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Today, June 10, was the first I tried backing up to my TOSHIBA EXT external 1 TB USB drive running only off USB power.

This was the first I tried since rewriting my MEPIS 12 partition w/ MX-16 about a week ago. I must have overlooked something. When I installed MX-16, I kept my user name and /home ...

After finding this wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM, I experimented with a system file. Here is what I found:

This worked for me for the lightdm window manager. I don't know if a similar procedure might work for another window manager.

Backup this system file just in case:
#cd /usr/share ...

Thanks, timkb4cq, for bringing that thread to my attention.
I tried the fix, rebooted, and rescanned w/ xsane a couple times. Now I consistently get a a black rectangle 220 x 69 pixels. Hmmmmm?

root@mx1:/home/jon# grep USB_BLACKLIST /etc/default/tlp
#USB_BLACKLIST="1111:2222 3333:4444"
USB ...

After much patience trying different drivers on localhost:631, I finally found one that enabled me to consistently print two-sided documents (page 1 on the front, page 2 on the back) on my HP Laserjet printer, from both libreoffice writer and from okular.

So I thought I'd try scanning an image on ...

This is the dialog box with two white boxes for text input, one for username & one for the corresponding userpassword, that appears right after you boot MX-16.

I googled the title's text, and found it varies from distro. to distro. Nor is there anything about attributes for the user login dialog ...

Okay, Stevo, I got your deb file from that URL and installed it.
# dpkg -i ../ne-3.1.1/ne_3.1.1-0mx15+1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 202706 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ne_3.1.1-0mx15+1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ne (3.1.1-0mx15+1) over (2.5-1) ...
Setting up ...

# cd
root@mx1:~# find /home/jon/ -name "*debian.tar.bz2"
root@mx1:~# find /home/jon/ -name "*.tar.bz"
root@mx1:~# find /home/jon/ -name "*.tar.gz"
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/home/jon/Downloads/ne-3.1.0(1).tar.gz
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Okay, skidoo, so after finding the control file in texinfo_5.2.0.dfsg.1-6.debian.tar.xz that I ...

I looked for the file control in ne-3.1.0/ but it wasn't there. I tried to build from this untarred tarball subdirectory after installing textinfo with #apt-get install texinfo.
Here's what I got.
jon@mx1:~/ne-3.1.0$ less INSTALL.md
jon@mx1:~/ne-3.1.0$ make build install
( cd doc; make )
make[1 ...

APT installed ne_2.5-1_amd64.deb .. Thank you for adding the package.


$ apt-cache policy texinfo
texinfo:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
Version table:
5.2.0.dfsg.1-6 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

I see texinfo is a text-formatting library ...

Stevo, I don't have any whitespace in any of my file or subdirectory names.
No texinfo. Can't get it. Don't know what it is. Don't care. If it were necessary it would be in the tarball, wouldn't it be?
root@mx1:/etc/apt# apt-get install texinfo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...