Re: UEFI quirks on HP Z440

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:29:18 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > On 10/18/22 17:05, stan via users wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:49:50 -0400 > > Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > > >> Have a dual boot system with originally a nvme drive that was > >> replaced by an SSD. Put in a new

Re: UEFI quirks on HP Z440

2022-10-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 10/18/22 17:05, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:49:50 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: Have a dual boot system with originally a nvme drive that was replaced by an SSD. Put in a new nvme drive that has F37 on it. Was switching back and forth between Fedora and Windows on

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 5:10 PM Barry wrote: > I have seen KDE plasma be unable to reboot after dnf update. > It’s happen often enough that I do updates from the plasma update app or by > ssh from another machine. FWIW, I've run Fedora with KDE for years on multiple laptops, I normally do a

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 15:25 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/18/22 14:59, stan via users wrote: > > That has the potential of updating libraries that X, or other > > applications, are using.  As Tim says, it is a rare occurrence, so > > I'm > > using belt and suspenders. > > After upgrading,  run

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 22:10 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > > On 18 Oct 2022, at 17:38, jarmo wrote: > > > > How about, when you are in X, just open konsole and typ there sudo > > dnf > > update ? > > I have seen KDE plasma be unable to reboot after dnf update. > It’s happen often enough that I do

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/18/22 14:59, stan via users wrote: That has the potential of updating libraries that X, or other applications, are using. As Tim says, it is a rare occurrence, so I'm using belt and suspenders. After upgrading, run sudo dnf needs-restarting to find out what, if anything is still

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 13:59 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:37:57 +0300 > jarmo wrote: > > > Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:36:56 -0700 > > stan via users kirjoitti: > > > > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:45:19 +1030 > > > Tim via users wrote:  > > > > > Not the OP, but I do it so I

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:54:15 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote: > On 10/18/2022 11:29 AM, stan via users wrote: > > I always boot into multiuser before starting X with LXDE using > > startx when I want a gui. So, this does work, as others have > > confirmed. > > > > Try putting the following in a

Re: screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread David King
On 10/18/22 06:47, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Is it possible to create a screen saver from a .mov (movie) clip? The xscreensaver screensaver will play a movie or a playlist of several movies as the screensaver.  The xscreensaver FAQ has a entry on this at

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Barry
> On 18 Oct 2022, at 17:38, jarmo wrote: > > How about, when you are in X, just open konsole and typ there sudo dnf > update ? I have seen KDE plasma be unable to reboot after dnf update. It’s happen often enough that I do updates from the plasma update app or by ssh from another machine.

Re: UEFI quirks on HP Z440

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:49:50 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Have a dual boot system with originally a nvme drive that was > replaced by an SSD. Put in a new nvme drive that has F37 on it. Was > switching back and forth between Fedora and Windows on the SSD with > the bios boot. Worked

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:37:57 +0300 jarmo wrote: > Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:36:56 -0700 > stan via users kirjoitti: > > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:45:19 +1030 > > Tim via users wrote: > > > Not the OP, but I do it so I can use dnf to update with the gui > > turned off. When I want to run dnf, I

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 11:29 AM, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:09:15 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 1:15 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing,

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 10/18/2022 1:05 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 10/17/22 21:09, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but

Re: screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 08:22 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I saw that someone asked if a webcam could be used as a source for the > screensaver, too, which would be kind of neat. Interesting idea. Could be an amusing way to reinforce keeping your fingers off someone else's PC: mugshots recorded

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 19:37 +0300, jarmo wrote: > How about, when you are in X, just open konsole and typ there sudo dnf > update ? That's all I ever do. In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never had an update on a running system foul it up. Naturally that's going to depend on what you

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-18 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:07 PM Tim via users wrote: > Is the computer powering other things via its USB ports? > > Inadequate power is one potential cause for USB disconnects. I'm not > sure if the USB power negotiation is done entirely in the hardware, or > if the OS has a say in the matter.

UEFI quirks on HP Z440

2022-10-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Have a dual boot system with originally a nvme drive that was replaced by an SSD. Put in a new nvme drive that has F37 on it. Was switching back and forth between Fedora and Windows on the SSD with the bios boot. Worked for a long time but now the bios boot does not recognize the SSD as UEFI.

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread jarmo
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:36:56 -0700 stan via users kirjoitti: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:45:19 +1030 > Tim via users wrote: > Not the OP, but I do it so I can use dnf to update with the gui turned > off. When I want to run dnf, I just logout of X, and run it in a > virtual console, and then start

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:45:19 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have > > group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not > > boot anything. I believed it was a "good

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:09:15 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote: >     I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group > installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot > anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but systemctl > afaik seems not to behind

Re: screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:07:29 -0700 stan wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:47:16 -0700 > ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to create a screen saver from > > a .mov (movie) clip? > > Possible? Of course, all the source code is available. :-) > Available? I

Re: screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:47:16 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to create a screen saver from > a .mov (movie) clip? Possible? Of course, all the source code is available. :-) Available? I haven't done it, but I can see a possible way to do so. The screensaver

screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Is it possible to create a screen saver from a .mov (movie) clip? Many thanks, -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~

Re: dnf with rpmfusion not working? Are others seeing this?

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 16:33 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Kept checking it for a few hours, and then eventually it > did start returning valid addresses. > > download1.rpmfusion.org. 300IN A 193.28.235.6 > > Don't know if it was a router issue, or a configuration > issue.

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks a lot, Roger and Slade! I have now been able to resize the preview window up to the size I want. Paul On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 9:48 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > I have been able to resize the preview window to whatever size I wanted. > > In obs itself you can make the canvas size different

Re: dnf with rpmfusion not working? Are others seeing this?

2022-10-18 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 18 Oct 2022 at 15:41, Tim wrote: Subject:Re: dnf with rpmfusion not working? Are others seeing this? From: Tim To: mi...@guam.net, Community support for Fedora users Date sent: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:41:03 +1030 > On