VNC shows black screen
I am trying to get Tiger VNC working on a home machine running Fedora 29 with latest patches applied. I can connect and provide user's password but the screen is blank. On initial connection I got the Welcome Window that asked for keyboard style and such, but when I closed that window nothing but a black screen and that's all I get now when I log in. If I remove the user and add her back I get the Welcome Window again, but when that is done again black screen. Essentially there is no way to start an application and nothing setting the background. Seems the window manager isn't getting control or something. I have: Environment=XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 In the /etc/systemd/system/vncserver-karen@.service file, which some sites have indicated may be needed. I have tried a couple of combinations of the .vnc/xstartup I've seen from various places, but am back to the original: #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I have this working fine on a Fedora 29 machine at work. All the files I know of to compare I have and they seem the same, like the ones mentioned above. I attached the output of "systemctl status vncserver-karen@:2.service". It looks like everything is started fine. I haven't found any error messages that seem to apply. I saw some comments that selinux could be an issue. I have selinux disabled both in the /etc/selinux/config file: # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=disabled Also from command line I can see it isn't enabled: $ getenforce Disabled The gnome-session-binary seems to be running according to systemctl output. I just don't know why it doesn't seem to be taking control of things. Any pointers or suggestions would be helpful. Thanks Chris K ● vncserver-karen@:2.service - Remote desktop service (VNC) Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vncserver-karen@.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2019-03-16 22:54:00 CDT; 29min ago Process: 16096 ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 16109 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver :2 -geometry 1800x960 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 16105 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :2 (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 16116 (Xvnc) Tasks: 194 (limit: 4915) Memory: 263.6M CGroup: /system.slice/system-vncserver\x2dkaren.slice/vncserver-karen@:2.service ├─16116 /usr/bin/Xvnc :2 -auth /home/karen/.Xauthority -desktop creto.localdomain:2 (karen) -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d -geometry 1800x960 -pn -rfbauth /home/karen/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5902 -rfbwait 3 ├─16129 /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary ├─16141 dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary ├─16142 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session ├─16157 /usr/libexec/at-spi-bus-launcher ├─16163 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 ├─16165 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session ├─16202 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=secrets ├─16231 /usr/libexec/gvfsd ├─16236 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-fuse /home/karen/.gvfs -f -o big_writes ├─16281 /usr/libexec/gsd-power ├─16282 /usr/libexec/gsd-print-notifications ├─16283 /usr/libexec/gsd-rfkill ├─16284 /usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy ├─16285 /usr/libexec/gsd-sharing ├─16286 /usr/libexec/gsd-xsettings ├─16292 /usr/libexec/gsd-sound ├─16295 /usr/libexec/gsd-wacom ├─16299 /usr/libexec/gsd-smartcard ├─16307 /usr/libexec/gsd-clipboard ├─16308 /usr/libexec/gsd-a11y-settings ├─16312 /usr/libexec/gsd-datetime ├─16317 /usr/libexec/gsd-color ├─16322 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ├─16324 /usr/libexec/gsd-keyboard ├─16328 /usr/libexec/gsd-housekeeping ├─16332 /usr/libexec/gsd-mouse ├─16335 /usr/libexec/gsd-media-keys ├─16407 /usr/libexec/gsd-printer ├─16442 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper ├─16444 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 ├─16450 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs ├─16451 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify ├─16453 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service ├─16456 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-apps ├─16458 /usr/libexec/gsd-disk-utility-notify ├─16460 /usr/bin/abrt-applet --gapplication-service ├─16477 /usr/libexec/tracker-store ├─16481 /usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor ├─16508
Re: F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server
Thanks very much! I guess that was it. Ranjan On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:40:24 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 17:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have > > set the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what > > I am doing wrong? > > > > I am not quite sure what additional information to post here, so please > > feel free to ask. > > Did you completely restart Evolution after changing the settings (i.e. > run 'evolution --force-shutdown')? > > If that doesn't work, feel free to ask on the Evolution mailing list: > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > Be sure to mention your version of Evolution (Help->About). > > poc > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Can't use MATE desktop with F29
Folks, I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29. I installed th Gnome Classic and MATE desktops. When the system boots up and I login using the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled. A message appears saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it goes away almost immediately so I can't get all the text. If I login using Gnome or Gnome Classic everything works fine. I also tries gdm and I get the same thing. Anyone know what's going on? Here's my video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8098456 kB MemFree: 4787340 kB MemAvailable: 7303280 kB Buffers: 157360 kB Cached: 2512716 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 188 kB Inactive: 1619888 kB Active(anon): 284176 kB Inactive(anon): 16844 kB Active(file): 1049212 kB Inactive(file): 1603044 kB Unevictable: 32 kB Mlocked: 32 kB SwapTotal: 8142844 kB SwapFree: 8142844 kB Dirty: 32 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 283276 kB Mapped: 256576 kB Shmem: 17828 kB KReclaimable: 167784 kB Slab: 271804 kB SReclaimable: 167784 kB SUnreclaim: 104020 kB KernelStack: 5312 kB PageTables: 10536 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 12192072 kB Committed_AS: 2335964 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 3072 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 0 kB DirectMap4k: 207400 kB DirectMap2M: 8114176 kB cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 0x6 cpu MHz : 3192.210 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl cpuid pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr pti bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf bogomips : 6384.42 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 0x6 cpu MHz : 3192.210 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl cpuid pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr pti bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf bogomips : 6384.42 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: Any help is appreciated. Paolo ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server
On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 17:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have set > the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what I am > doing wrong? > > I am not quite sure what additional information to post here, so please feel > free to ask. Did you completely restart Evolution after changing the settings (i.e. run 'evolution --force-shutdown')? If that doesn't work, feel free to ask on the Evolution mailing list: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list Be sure to mention your version of Evolution (Help->About). poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server
Hi, I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have set the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what I am doing wrong? I am not quite sure what additional information to post here, so please feel free to ask. Many thanks for any help and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On 03/16/19 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: Just exactly that line and that's the right file. However, I would suggest using a different number to avoid conflicts with the real localhost entry. Anything starting with 127 works, but you can use "127.0.0.2 fonts.googleapis.com" for example. I have a huge list of entries like this in my hosts file. __ I'll try that, thanks to all. This probably should have been a new thread, sorry for that. -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On 3/16/19 9:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote: I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. . How do you do that? Google produced a suggestion to add "127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com" to the "hosts." I assume /etc/hosts but am not sure what the line should look like ... Just exactly that line and that's the right file. However, I would suggest using a different number to avoid conflicts with the real localhost entry. Anything starting with 127 works, but you can use "127.0.0.2 fonts.googleapis.com" for example. I have a huge list of entries like this in my hosts file. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:18:09 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > From time to time I've seen web pages where the headers claimed > UTF-8 encoding, but the actual text on the page was some windows > encoding (determined experimentally by display the text in > various codings till one of them made sense). I'm pretty sure there > must be some windows html editor that just has the UTF-8 headers > as boilerplate, but doesn't bother to convert the text to UTF-8 when > saving the page. This makes sense. A windows developer would probably not think of other platforms, and thus never encounter the error. So it would persist. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:37:52 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote: > > I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many > > web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages > > because it is so convenient. > . > How do you do that? Google produced a suggestion to add "127.0.0.1 > fonts.googleapis.com" to the "hosts." I assume /etc/hosts but am not > sure what the line should look like ... I suppose that is a simpler solution. When the browser tries to find the font, it goes to the local machine. I am using noscript, and block that site. I think it would just be 127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com But, there is already a line for 127.0.0.1 for localhost in /etc/hosts so you would probably have to append the fonts.googleapis.com to the end of that line. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote: I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. . How do you do that? Google produced a suggestion to add "127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com" to the "hosts." I assume /etc/hosts but am not sure what the line should look like ... -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:55:24 -0700 stan via users wrote: > I'll keep an eye out, and if I run into a web page that shows the > problem, I'll post it here so experts like you can possibly track down > what is happening. From time to time I've seen web pages where the headers claimed UTF-8 encoding, but the actual text on the page was some windows encoding (determined experimentally by display the text in various codings till one of them made sense). I'm pretty sure there must be some windows html editor that just has the UTF-8 headers as boilerplate, but doesn't bother to convert the text to UTF-8 when saving the page. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:31:41 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Well, to even start to debug it, you'd have to mention some particular > webpage addresses that are failing. I was going to put some examples in, but when I went looking for web pages that had the problem, I couldn't find any. :-) > Commonly, things like that are down to missing characters in fonts. > They were present in the font the webauthor used, but not yours. And > for things that did work, but now don't, it could be that the font has > changed (installs on your side, or, the author picked a different > one). > > Related to that can be the author using bizarre characters. They've > picked some unusual thing that looks like what they want, but it only > appears in some fonts. If they'd picked the normal symbol for such a > thing, it'd be more widely supported. > > Character encoding schemes can come into it, too. If they've used > UTF8, but erroneously said their page was using 8859-1 (which can be > done as a meta statement in the HTML, or the webserver's HTTP > headers), it's going to fail. Or, if you've forced your browser to > use a particular scheme, instead of obeying the website's > instructions. All of the above make sense. I used to do this, checking the preference that said to use my font and size on all pages, but I checked my preferences and that appears to have disappeared. I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. Perhaps that is why. > And, as you said, it can be down to missing graphics. The website may > have used a graphic symbol with a text fallback. The graphic may have > disappeared from their files, they may have got the address for it > wrong on some pages, and their text fallback could be broken, too. > I'll keep an eye out, and if I run into a web page that shows the problem, I'll post it here so experts like you can possibly track down what is happening. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Can't play video dvd
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:25:11 +0100, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2019, Paolo Galtieri sent: There is something about "Free Solo" which appears to confuse all 3 video players I've tried on F28. That's no surprise. Some authors deliberately create broken DVDs in an attempt to foil piracy. Because the discs appear to work in some of the players that they test, they assume that what they've done is okay (Sony did a similar stupid stunt with audio CDs years ago). And then there's just manufacturing incompetence. One of my DVD recorders creates crappy broken discs that spew out similar errors to your logs. Its discs may or may not work in some players, or work partly (e.g. you can start the disc playing, but if try fast-forwarding or rewinding, it instantly fails). I agree . So try another DVD , but . I installed VLC as follows rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpm-fusion-free-relase stable.noarch.rpm Then the same but now change free in nonfree , then dnf install vlc optional dnf install python-vlc. Succes. When doing so I did not encounter any problem. Ger van Dijck. -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: F28 - Thunar crashes regularly
On 26.02.2019, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Thunar crashes regularly. Over time, Thunar has turned into a real mess. Just use Nautilus, as I do. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
