Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread John Crawley
On 08/01/2022 12:00, David Wright wrote: On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 14:46:04 (-0500), Lee wrote: right - another unknown. There's a /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper that starts off with #! /usr/bin/perl -w # # Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script which I don't know who calls or even

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-07 Thread John Crawley
On 06/01/2022 03:26, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is relatively easy to configure? Claws-mail and mutt for two. Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:38:14 PM EST Ralph Katz wrote: > On 1/7/22 03:01, gene heskett wrote: > ... > > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but > > clicking > > the link does not do

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 15:03:25 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > It just goes black. The inside of the window that virtualbox uses, that > > > is. Nothing of the sort happening on the host

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 20:01:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > > pasting? > > It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning > it,

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 14:46:04 (-0500), Lee wrote: > On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: > >> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing > >> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal > >> 0.9.1 source tarball? >

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2022-01-07 15:03, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: >> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >>> On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > Not sure what I'm looking at here... No

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > pasting? It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning it, either forward or backward. Depending on where you're clicking, this

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 1/7/22 03:01, gene heskett wrote: ... I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser to that page? If so, where should

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:17:25 -0500 Lee wrote: > On 1/7/22, riveravaldez wrote: > > On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: > >> background: > >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > > > > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. > > The situation is

Re: Adobe Digital Editions - No consegueixo reinstalar-lo

2022-01-07 Thread Daniel Elias
El Calibre jo el tinc instalat al Debian directe del Synaptic. El 6/1/22 a les 8:30, xavi ha escrit: Doncs jo estaria interessat també en el guió del calibre... si m'ho pots enviar per privat ;) x. El 5 de gener de 2022 23:11:49 CET, "Julio Amorós" ha escrit: Hola, ja sé que faig

Re: Defaulting sound output to HDMI port

2022-01-07 Thread David
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 07:06, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a computer in the living room which is hooked up to our TV > via an HDMI cable. I use it to play MP3s, videos, and games. > Our TV is hooked to our stereo system to get good-quality sound. > However, audio isn't passing through the HDMI

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I *am* an xfce4 user. I use the terminal emulator most of the time. I asked for a terminal emulator at installation, and I got lxterminal. Works good. The scroll bar is over on the right, where it's supposed to be. Real thin, but it's there.

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, riveravaldez wrote: > On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: >> background: >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. The situation is that I absolutely hate the default user interface. Scroll bars that

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 13:26:22 -0500, Lee wrote: > background: > There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal > > xfce4-terminal v0.9.1 finally has right-click = paste > >

Defaulting sound output to HDMI port

2022-01-07 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I have a computer in the living room which is hooked up to our TV via an HDMI cable. I use it to play MP3s, videos, and games. Our TV is hooked to our stereo system to get good-quality sound. However, audio isn't passing through the HDMI connection from the computer; to get sound I've run a

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here... > > > > > > No processes with a suitable name. > > > > > > Is the

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread riveravaldez
On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: > background: > There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. > horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal About the scrollbars I don't know, but, for instance,

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing >> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal >> 0.9.1 source tarball? > > The biggest obvious flaw in doing this is that your custom

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I use the Shift + Right-click trick to get the menu in applications that > seem to block Gnome Terminal's handling of the URL. I've found the > trick useful with Mutt and Midnight Commander. > I see. I only experimented in a man page.

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: > so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing > /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal > 0.9.1 source tarball? The biggest obvious flaw in doing this is that your custom local version will be overwritten the

downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
background: There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal xfce4-terminal v0.9.1 finally has right-click = paste https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/commit/970905924ad685827cee2b2406a3b8a6b6990187 so what

Re: Problemas con archivos descargados, caracteres Ñ, y acentos

2022-01-07 Thread JavierDebian
El 7/1/22 a las 14:25, Camaleón escribió: El 2022-01-07 a las 11:23 +, Ricardo Delgado escribió: Gracias por responder si segui los hilos, segui buscando, pero no tuve solucion al respecto. ¿Y te sucede en todos los sitios desde donde descargras archivos con caracteres con ectonso

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:34 AM David Wright wrote: > > The business of how the python/python2/python3 commands are > implemented is not in the hands of the the Python authors, > but distributions like Debian/ubuntu/arch etc. My opinion is > that some distributions showed undue haste in

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 07 Jan 10:26 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > > > > This is what works for me in gnome-terminal: > > URL

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here... > > > > No processes with a suitable name. > > > > Is the "screensaver" showing pictures, or just going black after > > a while? >

Re: Problems with videos playback for my user

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Jan 2022 at 12:06:56 (+0100), Lucio Crusca wrote: > On 06/01/22 00:34, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > > > Thanks, nice try, but, besides I've cleared all three steps just in case > > (CPU always below 5% while playing videos), none of those can explain why > > video playback still works

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 08:43:48 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 06 Jan 2022 at 07:24:47 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > > > pytnon-is-python2 > > > > > > python-is-python3 > > > > > > Either way, something's going to break. Blame Guido Van Rossum. > > > > Throughout

Re: Problemas con archivos descargados, caracteres Ñ, y acentos

2022-01-07 Thread Camaleón
El 2022-01-07 a las 11:23 +, Ricardo Delgado escribió: > Gracias por responder si segui los hilos, segui buscando, pero no tuve > solucion al respecto. ¿Y te sucede en todos los sitios desde donde descargras archivos con caracteres con ectonso sólo en algunos? He subido un archivo de

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 12:05:38 pm David wrote: > > I did an upgrade from 8 -> 9, and that's where things are sitting at the > > moment. > > I've been encouraged to get with current stable, which is what, 11 at > > this point? > > > I'll get there, but slowly, so I can see what's

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:41:45 AM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > cat /etc/debian_version 11.2 And now I see how it works since it does that way, thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 7, 2022 8:05:59 AM EST Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:59:36 -0500 > gene heskett wrote: > > ... > > > That is installed, but I can't find a configurator for it. And I am a > > heavy user of mc but the file menu popup steals the F10 key, also a > > pita. But there is

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:16:21 AM EST David wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:59, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote: > > > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > > > > > > >

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 07:24:47 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > ps -auwx|grep -e screen -e lock > > > > That gets me this: > > > > Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See > >

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > This is what works for me in gnome-terminal: URL detection[edit] GNOME Terminal parses the output and automatically

dmsetup reload snapshot seems to be ignored

2022-01-07 Thread Jakob Bohm
[Note I am not subscribed, please CC me on replies]. When trying to use dmsetup to create volume snapshots, I ran into a quite odd failure mode as described below. Corrections to the commands and workarounds are desired. (I tried posting this to the upstream bugzilla (at Red Hat), but it

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 07 Jan 04:01 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking > the link does not

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-07 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Thu 06 Jan 2022 at 07:24:47 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > > pytnon-is-python2 > > > > python-is-python3 > > > > Either way, something's going to break. Blame Guido Van Rossum. > > Throughout those years, Python3 was available, and there were > compatibility layers and

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 08:13:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:09:38PM -, Curt wrote: > > I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but > > then again I've never had that old hacker spirit. > > That's what I do too. I like my terminals to

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:09:38PM -, Curt wrote: > I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but > then again I've never had that old hacker spirit. That's what I do too. I like my terminals to be relatively frill-free. Obviously that's just my preference, and I know

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > >> In a terminal: left click might not do

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:59:36 -0500 gene heskett wrote: ... > That is installed, but I can't find a configurator for it. And I am a heavy > user of mc but the file menu popup steals the F10 key, also a pita. But > there is not an F10 checked in the settings for xfce or konsole that I can >

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > In a terminal: left click might not do anything but right click will bring > up a menu

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking > the

Re: Problemas con archivos descargados, caracteres Ñ, y acentos

2022-01-07 Thread Ricardo Delgado
El martes, 4 de enero de 2022 21:33:38 ART, JavierDebian escribió: El 4/1/22 a las 17:53, Ricardo Delgado escribió: > Buenas tardes, > > Estoy teniendo inconvenientes con mi XFCE, cuando descargo un archivo con Ñ o > acentos, los mismos se colocan con rombos (donde iria la letra con

Re: Problemas con archivos descargados, caracteres Ñ, y acentos

2022-01-07 Thread Ricardo Delgado
El miércoles, 5 de enero de 2022 06:36:39 ART, Camaleón escribió: El 2022-01-04 a las 20:53 +, Ricardo Delgado escribió: > Buenas tardes, > > Estoy teniendo inconvenientes con mi XFCE, cuando descargo un archivo con Ñ o > acentos, los mismos se colocan con rombos (donde iria la letra

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:59, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote: > > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote: > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > > underscored if you click on them while reading the

Re: Debian-raspberrypi buster does not boot up properly without a monitor connected

2022-01-07 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:21, Johannes Pieper wrote: > I installed the latest 24.11.21 tested bullseye image on ssd disk connected > via USB adapter to a raspberry pi 4. Hello, I don't know anything about this image, but just a quick suggestion ... > As long as a Monitor is connected via

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote: > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking > the link does not do anything. Is it

Debian-raspberrypi buster does not boot up properly without a monitor connected

2022-01-07 Thread Johannes Pieper
Good morning everyone! I installed the latest 24.11.21 tested bullseye image on ssd disk connected via USB adapter to a raspberry pi 4. As long as a Monitor is connected via HDMI adaptor to the pi everything works fine. I can log in directly on the machine or via ssh remotely. In case no

odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser to