Re: exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-19 17:08, Curt wrote: On 2022-07-19, mick crane wrote: I want to add AttributionURL and AttributionName https://exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html#cc says is to do with "XMP-cc" but not guessed the syntax as yet. exiftool -overwrite_original -XMP-cc:AttributionName="

Re: exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-19 10:58, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:03:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: I'm sending a load of images to somebody and I want them to be Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license Don't want to plaster over images so think to add to exif data. I've

exiftool

2022-07-19 Thread mick crane
Hi, exiftool is in the repository so I reckon is fair game for a question. I'm sending a load of images to somebody and I want them to be Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license Don't want to plaster over images so think to add to exif data. If type. "exiftool

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-13 18:21, gene heskett wrote: I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work, preventing me from using the printer at all. So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate package that is

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-12 10:33, Gareth Evans wrote: On Tue 12 Jul 2022, at 10:19, Maximiliano Estudies In most cases it's a best practice to configure all chains with _policy drop_ and then add rules for the traffic that you want to allow All the nftables and PF howtos I have found take this approach.

Re: bash: which: command not found? + (E: Unable to locate package which? ...)

2022-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-08 12:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives thanks mick

Re: bash: which: command not found? + (E: Unable to locate package which? ...)

2022-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-08 11:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Not every binary is contained in a package called like it. That's what "apt-file" is for (in the same named package): tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search bin/which debian-goodies: /usr/bin/which-pkg-broke debian-goodies:

Re: How's ...

2022-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2022-07-04 16:34, Dan Ritter wrote: Somebody needs to reimplement CPAN in Bash just so we can bootstrap a totally broken Perl without needing to run out and buy a new computer. I mean, how hard can it be (assuming you grok what CPAN actually *does*, which I don't yet, and know Bash, which I

Re: stopping job before shutdown.

2022-07-02 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-29 18:32, Dan Ritter wrote: to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:08:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/29/22 08:35, mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > Because I don't trust that I've set up power saving properly with PC and > > monitor if leavi

stopping job before shutdown.

2022-06-29 Thread mick crane
hello, Because I don't trust that I've set up power saving properly with PC and monitor if leaving desk I turn off PC with power button on front. It usually is very quick and to start up again. There is printer attached to other PC. Recent update of bookworm when turning off PC with power

Re: Suggestions for rm

2022-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-24 08:37, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > After "rm -rf /" one probably has to re-install the system first, Once upon a time one of the distributions put you in / after "su" where typing "rm -rf ./*" is not the best thing to do. "N" You only do it once but I like the adjusted su

Re: how disable package upgrades before "Select and install software" on net.iso

2022-06-23 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-23 07:26, visqa...@yahoo.com wrote: hello debian users, twice installation failed due to error: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100 i am trying to install using 11.3 net.iso on vm. i have seen couple of debian bugs, however they are closed with latest iso.

Re: X coordinates displayed interactively.

2022-06-19 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-19 16:52, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, Is there a X utility which displays coordinates of the mouse pointer interactively? Updating coordinates constantly as the mouse is moved. CADD software does that within the application but I'm interested in the X display. Thx,

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-16 21:23, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:~$ gphoto2 Usage: gphoto2 [-?qvalLnPTDR] [-?|--help] [--usage] [--debug]     [--debug-loglevel=STRING] [--debug-logfile=FILENAME] [-q|--quiet]     [--hook-script=FILENAME] [--stdout] [--stdout-size] [--auto-detect]    

Re: digikam import fails

2022-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in:  0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB

Re: Epson printer page counting error

2022-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-16 13:31, Brian wrote: Believe it or believe it not, there are other rechniques to set up a print queue :). are these "rechniques" similar to the destructions ? mick

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-15 09:21, Mick Ab wrote: I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-15 09:21, Mick Ab wrote: I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-14 00:03, gene heskett wrote: I'm looking for a mailer that actually works. tbirds sort filters don't, and they think everybody uses only html, so word wrap doesn't work So I'm doing this by hand.. I'd have thought if you've got PCs in different buildings Dovecot, Roundcube,

Re: perms

2022-06-13 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-13 19:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, For CUPS - you can use lpadmin from a terminal as a command line. Open a konsole terminal, su - inside it, then use lpadmin Just looking to see if I could remember how to add a cups printer noticed that I am in lpadmin group in

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-12 18:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote: As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things working one at a time afterwards. Were I

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-12 17:20, gene heskett wrote: I so want you to succeed and I can't be a lot of help. As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things working one at a time afterwards. mick -- Key ID

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the server, then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it down to about 51k, ugly but still readable, and thats not made it thru the server either. Screenshot_1.jpg(~61 KB) was attached to

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-09 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-09 03:09, DdB wrote: The Big Tech companies are busy to de-anonymise the internet in order to augment their knowledge/income even more, and in order to do that, it would be very convenient, if every user was forced to authenticate themself undoubtedly. But let's not talk about that.

concerning gmail and that

2022-06-04 Thread mick crane
There was that Gernman guy who worked out how you could do images with a 360 view and he was jumped on by copyright lawyers. This computer, internet phenomenon, industrial change, is meant to be a communal effort. I saw that there are Requests For Comment which try to establish protocols how

Re: Alcatel Linkzone sold by T-Mobile, labeled "4G LTE HotSpot

2022-06-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-04 18:11, Richard Owlett wrote: I am using an Alcatel Linkzone sold by T-Mobile. Presume T-mobile is your carrier ? mick

Re: upgraded dddprint, my 3d printer driver today, to bullseye, but its main job isn't working.

2022-06-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-04 18:25, gene heskett wrote: But whats with lightdm? Better yet, where is the blanker configurer? I don't see any likely culprits in the applications menu's. Then I did find it,under power managment. Logical I guess but since driving a 3d printer can be a several day task, I

Re: upgraded dddprint, my 3d printer driver today, to bullseye, but its main job isn't working.

2022-06-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-04 16:13, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; From firmware 11-3 netinstall. On a Dell with an i5 and 16Gigs of memory. 2nd machine I've bullseye'd. Half a T SSD drive, your basic one pony show. 1. It can't access the 3d printer, but shows it as /dev/ttyACM0 in dmesg. cura-5.0

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-06-01 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-01 18:04, Brian wrote: On Thu 12 May 2022 at 10:08:01 -, Virgo Pärna wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2022 20:09:14 +0200, Fero Dali wrote: > Sorry for misunderstanding: it seems that my account will continue to work but > ability to download mail with POP3 without OAUTH2 will be

Re: regarding firewall discussion

2022-06-01 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-01 18:26, Joe wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2022 03:17:52 +0100 mick crane wrote: regarding firewall discussion I'm uncertain how firewalls are supposed to work. I think the idea is that nothing is accepted unless it is in response to a request. What's to stop some spurious instructions

Re: regarding firewall discussion

2022-06-01 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-31 12:21, IL Ka wrote: What's to stop some spurious instructions being sent in response to genuine request? Packets do not contain instructions, only data. If your TCP/IP implementation doesn't have vulnerabilities any packet shouldn't be a problem. Firewall prevents technically

regarding firewall discussion

2022-05-30 Thread mick crane
regarding firewall discussion I'm uncertain how firewalls are supposed to work. I think the idea is that nothing is accepted unless it is in response to a request. What's to stop some spurious instructions being sent in response to genuine request? regards mick

Re: Apache2 404

2022-05-21 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-21 16:16, IL Ka wrote: My link to the second page is via a url "var/www/ ldmdomain.info/html/Picture1.html". should be http://ldmdomain.info/Picture1.html probably this likely depends on what apache thinks the DocumentRoot is ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-19 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-19 04:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: A much better workaround is to create the /etc/default/su file and put the line ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes well that's handy. "su -" puts you in /root whereas with that you stay in $PWD. cheers mick

Re: Permanent email address?

2022-05-17 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-17 01:44, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to all who replied! I'll need to think over what I want to do. I guess if I want to run a local MTA, I'd need either a static IP address (along with a domain) or I'm guessing I could use one of those services (and software) that lets you

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-11 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-11 19:08, Brian wrote: On Wed 11 May 2022 at 19:04:01 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2022-05-11 18:51, Brian wrote: > On Wed 11 May 2022 at 15:25:34 +0200, Fero Dali wrote: > > > I got a warning from google that my account will be discontinued. > > Where does goog

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-11 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-11 18:51, Brian wrote: On Wed 11 May 2022 at 15:25:34 +0200, Fero Dali wrote: I got a warning from google that my account will be discontinued. Where does google say that? It's about stopping phishing emails or something

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-11 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-11 14:25, Fero Dali wrote: I got a warning from google that my account will be discontinued. On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 4:31 PM mick crane wrote: There's scripts been posted on the getmail mailing list to fix this. I ought to sort it out in the next day or so but it might

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-11 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-11 14:25, Fero Dali wrote: I got a warning from google that my account will be discontinued. On May 30, you may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology To help keep your account secure, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-09 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-08 22:58, Hussein Yahia wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, sorry if my question is naive. I just installed debian 11 on my computer. It's wire-connected to internet. I have another computer, a mac, which is connected through wifi. I can connect from my mac to the Linux desktop. But I can't

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-04 14:12, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 04 May 2022 11:42:39 +0100 schrieb mick crane : You can probably type "scanimage --help -A -d 'airscan:w0:EPSON ET-2710 Series'" to get a list of capabilities. This is the ET2711 specific output: Options specific to device `

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-04 10:51, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: scanimage -L device `airscan:w0:EPSON ET-2710 Series' is a WSD EPSON ET-2710 Series ip=172.16.10.91 I'd have to familiarize myself with setting up scanning You can probably type "scanimage --help -A -d 'airscan:w0:EPSON ET-2710 Series'" to get a

Re: mariadb does not run

2022-05-02 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-02 13:34, Lucio Crusca wrote: Il 02/05/22 12:54, mick crane ha scritto: I don't know anything about this but https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/184283/mariadb-10-1-galera-cluster-error says The source of this error Thanks but... it's not the same error, nor the same context

Re: mariadb does not run

2022-05-02 Thread mick crane
On 2022-05-02 09:55, Lucio Crusca wrote: Until yesterday I had mariadb 10.6 running on my system (bookworm/sid). It was behaving strangely, so I decided to stop it, uninstall it, remove all databases during uninstall (it's a developer system, so no real data to save there) and install it again.

Graphics::Magick

2022-04-27 Thread mick crane
with bullseye previous Perl script use Graphics::Magick; my $bg=Graphics::Magick->new; $bg->Set(size=>"1000"."x"."1000"); $bg->ReadImage('xc:white'); $bg->Draw(primitive=>'rectangle',stroke=>'red',points=>"100,100 980,980"); $bg->Draw(primitive=>'rectangle',stroke=>'blue',points=>"20,20

Re: system freeze

2022-04-22 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 21:52, Felix Miata wrote: You left out the S part of inxi -SGayz, so we don't see the kernel parameters to confirm whether radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 was in effect on the current boot. well that's 2 days, touch wood, and we have stability. many thanks. mick -- Key

Re: system freeze

2022-04-21 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 21:52, Felix Miata wrote: You left out the S part of inxi -SGayz, so we don't see the kernel parameters to confirm whether radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 was in effect on the current boot. Ah, it didn't change. seems "grub-mkconfig" isn't the thing to type. should be

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 19:35, Felix Miata wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "DefaultDevice" Driver "amdgpu" EndSection I've changed /etc/default/grub #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1" typed grub-mkconfig making file

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 17:34, Felix Miata wrote: mick crane composed on 2022-04-20 11:47 (UTC+0100): Graphics: Device-1: AMD Pitcairn LE GL [FirePro W5000] vendor: Dell driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DVI-I-1

system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
hello, I frequently have the system freeze on me and I have to unplug it. It seems to only happen in a browser and *appears* to be triggered by using the mouse. If watching streamed youtube movie or reading blogs sometimes the screen goes black and everything is unresponsive and sometimes the

Re: Hello

2022-04-15 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-14 23:31, sergioyraul wrote: Im looking for a version debían gnome non-free with all private firmware but I install two versions Which I believe were non-free but they were not.can you  give me a link that complies with that?  If you have installed something that boots I *think* it

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-10 01:21, The Wanderer wrote: avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp Does that get the information from CUPS? With printer connected via other PC (CUPS print server) there is no output from "avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp" mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-08 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-08 17:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you don't want to read the background information, the question is: How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the correct one, apart from trial and error? I think you'd set up a printer on your machine with

Re: webcamd

2022-03-23 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-21 21:39, Russell L. Harris wrote: I am having only limited success configuring the Debian webcamd package. I wish to display images from a Logitech web cam pointing out the window as a weathercam, uploading a new image about once a minute. I plan to upload the images to a

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-21 21:26, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, 21 March 2022 16:46:01 EDT mick crane wrote: On 2022-03-21 18:08, Felix Miata wrote: > Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): >> tinkering with mc's config files directly which can only be done if >> all >

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-21 18:08, Felix Miata wrote: Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): tinkering with mc's config files directly which can only be done if all instances of mc are closed. Not IME, at least for ini and hotlist, the former which I change nearly as often with mcedit

Re: cups/avahi-daemon - worrying logs

2022-03-17 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-17 05:09, Richard Hector wrote: On 8/03/22 13:25, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I've recently set up a small box to run cups, to provide network access to a USB-only printer. It's a 32-bit machine running bullseye. I'm seeing log messages like these: Mar  7 15:47:47 whio

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-15 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-15 12:41, Brian wrote: Attached is the relevant portion of my preseed.cfg up to partitioning. I do that manually. "d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string MI5_Listening_Station_102" =O) -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Claws-mail Address Book Bug?

2022-03-13 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-13 16:02, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 11:51:03 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy, said Google was considering court action over the use of its name as a Against who? I mean, since the term was used by everyone (for certain values of everyone), short of suing

Re: voltage monitoring Q

2022-03-13 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-13 08:15, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; This mobo is an ASUS Z370-AII, and I'd like to use gkrellm to monitor psu voltages and those fans that have tachs. But those are not detected by gkrellm, or any of the usual culprits. Temps are working fine. All of this did work on

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-10 12:18, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just had a bad time rebooting with 2 combined problems.. excuse my ignorance but you seem to have a lot of problems because of doing stuff most haven't attempted. Is it possible the arrangement is over complicated and that you could

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-04 15:59, Marc Auslander wrote: Google has now said they are pulling the plug on userid/password authentication for apps. I use fetchmail and exim4 to get and send mail. Neither, AFAIK, supports OAUTH2. I'm also still on stretch but will update if I have to. So what suggestions

Re: One-user system. Was "One user system."

2022-02-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-02-11 19:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 10 feb 22, 11:11:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 09, 2022 06:08:16 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I've switched to using sudo because it encourages me to use root only > when strictly required. That's a good idea, but I'll

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-02-06 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-05 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote: As previously mentioned, the mechanism for that is now "set up dovecot or another IMAP server". the dovecot wiki is very good. https://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-02-02 Thread mick crane
On 2022-02-02 14:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote: When I want to connect with SSH (ssh/scp) to some machine, I sometimes get errors, either kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host or kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer immediately after the connection

Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few

2022-02-02 Thread mick crane
On 2022-02-02 10:42, Pankaj Jangid wrote: Klaus Singvogel writes: Can you look at the webinterface of CUPS regarding the missing jobs? http://localhost:631/ -> Printer -> select your default printer (if more) -> finish job (or similar) I did that when I discovered that some pages

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-26 15:31, Brian wrote: Having said that, 'ssh desktop.local' does not require much guidance. Is .local mDNS specific ? I thought we are supposed to not use .local for a home network. What is this ipv4only.arpa , are we supposed to use that. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-24 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-23 19:54, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I have no idea what are your plan to reach down the road but you may get much more than you expect. I think this is what is called gaslighting. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-23 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-23 11:56, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:52:12AM +, mick crane wrote: On 2022-01-23 11:38, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +0000, mick crane wrote: > > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that >

Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-23 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-23 11:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +, mick crane wrote: I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that software got removed from the repository because of variable names. If you're referring to the WebOOB package

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread mick crane
On 2022-01-23 08:19, deloptes wrote: Marco Möller wrote: I feel that a concise statement from Debian insiders would gain a lot to not provoke avoidable discussions and would right away defeat heat given off obstructively. As Thomas pointed out, there are hundreds of posts from years old

Re: tmux and nano in console

2021-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-22 18:00, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: snipped lots of useful stuff. Also, I use Xfce and "xfce4-terminal" so my instructions may not work if your DE is different. Thanks very much I'll use those tips. I just started using tmux today and looks handy. Seems may be like screen as

Re: tmux and nano in console

2021-12-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-22 15:34, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Since tmux knows how to cope with tmux' panes, what's wrong with using the copy/paste functionality tmux provides? OK missed that, got it now. cheers. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

tmux and nano in console

2021-12-22 Thread mick crane
I'm trying to use the console to see if my editing problems go away. Want to copy lines from one file into another. Splitting the screen with tmux with the 2 files opened in nano the nano buffer is not shared. Seems can have more than one buffer in nano but the things I want are not in the same

Re: keyboard setup

2021-12-21 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-20 19:11, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: did you try # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration # service keyboard-setup restart There is a wiki - https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard yes sorry for the typing error, I was getting a bit frazzled at that stage. Although the keyboard was

Re: keyboard setup

2021-12-20 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-20 19:11, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 12/20/21 18:03, mick crane wrote: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 I'm still having trouble with random lines from elsewhere in the file I'm editing getting plonked a hundred

keyboard setup

2021-12-20 Thread mick crane
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 I'm still having trouble with random lines from elsewhere in the file I'm editing getting plonked a hundred or so lines away. Which is a pain as it can take a while to locate them. Want to use

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-16 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-16 20:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: Be specific and detailed about what you do. Be clear in how you describe things. Otherwise, we can't help you. I try my best -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-16 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-16 18:04, mick crane wrote: On 2021-12-11 18:58, David Christensen wrote: When a computer gets to the point that it is doing weird things that I cannot understand, troubleshoot, or fix, I download the OS installer of choice, burn it to USB, make sure my configuration files

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-16 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 18:58, David Christensen wrote: When a computer gets to the point that it is doing weird things that I cannot understand, troubleshoot, or fix, I download the OS installer of choice, burn it to USB, make sure my configuration files are checked in to CVS, backup my data, remove the

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-11 Thread mick crane
No comment on that, as I don't use a DE. Window manager, desktop environment,X I get confused about those. You don't have any of the desktop stuff but still can run a browser and that ? I think I'd like that better. Is there stuff you can delete to get that sort of function or need make a

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-11 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 19:39, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Dec 2021 at 15:29:02 (+), mick crane wrote: Mine are a bit different there, have Use middle mouse click to close tabs use middle mouse click to open URLS Auto hide mouse pointer Open new tab to the right of the active tab Audible bell

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-11 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 06:34, David Christensen wrote: On 12/10/21 7:44 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2021-12-11 03:07, David Wright wrote: On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 22:37:22 (+), mick crane wrote: hello please excuse basic lack of understanding. I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful. Use

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-10 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 03:07, David Wright wrote: On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 22:37:22 (+), mick crane wrote: hello please excuse basic lack of understanding. I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful. Use of editing is very basic and usually I get by with vi/vim recently I try to get used

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-10 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 01:10, David Christensen wrote: On 12/10/21 2:37 PM, mick crane wrote: hello please excuse basic lack of understanding. I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful. Use of editing is very basic and usually I get by with vi/vim recently I try to get used to Nano

Re: changed file while editing

2021-12-10 Thread mick crane
On 2021-12-11 01:10, David Christensen wrote: On 12/10/21 2:37 PM, mick crane wrote: hello please excuse basic lack of understanding. I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful. Use of editing is very basic and usually I get by with vi/vim recently I try to get used to Nano

changed file while editing

2021-12-10 Thread mick crane
hello please excuse basic lack of understanding. I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful. Use of editing is very basic and usually I get by with vi/vim recently I try to get used to Nano. In another virtual terminal if copy one file to another or something, the command line words

Re: rsync failing to back up to synology server

2021-11-17 Thread mick crane
On 2021-11-13 10:42, Dan Ritter wrote: Sharon Kimble wrote: After enduring a home move, I'm now trying to restart my rsync backups to my synology server, but none are working! I have this command for backing up my emacs - - --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: Graphic rendering problem

2021-11-03 Thread mick crane
On 2021-11-03 08:14, lina wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with the opening of Scribus, it is not specific towards Scribus since I also have problems using other graphic viewers such as Gaussian view. Something related to my graphic rendering but I don't know how to check, It would be

Re: which package is good for making poster

2021-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-11-02 20:05, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I guess she meant `academic poster' not `decorative poster'. Doing `academic poster' with a LaTeX package allow to share `LaTeX code' between articles, presentations, posters, ... "print it out on several papers" indicates artwork poster Like a

Re: which package is good for making poster

2021-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-11-02 14:09, lina wrote: Thanks all, I will check one by one and see how it works. Posters are usually a picture and some text. It doesn't have to be like that but normally it is. Do picture in Gimp, make transparent background if don't want in a box. Scribus, make image frame, import

Re: which package is good for making poster

2021-11-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-11-02 09:45, lina wrote: Hi all, I have to prepare a poster, I wonder which package is good for this work, I can print it out in several papers and attach them together later. Gimp and Scribus mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

getmail6

2021-10-27 Thread mick crane
It seems that the maintainer of getmail is getting unnecessary grief because users of getmail6 are requesting of him solutions for problems that are not of his making. It seems normal that when a project is forked that it is called something different to the name of the existing code. That

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-23 Thread mick crane
On 2021-10-17 19:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 06:35:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a > $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a > terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread mick crane
On 2021-10-20 19:16, Joe wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows systems for a similar effect. Indeed so, it is even in a folder

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

2021-09-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-17 23:41, Charles Curley wrote: I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age. Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the large ones. I suspect I could buy a printer for what four large cartridges would cost me. Requirements: * I print

Re: masked service file

2021-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-05 16:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 01:56:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] * play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal attacks Yes, pretty please. Thank you, Andrew. I'm the original poster. It might help if I explain. Not

Re: masked service file

2021-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-05 16:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 01:56:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] * play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal attacks Yes, pretty please. Thank you, Andrew. I am the OP -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: masked service file

2021-09-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-03 00:21, Brian wrote: On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 00:03:08 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-09-02 23:28, Brian wrote: [...] > Please go back and read your very first post. You asked three questions. > Which one has not been answered? Please understand you are talking to an

Re: masked service file

2021-09-02 Thread mick crane
On 2021-09-02 23:28, Brian wrote: On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 21:06:59 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-09-02 17:57, Brian wrote: > Regarding Greg Wooledge's exhortations to provide information about > an issue: You were asked explicity to provide some; you never did. > As it happ

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