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Cell phone screen removal
by Chris Miller 17 May '23

17 May '23

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TLS
by Chris Miller 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hi Folks, If I am on a Windows workstation and I RDP to another Windows machine, then I have no problem. If I am on a Fedora workstation, then the RDP session fails with complaints about TLS. This raises the question, how is the Fedora workstation is supposed to be configured to participate in TLS authentication/encryption, and why is it not, and what do I do about it? How can this be tested? -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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Re: GTK
by Gary 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Thanks for the idea. It looks interesting. SDL2 is available in my repo. I found this on Stack Exchange: SDL and GTK are quite different in the sense that SDL just tries to provide you with a drawing surface and device inputs. GTK provides you with a user interface toolkit, that is, it provides you with user interface elements such as scrollbars, push buttons and so on. GTK is also quite complex compared to SDL. So I'd definitely go with SDL here. C or C++.. That's a can of worms I'm not going to open I also found comments that SDL is easier and lower level, which seem contradictory to me, but which is consistent with the Stack Exchange post. I only want to capture mouse events a la xdotool, so SDL might be just what I need. I've found some tutorials that aren't Youtube videos, so I'll check it out. -Gary Think the easiest, smoothest path for that might be SDL. On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote: > I'm thinking about writing a small app that uses mouse input. I could do > it in Java pretty quickly, but I thought I would broaden my horizons and > used GTK. I did something with Perl and GTK a very long time ago This > time, I was thinking of using C. Maybe I'll explore C++ or Rust, but for > such a small app, I think it is probably overkill. I never learned C++ and > I'm wondering if I should invest in it or just learn Rust, That is > probably for another day anyhow. > > My question is about GTK versions. Normally, I would just take the most > recent version of GTK and go from there, but it seems like there are > backwards compatibility issues. My devel system seems to have libraries > for 2 and 3 at least. I just ran into a bunch of version incompatibility > issues with XPRA. Am I going to have more that the usual amount of pain > with GTK and should I pick a version other that 4? I am assuming I can > just install 4 on the deployment system and it will happily live with the > other versions. > > -Gary >

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GTK
by Gary 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

I'm thinking about writing a small app that uses mouse input. I could do it in Java pretty quickly, but I thought I would broaden my horizons and used GTK. I did something with Perl and GTK a very long time ago This time, I was thinking of using C. Maybe I'll explore C++ or Rust, but for such a small app, I think it is probably overkill. I never learned C++ and I'm wondering if I should invest in it or just learn Rust, That is probably for another day anyhow. My question is about GTK versions. Normally, I would just take the most recent version of GTK and go from there, but it seems like there are backwards compatibility issues. My devel system seems to have libraries for 2 and 3 at least. I just ran into a bunch of version incompatibility issues with XPRA. Am I going to have more that the usual amount of pain with GTK and should I pick a version other that 4? I am assuming I can just install 4 on the deployment system and it will happily live with the other versions. -Gary

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smtp.gmail.com
by Chris Miller 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

Hi Folks, I want to use gmail to send myself backup logs, since my mail server is not available during backup. I continue to get a credential error, but the credentials I am using are correct. I suspect that this is the result of "two-factor" authentication, which I am not using on gmail, but which has caused the "allow less secure access" to be disabled. I could use my ISP and configure an "Upstream SMTP-Smart Host", but then I have a detail to remember and reconfigure should I ever change my ISP. Is anybody doing this successfully, without submitting to "Google Workspaces" or "Microsoft Office 365"? Thanks for the help, -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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Re: smtp.gmail.com
by Chris Miller 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

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any local electronics stores left?
by Brian E. Lavender 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

I need to get an USB to 2.1mm Male Barrel Jack Cable. It's similar to the following. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2697 Are there any local stores that sell this? Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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virtual box 7 is out
by Brian E. Lavender 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

I installed Virtual Box 7 on my Windoze machine. It seems to work pretty well. https://www.virtualbox.org/ I am using it to run Debian hosts. Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Tiling Windows Managers
by Chris Miller 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hi Folks, Once again I seek your experience and advice. I want a tiling window manager, and I have relatively few features: I'd like to be able to * open an arbitrary number of "panes" and run something in them. Maybe some predefined layouts. * cycle the panes * drag one pane on top of another and have that be interpreted as a pane swap. * resize panes by dragging the boundaries. I have tried i3 and xmonad and I got no-f******-where with them. It is not clear to me why they didn't work, but I don't thing I want to spend the effort to find out, unless somebody has a very strong endorsement for either of them. Anybody got any war stories about this that end with a victory? Thanks for the help, -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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Vim shifty comment behavior
by Chris Miller 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Hi Folks, When I comment out a line, vim left justifies the line, but I want the indentation to say exactly where it is! Does anybody now when vim setting is responsible for either 1) Causing the shifty left justification of comments, so I can delete it 2) Suppresses this shifty left justification that is maybe part of some other setting, which maybe does things I want. I just want it to stop! (-: Thanks for the help, -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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