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It wasn't that they were removed - they were invisible! They still worked even though they couldn't be seen. Just had to hover until the right one was covered. Just doing it blind. Was blind, but now I see.

Fixed TB just now. I have no clue how I hid the titlebar to begin with. Just goes to show I can break anything....

Everything else has normal behavior. Looking around, I accidentally saw Titlebar and clicked it. All buttons are back in Firefox. Now I have to do the same and find it in Thunderbird....

Just noticed the Min, Max, and Close buttons are invisible on Firefox and Thunderbird. They still work, but you can't see them, and they are spaced closer together. I can't seem to find anything in settings. Maybe this is now natural behavior?

I can use the taskbar but I'm a creature of habit. Why ...

Fixed!
I reinstalled the old binary and simply did a symlink from libFLAC.so.14 to libFLAC.so.12. I need to just pay attention. It first complained about no libFLAC.so.12. My bright idea about rebuilding led to my grief.

Thanks!

I was going to play some extremetuxracer, but it errored out. It couldn't find libFLAC.so.12. I tried to rebuild it, but then it said no OpenGL libraries found.

I found this after the command:

root@darkstar:/home/michael# ls /usr/include/GL
freeglut.h freeglut_ucall.h glew.h glut.h glxext.h ...

I'm on 6.14.0 with the nouveau driver. All is well for my little needs. It is the distro kernel. Just wanted to see if the open source driver would be good. I'm getting lazy also.

This will be my favorite reply to knuckle heads.

I did not like the 2004 ending. Their problems could have been fixed easier than wiping out their whole knowledge base. That was such a letdown.

"Guardrails in place to address ethical concerns." What does that mean? They believe this computer will gain sentience and ask for a body? Voting rights? Maybe it quotes Descartes - "i think, therefore I am".

Been watching Battlestar Galactica clips.....

I had some tires on my pop-up camper that were 17 years old. Tread looked great! I was bringing it home last October and one exploded. Dry rot caught up with me. I only use that camper once a year during fall break. I have a regular pull behind big camper for her and I. That one was for the ...

Yep. The key bindings in System-Settings said it was Meta+Print. I found out that Meta is also known as the Windows Key. But it works just using the PrtScrn key. This was the first time I ever looked at key bindings. Probably won't ever have to look again...

You nailed it G! All is well in the universe once again. I would've been another day or so tracking that.

I tried to run spectacle from a terminal and I got:

spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's why the shortcut doesn't work. That's an Nvidia library? Rats.... Got some searching to do. I don't want to go ...

The Spectacle app that KDE uses works through the start menu. I got my screen grab that way. PrtScrn had always worked for years through KDE and Spectacle. I'm wondering if the keyboard has just gone bad. I've been banging on this one for over ten years. Keyboards are not super expensive, so I'll ...

PrtScrn button no longer works in current KDE. I have used it for years and now it is gone. Can't find a solution in Google, and no search has been fruitful. Any ideas?

I just noticed that the Scroll Lock button isn't working either.....All other buttons seem to be working fine. This is an old ...

KPatience is a great game. I've won 10,084 games on Freecell. I know there are at least 8 games unsolvable on Freecell, but I haven't ran into them yet. Sometimes, I have found myself trying to find the right path but not quite making it. I rarely use the hint since it seems like cheating a bit. I ...

Grogan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:39 pm Those games would probably work fine with nouveau. That's old opengl.

You were right. Those old games do just fine on nouveau as well as the Kpatience games. Probably won't do nvidia drivers until I get a new rig with a much newer card. May give amd a whirl this time.

You are absolutely correct. The only gaming I do is on old recompiles of Cube, and 2 versions of Saurbraten. I figure I need those drivers for that. ToxRacer and Tuxcart also for the grandkids. But they are getting older...

I'm actually a bit sorry about that outburst, thinking about it later, but I found him pretty insulting in this video.

If nobody stupid ever uses the computer, Windows 7 is fine for running existing software. The fact that it gets no updates is a bonus.


Less chance for breakage. I really don't ...

Still on 6.12x series. Nvidia won't compile for me....

I rarely correct someone, simply because sometimes the reaction is really severe. Which is why I never discuss politics - even with like-minded folks. It ain't worth it.

Zema Bus wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:44 am I wouldn't have been surprised since that's the sort of thing he did to John McCain, criticized him for getting captured in North Korea and then, after he died, mocking his permanent disabilities resulting from the torture he endured.

John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam.

I still build kernels occasionally, but I confess to being lazy at times. The last kernel I did was 6.6.1. About time to dust myself off and do it.

Wed Dec 18 22:12:02 UTC 2024
a/lilo-24.2-x86_64-13.txz: Rebuilt.
liloconfig: add a line for /boot/initrd-generic.img if it exists, if not try
/boot/initrd.gz, and if that's not there do not use an initrd.

Lilo is still the default, and partially automated. I don't understand his recommendation ...

I've been running current since it became pure 64 bit. Still on lilo here. Yep - I'm a dinosaur. Also, I had done a fresh install of current about midsummer. It still asked if I wanted to setup lilo. I didn't because I simply copied lilo from the old installation to the new, and changed what needed ...

I had read somewhere that Slackware would not install on a UEFI system. But I haven't done any research yet either. It is winter though, and we are not camping. Got lots of time to pull the trigger on this.

I've been busy with family. No problems thank goodness, just dad, papaw, and now great papaw stuff! I've been retired since June 2018. We do a lot of camping spring through fall. Still running Slackware current, so I still check LQ occasionally, but rarely post. My computer is getting old but still ...

I hadn't been frequenting forums (I'm only on two) much lately. Yesterday, BBF gave a connection was reset. Tried again today and the same thing. Then I remembered G's site, and a bunch are here now! I reckon Phil closed down BBF. Things change....

I don't know if you even monitor this, but BBF seems to be down. Is this permanent?