[Trisquel-users] Re : Thinkpad X200 fan spins ....

2020-08-30 Thread lcerf
Have you followed the instructions on https://askubuntu.com/a/1139409 ?

[Trisquel-users] Re : I'm new here

2020-08-28 Thread lcerf
I forgot: take http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel_9.0_amd64.iso (Trisquel 9) rather than the Trisquel 8. Trisquel 9 will be (hopefully soon) the next release of Trisquel, with newer versions of the software. But it already perfectly works.

[Trisquel-users] Re : I'm new here

2020-08-28 Thread lcerf
GNU/Linux has one single file hierarchy, whatever the number of partitions/disks. The so-called "root" partition has the root of that hierarchy: /. A root partition is necessary. It can be the only partition. However, we often have more. For instance, a different partition for user

[Trisquel-users] Re : Moving from 32to 64 bit

2020-08-28 Thread lcerf
You can use "Backups" (for instance in MATE's Control Center) for an entirely graphical solution.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to install gtk+-2.0 on Trisquel 8

2020-08-24 Thread lcerf
I would try to install the libgtk2.0-dev package.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel and Jami

2020-08-24 Thread lcerf
Trisquel 9 ships a recent version of Jami by default. Is it what you use?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with kernel 4.4.0-186

2020-08-23 Thread lcerf
As far as I know, GRUB boots by default the latest kernel, the one with the highest version. The GRUB_DEFAULT variable, in /etc/default/grub, can change that behavior: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Simple-configuration.html (if you modify that file, you then need

[Trisquel-users] Re : Package non-free trisquel 9

2020-08-23 Thread lcerf
Thank you very much. Do you know if quidam is aware of those problems?

[Trisquel-users] Re : ProtonVPN command line tool

2020-08-23 Thread lcerf
You can search the site (including the forum) using the text box in the upper-right corner of the page. Searching "protonvpn", you find among the top results a recent thread with that post: https://trisquel.info/forum/best-easiest-installation-vpn#comment-148552

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with kernel 4.4.0-186

2020-08-22 Thread lcerf
What can happen, if I decide to install the following suggested packages: linux-headers-4.15.0-112-generic, linux-hwe-tools, fdutils ?? Nothing but a small loss of disk space: if you do not know what an uninstalled package is for, then you usually have no use for it. what is the package

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 9 Etiona

2020-08-22 Thread lcerf
Assuming you installed the "default edition" (with the MATE desktop), are "trisquel" and "trisquel-recommended" installed? If so, you should have all packages from the default install.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to install gtk+-2.0 on Trisquel 8

2020-08-21 Thread lcerf
As far as I understand, the package named libgtk2.0-0 in Trisquel's repository provides GTK+ 2. With the regular edition of Trisquel (using MATE), it is installed by default.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Systemd kde-config from synaptic

2020-08-17 Thread lcerf
I believe so.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Systemd kde-config from synaptic

2020-08-16 Thread lcerf
I will try but , probably core system it s too much for me. The most high-level program in a minimal NetInstall must be apt! And aplications like abrowser are not in the repositories by default I guess. They are. All packages are in the repository.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Usb Wifi not working

2020-08-15 Thread lcerf
It should work. If I were you, I would use https://tehnoetic.com/index.php?route=information/contact to get assistance (and maybe another dongle).

[Trisquel-users] Re : Systemd kde-config from synaptic

2020-08-15 Thread lcerf
You can install a minimal (terminal-only) system with a NetInstall and then 'sudo apt install' the sole packages you want.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Systemd kde-config from synaptic

2020-08-14 Thread lcerf
I want to rid of samba, wifi , bluetooth, ssh, ... I just want an internet browser and an email client. You had better 'sudo apt install' on a fresh NetInstall.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Optimizing Trisquel for Offline Computing

2020-08-08 Thread lcerf
Kiwix, that I mentioned earlier is a convenient way to download the entire archives of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and more: https://www.kiwix.org The Zim-compressed archives are on https://download.kiwix.org/zim/

[Trisquel-users] Re : Is there a build of Trisquel Mini 8 that is under 700 MB and can fit on a CD?

2020-08-06 Thread lcerf
I do not think so. What "device drivers" will you have to configure? Can't that be done after you bring back the hard drive? Another way would be: Burn a NetInstall ISO such as http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_i686.iso (for Trisquel 9) on a CD and

[Trisquel-users] Re : A sed script to replace one HTML string with a different one

2020-08-06 Thread lcerf
There are three non-escaped single quotes on this command line.

[Trisquel-users] Re : A sed script to replace one HTML string with a different one

2020-08-04 Thread lcerf
These days, I do not have time to decipher your posts. Anyway, a pipe is missing in: cat Target-0802A.txt sed 's/'peadhcp-163.net1.bgslashpea'/'Success'/g' > Target-0803A.txt And it is equivalent to, simply: sed 's/peadhcp-163.net1.bgslashpea/Success/g' Target-0802A.txt > Target-0803A.txt

[Trisquel-users] Re : Fan control X60

2020-08-04 Thread lcerf
The messages you copied are truncated.

[Trisquel-users] Re : A script to interact with website

2020-08-02 Thread lcerf
I wrote that Shell script: #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$1" -o "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ] then printf "Usage: $0 word ... " exit fi for word in "$@" do printf "Translations for \"$word\": " w=$(printf "$1" | sed 's/ /+/g') wget https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?s=$w -qO - | grep

[Trisquel-users] Re : A script to interact with website

2020-08-02 Thread lcerf
It is... but I will not "help" SaaSS abuse you: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with kernel 4.4.0-186

2020-07-31 Thread lcerf
No, you do not. linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-112-generic, in dependence of linux-image-generic-hwe-8.0, is apparently the package providing the support: https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-software-update-broke-my-wifi-connection#comment-151114

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problem with kernel 4.4.0-186

2020-07-31 Thread lcerf
Yes: try it.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel software update broke my WiFi connection

2020-07-29 Thread lcerf
Those steps were not available on the T420 clone, because that computer had no electronic connection to the WiFi-less T420 in spite of its close physical proximity. I had understood: you can "Save Link As..." a file on a flash drive.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel software update broke my WiFi connection

2020-07-29 Thread lcerf
wget -drc http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/l/linux-hwe/linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic_4.15.0-112.113~16.04.1+8.0trisquel3_amd64.deb > /media/george/IPv4/Destination/ None of those three options is useful here. The redirection is not either: the working directory is used.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel software update broke my WiFi connection

2020-07-28 Thread lcerf
Put http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/l/linux-hwe/linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic_4.15.0-112.113~16.04.1+8.0trisquel3_amd64.deb and http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/l/linux-hwe/linux-modules-4.15.0-112-generic_4.15.0-112.113~16.04.1+8.0trisquel3_amd64.deb on the

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel software update broke my WiFi connection

2020-07-28 Thread lcerf
Are you using Trisquel 8's default kernel? If so, try to upgrade it. Installing the linux-image-generic-hwe-8.0 package and rebooting should do it: https://trisquel.info/issues/27129

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in abrowser (malware!?)

2020-07-27 Thread lcerf
As I used to spend 5 mins disabling all the Telemetry Google Firefox telemetry. Enabling/disabling Mozilla's telemetry is a matter of clicking on the box "Allow Abrowser to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" in the "Privacy & Security" tab of the "Preferences". If what you

[Trisquel-users] Re : Optimizing Trisquel for Offline Computing

2020-07-26 Thread lcerf
There is https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ for Android.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Optimizing Trisquel for Offline Computing

2020-07-25 Thread lcerf
Well, download "Dictionary, encyclopedia, music, videos, etc.". https://www.kiwix.org looks great. It allows to read, among other resources, Wikipedia offline. However, on Trisquel 8: $ ./kiwix-desktop_x86_64_2.0.4.appimage ./kiwix-desktop_x86_64_2.0.4.appimage:

[Trisquel-users] Re : "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in abrowser (malware!?)

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
If there is only times.json in the default profile, then you use another profile. You can list the profiles and start any of them by executing in a terminal: $ abrowser -P By the way, if you choose another profile or create a new one, does the problem still exist?

[Trisquel-users] Re : "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in abrowser (malware!?)

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
~/.mozilla/abrowser/*/bookmarkbackups are backups. The current bookmarks are actually in ~/.mozilla/abrowser/*/places.sqlite (a SQLite database). If you have many of them, it could be a good idea to export them as json files from the Library ("Show All Bookmarks") window. It can also be

[Trisquel-users] Re : "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in abrowser (malware!?)

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
APT never touches anything in /home (including the personal settings).

[Trisquel-users] Re : text-based browsers versus Icecat/Abrowser

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
You should complain to the administrators of the sites distributing nonfree JavaScript...

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
Thank you for the excellent news.

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-24 Thread lcerf
The version APT proposes on my Trisquel 8 system is 3.5.18-1-ubuntu1+8.0trisquel1. Is it because I have enabled backports? There is no such backport in xenial-backports. In bionic-updates, the version is 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.4, which indeed looks more recent than the one APT proposes me.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Hidden user agent?

2020-07-23 Thread lcerf
I do not understand that. The user can choose to send cookies to DDG even if DDG is not supposed to use them? If the user changes anything on https://duckduckgo.com/settings a cookie is stored, so that the changes are locally saved and can be applied for the subsequent searches. I do not

[Trisquel-users] Re : Hidden user agent?

2020-07-23 Thread lcerf
My understanding is that Trisquel receives a cut of the ad revenue when Trisquel users view ads on DuckDuckGo, and this parameter is used to indicate to DuckDuckGo that a user was referred from Trisquel. It looks so: https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/t/ It might be a fingprinting risk,

[Trisquel-users] Re : Hidden user agent?

2020-07-23 Thread lcerf
I changed the default search engine to https://html.duckduckgo.com (visit the page, click on the magnifying glass in the search box, "Add DuckDuckGo (HTML)" and set it as the default search engine in the "Preferences"). I do not have that problem.

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-23 Thread lcerf
If the package does not require recent versions of its dependencies, it can be installed on an older distribution. Downloading the package on https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/timeshift/download and double-clicking on it, GDebi, which is installed by default, tells some dependency

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-23 Thread lcerf
triskel and trisquel (notice the spelling difference) provide different sets of default packages. Mainly, triskel comes with the KDE desktop environment and trisquel with the MATE desktop environment. You can have the full list of packages in any ISO by reading the file with the same URL

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-22 Thread lcerf
That would be there: https://trisquel.info/node/add/project-issue/trisquel It would help to discover whether the bug still exists on Trisquel 9, trying to install libgnutls-dev on the live system: http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/ If the bug does not exist anymore, it is

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can't mount LUKS encrypted volumes in Trisquel 9

2020-07-20 Thread lcerf
Here is where to file the bug: https://trisquel.info/node/add/project-issue/trisquel

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-20 Thread lcerf
The same happen if I try to install libgnutls-dev on my system. It looks like a bug...

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
The line numbers and indents were added by the incomprehensible composition code. It is comprehensible: https://trisquel.info/en/filter/tips I'll add helpful comments before I forget how Magic Banana's excellent script is to be used. Again (it must be at least the fourth post in which I

[Trisquel-users] Re : 'N' key blocking 'Left Arrow' key on the laptop keyboard but not on a USB keyboard in STK

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
Well, then I guess X properly reads your input. I have no idea what goes wrong between it and SuperTuxKart.

[Trisquel-users] Re : 'N' key blocking 'Left Arrow' key on the laptop keyboard but not on a USB keyboard in STK

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
Executing 'xev' in a terminal and typing N+Left, I get: KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x501, root 0x154, subw 0x0, time 428454280, (951,480), root:(989,597), state 0x10, keycode 57 (keysym 0x6e, n), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6e) "n"

[Trisquel-users] Re : System backup snapshots

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
I would try to install the libvte-2.91-dev package.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
I executed that, out of curiosity. It essentially does the same as the command line I have given since the beginning of this thread: $ sort -u IPv4.May2020.37.nMapoG.txt | awk 'FILENAME == ARGV[1] { a[$1] = $2 } FILENAME == ARGV[2] && $1 in a { print $2 >> "out/" a[$1] "," $1 }' PTRList.txt

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-19 Thread lcerf
There appears to be a misunderstanding Maybe. If only you would give an example of the expected output... On the other hand, Magic Banana's script is looking at only one of the two files No, it is not. I do not write scripts taking several files in arguments to only use one. I've

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help Retrieving Icedove mail files.

2020-07-17 Thread lcerf
That may help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/473124/extract-duplicity-files-manually

[Trisquel-users] Re : Different battery monitor needed -- Trisquel 8, MATE

2020-07-17 Thread lcerf
I am getting the proper visual notifications every ten seconds Lol. It would be funnier (although a tiny bit annoying) to get the audio notification every 10 seconds: else paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-elapsed.oga I have noticed that notifications do not always

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-17 Thread lcerf
Let's look at Magic Banana's awk command You did not copy the second argument, -, which is essential: it is the standard input, as always with GNU commands. Here: the output of sort -u IPv4.May2020.37.nMapoG.txt. so ARGV[1] has to be www.newsgeni.us and ARGV[2] ought to be 10. No. ARGV

[Trisquel-users] Re : Different battery monitor needed -- Trisquel 8, MATE

2020-07-17 Thread lcerf
I hard-coded everything in the script. That includes the played sound, /usr/share/sounds/question.wav, and how to play it, with aplay, which can only play raw formats. You can modify both lines "aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav" (and even play a different sounds, depending on whether

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help Retrieving Icedove mail files.

2020-07-17 Thread lcerf
Trisquel has had Icedove by default since version 8 was released. Duplicity does not install anything. It recovers files. Icedove's data and configuration are recovered in ~/.icedove whether Icedove is installed or not.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-16 Thread lcerf
As I've stated before, there are redundancies in my scripts, but they force me to check the order of the columns in the original files. That is what help messages are for: #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$3" ] then printf "Usage: $0 PRT_list IPv4_addresses output_dir Both files must have two fields.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-16 Thread lcerf
Yes, either -a 1 or -a 2 ultimately gives the same net output. I prefer the succinct one. The real "succinct one", as you write, would be without option -a. Neither -a 1 nor -a 2. This is what I meant. Is meant to produce something similar to my preamble script As I wrote: it "writes

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help Retrieving Icedove mail files.

2020-07-16 Thread lcerf
'man duplicity' says: It is possible to restore a duplicity archive "manually" by using tar and then cp, rdiff, and rm as necessary. I have never done that.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Find the instances of each of a list of strings and print each set in a separate file

2020-07-16 Thread lcerf
Giving -1 1 and -2 1 as options to join is useless: 1 is their default argument. I also doubt you want -a 1, which makes no difference on the given input. You want to give -k 2,2 to sort, not -k 2 (if not all addresses would start with two digits, the output would be wrong). '-' in

[Trisquel-users] Re : Syntax problems with nested loops

2020-07-15 Thread lcerf
After sitting on Magic Banana's suggested executable script for the near-forever four days, I found the time and concentration to try it. It is the solution I first gave in this thread: https://trisquel.info/forum/syntax-problems-nested-loops#comment-148319 I only: generalized it a bit:

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-15 Thread lcerf
the main file used to do with that awk script for reasons unbeknownst to either of us There is no way the output of sort can be written before its entire input was generated. As I wrote in my last post: "the first line in the output can possibly be the last processed line". Excerpt from

[Trisquel-users] Re : I just installed a fresh copy of Trisquel 8 on my T400

2020-07-15 Thread lcerf
Does installing through other means (such as the "Synaptic Package Manager") work?

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-14 Thread lcerf
I have just realized that, contrary to the command line in the original post, the newer one ends with 'sort'. As a consequence, everything must run to completion before the output is written. Indeed the first line in the output can possibly be the last processed line. You probably want to

[Trisquel-users] Re : Rename files in a specific way

2020-07-14 Thread lcerf
Execute that: $ for dir in ~/Pictures/Photo/*; do nb=01; for photo in "$dir"/*.jpg; do echo mv "$photo" "$(printf "$photo" | sed 's/[0-9]*.jpg$/'$nb.jpg/)"; nb=$(expr $nb + 1 | awk '{ printf "%02i", $1 }'); done; done If it is OK, remove "echo" and execute again.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-14 Thread lcerf
I have had trouble with sort -u and uniq -u, whereas uniq -c works every time All those commands work all the time. Running 'uniq -c' and deleting the counts immediately after is the same as using 'uniq' without option -c. I can find no man page for "fi" It is "end if" in shell language.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-13 Thread lcerf
Save the script I wrote in a file, turn it executable and execute it in a terminal. Without any argument, it asks the kernel to write the buffered data to disk every five second (you can change this default editing the number 5 at the beginning of the script). With one argument, you can

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-13 Thread lcerf
I haven't the slightest clue where sync stores the data in persistent storage; if I knew, I could watch it develop. 'sync' just tells the kernel to write the buffered data to disk. To the files where they would have eventually been written: watch your output files.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can awk as a substitute for paste

2020-07-13 Thread lcerf
'awk' does not aim to synchronize cached writes to persistent storage. 'sync' does. To call it every 5 seconds: while sleep 5 do sync done But you do not want a hard-coded value. A default is good though. Also, for greater performances, you should be able to give the list of the

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-12 Thread lcerf
As far as i understand, considering the whole universe as a digital computer executing a program is rather common among theoretical physicists nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-12 Thread lcerf
A syntactically-correct C program is word in the language C (any other language can substitute C in the sentence), using the classical definition of a formal language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language#Definition When describing a specific programming language, "word" denotes a

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-12 Thread lcerf
Well, a (formal) language is defined as a set of words. Using that definition all valid regular expressions (as given to grep) are a language, all valid AWK programs are a language, etc. AWK is a simple programming language. Contrary to grep (but like sed, what is surprising), it is

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-12 Thread lcerf
The script is also fast, which I was worried about given my files were very large. Notice that the shell is slow. It is a reason to substitute loops in shell scripts (like "while read line; do ... ; done < file") with calls to commands processing the whole input line by line. Essentially

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 9 Etiona

2020-07-12 Thread lcerf
Anything relevant in the "Screensaver Preferences"? As far as I understand, the display manager is responsible for locking the screen. In Trisquel 7, I had to install GDM to get that feature working with GNOME Shell. As far as I remember the related button was not even present in GNOME

[Trisquel-users] Re : after crypt setup, Trisquel does not be loaded

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
Try to press Shift or Esc little after you switch your computer on.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Syntax problems with nested loops

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
Which I adjusted to apply to May2020's recent-visitor data with these alterations You want to write reusable scripts. The input and the output should not be hard-coded. Neither should how many times each prefix is replicated. There can be a default though: 1 looks reasonable. And there

[Trisquel-users] Re : Syntax problems with nested loops

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
Alas, I could not make Magic Banana's script for generating reandomized IPv4 addresses work What does not work? What do you want to do? Generate whole IPv4 addresses instead of only the last two bytes? Then turn -w2 into -w4 (and double the value in argument of -N): $ nb=10; od -A n -t

[Trisquel-users] Re : after crypt setup, Trisquel does not be loaded

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
Have you tried booting the previous kernel, from GRUB's menu (in "Advanced options for Trisquel GNU/Linux")?

[Trisquel-users] Re : after crypt setup, Trisquel does not be loaded

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
If you type Ctrl+Alt+F1, can you log into a text session?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 9 Etiona

2020-07-11 Thread lcerf
Have you looked at the power management preferences, in the "Control Center"? Your computer is probably put to sleep when inactive for 30 minutes. You can set it to "Never" to avoid the problem.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-10 Thread lcerf
Rereading the original post, I notice the task deals with "counting". Assuming no repeated field in a same line, counting the total number of repetitions (3, for the three lines you gave: 2, 12 and 102 are all repeated once) shows the extremely useful END condition, satisfied once the whole

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help w/ Word Search

2020-07-10 Thread lcerf
You can try xfce4-linelight-plugin, which is in the repository: https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-linelight-plugin

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help w/ Word Search

2020-07-10 Thread lcerf
I have not used Xfce for more than a decade. How do you add "something" to the dock? Maybe drag and drop from the main menu (is Caja in there?) works.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-09 Thread lcerf
I never used awk much, if at all, so I have little experience with it (unlike grep which I have used in a few occasions), which is why I didn't think of using it. AWK is a very simple programming language. Very simple to learn too, especially if you know the basics of the languages that

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help w/ Word Search

2020-07-09 Thread lcerf
You should be able to add any launcher to the dock, including one executing 'caja'.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Losing power

2020-07-09 Thread lcerf
Can some sort of overheating trigger a power off? Yes, it can: the processor reads a sensor and shuts the computer off (bypassing the OS) if a critical temperature is reached. The lm-sensors package provides a command to read that sensor (and more). In normal consitions, the critical

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can a path statement be too long or the file too big?

2020-07-09 Thread lcerf
Grep worries me because it selects a lot of names that aren't in the pattern file No, it does not. You do not understand what it does and/or do not use it properly. Beside option -F missing (as I explained in my previous post), a tab should certainly end every pattern. For instance,

[Trisquel-users] Re : Touchbar Macbook Pro and Trisquel 9

2020-07-09 Thread lcerf
I do not know the specific instructions for Macbooks. The general ones are behind this link: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/starting-installable-live-system

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to compare numbers - Help with script

2020-07-08 Thread lcerf
You can use that AWK program: { for (i = 1; i

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can a path statement be too long or the file too big?

2020-07-08 Thread lcerf
Even with the target file moved into the working directory ... so that workaround failed. That is not a workaround. Instead of assuming you are facing limitations or bugs and trying random things, you had better read the documentation and understand what you do wrong. Without option -F,

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can a path statement be too long or the file too big?

2020-07-08 Thread lcerf
grep has no "internal limit": as long as the currently processed line (not file) fits into main memory, it works.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Laptop lid linked to power management

2020-07-08 Thread lcerf
I had understood the problem is with the interrupter on the lid: it must be damaged. I thought you could just tell the OS to "do nothing when laptop lid is closed" (and could use Fn+Fsomething, or the menu, to suspend). Isn't "do nothing" a possible action in Xfce's power manager? It is

[Trisquel-users] Re : I just installed a fresh copy of Trisquel 8 on my T400

2020-07-07 Thread lcerf
No message printed in the terminal?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can a path statement be too long or the file too big?

2020-07-07 Thread lcerf
PATH_MAX is 4096 on Trisquel 8, according to getconf. The maximal file size depends on the filesystem. Trisquel 8's installer chooses XFS for /home, which supports files up to 8 exbibytes. Did you really think that a few tens of characters is beyond limit, for a path? And a few tens of

[Trisquel-users] Re : Help w/ Word Search

2020-07-07 Thread lcerf
Trisquel's default file manager, Caja, has an icon representing with a magnifying glass: click on it (or use Ctrl+F) and type.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Laptop lid linked to power management

2020-07-06 Thread lcerf
In the "Power Managements Preferences", that you can find in MATE's Control Center, you can set the action performed "When laptop lid is closed" ("On AC Power" and "On Battery Power").

[Trisquel-users] Re : Wifi Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 does not work on Debian 10

2020-07-06 Thread lcerf
I confirm, but I do not guarantee it will solve your problem.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Another uniq -u feature emerges

2020-07-06 Thread lcerf
sort -k 1 Temp0706AR.txt > Temp0706AS.txt As I have already told you many times, '-k 1' does not make any difference. It mean "sort the lines considering *everything starting with* the first field". You certainly mean '-k 1,1', which means "sort the lines considering *only* the first

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