Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

2019-03-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/3/19 8:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 14:46:40 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: Uh, no. Not interested in getting in trouble with the copyright police. Just want to put my CD, vinyl, and cassette collections on a hard drive so I can listen to the music from the computer.

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

2019-03-03 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 14:46:40 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >Uh, no. Not interested in getting in trouble with the copyright >police. Just want to put my CD, vinyl, and cassette collections on a >hard drive so I can listen to the music from the computer. When I >first started doing this several years

Re: [PLUG] Xfce gnome-keyring issues in Slackware (WAS: Re: Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau)

2019-03-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/3/19 5:43 PM, King Beowulf wrote: I sent off-list a screenshot of my Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application autostart (tab). Uncheck anything that says "GNOME-keyring" My list doesn't have anything with GNOME-keyring in it. Next delete $HOME/.local/share/keyrings/

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

2019-03-03 Thread King Beowulf
On 2/27/19 1:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Looking at /etc/sudoers I see the example: > %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now > > Will this permit the Sony Vaio user to halt the laptop? I thought I had her > set up to do this but it did not work today. If the above line allows > everyone in the

[PLUG] Xfce gnome-keyring issues in Slackware (WAS: Re: Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau)

2019-03-03 Thread King Beowulf
On 3/3/19 3:35 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/3/19 3:05 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >> On 3/2/19 8:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> ... >>> I can launch Google Earth from the menu and I get the dialog: >>> >>> Enter password for keyring 'Default keyring' to unlock. >>> >>> The text part of the GE

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

2019-03-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I tried starting GE from the menu. I did not get a request to enter a keyring password, but the rest of the problem described above continues. Dick, I've no answer for you but want to mention that in all the years I've run Slackware with Xfce (since

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

2019-03-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/3/19 3:05 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 3/2/19 8:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: ... I can launch Google Earth from the menu and I get the dialog:     Enter password for keyring 'Default keyring' to unlock. The text part of the GE window loads, the GE splash window shows, and a small window

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

2019-03-03 Thread King Beowulf
On 3/2/19 8:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: ... > I can launch Google Earth from the menu and I get the dialog: > >     Enter password for keyring 'Default keyring' to unlock. > > The text part of the GE window loads, the GE splash window shows, and a > small window shows that says: > >     Loading

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

2019-03-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 3/3/19 2:39 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 2/26/19 10:22 PM, Tom wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:40:05 -0800 King Beowulf wrote: PS: use flac. mp3 quality sucks donkey balls. FLAC is excellent for lossless compression, however if your looking for lossy compression Opus codec offers greater

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

2019-03-03 Thread King Beowulf
On 2/26/19 10:22 PM, Tom wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:40:05 -0800 > King Beowulf wrote: > >> PS: use flac. mp3 quality sucks donkey balls. > FLAC is excellent for lossless compression, however if your looking for > lossy compression Opus codec offers greater compression ratios and less >