tde-users August 2021

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GRUB menu issue
by dep 08 Aug '21

08 Aug '21

This came up in conversation here a few days ago -- I was the one asking -- and there being a solution I thought I'd post it here. For reasons unknown, and that make no sense to me, the GRUB menu is not enabled by default in Ubuntu 20,04 and perhaps closely related distributions. To get it back, it's necessary to edit the default /etc/default/grub, changing GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE='hidden" to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="menu" and uncommenting GRUB_TERMINAL="console" and after that the GRUB menu is back at boot. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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As long as we're here . . .
by dep 08 Aug '21

08 Aug '21

. . . I have in my /boot directory four kernels -- the running one (5.4.0-80) -- and some rather hoary ones: 4.4.0-124, 3.13.0-147, and 3.13.0-126. i do not currently have nor do I imagine ever having need for the last three. Thought I'd get rid of 'em, but they do not show up in Ubuntu Cleaner or anything else capable of sending them to the bit bucket. So. Anybody know any reason I'd want to keep them and, absent such a reason, anybody know a quick and complete way of deleting them? Used to be they'd always at least show up in Synaptic, but not this time. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Anybody here using an SSD?
by dep 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

Hi, everybody! I'm giving some thought to putting an SSD in my desktop machine. The relatively small ones, ~500gb, have gotten pretty cheap, and they seem to be fairly reliable (though I can't say I utterly trust them, though traditional HDs aren't perfect in this regard, either). It seems that if properly employed, one could speed up my system considerably. But I thought I'd ask here before pushing the buy button. So . . . has anyone here used an SSD in a desktop machine? If so, what did you put on it? I have 20tb of storage on the machine, most of it big photo files, and I expect to keep all of it. Absent a compelling reason to the contrary, I'd keep ~/ on a conventional hard drive as well. My initial idea is putting the / partition and swap partitions on the thing, with everything home and below staying put. An additional consideration is my idea of keeping a fully current install where it is now, though not using it unless the SSD blows up. Is this reasonably easy to do, or would it be a giant pita? Anyone here have any experience doing this kind of thing? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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GSmartControl
by Edward 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

I just installed smartmontools and gsmartcontrol on one of my Debian systems and it will not launch from the TDE menu. When I then attempted to launch as sudo from a terminal window, this was the result: > sudo gsmartcontrol > No protocol specified > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused > > (gsmartcontrol:3280): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:04:14.299: cannot open > display: :0 Is this not compatible with Trinity? -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience. TDE: R14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

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kpdf requesting pasword for passwordfree pdf
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

Hi all! Giving this PDF https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2304760.pdf kpdf requires a password to open it while firefox does not. Anybody knows the reason for this? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Two things, both on the same basic machine, a dell 7010
by Gene Heskett 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Greetings all; 1. I was forced by an errant mill table trapping and crushing my last logitech K360 keyboard with a different keyboard, one which has a row of buttons across the top/rear that among other things includes a power switch, and another that apparently makes it hibernate. It is virtually impossible to pick up this keyboard and take it the 3 or 4 feet to the machine without inadvertently pressing one or more of these buttons. None of them are of any use around potentially dangerous machinery. This is a row of buttons above the F buttons which the control program running the machine makes liberal use of. I need to completely disable that whole row of buttons, or find a source of logitech NOS K-360's. How can I do that? Second, some debian ID10T has decreed that F10 is to bring up a useless to me menu, meaning the exit from mc now demands I find and pick up the $%#@&& mouse and use it to click on the F10 button at the bottom right of the mc screen. Where, in TDE do I find where that hijacking is being done so I can turn it off so I can run mc from the keyboard like I've been doing for 22 years? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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