Re: [PLUG] Issue on laptop w/trackpad disabled

2019-07-04 Thread Ben Koenig
Wow, according to the manual for the x240 there isn't an Fn combination to enable/disable the touchpad. And now that I look at my Thinkpad E485... I don't have one either. Maybe that's the new trend. Alternatively, you could set a normal keyboard shorcut in your desktop of choice. I'm using KDE5

Re: [PLUG] question on looking at systemd log files

2019-07-04 Thread Ben Koenig
That makes sense. Still seems odd though, if people are just dumping the binary logs to plain text in order to parse them, why does journald bother saving them in binary form when it can just use the existing plain text format? It's like they added an additional step without any additionall

Re: [PLUG] Issue on laptop w/trackpad disabled

2019-07-04 Thread Fred James
Denis Heidtmann wrote: On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to fail, I have no way to do anything, including saving,

Re: [PLUG] Issue on laptop w/trackpad disabled

2019-07-04 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:07 PM Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs > have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a > wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to > fail, I have no way

[PLUG] Issue on laptop w/trackpad disabled

2019-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On my Lenovo X240 I have the trackpad disabled because my errant thumbs have a nasty tendency to move the pointer around unwittingly. I use a wireless USB mouse, which is always fine. Except if the mouse were to fail, I have no way to do anything, including saving, shutting down, or other

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question [FIXED]

2019-07-04 Thread King Beowulf
On 7/4/19 1:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Perhaps someone on the xfce mail list has a solution for that. So far >> only >> one response, "Well, it just works for me on Fedora." So? > > No help on the xfce mail list, but futzing (setting the driver to

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question [FIXED]

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps someone on the xfce mail list has a solution for that. So far only one response, "Well, it just works for me on Fedora." So? No help on the xfce mail list, but futzing (setting the driver to the Kensington one and having enabled it to stick, and

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What exactly is motivating you to go through this ordeal instead of just using USB for your new trackball/trackthing? The desktop has no USB ports on the rear and two in front. I use those for flash drives and other devices. The DIN-6 socket in the rear

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Please feel free to say something funny. What exactly is motivating you to go through this ordeal instead of just using USB for your new trackball/trackthing? USB is pretty well established at this point, the first appearing in PC's in around 2000-ish. -Tomas On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 12:58 Rich

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: More thoughts welcome, Web searches for issues of this trackball with xfce4 fail to find anything but how-tos for the trackball and a few left-button issues. Perhaps asking on linuxquestions would be appropriate after I try the xfce mail list. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Fred James wrote: My next guess/suggestion would involve looking at or changing the settings for the device in MCC -> Hardware -> Setup Pointer Device.  But perhaps you have done that already?  I cannot imagine that the new device is not supported, but I suppose that is

Re: [PLUG] question on looking at systemd log files

2019-07-04 Thread Russell Senior
I assume that a third person could read them in whatever format he read them in, which would be dumped-to-text, possibly filtered out, maybe not. When I don't know what might be happening, I usually err on the side of more logs instead of less. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 17:05 Ben Koenig wrote: > I

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Fred James
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Fred James wrote: Guessing ... but I did have this experience ... not all converters are "active".  That means that not all converters will act properly when connecting a USB mouse, or keyboard, to a legacy mouse, or keyboard, port on an older

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Fred James wrote: Guessing ... but I did have this experience ... not all converters are "active".  That means that not all converters will act properly when connecting a USB mouse, or keyboard, to a legacy mouse, or keyboard, port on an older computer.  The USB port

[PLUG] Mouse connection question

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
My old wireless Logitech trackball died of old age after the scroll wheel stopped working and (a few days ago) the middle button stopped working (which was my xfig end-line problem) and it would not connect to the receiver after a battery transplant. So, time to get a new one. Bought a

Re: [PLUG] question on looking at systemd log files

2019-07-04 Thread Ben Koenig
I ask this out of morbid curiosity... How does one read systemd logs on another system? My understanding is that it's a binary format, right? This sounds like it presents some problems for taking a "glance" at the logs in the way Randall is asking, since you have to run journalctl to access them.

Re: [PLUG] GIMP: lost toolbox and layer manager on startup [FIXED]

2019-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, King Beowulf wrote: in the main Gimp screen (with drop downs File Edit..etc), click on the "Windows" drop down. There you will see Recently Closed Docks > Dockable Dialogs > Hi Ed, Nothing recently closed. You can also recreate them fairly easily. For example, Tools -