not work on Debian 10

2020-12-31 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 31.12.2020 18:06, Hassans Tech wrote: In addition, the output of aplay -l  Is: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio], device 0: HdmiLpeAudio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audi]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE A

Re: graphical session in LXC automatically started at boot and reachable via VNC/RDP/X2GO

2020-12-31 Thread Linux-Fan
Yvan Masson writes: [...] I glanced over /etc/vnc.conf and it seems communication can be easily secured with self-signed X509 certificate: this might be simpler to setup than SSH tunneling, especially with a Windows client. Has someone already tried that? Anyway, I will let you know. I d

Re: Sound does not work on Debian 10

2020-12-31 Thread Hassans Tech
In addition, the output of aplay -l Is: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio], device 0: HdmiLpeAudio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audi] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Audio [Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio], device 1: HdmiLpeAudio [Intel HDMI/DP

Re: Problems with loadlin.exe

2020-12-31 Thread shadowmaker
El 2020-12-29 16:48, Andrew M.A. Cater escribió: On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:19:58PM +, shadowma...@logorroici.org wrote: El 2020-12-26 16:18, Andrew M.A. Cater escribió: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 04:05:50PM +, shadowma...@logorroici.org > wrote: > > Hello everybody: > > I am new to this

Re: Sound does not work on Debian 10

2020-12-31 Thread Hassans Tech
Additional info that I forgot to add: The output of lspci -knn Is: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series SoC Transaction Register [8086:2280] (rev 36) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3x

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 06:20:09 PM Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:14:37PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Can someone recommend server or NAS grade (SATA) SSD - a reliable one for > > RAID use? ... > Then make sure it has power loss protection. What do you mean by power loss

Sound does not work on Debian 10

2020-12-31 Thread Hassans Tech
Hi, so I have successfully installed Debian 10 (testing) and I am experiencing audio issues. The output of lspci is as follows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 36) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Inte

Re: graphical session in LXC automatically started at boot and reachable via VNC/RDP/X2GO

2020-12-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 30/12/2020 à 23:46, Linux-Fan a écrit : Yvan Masson writes: [...] What I did not understand from your answers (sorry maybe I missed something) is how to start the graphical session automatically when the container starts, so that the software can be started and listening on the network, a