Re: [PLUG] Java errors

let the JVM choose. >On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:57 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> SUCCESS!! >> >> This command did the job: >> >> PATH=/usr/java/jre1.8.0_381/bin/ >> >> followed by the launch script. >> >> The above path is for Or

Re: [PLUG] Java errors

makes no difference. If anyone can suggest alternatives for the -Dsun... option to increase font sizes in Java applications, I'd be happy to do some experimenting. On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 13:35:05 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClass

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:22:47 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I'm just going to have to muddle through and rewrite them. When I sat down at the computer this morning the gxmessage window was in the middle of the screen announcing that rsync ran at 3am and at 4am to make mirr

Re: [PLUG] Java errors

. >You can disassemble the jar file with the "jar" command from the Java >runtime. > > >On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 6:31 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> I opened the launch script in a text editor and all it says is >> >> cd /home/jjj/Software/T

Re: [PLUG] Java errors

I opened the launch script in a text editor and all it says is cd /home/jjj/Software/TreeForm103/TreeForm/ java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar TreeForm.jar With the command line in ~/Software/TreeForm103/TreeForm I just copied the above line and ran it, and I got the same error message.

[PLUG] Java errors

I have a little application for drawing phrase structure trees that was written in Java, in roughly 2013. The author included a launch script, and it runs fine on Xubuntu 22.04.3, but on Sparky Linux I get: $ ./TreeForm_launch_script Error: could not open

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' >When you want to only look at the crontab contents use `crontab -l' to >list them.

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

>On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 >wes dijo: > >>On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >>wrote: >>> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. >>they are kept in /var/spool/cron. >>But, look first at >>these are

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 wes dijo: >On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> >> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. > > >they are kept in /var/spool/cron. > >But, look first at >> >/etc/; ther

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. But, look first at >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., cron.d/, >cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/, cron.weekly/. > >Second, use the `slocate' command,

[PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

Several years ago I created a couple shell scripts to make rsync create mirrors of / and /home on another drive installed in the computer. Although it took awhile I created cron jobs to run the scripts every day at 3am and 4am. My efforts worked perfectly for years, but now I'm migrating from

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:13:25 + MC_Sequoia dijo: >If you want a default lightweight Debian distro, I'd recommend either >BunsenLabs or Crunchbang++. > >Crunchbang is Debian 12, Bullseye w. Linux Kernal 6.1 Long Term >Support. > >Both offer an installation script so the user can decide which

Re: [PLUG] Trying to install Debian 12 as dual boot with Ubuntu

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:48:39 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I'm ready for install number 11, but at the end where it sets up grub I >need someone sitting behind me to tell me how, because it is clear that >I do not know how. My 11th effort also failed, but I finally got #1

[PLUG] Trying to install Debian 12 as dual boot with Ubuntu

So far I've done this ten times. Only once was I actually able to boot to Debian. And sitting in front of my new Debian I spent several hours installing and configuring, which included deleting all the hundreds of Thai fonts (Why?), which ended with Synaptic deleting half the OS. It wouldn't run,

Re: [PLUG] Change hard drive FS

I'm back in Ubuntu, following my ninth failed attempt to install Debian 12. But I should say at the beginning that, like Rich, I've used ext4 for many years and have never had a problem. My issues with installing Debian 12 is that it won't boot because of a failure in setting up Grub. And the root

Re: [PLUG] Can't boot to new dual boot

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:26:22 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >> This would probably be easy to fix, if I only knew how. I'm anxiously >> looking for suggestions so I can look at Debian 12 on the new drive. >I had a similar problem after I did an update yesterday. Only one of >my systems was bootable. It

Re: [PLUG] Can't boot to new dual boot

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:26:22 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >> I've been reading up on how to get this to work and I haven't found >> the answer yet. Both drives have a separate partitions for / and >> /home, and each of them has a /boot/grub/grub.cfg file in the / >> partition. At the top of the menu

[PLUG] Can't boot to new dual boot

Xubuntu is on a three-year-old 1TB M.2 card and it has worked well for years. I think I want to change to Debian, so I downloaded the Xfce flavor of the Debian 12 ISO and burned it to a USB drive. Then I went out and bought a new 2TB M.2 drive and installed it in the computer in a spare, unused

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:19:41 -0700 "Kevin Williams" dijo: >John, what was your specific error that you got when using SSH to your >computer? What is the local SSH server not already running? Way too long go to remember. >Do I understand correctly that you got the silicondust App to see the >TV

Re: [PLUG] Make secure shell work

On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:08:24 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 11:05 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> Several times over the years I gave tried to get ssh working, and I >> always failed. > >Wait, what? > >Ssh shouldn't be hard. Like, at a

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:22:00 -0700 wes dijo: >On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 11:02 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> >>> Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're >> >>> in the host and the guest has exclusive control of mouse and >

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:10:31 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:37:15 -0700 >wes dijo: > >>On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM John Jason Jordan >>wrote: >>> Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're in >>> the h

Re: [PLUG] Debian 12 on VirtualBox

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:01:09 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 13:13 John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> ... snip ... >Before someone takes the trouble to point out to me that to make shared >> folders work you need to have VirtualBox, the Guest Additions, and

Re: [PLUG] Debian 12 on VirtualBox

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:05:11 -0700 wes dijo: >On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:13 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> I'm having a terrible time getting the guest OS to see the shared >> folders that I specified in the setup for the Debian 12 machine. >I have often had problems g

[PLUG] Debian 12 on VirtualBox

I now have Debian 12 Bookworm installed and running sort of OK in Virtualbox. Thinking about switching t it from Xubuntu 22.04 I've been testing it to see if I can install all the applications that I need. Toward that end I made a list of 70+ programs to install, and started adding them. From the

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:37:15 -0700 wes dijo: >On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 1:32 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> Normally release is done with the Right-Ctrl key, but if you're in >> the host and the guest has exclusive control of mouse and keyboard, >> you have no Ri

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:50:09 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >Nevertheless I did get it installed, and now it's on to figuring out if >Debian 12 will really work for me. :) And once more I had to power down he computer because the virtual machine had captured the mouse and keyboard, and *af

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:12:18 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >> C'mon Debian people, don't you test this stuff? > >I don't see that installing from the Live OS is the recommended path >for installing Debian. The netinst method is one of the recommended >installation methods. I know that net install is

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:26:42 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700 >Keith Lofstrom dijo: > >Re Debian 12 Hookworm > >Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small >USB 3.0 drive. I may see what happens if I try to inst

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: Re Debian 12 Hookworm Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small USB 3.0 drive. I may see what happens if I try to install it in VirtualBox. Meantime I'm trying to find out details about it, specifically its

[PLUG] Ubuntu messed up LO!

I had LO downloaded from LO (not the Ubuntu repositories) and installed on my Xubuntu 22.04 laptop. Today I decided to do a system update, using the Update Manager utility. When the Update Manager finished sniffing the internet and my computer it came up with over 250 packages that needed to be

Re: [PLUG] "sold as 16GB" PNY flash drives store >30GB

On Sun, 28 May 2023 00:37:28 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >I bought a "PNY 16GB Attaché 3 USB 2.0 Flash Drive 10-Pack" >from Amazon for $27.98, to transfer files from some ancient >CentOS machines to replacement Debian machines. > >The four I've tested so far format to more than 30GB (!!!) >of

Re: [PLUG] Zoneminder server build instructions

On Mon, 8 May 2023 21:54:08 -0500 Chuck Hast dijo: >Yep and for that a few cops with laser/Radar guns with cameras, that >will slow them down somewhat. Do Portland police still do that? I thought they no longer do speed monitoring (formerly revenue patrol), in addition to no longer arresting

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser behavior changed

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I'm building and installing many packages on the ThinkPad T430. >Yesterday, after several hours the browser would not download a file >until I reloaded the web page. I've not seen this happen on any >browser or host. > >It's a bit

Re: [PLUG] 3rd party vpn Defense evasion

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:38:23 + Ted Mittelstaedt dijo: >It's not going to be possible to block all VPNs. I've been using a VPN for several years now, currently Mullvad (Stockholm based). I'm curious about the efficacy of various VPN services. I selected Mullvad (and PIA previously) based on

Re: [PLUG] Google Bard - entry level sys-admin, learning fast?

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:01:55 -0700 Galen Seitz dijo: >I was going to put this on the plug-talk list for John to chew on, but >since the subject came up here... > >You Are Not a Parrot > Too much to

Re: [PLUG] Thumbnails Missing

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:00:01 -0700 Dick Steffens dijo: >Normally, image files on my desktop, or some Thunar windows, display a >thumbnail of that image. Now, I get an icon with the letters GIF or >JPG instead. I can fix the problem by restarting the machine, but >shouldn't there be a way to fix

Re: [PLUG] Remind or Tkremind

On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:08:21 -0800 Steve Dum dijo: >    A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for >``first-last''. Ah! That's what I missed! The new line (for tomorrow) is: 0 9 22 * * MAILTO="" DISPLAY=:0.0 gxmessage -font "Junicode 24" Pay T-Mobile That

Re: [PLUG] Remind or Tkremind

>notify-send -u critical "time to write that check" >seems to do what you want. But if you do more than 1 notify-send they >appear serially so you don't see the next one >until you close the current one. >looking at the online man page, it has tabs for every supported ubuntu

[PLUG] Remind or Tkremind

I need an little application that will pop up a reminder on the same day of every month, and crucially, *leave it on the screen until I manually close the window*. There are lots of notify tools, but they just pop up a little notice for 10-20 seconds and then the notice disappears. So far the

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:59:14 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >Probably a good idea to record what /proc/mdstat looks like when >things are working, ahead of time, too. Done, and added to mdadm.txt file. Thanks!

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:26:01 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >TB is hot plug interface. As such, I'd sort of expect that HW and SW >assumes that it can safely traverse power states and that connection >resets may be OK. > >If that is what is happening, it is of course pretty nasty thing to do >to md

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 22:39:48 -0800 Paul Goins dijo: >When this occurs, have you tried "dmesg -T" or checked >/var/log/kern.log or /var/log/syslog for suspicious log entries around >the time of the error? Might be worth taking a peek as well. Your suspicion was correct - I had not tried either

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:06:35 -0600 Bill Barry dijo: >On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 7:02 PM Bill Barry wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:55 PM John Jason Jordan >> wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:07:09 -0600 >> > Bill Barry dijo:

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:07:09 -0600 Bill Barry dijo: >So reassembling is what was needed, but you don't need to force it. >Now if you just had some way to automate that. Have you connected >your external enclosure to the UPS so that it is protected from >temporary power disruptions? Yes,

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:49:54 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I've searched documentation on mdadm and I can't figure out if there >> is a way to just restart the array. Suggestions? >How do I reactivate my MDADM RAID5 ar

[PLUG] Restart mdadm?

It's happened again. One of my RAID0 arrays just stopped working. The mount command shows it as mounted, but neither the command line nor any GUI file managers can see any files, and if I try to open a file that I know is there I get "Error reading file: Input / output error." Attempts to umount

Re: [PLUG] I hate the mount command

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:58:56 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >OK, I may be making some headway here. > >sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0 >/dev/md0: > Version : 1.2 > Creation Time : Mon Jan 25 13:53:32 2021 >Raid Level : raid0 >Array Size : 3000533

Re: [PLUG] I hate the mount command

OK, I may be making some headway here. sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Mon Jan 25 13:53:32 2021 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 30005334016 (27.94 TiB 30.73 TB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence :

Re: [PLUG] I hate the mount command

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:46:13 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >It says it's already mounted. Can you post the results of a plain mount >command? That is, show what the system thinks is mounted. Here's the plain mount command: $ mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on

[PLUG] I hate the mount command

A couple hours ago PGE did it to me again. This happens every couple of months. The lights flickered off, and then immediately came back on. Now, I have three massive APC backup units that run everything, even the stereo. I mean, all the network components, both computers, the Lenovo dock and

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Venue Options

On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 15:18:08 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc58ccHKEQrlDoJDud-iRTw9I8jsHIAovb8-MAnGzFYahrD_A/viewform Requires a Google account, which I don't have or want. But I would answer Yes to all, with the comment that I need Max train access; buses

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:29:00 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >May I ask - what the . is Compose key? Is that Apple computer >keyboard thing? > >I don't think I have ever seen/used keyboard with it. Perhaps, I am >lucky?? It's a setting that you can add to most desktop environments. In Xfce it's

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:29:05 -0700 Galen Seitz dijo: >On 10/24/22 22:05, John Jason Jordan wrote: >... >> I could do the same thing for any other language that requires >> completely non-Latin characters. But I also sometimes write in >> Spanish, French and German,

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:57:13 -0700 Ali Corbin dijo: >On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:24 PM Keith Lofstrom >wrote: . > >> Does anyone on the plug list have experience using multiple >> keyboards and alternate character sets? Suggested vendors >> for those keyboards? Helpful Linux tools for

Re: [PLUG] Text color issue

On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I didn't think of looking at the man page for a solution. I was >surprised to not find any text color 34 in /etc/DIR_COLORS and didn't >think of changing the color in the v,t. This is probably of no help to the problem, but I just

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >My locale is set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I write primarily in text-based >applications such as emacs and alpine, and I want to learn how to enter >accented characters so I can type, for example, Résumé rather than >Resume. Others have

[PLUG] Can't print from Chromium

The printer is a Brother HL-2280-DW connected as 192.168.1.25. I can ping it, so the connection is good. I can print to it from any computer and from any program except Chromium. When I print from Chromium I look at the GUI print queue for the printer, and no print jobs appear. In other words, the

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:54:24 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I remember when I first installed Ubuntu in 2005. At that time the >repos had packages for just about everything, but in case you needed >something that was available only in RPM, Ubuntu came with 'alien,' >which could co

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:14 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >The instructions for installing in in Ubuntu 12.1 are given in this >github repository > https://github.com/ruediger/VobSub2SRT Doesn't work on 22.04. I had a PPA for vobsub2srt, but it was removed by the upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04. I

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:57:57 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >The issue is your tesseract is snap and vobsub2srt is not. Snap >packages cannot share libraries, that is the point of snaps. > >You need to: >a) find snap version of vobsub2srt which includes tesseract libs. >b) find not snap tesseract

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:54:06 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Try creating link with the name to your current tesseract lib file in >the lib directory. Thanks for the suggestion. However, the error message doesn't say where it is looking for the lib file: vobsub2srt: error while loading

[PLUG] Vobsub2srt

Vobsub2srt has been around for a long time to convert bitmap subtitles to srt (text) subtitles. It uses tesseract for the OCR work. I have tesseract installed According to the man page vobsub2srt --lang en filename Is supposed to do the job, where 'filename' is the name given to each of

Re: [PLUG] Fonts to me crazy drive

On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:49:42 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >The font (four .ttf files) resides in ~/.fonts. But it turns out that >none of the fonts in that folder appear in applications, e.g., LO >Writer. Looking at the results of 'fc-cache -fv' I find the line: > > /home/j

[PLUG] Fonts to me crazy drive

Having completed the dist-upgrade from Xubuntu 20.04.x to 22.04.1 I am in the process of tidying up. And over the years I have collected way too many fonts, installed by programs whose developers think it's OK to pollute their users' computers. For the past couple of hours I have nuked about a

Re: [PLUG] Still waiting on a venue... informal meetings for now?

On Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:31:12 -0700 Michael Rasmussen dijo: >On 2022-05-31 21:43, Michael Dexter wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am told that it will be several months until PSU will welcome PLUG >> back and in the interim, I welcome everyone to either join the >> previous Jit.si URL at the regular

Re: [PLUG] Wifi not working

On Mon, 2 May 2022 14:23:21 -0600 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >On Mon, May 2, 2022, 13:23 John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I also question why I must be root to fly in an airplane. >I do not need to be root to do this - because I am using network >manager to manage networks on laptops. Mayb

Re: [PLUG] Wifi not working

On Mon, 2 May 2022 05:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Mon, 2 May 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > >> There is a switch or button on your computer that turns off wifi and >> bluetooth, sort of an "airplane mode". Find it, and toggle it to the >> other position, see if that fixes it. > >All

[PLUG] Wifi not working

It used to be that if wifi was not working you just did 'sudo wlan0 up.' Well, that doesn't work, but 'ifconfig wlan0' got me: wlp82s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

Re: [PLUG] useful/cheap DVI switch

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:18:18 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >Hardware tamed! Back to Ubuntu distro software, misleading >700 page Linux books, just plain evil advice from random >idiots on the web, and the superb and generous guidance >from the wizards of PLUG. ¡De acuerdo! My big problem with

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS upgrade timing

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:22:16 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience: > >1) How easy/fraught is a dist-upgrade, say 16.04 to 20.04? > >2) Should I wait for 22.04.1 (estimated 3+ months from >now) before playing with 22.04 Jammy? I left this thread

Re: [PLUG] Mouse glide repair

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:19:41 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >I still use ancient Logitech ball mice, three button plus >scroll wheel, tethered to a USB-A connector. They drive >half a dozen linux computers around my home and office. For many years I have used smallish Logitech wireless mousies

Re: [PLUG] Login and keyring ... why?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:14:46 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: I have been sorely vexed by the login keyring requirements, and created the thread 'Login Keyring' on Saturday 22/2/12 which ultimately resolved most of my issues. It included ~20 responses covering a lot of matters that I previously had no

Re: [PLUG] Rotating greeter screen in Mate Ubuntu 20.04

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:44:07 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >How do I configure lightdm for a screen rotated right? > >However, the login screen for mate-ubuntu uses the lightdm >display manager, and I haven't yet figured out how to >rotate the screen for that login page. > >Frankly, I would prefer

Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >A new Probox support USB-3.0 or 3.1 speeds. I'll order a new one if >the old one has failed. I have a Mediasonic box that I formerly connected with its USB 3.0 port with a 3.0 cable (everything blue). One day it started disconnecting

Re: [PLUG] Linux and Windows VPN?

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:28:58 -0700 Dick Steffens dijo: >My wife is interested in VPNs, but she runs Win7. Is there a VPN that >runs on both Win7 and Linux (Ubuntu based)? There are a ton of VPN services available. Most will run on any OS, but few have an application to configure their service,

Re: [PLUG] Replacement laptop

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:30:13 -0500 TomasK dijo: >I cannot recommend Dells shipping with Linux right now - they ended up >being devoid of even basic number of USB ports recently. If you do not >need more than 1 or 2 USB-C ports (one taken by the charger) - and can >receive Fed-Ex delivery (I

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:20:59 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 >wes dijo: > >>if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >>setting a password? > >It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 wes dijo: >if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >setting a password? It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it blank and then click on OK it gives an error message that I didn't enter the right password. It

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:24:09 -0800 wes dijo: >On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 >> wes dijo: >> >> >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >> >wrote: >> W

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 wes dijo: >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not >> installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude >> with 21.10. I tried

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

Never had any issues moving a VM from one >> VMWare machine to another. I never tried VB >> again due to the USB issues I encountered. >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:21 PM John Jason Jordan >> wrote: >> > I discovered that I can export from the o

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

;> Meaning that you cannot practically turn modern linux to a media >> player. One has to turn to not secure, special flake, totally >> unsecured distros >> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 02:02 John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >> > I have my desktop computer and

[PLUG] Login keyring

I have my desktop computer and my new laptop set up to boot Xubuntu without requiring a login. That part works perfectly, but the instant I try to do anything I get a popup: Authentications required The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

I discovered that I can export from the old VirtualBox to OVF format just by manually changing the name of the file it will create from .OVA to .OVF. And the new VirtualBox on the Latitude will import it, except that at the end the import fails: VirtualBox Error Failed to import appliance ...

[PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

I have had VirtualBox on my Lenovo laptop and its predecessors for many years, and it always just works. Now that I have a new computer I decided to install it there also, and copy the VDI file for Windows 10 over there also (I have multiple licenses). In the past this always worked when I needed

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: >My limited understanding of RAIDs is that striping would increase >writing speed but lose the redundance of the hdds themselves. Am I >mistaken? That is sort of true. With two physical disks

[PLUG] Can't shut down

I my travails with the new Dell laptop, while trying Mint I clicked on something and the panel disappeared. It was Mint Xfce so I tried xfce4-panel -r, but that did nothing. Then I decided to try the Install Mint button, and suddenly the screen blacked out with text rolling down saying

Re: [PLUG] Can't get into BIOS, Dell Latitude 7275

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 16:11:11 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >>Does anyone know the secret way to boot to the BIOS? > >Never mind, I finally succeeded. Xubuntu Live is running. The >touchscreen and the wifi are both working, so I'm going to hit the >Install icon. A slight proble

Re: [PLUG] Can't get into BIOS, Dell Latitude 7275

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 16:41:32 -0800 VY dijo: >Can you share steps how you get into the BIOS to boot from a linux >live USB? > >I have one coming soon. >I am a bit concern that these newer laptops may have something >incompatible so I also want to try with a live USB first. >( I am planning to use

Re: [PLUG] Can't get into BIOS, Dell Latitude 7275

>Does anyone know the secret way to boot to the BIOS? Never mind, I finally succeeded. Xubuntu Live is running. The touchscreen and the wifi are both working, so I'm going to hit the Install icon.

[PLUG] Can't get into BIOS, Dell Latitude 7275

My Dell Latitude 7275 2-in-1 was delivered an hour ago. My plan was to boot to an Xubuntu 21.10 live USB to figure out if it would even work and, if it does work, then install it, wiping out the Windows 10 already installed. I have the Xubuntu USB plugged in, but the laptop just boots directly to

Re: [PLUG] Left over "artifact?" when doing screenshots, sometimes

On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:56:47 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >Caja is the GUI file browser used in Linux Mint Mate. >> because the file existed for a split >> second. Caja was notified of the file's creation, but not of the >> file's subsequent removal. this is why it doesn't show up in >> terminal:

Re: [PLUG] Using crosh shell on a Chromebook ( was: Chromebooks and Linux )

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:23:06 -0700 Robert Citek dijo: >Here's the output from 'free' in crosh with the Debian VM running: > >crosh> shell >chronos@localhost / $ sudo su - >localhost ~ # free -tm > totalusedfree shared buff/cache >available >Mem: 3806

Re: [PLUG] Using crosh shell on a Chromebook ( was: Chromebooks and Linux )

Robert, The Chromebook that is at the top of my list at the moment has only 4GB RAM. Installing and running Debian (or others) in a container worries me. When you are running Linux in a container, how much RAM is taken in all by Chrome OS and Debian? I plan to use the tablet mostly for reading

Re: [PLUG] Chromebooks and Linux

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:05:21 -0800 Johnathan Mantey dijo: >I was going to broach this subject as well Galen. I didn't because the >original poster decided not to pursue a solution to the problem posed. >I only recently discovered this "feature". I was already unimpressed >with Chromebooks based

Re: [PLUG] Chromebooks and Linux

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:40:26 -0800 Timothy Scoppetta dijo: >I use a kindle for the original use case described but my Pixelbook Go >is the best linux netbook (does that term still exist?) I've ever >owned. I run a full debian install in a container and have yet to find >any app or tool (GUI or

Re: [PLUG] Chromebooks and Linux

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:54:15 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >Not being able to print to a local USB connected printer in ChromeOS >(you had to enroll your printer with google, and send your documents >to google so they could send it back to your printer) used to be a big >"NO THANK YOU" from me. I

Re: [PLUG] Chromebooks and Linux

On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:49:33 -0800 VY dijo: >If you have not purchased anything yet, this may be another option for >you (though a bit experimental): >

[PLUG] Chromebooks and Linux

For some time I have been shopping for a computer to hold while reading in a recliner, hence weight is an issue. I started looking at tablets, thinking that I could get one with a separate keyboard for times when the touchscreen was not adequate. But lately I've discovered that nowadays there are

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