Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread eben
On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread eben
On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote:> David Christensen writes: > >> My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to >> find if and where any error message is reported. > > What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? And is its filesystem mounted with noexec? > maybe

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread eben
On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have permission. 2024-04-18 02:24:20 root@laalaa ~

Re: SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread eben
On 4/24/24 00:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs? Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX.  I was reading it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from a

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-14 Thread eben
On 5/14/24 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks

Re: seeding /dev/random from a security key

2024-03-25 Thread eben
On 3/25/24 17:27, Andy Smith wrote: The thread covers how to make rngd feed /dev/random from a OneRNG in Debian 12, but it is no longer possible to tell if that does anything useful. If not from devices like this, from where does Debian get its randomness? -- For is it not written,

Re: Bookworm: Where are the ImageMagick binaries other than `convert`?

2024-04-01 Thread eben
On 4/1/24 21:37, Christian Gelinek wrote: Hi, I have ImageMagick installed, but only the `convert` binary is in my path. Other binaries like `magick` are not. Where can I find them, In Synaptic, if you get the properties of an installed package one of the tabs is "installed files". You can

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread eben
On 5/27/24 17:09, Paul M Foster wrote: The local internet provider will likely provide a wireless router, as they all do. My idea is to put a device which receives wireless signal from the router/modem, and has an RJ45 jack in it in each room. So each room would have one of these, and the

Re: Suspicious "invoice" email?

2024-05-17 Thread eben
On 5/17/24 15:28, PMA wrote: > Dear List, > > I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White > . > > I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached. > > Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate? >> Greetings! customer, It came through

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 14:03, rtnetz...@windstream.net wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul M Foster" I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Quite some years ago my father inquired about getting 3 phase power to his house to power a rather husky lathe. The answers were distributed between

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 14:04, Paul M Foster wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:13:26PM -, Curt wrote: On 2024-05-28, Paul M Foster wrote: but I'd rather not. Since the wifi signal will permeate the whole house, it seemed more reasonable to plant a device in each room which could pick up the wifi, and

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread eben
On 5/29/24 10:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems. scp / sshd nc, but you don't get

Re: tree with dir size

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 18:28, Northwind wrote: Hello, is there a command that shows dir/subdir structure like `tree`, but for each dir has the size in results as well? It looks like "tree --du" should do it, but "tree -d --du -h" says ├── [452K] Documents when du says it's 787M. -- When we've nuked

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 10:34, Dan Ritter wrote: Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard Find "Switch window for same application". Tap "Edit" Type alt ~ Try it out. Ah, by default it's ctrl-alt-tab. -- He who

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 02:50, Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? alt-tilde in XFCE does nothing, at least in my installation (XFCE 4.18) -- Driscoll's Observation: The product of the IQs of each member of a tech-support conversation is a

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 15:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 02:18:40PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: eben@cerberus:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 6.1.90-1 What am I doing wrong? You haven't installed the linux-image-amd64

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread eben
vulnerability in kernels 5.14 through 6.6. I have not seen any updates and uname -a shows: 6.1.0-13-amd64 Anyone concerned? I have the same kernel, and no updates. eben@cerberus:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for eben: Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http

Re: lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread eben
On 6/4/24 12:44, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 09:55:51 -0400 > Eben King wrote: > >> Jun 04 01:57:07 cerberus lightdm[1547009]: xrandr: cannot find mode >> 1920x1200 >> >> and so on. >> >> I have three monitors on the onboard

Re: last(1) missing after upgrade from 12.5 to sid (util-linux 2.38.1 to 2.40.1-4)

2024-06-04 Thread eben
On 6/4/24 10:59, songbird wrote: t...@tommiller.us wrote: Hello! last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid. ... i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux package. How do you use "more" to do what "last" does? -- Q: What did one photon

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread eben
On 5/28/24 11:13, Curt wrote: On 2024-05-28, Paul M Foster wrote: but I'd rather not. Since the wifi signal will permeate the whole house, it seemed more reasonable to plant a device in each room which could pick up the wifi, and provide wired internet to that room. I don't see why that

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 22:46, Carter Zhang wrote: Dear Dan, Thanks a lot for your reply but I am not clear how to use SFTP, SCP or NFS on Android. Could you please show me how? Any help will be appreciated. (lines wrapped) SFTP / SCP:

Re: Audio broken by kernel update

2024-05-31 Thread eben
On 5/31/24 10:04, Evgeny Kapun wrote: After I upgraded my system, my integrated sound card (Intel HDA) stopped working properly. The sound plays, but it is severely distorted. If I boot the same system with an older kernel, it works. Currently, I am using kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, because newer

Re: tree with dir size

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 18:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 06:51:30PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: It looks like "tree --du" should do it, but "tree -d --du -h" says ├── [452K] Documents when du says it's 787M. Well, that sounds like one of the numbers includes subdirectories and the

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-30 Thread eben
On 5/30/24 20:08, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems.  I

Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501))

2024-06-02 Thread eben
On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you change subject or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email accordingly so that this can be clearly seen. For example: New question [WAS Old topic] Are square brackets

Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread eben
On 6/2/24 14:03, Chris M wrote: I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text a little bigger without having to use CTRL ++ on those certain emails. Any ideas

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 16:51, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 15:05:23 (-0400), Eben King wrote: >> Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have >> three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm >> can't seem to ge

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 21:11, Ralph Katz wrote: On 6/10/24 13:05, Eben King wrote: Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. [...] and it still doesn't suspend over night.  Suspend works just fine when I go to log out and hit the suspend button.   I don't see any obvious errors

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or you expect suspend to RAM after some

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:37, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll

Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Eben King
Hey. Occasionally I'll install a package and it brings some other dependencies with it. Fine. Then if I decide it doesn't work for me and want to uninstall it, I have to go to the installation history, see what was installed with it, and for each one find it and flag it for removal. You can

lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread Eben King
were in the wrong order, and the left one was sideways. I wrote a script which used xrandr to fix this in XFCE, though I rarely need it. Anyhow I don't know where that error is coming from. There's a line eben@cerberus:/etc/lightdm$ grep fixm * lightdm.conf:# greeter-setup-script = /export/bin

system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread Eben King
Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm can't seem to get that or the monitor positions correct I wrote a script that calls xrandr to set things up. I thought the errors from the

offer proposal

2017-08-18 Thread Richmond Eben Kofi
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