Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
rhkra...@gmail.com (12023-03-09): > Didn't you mean "of course"? I meant the rest of the paragraph and the ones after that. > If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again Please apply good mail hygiene to what you send yourself. Signatures are max four lines. -- Nicolas George

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware not deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware ? -- CK

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
Ah so a typo. A small thing causing big problems. Once that was corrected the necessary files from firmware were included in an apt update and eventually the full-upgrade without nvidia-kernel-dkms being held back. Everything resolved after that. Thanks -- CK

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 03:34:05PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, > >> > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts > >> > interactively). > >> > >> Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've

Re: KMail3 (was: question about rc.local)

2023-03-09 Thread Felix Miata
rhkramer@... composed on 2023-03-09 23:24 (UTC-0500): > I use kmail, the version that comes with kde3. I don't know if there is a > way to use that on a Mac. My Mac has TDE, the KDE3 fork of over a dozen years ago, which does provide KMail, but I don't do mail on it, or KMail on anything. --

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:44:43 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > (1) I rarely use the gmail webmail client, but (2) when I do, it is > not easy to bottom post, from memory, what I do is click on the place > near the bottom of a message that inserts the previous message (or, > at least shows it),

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 09, 2023 09:16:18 PM Corey Hickman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:44 AM wrote: > > I'm much happier with a "real" email client. > > what real email client do you use? :) > I am using Mac as the regular desktop, Mac's Mail App is hard to use. > Though my server is debian

Re: Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 > Corey Hickman wrote: > > > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > > are existing command-line

Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > are existing command-line solutions I would like to try them. This really should have been a new

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:44 AM wrote: > > > I'm much happier with a "real" email client. > > > what real email client do you use? :) I am using Mac as the regular desktop, Mac's Mail App is hard to use. Though my server is debian system.

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-10 08:50:08 +0800, Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested way? I > know I can program with java to implement that, but if there are existing > command-line solutions I would like to try them. I've just tried on some Excel file: unoconv

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-10 09:05:24 +0800, Corey Hickman wrote: > I found debian 11 doesn't need to change /etc/default/rsync for rsync > daemon starting. > But ubuntu 22.04 should have to edit that. > Where can I check the startup mech for these two systems? As said in Greg's message: systemctl cat

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 09, 2023 08:05:24 PM Corey Hickman wrote: > Thanks > (btw, gmail does use top-posting by default, I don't know where to change > it.) (1) I rarely use the gmail webmail client, but (2) when I do, it is not easy to bottom post, from memory, what I do is click on the place near

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 17:58:37 +, Brian wrote: > That would be a big drawback for a printing filter. > > CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 UTF-8-demo.txt > >out.pdf The only good thing is that box drawing is fine (while the other converters don't work well for that). However,

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
Hello, I found debian 11 doesn't need to change /etc/default/rsync for rsync daemon starting. But ubuntu 22.04 should have to edit that. Where can I check the startup mech for these two systems? Thanks (btw, gmail does use top-posting by default, I don't know where to change it.) On Fri, Mar

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 19:24:20 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If everything else fails, read the instructions [1]. > > --pdf-engine=PROGRAM > > Use the specified engine when producing PDF output. Valid values > are pdflatex, lualatex, xelatex, latexmk, tectonic, wkhtmltopdf, > weasyprint,

Re: Forcing dhclient to not ignore tun0 interface when it's available

2023-03-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2023 at 17:53:10 (+0100), daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > > So I'm clearly being lazy this time. I'd rather find a solution which > is relatively "easy and fast" to implement, than work for free chattr -i ? Scripted of course. Cheers, David.

Re: Forcing dhclient to not ignore tun0 interface when it's available

2023-03-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Mar 2023 at 17:17:24 (+0100), daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > On 2023-03-07 05:01, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 06 Mar 2023 at 13:34:52 (+0100), daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > > > On 2023-03-03 16:00, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 03/03/2023 13:29, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > > On Fri,

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:15 AM Linux-Fan wrote: > Corey Hickman writes: > > > Hello, > > > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > And is there a VIM plugin for that? > > For cases where I care little about font or formatting, I use VIM's > integrated hardcopy: > >

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:34:05 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, > >> > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts > >> > interactively). > >> > >> Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've been > >>

Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 09, 2023 04:16:14 PM Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (12023-03-08): > > The question: Suppose disk corruption corrupts one block in the data > > storage area of a LUKS partition / filesystem (I'm not asking about > > corruption in the headers or some other area of

Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 09, 2023 04:03:20 PM David Christensen wrote: > I believe I changed a byte somewhere in the middle of file blocks on > disk using dd(1) and then I saw a bad byte somewhere in the middle of > the file with less(1). > > > I suggest that you repeat the experiment. Just going

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Floris Renaud
On donderdag 09 maart 2023 23:59:03 (+01:00), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:18:21PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > W: Failed to fetch https://deb/debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease > > Could not resolve 'deb' > > You have a typo. deb/debian.org should be

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:18:21PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > W: Failed to fetch https://deb/debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease > Could not resolve 'deb' You have a typo. deb/debian.org should be deb.debian.org

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Bonsoir, On 2023-03-09 22:21:05 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Dans un environnement sid minimal pur dans mention de bookworm > dans le fichier sources.list, j'ai bien le message observé par > Philippe après une commande de mise à jour : > > # apt --version > apt 2.6.0 (amd64) >

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 22:17:02 +0100, MERLIN Philippe wrote: > Le jeudi 9 mars 2023, 22:04:56 CET Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > On 2023-03-09 15:04:34 +0100, MERLIN Philippe wrote: > > > Bonjour, > > > En Sid apt 2.6 j'ai le message suivant. > > > N: Le dépôt « Debian bookworm » a modifié sa valeur «

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
Anssi, thanks for your reply. When Andreas Beckmann added this URL to his apt disclosure: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split He does give a useful example of how the entry should look in /etc/apt/sources/list like this: deb

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Bonsoir, Vincent Lefevre, on 2023-03-09: > On 2023-03-09 15:04:34 +0100, MERLIN Philippe wrote: > > Bonjour, > > En Sid apt 2.6 j'ai le message suivant. > > N: Le dépôt « Debian bookworm » a modifié sa valeur « non-free component » > > de « non- > > free » à « non-free non-free-firmware » >

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread MERLIN Philippe
Le jeudi 9 mars 2023, 22:04:56 CET Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > On 2023-03-09 15:04:34 +0100, MERLIN Philippe wrote: > > Bonjour, > > En Sid apt 2.6 j'ai le message suivant. > > N: Le dépôt « Debian bookworm » a modifié sa valeur « non-free component » > > de « non- free » à « non-free

Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
rhkra...@gmail.com (12023-03-08): > The question: Suppose disk corruption corrupts one block in the data storage > area of a LUKS partition / filesystem (I'm not asking about corruption in the > headers or some other area of "metadata"). In the case of one block of > corruption in the data

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:04:34 +0100, MERLIN Philippe wrote: > Bonjour, > En Sid apt 2.6 j'ai le message suivant. > N: Le dépôt « Debian bookworm » a modifié sa valeur « non-free component » de > « non- > free » à « non-free non-free-firmware » Je n'utilise pas du tout le dépôt Debian bookworm. --

Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/23 06:53, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to all who replied -- two clarifications requested below: On Wednesday, March 08, 2023 09:45:33 PM David Christensen wrote: ... A few years ago, I did a "bit rot" experiment. Thanks for doing that experiment! ... I wiped a disk, applied a

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, >> > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts >> > interactively). >> >> Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've been >> using with testing for the last 20 years, first with `apt-get`

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 10:40:14AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, > > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts > > interactively). > > Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've been > using

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 18:36:26 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 18:07:24 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > >libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt > > > > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:47:02PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 17:38:54 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > > > > If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. >

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Linux-Fan
Corey Hickman writes: Hello, What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? And is there a VIM plugin for that? For cases where I care little about font or formatting, I use VIM's integrated hardcopy: :ha > /tmp/print.ps :!ps2pdf /tmp/print.ps

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:54:40PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Michel Verdier (12023-03-09): > > systemd launch init.d > > No. Check. For the record: unicorn:~$ systemctl cat rsync.service # /lib/systemd/system/rsync.service [Unit] Description=fast remote file copy program daemon

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 17:57:12 +0100 Yvan Masson wrote: Hello Yvan, >Yes, I did that, but thanks for the suggestion. NP. Shame it didn't help. > >As I do not always use X11, I am thinking that maybe my issue has begun >on a previous update… Always a possibility. Another possibility is that,

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 17:35:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > > > > > :execute

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 18:07:24 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > >libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt > > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > [...] > > Hello, > > I do not use it myself so I don't know it well

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 09 Mar 04:41 -0600, Corey Hickman wrote: > Hello, > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > And is there a VIM plugin for that? If you really want to be "old school" there is roff handled by Groff in Debian (most man pages are written in roff using the "man"

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). [...] Hello, I do not use it myself so I don't know it well but unoconv seems to be a headless Libreoffice converter with the

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 09/03/2023 à 12:40, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 18:02:42 +0100 Yvan Masson wrote: Hello Yvan, Thanks for your insights, You have a lot of Plasma related updates there. Have you; Logged out and back in? or Rebooted? Yes, I did that, but thanks for the suggestion. As I

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 9 mars 2023 Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > Really? > > /etc/default/rsync says: > > # This file is only used for init.d based systems! > # If this system uses systemd, you can specify options etc. for rsync > # in daemon mode by copying /lib/systemd/system/rsync.service to > #

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Michel Verdier (12023-03-09): > systemd launch init.d No. Check. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 9 mars 2023 Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > Really? > > /etc/default/rsync says: > > # This file is only used for init.d based systems! > # If this system uses systemd, you can specify options etc. for rsync > # in daemon mode by copying /lib/systemd/system/rsync.service to > #

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 17:38:54 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > > If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. Not really. This can be better, but this can also be much worse, in

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 17:22:01 +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: > Le 9 mars 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > > So... apparently this service is enabled by default (I didn't touch it), > > and simply needs one to create an /etc/rsyncd.conf file in order to make > > it work upon the next boot. > > > > If you

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > > > > >

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 9 mars 2023 Corey Hickman a écrit : > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin > for VIM that would be great. There is a VimTeX plugin. You compose a LaTeX file and compile PDF with pdflatex/lualatex. https://github.com/lervag/vimtex

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 9 mars 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > So... apparently this service is enabled by default (I didn't touch it), > and simply needs one to create an /etc/rsyncd.conf file in order to make > it work upon the next boot. > > If you don't want to reboot, then you may need to do a > "systemctl start

Re: Vuelvo a Debian!

2023-03-09 Thread José María
> Buenas, > > Después de estar un par de años con mi escritorio personal en Ubuntu, > vuelvo a Debian! > > Esta vez a la versión Gnome, hasta ahora siempre usaba XFCE, pero el > equipo actual tiene algo más de potencia y quería probar. No puedo > estar mas agusto. > > Ya tengo casi todo

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 09.03.23, 14:16 +0100, cor...@free.fr: > > What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks > > "The right way" is what woks best for you, I suppose. > > But since Debian's rsync package installs a systemd service unit,

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2023 22:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). I was assuming something like markdown/reStructuredText/asciidoc/etc. instead of plain text. As the last resort :TOhtml vim command

Re: Instalacion Entornos de escritorio

2023-03-09 Thread José María
> Hola, me pasa algo curioso. Instale Debian 11.6 con Gnome y entorno > Xfce. Inicie el sistema por primera vez con entorno Xfce, note que > Gdebi no funcionaba o al menos no instalaba archivos .deb y tampoco > funcionaba bien Synaptic. Reinicie la maquina e inicie el sistema con > el entorno

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:42:22PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 12:43:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > There are other (simpler) options, look for text2pdf/text2ps. Personally, > > > I go the

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is for stable to the next stable, > not for testing and unstable (one typically resolves conflicts > interactively). Interesting. I don't use `apt` but "full-upgrade" is what I've been using with testing for the last 20 years, first with `apt-get` then with

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:11:05 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. > > And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip > non-ascii characters. A possible solution:

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > > > cups-filters needs to be on the system. > > But it generates a

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:55:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then > > there is an alternative to LaTeX workflow: > > > > chromium --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=/tmp/test.pdf > >

Re: Vuelvo a Debian!

2023-03-09 Thread Deiby Herrera
Bienvenido de nuevo... El dom., 5 de marzo de 2023 7:04 a. m., Josu Lazkano escribió: > Buenas, > > Después de estar un par de años con mi escritorio personal en Ubuntu, > vuelvo a Debian! > > Esta vez a la versión Gnome, hasta ahora siempre usaba XFCE, pero el > equipo actual tiene algo más de

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/03/2023 17:32, Corey Hickman wrote: > > > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > And is there a VIM plugin for that? > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then there is > an

Re: Subject: OT: LUKS encryption -- block by block, file by file, or "one big lump"

2023-03-09 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied -- two clarifications requested below: On Wednesday, March 08, 2023 09:45:33 PM David Christensen wrote: ... > A few years ago, I did a "bit rot" experiment. Thanks for doing that experiment! ... > I wiped a disk, applied > a partitioning scheme, created a

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the > more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. Yes, but has anyone written a nice wrapper that fully supports Unicode (selecting the right fonts...)? I

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2023 17:32, Corey Hickman wrote: What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? And is there a VIM plugin for that? If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then there is an alternative to LaTeX workflow: chromium --headless --disable-gpu

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > Until now, I've been using a script that does > > paps $opt | ps2pdf - $@[-1]:t.pdf > > with some options. But due to the use of PostScript as an intermediate > file, the PDF has no text part (it is not searchable, etc.). It is not due to the use of

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:12:17 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > look for text2pdf/text2ps. > It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. a2ps is old and does not support Unicode. AFAIK, paps is suggested as a replacement, but it is strange

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:11:05 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. > > And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip > non-ascii characters. > > I wish somebody would make a good

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:42:22PM +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 12:43:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > There are other (simpler) options, look for text2pdf/text2ps. Personally, > > I go the (La)TeX way. > > For a searchable PDF, I would use What do you mean by

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Yassine Chaouche (12023-03-09): > It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. a2ps dates back from when PDF was a crappy format where you either had to use proprietary Acrobat Reader or Libre readers unable to show most files properly. I mean, its web page has the HTML tags in all

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : look for text2pdf/text2ps. It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. Best, -- yassine -- sysadm +213-779 06 06 23 http://about.me/ychaouche Looking for side gigs.

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip non-ascii characters. I wish somebody would make a good command-line front-end for Pango + Cairo. Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > cups-filters needs to be on the system. But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: Bookworm sources.list et non-free firmware

2023-03-09 Thread MERLIN Philippe
Bonjour, En Sid apt 2.6 j'ai le message suivant. N: Le dépôt « Debian bookworm » a modifié sa valeur « non-free component » de « non- free » à « non-free non-free-firmware » N: Plus d'information disponible dans la note de mise à jour ici : https://www.debian.org/

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Charles Curley (12023-03-09): > Why do you want to? Normally starting rsync on the client will start it > up on the server. No special action on the server is required. That is true for rsync over ssh if the client has a shell account on the server. It is not the only mode for rsync. Regards,

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:16:02 +0800 cor...@free.fr wrote: > What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks Why do you want to? Normally starting rsync on the client will start it up on the server. No special action on the server is required. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Vuelvo a Debian!

2023-03-09 Thread Gonzalo Rivero
El 5/3/23 a las 11:31, JavierDebian escribió: El 5/3/23 a las 10:04, Josu Lazkano escribió: Buenas, Después de estar un par de años con mi escritorio personal en Ubuntu, vuelvo a Debian! Esta vez a la versión Gnome, hasta ahora siempre usaba XFCE, pero el equipo actual tiene algo más

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 18:02:42 +0100 Yvan Masson wrote: Hello Yvan, >Thanks for your insights, You have a lot of Plasma related updates there. Have you; Logged out and back in? or Rebooted? I found I had a few issues after the upgrade from 5.26 to 5.27. A reboot solved some of them (update

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 19:03:23 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF > plugin for VIM that would be great. Not a plugin for VIM, but if you run CUPS look into the debian package printer-driver-cups-pdf. -- Does anybody read signatures any

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Markus Schönhaber
09.03.23, 14:16 +0100, cor...@free.fr: Please don't top-post. What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks "The right way" is what woks best for you, I suppose. But since Debian's rsync package installs a systemd service unit, it might be easiest to simply use that. -- Regards

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
cor...@free.fr (12023-03-09): > What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks Please do not top-post. If you do not know what it means, look it up. Same answer as my first mail: it depends on your personal definition of “right way”. Note that on top of the many possibilities to start a

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Anssi Saari (12023-03-09): > Perhaps a note, since today in Debian by default it's systemd which runs > /etc/rc.local. There's no guarantee it's done last like there was in SysV > init since systemd runs stuff in parallel. Network availability also > isn't guaranteed. See man

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread coreyh
What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks On 09/03/2023 21:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:32:54PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? No, Debian does not use it. It

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Corey Hickman writes: > does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? > > for instance, I want to start a process after system rebooting, where should > I put the command? Perhaps a note, since today in Debian by default it's systemd which runs /etc/rc.local. There's no

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:32:54PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > > does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? > > No, Debian does not use it. It lets you use it if you so want. For the record, if you *do* want to use it, you'll have to

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? No, Debian does not use it. It lets you use it if you so want. > for instance, I want to start a process after system rebooting, where > should I put the command? SHOULD? It depend how cleanly

question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? for instance, I want to start a process after system rebooting, where should I put the command? thanks & regards, Corey H

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:10:39PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Le 09/03/2023 à 12:03, Corey Hickman a écrit : > > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF > > plugin for VIM that would be great. > > > > Thanks > > Not a Vim plugin, but I usually compose documents in

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 04:32:05 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:06 AM Timothy Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Try running apt fully upgrade > > > `sudo apt full-upgrade` sorry about that my tablet auto-corrected. AFAIK, "apt full-upgrade" is

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 08:33:08 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > I might be the same issue indeed. A temporary workaround I have just found > is to run KDE on Wayland. But I suppose it is not possible with FVWM. In any case, I sometimes need to run remote X applications transparently, so Wayland is not an

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Erwan David
Le 09/03/2023 à 12:03, Corey Hickman a écrit : I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin for VIM that would be great. Thanks Not a Vim plugin, but I usually compose documents in markdown in aneditor (be it vim or emacs) then generate a pdf from the markdown

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin for VIM that would be great. Thanks On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 7:01 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > There are many things

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? There are many things capable of generating PDF in Debian. What do you want to generate your PDF *from*? Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-03-09 Thread Freyja
Hi everyone and for people dropping by having the same issue. The problem is *solved* \o/ The issue was: missing /run/systemd/journal/socket What solved the problem: - apt-get install --reinstall  systemd systemd-sysv libsystemd0 dbus-user-session - /run/systemd/journal/socket and

PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
Hello, What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? And is there a VIM plugin for that? Thanks

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 04:32 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:06 AM Timothy Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Try running apt fully upgrade > > > `sudo apt full-upgrade` sorry about that my tablet auto-corrected. And it broke threading.

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:06 AM Timothy Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try running apt fully upgrade > `sudo apt full-upgrade` sorry about that my tablet auto-corrected. > > > On March 9, 2023, at 2:33 AM, Yvan Masson > wrote: > > Le 09/03/2023 à 04:19, Vincent Lefevre

Rare foutmelding in de logs

2023-03-09 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hallo, Ik zag in de logs van mijn hostingserver elke seconde dit bericht: - Mar 9 09:56:52 hosting dbus-daemon[305]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.login1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service' requested by ':1.1' (uid=0 pid=419

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