[DNG] How do you remove colour/color text from Vi/vim?

2020-02-25 Thread terryc
This annoyance has crept into my system some time ago and I can not figure out how to banish it. I've looked through all the personal and sysem config files and can not find a switch to tern off text colourisation. All I want or need vi for is a simple black text on white(grey actually) editor.

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting al3xu5 / dotcommon (dotcom...@autistici.org): > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? A possibly novel thought: How about starting your exploration with 'none of the above'? Based on your description of

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread Daniel Abrecht via Dng
On 2020-02-25 11:11, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which is the reason for a capability architecture. Is there anything resembling that in GNU/Linux userspace? Kind of, not really. There is something similar to role based access control, namely the unix file permission model, which is a kind of DAC.

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Jim Jackson
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Hi all > > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? You've had lots of comments, but nobody has asked you WHY you wish to change. What is wrong with MATE, for

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread spiralofhope
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:44:10 +0100 Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote: > Do you drink beer or wine, Pepsi or Coke? Same thing. emacs or vi, it's all text. ;) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread spiralofhope
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > and I would like a > de that has the least dependencies but also remains stable and > "comfortable" in configuration, personalization and use... I've only had XFCE experience out of your three, and that's really only because I

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Harald Arnesen via Dng
al3xu5 / dotcommon [25/02/2020 16.29]: > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? Do you drink beer or wine, Pepsi or Coke? Same thing. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread viverna
il devuanizzato al3xu5 / dotcommon il 25-02-20 16:29:58 ha scritto: Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? LXDE is ancestor of LXQt. However is a wonderful DE mostly with openbox combination. Openbox is

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread aitor
Hi, En 25 de febrero de 2020 20:40:12 Tito via Dng escribió: On 2/25/20 4:40 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Hi! Anno domini 2020 Tue, 25 Feb 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon scripsit: Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt:

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread viverna
il devuanizzato al3xu5 / dotcommon il 25-02-20 16:29:58 ha scritto: Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? LXDE is ancestor of LXQt. However is a wonderful DE mostly with openbox combination. Openbox is

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Tito via Dng
On 2/25/20 4:40 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Hi! Anno domini 2020 Tue, 25 Feb 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon scripsit: Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? Please, based on your experience and

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:29:58PM +0100, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Hi all > > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? I've used XFCE and LXQt. I hapen to be using LXQt now. I'm happy with either. I'm also happy

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread aitor
Hi Tom En 25 de febrero de 2020 18:39:51 tom escribió: On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:33:25 +0100 Tito via Dng wrote: and only for known "safe" commands. For everything else, it'd be much better to just log in on a tty as root. Same goes for su. for sudo only if set userALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread tom
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:33:25 +0100 Tito via Dng wrote: > and only for known "safe" commands. For everything else, it'd be much > better to just log in on a tty as root. Same goes for su. > > for sudo only if set > > userALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > or if the user is added to the sudo group > >

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Hi! Anno domini 2020 Tue, 25 Feb 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon scripsit: > Hi all > > I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... > Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? > > Please, based on your experience and knowledge of Devuan and DEs, can > you

[DNG] Which DE?

2020-02-25 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Hi all I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016... Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt??? Please, based on your experience and knowledge of Devuan and DEs, can you help me in choosing (avoiding me to invest too much time doing long experiments)? Consider that

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/24/20 7:21 AM, Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > One last, only partially related thing. Does anyone know how to get polkit > agents working properly? If I start `lxqt-policykit-agent`, for example, > pkexec won't work. If I start it as `su -c 'lxqt-policykit-agent'`, it > does, but I'm pretty

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 03:05:27AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:16 + > Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > > > > So next, why is dbus needed? > > dbus is a message bus. There usually is one for the whole system, and > > one for each session. > > There are various uses

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 25/02/2020 à 09:05, Steve Litt a écrit : On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:16 + Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: ... Without dbus, applications & daemons could do similar things using unix sockets. However, then, every application would need their own socket, permission management, configs, etc.

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:16 + Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > So next, why is dbus needed? > dbus is a message bus. There usually is one for the whole system, and > one for each session. > There are various uses and missuses for it, but I think the most > crucial things are: > * Notify

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 25/02/2020 à 08:17, marc a écrit : Hello I would like to add my point of view to the polkit debate. And they are well thought out comments :) All things considered, I think for the purpose of interacting with system level daemons/services and managing related permissions, especially in