| systemdlete | I just returned to my computer after a number of hours away and found this window in a peculiar state. I had done nothing to that window recently. Can anyone tell me what happened here? https://imgur.com/6C0Yhnv.png | 01:38 |
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| systemdlete | thanks | 01:38 |
| systemdlete | xfce4-terminal is set for utf-8. I did remove ghostscript yesterday, but I wouldn't think that should impact the terminal. | 01:41 |
| systemdlete | so maybe ghostscript installs some of its own font sets, which get added to the terminals options also, and somehow it defaulted to one of those. Then I removed ghostscript and the fontset disappeared, leaving only boxes? scenario like that? | 01:43 |
| systemdlete | I just selected a different font and now all is well. | 01:43 |
| systemdlete | I do notice, however, that there are about 6 or 7 fonts listed as boxes, even now. | 01:44 |
| mason | systemdlete: Maybe try "stty sane" and see if it helps? | 01:52 |
| systemdlete | ^^^ "all is well" | 01:54 |
| systemdlete | but thanks | 01:54 |
| systemdlete | The problem was the font, which apparently got removed with ghostscript | 01:55 |
| systemdlete | I removed gs because I don't even have a working printer. But I guess some programs use gs for formatting as well, like pdf viewers and the like. Maybe not such a great idea to remove it | 01:55 |
| systemdlete | The font I selected to replace it looks nice enough for my tastes | 01:56 |
| systemdlete | I try to remove any and all packages I don't really use. Not so much to save space, though. More so that I am not constantly being nagged to upgrade this or that package which I am not even using. | 01:57 |
| systemdlete | Less maintenance this way, to my way of thinking. | 01:57 |
| systemdlete | Of course this comes the risk of breaking something, but that's sort of rare, I think. | 01:58 |
| Fnerd | hi | 13:16 |
| gnarface | greetings Fnerd, if you have any questions don't wait for permission to ask them, just ask them and be patient (this can be a slow channel, especially on weekend nights) | 13:17 |
| Fnerd | i have upgraded from beowolf to chimaera and in the update i have killed my xscreensaver as it says in the upagrade documantation | 13:18 |
| Fnerd | now is my questionm how can i show what initsystem i have and than resart the xscreensaver | 13:19 |
| Fnerd | its a vm in virtualbox | 13:19 |
| Fnerd | and how can i work the guest additions ose or how its called work again or check if they work again? | 13:20 |
| gnarface | well, i can answer the second question at least: if you didn't purposefully change the init it's still sysvinit, the default. if you run "dpkg -l |grep sysv" it should show 4 packages, and if you run "dpkg -l |grep openrc" it should show none | 13:23 |
| gnarface | as for editing the startup services, the easiest approach is probably to try using sysv-rc-conf (just install it and run it, should have a fairly obvious ncurses interface) | 13:24 |
| gnarface | that assumes you' | 13:24 |
| gnarface | *you're actually using sysvinit | 13:24 |
| gnarface | stick around though, someone certainly knows the other answers | 13:24 |
| gnarface | the other tool to edit sysvinit startup services is called update-rc.d, and i think it should be installed by default, but its use is comparatively arcane | 13:27 |
| gnarface | they're just symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d/ directories though, you can edit them by hand too | 13:28 |
| fsmithred | I just checked the upgrade instructions and it says to "killall xscreensaver" so I would expect it to restart on its own with a reboot. | 13:36 |
| fsmithred | xscreensaver should be started by the desktop. Check Settings, Session and Startup, Autostart Apps. | 13:40 |
| fsmithred | ^^^ Fnerd | 13:40 |
| gnarface | hmm, come to think of it, i don't actually recall xscreensaver having a sysvinit script to begin with though... i though it was one of those things you were supposed to start from your user session, regardless of the init system | 13:40 |
| gnarface | oh, that's what you just said, sorry | 13:40 |
| Fnerd | yep xscreensaver works again it looked at me sa i came back from lunch | 13:41 |
| fsmithred | and fwiw, the sysvinit commands will work for openrc and any services in a runit system that haven't been configured to use runit. | 13:44 |
| Fnerd | yep its sysv | 13:46 |
| Fnerd | so how so i check if the virtualbox-guest-addtions-ose do work again? | 13:47 |
| Fnerd | sorry for me stupid and reptitiv questions :-) | 13:48 |
| fsmithred | it's been a long time since I've bothered with the guest additions. | 13:49 |
| Fnerd | okay | 13:49 |
| fsmithred | mount the iso file in the vm and run some command that's in it? | 13:49 |
| fsmithred | what's the name of the guest additions iso? I want to see if I have it on my hard drive. I only need enough to use as a search term. | 13:50 |
| fsmithred | nm, I found one. | 13:51 |
| fsmithred | I don't recall how it got to this location: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso | 13:53 |
| fsmithred | and I think you need to run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run which is in that iso. | 13:53 |
| fsmithred | It's in my host system at that location. | 13:53 |
| fsmithred | and I'm looking at a beowulf system | 13:54 |
| fsmithred | virtualbox.org will have authentic instructions | 13:55 |
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