Mouse locator

2021-11-12 Thread Richard Forst
In Debian I want to locate my mouse pointer. And after searching there are some suggestion using     gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false However following that command, it returns No such key “locate-pointer” I install Debian 11 with Gnome

gnome-control-center error: Settings schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power' does not contain a key named 'power-saver-profile-on-low-battery'

2021-10-04 Thread Richard Forst
My gnome-control-center version is 41.0. I started to test changing some setting in gnome-control-center; however it suddenly crashed and relaunching (by re-executing gnome-control-center command in the terminal) shows the following error. It looks like a key is missing. But how can I add it

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-06 Thread Richard Forst
2:50:43PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote: > >> > I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display >> > greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that >> > gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64) no longer uses

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
Ok. The link I found previously is [1]. But executing the command provided in that link doesn't work either. dbus-send --type=method_call \ --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver \ /org/gnome/ScreenSaver \ org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock I appreciate any suggestions

Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64) no longer uses screensaver to lock the session. Instead it uses dbus to activate login asking

Re: How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?

2021-09-03 Thread Richard Forst
I will change to testing with all keyword switched to testing because my case is more often needing to use newer version software compared to stable, which also works fine w/t a problem for most of time. Thanks for all your help, and advice! Appreciate it! Sep 4, 2021, 09:30 by

How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?

2021-09-03 Thread Richard Forst
I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install testing version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my source.list looks like below:     deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib     deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free

Re: Install Debian netinstall to HP Elitebook 840 G8 problem

2021-09-03 Thread Richard Forst
Ok I am kind of getting what goes wrong. First configure boot options to usb in bios setting as usual. Then do rebooting. After the screen displays HP logo, pressing esc button, which will again enter the bios seting or that kind of screen but it will ask (the screen will display) with

Install Debian netinstall to HP Elitebook 840 G8 problem

2021-09-03 Thread Richard Forst
I purchased a new laptop HP Elitebook 840 G8, and am trying to install Debian to it. However I encounter a problem. I change the bios setting, but when booting from usb. What was shown on the screen is simply a grub env command line like grub> instead of a traditional debian install screen

Can't do apt-update because code name is changed from bullseye to bookworm

2021-08-17 Thread Richard Forst
When doing apt-get update, debian throws following error. It looks like because the code name changed from bullseye to bookworm. E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org testing-security InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bullseye-security' to 'bookworm-security' N: This must be

ifneq problem

2021-03-22 Thread Richard Forst
I have a Makefile used to check whether svn command existing or not. The content is below all:     $(eval svnbin=$(shell basename $(shell which svn)))     $(info X$(svnbin)Y)     $(echo X$(svnbin)Y) ifneq ($(strip $(svnbin)),svn)     @echo "$(svnbin)=/=svn" endif However, `make`