Re: [PLUG] Linux printing (again)

2020-01-22 Thread wes
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:03 PM Russell Senior wrote: > Has anyone bought a color laser jet printer recently that they like and > that works well? > It's old, but I really like the quality to price ratio: "LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw" Works good on Linux. -wes

[PLUG] Mint Spell Check Languages

2020-01-22 Thread Michael Barnes
I have three computers running Mint I got from Free Geek. I have the same problem on all three. The spell checker seems to be using British English. This is in all applications, browser, email, LibreOffice, anything that uses the spell checker. It wants to change color to colour, behavior to

[PLUG] Linux printing (again)

2020-01-22 Thread Russell Senior
Has anyone bought a color laser jet printer recently that they like and that works well? I had a family member recently make a quite reasonable request to print something on the family color ink jet, an HP 932C, one I have had for A LONG TIME, and that is barely used. Turns out, the only color

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Roderick Anderson
xxd? Quick example. xxd SQLite-ODBC.txt : 7375 646f 2061 6464 2d61 7074 2d72 6570 sudo add-apt-rep 0010: 6f73 6974 6f72 7920 2d79 2070 7061 3a6c ository -y ppa:l 0020: 696e 7578 676e 6475 2f73 716c 6974 6562 inuxgndu/sqliteb 0030: 726f 7773 6572 0a73 7564 6f20 6170 742d

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread Ben Koenig
I can't remember what the package names are... it's been wayyy too long, but you can just use apt-get $ sudo apt-get remove Ubuntu probably uses 2 (maybe 3?) packages for the complete driver, uninstall each of them 1 by 1, then reboot. After that reboot, run apt-get update and then apt-get

Re: [PLUG] Gnome-terminal 3, xterm, fonts, Pango, Harfbuzz

2020-01-22 Thread Ben Koenig
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > A month ago, I complained about foggy, aliased small fonts > in Gnome-3 gnome-terminal. Pictures: > > http://wiki.keithl.com/Gnome3rendering > > Last night I tried using ancient xterm instead; xterm > renders the characters properly,

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/22/20 1:32 PM, John Meissen wrote: On 1/22/20 12:49 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/21/20 10:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:31:02 -0800 As for messages, look at /var/log/messages. It's a long document, but if you open it in Mousepad or Gedit you can do a search on

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread John Meissen
On 1/22/20 12:49 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 1/21/20 10:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:31:02 -0800 As for messages, look at /var/log/messages. It's a long document, but if you open it in Mousepad or Gedit you can do a search on things like 'nvidia' and such. I was

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/21/20 10:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:31:02 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: I also get a "System program problem detected" I chose the "Report problem..." button. That box goes away, and it doesn't appear that anything happened. Is there somewhere I can look to see

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/22/20 10:12 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: <...> vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong. <...> Maybe there are some hints to be found there. I have work this morning, so more digging later. The file vbox-setup.log contains the same information on

[PLUG] Gnome-terminal 3, xterm, fonts, Pango, Harfbuzz

2020-01-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
A month ago, I complained about foggy, aliased small fonts in Gnome-3 gnome-terminal. Pictures: http://wiki.keithl.com/Gnome3rendering Last night I tried using ancient xterm instead; xterm renders the characters properly, presumably using an entirely different rendering chain than

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread wes
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:50 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 9.8 with MATE desktop. > I'm exploring a data file with the intention of eventually parsing it in > a useful fashion. > > Just downloaded ghex. I like the display format. > Its tools are inconvenient. > > I need to: >

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/22/2020 09:56 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: I cannot really help you with advice for the exact thing you are asking for: side by side hex and ASCII. That being said, you should note that ASCII is not really used for a long time - as in decade or more. These days, characters/text are encoded

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-22 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/21/20 10:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: First, are you sure the 390 driver is the right one for your card? Yes. It's been working for several years. If I recall correctly, when you select the driver in Synaptic there is a box below the list of packages that gives you information about

Re: [PLUG] Best place to shop for serious travel keyboard?

2020-01-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Michael Rasmussen wrote: I bought, use, and like the Journo folding keyboard. https://jornostore.com/ Sadly, the Journo Store reports "Sold out" status on the keyboards. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6'

Re: [PLUG] Best place to shop for serious travel keyboard?

2020-01-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
I bought, use, and like the Journo folding keyboard. https://jornostore.com/ If your into mechanical keyboards: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/why-i-love-compact-mechanical-keyboards-and-you-will-too/ On 2020-01-22 08:08, Eric House wrote: I'm doing a lot of traveling now, sometimes by bike,

[PLUG] Best place to shop for serious travel keyboard?

2020-01-22 Thread Eric House
I'm doing a lot of traveling now, sometimes by bike, and am looking for a smaller alternative to a laptop -- but still need/want to be able to hack or debug on short notice. I always have my (Android) phone along, have a usable Ubuntu setup on it thanks to "UserLAnd", and usually have access to a

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I cannot really help you with advice for the exact thing you are asking for: side by side hex and ASCII. That being said, you should note that ASCII is not really used for a long time - as in decade or more. These days, characters/text are encoded mostly in UTF-8 with variable character code

[PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Debian 9.8 with MATE desktop. I'm exploring a data file with the intention of eventually parsing it in a useful fashion. Just downloaded ghex. I like the display format. Its tools are inconvenient. I need to: 1. Simultaneously display in _both_ HEX and ASCII format 2. Know the