Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread davidson
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 08:32:34PM +, davidson wrote: '!' marks the spot of nonbreaking spaces that made it into OP's first report of odd behavior, upon testing the white scissors XCompose rule: $ grep "WHITE SCISSORS"

Re: Network services fail on startup

2020-07-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I had to restart my system, after having set the interfaces to auto, and everything worked fine. Generalizing freely, my problem is solved. It's a great relief: checking that everything was OK after every reboot was a drag. Ross On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:57 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > Thanks to

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread davidson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 davidson wrote: [snip] If you have both the package called "info" and sed installed, like I do $ dpkg-query -l Yes, that is correct. I somehow manage to run a system with just three packages installed... I'm *that* good. $ dpkg-query -l info sed texinfo-doc-nonfree #

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread davidson
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote: Could you please see if any of the lines in this message too behaves similarly ie, see whether there are nonbreaking spaces in the message body. ? The message body --of the message to which I reply-- I saved in the file ajith_msgbody.txt, which features

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread davidson
Hi All, I will start with what I did in sequence Using Konsole from my home directory 1)executed setxkbmap -layout us Naturally, since it is after all the topic of your thread, you are primarily interested in troubleshooting the XCompose mechanism. And so you have set up known environmental

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts >> on >>

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger

Re: Debian no reconoce disco extraíble

2020-07-15 Thread Camaleón
El 2020-07-15 a las 13:13 -0500, Aristobulo_Pinzón escribió: > Debian 10.4 con xfce4 no me reconoce los discos duros extraíbles. > Que ajuste me faltará para que los detecte al menos con el fdisk -l ? Conecta los discos y como root ejecuta: dmesg | tail -20 Y manda la salida a la lista.

Re: Debian no reconoce disco extraíble

2020-07-15 Thread Galvatorix Torixgalva
Hola, ese disco duro tiene particiones reconocibles por tu sistema?, lo digo porque no dices nada al respecto. Prueba con fdisk /dev/sda (o lo equivalente en tu caso) a ver que sale Un saludo

Debian no reconoce disco extraíble

2020-07-15 Thread Aristobulo_Pinzón
Buenos días. Debian 10.4 con xfce4 no me reconoce los discos duros extraíbles. Que ajuste me faltará para que los detecte al menos con el fdisk -l ?

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 11:19:30 (+), Ajith R wrote: > On Sun 12 Jul 2020 at 22:50:23 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > > > OK. I wonder whether the problem you're having with using XCompose > > is that although those three characters > > look independent of each other in the file, the

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 iul 20, 18:07:53, Vlad Dragomir wrote: > Worked like a charm, I'm almost at the end of the installation process. > > Yes indeed, the downloaded archive contains more firmware compared to the > installation disc, not very logical in my opinion but I am not a pro. > > Thank you so much,

RE: Installation Problem

2020-07-15 Thread Vlad Dragomir
Worked like a charm, I'm almost at the end of the installation process. Yes indeed, the downloaded archive contains more firmware compared to the installation disc, not very logical in my opinion but I am not a pro. Thank you so much, virtual pints for everybody! Cheers, Vlad.

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Bob Weber (12020-07-15): > which replaces \| with a single character which is known not to be in > the input data For the third time, and on top of what other people have told you: THERE ARE NO CHARACTERS KNOWN NOT TO BE IN THE INPUT. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description:

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 14/07/20 14:52, Albretch Mueller ha scritto: I have a string delimited by two characters: "\|" _S=" 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " which then I need to turn into a array looking like: _S_AR=( " 34 + 45" " abc" " 1 2 3" " c" "123abc" ) I can't make awk or tr work in the

Fw: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread Ajith R
This is the third part - the layout file is comprssed and attached ajith in.tar.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: external bluetooth keyboard / mouse paired but not used

2020-07-15 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 15/07/20 10:39, deloptes ha scritto: You may have a look at the X server configuration. I don't use BT inputs, but I recall there could be some additional settings in the following sections, or needed to add those. I'm sure you can find instructions. I don't have a server config file, only

Fw: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread Ajith R
This is the second part of my email.  > Note that the whitespace in your *attached* file (mixed tabs and > saces) matched my own, whereas the file here in your post does not. > That suggests that the 0xc2 0xa0 sequences may be a result of your > copy/paste operation. By "the file here in your

Fw: Using .XCompose

2020-07-15 Thread Ajith R
I was trying to send this mail for the past few days. It was not getting distributed probably because it is lengthy. So, I am trying to send it as two emails. This first part is being continued in the next email  Hi David, > OK. I wonder whether the problem you're having with using

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:10 AM, lina wrote: > That would be great to get your guys' advice as I worried I may not be > able to install Debian on it due to my past experience that my SSD was > invisible

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:11:08AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: > Which is why I showed this: > > tr -s '\\\|' '\|' > > which replaces \| with a single character which is known not to be in the > input data and usable as a awk field separator. It just happens to be a | You misunderstood my point.

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-15 at 10:11, Bob Weber wrote: > On 7/15/20 8:44 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:34:36AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: >> >>> My only purpose was to show how tr could be used to handle >>> multiple characters as a delimiter either as tr -s '\\\|' '\|' >>> or >> >>

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Bob Weber
On 7/15/20 8:44 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:34:36AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: My only purpose was to show how tr could be used to handle multiple characters as a delimiter either as tr -s '\\\|' '\|' or The problem is, it can't, at least not the way you showed. The

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lina wrote: > Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer > run solely for the computational purpose. Well, i am a software developer. My experience is restricted to choosing the parts for a new desktop computer every 5 years. But out of curiosity i already discussed

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Klaus Singvogel wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements: > > https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11dpi-n-e-atx-motherboard-review/ > > "We find an idle power draw of 132 watts and Peak of 394 watts to be > >quite common" >

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Hi Dan, > > ThinkStation P620 Tower Workstation is the one you mentioned? > > https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620 > I didn't mention it in particular, but yes, this would certainly work well. Note that this is

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread rhkramer
+1 for AMD Nothing new below this line. On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 08:48:41 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > For best price/performance for large parallel workloads, you may > be better off with an AMD ThreadRipper or EPYC system. > > The Intel CPU has a list price of $1800 US. > > An AMD TR4 2990WX is

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Nicolas George
Bob Weber (12020-07-15): > My only purpose was to show how tr could be used to handle multiple > characters as a delimiter either as tr -s '\\\|' '\|' or A simple combinatorics argument should convince you that the trick of turning a 2-chars delimiter into a 1-char delimiter cannot work in all

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi Dan, ThinkStation P620 Tower Workstation is the one you mentioned? https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series/ThinkStation-P620/p/33TS3TPP620 Thanks, lina On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get a

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > lina wrote: > > > Supermicro CSE-732i-R500 [...] 500W > > If already your CPUs are specified to have a TDP of 150 W each then a 500 W > power supply appears dangerously close to the minimum requirements: >

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get a workstation with the following configurations: > > Moderkort S3647 Supermicro X11DPi-N 16DDR4 2GLAN 2NVMe 10SATA3 4+2PCIE IPMI > EATX > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 > Kylning CPU S3647 Supermicro narrow

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:34:36AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: > My only purpose was to show how tr could be used to handle multiple > characters as a delimiter either as tr -s '\\\|' '\|' or The problem is, it can't, at least not the way you showed. The original example, sadly, did NOT contain

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Bob Weber
On 7/15/20 6:29 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote: the thing is that that was the one liner passed to a find command which then I need to use as an array lbrtchx My only purpose was to show how tr could be used to handle multiple characters as a delimiter either as tr -s '\\\|' '\|' or tr -d

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi Thomas, Can you help me with a rational configuration for a decent computer run solely for the computational purpose. I am not good at it, highly appreciated. Thanks, lina On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > lina wrote: > > [...] workstation [...] > > [...]

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Vlad Dragomir wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you all for all those great responses, I'm definitely grateful. > > Dan, I followed your instructions, please tell me if this is the expected > output, I'll try to transcribe everything: > Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a) > >

Re: Intel NUC beeping capabilities

2020-07-15 Thread Cleverson Casarin Uliana
Hi Carl, thank you for testing. Could you also please enter alsamixer and check whether your NUC sound card has any beep-dedicated channel? Some laptops have it, e.g. look for "beep" in this log: https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?probe=66bfc16192=alsactl Greetings, Cleverson Em

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 06:29:38 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 7/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > > Bob Weber (12020-07-14): > >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { > >> FS="|" } { printf " > >>

Re: workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lina wrote: > [...] workstation [...] > [...] Supermicro X11DPi-N [...] > CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 The CPU is very recent. But it seems not to be allergic to Linux http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200331-21877.html

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 06:29:38AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 7/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > > Bob Weber (12020-07-14): > >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { > >> FS="|" } { printf " > >>

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/14/2020 03:33 PM, Vlad Dragomir wrote: Good evening, I am very new to Debian, and would like to apologise first, I might not know how exactly to describe this issue. I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, [ *SNIP* ] What is make and model of the laptop?

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > Bob Weber (12020-07-14): >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { >> FS="|" } { printf " >> _S_AR=(\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n)\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' > > Have you considered that pipes without backslashes are not

Re: Upgrading python3.8 from 3.8.3-1 to 3.8.4~rc1-1 breaks xpra

2020-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
S. Dash wrote on 15/07/2020 10:02: > 2. > > Apart from this issue, I just realized that I was unable to downgrade to 3.8.3 > if I had not cached the deb files. All mirror sites I could find were all > updated to have only 3.8.4~rc1-1. Is there an archive that keeps older > versions? > Yes,

workstation buying advice

2020-07-15 Thread lina
Hi, I am trying to get a workstation with the following configurations: Moderkort S3647 Supermicro X11DPi-N 16DDR4 2GLAN 2NVMe 10SATA3 4+2PCIE IPMI EATX CPU S3647 Intel Xeon Gold 6230R 2,1-4,0GHz 36MB 26-core 52-thread 150W 2,00 Kylning CPU S3647 Supermicro narrow aktiv 4U 3800rpm 38dB max 205W

Re: /sbin -> /usr/sbin

2020-07-15 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Le 11/07/2020 à 10:10, BERTRAND Joël a écrit : éviter ce comportement à la noix. La justification de la chose est vraiment spécieuse et c'est vraiment ce genre de truc qui fait que j'abandonne de plus en plus les linuxeries. Et le fait que Debian est la dernière à franchir le pas n'est vraiment

Re: external bluetooth keyboard / mouse paired but not used

2020-07-15 Thread deloptes
Andrea Borgia wrote: > Devices are connected and show up in logs, that is where it gets weird. > Next week I'm home and I'll be able to try a physical kbd / touchpad > combo. You may have a look at the X server configuration. I don't use BT inputs, but I recall there could be some additional

Upgrading python3.8 from 3.8.3-1 to 3.8.4~rc1-1 breaks xpra

2020-07-15 Thread S. Dash
2 questions: 1. Recent upgrade of python3.8 and related packages (namely `python3.8` `python3.8-minimal` `libpython3.8` `libpython3.8-stdlib` `libpython3.8-minimal`) from 3.8.3-1 to 3.8.4~rc1-1 breaks xpra, causing it unable to create new X sessions. An example is to run `firejail --x11=xpra

Re: Installation Problem

2020-07-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:14:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 05:43:06 (+0200), Vlad Dragomir wrote: > > > > I found that file too, actually I found four or five of them, but not all. > > I put them on the USB installation drive but the installer kept asking for > >

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Hi, Folks - I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on individual programs?

Re: external bluetooth keyboard / mouse paired but not used

2020-07-15 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 14/07/20 23:56, Bob Weber ha scritto: On 7/14/20 1:11 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: I bought a bluetooth keyboard with the intention to use it with our Samsung tablets.  It just worked in KDE to my surprise.  Is the mouse a part of the keyboard or a separate device? It is in an app which

Re: how to install cherrytree?

2020-07-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/07/20 8:50 am, Darac Marjal wrote: >> --- Reason --- >> RoQA; python2-only; depends on pygtk/gtksourceview, deprecated; upstream is >> rewriting it in C++, so there's no hope for a py3k port >> -- > Ew. In the