Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 10:34, Dan Ritter wrote: Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard Find "Switch window for same application". Tap "Edit" Type alt ~ Try it out. Ah, by default it&#

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Scott wrote: > (Debian sid) > > Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard Find "Switch window for same application". Tap "Edit" Type alt ~ Try it out. -dsr-

Re: alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 02:50, Paul Scott wrote: (Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? alt-tilde in XFCE does nothing, at least in my installation (XFCE 4.18) -- Driscoll's Observation: The product of the IQs of each member of a tech-support conversation

alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
(Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? TIA, Paul

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray | Partial Solution

2024-05-17 Thread Max Nikulin
--not-show-in=GNOME,GNOME-Classic:GNOME may affect XFCE.

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray | Partial Solution

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:09:33 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home > page. I believe I am not running Wayland. > > Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Wo

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 May 2024 20:42:10 +0200 Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 02:09:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the > > hom

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray

2024-05-17 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 02:09:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as updated. > I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home page. > I believe I am not running Wayland. > > Has anyone else seen

Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray

2024-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home page. I believe I am not running Wayland. Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Workaround? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-21 Thread Gareth Evans
= >> ii network-manager 1.30.6-1+deb11u1 amd64network management >> framework (daemon and userspace tools) >> ii network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3 amd64network management >> framework (GNOME frontend) >> ii xfce4

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-20 Thread David Christensen
management framework (GNOME frontend) ii  xfce4 4.16 all  Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). I compared the problem

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-19 Thread David Christensen
On 4/19/24 00:16, Florent Rougon wrote: Another thing: did you look into ~/.xsession-errors? (Sorry if this was already mentioned and I missed it.) Please see attached copy of ~/.xsession-errors, taken immediately after system restart and login. "nm-applet" does not appear in .xsession-err

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 18/04/2024, David Christensen a écrit: > 2024-04-18 02:27:18 root@laalaa ~ > # df `which nm-applet` > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/sdb3_crypt12084M 8927M 2522M 78% / Not sure this command is super-useful: % df $(which awk) F

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 09:46, Gareth Evans wrote: On Thu 18/04/2024 at 11:05, David Christensen wrote: Move aside the ~/.config/xfce4 directory: ... Restart -- screen with wallpaper alone. ... Hi David, Starting from Mate DE only and some old (bookworm) XFCE config files, if I: $ sudo apt install

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 07:28, Max Nikulin wrote: On 18/04/2024 17:05, David Christensen wrote: $ mv .config/xfce4-20240418-180045/ .config/xfce4 Restart -- back to Xfce panel with no Network Manager. Try to create a new system user and log in. Is nm-applet present? Logging in using another previously

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/24 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have permission. 2024-04-18 02:24:20 root@la

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 18/04/2024 at 11:05, David Christensen wrote: > Move aside the ~/.config/xfce4 directory: > ... > Restart -- screen with wallpaper alone. > ... Hi David, Starting from Mate DE only and some old (bookworm) XFCE config files, if I: $ sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop then

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/04/2024 17:05, David Christensen wrote: $ mv .config/xfce4-20240418-180045/ .config/xfce4 Restart -- back to Xfce panel with no Network Manager. Try to create a new system user and log in. Is nm-applet present?

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread eben
On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote: On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have permission. 2024-04-18 02:24:20 root@laalaa ~ #

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 12:07, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700 David Christensen wrote: My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to find if and where any error message is reported. My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot p

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote: ... I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). ... There is apparently a long history of nm-applet/XFCE panel-related issues (and not many great

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 13:56, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to find if and where any error message is reported. What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? And is its filesystem m

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote: David Christensen writes: On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote: ... I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). ... What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 17/04/2024 at 19:41, David Christensen wrote: > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 > From: David Christensen > To: Gareth Evans > > On 4/17/24 03:4

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread eben
On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote:> David Christensen writes: > >> My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to >> find if and where any error message is reported. > > What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? And is its filesystem mounted with noexec? > maybe

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 > From: David Christensen > To: Gareth Evans > > On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: >&

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable > to find if and where any error message is reported. My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot process: root@hawk:~# journalctl -b | gr

Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:18:34 -0700 From: David Christensen To: Gareth Evans On 4/16/24 08:56, Gareth Evans wrote: On 16 Apr 2024, at 00:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/15/24 09

Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 From: David Christensen To: Gareth Evans On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18, David Christensen wrote: On 4/16/24

Yet another lick at Gmail and Google [was: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick]

2024-04-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 01:39:34PM -, Curt wrote: [...] > It would've been clearer to have advised using another mail application, > period [...] > But no harm, no foul, and all is well. The only real mystery is how > Tomas resisted getting yet another lick in against Gmail and Google, et >

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-16, John Crawley wrote: > > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > that supports IMAP. > Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever. >>> >>> AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading mail, but with mail >>> submission of a

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-16, Max Nikulin wrote: > > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > that supports IMAP. Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever. >>> >>> AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading mail, but with mail >>> submission of attachme

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 15 Apr 2024 at 18:52:33 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: > >> On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> > > >> > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > >> > that supports IMAP.

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/04/2024 01:52, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application that supports IMAP. Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread John Crawley
On 16/04/2024 03:52, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application that supports IMAP. Gmail supports IMAP since more or less fore

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 4/15/24 09:21, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote: ... I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). ... Hi David, I can't speak for XFCE, but certainly for Mate there was a time

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: >> > >> > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application >> > that supports IMAP. >> > >> >> Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever. > >

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > > that supports IMAP. > > > > Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever. AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading mail,

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-15 Thread Gareth Evans
agement framework (daemon and userspace tools) > ii network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3 amd64network > management framework (GNOME frontend) > ii xfce4 4.16 all Meta-package > for > the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment > >

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-14 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > that supports IMAP. > Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever.

Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-14 Thread David Christensen
xfce4 4.16 all Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years. Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!). But, the machine is connected to my LAN: 2024-04-14 05:24:10 root

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/03/2024 22:35, David Wright wrote: On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing files off my USB stick. I've no answer for that, particularly in view of Max's reply to my previous post. I've always copied f

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I filed bug report 1068122. I feel fine, despite my concern over my data. Heartfelt thanks for all the advice!

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > I'm mounting and unmounting through the stick icon's menu on Xfce desktop. > Maybe a fancy file chooser dialogue stays around analyzing the directory, > as you suspect? But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefo

Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I'm mounting and unmounting through the stick icon's menu on Xfce desktop. Maybe a fancy file chooser dialogue stays around analyzing the directory, as you suspect? But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing files off my USB stick.

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/03/2024 11:46, David Wright wrote: Double-clicking on the directory mounts it and displays the files in it. Opening a text file displays it. At least for a small file, FF does not hold the file open, so I can immediately unmount the stick. Gmail may do something more fancy - https://devel

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Mar 2024 at 21:06:27 (+0200), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > I was able to replicate this, by trying to send gmail to myself in Firefox, > attaching a binary on a mounted USB stick. Did you mount the stick yourself as a user (ie there's an fstab entry for it), or as root, or does an automo

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread David Christensen
On 3/30/24 08:17, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry about my stick security. Thanks. Linux knows what files are open on each file system. If you try to unmount a

Re: Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I'd just like to add that I have seen the problem despite reinstalls with Debian stable minor versions. Thanks!

Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 07:32:16PM +0200, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > Yes, closing Firefox does allow the stick to unmount cleanly, but I still > worry. To get an idea of what's going on, you can use "lsof": tomas@trotzki:~$ lsof /dev/sda1 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE

Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I can replicate this, by trying to send Gmail to myself in Firefox, attaching a binary on a mounted USB stick. After the attachment supposedly was uploaded, I tried to unmount the stick, but it blocked. "lsof | grep -i KINGSTON" then shows a total of 129 lines from "x-www-browser". This lasted for

Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I was able to replicate this, by trying to send gmail to myself in Firefox, attaching a binary on a mounted USB stick. After the attachment supposedly was uploaded, I tried to unmount the stick, but it blocks. "lsof | grep -i KINGSTON" then shows a total of 129 lines from "x-www-browser". This last

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:17:52 +0200 Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting > a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry > about my stick security. Thanks. It sounds like Firefox has a file open on the stick. To c

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 1:19 PM gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/30/24 11:36, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > > What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a > > stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry about > > my stick security. Thanks. > > Since this

Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
Yes, closing Firefox does allow the stick to unmount cleanly, but I still worry.

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread gene heskett
On 3/30/24 11:36, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox?  I worry about my stick security.  Thanks. Since this is normally a root operation, I'm confused. Likely what it means i

Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry about my stick security. Thanks.

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-13 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 06:31:38PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/01/2024 14:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Some days I'm glad I stuck to the most primitive window manager > > I could get. > > XFree86 (X11 server) had a similar feature a quarter of century ago and it > worked in any windo

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/01/2024 14:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Some days I'm glad I stuck to the most primitive window manager I could get. XFree86 (X11 server) had a similar feature a quarter of century ago and it worked in any window managers. If an application had overloaded GUI that did not fit to support

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: [...] > > I get this effect if pressing Alt and moving the mouse wheel. > > > Me, too, in LXQt. It's HARD finding the fix until you can finally > remember it. It's easy to hit a wall of misses when

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor >> >> I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than >> "detachment". About every week o

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the entire screen -- borders and al

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:32:55PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor [...] That sounds something like having an X11 screen larger than the monitor it is on, and X panning around t

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread Mike Kupfer
Dan Ritter wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor [...] > That sounds something like having an X11 screen larger than the > monitor it is on, and X panning around that. Typically, though, > panning requires th

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor > > I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than > "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the > entire screen -- borders and al

xfce screen detachment

2024-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the entire screen -- borders and all -- moves with respect to the monitor screen as I

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/09/2023 10:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: Altering the contents of an existing file in ~/.config/ upon login sounds incredibly wrong to me, to the point where I have a hard time believing it's a default behavior. user-dirs.dirs(5) The $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is a text file that conta

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2023-09-15 22:22 (UTC-0500): > On Fri 15 Sep 2023 at 21:24:53 (-0400), Curt Howland wrote: >> On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say: >>> I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and >>> "Videos", but every time I delete them something r

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri 15 Sep 2023 at 21:24:53 (-0400), Curt Howland wrote: > On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say: > > I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and > > "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those > > directories. > > Found /etc/xdg/user-dir

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:24:53PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Found $/.config/user-dirs.dirs, commented out the ones I didn't want, > no change. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs reverted to original on > logout/login. Is that *normal* behavior of XFCE? I would look into that, pro

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say: > I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and > "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those > directories. Found /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, changed to "ena

Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/09/23 12:19, Curt Howland wrote: Good evening. Did a fresh install of Bookworm, installing desktop with XFCE. I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those directories. I can't

Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

2023-09-15 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Good evening. Did a fresh install of Bookworm, installing desktop with XFCE. I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those directories. I c

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone? Semi-solved!

2023-09-15 Thread David
`The situation here is with Chromium on a SID laptop, while Chromium on a Stable desktop is just fine. Starting from a terminal gives: Gtk-Message: 06:46:36.954: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module" libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed [12968:12968:0913/064

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:04:50 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 13 Sep 2023 13:14 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > > The truth is, however, that although I thought I had fully investigated > > the problem, I was wrong. Upon further investigation, it seems that it

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 13 Sep 2023 13:14 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > The truth is, however, that although I thought I had fully investigated > the problem, I was wrong. Upon further investigation, it seems that it's > my uBlock Origin settings that are causing the problem - disabling it > entirely (as o

FF not working for bank [was: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?]

2023-09-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 01:14:34PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:16:15 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 13 Sep 2023 at 08:24:27 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > > > > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > > > financial institution) that I need t

SOLVED [was: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?]

2023-09-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 06:35:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:09:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > The OP was on Stable; with Sid, we're hitting this: > > Yes. > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051355 > > In the OP's case, Curt's

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed Sep 13 10:22:29 2023 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 13 Sep 2023 at 08:24:27 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > >> I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major >> financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with >> Firefox. Tell me about it. I normally use Seam

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:16:15 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 13 Sep 2023 at 08:24:27 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > > financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with > > Firefox. > > Usual question: what doe

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Sep 2023 at 08:24:27 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with > Firefox. Usual question: what does "doesn't work" mean? Cheers, David.

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread debian-user
Celejar wrote: > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with > Firefox. If I had anything to do with any financial institution, major or not, that was so incompetent that their website wasn't browser agnos

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:35:12 +0200 wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:09:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > The OP was on Stable; with Sid, we're hitting this: > > Yes. > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051355 > > In the OP's case, Curt's proposal > > https

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:09:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > The OP was on Stable; with Sid, we're hitting this: Yes. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051355 In the OP's case, Curt's proposal https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039037 fits things bett

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 06:55:40AM +1000, David wrote: [...] > Similar situation to mine, although specifics vary. > The situation here is with Chromium on a SID laptop, while Chromium on > a Stable desktop is just fine. > Starting from a terminal gives: > > Gtk-Message: 06:46:36.954: Failed to

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread David
On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 20:09 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:55:40 +1000 > David wrote: > > > > Similar situation to mine, although specifics vary. > > The situation here is with Chromium on a SID laptop, while Chromium > > on > > a Stable desktop is just fine. > > Starting from a

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:55:40 +1000 David wrote: > Similar situation to mine, although specifics vary. > The situation here is with Chromium on a SID laptop, while Chromium on > a Stable desktop is just fine. > Starting from a terminal gives: > > Gtk-Message: 06:46:36.954: Failed to load module

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread David
On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 15:25 +, Curt wrote: > On 2023-09-12, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > it seems I can't start chromium. Pretty straight net install, > > Xfce desktop environment (no specialties, just the "normal" > > install), then &quo

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 03:25:35PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2023-09-12, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > it seems I can't start chromium. Pretty straight net install, > > Xfce desktop environment (no specialties, just the "normal" > > install), th

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread Curt
On 2023-09-12, wrote: > > Hi, > > it seems I can't start chromium. Pretty straight net install, > Xfce desktop environment (no specialties, just the "normal" > install), then "apt-get install chromium". > > Issuing "chromium" in a term

Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread tomas
Hi, it seems I can't start chromium. Pretty straight net install, Xfce desktop environment (no specialties, just the "normal" install), then "apt-get install chromium". Issuing "chromium" in a terminal seems to hang, top shows four processes running (and

Re: XFCE and Awesome WM

2023-08-29 Thread Махно
I once used this configuration. As I was using it, I realized that it was of no use. Here and there, ugly bugs (I don't remember which ones anymore) came out. While using it, I realized one simple truth - it is better to use with what XFCE is designed to be used with. 2023-08-27, sk, 21:05 T

XFCE and Awesome WM

2023-08-27 Thread Tatoka
Hello again, dear debian user comunity! I just wanna ask you, will any problems be if i use XFCE and Awesome wm on my Debian Linux? 2 actions can be: I use Awesome WM as defautl WM of XFCE insted of xfwm4. I use Awesome WM and XFCE in differents sessions. Can I get errors or problems with these 2

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-06 Thread David Christensen
|WLAN checked |Bluetooth checked + Wireless Device Enable WWAN checked WLAN checked Bluetooth checked * Network Manager settings: Xfce panel -> right click NetworkManager Applet ->

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 15:46, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2023 12:29:53 +0200 zithro wrote: That would be nice for them to tell you what THEY consider a valid MAC addr, as I don't think Debian produces MACs with z or x in it ... Maybe they check against a valid manufacturer (which is the 1st h

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 5 May 2023 12:29:53 +0200 zithro wrote: > That would be nice for them to tell you what THEY consider a valid > MAC addr, as I don't think Debian produces MACs with z or x in it ... > Maybe they check against a valid manufacturer (which is the 1st half > of the MAC addr, iirc called OUI) ?

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 4 May 2023 21:08:07 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > A further problem -- Debian Well, it isn't really Debian, it's Network Manager. > is changing the MAC address of the Wi-Fi > adapter ("MAC address spoofing", a security "feature") to MAC > addresses This is a security feature for ro

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/5/23 03:25, zithro wrote: On 05 May 2023 04:52, David Christensen wrote: I was going to surf eBay and find another Wi-Fi card, but then I had one last idea -- double-checking the the CMOS/NVRAM settings via Setup.  I cut the settings down to the bare minimum for Wi-Fi:    Settings    + W

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 06:08, David Christensen wrote: On 5/4/23 19:52, David Christensen wrote: That said, Wi-Fi does not work with my Ubuiquitti Networks UniFi setup -- it doesn't like the MAC address. A further problem -- Debian is changing the MAC address of the Wi-Fi adapter ("MAC address spoof

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