Poor experience on Dnfdragora compared to Yumex-dnf

[Allan Mwenda]

Hello I've been using Fedora 26 LXQt and my experience with the new update 
manager dnfdragora has been poor bot on 64bit and 32bit to the point where i 
switched back to Yumex-dnf which is much more reliable. 
Dnfdragora takes ages to open, and even longer to load updates. It also crashes 
when you open a rpm with some kind of qt error, i was unable to open RPMfusion 
with it. All this works fine on Yumex-dnf and more importantly i think, works 
quickly. 
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Fedora Media Writer Does Not List LXQt under Spins

[Allan Mwenda]

Pretty straightfoward just needs to be added in an update. 
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Re: Brightness Setting Missing From Fedora 26 LXDE

[Allan Mwenda]

Thanks, I'll get on that

On 12 July 2017 00:30:24 GMT+03:00, Adam Williamson 
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 23:38 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>> I just booted a live iso of Fedora 26 LXDE and noted a few things.
>> 1. It is not LXQT:( 
>
>There is a separate lxqt spin:
>
>https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/lxqt/
>
>> 2. The brightness setting (lxqt-config-brightness) is missing
>> Please please add this setting. It is really painful to have to run a
>terminal command to adjust brightness, as i had to do on Fedora 25. 
>
>This would be best directed to the LXDE spin list:
>
>https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/l...@lists.fedoraproject.org/
>
>It's not terribly active, but I believe if you post there the spin
>maintainer should see it.
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Brightness Setting Missing From Fedora 26 LXDE

[Allan Mwenda]

I just booted a live iso of Fedora 26 LXDE and noted a few things.
1. It is not LXQT:( 
2. The brightness setting (lxqt-config-brightness) is missing
Please please add this setting. It is really painful to have to run a terminal 
command to adjust brightness, as i had to do on Fedora 25. 
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Re: Validation test proposal: mediawriter testing table

[Allan Mwenda]

Definitely split windows. I've had writer crash on 10 but not 7, trying to get 
a fedora spin (lxde)

On 18 April 2017 15:50:06 GMT+03:00, Lukas Brabec  wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Adam Williamson
> wrote:
>> Hi folks! So I finally got around to that 'think about USB test
>> coverage' item that's been on my todo list forever.
>>
>> I propose we add a table to the Installation Validation page. The
>> purpose is simply to check that writing images is working with
>> mediawriter in the major supported environments: Windows, macOS , and
>> the supported stable Fedora releases. So it could just look like
>this:
>>
>>
>> WindowsmacOSFedora 24Fedora 25
>> QA:Testcase_USB_fmw
>>
>> with the intent being that we at least check that writing any one
>> release blocking image with mediawriter in each environment.
>>
>> We could split Windows into 7, 8 and 10 or something, but not sure if
>> it's really necessary...
>>
>> Thoughts?
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>Current media writer supports ARM, I would propose to add a row for
>it, so it could look like this:
>
> WindowsmacOSFedora 24Fedora 25
>x86_64 iso
>arm image
>
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Re: Anaconda buggy on LXDE

[Allan Mwenda]

Yes I am on 32bit Fedora LXDE. Seems to be the right bug report, I'll add my 
observations there

On April 7, 2017 9:20:55 AM GMT+03:00, Adam Williamson 
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 07:58 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>> Someone please validate this for me before I post it on bugzilla.
>> On the LXDE spin of Fedora I can't properly manually assign space on
>> my hard drive. I can free it, but when I assign say 20GB to / I get
>> something like 8 MB as output. Editing the 8MB does the same thing.
>> In the end I just went with automatic assignment , it was getting
>> frustrating.
>
>If you have an i686 image (not x86_64), this is probably:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375732
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Anaconda buggy on LXDE

[Allan Mwenda]

Someone please validate this for me before I post it on bugzilla.
On the LXDE spin of Fedora I can't properly manually assign space on my hard 
drive. I can free it, but when I assign say 20GB to / I get something like 8 MB 
as output. Editing the 8MB does the same thing. In the end I just went with 
automatic assignment , it was getting frustrating.
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Re: F25 much more worse then F24, I hope F26 will be better

[Allan Mwenda]

Can confirm on the very last package on my update internet speeds tanked (dnf 
upgrade being the command) 
The others I haven't  experienced. 

On March 1, 2017 4:45:09 PM GMT+03:00, Matthew Miller 
 wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 06:19:18AM -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>> - last dnf update took far too much time
>> - shutdown process not tolerable, takes too much time.
>> - usb connection erroneous. i.e. after copying to flash medium or
>> external disk connected by an usb adapter in most trials, when I try
>> to eject the usb connected medium, there - after a copying process is
>> finished a long time ago - comes the message "usb medium in use",
>> this for ever. Also after shutdown of F25 in some cases I had to
>> repair the usb connected medium with a new partition table. Things
>> like that are not nice.
>
>These things seem unlikely to actually be very version dependent and
>probably are more to do with the specific configuration. The first two
>complaints are not actionable — the dnf problem might just be your
>network, and without any detail, we don't know what is holding up your
>system's shutdown.
>
>The third is likely a kernel issue, and may be something you can tune.
>Are you *sure* you don't have anything from the externel disk in use?
>The /sbin/lsof command can tell you.
>
>Have you tried typing "sync" at the command line before attempting to
>eject the disk?
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Re: Wallpapers on Fedora

[Allan Mwenda]

Thanks, I'll give it a try, though thus far I haven't really needed any 
extensions for GNOME. I try to keep my install as stock as possible so as to 
report here accurately. I'll see if I can mailing list the GNOME guys, didn't 
get very far on IRC. 

On February 28, 2017 4:47:38 PM GMT+03:00, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.an...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 15:00 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>> The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is
>> (can't even set a slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the
>> more bland
>
>Like I said, this is something that will have to be taken up with Gnome
>upstream. I'm not currently aware of any discussion around the
>background.
>
>I see an extension here that seems to do what you want:
>https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/543/backslide/
>
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Re: Wallpapers on Fedora

[Allan Mwenda]

The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is (can't 
even set a slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the more bland 

On February 28, 2017 1:46:20 PM GMT+03:00, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.an...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:11 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>> I just noticed a behavior on fedora 25 and I just wanted to share it
>> here as I think it is not ideal
>> If you have pictures in the Pictures subdirectory of Home, you can
>> set them as your background by going to Settings > Background >
>> Pictures Tab. 
>> However if you gather those pictures in a folder (in my case labelled
>> Wallpapers) then you can't set them as wallpapers anymore, even
>> though they are still in Pictures, just in a folder. 
>> Its not ideal at all, you'd expect everything in there to get
>> detected folders or not.
>
>If you are referring to gnome-settings, you'll have to speak to
>upstream (Gnome) about this. It isn't a Fedora specific behaviour.
>
>You can still open whatever image you'd like to use as a background in
>the default image viewer application and right click > set as
>background. 
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Wallpapers on Fedora

[Allan Mwenda]

Hi everyone
I just noticed a behavior on fedora 25  and I just wanted to share it here as I 
think it is not ideal
If you have pictures in the Pictures subdirectory of Home, you can set them as 
your background by going to Settings > Background > Pictures Tab. 
However if you gather those pictures in a folder (in my case labelled 
Wallpapers) then you can't set them as wallpapers anymore, even though they are 
still in Pictures, just in a folder. 
Its not ideal at all, you'd expect everything in there to get detected folders 
or not. 
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Re: First Bug Report

[Allan Mwenda]

Thanks Mike I'll take a look, my monitor died recently but once that's replaced 
I'll be helping out more. 


On January 10, 2017 5:06:26 PM GMT+03:00, Mike Ruckman 
<ro...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Allan Mwenda" <allanitomw...@gmail.com>
>> To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 12:54:35 AM
>> Subject: First Bug Report
>
>> Hell everyone,
>> So I posted my first bug on bugzilla, not sure if i did it exactly
>right
>> but i gave it my best shot. Still learning, cheers.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408323
>
>Welcome to Fedora QA, Allan! Thanks for the bug report; it looks like
>you
>have a good handle on things. Have you read the Join page on the wiki
>[0]?
>It has a good list of other places to get involved with as well.
>
>[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
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Re: System updates and the LUKS prompt [was Re: First Bug Report]

[Allan Mwenda]

Thank you for the reply. 
My idea is to update, then shutdown. There is probably lots of technical 
hurdles to this, I wouldn't be much help there, but its the only way i see 
coming out the other side updated and actually shut down.  

On December 23, 2016 5:16:56 PM GMT+03:00, Matthew Miller 
<mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 08:54:35AM +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>> So I posted my first bug on bugzilla, not sure if i did it exactly
>right
>> but i gave it my best shot. Still learning, cheers.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408323
>
>This is a good report, but the issue you raise (LUKS passphrase needed
>for the reboot in offline updates) is a big and difficult problem that,
>frankly, I haven't heard any great ideas for solving. The updates are a
>applied in a clean, minimal environment to reduce the possibility of
>errors, and rebooting into that - and for that matter, out of it again
>into the updated system when complete - is the easiest and safest way
>to get there. We've talked about it at some length with no good
>solution so far. So, don't be disappointed if your report doesn't get
>attention right away - it's a known problem, but we don't know what to
>do about it.
>
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First Bug Report

[Allan Mwenda]

Hell everyone,
So I posted my first bug on bugzilla, not sure if i did it exactly right
but i gave it my best shot. Still learning, cheers.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408323
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