Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread wwp
bandon few things, the good point is that it gave me more time for disconnected activities, which could be a not-so-minor turn in life. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgphDid8YrQV2.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ___

Re: copy/paste nedit -> geany

2023-11-13 Thread wwp
e copy, stuff that work everywhere, don't work here! I tried all ways between nedit/pluma/geany, it's only nedit->geany that doesn't work. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpCVVla7Tcqg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mai

Re: Creating a ScreenShot HotKey Script

2023-09-16 Thread wwp
by CTRL-C (say). > > Is this possible? Should I be trying to do this from Sway? What file format is your document? Couldn't you "just" export pages to another (image) format? IOW, why do you want to make *screenshots*? Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ p

Re: Help needed: disabling system wide the Caps lock key in GNOME/Xwayland

2023-08-04 Thread wwp
tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html > > :-). Just curious, does this mean that xbindkeys wouldn't work in wayland? Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpkWs7wOUiXU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ use

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread wwp
Hello Tim, On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:51:45 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, wwp wrote: > > One could also set firefox's window (or the other target app) to be > > always on top or to be in another focus mode, handled by the window > > manager

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread wwp
unlike the others. One could also set firefox's window (or the other target app) to be always on top or to be in another focus mode, handled by the window manager - at least when being in mode "multi-click", that might help. Mate users can do that easily, devilspie may help as well

Re: tar

2023-02-01 Thread wwp
he command-line. Playing with the IFS env. var. can also help. See: # supposing that "a b" and "c d" exist: $ list=`find . -name "a b" -o -name "c d"` or $ list=`ls -1 "a b" "c d"` $ echo $list a b c d $ echo "$list" a b c d $ tar cvzf a

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread wwp
get the whole conversations offline (at least what you received since you subscribed), even writing can be done offline (send later), whereas it's not that easy with web content. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgp_ytN4nnyQk.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: OT: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread wwp
Hello all, I can see on the gimp and mc (midnight commander) mailing lists, very interesting information about viable alternatives and that the resistance is raising. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgp8XfR29It3n.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-14 Thread wwp
een using Thunderbird with all its > > warts. But then really they all have warts. > > > > I don't think that I could use TB... I like the MH file format, less > chance of corruption. [snip] TB has support for the MH file format. This has to be tuned when you create

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-14 Thread wwp
Hello John, On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:40:16 -0500 John Mellor wrote: > On 2022-02-13 2:09 p.m., c. marlow wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:54:16 +0100 > > wwp wrote: > > > >> Moreover, using IMAP will make > >> you dependent of remote resource and y

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-11 Thread wwp
IMAP accounts generate much more network traffic, that's a problem to me. I also experienced very slow or unreliable IMAP servers (orange.fr, the worst one ever?) and when it's slow or not reliable, having to push everything online (drafts, sent and their copy to Sent emails, ..) i

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread wwp
ame amount of configuration and setup, at the end, and the pros of NAS-based solution come with their cons anyway. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpI9x4NiMv5a.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fe

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread wwp
) > > > > I do not have a net preference between mechanical and optical > > storage even if I suppose that given the same storage size > > mechanical solutions are cheaper and optical ones are faster. > > Probably cheaper (especially when associated with m

Re: bash command

2021-06-04 Thread wwp
man page, I find that -v stands for verbose, telling you > what's happening. -V, --version -v, --invert-match Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpe9qIHFDtR1.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: xnview

2021-01-31 Thread wwp
lled XnViewMP-linux-x64.tgz, but I get: > > > > > /usr/src/misc/XnView/XnView: error while loading shared libraries: > > > > > libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > > > > directory > &g

Re: xnview

2021-01-31 Thread wwp
; Can I fix this issue? > > > > Yes you can! > > > > I installed XnViewMP on CentOS 7 and faced the same problem. Thus I > > created a symbolic link: > > /opt/XnView/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 -> /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 > > > > > > Regards, > > &g

Re: xnview

2021-01-30 Thread wwp
ies: > libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Can I fix this issue? Yes you can! I installed XnViewMP on CentOS 7 and faced the same problem. Thus I created a symbolic link: /opt/XnView/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 -> /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 Regards, -

Re: nedit vs geany

2020-04-26 Thread wwp
t/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1745907 > My current option is to go through gedit > > nedit-5.7-6.fc30.x86_64 > geany-1.36-1.fc30.x86_64 > gedit-3.32.2-1.fc30.x86_64 Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpK7lxMT5wMh.pgp Descrip

Re: nedit vs geany

2020-04-26 Thread wwp
th X paste buffer as well. in CentOS 7. Sorry, it's not Fedora but I see no valid reason why it should not work for you. For the record: nedit-5.7-1.el7.x86_64 geany-1.31-3.el7.x86_64 Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpI5GcrRm8wt.pgp Description:

Re: ~/Desktop file not showing up as icon on desktop

2020-02-05 Thread wwp
Dec > 30 12:51 Umweltsau.flac > > I guess we can close this case. The problem disappeared after logout/login. > All files in ~/Desktop shown. Maybe pressing F5 would have helped (focus being set to the desktop first). Another reason why a .desktop could not show is if the command it refers

Re: 24 hour time again -

2019-12-25 Thread wwp
=~ "$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:" ]] > > then > >     PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH" > > fi > > export PATH > > > > # Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging > > feature: > > # expor

Re: How to protect 2 kernels from upgrades?

2019-10-26 Thread wwp
for quite some time. Likewise with a prior kernel. Having more > > to backtrack through gives you more debugging options. > > Mine was at 8, now it is at 18, so as long as I keep track I won't lose > my important kernels. That wasn't my question. My question is how

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

2019-10-10 Thread wwp
ginal these days. >   >  Swapping to a mechical > > disk  would be really slow if the disk is failing. > > > > -- > George N. White III > > > > > > _______ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: Slow....And STILL Slow!?....

2019-10-10 Thread wwp
Other hardware/kernel-related issues will be harder to find. Are you able to run hardware diagnostics/tests on this system? (various brands provide such tools available at boot time) Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ pgpTZM9F3CikH.pgp

Re: How do I de-blur a picture?

2019-07-23 Thread wwp
onstructed, it cannot be called "a non-blur picture of the flower", it will just be an approximation. Movies showing un-blurring (like a CIA operator treating a hyper-pixelized blurred satellite picture) are meant to make you dreaming. Regards, -- wwp pgpbYYgThvEeE.pgp Descrip

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-04 Thread wwp
gt; > > > I tried the same thing on F30 with the same result. > > > > Can someone tell me what's going on? > > > > Paolo > > Hi Paolo, > > It is probably formatted in NTFS. For the sake of the archives, I've just bought several ones too (

Re: Qemu also out of memory overnight

2019-07-01 Thread wwp
ight: it was listing files from an enormous disk, the amount of memory for this was huge and firefox and other big memory eaters being killed nearly every night. Regards, -- wwp pgpVRK90j7p23.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users maili

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-09 Thread wwp
s your hardware requires kernel (and more) support that is only found in Fedora, which is another important detail (for instance, you might fail w/ CentOS7 or Redhat7 on fresh hardware). Regards, -- wwp pgprjH3NLfti1.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: Install on Zotac Zbox CI327?

2018-12-11 Thread wwp
Hello, On Sun, 28 May 2017 21:20:13 +0200 Branko Grubic wrote: > On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 15:12 +0200, wwp wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > (after a looong time not using Fedora, just back to it!) > > > > I've tried installing Fedora on a Zotac Zbox CI32

Re: night light mode

2018-12-02 Thread wwp
ation manually (possibly from a GUI), at least that's how it works quite everywhere else since mobile era and gps-equipped devices. Regards, -- wwp pgpKRjcy9YQ12.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-06 Thread wwp
the CentOS stability an update policy is more or less equivalent to Debian's one). Regards, -- wwp pgpME6YTfjKKA.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-23 Thread wwp
mething... place where each > user could have their pictures stored. This is correct, from CentOS7/MATE, the menu item System/Preferences/Personal/About me allows assigning an image to your "profile". The image turns to be stored as ~/.face. Here I've set a 89x100 PNG file but I don'

Re: One webcam, two /dev/video

2018-09-18 Thread wwp
irrelevant here. Regards, -- wwp pgp9jzT0dbCWs.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.or

Re: Videos on Fox news don't work

2018-09-15 Thread wwp
roxy? Any firefox add-on? > And my machine, also FC28 and Xfve 4.12, Foxnews.com > works perfectly. I can't figure out what is different. [snip] Are you both on the same network as your customer, do you run the same add-ons? Regards, -- wwp pgpAoWtQOsxjt.pgp Description

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-10 Thread wwp
Windows systems up way less often. IOW, Michael, thanks for providing g4l! Regards, -- wwp pgpps79xhf4L8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread wwp
Hello Ranjan, On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 05:35:16 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:31:05 +0200 wwp wrote: > > > Hello Ranjan, > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:20:37 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread wwp
to keep the second disk in sync w/ the first one as frequently as possible? Regards, -- wwp pgp1w5dnC0yHt.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...

Re: Fonts in F27

2018-05-11 Thread wwp
*/ -/* #define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS */ +#define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS /* */ I had to install freetype 2.9 on my CentOS7 and noticed the font height change. Applied the patch, now it looks like w/ freetype 2.7. Regards,

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread wwp
. Hibernation and switch off won't (all leds off anyway). Regards, -- wwp pgpUCz9svBt7U.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread wwp
recharging by varying degrees. > > Have I missed something in the power settings or is my battery on it's > way out? Of course you don't have any USB device still plugged in and draining? Some laptops are configured to keep some of the USB plugs powered even if computer is swi

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-05 Thread wwp
d. I have several filters working and displaying incoming new > messages in the sub-directories I've created. But I still have 785 earlier > messages in the fastmail inbox that I would like to run through those filters > and have not found how to do that? I already gave you a clue about

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-04 Thread wwp
y "filtering rules" by doing Tools/Filter all messages in folder or Tools/Filter selected messages. > One other thing, how do I tell a it to go back and look at the inbox and move > mail from there into a directory using a new filter/process I have created? Got your an

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-26 Thread wwp
Hello Bob, On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:50:48 -0500 Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us> wrote: > On 02/26/18 14:22, wwp wrote: > > > > Well, as I could check, your +1 in your previous message was based on > > your experience with Claws Mail, 9 years ago. It's basi

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-26 Thread wwp
Hello Patrick, On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:56:19 + Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 17:35 +0100, wwp wrote: > > > Claws at one time used (3) as the default. Not sure if it still does. I > > > remember pointing out

Re: OT: force re-download in clasw-mail

2018-02-26 Thread wwp
inting out to the devs that IMAP mail was originally > designed to use (2) so that should be the default (as it is in > Evolution) since it's a) it's more efficient in both space and time > server-side, and b) it makes it trivial to implement undelete without > having to restore a bunch

Re: how to convert a ma4 file to other format??

2018-01-28 Thread wwp
gt;>> > >>> could be done. > >> Close, but that will give you output files like filename.m4a.mp3. > >> > >> for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%.m4a}.mp3"; done > > Hey, what to you want for 03:20?  :-) :-) > >

Re: Windows 10 update ate Fedora 25 boot info: EFI. LVM, LUKS, oh, my!

2017-12-12 Thread wwp
rienced the same here, since then I'm no longer booting into Windows on my (dual-boot) laptop, but fixing it afterwards doesn't seem very satisfying, isn't it possible to prevent Windows from killing other systems from the EFI? How come such situation where Windows can do that? Regards, -- wwp

Re: Video Download Helper will not run with Firefox 57

2017-11-22 Thread wwp
anion app is ready for use. But after > repeated shutdowns and restarts, VDH still will not download anything. And that's the case for all extensions that didn't move to the webextension format. What a killer Firefox upgrade.. FYI: https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ Regards, --

Re: OT: tool to download a video

2017-11-04 Thread wwp
3 words.  "chrome browser extension" As far as I could test, few firefox extensions can download that specific video as well. Regards, -- wwp pgpqO6ZVDE2S3.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread wwp
ld make > Firefox faster? According to what I could read on the add-on page users' feedback, it's more about making firefox slower than faster ;-). Here it doesn't work at all, but that's another topic! Regards, -- wwp pgpUbRkek5MaC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Fedora 26 (Live) on Dell XPS 15 9560

2017-07-28 Thread wwp
but no luck. How could I get more info about what prevent from booting? Any hint? Regards, -- wwp pgpQstOXKII4O.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [F25] only black screen with KDE Plasma session

2017-06-23 Thread wwp
erent kernel but both 4.11.4 and 4.11.5 give > the same issue. > I have an nvidia card but I use the nouveau driver on this computer > (never installed the proprietary driver). Are you able to plug a secondary screen in? If so, how does it behave? Regards, -- wwp signature.asc Descripti

Re: Install on Zotac Zbox CI327?

2017-05-30 Thread wwp
Hello Branko, On Sun, 28 May 2017 21:20:13 +0200 Branko Grubic <bitlord0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 15:12 +0200, wwp wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > (after a looong time not using Fedora, just back to it!) > > > > I've tried install

Re: Moderator approval?

2017-05-28 Thread wwp
Hello Kevin, On Fri, 26 May 2017 17:09:28 -0600 Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On 05/26/2017 04:56 PM, wwp wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > sorry to disturb w/ list management issues.. I've been tried to post > > here but my message is waiting for mode

Install on Zotac Zbox CI327?

2017-05-28 Thread wwp
.. https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/iRx8d~7Luk2TC3bsaDuuT15M1UNdIGYhyRLivL9gydE= BTW, I could install and run a Ubuntu 17.10 daily (artful-desktop-amd64-20170519.iso) - wow it starts up pretty quickly - and that gave me hope! Any hint or experience w/ such hardware? Regards, -- wwp

Moderator approval?

2017-05-26 Thread wwp
instead, no luck. Is there really a moderator or am I blacklisted in some way for an obscure reason? (I could post a reply to another thread) Regards, -- wwp pgpuK3pBXyy3M.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: [Solved (with Windows..]: F25 rsync failure on USB drive, folder corrupted

2017-05-23 Thread wwp
out broadband, only feasible > option to exchange/keep in sync when we meet/ huge collections like these is > usb port powered drives. This happened to me once or twice. I had to take care of what USB ports on my laptop are safe or not, with regards to either the delivered power or to reliabili