Re: only for debian?

2020-01-18 Thread songbird
kaye n wrote: > > Hello guys, I just want to ask if this email list is strictly for Debian? > Or can one ask just about anything as long as it's related to GNU/Linux, > free software, etc? > > I'm asking because I can't find what I'm looking for elsewhere. It's about > VLC player. > > No worries

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Jape Person wrote: > On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. >> >> Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for >> keys such as: CapLock, NumLock, Insert, etc. >> >> Is there any way

Re: only for debian?

2020-01-18 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday, 17 January 2020 22:54:38 -03 kaye n wrote: > Hello guys, I just want to ask if this email list is strictly for Debian? > Or can one ask just about anything as long as it's related to GNU/Linux, > free software, etc? > > I'm asking because I can't find what I'm looking for elsewhere.

Re: dhclient and ipv6 DNS Servers

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2020, 11:12:07 CET schrieb Curt: > On 2020-01-16, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2020, 00:09:16 CET schrieb Pascal Hambourg: > >> Le 14/01/2020 à 21:14, Rainer Dorsch a écrit : > >> > prepend dhcp6.name-servers 2001:4860:4860::, 2001:4860:4860::8844; >

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 (+0100), Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > get > printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > > Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top >

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > It's a bit convoluted. > I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server > then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and > ownerships of the files then move them to /var/www/html/ for testing I usually configure something meaningful

Re: No official way to make Debian Live USB "persistent"?

2020-01-18 Thread songbird
Linux-Fan wrote: ... > I think the reason for there not being any official Debian instructions on > this is that there is IMHO very little point in doing anything like a > "persistent live USB". The advantages of live images are these: > > + run off read-only media (less and less needed, but I

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Brian wrote: > On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I >> get >> printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. >> >> Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-18 20:09, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:21:43PM +0100, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and ownerships of the files then move

Re: No official way to make Debian Live USB "persistent"?

2020-01-18 Thread Linux-Fan
kaye n writes: Hello Friends! Correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't seem to be an 'official' way of creating a Live USB Debian that is 'persistent'. If I google it, I get instructions from other websites, like this one: [...] http://cosmolinux.no-ip.org/raconetlinux2/persistence.html

Re: CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl

2020-01-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, jeremy bentham wrote: > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device The inappropriate ioctl() does not necessarily have to be the reason of the failure. man 1 eject indicates that several methods are tried. > The command sees the drive (it's not the quietest thing

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread mick crane
On 2020-01-09 06:16, Russell L. Harris wrote: For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to the web server and view the pages from the development machine. But the installation of Apache2 on Buster

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:42:08 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello Rainer, >Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on >top of each other on an A4 sheet)? I could not find an option in pdftk, LibreOffice can read pdfs. LibreOffice can also print multiple sheets per

CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl

2020-01-18 Thread jeremy bentham
Using the eject command I get the following message: eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device This is new: I used the drive to install the OS (jessie? Debian 9, anyway) and I've actually--not too recently--listened to a CD on it. Feeding The Duck the message didn't

MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 - CfP até 15/02

2020-01-18 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Olá, Está aberta a chamada de propostas de atividades para a MiniDebConf Maceió 2020, que acontecerá de 25 a 28 de março no Laboratório de Computação Científica e Visualização (LCCV) localizado no Campus A. C. Simões da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL). O envio de propostas pode ser

Re: only for debian?

2020-01-18 Thread kaye n
I don't see a vlc-centric email list in the off-topic list so I just asked in VLC instead. Thank you for pointing that out for me. On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 8:55 PM songbird wrote: > kaye n wrote: > > > > Hello guys, I just want to ask if this email list is strictly for Debian? > > Or can one ask

No official way to make Debian Live USB "persistent"?

2020-01-18 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends! Correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't seem to be an 'official' way of creating a Live USB Debian that is 'persistent'. If I google it, I get instructions from other websites, like this one: http://cosmolinux.no-ip.org/raconetlinux2/persistence.html 1. Do you think it's wise

Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I get printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top of each other on an A4 sheet)? I could not find an option in pdftk, so any

Re: I need to be root to run this script

2020-01-18 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 17 janv. 2020 à 02:40 de guik...@gmail.com: > (I edited the > 10-installer> file with the line > kaye ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: > /usr/local/bin/backlight-brightness > but it doesn't have any effect; in fact > I think sudo was rendered useless to me, as in I cannot execute sudo, it said >

[EDUC] Fwd: MOOC "Imprimer en 3D" ouvert

2020-01-18 Thread Bureau LxVx
Bonsoir à tous, Le Libre à l'honneur surtout via FreeCad. Librement, Sylvie Message transféré Sujet : [EDUC] Fwd: MOOC "Imprimer en 3D" ouvert Date : Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:25:27 +0100 De :"d.michon" (d.mic...@laposte.net via educ Mailing List) Répondre à :

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > get > printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > > Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top > of > each

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On 18/01/2020 02:54, Jape Person wrote: > On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. >> >> Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the >> keyboard for >> keys such as: CapLock, NumLock, Insert, etc. >> >> Is there

Re: KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice (buster-backports) ? > > Installing libreoffice-kde does not seem to be sufficient for me...

Re: KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
On Samstag, 18. Januar 2020 21:00:04 CET Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice > > (buster-backports) ? > > >

Re: automounting sshfs

2020-01-18 Thread Will Mengarini
* Rainer Dorsch [20-01/18=Sa 23:38 +0100]: > ls: cannot access '/home/spatzen/Ablage/': Too many levels of symbolic links Whenever I've seen this, it's been because some symlink is referring (possibly indirectly) to itself. So find ~/Ablage -type l could be used to find all symlinks, and

Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
> Since you have to install the firmware-linux-nonfree that means that > it s not installed! From what I remember > you need to select those packages at the end of the base image > installation. And you must do an "expert" install, in order to see that option. If you do a "Standard" install,

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Linux-Fan
Rainer Dorsch writes: Hi, I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I get printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top of each other on an A4 sheet)? I could not find an

KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice (buster-backports) ? Installing libreoffice-kde does not seem to be sufficient for me... Thanks Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2020, 16:14:45 CET schrieb David Wright: > On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 (+0100), Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > > get printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > > > > Is

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:27 AM Curt wrote: ... > There's also apparently the 'mate-tweak' package, after installation of which > (Preferences/Look and Feel/MATE Tweak/Enable keyboard LED). That worked, at least I can see the position of my Caps Lock key now--thanks, Curt! -Tom

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-18, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I print that on A4, I > get > printouts which are mainly white, except the 186x65 mm2. > Is there a good way to get it printed in a compact way (e.g. 4 pages on top > of > each other on an A4

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM Jape Person wrote: > I don't know whether or not gkrellm-leds would work for you. Last time I > tried it I found it to look > at little out of place on my Xfce4 desktop, but it did perform some of the > functions you're looking > for. (I don't think it had an

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:21:43PM +0100, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and ownerships of the files then move them to /var/www/html/ for testing I usually

CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl, addendum

2020-01-18 Thread jeremy bentham
The drive also does not respond to the physical control on the case. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com

Re: Print several (small) pages on A4/Letter sheet

2020-01-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Jan 2020 at 15:42:08 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a pdf file with a page size of 186x65 mm2. If I

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Jape Person
On 1/18/20 1:19 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM Jape Person wrote: I don't know whether or not gkrellm-leds would work for you. Last time I tried it I found it to look at little out of place on my Xfce4 desktop, but it did perform some of the functions you're looking

Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread nektarios
Στις 2020-01-19 01:17, nektarios έγραψε: Στις 2020-01-19 00:12, tom h έγραψε: Hello, Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and have to: * Enable non-free * Install

Re: Graphical indicators for Caps Lock and similar keys

2020-01-18 Thread Jape Person
On 1/18/20 2:32 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 18/01/2020 02:54, Jape Person wrote: On 1/17/20 7:27 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I have a laptop, running Debian 10 (Buste) with the Mate desktop. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't have light indicators on the keyboard for keys such as: CapLock, NumLock,

AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread tom h
Hello, Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and have to: 1. Enable non-free 2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall media is firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-01-18 19:12 -0500, tom h wrote: > Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that > have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and > have to: > >1. Enable non-free >2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall

Re : Re: Re : Re: Choix du système Debian

2020-01-18 Thread k6dedijon
Bonjour Basile, Je ne visais personne en particulier. Mais parfois certains entrent dans des considérations trop techniques sans savoir si celui qui pose la question est apte à les recevoir. Mais tu as tout à fait raison lorsque tu dis que l'utilisateur lambda ne fait pas ou trop peu de

automounting sshfs

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, I followed https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467081/sshfs-with-on-demand-mounting/ 546102 to automount a directory with sshfs. I added into /etc/fstab sshfs#fs:/mnt/disk/data/spatzen /home/spatzen/Ablage fuse

couleurs de l'installeur

2020-01-18 Thread Bernard Schoenacker
bonjour, je me rends compte que certaines couleurs ne sont plus adaptées actuellement aux écrans tft et je souhaiterai voir si une personne charitable pourrais suggérer de changer la couleur de fond (bleu) de l'installeur vers une couleur plus douce et moins agressive pour les yeux ? merci