Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Peter Leftwich (pe...@itwiz1.com)
(sorry sorry sorry, apologies! My mistake..) I mixed up plug / pdxlinux ..with my new, recent involvements in nycbug; However- Linux, freebsd/bsd.. still, my starting place pointers are applicable! =] ..btw I'm also a longtime San Diego kplug ie www.kernel-panic.org Linux group member/user!

[PLUG] Change the size of the icons in Thunar in Xubuntu 20.04

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
The icons are larger in 20.04 then they were in 18.04. Is there a way to change their size? -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 8:37 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: OK, right-click on an empty spot to bring up its properties, and at the top of the popup it'll probably say 'window buttons.' If so, then it is the window buttons plugin for the panel. It can be removed from the panel or moved before or after other

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:18:27 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >On 3/8/21 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 >> Dick Steffens dijo: >Mayhaps panel is more correct. What I mean is the panel at the top of >the screen (which can be relocated elsewhere, but on my machine

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:18:27 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >On 3/8/21 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 >> Dick Steffens dijo: >Mayhaps panel is more correct. What I mean is the panel at the top of >the screen (which can be relocated elsewhere, but on my machine

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: I've just swapped my desktop machine boxes so that now I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. It used to be, in Xubuntu 18.04, that I could move a task entry in the task bar by clicking and holding

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 6:16 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: Anyway, thank you, Bill, and Ben, for your advice. Oops. That was Ed, not Ben. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 6:24 PM, Bill Barry wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: On 3/8/21 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf I think that was the critical step. You had removed the user display configurations but not the global configuration. Makes sense.

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Peter Leftwich (pe...@itwiz1.com)
Need more info; Question: Which GUI / desktop manager / window manager etc *and* flavor *and* version of bsd ..are you using? Outside of LibreOffice and Writer, ie a few levels **up** from the app, you're running bsd after all, and your keyboard driver, usually something like xkeymap or keybd or

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 22:11 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Ctrl-D is EOF - forget about it and use Ctrl-H like any other citizen. > > -T > . > In case, it was not obvious my above post was an attempt for a joke. Obviously, there is no point in trying to explain to me why and what for and . Just did

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Ctrl-D is EOF - forget about it and use Ctrl-H like any other citizen. -T On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 18:21 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > What's wrong with simply hitting the Delete Key? Wouldn't that be a lot > > easier? > > Michael, > > No. My hands are on

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 3/8/21 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf I think that was the critical step. You had removed the user display configurations but not the global configuration. Bill

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >I've just swapped my desktop machine boxes so that now I'm using >Xubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. It used to be, in Xubuntu 18.04, that I could >move a task entry in the task bar by clicking and holding it while >dragging it. For some reason, that

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 6:09 PM, Bill Barry wrote: I don't think the problem is at the nvidia driver level so going to all the trouble to install the Nouveau driver might not even fix what is wrong. It was working and then it wasn't and you didn't change any of the packages between. Maybe it has to do with

[PLUG] Resolved: Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: From Ben's comment and looking at the log I'm thinking it's got something to do with left over nVidia stuff. I should be able to do something to clear that out and go with the Nouveau driver, right? I followed instructions at:

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:57 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > From Ben's comment and looking at the log I'm thinking it's got > something to do with left over nVidia stuff. I should be able to do > something to clear that out and go with the Nouveau driver, right? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens I

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 5:46 PM, Bill Barry wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dick Steffens wrote: On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote: Did this happen after an update of the video driver? No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 and

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > > Did this happen after an update of the video driver? > > No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After > lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 and swapped boxes. All the >

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote: Did this happen after an update of the video driver? No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 and swapped boxes. All the peripherals stayed where they were. Both machines have a keyboard,

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
That should probably be ctrl-alt-F1 On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:07 PM Bill Barry wrote: ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:49 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 3/8/21 4:18 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:40 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > >> As mentioned in my most recent post, I've swapped desktop machines. I'm > >> mostly successfully using the "newer" installation, ENU-1. I have

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/8/21 4:18 PM, Bill Barry wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:40 PM Dick Steffens wrote: As mentioned in my most recent post, I've swapped desktop machines. I'm mostly successfully using the "newer" installation, ENU-1. I have tried running the older installation, ENU-2, but it's not showing

Re: [PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:40 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > > As mentioned in my most recent post, I've swapped desktop machines. I'm > mostly successfully using the "newer" installation, ENU-1. I have tried > running the older installation, ENU-2, but it's not showing the screens > (two monitors). I

[PLUG] Blank screen after startup

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
As mentioned in my most recent post, I've swapped desktop machines. I'm mostly successfully using the "newer" installation, ENU-1. I have tried running the older installation, ENU-2, but it's not showing the screens (two monitors). I watch the initial startup text, then the Xubuntu splash

[PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

2021-03-08 Thread Dick Steffens
I've just swapped my desktop machine boxes so that now I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. It used to be, in Xubuntu 18.04, that I could move a task entry in the task bar by clicking and holding it while dragging it. For some reason, that is not working now. I can click and drag, and it looks

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Michael Barnes wrote: What's wrong with simply hitting the Delete Key? Wouldn't that be a lot easier? Michael, No. My hands are on the middle row of the keyboard and ctrl-d is the left pinky and middle finger. The delete key is on the bottom row at the right, next to the

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Michael Barnes
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:47 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I want to assign to Ctrl-d the action of deleting the character immediately > to the right of the cursor's position (the 'point' in Emacs-speak). The > dialog box for assigning actions to key chords has a fixed list of choices, > none of which

[PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to assign to Ctrl-d the action of deleting the character immediately to the right of the cursor's position (the 'point' in Emacs-speak). The dialog box for assigning actions to key chords has a fixed list of choices, none of which is 'delete one character' (or it's there but called

Re: [PLUG] Attempting to document a possible bug

2021-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/08/2021 11:55 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What is linkzone? It's intended purpose is as a WiFi Hotspot with a USB connection to PC. I programatically disable the WiFi effectively giving me a modem connected via the cellular network. They do make actual modems but they were not available to

Re: [PLUG] Attempting to document a possible bug

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
What is linkzone? On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 19:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/07/2021 06:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Background: > > About a decade ago my ISP decided to terminate their dial-up service. > > I had seen someone connecting their laptop to the web using a device > > with the form

[PLUG] Partial success - Re: Attempting to document a possible bug

2021-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/07/2021 05:25 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 12:39 Ben Koenig wrote: I can almost guarantee that if you try and report this bug to debian you will be asked the following: Can you describe the error in one or two sentences? Can you provide a bullet pointed list of steps