f laptops include a shut off for the wireless in the form of a
> function key or a physical switch. It may be worth checking for that.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 8:35 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewrit...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope
Preface: I decided to use Ubuntu on my laptop as a way of thumbing my nose
at Microsoft and Apple. Most Linux people are pretty technically savvy. Me,
not so much.
Suddenly, my 16.04 installation doesn't connect to wifi. I am writing to
you on my Windows 7 machine, which does successfully
Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope this additional
detail is useful. (Yep, means problem not solved yet.)
Greg:
I followed your numbered steps, which were great, through #3. At #4, I see
your screenshot. However, the list on the left contains only two items:
Wired
Network
s yet? I guess this behavior is well known.
> Try the nmtui command and variants see if that gets you any traction.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/4jqv67/ubuntu_1604_
> networkmanager_fixed/
>
> On Jan 3, 2017 9:04 PM, "Nancy Allison" <nancythewr
Thanks, all. I will be checking these out.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:04 AM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>
wrote:
> On 06/13/2017 09:51 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I have Ubuntu 16.04. I would like to maintain a calendar that produces
>
Hi, all.
I have Ubuntu 16.04. I would like to maintain a calendar that produces
popup reminders the way Outlook does.
I don't love the cloud and would rather have something that lives on my
laptop.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
--Nancy
Hello, all.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and the layout is
trashed immediately upon opening in LibreOffice. I know from past
experience that docx files that I've modified in LibreOffice are, if
possible, even nastier
Darn, I was afraid of that. Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
> >
<inva...@pizzashack.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Is there a Word-compatible open source program that truly does not trash
> > the formatting? Or is it simply not possible to pass documents back and
> > forth betw
see a way around it. All suggestions
gratefully received!
--Nancy
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Nancy Allison <nancythewrit...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks, all.
> >
> > I apprecia
Hello, all.
I am investigating software for a new blog. I've used Wordpress before and
don't want to get bogged down in it again. I did some searches for open
source blogging software, and it looks as if Jekyll might be a clean,
simple alternative that meets my requirements. (However, I'm willing
Thank you, Dan. This is really helpful. I didn't realize the level of
sophistication I would need; sounds like a hosting service may be the way
to go.
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:24:24PM -0400, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
>
Hi, Eric.
Just for my edification, what does dark themed mean? Is it an aesthetic
thing or a technical one? Does it confer a particular advantage?
Thanks!
--Nancy
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Eric Chadbourne <
sillystr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Just stumbled across two vim clones.
Hear, hear! Thank you for your hospitality!
--Nancy
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:38 PM Bill Ricker wrote:
> I would like to thank John and Shelley Chambers for their gracious
> hosting.
> ___
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss@blu.org
>
c28.x86_64
> mpg123-libs-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
> mpg123-plugins-jack-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
> mpg123-plugins-portaudio-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
> mpg123-plugins-pulseaudio-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
> xmp-plugin-audacious-4.0.0-0.19.20160922git637d1e0.fc28.x86_64
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 20
es, but it is a good start to see
> if it fixes your problem.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 06:20:17PM -0400, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > I did install both free and unfree, I distinctly recall doing this. Is
> > there a separate step to enable them? I've rebooted several times b
Hello, all.
I am new to Fedora (v. 28) and need to install a font. (I actually never
tried to add a font in Ubuntu, either, in the past.)
I've looked at the Fedora Fonts directory, but I see a listing of icons
instead of font filenames. I don't know what kind of fonts Fedora uses.
Once I know,
ackages/s/greek%2520font
>
> Perhaps in a terminal run this to install some of those packages?
> sudo dnf install gdouros-aegean-fonts gfs-solomos-fonts gfs-jackson-fonts
>
> You can also use dnf to search the available packages:
> dnf search greek font
>
> -Mike
>
> On
Hi, all.
I have just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora. In Ubuntu, I used Recoll. The
Recoll web page says it is standard in Fedora, but when I search for it I
can't find it. Is the Recoll page incorrect? Or is some other tool bundled
with Fedora and I just need to learn what it is?
I don't care if
prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...
[theauthor@new-host ~]$
When I then searched for Recoll, nothing showed up.
All suggestions gratefully received.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 9:51 PM, Nancy Allison
wrote:
> Thanks, Jim.
>
> I'm a pretty basic user, so I took your statement to me
Yay, it worked! Thank you, Jim! On to my next question, in a new thread.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:30 PM, jbk wrote:
> On 07/22/2018 04:08 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
>> I'm continuing my question about installing (or finding) Recoll on my
>> Fedora installation. I mi
at 6:02 PM, Nancy Allison
wrote:
> For what it's worth, I also can't play videos from the Washington Post
> site, so it's not just Facebook.
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Nancy Allison
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I have just switched to Fedora 28 fro
Hi, all.
I have just switched to Fedora 28 from Ubuntu, and now Facebook videos do
not run in Firefox.
I googled this issue and found a topic about it:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/120605/video-problems-on-firefox-on-fedora-28/
I entered the command suggested and got this result:
For what it's worth, I also can't play videos from the Washington Post
site, so it's not just Facebook.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Nancy Allison
wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I have just switched to Fedora 28 from Ubuntu, and now Facebook videos do
> not run in Firefox.
>
> I
t work on the page directly, it worked when I
> viewed the page source and then used youtube-dl on the embedded video
> url, which was from abc.com.
>
> https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nancy Allison
> wrote:
> > Follow-up
Hello, all.
I am accustomed to using the US-international keyboard on my Windows
systems. I'd like to use it in Fedora 28, too, so I don't have to learn
alternate keyboard layouts.
It is not listed, at least not by the name I'm used to, in the
Settings/Region & Language list of keyboard layouts.
| grep us
> sudo localectl list-keymaps | grep fr
> I have not changed the layout for several years,
> The actual keymap files are in /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb
> sudo localectl set-keymap
>
>
>
> On 9/8/18 11:18 AM, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
>
Hi, Greg.
I'm used to Confluence, where I would find a Create button that would let
me create a new page. I don't see a control like that, but I do see an
opportunity to log in. Maybe then I would see the controls I can use? How
can I find out what my login is?
Thanks.
--Nancy
On Thu, Oct 11,
Hi, all.
I have Fedora 28 and lots of programs installed. I use a backup for my
files, but I dread the day I have to start with a new computer and
reinstall all my programs.
Is it possible to create a copy of everything, my Fedora 28 operating
system, all the programs, all the nifty Firefox
Hi, all.
What do you use to aggregate the things you read? I've stumbled upon
Feedspot, which costs $$, and I'm wondering if it is necesssary.
Is this a Linux - vs- Windows- Vs- Apple issue, or am I confused and it
doesn't matter what OS you use?
If this question isn't really germane to BLU,
Thanks, everyone. All of this information is fantastic. I need to learn a
lot to put it into use, but I am an optimist ...
--Nancy
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:12:00 -0500
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > I don't sysadmin professionally anymore, but
18.10/Unity
> <https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-unity-desktop-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux>
> and draft Fotoxx <http://www.kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html> 19.0.
>
>
> On 11/5/18 9:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Nancy Allison:
>
> Hi, all.
>
>
Hi, all.
I am trying to develop a Jekyll website and am getting hung up. I followed
a couple of youtube videos and downloaded all kinds of Ruby tools, but
still I"m getting error messages telling me that a gem is missing. When I
try to figure out what to do, I get still more error messages.
I
30, 2018 at 06:44:47PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > Charles, Fedora 28 was installed fresh; Ubuntu had been on the system
> > previously.
> >
> > I ran the lsusb command first before connecting the DVD drive and again
> > after. Th
Hi, all.
When I plug in my external disk drive into my Fedora 28 machine, it does
not show up in Nautilus.
I go looking online, and, sure enough, this problem has occurred for plenty
of people for 5+ years over many releases of Fedora.
I find a discussion in which someone evidently solved the
at 7:12 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > When I plug in my external disk drive into my Fedora 28 machine, it does
> > not show up in Nautilus.
> >
> > I go looking online, and, sure enough, this problem has occurred for
>
o confirm.
>
> Some good news: There IS a better way. Partitions can also be identified
> by user-specified labels, and that eliminates the whole
> who-got-connected-first problem. It also lets you set up rules, like
> automatically mounting THIS particular external USB device, but not th
At a previous InstallFest, someone was mentioned to me who knows how to
repair broken laptop screens. I can't find where I scribbled down his name.
(Shoulda used Google Docs but used paper; when will I learn.)
Does anyone know who that might be? Thanks.
--Nancy
Nope, Bill, I'd remember if it was you.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:39 PM Bill Ricker wrote:
> if that was me, i would have said I'd read the HOW TO for doing that to
> one of my own Lenovo's and decided it wasn't worth it.
> (so probably not me.)
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at
Hi, all.
By any chance, does anyone on this list use Audacity? I used it to record
streaming content with no problem until it suddenly went nuts and provided
hugely distorted sound files, as if the volume had been turned up to 10. I
looked through the settings and even removed it and reinstalled
f is
> supposed to work under the hood--you shouldn't need to edit anything
> there.
>
> After you plug in the USB, does the USB device show up in "lsusb"?
> Open a terminal and run these two commands:
>
> lsusb
>
> dmesg | grep sd
>
> and paste the output in
Seriously, I am so frustrated and disgusted I will not visit one more site
and follow one more set of incomprehensible suggestions.
I have previously gotten my Brother HL-L2320D and HP Envy 4502 to work with
Linux 16.04 and Fedora 28. I cannot get them to work with Fedora 29. NOTE:
I have never,
Hi, all.
I have an android phone (Pixel 2). I sometimes inadvertently take a video
when I mean to take a photo, and so I have various video files. I would at
least like to view them, but when I load them into my fedora 29 laptop and
double-click on them, they do not run.
The filename format is
, 2019 at 4:09 PM Mike Small wrote:
> Nancy Allison writes:
>
> > Hi, all. I sent this reply to Rich but forgot to include the list.
> >
> > I am your Test Case par excellence: someone trying to use Fedora who is
> not
> > terribly technical. Can Linux be use
I am trying to install Tor on my Fedora 29 machine.
I found a handy page (
https://www.hiroom2.com/2018/11/28/fedora-29-torbrowser-en/) that contains
two simple steps.
The first step (sudo dnf install -y torbrowser-launcher) gave every
appearance of succeeding. was:
The second step ($
this, and
it is now in a text editor.
It is full of instructions that assume a greater level of technical
knowledge than I have.
Rich, what do I do now? Thanks very much.
--Nancy
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:29 PM Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2019 18:47:59 -0400
> Nancy Allison
Hi, all. I sent this reply to Rich but forgot to include the list.
I am your Test Case par excellence: someone trying to use Fedora who is not
terribly technical. Can Linux be used by people for whom it is really a
challenge, even things that to technical people are obvious? Here is a
47 matches
Mail list logo
