changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it
Hi, I apologize for a trivial question but that's because I yet have not much experience with Linux. I made, some time ago, a copy of the smb.conf file, for security reasons, before making to it any changes: (cp smb.conf.original smb.conf.original.orig ) Yesterday I wanted to give a look at

Cannot login to KDE - solved

2014-07-04 Thread Stephen Davies
I usually leave myself logged in 24/7 to my Fedora 20 system but recently, I went on holidays in Europe leaving house-sitters so logged out. When I returned on Monday, I found that I could login to a tty and to ssh but not to KDE. As soon as I entered my password, the Fedora page appeared

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/14 01:04, angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it wrote: The command ls -l shows the two files are colored blue which (I think) indicates that the files are a link to each other. this is true. Since I am convinced that I used the cp command; my question is: which mistake can I have

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/14 14:04, angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it wrote: I apologize for a trivial question but that's because I yet have not much experience with Linux. I made, some time ago, a copy of the smb.conf file, for security reasons, before making to it any changes: (cp smb.conf.original

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/04/2014 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't rely on colors Neither do I, because I've found it to be almost impossible to find out exactly what each color means. One of the first things I add to ~/.bashrc is this line: alias ls=ls I put this down at the bottom to override any

can't log on without using a mouse

2014-07-04 Thread Tim
Unless I use the mouse, I can't log on to a MATE desktop. No keypresses that I can find will get me focus onto any gadget on the logon screen, to select which user to log on as. I have to grab the mouse and click on something. Is there some secret to this? -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/14 02:40, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/04/2014 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: all of which is good information. but, does answer question of his cp making links and why i suggested he run alias to see what he has for aliases. ;-) nap time on this side of the 'big pond'. later. -- peace

googleCloudPrint.service - was Re: Headless Google Cloud Print only works when started from ssh -Y

2014-07-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
I decided to have a go at writing a .service file for this and I don't think I've done bad. The only problem I have is that according to the syslog output it appears to be running as root and not as gary. Can anyone see what I've missed? Jul 4 11:53:48 lou systemd[1]: Starting Google Chrome

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it
all of which is good information. but, does answer question of his cp making links and why i suggested he run alias to see what he has for aliases. ;-) Hi, thanks for your answers .. Now I have a clearer idea of the problem that, however, I have to better investigate.

[OT] virtual exam environment

2014-07-04 Thread Pal, Laszlo
Hi, I'm going to create some virtual exam environment and maybe kvm/qemu/virsh can do the job. This environment should consists several virtual machines (linux + windows) and several virtual networks. This is not a big deal. But after the baseline is created, I would like to simulate problems

Re: [OT] virtual exam environment

2014-07-04 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 04 July 2014 06:44 PM, Pal, Laszlo wrote: Hi, I'm going to create some virtual exam environment and maybe kvm/qemu/virsh can do the job. This environment should consists several virtual machines (linux + windows) and several virtual networks. This is not a big deal. But after the

Re: [OT] virtual exam environment

2014-07-04 Thread Pal, Laszlo
Thank you. My case is a bit more complicated. It consists of several different machines with different operating systems and different software running on top of it. Also I have to include a few Virtual Appliances as well, so what I really need is to create fully configured purpose-built virtual

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 04/07/14 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote: Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find. You don't,

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:27:08 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: If you're using GNOME, did you try setting org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor to 1? there were some problems with gnome-shell and hiDPI issues. All the gnome settings are utterly useless. They are based only on the user. If you

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Tom Horsley wrote: On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now it comes

Possibly SOLVED, Re: postfix starting before network

2014-07-04 Thread David Benfell
David Benfell writes: Hi all, This is still going awry [root@munich]/home/benfell# systemctl status postfix postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-07-02 05:00:31

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:56 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Which binary file? You have to install one in the firmware directory after modifying it by hook or by crook. You can read about it in the kernel docs EDID subdir (yum install kernel-doc will stick a local copy of the docs on your

Re: [OT] virtual exam environment

2014-07-04 Thread lee
Pal, Laszlo v...@vlad.hu writes: Hi, I'm going to create some virtual exam environment and maybe kvm/qemu/virsh can do the job. This environment should consists several virtual machines (linux + windows) and several virtual networks. This is not a big deal. But after the baseline is

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 04.07.2014 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote: Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find. You

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread lee
Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:30:56 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Which binary file? You have to install one in the firmware directory after modifying it by hook or by crook. Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? --

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? Nope. After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything you have to say in xorg.conf (though you can occasionally

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly. It is not only a known issue, it is perfectly legit for Samsung to do that

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread don fisher
On 07/04/14 14:10, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly. It is not only a known issue, it is

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 04.07.2014 23:10, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly. It is not only a known issue, it is

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread don fisher
On 07/03/14 21:13, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 03 July 2014, don fisher sent: I have a laptop that attach an external monitor to when I am at home. Until today, it always came up in single screen mode, duplicated on both monitors. I had a power failure, and now the system is treating them

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:48:58 -0700 don fisher wrote: I would like to pose I hope a simple question. If you desire something different than the default computed from the EDID data See earlier reply - start at the kernel-doc EDID directory. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 05.07.2014 00:48, don fisher wrote: On 07/04/14 14:10, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:56:06 +0200 poma wrote: Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly.

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
... https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[connector:]file Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data set

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
$ curl -s https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=99224 | monitor-parse-edid Name: TOMSUNG EISA ID: TOM0469 EDID version: 1.3 EDID extension blocks: 1 Screen size: 102.0 cm x 57.4 cm (46.08 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) Gamma: 2.2 Digital signal Max video bandwidth: 230 MHz

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:35:19 +0200 poma wrote: Also, this can be achieved via 'udev' - Dynamic device management Cool. I hadn't seen that it could be done dynamically. Good to know. Back on the original topic of 4K monitors. I'll find out tomorrow how much trouble it is to get one working on

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:15:57 +0200 poma wrote: BTW, respected Tom-Sung, how did you manage to insert additional ModeLine? I don't think I did, I just edited the attributes of the existing info for the 1920x1080 mode lines I got from the dump of the EDID for the Samsung TV I started with. I'm

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread poma
On 05.07.2014 03:39, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:15:57 +0200 poma wrote: BTW, respected Tom-Sung, how did you manage to insert additional ModeLine? I don't think I did, I just edited the attributes of the existing info for the 1920x1080 mode lines I got from the dump of the

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread lee
Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? Nope. man xorg.conf says otherwise. After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched 20 years ago there was no EDID --- if