Re: dialog colors

2024-08-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
g post shows, I like to unify the color schemes between the console, Gnome Terminal, and Xterm. If this is not your issue, then you'll need to consult the dialog manual. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

2024-07-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
ng time and in that system one needs to start a new thread and link back to the prior one(s) for context. Here I can go back and add to a thread I have kept in my MailDir. Yes, I am old, a tail-end Boomer to be exact. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possibl

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
lly a rather capable format it's just that the info format and the info utility intended for terminal display throw nearly all of that away. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
age) of info documents may be seen by running either info or pinfo without commandline arguments or from within Emacs. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
ion. The stand alone GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better option to be the independent pinfo (Debian package of the same name) browser which provides navigation up and down through the document using Lynx style key bindings. If pinfo doesn't find an info document it will ope

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
popular setting going, buddy. Until he sets up a real MUA, I doubt the formatting will improve. I endure this on many other mailing lists unrelated to Debian, particularly from groups.io that have a Web interface. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possi

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
orm to achieve their goals no matter what it is. You and your colleagues may well each be in one of those categories. Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a user wants to run. Sometimes the platform is dictated by ego. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
ven greater scrutiny by project maintainers? I suspect that at a minimum if a maintainer doesn't clearly understand a patch then it won't get applied, but if the maintainer is clever enough to work in a non-obvious patch that is malicious, all bets are off. It's a mess. - Nate --

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 01 Apr 23:41 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > > [...] > > > Until now, who anticipated this? I'm sure there are security > > resear

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
ssociated with a VCS tag and a release tarball, and somehow verifying the identity of contributors/committers. I'm sure other ideas are being discussed that I've not read. Suffice it to say, at the moment this is not being swept under the proverbial rug. - Nate -- "The optimist

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:33:37AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > From what I have read, lzma is not a direct dependency of openssh. It > > turns out that it lzma is a dependency of libsystemd and that > > re

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
This recent event makes me just a little bit more skeptical about anyone requesting to take over the project unless that person is a known member of an already long established project. Not an easy situation for project maintainers and the community to fix. - Nate -- "The optimist proclai

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

2024-03-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
bash for my login shell. I've used shellcheck to point me in the right direction and figure that if dash runs the script without errors then it's close enough to POSIX compatible for my needs. I don't anticipate my scripts needing to run on some ancient Unix shell. - Nate --

Re: rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies …

2024-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 21 Feb 12:42 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 13:26:17 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > After seeing this twice this morning I recalled that I have a cron entry > > to kill the 'rec' program. This was to break up audio file

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2024-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
dev/null When I want to use it next in order to protect other processes. I certainly hope this is resolved. OTOH, it forced me to recall a number of passwords! 🤣 - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: htt

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
3 hits in Trixie, I know that an included utility called "groffer" will be removed. To keep it I will copy it over from the cloned groff repository I have locally. Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 04 Feb 11:57 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 4 Feb 2024 11:36 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): > >> Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB. > > > > I don't like their swapping of the right Alt and Menu keys u

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 04 Feb 04:23 -0600, hw wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > [...] > > I have several of the now classic IBM Model M keyboards I procured in > > the '90s. Modern BIOSes don't like them even with a PS/2 to USB > > ad

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
s thick so you might not like it and it is loud. It has the same number of keys as the Lenovo, 104, I think. This one was not cheap while the Lenovo was considerably less expensive. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears thi

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdandtimezone]

2024-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 06 Jan 22:27 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/6/24 17:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 06 Jan 14:34 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/6/24 14:33, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Try manpages.org . > > > > > > That is downright tasty

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdand timezone]

2024-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
t I don't see a category for oldstable and oldoldstable, etc. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

2024-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
cept America/Central without complaint. Yeah, US is a directory and Central is a symlink to ../America/Chicago that could be manually added to a system if need be. Ambles off shaking fist at a cloud... - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. Th

Re: systemd and timezone

2023-12-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
e, or would: In Debian releases between Etch and Jessie (inclusive), be good enough? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint:

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks for the tip. I updated this morning well before any announcements and having seen this I rebooted into the 6.1.0-12 (6.1.52) package. Good thing old kernels are kept around. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears th

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

2023-12-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
want to keep such as vim will be marked for removal and all packages that were automatically installed with it. To reverse the proposed removal action, use 'Ctrl-u'. While I often use apt at the command line, I've been using aptitude since early 2001 and often prefer its TUI for doi

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
, eve of 9 Tishrei 5784 sunrise: 07:10 sunset: 19:18 hdate: ALERT: The information displayed is for today's Hebrew date. Because it is now after sunset, that means the data is for the Gregorian day beginning at midnight. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2023-09-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 14 Aug 21:29 -0500, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/08/2023 07:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Now, while typing this email all keyring PIDs have vanished! > > It may be a way to minimize RAM usage. I don't think so. It has been persistent in the past in Buster and Bullse

Re: Safing.io

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
l-challenged sys admin hobbyist. > > Has anyone tried it? It sounds great, even the free version. I've not heard of it, but that's not surprising. I prefer OpenWRT as it is a project similar in the vein of Debian. I shy away from single points of failure if at all possible

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 26 Aug 07:57 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:40:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > > > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > > > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing i

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
shell doesn't care and as the script gets more complex it's much easier to keep one's bearings on where the script is working at various points. As I see it, relative paths are more for interactive shell use. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all p

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing is not open to just everyone > > but may only be done through an account (apparently I have one and now > > have to figure out how to reset my passwor

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
content to the Wiki by everyone is welcome and desired. In particular solutions are provided on this list that should make it onto the Wiki. I'm not volunteering for that "job" but it is something we might all consider in the future. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that w

Re: Favicon Firefox

2023-08-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
greg greg 6160384 Aug 20 20:18 > .mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default/favicons.sqlite As do my systems. Taking a wild guess, presumably cleaning the cache removed the icon files that the DB is still referencing and not requesting being downloaded. In all likelihood it is safer for the

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
so I could see what the exact characters are. In my terminals I have switched to Fira Code, Regular as well as in the GNOME settings. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

2023-08-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
doesn't force anyone to upgrade. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 s

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
s had been upgraded and migrated uninterrupted over the intervening years but I did distro hopping yet always came back to Debian and also bumped up to amd64 along the way. Here's to many more anniversaries. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2023-08-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
Right after rebooting the process list looked like this which mirrors the laptop: $ ps ax -u nate | grep "agent\|keyring" 2037 ?SLsl 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring 2151 ?S

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

2023-07-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
ly sourced through Scaled Instruments[7]. They carry complete stations for many brands as well as parts. The aforementioned wxforum.net is a good place to seek out better answers to your questions. HTH, - Nate [1] https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=59.0 [2] http://weewx.com/ [

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
ibutions as they're all collections from many projects. Probably the most dogmatic distributions are Trisquel and Guix but I doubt they have the NIH attitude I sense from OpenBSD. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is t

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
to excise as much GNU from their systems as they can (I don't follow their development closely, it's just the impression I get). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Pr

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
the BSDs have a rightful claim to be true descendants of AT&T Unix and not clones or derivatives. I also have a hard time calling GNU or Linux "clones" as they are independent work-alike implementations but not bug-for-bug clones of AT&T Unix or BSD. Pedants R Us... - Nate

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
d access to Minix, Tanenbaum had no interest in applying the patches Linus, et. al. wanted to apply to make it a more general system. Linus was only interested in a Unix he could afford and since GNU lacked a kernel that is what he focused on. MS was never part of the focus regarding the creation

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 14 Jun 03:24 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 13:41:23 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have always chickened out on that option. Looking at the ucf man page > > and the description of the three-way merge it looks like the user would > > have a yes or

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 13 Jun 10:01 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 06:41:41 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I've been experimenting with Arch Linux for some time and one thing I > > like about its pacman package management system is that it has a tool > > available nam

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
changes to a config file then I will install the maintainer's version, note it, and edit it for needed local changes later. I've been bitten by keeping all of my local configs in the past so I don't do that any more. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in th

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
I prefer vimdiff. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc D

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

2023-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 22 Mar 14:06 -0500, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:11:17AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Why have you ruled out a system with an integrated Intel GPU? > > Well, I was trying to see if one could get reasonable hardware that > doesn't have

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

2023-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
t shake my head. As far as I'm concerned Nvidia is banned from my network. Yes, I do have non-free firmware packages installed. I can't say that they're strictly necessary. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The p

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
ros and envelope templates for US #10 and #6 3/4 written in raw roff requests that I use for printing such documents. I also edit these files in Vim and find this to be a fast and relatively lightweight way of doing so. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
so routinely. It made it easy for me to simply look at the IP address and know there was some connectivity issue for that machine. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects:

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I didn't fix the errors, but I was able to use 'btrfs replace' to move the file system to an external HDD. The SDD I ordered apparently is ping-ponging its way from Kansas City to various area post offices and back again before they get it on the right truck. Sigh... -

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
oneer hardware (Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2). *I* did not choose this filesystem for this application, just to be clear. If there is a better choice for what is intended to be an appliance running from a micro-SD card, then that should be communicated to the Freedom Box people. I have an SSD on order

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
tion as the MICRO cannot boot directly to the SSD as far as I know. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 12 Jan 08:15 -0600, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the ro

Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
am I to do? At the moment the system is pretty much useless. All insights appreciated. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6

Re: Python curses

2023-01-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
nner that there is an implicit module name prefix but it isn't used since the import command made the module's namespace a part of the program's main namespace. That's how I understand it, at least. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possi

Re: Python curses

2023-01-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
on of Python > curses? Yes. I'm not familiar at all with the versioning of such modules. Perhaps the Python folks have decided to normalize the versions of modules with the main interpreter version resulting in an apparent version jump. The curses module should be a rather old and stabl

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
;Software" comes from the Gnome Project. Make of that what you will. I use the Gnome desktop but not "Software". Like you I found completely inadequate to my needs but it's installed anyway. I use the Aptitude TUI and apt from the terminal when I don't need the TUI. I do a

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 23 Dec 13:03 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's > >> vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors > > > > The problem as I see it

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
e wants reverse colors in 'vi' but edited '.vimrc'. Historically those are two different programs but the Debian alternatives eventually points 'vi' to 'vim.basic'. I would presume that a setting that works in historic 'vi' might not be supported by &#x

Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?

2022-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
it: https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2012/11/ghost-a-partition-contents-with-rsync/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0

Re: gspeaker installation

2022-10-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
but maybe I got the same error you did on a package I was porting forward some time back. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint

Re: fetchmail

2022-09-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
k 10818 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto fetchmail which I had just started a few minutes before reading your mail. I do not find any kind of default configuration under /etc. Was one added in Bookworm? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possi

Re: netperf / MIT License is not open source?

2022-08-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
nch of Debian :( Even if the package is updated and put into the Free archive, the only way it would make it into Bullseye is if it is uploaded to backports and the user has that repository enabled. Otherwise, at best it will go into Bookworm. At least that is how things usually work out. -

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
r policy some day? Or that a different corporation will buy the > rights to it, and change the policy that way? I don't know. I have it installed through Bullseye Fast track. I don't follow how packages flow, but they get to fasttrack.debian.net by some means. - Nate -- "Th

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
s. :) And I have Autosave selected in all my installations of mc so IME, the last one to close writes the file. It's not unusual for me to have half a dozen instances of mc running at once! Sometimes I find I had two or three running in the same terminal session. Oh dear... - Nate -- &

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 21 Mar 20:56 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 19:34:46 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > > > Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't > > > forget that geany

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
=yellow,black:\ editmarked=black,cyan" There may be more parameters available and it has been many years since I found that somewhere on the 'Net and I failed to note the source. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fear

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
ectly which can only be done if all instances of mc are closed. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
E=wayland XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/.mutter-Xwaylandauth.B6TFI1 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 $ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP GNOME - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us P

Re: Package cvs2cl no more in Debian?

2022-03-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
.com/cvs2cl/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
before moving into the desktop world alternating between KDE and Xfce and now Gnome for the most part and my virtual desktop equals the screen size. Gnome calls them "workspaces" and I typically use four per screen. It's default is to create them dynamically but I use a fixed number.

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
nux Conf.au[1] in early 2020 about X history and politics[2]. As I recall (it's been two years since I watched it), much of what you wrote above echos Keith's comments. - Nate [1] https://www.keithp.com/blogs/tags/lca/ [2] https://youtu.be/cj02_UeUnGQ -- "The optimist proclaims

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 14:06 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Interesting as no one uses Wayland or X11 directly but > > through a window manager or quite likely one of the desktop > > environments. > > I don't know, I think it is fair to s

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 14:10 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >> No, I understood, but that sounds like too much emulator ... > > > > My understanding is that xwayland is an X server that runs > > under Wayland and the idea is that it handles X prot

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 07:16 -0600, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > > the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and &g

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
yland either which I can live with (I'm sure the built in Gnome blanker works just fine). My GPUs are stock Intel on board graphics as I don't game nor do I need fancy 3D capability. This hardware is sufficient for displaying the GL screen savers and for whatever compositing requireme

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
to have just the main user set to do root's work and that root can no longer log in directly. I hope the OP can clarify! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: htt

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
, what is seldom acknowledged is that new releases also bring new and as yet undisclosed bugs that will be fixed next time or the time after or the time after that or... I figure it's a gamble either way and stick with the Debian packages. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live i

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 07 Jan 10:26 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > > > > This is what works fo

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
ng > the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser > to that page? If so, where should I check for the broken linkage? Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Termina

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
ck and forth between Mozilla provided binaries and Debian installed packages and have never deleted nor modified ~/.mozilla Perhaps you intended to remove the cache which is found under ~/.cache/mozilla? FF will rebuild it automatically when it is missing. - Nate -- "The optimist procla

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-12-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
oon character. > > That's exactly what I look like ;) Close! Going by your avatar I see when browsing the Planet Debian blog feed. :-) In Mutt running in Gnome Terminal I see a square following the face (screenshot attached). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we liv

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
utomatically installed so I guess I got the functionality "for free" by using Gnome. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
w that there is keyboard sequence in Gnome Terminal (Ctl-Shift-E then Space) to bring up a menu to select Unicode glyphs. 🐮 - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
ices beyond two-way radio transmitters. In other words, this tech should have applicability in network security, to bring it back on topic a bit. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us P

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
ce of the RF spectrum, it seems like they would be perfect for the task. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
need to be written from scratch as they are probably Turbo C and Soundblaster specific, respectively. Still this would be a very useful tool for those interested in radio frequency (RF) work, especially with a laptop or SBC (Raspberry Pi, etc.). - Nate [1] https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/xmit_id/leg

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
here, does not allow to > send the mail strangely), so everyone can take a look. This app is available > in the web, but a little bit hidden, if you do not know its exactly name. Better would be to send the URL. What CMS is it in, CVS, SVN, something else? I'd be interested in prese

Re: aboutdebian.com

2021-11-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
e and captures from last month show nothing Debian related. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
es to accomplish their tasks. Fortunately, most of the non-free packages that are needed these days are kernel modules. HTH, - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://gith

Re: Man pages for gcc

2021-10-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
y installed, a much better user experience is the 'pinfo' package since it uses Lynx like motion and color highlighting for hyperlinks. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.u

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
area where you can help, i.e. the timely dissemination of project news. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
he content. Just try to do that with the average Web forum, and note that I am no stranger to Web forums. Finally, email lets me use the mail agent and the editor *I* want, not what is dictated by the forum software. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
reatly appreciated. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 09:47 -0500, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even > > with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash > &g

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
shared between them. Unfortunately, there are still alleged bugs in BTRFS that give me pause. For my usage they would likely be inconsequential. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 12:50 -0500, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 11:34:22 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. > > Your question and Reco's response were also useful to me, if only > because I had not come across F2FS previously. On

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130

"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
from booting[2] (second paragraph). TIA - Nate [1] https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html [2] https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this

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