Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

Felix Miata writes: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Transport_(MST) is the > way. I wonder if that works in Linux since the wikipedia article doesn't say, only that it works in unspecified Windows and not in MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Not that I have any displays with the re

Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

peter@e... composed on 2022-12-27 16:47 (UTC-0800): > An M92p has a DisplayPort (DP++) connector and a VGA connector. An > old VGA monitor can be connected directly. > Any advice about choosing an adapter to connect DP++ to the DVI > connector on a 2nd monitor? > Any advantage in finding a way

Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p driving two monitors.

An M92p has a DisplayPort (DP++) connector and a VGA connector. An old VGA monitor can be connected directly. Any advice about choosing an adapter to connect DP++ to the DVI connector on a 2nd monitor? Any advantage in finding a way to connect two monitors to the one DP++? Thanks,

Re: Customize XFCE4

> On 28/12/2022 00:21, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > I, finally, installed Bullseye with XFCE4 as desktop environment. > > On the desktop, how do I change the color of the text under the > > icons (which is now white) to black? > > The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there > >

Re: stopping mass surveillance

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 7:43 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > Athenians in a crucial moment of their history invented "democracy" > as some specific social technologies in order to ensure openness and > conscious participation of all members of society; False. Not even half the male population i

Re: Customize XFCE4

On 28/12/2022 00:21, Klaus Jantzen wrote: I, finally, installed Bullseye with XFCE4 as desktop environment. On the desktop, how do I change the color of the text under the icons (which is now white) to black? The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there are references to

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

> How do I tell the card that the free space in the VG really is free? blkdiscard

Re: Customize XFCE4

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:21:51 +0100 Klaus Jantzen wrote: > The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there > are references to GTK-2.0 and to GTK-3-0. > > Which GTK is actually used? Both. Some XFCE4 programs that comes with Bullseye use GTK3, others GTK2. And the GTK people

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Tue, 2022-12-27 at 13:47 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Tixy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 21:37 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > > > > But now I'm concerned about disks in a raid-1. Everything gets written > > > when the raid rebuilds. > > > > > > I've found fstrim -

Re: what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker?

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:15:41PM +, jindam.v...@disroot.org wrote: > libreoffice tracker [1] contains NEW/experimental: 1:7.5.0~rc1-1 > what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker? > is it possible to install from NEW/experimental? If you are very lucky, yes, but most of the time: no. And it

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 21:37 +, Tim Woodall wrote: But now I'm concerned about disks in a raid-1. Everything gets written when the raid rebuilds. I've found fstrim - but that only seems to be for filesystems. How do I tell the card that the free space in

Re: NO_PUBKEY A8580BDC82D3DC6C, brave-browser repository not signed, ...

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 11:09:39PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I am trying to install the "brave browser" based on their own instructions: > > https://brave.com/linux/ > ~ > sudo apt install curl > sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg > https://brave-browse

what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker?

libreoffice tracker [1] contains NEW/experimental: 1:7.5.0~rc1-1 what is NEW/experimental in debian tracker? is it possible to install from NEW/experimental? if so, how? [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice regards, jindam, vani Gnus/5.13 Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) toots: @jindam_vani@mast

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Tue, 2022-12-27 at 11:31 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Tixy (12022-12-27): > > The card could know what blocks of flash have been written to, it's the > > thing that has done the writing. > > Indeed. And as I said already, unless the card is pathologically > underused You said 'unless the car

Re: TES-III Morrowind openMW Tamriel Rebuilt not populating land

On 26/12/2022 23:33, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 5:43 PM piorunz > wrote: I was able to visit that square place. It's empty, just water, with abrupt cut of all land textures. Looks like bug in Tamriel Rebuild? Well I am glad it is

Customize XFCE4

Hello, I, finally, installed Bullseye with XFCE4 as desktop environment. On the desktop, how do I change the color of the text under the icons (which is now white) to black? The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there are references to GTK-2.0 and to GTK-3-0. Which

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

to...@tuxteam.de (12022-12-27): > For flash media, most of the time, "pathologically underused" is in my > view "recommended state". My back-up USB stick is less than 50%. Once > it reaches significantly more than that, I look around for one with four > times that capacity. Good for you. But const

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:31:19AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > Pathologically underused. A more typical use of a card would be “damn, > my camera/phone/recorder tells me the card is full, I need to copy a few > things to the cloud”. For flash media, most of the time, "pathologically und

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

Tixy (12022-12-27): > The card could know what blocks of flash have been written to, it's the > thing that has done the writing. Indeed. And as I said already, unless the card is pathologically underused, “what blocks of flash have been written to” eventually becomes “all of them”. So you have tw

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 21:26 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Tixy (12022-12-26): > > He didn't mention filesystems. > > > > The controller in the card would surely know what flash blocks contain > > data, so writing the whole card first would reserve those blocks as > > 'in-use' leaving just a relat

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 21:37 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > But now I'm concerned about disks in a raid-1. Everything gets written > when the raid rebuilds. > > I've found fstrim - but that only seems to be for filesystems. > > How do I tell the card that the free space in the VG really is free?