Hi Gianluca,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 11:41 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Jim wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 09:56 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24941
>> This suggests that ghostscript is your problem. Did you try copying
>> that from an old system and putting it somewhere in your $PATH before
>> the system ghostscript (on your updated system)?
>> If that doesn't help, I guess you are stuck with okular. As I think I
>> said, it seems as fast as xdvi on my system. If yours is noticeably
>> slower I wonder what strange things are happening on your system.
>> (Assuming you aren't using some very old, slow computer.)
> No, okular is not slow on my system. I never implied that.
Sorry, when you said "I can use okular to display the .dvi document,
but I miss how fast xdvi is." I took it to mean that you thought
okular was slow.
> I just think that xdvi is generally more lightweight than okular,
> but okular runs well. So okular is an option if I can't figure out
> ghostscript.
It is always nice to have a Plan B.
> What exactly would I copy of ghostscript from the older system? In a
> OpenSUSE 13.2 installation I have for example:
> /usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.15/X11.so
> Would that be enough?
I'd guess not. That library provides gs the ability to output to X11
devices, and (in my tests) it is needed to display .eps images in
xdvi, but I speculate you need the ghostscript executable (which is
/usr/bin/gs on my system). If you copy that over from your old system
to your new system, don't forget it needs to be found before the
system one vis-a-vis your $PATH setting.
My version of gs has the path name for that directory hard-coded into
the executable. (On my system the path name for ghostscript's X11.so
library is '/usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.55.0', but on your system that
will be something different.)
Consequently, if you try copying the gs from your old system to your
new one, and they are different versions of gs (which is presumably
the case) you will have to create the correctly-named directory on
your new system and put the library in that directory.
With luck, the old version of gs will play nicely with the
(presumably) newer versions of all the libraries on your new system.
If it doesn't, you can go deeper down the rabbit hole in a number of
ways, but at that point you might want to accept defeat and use
okular. (I could suggest some ways to proceed, but I really doubt you
will find the spending of the required time productive. Much better
to get on with blood clotting research. My vet tells me dog blood
clots many times faster than human blood, but I didn't have the
presence of mind to ask her if she knew why that is so. Maybe you
know.)
> I also realized that my subject line should have read "OpenSUSE 15.2", not
> 15.3, but that may not be as relevant now.
Only, I suppose, if you were submitting a bug report or talking to
another OpenSUSE person about this issue.
Jim
Good Day,
anybody expierencing weird behavior of the mouse pointer after a recent
update on PSB (preliminary stable builds)? Mine keeps "floating" after
a short move in one direction, so it is very hard to hit… It's kinda
hard to describe. But maybe the mouse I've been using since several
years is at last throwing in the towel.
Cheers, Stefan
Hi Gianluca,
On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 15:15 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> Thanks Jim for the tip on "flyspell mode".
Glad to help out.
> What about paragraph justification? I remember it was Ctrl-J?
There is an emacs command "fill-paragraph", which is in the "fill"
package. I have it bound to Alt-Q (which I think is the default
binding, not Ctrl-J) but you can easily re-bind it to any key sequence
you like. (Or, if for some reason you want to do it, you can bind any
command to as many key sequences as you like.)
> Can you set a specific line length, like in gvim I had set 93
> characters per line?
The above paragraph was wrapped automagically according to my setting
of "fill-column", which I have set to 70 for email messages.
If you want paragraphs justified, you can give an argument to
fill-paragraph. For example, if I copy the above paragraph and type
Ctrl-U Alt-Q, I get
There is an emacs command "fill-paragraph", which is in the "fill"
package. I have it bound to Alt-Q (which I think is the default
binding, not Ctrl-J) but you can easily re-bind it to any key sequence
you like. (Or, if for some reason you want to do it, you can bind any
command to as many key sequences as you like.)
Whether you like those results better than ragged-right is up to you,
of course.
Cheers.
Jim
Hi TDE users list!
This may be a bit off-topic to TDE but still related to new libraries. I
noticed that in OpenSUSE 15.3 gvim is compiled against GTK3.
Interestingly, this makes it very slow. At first, when I'm editing a
document it works fine, but then after a while it gets so slow that I need
to close it and restart it. Has anybody else had the same issue and knows
a workaround?
An alternative is to install an older version of gvim that was compiled
against GTK2 from an older OpenSUSE distribution. Has anybody tried
anything similar?
It is hard to find an alternative text editor that has instant spell
check. Any ideas? I use it mostly for LaTeX.
Thanks!
Gianluca
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It looks like OpenSuSE has decided to deprecate Leap, their long-term stable release,
possibly in favour of Tumbleweed, their rolling release (they're being very coy about
what will replace Leap). Trinity runs on numerous other Linuxes; which would be best for
someone like me who values stability over gee-whiz features and eye-candy?
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
Hi All,
Four quick questions to see if Slávek, Mike, myself, et al. should pursue
creating an easy (NAT VPS / home TDE mirror) setup.
https://take.quiz-maker.com/QJUQPIFKX
Even if you don’t think you’ll be able to help out with this, please do take
the poll as the info will be useful for future TDE decisions.
Best All,
Michael
Is there a way to make the Clock applet display the day of the week in short (Wed) rather
than long (Wednesday) format? In Control Center => Regional & Accessibility =>
Country/Region & Language => Time & Dates tab one can set the short day of the week in
the date format fields, but not separately. (See attached)
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
Hi All,
As most of you know, I donate a mirror to TDE. It costs ~USD100 / year [1].
Mine has ~18 months left, but it’s hard drive isn’t really big enough for
what Slávek wants/needs long term. (It’s also completely overkill in terms
of memory/cpu.)
I recently saw an article about NAT VPSes [2] whose prices are under $10 /
year [3]. These, with some tinkering, can be setup to tunnel traffic to a
home box (which could be running a VM to act as a TDE mirror).
VM’s can be ‘packaged’ such that they are one click imports (at least on
Oracle VirtualBox). That would allow Slávek to be able to create it once and
then any one of us could install it locally.
My graphics skills suckage, but something like:
mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org >
NAT VPS >
Your public IP (from ISP) >
[Your router/NAT/'ISP thingy'] >
Your home server >
VM (on your home server)
I’ve used SSH tunnels for 20+ years, but we’d probably need Slávek or someone
with more knowledge of traffic tunneling than me, to help with the full setup
(as I think iptables is probably a better solution?).
# # #
Okay, why?
1) I think several of us have existing home hardware that has a spare ~2TB,
can run a 1CPU/2GB RAM VM, and runs 24/7 already.
2) At ~$5 per year it’d be a very cheap way for TDE to have multiple mirrors
that have the full space available Slávek wants.
Thoughts?
And a show of hands of people who’d provide a TDE mirror under something like
this?
Best All,
Michael
[1]
Current offers are roughly 90/yr for VPSes w/ 48GB RAM, 720GB NVMe, 12 vCPU,
24TB transfer (triennial billing).
https://www.ssdnodes.com/sale/aug-2022-offers/
[2]
https://lowendbox.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-nat-vps-anyway/
[3]
One offer: $4/year
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180327/clearance-sale-nat-vps-at-cost-new…
On Friday 02 September 2022 05:40:24 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> I keep wanting to run Whonix, but I first I need
> to find a better place to live. So then, back to Devuan, which is simple
> and just works.
Whonix should run on Devuan. Install Oracle VirtualBox [1], then install
Whonix[2].
You will need roughly 4GB free RAM to dedicate to it when it's running.
That’ll get you up and running in less than an hour.
Best,
Michael
PS:
1) Change all four of the Whonix users’ passwords!
2) Change the background of the Gateway to red....
[1]
This installs VB on Debian, should be the same (or very similar) package
names.
<install_package_names>
virtualbox
virtualbox-ext-pack
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
<postinstall> << as root or use sudo
gpasswd -M $(getent group users | cut -d: -f4) vboxusers
[2]
Download and (basically) a one click install.
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox
