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Thanks again CwF for all your suggestions. This is what I am going to have to live with for now, and is really as conveient as can be, even if rather peculiar, and possibly not totally advisable: Add my userid to the lp group Here is one other strange thing that may offer clues as to what is so pecu...

Thanks again CwF! Your comment on the difference between /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/ is very useful, and so I will ignore the latter for now. Unfortunately I cannot make much headway regarding the policy issue, an area I am totally unfamiliar with, and pkaction doesn't seem to reve...

OK . . . Finally figured out that the path to a usb device is /dev/ bus /usb/Bus#/Device#, where Bus# and Device# are found in the output from the command lsusb. E.g. presently for me I have the scanner on Bus 001 Device 007, as seen here (under " Panasonic (Matsushita) KX-MB1520 "), and n...

I just ran a successful scan from root again with this debugging command echo OK ... $env{libsane_matched} ... $env{DEVNAME} >> /home/nick/x/x 2>&1 added to both 99-libsane1.rules: ENV{DEVNAME}!="", ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/usr/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw $env...

Thanks for the idea, CwF. Of course I have made sure that I am in the scanner group. There was nothing in /etc/udev/rules.d/ so I just copied the two files /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-libsane1.rules and /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules into /etc/udev/rules.d/ but sadly that makes no difference. ...

I have the same problem in Debian 12.5. The scanner is a Panasonic KX-MB1520 and is all set up to work properly, but unfortunately as root only. I understand most of what bicyclesonthemoon says, except what appears to be key to his solution I have a solution A rule has to be added: #LiDE 300 ATTRS{i...

This is a more detailed followup to the issues raised in [Solved] Looking for command line access to mate-control-center settings . The general solution suggested there was to use gsettings rather than xinput, but should one want to configure mouse behavior in the display manager lightdm, the behavi...

Thanks a lot for the detailed suggestions mrnordio2! For some reason the schema ids on my system are quite different from what you show, but the approach you outline involving gsettings is exactly what I was looking for. For example nick@nickspanasonic:~$ gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-mouse lef...

I am looking for a good command line tool to access the settings used by mate-control-center, at least those for the mouse/touchpad dialog box. xinput (at least with my understanding of it) does not work very well for the following reasons: Mouse "handedness" settings: The map button seque...

Turns out the culprit was setting up a gmail account. When setting one up, you need to uncheck the two "Google Features" "Add Calendar to this account" and "Add Contacts to this account" before adding the account to evolution. Having not noticed this the first time, the...

Thanks! I did not intend for you to spend any big effort just to help my personal debugging, and in fact, I can now report that something else other than the evolution installation itself is causing keyring access at login: Having just realized I had a test machine of my own available, and now it ha...

Thanks for this feedback pbear, which got me to dig a bit more thoroughly into what might be automatically launched with mate, but that still reveals nothing to give me a y clue. I have essentially the same setup as your test box, so that adds to the mystery -- especially having not added very much ...

Using the default installer I just did a fresh install of bookworm (debian 12.5) with mate desktop. I would like to only unlock the keyring the first time it is needed during a session. However as it is, mate always wants to open the keyring at startup. I see no reason for that since, as far as I ca...

Thanks. Good to know!
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Running Evolution 3.46.4-2 in bookworm Mate environment (straight, essentially unaltered from 12.5 repos). Should Ibe concerned about the following messages: 1) Upon Evolution startup: ** (evolution:3185): WARNING **: 10:13:50.371: Failed to canonicalize path /home/nick/.local/share/evolution/previe...

[EDIT]: See strange solution added at bottom of post. Just installed latest stable bookworm (debian 12.5) on a Panasonic CF-54 laptop ("Toughbook") with mate desktop, In Evolution, whenever I try to run spellcheck with German or French checked in "Edit -> Preferences -> Composer Prefe...

Running Evolution 3.22.6 in Debian 9.2 EDIT: Upgrade to latest stretch update (Debian 9.13) does not fix the problem. A few days ago I started getting this error in evolution when trying to retrieve email from my icloud imap server: Failed to open folder. The reported error was "Error fetching ...

@CwF: Thanks, I understand you now. Nonetheless . . . root@newlaptop:/home/nick# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=test.iso bs=2048 count=8191 dd: error reading '/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 0.102789 s, 0.0 kB/s root@newlaptop:/home/nick# Same with all smaller mul...

Sorry, @CwF, but I do not quite get what you are asking. I put the two parameters "-d -i" in the result posted, so I am not sure what you mean by "find". Those results were not done as root though. Running the full exact same line you posted as root yields this additional informa...

@CwF: Your first step does not work for me: as actually shown in my original post using /dev/sr0 -> /dev/cdrom, and done of course with a good audio CD in drive