Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 05:26:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > You're welcome to use anything from > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00926.html Nice post, thanks for it -- I must have missed it at a moment of high load. > Most of the methods I see posted have limitations

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread Charlie
Received from ernst on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:10:55 -0400 Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X > On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 14:20 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:11:34AM -0400, ernst doubt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > i had sen

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-14 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/14/19 6:27 PM, Keith Christian wrote: klipper was a feature-rich clipboard manager but I can't find it in Stretch. This is all I see: $ apt-cache search klipper cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in - Clipper plug-in for Cairo-dock cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in claims to be a clone of klipper but the f

KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-14 Thread Keith Christian
klipper was a feature-rich clipboard manager but I can't find it in Stretch. This is all I see: $ apt-cache search klipper cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in - Clipper plug-in for Cairo-dock cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in claims to be a clone of klipper but the features seem to be hidden. Anyone know if 'k

Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Aug 2019 at 23:44:31 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:04:21PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > * From: deloptes > > * Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:16:16 +0200 > > > what DE are you using? > > > > LX > > > > > I open the char selector (each desktop I kno

Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.

2019-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Aug 2019 at 18:55:15 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Sorry for the late reply. > > From: David Wright > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:40:04 -0500 > > You read postings on the web with a browser. When you want to reply, > > you open a composition window and paste in the To/Cc/Subject head

Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:04:21PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: deloptes > * Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:16:16 +0200 > > what DE are you using? > > LX > > > I open the char selector (each desktop I know has one) and select the char > > to import - than copy/paste into the text

Re: Re (2): Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Aug 2019 at 08:51:55 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > BEGIN ANOTHER TEDIOUS ASIDE > No References in the "header" of the Web page this replies to. > Consequently I snagged the Messge-Id (Message-id?) from the Web page > for my original message. Let's see how References comes out.

Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
* From: deloptes * Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:16:16 +0200 > what DE are you using? LX > I open the char selector (each desktop I know has one) and select the char > to import - than copy/paste into the text box Good idea. Copy and paste the character; from the Web browser maybe. I

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Aug 2019 at 07:24:58 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > BEGIN TEDIOUS ASIDE > For the header for this message I copied References holus-bolus and > appended the Message-id from the Web page. I understand David's > suggestion of including In-Repy-To rather than References but can > aff

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread Lee
On 8/14/19, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:13:06PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> 5. If I ping by name a machine on the Internet from the server (e.g., >> google.com), the ping succeeds. > > The contents of /etc/resolv.conf from that host would be nice. yes, showing the cont

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:13:06PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > 5. If I ping by name a machine on the Internet from the server (e.g., > google.com), the ping succeeds. The contents of /etc/resolv.conf from that host would be nice. And your set of netfilter rules applicable to DNS. >

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread deloptes
D. R. Evans wrote: > So this seems to be saying that: > 1) the basic packet forwarding through the server is working > 2) DNS on the server itself is working > 3) DNS requests received from the LAN by the server are not being resolved > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to diagnose a

Re: Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Can GIMP accept and display a Unicode glyph beyond plain old ASCII. > The "South West Arrow", & # 2199; for example. (Spaces inserted > after & and # to prevent interpretation.) > > If so, how? > > Thanks, ... P. I don't see a problem - what DE are you using

Re: buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread Judah Richardson
Make sure your router's DHCP server functionality is disabled. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 15:13 D. R. Evans wrote: > 1. I have a server that does all I need it to do under stretch. > > 2. On that machine, I have installed a clean version of buster on a > separate > bootable drive. > > 3. Under buster

buster: DNS server?

2019-08-14 Thread D. R. Evans
1. I have a server that does all I need it to do under stretch. 2. On that machine, I have installed a clean version of buster on a separate bootable drive. 3. Under buster on that machine, I have installed (by copy from stretch) an iptables configuration that seems to be behaving as I expect. In

Re: New install of buster, worked fine with regular monitor, garbled display but with good mouse pointer when connected to AV setup

2019-08-14 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:26:49 +0100 Phil Reynolds wrote: > I recently installed buster on a machine so that I could install kodi > on it for the purpose of playing Internet content on my lounge AV > setup. It all worked fine with a regular monitor. > > On trying to get it connected to the AV setu

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread Joe Dennigan
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 06:02:01PM +, loredana wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >=20 > > > [...] > >=20 > > > Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just > > > marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clie

Unicode in GIMP Text Tool.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
Can GIMP accept and display a Unicode glyph beyond plain old ASCII. The "South West Arrow", & # 2199; for example. (Spaces inserted after & and # to prevent interpretation.) If so, how? Thanks, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140Bcc: pete

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
loredana writes: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >> [...] > >> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just >> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > > I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a solution. > >> Is ch

Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:43:42 +0200 (CEST) Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me > the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? Thanks > in advance. > as Jonas already suggested, I would use mediainfo, with for example $ med

Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

2019-08-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jean-Baptiste Thomas (2019-08-14 17:43:42) > Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me > the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? Thanks > in advance. mediainfo Ffmpeg and mpv also can do this, but IMO mediainfo is the right tool for this specific task

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread Paul Sutton
On 14/08/2019 19:02, loredana wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >> [...] >> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just >> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a solu

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 loredana wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >> [...] > >> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just >> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > > I know. But knowing it, and perh

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 20:51 wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a means for adding an arrow to > an image in GIMP? > > The article here describes something called ArrowsCreator. > > https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/44797/how-do-i-insert-arrows-into-a-picture-in-gimp > Is it

Re: Re (2): Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread Sven Hartge
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > No References in the "header" of the Web page this replies to. > Consequently I snagged the Messge-Id (Message-id?) from the Web page > for my original message. Let's see how References comes out. >8~| Broken: References: <[?0;] E1hxhmC-0004v6-DR@dalton.invalid> <[

Re (2): Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
BEGIN ANOTHER TEDIOUS ASIDE No References in the "header" of the Web page this replies to. Consequently I snagged the Messge-Id (Message-id?) from the Web page for my original message. Let's see how References comes out. >8~| END ANOTHER TEDIOUS ASIDE * From: Cindy-Sue Causey *

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 06:02:01PM +, loredana wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > > > [...] > > > Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just > > marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > > I know. But knowing it, and perha

Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

2019-08-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 05:43:42PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me > the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? ffprobe from the ffmpeg package can extract the duration, and offers programmatically-friendly outpu

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread john doe
On 8/14/2019 8:02 PM, loredana wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >> [...] > >> Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just >> marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. > > I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a s

Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

2019-08-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me > the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? Thanks > in advance. If you invoke mplayer -vo none -ao none you will get a set of statistics which include the resolution, frame rate, and en

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread loredana
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > [...] > Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just > marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser clients. I know. But knowing it, and perhaps blaiming it, is not a solution. > Is changing mail provider an option

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-14 Thread Franco Martelli
On 13/08/19 at 19:35, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Hi Franco, > > I'm not fluent enough in GCC 8 for x86_64 to answer to all the > various warnings you indicated. Some may be harmless, and some > may eat your data. I would do a few tests with a virtual > machine supporting bdver2 instructions before

Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

2019-08-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? Thanks in advance.

Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??

2019-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Aug 2019 at 15:44:19 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 13.08.19 07:47, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:56:22 PM riveravaldez wrote: > > > >> btw which option should i add to mplayer command line > > > >> so that it play only audio part (not video part) of

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:24:49PM +, loredana wrote: > Greetings, > > I posted the following message to debian-accessibility and I post it > again suggested. [...] > 'Though I managed to send mail to my gmail account by allowing less > secure applications, this is likely not to be a viable

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On qua, 14 ago 2019, peter wrote: BEGIN TEDIOUS ASIDE For the header for this message I copied References holus-bolus and appended the Message-id from the Web page. I understand David's suggestion of including In-Repy-To rather than References but can afford a few extra ms for References. In-Rep

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread peter
BEGIN TEDIOUS ASIDE For the header for this message I copied References holus-bolus and appended the Message-id from the Web page. I understand David's suggestion of including In-Repy-To rather than References but can afford a few extra ms for References. In-Reply-To is the last parameter of R

webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread loredana
Greetings, I posted the following message to debian-accessibility and I post it again suggested. Briefly, I am a "long term" debian user (since debian potato) and I am almost but not completely blind. This happened recently, so I am still adapting to the new situation. Please keep this in mind, a

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread ernst doubt
On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 14:20 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:11:34AM -0400, ernst doubt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i had sent a message to debian-laptop a few hours back, but all > > i've > > seen so far is one response (suggesting i use q4os). i'm pretty > > committed t

Metasyntactic variables (was Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??)

2019-08-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 07:19:40AM -, Curt wrote: > I thought this was what metasyntactic variables were for, the occasional > foo for the occasional fool, but maybe not, and anyway, the fool is > often quite cleverly foolish, working around the best of intentions > easily. The most authoritat

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread Dan Ritter
ernst doubt wrote: > After installing buster, this brand new laptop of mine seems to hang on > X (GDM) starting -- after briefly showing a flashing underscore char in > the top left corner of the screen, it drops back to command-line output > (but doesn't allow me to login). > > i'm booted into r

Re: Arrow annotation in GIMP.

2019-08-14 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a means for adding an arrow to > an image in GIMP? > > The article here describes something called ArrowsCreator. > https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/44797/how-do-i-insert-arrows-into-a-picture-in-gimp > Is it advisable

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:11:34AM -0400, ernst doubt wrote: > Hi all, > > i had sent a message to debian-laptop a few hours back, but all i've > seen so far is one response (suggesting i use q4os). i'm pretty > committed to using debian directly though (at least until i've tried an > awful lot mo

Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X

2019-08-14 Thread ernst doubt
Hi all, i had sent a message to debian-laptop a few hours back, but all i've seen so far is one response (suggesting i use q4os). i'm pretty committed to using debian directly though (at least until i've tried an awful lot more things). After installing buster, this brand new laptop of mine seems

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Howard
On 14/08/2019 03:18, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

2019-08-14 Thread Bruce Halco
On 8/13/19 10:18 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote: On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-14, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:58:56AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Reco wrote: >> >> > 1) libpam-systemd, loginctl and friends. >> > Useful for a workstation, useless for a server. >> >> I wouldn't go this far. libpam-systemd and loginctl can be useful on

Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade

2019-08-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:58:56AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > 1) libpam-systemd, loginctl and friends. > > Useful for a workstation, useless for a server. > > I wouldn't go this far. libpam-systemd and loginctl can be useful on a > server, depening on its job and

Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??

2019-08-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-13, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 07:47:52AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> I'm in a strange mood today (I end up here often) -- I like to see things >> like >> that written as: >> >> mplayer -novideo >> >> or >> >> mplayer -novideo >> >> It makes it more

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 13:42, Tom Browder wrote: > Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected text > doesn't show as highlighted. > > I have had no such problems with stretch, but they were upgrades in-place > from previous installations--buster was installed new. > > I