The corresponding checksum file now has a line giving the size in bytes, just
before the line with the corresponding checksum.
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> Is there a good write-up on this?
There's
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-suspends-after-15-minutes-of-user-inactivity-even-on-ac-power/79801
which I have bookmarked.
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I have a very old computer with GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 integrated video. I
had video trouble as well, had been using just "nomodeset" to work around it,
but got 1024x768 pincushioned video on my old CRT with 1280x1024 as the maximum
resolution. (This is just a backup machine now, that I
"liveinst --vnc" not working was filed as a bug 13 years ago and closed at EOL,
I reopened it.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678354
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The Linux video mode numbers are at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers .
Since the best resolution of the old CRT I have connected to the machine is
1280x1024, I tried "vga=792", "vga=794" and "vga=795" and each of those work.
When in the 1024x768 modes
I found a solution. When booting the live image, I went into the
Troubleshooting menu and looked at the boot options for starting in basic
graphics mode. It had not only "nomodeset" but also "vga=791". By booting with
both of those, not just "nomodeset", I can boot the live image into graphical
I have 2 desktops, each running Fedora, the one in question is a backup that I
normally just log into with ssh and do updates, and would only use normally if
the main machine dies. I'll probably be buying a new machine in a year or two
and this one will go into storage, all of its hardware is
I have an old machine from 2008 with very old integrated graphics (GeForce
6150SE nForce 430). Up to and including F39, I was able to do a Live
Workstation install simply by using the nomodeset boot option. With F40 that no
longer works - it fails to come up in graphical. I ended up doing a
It's a really cheap generic PS/2 3-button scrollbar optical mouse. There's a
single screw opposite the cord that I can remove, and that end comes open, but
the cord end doesn't. I don't know what's holding it together and don't want to
force it. In any case it would just be a few bucks to
BTW, now that the PS/2 mouse is working in Fedora, the middle button behavior
in the test feature is different - now when I middle-click on the test buttons
I can see the highlighting change, that didn't happen when the (mouse? Fedora?)
was broken.
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Tried connecting the PS/2 mouse into the older machine again and now it works
fine in Fedora on that as well. So whatever the problem is is sporadic but I
still don't know if it's in Fedora or the mouse.
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This is really weird - the PS/2 mouse is now working fine in the original
machine. I have no idea what happened - I'm pretty sure that just after I
originally plugged it back in it was still broken and for some reason just
started working again after a time lapse. Unplugged the USB mouse and
If you're talking about "Mouse & Touchpad" under Settings, "Single Click" and
"Double Click" both work with the left button, but neither do anything with the
middle button, though I'm not sure if they're supposed to since I never used
this before. With the right button (which works) I can at
Earlier today, sometime after a reboot into the 6.6.9 kernel (which just went
to stable), I noticed problems with copy and paste. But it's not the kernel, or
the desktop (I tried others), so I suspect some update since the previous
reboot, which was Dec. 31. Using right-click and then choosing
RPMFusion has now pushed the packages to stable, for example see
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/39/x86_64/g/ .
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See https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-d9bca05694 . The
problem is that the gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld and
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly from RPMFusion haven't yet been updated to be
compatible, though they have been built and signed and are waiting to be pushed
stable. If you
Here is the RPMFusion page advising to replace ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg. It uses
dnf swap.
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia
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Rpmfusion's vlc needs updating to be compatible with live555. It has been
rebuilt at https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=26479 and there
are signed packages at
https://koji.rpmfusion.org/packages/vlc/3.0.19/0.7.fc38/data/signed/d651ff2e/x86_64/
which I've been using for a couple
It might be the systemd OOM killer. You can see the journalctl output for your
current boot with "journalctl -b 0", the previous boot with "journalctl -b -1",
etc. Get the output for whichever boot the logout happened in and grep for the
word "pressure". I had a similar problem with non-DE
After a clean F38 install, I use Thunderbird while in Wayland and it works
normally, without the extra package. I only have thunderbird and
thunderbird-librnp-rnp installed.
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Actually, I used the Custom icon next to the specific site, there's a separate
global one on top.
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It wasn't obvious to me where Custom was, I had to identify the icon on top
with the S and the wrench. Hovering over that with the mouse says "Custom". I
never had to do that with any other site. Some sites wouldn't load properly or
at all without temporarily enabling Javascript, but this is
Yep, that was it. Thanks. I was using mozilla-noscript, and doing what you
suggested worked. I've never had to do that with any other site as I've never
seen any other site appear broken like this one.
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It's hard to describe, but https://discussion.fedoraproject.org is way too long
vertically and looks like it hasn't loaded fully. There's a reference above to
turning off "use style" but I don't know what that means or if that has
anything to do with the problem. I wouldn't expect to have to
In Firefox, Fedora's default browser, the page is barely legible, so it's not
surprising that it breaks at the drop of a hat. It appears to be heavily under
construction.
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I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177722 for my original
problem (involving non-DE logins) and it was indeed fixed with the latest
systemd updates in both F37 and F38. I know other people have reported it
happening in GNOME but have never seen it personally. There are closed
BTW, this isn't a new problem. It happens at least once every few months, it's
just by chance that it happened shortly after F38 was released.
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The Rpmfusion version of qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld is incompatible with the
latest fedora packages, so if you want to update those, remove
qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld until Rpmfusion has a new build.
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I didn't have the problem on F37 either, it only appeared in F38, so I don't
know why it's in the Fedora 37 section.
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See https://rpmfusion.org/CommonBugs (Fedora 37 section). I fixed this by
swapping ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg as indicated, then mplayer was installable.
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I don't know enough about systemd to think that's even a bug - I had assumed it
was normal behavior. In any case the bug that was forcing me to disable the OOM
killer ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177722 ) has been fixed
so I'm not disabling it anymore.
On F37, masking was the first thing I tried. Then after a systemd update, I
noticed it was running again, even though it was still masked (verified by
"systemctl status systemd-oomd" which showed it both running and masked at the
same time).
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I just tried masking/reinstalling just now and it didn't restart. I experienced
it before with a systemd update so it might require that. But masking is
definitely not 100% effective.
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> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700
> Jonathan Ryshpan
>
> I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap,
Masking it is unreliable because it might start running again if
system-oomd-defaults is updated or reinstalled. (To check this, try
reinstalling it.) It's better to just
I use an old F30 version that's the newest one that works on all my BIOS
machines, namely memtest86+-5.01-25.fc30.x86_64.rpm. It's in the archive at
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/30/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/m/memtest86+-5.01-25.fc30.x86_64.rpm
. Adjust the
Thanks. I confirmed on the affected machine that immediately after removing
systemd-oomd-defaults, it was still monitoring the same CGroups, but after
rebooting, it was monitoring none, even though systemd-oomd was still enabled
and running.
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I've heard that, but for me, with limited RAM, both DNF transactions and an
rsync of a very large file fail in multiuser (by causing logout while they're
running) while they both succeed in GNOME on the same machine.
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I just tried removing systemd-oomd-defaults and it's still possible to run
systemd-oomd so I was wrong in thinking that would prevent it.
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I've heard dnf uses a lot of memory, but in my 2GB F38 VM, I can run a large
DNF transaction with no problem when logged into GNOME. On 4GB F37 bare metal,
in multiuser, even updating one letter at a time isn't enough, even "dnf check"
can fail. I read somewhere that GNOME and KDE are the only
BTW, I did notice that the problem was gone during the time that systemd-oomd
wasn't running, so that's definitely the cause. Unfortunately, the mask command
alone isn't enough to prevent it from running, I'd have to either remove
systemd-oomd-defaults or edit some config files. And this really
Does your machine have 4GB or less of RAM? If you have more, it may be much
less likely to trigger. I just verified that when I log into GNOME on the
machine in question, an rsync of a single large file that never works when done
remotely works fine, it only fails when attempted from a non-DE
It's not just ssh. It happens even if I boot in multiuser and log in via the
console, so any non-DE login is affected. Sometimes, I can't even run a simple
"dnf check" command (after having a previous transaction aborted by a logout)
without being logged out again. And the free command
I have 3 machines with clean F37 installs. One of the F37 machines has 4GB of
RAM, and I maintain it as a backup and normally only log in via ssh and do dnf
updates via command line. In the last few weeks this has become extremely
difficult to do due to being automatically logged out,
Or maybe 2 packages, one for Legacy and one for UEFI. When Fedora eventually
drops support for Legacy the first package would go away. All my machines are
Legacy and I'd love to have it working again.
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(VirtualBox-7.0-7.0.4_154605_fedora36-1.x86_64.rpm) works fine in F37, you just
have to install it manually. This is common up to a few weeks after each
release. It's also common for the latest RPM name to show an older Fedora
version,
This was my fault. Apparently, after updating ca-certificates, it's necessary
to reboot. After doing that, everything is normal. Sorry for the noise.
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For some reason, this problem depends on the machine I test on. See my comments
in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034251 .
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Thanks. Filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034251 since I only
know of the issue affecting Fedora. Version 29 was long ago so I'm sure that's
unrelated - I've setup my location many times since then.
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With the latest version of ca-certificates (2021.2.52-1.0.fc35),
gnome-shell-extension-openweather no longer works, it's always stuck on
"Loading...". If I downgrade to 2021.2.50-3.fc35 and restart GNOME, it works
again. No knowing much about certificates, which package is at fault here?
I wasn't expecting that to work, but oddly enough it seems to, since I got
several incoming emails while away and the display was still off. I'll keep an
eye on it. Thanks.
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I will try that. But I already had Automatic Screen Lock turned off, so I never
get a lock screen unless I turn it on manually.
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I did a clean install of F35 Workstation. Screen blank works properly if I am
using the machine, turning off the display after 5 minutes. But if the screen
is already blank, any notification from any application (Thunderbird email,
hexchat alert, dnfdragora updates) causes the display to turn
> Strictly speaking, if the checksum fails you should not let anything
> install it. It could be just a stuff-up, it could be malicious.
When the deltarpm rebuild fails, dnf automatically downloads the full rpm. It's
not a security issue, just a waste of bandwidth.
Jonathan Dieter posted a bug report for this at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911828 , I'm relieved that it's
not a hardware problem on my machine. Don't know why no one else notices it,
although the deltas that fail are usually very small and don't waste much
bandwidth.
I'm seeing this again with the latest F33 push with texlive RPMs, using the
master mirror (dl.fedoraproject.org). It says "Some packages were not download.
Retrying." and then proceeds to download 194 RPMs, out of the original 259.
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In the last few days, I've noticed that F33 deltarpm rebuilds often fail with
an md5 mismatch error. This would happen occasionally before but happens almost
all the time now. Has this been reported? I don't see anything in bugzilla.
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> If you check your spam folder in your email program you might find services
> that brag about having your password and they really do have it. Some
> will show it to you as proof they have more information about you.
Unless they show it to you, they don't have it. The only other thing
Sorry about that, the command I was actually using was "grub2-editenv - unset
menu_auto_hide" (from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu ),
I always have to look that up before using it.
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I have a BIOS Fedora 33-only laptop, and "grub2-editenv - unset auto_hide_menu"
worked on that.
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It appears to be a kernel bug. Two of four key combos work in 5.8.9, none work
in 5.8.10 or 5.8.11. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1882864 .
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I get one report in #fedora where Sokol says it works using F32, so it may not
affect everyone. OTOH, I just booted another F32 bare metal machine with much
different hardware and it has the same problem, so it must be widespread.
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I noticed recently that Shift+PageUp, Shift+PageDown, Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow, and
Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow no longer work for scrolling up and down in a VT or in
multiuser mode, even though they work fine in graphical mode, where ironically
they're not really needed since there one can just use the
In GNOME, Settings/Privacy/Screen Lock/Automatic Screen Lock -> Off. (You can
still lock it manually if needed.)
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I might be thinking of #fedora on IRC. The topic says "Topic for #fedora is:
#Fedora F30, F31, F32 Beta end user support".
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I'm not certain, but I thought it was considered okay to discuss a Beta version
of an upcoming release on the users list. Besides, by the time most people read
this thread, F32 will have been officially released (just a few hours from now).
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The machine experiencing the freezes is running the 5.6.6 kernel (the F32
release version), which is also the current stable kernel in F31, so I'd expect
some people running F31 to also be seeing the freezes right now. The previous
F31 kernel was 5.5.17, I don't know if that was affected.
Oh, and BTW, the reporter of the bug commented that he thought it should be a
32 blocker, but didn't mark it as such. I was noticing similar freezes in my 32
and Rawhide VMs a few weeks ago, but they went away, presumably when the fixes
made it into the kernel.
I have experienced freezes shortly after running dnf on one of my machines. It
has nothing to do with GNOME, it happens even in runlevel 3 (multi-user). I
found this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826091
It claims the problem is fixed with kernel 5.6.7 which is in testing, I
> The Citi.com credit card website allows generating virtual card numbers, but
> unfortunately
> they're using flash in that part of the site. When I try to use it in F30, on
> one
> particular machine (it's hardware-specific), in GNOME (it doesn't happen in
> MATE),
> the Firefox tab crashes
Just realized you're on F29, not F30, but the same is true for F29.
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I realize you don't need podman anymore, but FWIW the latest version is now
available for 32-bit, the versions before 1.4.0-1.fc30 (from just 2 days ago)
were not.
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Not sure it's the same. I'm using Firefox, not flash. This particular
application is the only place I've had a problem with flash content.
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Just found that it only crashes under standard GNOME (with Wayland). Works
under GNOME with Xorg.
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Actually, it does show up in abrt, which says that the problem has been
reported, but a Bugzilla ticket has not been opened. I just tried reporting it
by uploading a core dump, but there was a server-side error. I'm not happy
about either the security risks associated with uploading the core
The Citi.com credit card website allows generating virtual card numbers, but
unfortunately they're using flash in that part of the site. When I try to use
it in F30, on one particular machine (it's hardware-specific), in GNOME (it
doesn't happen in MATE), the Firefox tab crashes and I get a
Overnight, my extensions were all re-enabled without my doing anything. The
mitigation announced on the blog apparently worked.
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Most of my extensions have been disabled. However, the three that I have
installed as Fedora packages (mozilla-https-everywhere, mozilla-ublock-origin,
mozilla-noscript) are still enabled.
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Also being tracked here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
Warning: Bugs are being marked as dupes of that bug every few minutes, so might
be better to just bookmark the bug instead of following it.
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From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu#Detailed_Description
: run the command "grub2-editenv - unset menu_auto_hide" as root (or via sudo).
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OK, but this drive is on a machine with 2 operating systems installed.
Reinstalling and reconfiguring those takes just as much time before the drive
fails as after, so replacing preemptively wastes time (until the drive starts
experiencing regular problems, which it isn't yet). And I have at
Running "hdparm --read-sector 3299402936 /dev/sda" according to
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto shows that the formerly bad
sector is readable, so I'm not sure why the "Uncorrectable Sector Count" is
still 1. I don't want to force it to be marked as a bad sector unless I'm sure
Also, the following appeared in dmesg referencing the same bad LBA 3299402936:
[49702.067452] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[49702.067457] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[49702.067459] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add.
Running "sync" fixed it:
[root@lenovo-pc ~]# sync
[root@lenovo-pc ~]# debugfs
debugfs 1.44.6 (5-Mar-2019)
debugfs: open /dev/mapper/fedora-root
debugfs: icheck 345053591
Block Inode number
345053591 86246540
debugfs: quit
[root@lenovo-pc ~]#
The "find" command identified it as an old
Thanks for the info. I only have a root partition, no home partition. Badblocks
found one bad block (it said 1/0/0 errors after it found the bad block, when it
was still running):
[root@lenovo-pc ~]# badblocks -s -b 4096 /dev/mapper/fedora-root
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 0.00%
BTW, I have another machine also running 64-bit F29, with the same size HDD,
and no disk problems. The fdisk output is exactly the same, as are the errors
when using tune2fs or debugfs on sda4 or sda5, so those errors have nothing to
do with my HDD problems, they appear to be generic to any
I'm running 64-bit F29 using the default LVM, but with no separate home
partition. Today smartctl reported that "Current_Pending_Sector" and
"Offline_Uncorrectable" increased from 0 to 1. Running a self-test failed
almost immediately with
Num Test_DescriptionStatus
> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote:
>
> I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for.
The growisofs man page states "If executed under sudo(8) growisofs refuses to
start." (and explains why). I don't know if there are other commands with the
same issue.
Are you running Adblock Plus using the mozilla-adblockplus-2.9.1 Fedora package
(not the 3.0.1 upstream version)?
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The package mozilla-adblockplus is now disabled in all supported versions of
Fedora, which have FF57 in stable. I filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513731 but no response yet. I
can't find any sign of recent activity by the assignee, Andreas Thienemann. The
last few builds of
The problem is that the new version of nut depends on a new version of freeipmi
( https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5f8e18be61 ) which is
still in updates-testing. Installing it manually allows nut to update. The
freeipmi update has been eligible to be pushed to stable for
gnome-password-generator was just unretired and is now in F26 updates-testing (
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-58751e422c ) so should be
in stable soon.
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> How? Don't the attackers have to know the password hashing algorithm to
> do that? If they have enough penetration into the system to know that,
> couldn't they just capture the passwords when they were unhashed?
> i.e. could it have been that they let paypal know they had been
> compromised,
> On Sun, 2017-06-18 at 19:13 -0700, stan wrote:
>
> I completely agree, it's just as impossible to guess that a password is
> "$#DfSGxS" than "sickturtlepyjamas", and I know which one is easier
> to
> remember and type. With the peculiar password rules, I have no choice
> to but to do the
Many websites don't allow even 30 chars. One of the important ones I use allows
only 16 characters (and no 2FA option), but happens to allow special
characters. Using the largest possible character set is the only way to shore
that up.
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makepasswd also looks useful. It's clumsier to use, but more flexible. You use
the -c option followed by a string to specify the exact set of allowed
characters. The following prints all of the 94 non-space printable characters:
for (( c=33; c<=126; c++ )); do printf "\x$(printf %x $c)"; done
BTW, just noticed a bug. pwgen doesn't have an option to use numbers only (for
creating PINs) so I tried to use "pwgen -n 1" to generate a sequence of random
digits. But all of the 1-character passwords are lower-case letters, no digits.
Filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1462557
Thanks. I had actually installed pwgen a few months ago, but it looked like the
passwords weren't strong enough. gnome-password-generator has a Character set
option "All printable (excluding space)". It appears that "pwgen -sy 30 1", for
example, does just that, and "pwgen -s 30 1" is the same
gnome-password-generator will not be available in the Fedora repos for F26 and
later. Do the repos contain a good replacement?
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The following command
gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24+0-0
says to open an 80x24 window in the lower left corner. When using "GNOME on
Xorg" the position is set as expected. In Wayland the window comes up in the
middle of the screen. (This is for F25.) Does Wayland not allow windows to set
It was just fixed in the latest push, so you should see it in a couple of hours.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-0d59b99f18
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