Re: setting keymap codes

On 05/10/2024 17:06, Hans wrote: As this keyboard differs in the layout cpompared to the old one, some keys are mapped other (i.e. page-up / down in the original needs the function key = second layer, in th enew one it is just page-up /down without any Function). [Fn] modifier perhaps requires

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 06/10/2024 03:04, Mike Castle wrote: For me, the biggest signal is GMail and similar apps will go into a "You are not online" state. Web applications may intentionally use various tricks to detect idle even though the following API is unavailable in Firefox

Re: Firefox codecs

On 05/10/2024 01:18, Bruno Schneider wrote: I noticed that about:support#media shows "AAC SW" at the working machine and shows nothing related to AAC at the faulty one. Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used

Re: Reading an old HDD

On 05/10/2024 11:15, Will Mengarini wrote: * Max Nikulin [24-10/05=Sat 10:48 +0700]: Try to connect the enclosure without the disk. It may appear in lsusb output and may generate some journalctl logs. That's a clever idea, but it will be a while before I can carefully unscrew the disk

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

On 04/10/2024 20:56, Gary Dale wrote: I found another issue on one of the machines - spice was no longer supported either I still use spice (remote-viewer from virt-viewer) for Linux guests on bookworm, but I start qemu directly with "-display spice-app,gl=on". I have seen notices that it is

Re: Reading an old HDD

On 04/10/2024 14:19, Will Mengarini wrote: * Ash Joubert [24-10/04=Fri 16:38 +1300]: - Do you see anything in "journalctl -f" when you plug in the USB enclosure? No output when I unplug it and replug it. Do you start "journalctl -f" as root (e.g. sudo)? It is rather strange that nothing is

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 02/10/2024 10:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Firefox (and thunderbird, as well) seems to be pausing all network activity when doing a vt-switch or user-switching or locking the screen. [...] Chromium, on the other hand appears not to suffer from this issue and the download progresses during s

Re: I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input

On 03/10/2024 03:55, tom arnall wrote: I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input. It was working a week ago: On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: When I set output to headset and then set input to headset, the output setting immediately chan

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

On 03/10/2024 07:14, Gary Dale wrote: host does not support domain type kvm with machine "pc-0.12' for virtualization type 'hvm' with architecture 'x86_64' [...] I haven't tried using the Windows XP VMs in years, I have never tried virt-manager, so I have no idea what 'hvm' may mean. Support

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 28/09/2024 22:04, George at Clug wrote: To get the earlier installations to discover the later installed installations, I ran grub-mkconfig I have never tried it, but my impression is that in the case of UEFI boot, rEFInd may detect installed OSes dynamically without explicit configurati

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 27/09/2024 18:53, George at Clug wrote: 3) I am not confident that constant switching between display manager, e.g. LightDM, SLiM, XDM, GDM, SDDM, KDM, Ly will not cause issues. Besides the frustration of changing the configuration each time you want to jump into another DE. Is it really n

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 27/09/2024 06:47, tom arnall wrote: the hardware is a bluetooth headset  LG-HBS-XL7. thanks for getting back to me. ___ Hopefully Kamala Harris will be a president whom all of us end up both respecting and loving. If God-centered people are working for her, the chances of that happe

Re: Change file picker in browsers

On 27/09/2024 21:01, J wrote: So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. I expect that to use thunar as a file picker it should provide file picker desktop-portal D-Bus interface and DE should allow alternative d

Re: Re： Is there any way to STD in Debian?

On 26/09/2024 21:36, YOYO wrote: The Debian 12 is running in VirtulBox 7.0.20. And I only assigned 2048 MB RAM to it. [...] All I can do is to fouce power-off and re-start it, just to found all running tasks gone. Have you read logs from the previous boot ("journalctl -b -1" as root)? Are you

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 26/09/2024 04:19, George at Clug wrote: Grub did not find other existing Linux distributions. Found Windows, but not other linux distributions. The following has been discussed on debian-user:

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 25/09/2024 14:24, Anssi Saari wrote: Max Nikulin writes: On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono Is it a Bluetooth headset? That case see Debian wiki for limitations. Which part of the wiki? There seem to be a bunch of

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono Is it a Bluetooth headset? That case see Debian wiki for limitations.

boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE (was: Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience)

On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian Mate, Debian XFCE. What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop environment to the same Debian installation? Display managers allow to select session type before

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

On 23/09/2024 02:02, Charles Curley wrote: Networking -> Certificates -> Configure That gives me several options. I then selected "Create a New Self-Signed Certificate". That updated the certificate. I now cannot print on that printer, It is expected. Why your system should trust some new (and

Re: Chrome OS Flex on ThinkPad Edge E530

On 21/09/2024 16:35, Roberto Catanuto wrote: Hi, the truth is I use Chrome OS Flex on TP Edge E530. [...] Even when the good old laptop is connected to the power supply, the battery begins discharging after about one hour. [...] Do any of you have suggestions about solving this mystery ? If

[SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot

on of an image specific to the machine. On 30/08/2024 23:09, Max Nikulin wrote: I have tried some variants of full shim+grub signed configurations on [...] grubx64.efi (v2.06) from Debian bookworm has no problem with reading grub.cfg placed in the same directory and directory name does not m

Re: [fixed]Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 13/09/2024 21:09, Pierre Willaime wrote: I do not think it was related to non-free-firmware repository (Here is my sources.list below) deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware It seems repositories are properly configured. In general however "apt

KDE, switching users (was: Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64)

On 12/09/2024 21:54, Hans wrote: If someone might also confirm of this little bug I mentioned here and knows better than me, he may just file a little bugreport to the developers of KDE. Maybe he also nows a little workaround??? [Ctrl+Alt+F8], [Ctrl+Alt+F7] work fine for me to switch between u

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 11/09/2024 22:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 17:16:37 +0200, Pierre Willaime wrote: systemctl status dbus.service shows dbus is not active ("failed") and I have this message Failed to start message bus: Circular inclusion of file '/etc/dbus-1/system.conf' hobbit:~$ gr

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 09/09/2024 03:48, Pierre Willaime wrote: Thanks. My user was *not* member of the 'input' group. I made the change but it does not fix my issue (startx returns still an error, see my other email). Have you tried to boot from a live media? It should help to determine if your problem is caus

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

On 08/09/2024 04:22, Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens - that I want to minimize the number of HTML tags & eliminating all CSS usage annoys some

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 06/09/2024 14:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i wrote: I let xorriso-dd-target use bs=1M oflag=dsync Max Nikulin wrote: May too small bs value cause write multiplication if internal flash erasure block size is much larger? [...] My concern is wearing, Is there evidence that sync size a

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 06/09/2024 14:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Jeff wrote: I've run into this situation (more than once)... `dd` fails to write a bootable image with a block size of 1M. But using a block size of 512 results in a bootable image. It used to happen regularly on arm dev boards, like BeagleBoards and Cu

Re: Why are module parameters under /etc/modprobe.d not respected?

On 03/09/2024 22:51, ael wrote: I have /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda.conf which specifies: options snd_hda_intel id=[HDMI,PCH] index=1,0 [...] Maybe there are some release notes that I have failed to read? Can anyone point me in the right direction? (If the direction is Devuan, I have already moved

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 05/09/2024 16:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I let xorriso-dd-target use bs=1M oflag=dsync May too small bs value cause write multiplication if internal flash erasure block size is much larger? I have seen claims that it can be e.g. 12M

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 00:11, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-09-02 at 12:51, Lee wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 5:25 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: MS-Windows can eject a stick ? [...] (Sorry i could not refrain from this nonsense :)) but it isn't nonsense. Welcome to the world of Windowz, where one 'ejects

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 04/09/2024 15:17, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I tried "*" for bullet list. But it works only for a single line, not for a multi-line text paragraph as on https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify I do not see anything special there. I have tried to convert to a bullet a random paragraph from the n

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 23:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: due to popular resistence i created a new wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/VerifyISOImage [...] Regrettably i was unable to mimick the bullet list paragraphs of the FAQ Do you mean something like

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 03:32, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Franco Martelli wrote: consider to move that to a new wiki page with a title that sounds like: "Verify authenticity of a Debian downloaded ISO image". [...] But i think there are some issues to address: - How to generally advertise this page ? Link

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

ebian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" should be first answer. This time the XorrisoDdTarget wiki page was posted earlier, so a link to the installation guide will increase a chance to make users aware of this document. On 02/09/2024 15:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Is t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

On 28/08/2024 01:58, gene heskett wrote: wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off. Taking into account your approach to configure applications so sudo chmod 644 /etc/xdp/autostart/xscreensaver.desktop You need a larger red h

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 31/08/2024 14:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i add my two cents: https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget Thomas, are you intentionally linking raw man page instead of a formatted one [[DebianMan:xorriso-dd-target|xorriso-dd-target(1)]]? Is there a reason why the page is not cross-linked wit

Re: hunspell-gl does not match the description

On 31/08/2024 07:47, piorunz wrote: On 31/08/2024 01:17, John E Petersen wrote: I hand install my debian packages, and have an offline repository, because garbage like this tends to slip onto my machine. This package slipped in through firefox somehow, No, Firefox did not do that. It cannot in

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 30/08/2024 23:42, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-30 23:09 (UTC+0700): How does grubx64.efi find where grub.cfg is located? I don't know what doc might report this, but in a file viewer I see a string like (,gpt7)/boot/grub) embedded in a vast sea of nulls 98% o

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 23/08/2024 11:39, Felix Miata wrote: I don't know what vexing secure boot might introduce, but without it, GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= was used by grub-install in Trixie here to produce results I expected: [...] # grep TOR /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="debian13" [...] ├── debian13 │   └── grub

Re: emacs service and session start

Erwan, maybe you forgot to do disable/enable cycle after adjusting "[Install]" section of the unit configuration. systemctl --user list-dependencies --reverse emacs.service On 30/08/2024 19:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's amazing how badly the systemd folks managed to break *everything*. I'm pr

Re: emacs service and session start

On 30/08/2024 18:45, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:14:06PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: [Unit] After=dbus.service ssh-agent.service Wants=dbus.service ssh-agent.service [Install] WantedBy= WantedBy=graphical-session-pre.target [...] The after/wants does not work (starnge since

Re: emacs service and session start

On 29/08/2024 12:56, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 06:13:23PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent [Unit] After=dbus.service ssh-agent.service Wants=dbus.service ssh-agent.service [Install

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 28/08/2024 07:52, Joe B wrote: Here is journalctl -b -1 https://termbin.com/q6uw It would be helpful if you describe specific of this boot. If it is complete log then it looks like abrupt lost of power after 20 min of working on battery. It may be battery failure of bad contact. Were yo

Re: need help killing screen blanker

On 27/08/2024 01:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platforms, pseudo-mouse USB devices, and even software emulated mice. This case it would be e

Re: Subscribing to bug updates.

On 27/08/2024 00:08, Tim Woodall wrote: The emails to control and to the bugs themselves all worked, it's only the emails to the subscribe address that seem to have vanished. It precisely describes my experience as well.

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 26/08/2024 00:37, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# journalctl -b --grep="acpi MSFT0101" Aug 25 10:28:38 debian kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16 My impression is that some ACPI errors are not rare. I have no idea concerning severity of this one. My question was if

Re: emacs service and session start

On 26/08/2024 18:37, Erwan David wrote: On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent The question is why emacs.service is started before /usr/lib/openssh/agent-launch or plasma copies SSH_AUTH_SOCKET value to systemd environment

Re: nvidia package 340xx

On 23/08/2024 18:51, Hans wrote: 2. Enter the line for sid into your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non-free-firmware [...] 5. Do NOT upgrade any other files! Do NOT aot upgrade or aptitude upgrade now although it will install many other pack

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 25/08/2024 13:16, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# upower --dump [...] energy-full: 57.0714 Wh energy-full-design: 61.32 Wh So the battery has degraded a bit but capacity is still high enough. I hope it is reported correctly. There is no apparent sign of failure. [...] joe@debian:~$ grep '

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 12:39, Joe B wrote: On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? [...] I gave up and now using K-9 mail and it seems to be working fine. I use Thunderbird and IMAP for gmail. Perhaps I stressed too m

Re: emacs service and session start

On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random socket name... And I do not see what starts it (I see the process ssh-agent /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 but I did not find which service starts it

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? If you are using gmail web UI and replying to a message from a mailbox then it should work, just use a proper button so send response to the mailing list, not a personal

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 25/08/2024 02:31, Joe B wrote: I will take the power cable off probably tomorrow or later on tonight. When it happens i will run those commands and will report back to this list You can run that commands while AC power adapter is connected. It should allow to estimate if battery is still he

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

ny details concerning battery state upower --dump or something like grep '' /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/* Compare "design" values with full/max ones.

Re: emacs service and session start

On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random socket name... And I do not see what starts it (I see the process ssh-agent /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 but I did not find which service starts it) It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90

[SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote: That is written by any process that reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= to determine where to do its writing on the ESP. To avoid confusion of those who may notice this thread in search engine results: In Debian GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR value is *not* passed to "grub-inst

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote: # ls -gG/boot/efi/EFI/opensusetw/ total 148 -rwxr-xr-x 1 151552 Aug 21 16:08 grubx64.efi Am I right that you either do not use Secure Boot or generated a local key instead of/in addition to Microsoft and SUSE ones? In the case of default or almost defa

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 05:21, Felix Miata wrote: My BBS menu contains 4 entries corresponding to output from efibootmgr, with the highlight on the one beginning "opensusetw", as configured via GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=. Or it just coincides with the configured value. My expectation is that EFI/opensusetw/grub.

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 21/08/2024 11:25, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-21 10:54 (UTC+0700): I was experimenting trying to get 2 entries from the same vendor in the UEFI (firmware) boot menu and found it tricky and inconvenient. How so? I found it quite simple to edit /etc/default/grub and

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 20/08/2024 22:50, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-08-20): Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. This is not true. The only problem you will have with this setup is that you will need to

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

On 21/08/2024 03:42, Gary Dale wrote: $ systemctl status tigervncserver@:1.service ○ tigervncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC) Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tigervncserver@.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2024-08-20 15:52:

UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ])

On 20/08/2024 11:27, David Christensen wrote: AIUI UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. EFI files are signed for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be

Re: LXDE startlxde is resetting XDG_DATA_DIRS on Debian 12! (was Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm...)

On 19/08/2024 22:20, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: OK, so after this short recap to provide some context, this is the head of the /usr/bin/startlxde script that starts an lxsession [3]: [...] export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/:/var/lib/menu-xdg/" [...] Actually a

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn't invoke the server program directly, so I'm not sure how to get the option to the vnc server. [...]> This is the .service file: [...] ExecSta

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 20:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is due to alsa backend o

usermod video,audio (was: Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970)

On 16/08/2024 06:15, George at Clug wrote: usermod -a -G video,audio [myusername] It should not be necessary. Udev and systemd-logind "uaccess" feature grants permissions to the current active user through ACLs.

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 18:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages ment

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 02:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. Perhaps chromium has a built-in implementation.

Re: Little typo bug - package unknown, kernel version unknown

On 08/08/2024 23:21, Hans wrote: Although I owe several Samsung devices, they are all different models. So the kernel will recognize each different. lsusb reports vendor ID. If 2 devices have same number, but different manufacturer strings then "Sasmsung" is a device vendor bug (a fake?). Yo

Re: Authenticator apps

On 08/08/2024 11:58, Jeffrey Walton wrote: ++. I find the W3C's clipboard API and event API very dangerous. "clipboardchange" event is not supported making enough people unhappy. Reading/writing is protected by either user gesture context or by permissions. However a chance of unwanted acces

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

On 07/08/2024 23:19, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) The following command reports vendor ID and product ID pair lspci -nn | grep -i vga Using it you

Re: Authenticator apps

On 07/08/2024 11:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: In my threat model, if I already have an application running under my own user ID, I call XKCD 1200 [1] on it. Browser JavaScript API allows to read and write clipboard. It is protected to some extent by user prompts. On the other hand in ChromeOS

Re: Corsair mouse and UPower

On 08/08/2024 03:37, Celejar wrote: Is the mouse simply not reporting power info via standard protocols, or am I missing something? The mouse also supports Bluetooth, so I suppose I could try that instead of 2.4GHz and see if it makes a difference. In the case of bluetooth headsets, battery lev

Re: Authenticator apps

On 06/08/2024 23:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 11:07:14PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 06/08/2024 11:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: TOTP is a standard (rfc6238 [1]) so it actually/should/ give the same numbers regardless of the application. It is mostly true, however

Re: Authenticator apps

On 06/08/2024 11:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: TOTP is a standard (rfc6238 [1]) so it actually/should/ give the same numbers regardless of the application. (This is what miffs me most: those marketing departments always sell you some unspecified snake oil -- "authenticator app", "2FA" -- instead

VM, wifi, NAT (was: Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB)

On 05/08/2024 17:50, George at Clug wrote: I am also a bit concerned about the statement "table ip nat", I do not want [e.g. need] any Network Address Translation occurring. Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Window

Avoid APT::Default-Release (was: Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size)

On 04/08/2024 06:24, Van Snyder wrote: Then, to avoid sucking anything more from unstable, I added /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/my-default containing APT::Default-Release "stable"; It prevents installing security updates

Re: switch users and still use display

On 02/08/2024 20:30, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 11:35:58 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Which I am inclined to believe, although I'm reluctant to try 'su -p' for fear of creating a mess in my normal user setup: ~ % su -p

Re: Tool to store on IMAP server

On 30/07/2024 15:24, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, mick.crane wrote: I was concerned the '1722260402.M755015P70320.xx,S=17279,W=17606:2,S' numbers might get mixed up with new ones but didn't seem to matter. [...] Yes, I use unison to keep some imap servers in sync. Maildir

Re: Upgrading systemd may silently break your Unstable/Sid system!; was: systemd may silently break your system!

On 28/07/2024 20:08, Erwan David wrote: I also have a 99-systcl.conf which is a copy of the former /etc/sysctl.conf When you are going to replace a file provided by a package, check if it is a configuration file at first (e.g. dpkg -s). Despite most of files in /etc/ are marked as configurati

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

On 29/07/2024 02:57, 타토카 wrote: Is it enough to have usb Debian live (for example XFCE) and use Debian Sid? I mean I don't have another one computer, if the main computer will be "broken". Since you are asking this question, likely it is not enough. If your hardware allows it then consider in

Re: bash history

On 28/07/2024 08:01, mick.crane wrote: Sometimes I forget where I was after closing a virtual terminal  and it would be handy to see the history in a new terminal, where I "cd'd" to for example. help history less ~/.bash_history

Re: info is not dead

On 27/07/2024 20:00, Nate Bargmann wrote: Texinfo is from a time when GNU documentation was only man pages or flat text files and something "better" was desired for moving through a manual in what is now known as a hypertext format. It also includes a lot of semantic markup rather than the basi

Re: switch users and still use display

On 27/07/2024 23:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: Yes, but the other ways are *far* more complicated, especially when neither user1 nor user2 is root. The issue is that in order to authenticate yourself to the X server, you present a token, known as a "magic cookie". in some cases xhost +si:local

Re: Alternative to Authy

On 23/07/2024 09:16, jeremy ardley wrote: I use Google Authenticator as an option in pam to secure ssh connections. [...] NB. Google Authenticator does not use any Google cloud services. It is purely a local application on your machine. Do you mean rfc6238 Time-based One-time Password (TOTP)

Re: combine two commands via pipe

On 26/07/2024 09:25, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:00:48AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: $ sudo ls -ltr "/tmp/$(ls /tmp |grep apache)" [...] So what is wrong with just using a glob as suggested? Not all people are realizing how many pitfalls they may face using shell. (I admit

Re: combine two commands via pipe

On 26/07/2024 06:59, cor...@free.fr wrote: My actual requirement is that I want to 'ls -ltr' into a subdir in /tmp. that subdir is apache's tmp dir. but the name of the subdir is too long (hard to copy&paste), so I am looking for a easier way. Use glob if it is acceptable sudo ls -ltr /tmp/

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

On 25/07/2024 19:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 18:54:38 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables?action=recall&rev=32 [...] I can't quite guess what "text has no left margin" means here. Firefox-115, see the attachment. N

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

On 25/07/2024 10:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 09:50:43 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables?action=raw&rev=33 has one empty line after "<>" while rev=22 has 2 empty lines and it may be more significant than a space befo

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

On 25/07/2024 02:05, Franco Martelli wrote: I'm using firefox-esr version: 115.13.0esr-1~deb12u1 Here I see the TOC not indented (no space before << tag): https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables?action=raw Here instead I see the TOC indented (a space before << tag): https://wiki.debian.org

Re: Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

On 24/07/2024 20:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon". Every time we try to tell Chet, "Hey, man, please add examples that show BOTH syntaxes", he blows us off, because this is the way POSIX documents it. If it's good enough for POSIX,

Re: Logs like .xsession-errors, was: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start ...

On 23/07/2024 19:20, Thomas Schmitt wrote: A bit off-topic question. In what wiki page you would expect to find suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and journalctl output? I pasted ".xsession-errors" into the "Search:" field at the upper right corner of any Debian wiki page and clicke

Re: [Solved] vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

On 23/07/2024 19:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Some ideas: :help :make :help clientserver I think these two lean a little too much towards the ":!rm -rf" side. It was in the context of jumping to compiler error. You can start build from vim or load a lo

Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

On 23/07/2024 04:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: $ cat ~/.xsession-errors [...] [fvwm][executeModule]: <> No such module 'FvwmConsole' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8' A bit off-topic question. In what wiki page you would expect to find suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and

Re: [Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

On 23/07/2024 14:57, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: I would consider some convenient key mapping that should be executed before pasting line number instead of disabling bracketed paste completely. There is a chance to paste something weird with hidden text from a web page or from a

Re: [Solved] Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

On 23/07/2024 00:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/18001/why-cant-i-paste-commands-into-vi Apparently when in an "xterm environment" (whatever that means; apparently it includes rxvt-unicode), turning on bracketed paste mode works: :set t

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

On 23/07/2024 09:23, Max Nikulin wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 00:25:27 +0500, 타토카 wrote: I have read on the official Debian website about sid (in russian version): "Maybe. There was one real case where PAM broke. PAM checks all users, so without PAM no one can login, even as a root. I

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

On 23/07/2024 02:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 00:25:27 +0500, 타토카 wrote: I have read on the official Debian website about sid (in russian version): "Maybe. There was one real case where PAM broke. PAM checks all users, so without PAM no one can login, even as a root. If you w

Re: umask - default user settings?

On 18/07/2024 00:01, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 17:58:57 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: No, I'm talking about sudo, not su. I'm not a sudo user so I can't test but my understanding is that root inherits the umask of the invoking user (or it used to) Looks like this is still true.

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