Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
ile.txt, both quadrupled the size > > with lots more markup. > > > > Not what I want obviously. > > There is nothing obvious here. What do you want? Why? What are you > going to do with the resulting file(s)? What I wanted on dead tree, was exactly what I see on screen.

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
I'm tryting to configure the .hal file in linuxcnc, so loading the uncompressed file into geany and printing it, prints all the markup too, and any of that in a .hal file is a showstopper syntax error. I need to type it into the .hal file exactly as I see it onscreen. I thought I was doin

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:05:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:43:00 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > man lilo > manLILO > did exactly what I wanted it to do. Thank you Cindy. ;o) On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:07:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2021

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 13:58:20 Lee wrote: > On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we > > see. > > Try the "--ascii" option - eg > man --ascii man > /tmp/man.txt > > Regards, > Lee Cindy's suggestion worke

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 12:43:00 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we > > see. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > > Hi, Gene. I'm not sure if I'm understanding correct

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:59:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: > > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size with > lots more markup. > > Not what I want obviously. There is

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size with lots more markup. Not what I want obviously. Thanks Larry. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:24:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. If you want to reproduce what you see when you type "man bash" (just as an example), you would need to *retain* the "man markup", not subtract it. So, right off t

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's tee that can be used just pipe the man page through it and into a text file. On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Lee wrote: > On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. > > Try the "--ascii" option - eg > man --as

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Lee
On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. Try the "--ascii" option - eg man --ascii man > /tmp/man.txt Regards, Lee

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/1/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. Hi, Gene. I'm not sure if I'm understanding correctly, but.. I do this (am using the LILO package as an example): man lilo > manLILO

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:25 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. Maybe one of these man option will work for you: -t, --troff Use groff -mandoc to format the manual page to stdout. This option

What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; With the man markup subtracted, so what we save is exactly what we see. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the l

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-30 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 8:03 AM wrote: > On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:34:42 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > > > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > > > something of what my computer's doing when I'm no

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-30 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:34:42 PM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > > something of what my computer's doing when I'm not there and it's > > supposedly locked. > > >

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
ur with Dan). > Also, I don't know how much of the screen locking function is shared > between the many tools that are available for this purpose. Ideally, > this problem (if it's a problem) should be fixed in all such tools. > > Does it sound reasonable then to submit a bug

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
top in my living room which has the sole purpose of being connected to my stereo to play music. I would be rather upset if it were to pause whenever the screensaver kicks in. So I would class this as a desirable configurable element. > Also, I don't know how much of the screen locking f

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
it activates by itself, but I don't know that one and a few minutes searching didn't reveal it. I'd like this to still happen if the screen locks due to inactivity. I haven't found yet what triggers that, or where to configure the timeout. That's in Settings, Screen

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Dan Ritter
ver. There might be a way to invoke the mute-and-pause from the screensaver when it activates by itself, but I don't know that one and a few minutes searching didn't reveal it. > I'd like this to still happen if the screen locks due to inactivity. I > haven't found yet what

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoyi

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. > > When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still > heard). > > This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to > anyone

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.09.2021 07:20, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to anyone n

silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-26 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to anyone nearby. It's then annoying for me when

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-06 Thread Richard Forst
I have gdm3 running.     $ ps -ef | grep gdm     root 465   1  0 16:57 ?    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm3 I have i3lock installed, but I don't use it. Previously I used xscreensaver, and it worked without a problem. This time I just want to give a test to use gdm style screen

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 12:50:43PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote: > > I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display > > greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that > > gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
tions or comments. Many thanks. [1]. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86221/how-can-i-lock-my-screen-in-gnome-3-without-gdm/86275#86275 Sep 5, 2021, 17:32 by sterbl...@tutanota.com: > I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display > greeter askin

Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64) no longer uses screensaver to lock the session. Instead it uses dbus to activate login a

Re: colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-09-02 Thread Roland Winkler
I found at least a workaround: I installed and use xscreensaver for locking the screen. Unlike light-locker that xfce uses by default, xscreensaver doesn't seem to mess with the colormap. I should add: I am using nominally the same installation of debian 10 on two computers with very diff

Re: colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-08-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat, Aug 28 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/26/21, Roland Winkler wrote: >> I am running debian 10 (buster with xfce). Graphics works fine >> initially. Yet after an X screen lock, all colors are messed up. >> The same hardware was previoulsy running fine whe

Re: colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/26/21, Roland Winkler wrote: > I am running debian 10 (buster with xfce). Graphics works fine > initially. Yet after an X screen lock, all colors are messed up. > The same hardware was previoulsy running fine when I was xubuntu 16.04. > What can be causing this? Thanks! Hi!

colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-08-26 Thread Roland Winkler
I am running debian 10 (buster with xfce). Graphics works fine initially. Yet after an X screen lock, all colors are messed up. The same hardware was previoulsy running fine when I was xubuntu 16.04. What can be causing this? Thanks! Roland

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Evelyn Pereira Souza
On 15.08.21 15:46, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I would suggest installing Debian 11 - just released - for two reasons: Yes working with Bullseye. happy weekend Evelyn OpenPGP_0x61776FA8E38403FB.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 01:21:24PM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: > On 15.08.21 10:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > You also have a "2019 5k iMac"? Because that is very important in this > > context. > > Here more details about my HW: > > # inxi -Fxz > System:Host: norp Kernel: 4.19.0-17-a

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Evelyn Pereira Souza
On 15.08.21 10:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You also have a "2019 5k iMac"? Because that is very important in this context. Here more details about my HW: # inxi -Fxz System:Host: norp Kernel: 4.19.0-17-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Console: tty 0 Distro: Debian

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Evelyn Pereira Souza
On 15.08.21 10:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:34:05AM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: Hi https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/616926/debian-10-6-boots-to-black-screen-no-screens-foundee-in-log same problem like this guy, but sadly no anser. You also have a

Re: Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:34:05AM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: > Hi > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/616926/debian-10-6-boots-to-black-screen-no-screens-foundee-in-log > > same problem like this guy, but sadly no anser. You also have a "2019 5k iMac&qu

Debian 10.6 boots to black screen; “no screens found(EE) in log”

2021-08-15 Thread Evelyn Pereira Souza
Hi https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/616926/debian-10-6-boots-to-black-screen-no-screens-foundee-in-log same problem like this guy, but sadly no anser. Please help me. kind regards Evelyn OpenPGP_0x61776FA8E38403FB.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description

Re: Debain 11 Release Candidate - Screen Freeze (NVidia)

2021-06-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 07:48:00PM +0200, Spongebob Schwammkopf wrote: > Dear Support Team, > > as soon as I manually switch off my 4K LG OLED 48C1 Monitor (HDMI) > connected to my NVidia GTX 1650 grafics card and on again the screen is > frozen. This means no mouse or keyboard is

Debain 11 Release Candidate - Screen Freeze (NVidia)

2021-06-20 Thread Spongebob Schwammkopf
Dear Support Team, as soon as I manually switch off my 4K LG OLED 48C1 Monitor (HDMI) connected to my NVidia GTX 1650 grafics card and on again the screen is frozen. This means no mouse or keyboard is working. Also a console terminal is frozen but a running compilation seems to still process in

Re: Touch screen monitor recommendations?

2021-06-13 Thread deloptes
Bob McGowan wrote: > I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard > desktop running Debian. > > Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? I have a friend that has one notebook with touch screen and debian with KDE and

Re: Touch screen monitor recommendations?

2021-06-13 Thread Thom Castermans
> Does anyone have any recommendations for units [touchscreen monitors] known > to work with Debian? I don't (except my laptop, but that does not seem to fit your use case), but I would like to suggest asking on the mailing list of a desktop environment or e.g. Xorg or Wayland. In the end, those

Touch screen monitor recommendations?

2021-06-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I have a use case which could use a touchscreen monitor with a standard desktop running Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations for units known to work with Debian? Thanks, Bob

Re: boot screen not shown properly

2021-05-29 Thread Long Wind
i've solved on my own, it's easyopen grub.cfg in /boot/grubreplace "insmod all_video" with "insmod vga" some user just ask me to provide more detailsafter i do so, they say nothing, they don't look like experti've said grub screen isn't ok but sc

Re: boot screen not shown properly

2021-05-27 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! On 2021-05-27 4:48 p.m., Long Wind wrote: > grub screen isn't ok, i can't see grub menu, i can't see any text, i > just see some dots > after some time, i can see debian boots > i think both grub and debian use text mode though some users will > eventually boo

Re: boot screen not shown properly

2021-05-27 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-05-27 4:48 p.m., Long Wind wrote: > grub screen isn't ok, i can't see grub menu, i can't see any text, i > just see some dots > after some time, i can see debian boots > i think both grub and debian use text mode though some users will > eventually boot int

Re: boot screen not shown properly

2021-05-27 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
You still haven't described properly... What does "screen isn't ok" supposed to mean ? What isn't okay with the screeen ? What is the configuration inside this laptop ? The more you save people work, the more chance you may get helped. So let us understand what's

Re: how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-04 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/3/21 7:57 PM, Floris Renaud wrote: Christian Groessler schreef op 2021-05-03 19:19: Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using

Re: how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-03 Thread Floris Renaud
Christian Groessler schreef op 2021-05-03 19:19: Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using gdm3. regards, chris You can find these

how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-03 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using gdm3. regards, chris

screen blank watching Netflix

2021-03-19 Thread Russell Coker
Until recently I could watch Netflix with Chrome on Debian/Testing with no problems. Some recent update (maybe of Chrome, maybe of Debian) broke this, now the screen blanker will enable during play. I don't know which update as I have a long screen lock time (the laptop for Netflix isn&#

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. I think what you're trying to do is quite difficult. It's a bit easier than OCR, but still hard enough that it's not well supported by any tool that I know.

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 01 Mar 06:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > A suggested tool? > > I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", > > will solve your problems. > > It can chan

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on ma

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With that in mind I had already posted to a list fo

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? -dsr-

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. > > pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining > format of original. I

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\bookmarks and text search. For me reading documents in

Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining format of original. Its rigidity results in a fixed number of *characters* per line irr

Re: chromecast: no audio when casting screen, works with tab

2021-02-13 Thread Javier Barroso
I have just find a posible solution https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/04/how-to-cast-your-gnome-shell-desktop-to.html?m=1 I will test it in unstable Regards El jue., 17 dic. 2020 10:19, Andrea Borgia escribió: > > Il giorno gio 17 dic 2020 alle ore 07:12 Javier Barroso < > javibarr...@gmail.

Re: Screen scaling and 4k support in libvirt with qemu/kvm

2021-01-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2021, 10:55:53 CET schrieb Linux-Fan: > Linux-Fan writes: > > Rainer Dorsch writes: > >> Hi, > >> > >> with virtualbox, it is possible that the guest system rescales its screen > >> if I change the window for the guest (and

Re: Screen scaling and 4k support in libvirt with qemu/kvm

2021-01-27 Thread Linux-Fan
Linux-Fan writes: Rainer Dorsch writes: Hi, with virtualbox, it is possible that the guest system rescales its screen if I change the window for the guest (and virtualbox guest tools are installed at least). Does anybody know if that is possible with virt-manager/libvirt/qemu/ kvm? It

Re: Screen scaling and 4k support in libvirt with qemu/kvm

2021-01-27 Thread Linux-Fan
Rainer Dorsch writes: Hi, with virtualbox, it is possible that the guest system rescales its screen if I change the window for the guest (and virtualbox guest tools are installed at least). Does anybody know if that is possible with virt-manager/libvirt/qemu/ kvm? It is certainly possible

Screen scaling and 4k support in libvirt with qemu/kvm

2021-01-26 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, with virtualbox, it is possible that the guest system rescales its screen if I change the window for the guest (and virtualbox guest tools are installed at least). Does anybody know if that is possible with virt-manager/libvirt/qemu/ kvm? Also I noticed that I cannot scale my guest higher

Re: chromecast: no audio when casting screen, works with tab

2020-12-17 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il giorno gio 17 dic 2020 alle ore 07:12 Javier Barroso < javibarr...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > It is a known issue , see > > https://support.google.com/chromecast/thread/27045993?hl=en > Great find, thanks for the quick response too :)

Re: chromecast: no audio when casting screen, works with tab

2020-12-16 Thread Javier Barroso
El mié., 16 dic. 2020 23:16, Andrea Borgia escribió: > Hi. > > > System in running "Testing", using KDE, I'm trying to get Chromium to send > audio via Chromecast as well as video. > > > After enabling the relevant flag[1], I've tried casting a single tab and > playing a video. It worked well, wi

chromecast: no audio when casting screen, works with tab

2020-12-16 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. System in running "Testing", using KDE, I'm trying to get Chromium to send audio via Chromecast as well as video. After enabling the relevant flag[1], I've tried casting a single tab and playing a video. It worked well, with audio coming from TV. Stopped the transmission, switched sou

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In Germany (Europe probably) it might be a Fransenflügler or thrips. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fransenfl%C3%BCgler#Fransenfl%C3%BCgler_und_TFT-Monitore for some suggestions. It's a german text. The english Wikipedia page doesn't have this section. Regards, Jörg.

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, November 21, 2020 10:17:44 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > - which would leave a splodge that you can't clean ... > > If you turn the screen off, so there's no backlight and no heat from that > - I suppose that might take a while to cool, at least on the scale that

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, at 12:09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I was hoping that I could crush it by pressing (reasonably gently) on the > somewhat flexible front protective layer of the screen - which would leave a splodge that you can't clean ... If you turn the screen off, so

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/21/2020 06:09 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I've got a bug in my computer monitor -- I wonder if I'm the first (probably not ;-). I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my screen for the last 3 days. (There must be a (probably very thin) ho

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computermonitor)

2020-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my Or maybe a springtail ? They are good at crawling in narrow environments. Regrettably the "CD fungus" was never properly cultivated and identified. Maybe you can get a close-distance camera and take some evidence phot

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread rhkramer
rs on the screen), the hollow space must be in front of the LCD surface, behind the protective (clear) flexible front cover. (I had trouble determining that against black text, but it is clear when there is color on the screen.)

"humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-21 Thread rhkramer
Hey, I've got a bug in my computer monitor -- I wonder if I'm the first (probably not ;-). I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my screen for the last 3 days. (There must be a (probably very thin) hollow space between the backlight and the LCD (? o

xdm password display [was: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?]

2020-10-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 07:20:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > > > The tradition allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password > > > is typed. > > > > That's

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Just a silly shot in the dark: are you sure it isn't taking keypresses? > > > Note that xdm d

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 October 2020 06:14:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 05:46:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Except I now have a different initial login screen that does not > > accept my passwd. It accepts and displays my username, but i

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Just a silly shot in the dark: are you sure it isn't taking keypresses? > > Note that xdm doesn't display anything when you type into a password > > box. No dots, no st

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 05:46:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Except I now have a different initial login screen that does not accept > > my passwd. It accepts and displays my us

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 05:46:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Except I now have a different initial login screen that does not accept > my passwd. It accepts and displays my username, but it loses the > keyboard once it highlights the passwd box Just a silly shot in the dark

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 October 2020 04:29:36 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 03 oct 20, 10:45:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 oct 20, 10:45:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the applicatio

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
t: > > Lots of autoremovable packages are normal. I generally keep them > unless I have a space crunch. I've no crunch, its a 2T drive, but killed them anyway > > Screen Saver: > > prefer blanking: noallow exposures: yes > > timeout: 0cycle: 0 > &g

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
is next. But apt claimed there > > were several hundred packages (353 count) that could be autoremoved. > > Is that normal after an iso install and update to 10.6? I did the > > autoremove, linuxcnc still runs, so I think we are in business. 34 > > minutes after the reboot

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:56:33 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until > > we

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Dan Ritter
normal after an iso install and update to 10.6? I did the autoremove, > linuxcnc still runs, so I think we are in business. 34 minutes after the > reboot: Lots of autoremovable packages are normal. I generally keep them unless I have a space crunch. > Screen Saver: > prefer blanki

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Oct 2020 at 04:27:08 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen > locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have > wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can be > qui

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 04:27:08 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen > locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have > wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can > be quite da

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until > > we have wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard tryi

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 04:27:08 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable > lightdm and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off > the monitor at the end of the day. If you are running XFCE on the beastie in question: The XFCE power m

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread songbird
Dan Ritter wrote: ... > I would try > > apt remove lightdm light-locker i don't even know what the package light-locker is as i don't see it here and i have lightdm installed (but i'm running testing and bits of unstable so perhaps it's not come by yet). i hav

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen > locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have > wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can be

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen > locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have > wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can be > quite dangerous when the machine h

How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can be quite dangerous when the machine has a runaway. Anything we do with xset is

terminfo descriptions (was: from screen to tmux)

2020-09-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Sorry, that's a bit old, but could solve your problem... On 2020-06-24 11:13:06 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: [...] > I have a reason but not Debian-related. Since some version, screen has > started enforcing the "screen.xterm-256color" (sic!) terminal type which > i

Printed page vs. computer screen (was: Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions)

2020-09-07 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, September 07, 2020 03:46:39 PM D. R. Evans wrote: > Sorry; I missed that. (I find it too easy to skim instead of actually > /read/ on a computer screen.) That's interesting, I'll say it this way first, then elaborate a little. I tend to skim more on the printed

[SOLVED] Re: A way to drop into shell/terminal from KDE login screen?

2020-08-01 Thread local10
Aug 1, 2020, 17:01 by ago...@gmail.com: > you mean this? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Console > Yes, this is exactly what I meant. Thanks to everyone who responded.

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Rodolfo Medina (12020-07-29): >> Thanks... The reason why I wanted to use mencoder instead of ffmpeg is that >> with the latter, when I tried to capture webcam and audio together, >> especially with my old laptop (but partially also with my new desktop pc), >> I've been

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Nicolas George
Rodolfo Medina (12020-07-29): > Thanks... The reason why I wanted to use mencoder instead of ffmpeg is that > with the latter, when I tried to capture webcam and audio together, especially > with my old laptop (but partially also with my new desktop pc), I've been > banged against `a sea of troubl

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