kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

2023-12-31 Thread Mike McClain
Prior to the introduction of systemd /etc/inittab had this line in it: kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work." and I found it useful to tie a call to openvt to Alt Up which went well with ALT Right or Left arrow to move between VTs. . Has anyone

Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 20231216)

2023-12-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific, for

Re: URLs in Mutt

2023-12-31 Thread Greg Marks
> Like everyone else, I get emails with links in them which need to be > clicked to change passwords, verify identity and such. I was a loyal mutt > user for years, but problems with URLs caused me to eventually change to > claws-mail. Recently, I tweaked my mutt config, and URLs seemed to work >

Re: URLs in Mutt

2023-12-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:51:25PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > Apparently, something was wrapping lines to > about 75 characters, and putting an equals sign at the end of every line > which had been wrapped. This is "quoted-printable" encoding. You need to use a properly decoded version of the

URLs in Mutt

2023-12-31 Thread Paul M Foster
Folks: Like everyone else, I get emails with links in them which need to be clicked to change passwords, verify identity and such. I was a loyal mutt user for years, but problems with URLs caused me to eventually change to claws-mail. Recently, I tweaked my mutt config, and URLs seemed to work

Re: md0 + UUIDs for member disks

2023-12-31 Thread Felix Natter
hello Andy, thanks for the detailed answer. Andy Smith writes: > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:17:07PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: >> Andy Smith writes: >> > But to be absolutely sure you may wish to totally ignore md0 and >> > its member devices during install as all their data and the

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-31 Thread gene heskett
On 12/31/23 05:42, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: gene heskett wrote: On 12/30/23 16:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans wrote: Sorry, did I impress myself so wrong? What I meant, were the packages for the driver, which Brother provide. If you want to

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-31 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 12/30/23 16:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans wrote: > >> Sorry, did I impress myself so wrong? > >> > >> What I meant, were the packages for the driver, which Brother > >> provide. > >> > >> If you want to know, take a look at