Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:49:39PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 20-08-2021 01:12, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > > Inappropriate behaviour on the list may lead to warnings; repeated bad > > behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders. > > And who is it who determines what is

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > Unpacking g

Re: Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 08:01:24 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote: > >> let's suppose you have a directory where there are > >> various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > >> > >> you want to know exactly which other

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Also relevant: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/115 On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 07:40:23PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I had a read of your wiki article and think I almost understand it. To > the left of the parens there's a single letter in that

Re: debian10/11 ssh from ipv6 address not in /etc/hosts.allow = sshd segfault segfault

2021-08-19 Thread raf
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:25:34PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:17:05AM +1000, raf wrote: > > I just noticed many many sshd segfaults listed in > > /var/log/kern.log. There are two versions. They look > > like this: > > > > sshd[1086]: segfault at 7fff615e

Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2021-08-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:27:42 -0400 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I haven't found rtl8852 in the mainstream kernel. > But I've found it on github > https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 > And it seems to have a debian package build file. > So possibly someone already packaged it for Debian.

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had a read of your wiki article and think I almost understand it. To the left of the parens there's a single letter in that calculator example. That I understand. If you have a) add as part of the case statement is add in that partial case statement so when that selection is made add appears o

Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-19 3:26 p.m., Intense Red wrote: >This is for a new consumer-grade HP laptop which seems to be (according to > Windows) running a Realtek 8852 wireless connection (no standard Ethernet jack > on this laptop). > >Debian 11 doesn't seem to detect the wireless NIC. > >Does

Re: Pipewire for multiple users

2021-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "Lucio Crusca" on 2021-08-19 at 16:05 Uhr +0200: lucio@t470:~ $ su - u ... u@t470:~ $ pactl info Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Pulse and systemd need a dbus session, and `su` will not get you that.

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 14:45:16 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > On 2021-08-19 2:18 p.m., Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Steve McIntyre wrote: > This mailing list, like all > Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing > list Code o

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside writes: > On 2021-08-19 11:58 a.m., Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside writes: >> >>> On 2021-08-19 11:12 a.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: wea...@riseup.net wrote: > On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: > If you're trying to la

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:17AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. It is technically feasible of course. That's not the bit I'd have doubts about. O

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jochen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop > failed: Connection timed out > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process > /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned

Re: RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-19 3:26 p.m., Intense Red wrote: >This is for a new consumer-grade HP laptop which seems to be (according to > Windows) running a Realtek 8852 wireless connection (no standard Ethernet > jack > on this laptop). > >Debian 11 doesn't seem to detect the wireless NIC. > Hav

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Weaver
On 20-08-2021 01:12, Steve McIntyre wrote: > wea...@riseup.net wrote: >>On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: >>> Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline >>> >>> and you speak kindly with some authority when some list user deviate >> >>By reputation, the list is unmodera

RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2021-08-19 Thread Intense Red
This is for a new consumer-grade HP laptop which seems to be (according to Windows) running a Realtek 8852 wireless connection (no standard Ethernet jack on this laptop). Debian 11 doesn't seem to detect the wireless NIC. Does anyone know what driver is used for this? -- "The world's

Re: Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 16:16:01 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that yesterday there's been an acceptance email for source > package linux-signed-amd64 version 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1 in > buster-backports: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2021/08/msg00139.html > > Previously

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chuck, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:04:43AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > After some testing of the Debian 11 installer on Xen > (using the debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso), I find that > this image only supports installation into a Xen PV guest, > the guest always crashes and reboots for eith

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 2:18 p.m., Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre wrote: This mailing list, like all Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct: [...] Inappropriate behaviour on the

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > This mailing list, like all > > > > Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing > > > > list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct: > > > > [...] > > > > I

Re: Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > This mailing list, like all > > > Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing > > > list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct: > > > [...] > > > Inappropriate behaviour on the list may lead to warnings; repeated bad > > > beh

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-19 09:11:00] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:24:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. >> > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation >> > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. >

Respect for newbies and new comers [ was : moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere ]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 11:58 a.m., Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside writes: > >> On 2021-08-19 11:12 a.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> wea...@riseup.net wrote: On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: >>> If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think >>>

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks to all who have replied. It turns out too much code was on case statement and once I cleared that the script now works as expected. Here's the working version: #!/usr/bin/env bash # file: bbc.sh PS3="Enter a number to Choose station: " select station in bbc1 bbc-1-extra bbc-2 bbc-3 bbc-4 \

Re: debian10/11 ssh from ipv6 address not in /etc/hosts.allow = sshd segfault segfault

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:17:05AM +1000, raf wrote: > I just noticed many many sshd segfaults listed in > /var/log/kern.log. There are two versions. They look > like this: > > sshd[1086]: segfault at 7fff615eaec8 ip > 7ff2a586f42f sp 7fff615eaed0 error 6 in > libwrap.so.0.7.

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >As Steve did not send this mail to you, I would not take it personally. Exactly, thanks. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendat

Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I notice that yesterday there's been an acceptance email for source package linux-signed-amd64 version 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1 in buster-backports: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2021/08/msg00139.html Previously there had also been one for version 5.10.46+3~bpo10+1. Yet as of today th

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside writes: > On 2021-08-19 11:12 a.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: >> wea...@riseup.net wrote: >>> On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline and you speak kindly with some authority when some li

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-19 Thread Curt
On 2021-08-18, Tixy wrote: >> >> With a normal system, a shortened version of the upgrade procedure >> without the warnings and pre-checks and post-checks might be OK, >> but this is *Gene*. We know he does not have normal systems. >> >> He needs *all* of the warnings. >> > > I agree with all

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 11:12 a.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: > wea...@riseup.net wrote: >> On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: >>> Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline >>> >>> and you speak kindly with some authority when some list user deviate >> >> By reputation, the list is

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
wea...@riseup.net wrote: >On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote: >> Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline >> >> and you speak kindly with some authority when some list user deviate > >By reputation, the list is unmoderated, and that's the way it used to >be. >It still

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 9:04 a.m., Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 07:23 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> I've been subscribed to this list for a long time and I've seen a >> change in how it is being used, which I think is harmful to its core >> purpose > > 100% agree. I'm another long tim

Pipewire for multiple users

2021-08-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
I'm on Debian bookworm/sid. Until a few days ago I had Pipewire 0.3.32 from experimental and it used to work for both of the users I have in my system as a PulseAudio drop in replacement (thanks to pipewire-audio-client-libraries package). Then I accidentally removed it and reinstalled it, but

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Charles Curley: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:36:30 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Is there anything I can do about this without changing >> /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to >> systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces file exists. > > Can you get

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I don't see where your selection (in PS3) gets transferred to REPLY REPLY is filled by bash command "select". man bash says: select name [ in word ] ; do list ; done [...] The PS3 prompt is then displayed and a line read from the sta

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 07:23 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I've been subscribed to this list for a long time and I've seen a > change in how it is being used, which I think is harmful to its core > purpose 100% agree. I'm another long time subscriber here and this is just bonkers lately. The n

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: ... > Aside: I have never (to the best of my recollection) done an upgrade from one > version to the next, I install the new version on a clean disk (or new > system) > -- the only time I could envision doing an upgrade would be if stable became > a > rolling release.

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
Jeremy Ardley wrote: .. > Selinux has a lot of the hooks to do this - in permissive mode of course = > > - but I don't think it can identify the calling script without you going = > > to great lengths to tag files. right, i'm aware of the existence of Selinux, but have not looked into it furthe

Re: font-colour on a bullseye desktop: (too) white

2021-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 02:22:23PM +0200, steef van duin wrote: > i am sorry. it is a long time i was mailing to this list for help > > > OK. Now we know which terminal you use, and this*probably* also means > you're running XFCE as your desktop environment. That will be useful > information f

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
Roberto C Sánchez wrote: ... > It sounds like you want something like like incrond, which gives you > user-space hooks into the inotify kernel subsystem. I have used it, for > instance, for protecting artifacts published to a develpment archive > server. I use incron to monitor the directories w

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:25:10AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 19, 2021 04:59:19 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > # file: bbc.sh > > PS3="Enter a number to Choose station: " > > select station in bbc1 bbc-1-extra bbc-2 bbc-3 bbc-4 \ > >

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
Cindy Sue Causey wrote: ... > I don't have an answer. I just wanted to say I wasn't thinking of > school work as I read this. I was thinking more like... paranoia, lol! > > Not in a "bad" way but in a system protecting way. With everything > that's going on about hacking and cracking, knowing what'

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 19, 2021 04:59:19 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tested the following script by having the $REPLY variable report its > value after the select statement and the value I entered was correct. > The problem I'm having is with the case statement I used. For some reason > the case stat

Re: Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote: >> let's suppose you have a directory where there are >> various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. >> >> you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, >> etc. use them and to log each caller to know

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-19 Thread songbird
Anssi Saari wrote: ... > And yes, the working upgrades are the reason I've stuck with Debian > since Hamm. My ever evolving desktop computer is on its second > installation now since I reinstalled when I switched to 64-bits > somewhere in the decade before last. when i changed motherboards i fig

font-colour on a bullseye desktop: (too) white

2021-08-19 Thread steef van duin
i am sorry. it is a long time i was mailing to this list for help OK. Now we know which terminal you use, and this*probably* also means you're running XFCE as your desktop environment. That will be useful information for the thread back on the mailing list. yes, that is right i am using xfc

Re: font-colour on desktop

2021-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:52:47AM +0200, steef van duin wrote: > hi folks > > a small problem for me in using bullseye: how can I change the colours of the > fonts on the desktop?? Start by figuring out which desktop environment (if any) you're running. I would think most of them have some sor

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > > arecord: set_params:1345: Channels count non available > > sox FAIL formats: can't open input `-': WAVE: RIFF header not found > > Keep recording 2 channels. Your hardware doesn't like it > otherwise. > > You can ask sox: > > sox -t wav -c1 - -r44100 $filename > > to me

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-19 Thread Morgan Read
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described here: > >> https://github.com/ca

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > So, I want a mono version. Let's try this: > > #! /bin/sh > cd ~/tmp > filename=$1.wav > echo $filename > arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 48000 -d $2 -c 1 -f S16_LE - \ > | sox -t wav - -r44100 $filename > > This hasn't worked yet. It is identical to the good version but >

Re: bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jude DaShiell wrote: > select station in bbc1 bbc-1-extra bbc-2 bbc-3 bbc-4 \ >b bc-4-long-wave-and-shipping > bbc-4-extra bbc-5 \ > bbc-6-music bbc-world-service quit > do > case $REPLY in >$REPLY==1) man bash says about "case" that before

bbc script

2021-08-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tested the following script by having the $REPLY variable report its value after the select statement and the value I entered was correct. The problem I'm having is with the case statement I used. For some reason the case statement isn't playing any of the stations and I have mpv on my machine.

Re: apparmors extra profiles.

2021-08-19 Thread raf
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:32:11PM +0300, Georgios wrote: > Hi! > Im trying to install debian 11 on virtual machine manager in order to > prepare my self for moving my laptop to debian 11. > > Default install leaves unconfined a lot of apps so I tried to install > extra profiles. > According to

Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 4:34 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> >> >> On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: >>> Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > [...] > >>> You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... t

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 4:04 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > [...] > >> Do you really think it's that bad? > > I actually agree that it is manageable. OTOH, things are > changing, and change must be tackled. > > Community is these days more di

Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...]

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: > > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: [...] > > You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with > > moral superiority syndrome. > > >

Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants ...]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 3:47 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:37AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > >> You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with >> moral superiority syndrome. > > This is a crudely obvious flamebait. Why do you do this? >

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> You seem pretty good a drawing a line between *good* and *bad*, always >> putting yourself on the *good* side. >> > > see this is exactly the attitude I am reffering to. > >> What if ? What if there wasn't

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: Do you really think it's that bad? Yes. I can remember back when I would wake up in the morning to have over 300 list messages on screen. And, many of those were Off-Topic but, usually, people were reasonably active in labelling them as

font-colour on desktop

2021-08-19 Thread steef van duin
hi folks a small problem for me in using bullseye: how can I change the colours of the fonts on the desktop?? (if possible) thanks a lot cheers, steef groningen

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-19 Thread Nicolas George
Martin McCormick (12021-08-18): > arecord: set_params:1345: Channels count non available > sox FAIL formats: can't open input `-': WAVE: RIFF header not found If you read carefully, you will notice that your problem is not with sox, it is with arecord: sox only fails because arecord fails and doe

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: [...] > Do you really think it's that bad? I actually agree that it is manageable. OTOH, things are changing, and change must be tackled. Community is these days more diverse than it used to be. This is a Good Thing, but it makes communica

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Weaver
On 19-08-2021 16:23, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:34:24AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >>What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing >>over old subject that you consider off-topic. You seem really touched by >>giving your self

Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants ...]

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:37AM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with > moral superiority syndrome. This is a crudely obvious flamebait. Why do you do this? - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: metaSendsEscape not working after power outage

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:03:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 12:16:29 (+1000), Nicholas Croft wrote: > > > > After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is > > defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. > > I ad

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:24:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. > > FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal