Re: Little problem with rights on a script

ead of wasting your time on a fragile solution. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Little problem with rights on a script

ort. You need another way of increasing privileges. Possibly nothing at all, since the privileges of the group may be enough. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: pass simple readline frontend

Hi, >I want to use the pass password urtility on Linux, in my Emacs eterm. > >The TERM environment variable seems to be ignored, the ncurses utility >starts and this is totally unusable. >Is there any option, beside recompiling the software to have it working pass does not have an ncurses fronte

Re: [OT] Email signature double dash delimiters (Was: KISS gpg)

Cindy Sue Causey (12019-10-31): > Maybe it's only certain ones? Or maybe the correct answer has already been given twice in this very discussion: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/10/msg01140.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/10/msg01152.html Regards, -- Nicola

Re: KISS gpg

ams to exchange > information? The problem is to run instances of gpg simultaneously: one to access the key without any risk of modifying it, one to do the work. Programs that make it hard to run several independent instances without a very very good user-visible reason are badly designed. --

Re: Reply-default etiquette (was Re: KISS gpg)

7;d consider any email agent that does not do > that, broken. I consider a mailing-list that requires to do that or anything broken. Do it if you want. It should not be necessary. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reply-default etiquette (was Re: KISS gpg)

ide: "Press L for list replies": unacceptable, press the same key for ALL replies. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

gt; attention.) I think the reply I just sent to your other mail covers that. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

deloptes (12019-10-31): > again the homedir option is for the agent and not for gpg - and you should > setup your environment properly Again, without perfect control and feedback, this is not acceptable. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reply-default etiquette (was Re: KISS gpg)

different mailing list. I agree with that. Unfortunately, the Debian mailing-list makes it necessary. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

this level of exigence. I am very exigent about the optimality of the software solution I use, I confess to that. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

is optimal. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

egards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

correct behaviour should be the default for lists as well as private mail; with reply-to correctly configured it is. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

cceptable for handling something as precious as a private key. At the very least, to trust gpg with its agent, I would require options to explicitly set the path of the agent's socket and to print the path of the socket that was used. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

pg itself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

The Wanderer (12019-10-31): > FWIW, I don't see that pattern in my local copy of the message you're > replying to; on my end, the line begins with '--homedir', sans quotes. Yet, is it there: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/10/msg01136.html Rega

Re: KISS gpg

dash dash -- # world # gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

ndling something as precious as a private key, this is unacceptable. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

. Can you point me to the package? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

deloptes (12019-10-31): > You can close the topic! I can stop replying to you. But I can also hope that somebody will have a relevant answer. Sorry to not have been awed by gratefulness at your irrelevant answer. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: KISS gpg

deloptes (12019-10-31): > There is a reason for the agent. If you want gpg without an agent use > another product. Which is exactly the question I asked. Again: if you do not understand the question and cannot give a relevant answer… -- Nicolas George signature.asc Descriptio

Re: KISS gpg

be the idea. And for that, I need a KISS gpg, because current gpg does not honor the homedir setting for private keys, because it uses the agent instead. This is exactly the problem. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: firefox pasting using xclip replaces line ends with spaces

songbird (12019-10-30): > pasting into a terminal may work just fine. open up a blog > post or something on a website and it may or may not work. This is exactly what I did, and it worked. Your analysis of the problem is not correct. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Descr

Re: KISS gpg

deloptes (12019-10-30): > the agent was always there - better do a proper setup and btw. what does it > have to do with your files > ??? If you do not understand the question, you can let somebody else answer. That saves your time and mine. Regards, -- Nicolas George sign

Re: firefox pasting using xclip replaces line ends with spaces

onsider this bad, I will assume that your original list was separated by newlines. For me, the test works, I get the paste with newlines, not spaces. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: firefox pasting using xclip replaces line ends with spaces

songbird (12019-10-30): > # did not work > $ xclip -selection clip-board -i list-alpha It did work. It just used the selection called "clip-board" instead of "clipboard". Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

KISS gpg

protect my files from myself prevent me from doing the tasks I want. As a short-term solution, does anyone know how to add a pass phrase to a private key while exporting it, without changing it on the storage? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: (solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

t will be back in similar circumstances. > I'll send an email to the webmaster to let them know about the problem. > Though I have no hopes, and no intention to follow up. I am pretty certain the problem is not on their side. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: (solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

Beco (12019-10-21): > Installing: > > # apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > solved the mystery. No, it hid it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Reason to buy a Raspberry Pi ;-) (was Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions)

ough for quick access to my tastes. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

al process work the same as yours. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: shell wrappers for trig and other mathematical functions

Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl displayed as text, Not HTML

a CGI written in perl requires a perl interpreter, which I doubt you can avoid on Debian anyway. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Stretch to Buster results in strange problems

highlighted. I clicked mouse, logged in and am back to the lxde desktop. Sound still ok. Many files are back but the newest work done while I was still using the gnome desktop are missing. I'll recover and am good to go! On 9/20/19 2:58 PM, Thomas George wrote: No sound after upgrade to B

Stretch to Buster results in strange problems

No sound after upgrade to Buster Switched from lxde to gnome to use gnome/sound speaker test - Still no sound Rebooted to old stretch on another hard drive - had sound, output changed to line out. Rebooted to Buster. No sound and trapped in gnome. selection of desktops shows at sign in but c

Re: Bug?

Yes, I was originally using another desktop, lxde, and switched to gnome. Now I can't switch back On 09/18/2019 08:01 AM, songbird wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: ... Two problems after a distribution upgrade to Buster 1. At login window after boot up the desktop selection is locked a

Bug?

Two problems after a distribution upgrade to Buster 1. At login window after boot up the desktop selection is locked a Gnome. That is, if the symbol to change the desktop selection is selected a list of available desktops is displayed with a dot indicating Gnome is the current selections. Ther

Gnome home directory icons

Hi there! I noticed when i name a folder in home directory Documents it automatically adds a slightly different icon that the normal folder. I want to have this kind of icon to different place in my directory. More presicly i want to organize my home folder into 2 subfolder. One personal folder

Trapped in Gnome

At login after booting up there is a symbol like a gear below the password entry line. I moved the mouse and clicked on this symbol. Several options appeared and I decided to try Classic Gnome. This worked but the next time I booted up the mouse was frozen. The symbol to change desktops is ther

Buster Problem - No Sound

After upgrading from Stretch to Buster no sound Rebooted to Stretch, sound works fine The difference: Choice of outputs in Stretch includes lineout- built in audio. This option is missing in Buster How can I correct this?

No Sound after upgrade from Stretch to Buster

Checked archives, installed pavucontrol but this did not help. Any suggestions?

Re: pdftk

Hi, >is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a >couple of pdf-files? look at pdfjoin. -nik

Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

ful manner ; - those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to find imprecisions and then forcefully educate them. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: VPN connection fails

Thanks for your reply! but i just solve it. The username had the + sign. I use it to separate my email to folders. Changed it and everything works fine! thanks for your help!!! On 7/27/19 4:15 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:55:22PM +0300, George wrote: >>

VPN connection fails

Hi there. I tried to connect with network-manager to my vpn and it fails. I attached the error code i get from the log files. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Jul 27 15:45:17 Laptop nm-openvpn[8667]: OpenVPN 2.4.7 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] b

Re: A followup on github discussion

>Export regulations do not apply to Open Source software (Debian is an >example). Source? -nik

Re: A followup on github discussion

Reco (12019-07-26): > Today it was brought to my attention that GitHub has restricted access > to users who live in countries that have US sanctions applied - [1]. You mean that GitHub respects the laws of the country where it operates? How shocking! Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

ol key XF86LogGrabInfo (or any equivalent way of pressing an unusual key) and reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

Kent West (12019-07-15): > - They plainly state that they support Ubuntu 18.04, but not Debian. So, did I get this right: this is a software, if you install it on Ubuntu 18.04, it can tell you on what OS and version it runs, REMOTELY. Is that it? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.

Re: please stop breaking threads (was: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster

>What's the idea behind references and in-reply-to? Which or both are >the >right way to go? > >Found this old link, sounds complicated. >http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/ > >In the meantime, tell Markos @ >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00573.html >about b

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

Erik Dobák (12019-07-07): > same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt Check the manpage better. (And blame xclip for accepting malformed options.) Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

rd but the primary selection. It may be the source of your confusion. Check the manpage to have xclip use the clipboard. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: etiquette of sharing executable files

s to most people here. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

to...@tuxteam.de (12019-07-03): > That said, you might want to disable ssh logins for that user They are not stupid: that is already the default. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

ne of this things. You obviously understood properly none of my messages. Too bad for you. Have a good life. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

u realize that Debian can be customized, right? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

suggesting buying complete new hardware to solve a minor software configuration issue? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to have password shown?

Renato Gallo (12019-07-03): > and that's s good security-wise The good practice, security-wise, is to start by understanding the situation and the threat. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

am and chop the pair of final files. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

ou can enjoy the full power of the software on your computer instead of being stuck with a mediocre proprietary embedded player. FFmpeg will respect the ASS style, can use colors, do transparency effects, shadows, etc. Encoding in vobsub results in very limited possibilities. Regards, -- Ni

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

or reference, these command lines do not work and do not solve the problem as it was explained in the thread. It needs to be stated clearly for people who may visit the archives looking for the solution for a similar problem. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

> do nothing good to video quality unless you watch what you are doing. With crf 22 at 1080p, you will not be able to see any difference. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

ing existing bitmap subtitles. > there is a program called spumux, but so > far as I can see it's not exactly what I am looking for (or maybe I just > don't get how to use it). spumux can do that, and is indeed the only took I know that can. Regards,

Re: [Possibly fake news] [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to Systemd

unbootable. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

>Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial >patent >exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is >distributed by the >patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is >exhausted. >https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/patent_exhaustion/ Ye

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

Hi, >Why do these restrictions exist? The reason most social media services >use an >age limit of 13 or over is in part because of a law in the USA. The >COPPA law >or Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act states that any >organisations or >people operating online services (including social me

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

No. I, for one, do not care much who owns GitHub. Most of what's wrong there can be explained by stupidity or lack of care rather than being evil. And most companies seem to make one common mistake when it comes to diversity: They mistake diversity for caring for certain groups of people, often

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

>Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination?  That >one is new to me. I did. Please read my mails in this thread. -nik

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

>Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the >intellectual property of the software? No.

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software > >Please explain, in detail, why. If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's why: https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/ https://www.mirb

Re: Age Ranges for contributors was: Salsa vs Github

Hi, >Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.  > >Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to >projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in >general? Yes. This results from the fact that in Debian, noone cares whether you are old, yo

Re: Salsa vs Github

Hi, >I am creating levels for the Rocks and Diamonds game ( >https://www.artsoft.org/ ) these are being uploaded to my project >repository on salsa > >https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/rocksndiamondslevels > >I am in the process of updating the README.md files so, hopefully >others >can also be

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

ult boot options. They are not used when selecting the boot option manually. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: WebRTC software

ince I lack the vocabulary of this domain, I did not manage to see which sections were interesting. Thanks for indulging me. Do you have opinion on the relative qualities of some of these projects? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: WebRTC software

kind of thing I am looking for as for the technical aspects. But not for the user-interface aspect: it is a demo, what I am looking for is a real web application, with a somewhat polished interface. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: WebRTC software

needed to build a web page where a user can click on "call this person" and arrive to a video-conference. This is vague: if I find something interesting, I will be able to see what it can actually do and refine my question. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

WebRTC software

client, B can show A their screen instead of their face. There will probably be an Asterisk server available. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: OT Calibre

rds, -- Nicolas George

Re: OT Calibre

t almost never send a SIGTERM. Search WM_DELETE_WINDOW in the ICCCM. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: font size printing from terminal

ay for the different lpr command. > lpr disappeared > from Debian in about 2008. You might want to want to check apt-cache policy. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: font size printing from terminal

Brian (12019-03-01): > If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't the use > of lpr give a file not found error? Probably because of this, that caused the removal of packages: Conflicts: lpr, lprng Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: font size printing from terminal

rds, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how to select part of old mp3 and create new one

p3 too (consider > a free codec like vorbis or flac, if you want lossless). Nowadays, Opus beats Vorbis easily. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Stop insulting users

>The OP posted to each and every user PLUS the list. That is a huge no >no. Consider yourself advised that us old timers don't go for that and >never have. Ric I never saw a mail where they did that. Plonk.

Stop insulting users (was: Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo)

Den 16. januar 2019 23:43:04 CET, skrev Ric Moore : >On 1/16/19 5:04 AM, plataleas plataleas wrote: >> Indeed the mirror was not updated correctly. Sorry for that. > >PLEASE stop spamming me and the entire list, who you have CC'd to >everyone personally. Jerk Please get yourself removed from Deb

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

Hi, > With rmadison we can see that 4.9.144 is available on the mirrors, but not > yet „active“ in the stable > distribution: > > $ rmadison linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 > linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.130-2 | stable | amd64 > linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 | 4.9.144-1 | proposed-upda

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

Hi, > Thanks for your reply. Is it possible to extract this information from the > mirror server (CentOS based)? > > Where the information is stored on the repository server specifying a > package as stable? http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz -nik signa

Re: APT candidate does not match package on Debian repo

Hi, On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0100, plataleas plataleas wrote: > Hello, > > We are upgrading our Debian servers (AMD64). We found that the following > kernels are available on public Debian mirrors: > > kernel-image-4.9.0-8-amd64-di_4.9.130-2_amd64.udeb >

Re: Multitasking, through Multiple Text Windows

bout its cause. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

ood for the economy. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

es the user the sysadmin. Their choice whether they become competent or not; Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

g so that maybe one day you would be the one helping. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrade Problem

d be reported. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

is everyday. There are unavoidably cases when somebody needs to deal with the complexity. In that case, there are only three options: - pay somebody competent to do the job, or else entice them to do the job for free; - become competent; - go live in a cave. Regards, -- Nicolas George s

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

aining it requires acquiring a certain amount of knowledge, right? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

a sysadmin, and you are trying to be one without acquiring the required knowledge. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

deloptes (2019-01-03): > You don't just copy executables here and there (unless instructed to do so) > You install via package manager Could you please read the mails you are answering to before spewing unhelpful comments? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Descr

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc > Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. Then ask your sysadmin. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

ou should re-read the commands you type, the mistake is obvious. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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