Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2017 #884

2017-08-19 Thread Greg Marks
The principal reason I switched back, many years ago, to vim in a terminal was that you could NOT paste text by highlighting with the mouse. I had been using some text editor on a Mac, and there was a keyboard shortcut--I never figured out what it was--that I would accidentally hit that had the

Re: Lenovo Yoga 920 - debian installer goes black

2018-05-30 Thread Greg Marks
Dear Mr. Vanrenterghem, I had a similar problem some time ago (getting a blank screen in the Debian 9.3 installer), also with a Lenovo laptop. I was able to solve the problem by going into the BIOS and under startup options changing the "UEFI/Legacy Boot" setting to "Both.&qu

installation from USB w/ multiple ISOs?

2017-10-22 Thread Greg Marks
In order to install Debian from a bootable USB drive, the procedure is: format a thumb drive to FAT32, determine the thumb drive location as /dev/sdX, and run commands of the form sudo dd if=debian-9.2.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M sudo sync after downloading the appropriate ISO file

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-26 Thread Greg Marks
correctly. (I might have changed the Backend setting from the default earlier when trying various things to fix the problem.) So for me the problem seems to be resolved. I'm not sure if this fixes David Wright's problem viewing PDF files sent by his credit card issuer. Regards, Greg Marks > D

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-25 Thread Greg Marks
to display the file https://gmarks.org/cklppaper.pdf correctly. But qpdfview is still displaying gibberish. Regards, Greg Marks > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:05:27 +0100 > From: Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: Ionel Mugurel

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2018 #682

2018-07-22 Thread Greg Marks
Dear Mr. Bernstein, In /etc/fstab, you might try changing the line /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 to /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user=X,noauto 0 0 where X is the output of the command whoami. Sincerely, Greg Marks > D

PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Greg Marks
poppler64:amd64 (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2) (Various other packages were upgraded, such as imagemagick-6-common and libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but I don't think those are relevant.) Regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

mate-panel segfault

2018-04-08 Thread Greg Marks
4.6.0-1-amd64 x86_64, with MATE 1.16.2 desktop; my computer has a PNY Quadro K620 2GB Video Card and is running libdrm-nouveau2 version 2.4.74-1 and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau version 1:1.0.13-3. Can anyone suggest what causes this issue and how to prevent it? Best regards, Greg Marks

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Greg Marks
As of October 2017, I found that running the command "nvidia-detect" followed by "install nvidia-driver" (as recommended by the first command) conflicted with the lightdm display manager and prevented graphical login. Does that problem remain? Sincerely, Greg Marks > Da

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-19 Thread Greg Marks
it offer you options in the event that more than one PDF is open. Best regards, Greg Marks > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:37:48 -0300 > From: rv riveravaldez > To: Brian > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: Print with mupdf? > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Brian wrote: > > On

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Marks
oduce the phenomenon by editing similar files with vim. > All history/history.db files appeared since upgrading from Debian 9. > I couldn't find anything relevant in the log files around the > timestamps of the mystery files. Regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Greg Marks
start appearing that I didn't intentionally create. Regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

scp overwriting precaution?

2020-02-26 Thread Greg Marks
older version of a file on my laptop to a newer version of the file on my server, the newer version is lost. Is it possible to configure my server so that when it receives a remote scp request to write to a file on the server, it parses the request and backs up to /tmp any existing file on the server that is about to be overwritten? Regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: do we have an rtf to pdf convertor?

2020-05-01 Thread Greg Marks
To convert an RTF file to a printable PDF file, the command libreoffice --convert-to pdf file.rtf should work. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-13 Thread Greg Marks
ng the "private_key.asc" file created earlier. (Afterwards "private_key.asc" should be securely deleted, e.g. with srm.) Once this is complete, when composing an e-mail in the new Thunderbird, there is a "Security" tab near the top permitting one to encrypt or digitally

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

2020-08-22 Thread Greg Marks
be via a trusted third-party binary distribution. I'm assuming the OP is content with a symmetric cipher (he or she didn't say). Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

2020-10-21 Thread Greg Marks
; So far as I can tell, account settings in Thunderbird are sticky by default. If I go to Account Settings (accessible under the "Edit" drop-down menu of Thunderbird), change an option, and then simply close the "Account Settings" tab, the option stays as I set it until I chang

Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps

2021-05-28 Thread Greg Marks
custom address for radar map" > > in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps? > > Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with > a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/. Setting "Use custom

Re: enscript problem

2021-05-29 Thread Greg Marks
enscript --margins=10:38:40:52 file.txt should work (the four parameters are left, right, top, and bottom margins, respectively, in PostScript points). Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Weather Report size, icons, radar maps

2021-05-27 Thread Greg Marks
nd one must do a bit of searching on that site to find radar maps. Can one fix this by selecting "Use custom address for radar map" in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps? Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how to indent when printing a ps file

2021-03-24 Thread Greg Marks
pposite margin. For example, pstops "1:0@1.0(1.4cm,0.0cm)" file.ps | lpr will print file.ps with 1.4 centimeters added to the left margin. Insert a negative sign to shift the other way. The 0.0cm in the second coordinate indicates that there should be no vertical shifting.

Re: How can encrypt my messages sent to the forum?

2021-10-10 Thread Greg Marks
Dear Mr. Torrez, I have a Web page discussing e-mail encryption, which I attempted to write for non-specialists: https://gmarks.org/email_security.html (I haven't had a chance to update it in a while, but I believe the instructions remain valid.) Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc

Re: Debian 11.3 kernel panics on Epyc 7281 CPU

2022-03-30 Thread Greg Marks
cause of the problem. Is it, by any chance, related to the following? https://cloudlinux.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014242019-AMD-CPU-Unable-to-Boot-after-CPU-Microcode-Update Debian not booting on EPYC CPUs is an extremely serious problem. I hope some solution is discovered. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-03 Thread Greg Marks
> i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The > password does not contain the required characters." > > I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. You might try a command like this: signature.asc Description: PGP signature

resizing PDF files with Ghostscript

2023-09-16 Thread Greg Marks
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Re: "Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!"

2023-09-14 Thread Greg Marks
> acceptable security. Nevertheless, I think it would be beneficial to > update the repository version of clamav. > > Best regards, > Greg Marks I am pleased to report that as of today the repository version of clamav is 0.103.10. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

"Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!"

2023-09-04 Thread Greg Marks
. Nevertheless, I think it would be beneficial to update the repository version of clamav. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Debian weather bug

2023-10-17 Thread Greg Marks
How should this be reported? Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian weather bug

2023-10-19 Thread Greg Marks
www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179bmcj/metar_map_issues/ > > How should this be reported? > > Best regards, > Greg Marks Update: the following are relevant lines from /var/log/syslog: Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found. Oct 19 18

e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-09 Thread Greg Marks
sing the "mail" command on a FreeBSD machine, but I don't remember any solution to the problem. Is there a way to tell the Postfix sendmail command not to alter any such lines in the body of the message? (I'm afraid I wasn't able to discern an answer in the man page for sendmail or by search

lpr hangs on emojis

2023-02-16 Thread Greg Marks
he text that one might be inclined to go back to the computer screen to view. Does anyone have a good way of printing text that contains emojis? Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian weather bug

2024-02-10 Thread Greg Marks
ote that two different applications are affected by this bug. The latest upgrade of the packages libmateweather-common and libmateweather1 (both to version 1.24.1-1+deb11u1) has fixed the problem; the two weather applications are now functioning properly. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: URLs in Mutt

2023-12-31 Thread Greg Marks
the "Alt" key to the left of the space bar), and a copy of the e-mail will open in Firefox. You can then click on any hyperlinks if you're sure they are safe. Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature