Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: >> It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >>Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > If you know the path to the brow

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:44:54 +, Barry wrote: >> On 26 Mar 2024, at 16:42, Beartooth wrote: >>It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >> Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > I don’t think Fedora packages most of them. >

VDQ finding dnf names

2024-03-26 Thread Beartooth
tried to install some others for her, using dnf. It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-16 Thread Beartooth
ry mailing list I'm a member of. I love that. It's > very accessibility-friendly. > > I hate using fora. [...] There was some mention above of Gmane and its old troubles. This note is just to make sure everybody here does know Gmane has been alive and well again for year

Re: HP12C Emulator?

2024-01-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:41:57 -0500, Mark C. Allman via users wrote: > On 1/6/24 13:52, I Beartooth wrote: >> Is there an emulator of the HP12C for Fedora? (I'm running F39 >> Mate on a laptop and a PC.) I've found sites claiming there are >> emulators for various OSs, but

HP12C Emulator?

2024-01-06 Thread Beartooth
rat. It would help not to carry it too anytime I'm already carrying a perfectly serviceable Fedora machine. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. -- ___ users mailing list

Re: rfkill??

2023-12-31 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:28:31 +, Barry wrote: >> On 31 Dec 2023, at 18:00, Beartooth wrote: >> >>  >>Updating F39 just now on a laptop, I got a request for root to >> authorize rfkill. I had just also updated F39 on a PC, with no such >> request. (

rfkill??

2023-12-31 Thread Beartooth
. Is there something I should do next?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-31 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:35:35 -0300, George N. White III wrote: [] > Kernel.org has been working clean up power management, see > . Buggy > ACPI implementations have been causing problems with wake from sleep, > etc. Some

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-31 Thread Beartooth
re applications still open or are you starting from > what would be a normal initial login state? Oho! I may easily be misapprised of the terms. It hasn't happened today (still on the machine with the problem, but only matescreensaver installed), but iirc they're still open. -

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-31 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:18:40 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Beartooth >>> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and >>> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at >>> home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-31 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:44:16 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 8/29/23 07:44, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:58:47 +, Richard wrote: >> >>>> Date: Monday, August 28, 2023 19:09:43 + From: Beartooth >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-30 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:20:50 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 19:09 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and >> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at >> home.) Fwiw, I'm

Re: unwanted login

2023-08-29 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:58:47 +, Richard wrote: >> Date: Monday, August 28, 2023 19:09:43 + From: Beartooth >> >> >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over >> and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole use

unwanted login

2023-08-28 Thread Beartooth
One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver under Mate. Where and how do I reconfigure? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I

Re: VDQ mate terminal (F37)

2023-04-07 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:26:32 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 15:53 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> I must be getting more senile than I thought. I've lost the little >> row of words on the top border of my mate-terminal (under F37, if it >> matters) "

VDQ mate terminal (F37)

2023-04-06 Thread Beartooth
I must be getting more senile than I thought. I've lost the little row of words on the top border of my mate-terminal (under F37, if it matters) "File Edit View Search ... etc" and I can't find where to turn it back on. -- Beartooth Oc

Re: Xscreensaver forever in F37

2023-01-05 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:02 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 16:21 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> >> When I first get to my study in the morning, my monitor >> is >> not dark, but still displaying some choice of xscreensaver

Xscreensaver forever in F37

2023-01-02 Thread Beartooth
When I first get to my study in the morning, my monitor is not dark, but still displaying some choice of xscreensaver. It always used to stop and leave the monitor to rest. How do I get that behavior back? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: strange error instead of update on F37

2022-11-27 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:42:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/25/2022 10:28 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> This is on a thinkpad several years old, with another machine right >> next to it having no trouble. > > This is an error at the other end. Try again and it should work.

strange error instead of update on F37

2022-11-25 Thread Beartooth
[OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer in connection to mirrors.fedoraproject.org:443 ] []# This is on a thinkpad several years old, with another machine right next to it having no trouble. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-13 Thread Beartooth
t's some slight consolation. But how do I know what repo it's getting all these mandatory instant updates from? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing l

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:18:03 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > 2022-10-11 18:09 UTC+02:00, Beartooth : >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:14:56 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> >>> If he did install it outside of Fedora, wouldn't it be better to >>> uninstall it and install the

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Beartooth
was iirc 'phoenix' and Fedora since it was RH7; I can't begin to recall all the tweaks I've tried since the Nineties. So do I have this right? I should run 'dnf remove firefox', then 'dny install firefox'. Reboot between? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Rememb

VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-10 Thread Beartooth
an electronic finger till it gets its way. Does this make some esoteric sense that I don't see? If not, how do I eliminate or take control of its irritating habit? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up

Re: Cursor jumping

2022-04-11 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 10:22:56 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 4/8/22 10:15, I Beartooth wrote: >> There seems to be some setting somewhere in recent releases (I'm >> running F35) that causes the mouse cursor to jump around when it hits >> certain positions. How do I turn t

Unlogging

2022-04-08 Thread Beartooth
Recent releases (I"m running F35) seem to log me out at certain times, regardless of what I'm doing. I want not ever to get logged out. How and where do I set that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of whe

Cursor jumping

2022-04-08 Thread Beartooth
There seems to be some setting somewhere in recent releases (I'm running F35) that causes the mouse cursor to jump around when it hits certain positions. How do I turn this off? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up

Re: Pan updates

2021-12-27 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 06:35:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/12/2021 01:45, Beartooth wrote: >> I'm OK, thanks! Just surprised. >> >> I'd love to help, but my .sig means what it says (and I'm ancient >> of days). > > Well, according to the upstr

Re: Pan updates

2021-12-26 Thread Beartooth
with the maintainers of the Fedora package > (linked on that page) if you are very desperate for the new version and > make your case, or perhaps volunteer to help out. I'm OK, thanks! Just surprised. I'd love to help, but my .sig means what it says (and I'm ancient of days)

Pan updates

2021-12-23 Thread Beartooth
Pan 0.149 is just out; but I get $ rpm -q pan pan-0.147-1.fc35.x86_64 -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

What the blazes?

2021-02-05 Thread Beartooth
~]# What now?? -- Beartooth Implacable, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning? -- JRR Tolkien ___ users mailing list -- users

Small-time factoring?

2021-01-05 Thread Beartooth
to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster. My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or can be handily installed. Anybody know? -- Beartooth

Eliminating i686

2020-12-19 Thread Beartooth
nearly ninety other items. I noticed that all of them also ended in .i686; so I told it to go ahead. Was this a real dumb-cluck trick, or should I do the like on my other machines? -- Beartooth not quite clueless ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Dragora bollixed?

2020-12-03 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 01 Dec 2020 04:15:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> My bad. There is no drop-down. The whole display is greyed out, >> except for the colored line at the bottom showing its progress; and >> when that finishes, the only thing not greyed out is "quit". > > You will see that greyed out

Re: Dragora bollixed?

2020-11-30 Thread Beartooth
showing its progress; and when that finishes, the only thing not greyed out is "quit". -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Dragora bollixed?

2020-11-29 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 07:37:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 29/11/2020 05:10, I Beartooth wrote: >> I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem >> I'm >> asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. >> >> Dra

Dragora bollixed?

2020-11-28 Thread Beartooth
? Or is the exhaustive form deprecated?? If so, is there a replacement? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately > booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another > surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Surprise!

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [] > This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October > 30, about a transactio

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:24:25 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [...] >> This is the machine,

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:42:01 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >>> >>> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish >>> machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. >>> >>> It

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > How to test for a 64 bit CPU: > > $ lsc

Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread Beartooth
with the BIOS, if there still is one. Is there hope? What info do I need to post?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F32 => F33 Error: Transaction test error: [unseen space]

2020-10-31 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:55:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/30/20 9:47 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> Running ]# dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=33 >> --allowerasing >> >> gets me a transaction test error saying >> >> At leas

F32 => F33 Error: Transaction test error: [unseen space]

2020-10-30 Thread Beartooth
, and only 4 MB used. Partitioning seems simple till I have to use it, and then immediately bewilders me. What do I have to do?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up

Re: Problem with CLI upgrade 32 -> 33 : SOLVED

2020-10-30 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:42:14 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:25:28 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> I go through the usual sequence (twice on one machine, once >> on another), and end up with : [] >> Is it me?? > >

Problem with CLI upgrade 32 -> 33

2020-10-28 Thread Beartooth
talled package qgis-3.12.1-4.fc32.x86_64 - qt5-qtbase-5.14.2-5.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - qgis-3.12.1-4.fc32.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable package

Re: Add repo?

2020-10-26 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:47:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:40:08 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> I've just discovered that dnf on one of my machines (a Thinkpad, >> but I've forgotten where it keeps its model number) is lacking >> rpm

Add repo?

2020-10-25 Thread Beartooth
I've just discovered that dnf on one of my machines (a Thinkpad, but I've forgotten where it keeps its model number) is lacking rpmfusion; and I can't seem to figure out how to add it. How do I do it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: Seamonkey settings??

2020-10-06 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:33:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:20 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:50:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> [...] >>>>> Edit -> Preferences ? >>>> >>>>Sounds good -- except that I

Re: Seamonkey settings??

2020-10-05 Thread Beartooth
d how would I unhide it? What does it look like? I see three lines: a line with the reload button and the location; a line with "Home", "Bookmarks", etc.; and a line of tabs. Is any of those it?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Rem

Re: Seamonkey settings??

2020-10-05 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:08 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 18:54:20 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> Where are the settings for Seamonkey? > > Edit -> Preferences ? Sounds good -- except that I don't see Edit ... -- Beartoot

Seamonkey settings??

2020-10-05 Thread Beartooth
Where are the settings for Seamonkey? I'm running seamonkey-2.53.4-1.fc32.x86_64 under F32 fully updated. I've right- and left-clicked all over it, and I can't seem to get into any configuration worth doing. What am I missing? TIA! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power

i686 in F32??

2020-09-13 Thread Beartooth
was .i686 in addition to another that was .86_64. I have just done a dnf upgrade, which installed libFAudio-20.09-1.fc32.i686 and libFAudio-20.07-1.fc32.i686. Should I now do dnf remove *.i686? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

2020-07-05 Thread Beartooth
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this: [main] gpgcheck=1 installonly_limit=3 clean_requirements_on_remove=True best=False skip_if_unavailable=True I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for the clarifications. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Rem

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

2020-07-05 Thread Beartooth
n all upper case has a standard meaning, and I suppose "TERM" must, too. But I can never remember what it is, nor where to look it up. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

2020-07-05 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:02:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/3/20 11:59 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> IF (big if) I understand aright, the answer is that there are >> various colors in command output, such as ls making folders differ from >> files; all are fine except one.

Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

2020-07-03 Thread Beartooth
mber the name of the canonical site for that, nor the command, although they make sense while I see them. However, I don't know if the site would preserve colors sent to it, or make them fit it, or leave that to each person viewing. Would it matter whether I posted a

Output text color (was dnf list color bad)

2020-07-02 Thread Beartooth
y default. Am I making sense this time?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Download pix?

2020-06-13 Thread Beartooth
I took a couple pix with my Kyocera clamshell phone, which now I want to download to a computer running Fedora 32, so that I can email them. The computer sees the phone when I connect them with a cable. What do I do next?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-12 Thread Beartooth
ler drive. But I didn't understand, and it wouldn't tell, what was wrong with those arrangements. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues Sclerotic Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Evangelist ___ users mailing list

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-11 Thread Beartooth
Yesterday, I Beartooth wrote: >> The whole PC is now a backup; so I'd have no hesitation to DBAN it, >> install F32, and recopy data from my >> present #1 machine. I did think it seemed to have surprisingly little >> storage when I did that df -h; but if I understand

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-09 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:18:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/8/20 9:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> It's not a file. It appears to be an lvm volume, kind of like a >>> partition. It's mounted at /

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-09 Thread Beartooth
lowed up on? (I believe the guy died not long after writing that.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:39:28 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > Seems almost nobody is using the command line. > GUI for everything. > I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. :-) I gave that a fresh thread, called Interfaces. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Cluel

Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
e lost me. -- Beartooth Implacable, Double Retiree Historian of Tongues from Way Back ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-08 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 10:42 AM, I Beartooth wrote: >> Going into the GUI, right clicking and choosing priorities, I see: > > What gui? Right-clicking on what? Sorry. Mate. I clicked on the desktop icon for Computer, t

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-07 Thread Beartooth
mber: how, other than by df -h, do I get a machine to tell me its capacity? If the file *could* grow to 1.8T, is that some kind of software limit, or does it imply that the machine actually has at least 1.8T? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precio

What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-07 Thread Beartooth
of the others, might it be reasonably safe to keep one for constant use and the others as supporting specialists of some sort. Advice? Comments? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where up

Re: Prevent locking screen

2020-06-02 Thread Beartooth
t. Thanks, Tom! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fe

Prevent locking screen

2020-05-31 Thread Beartooth
How do I tell Fedora (currently 32 fully upgraded) never to lock the screen?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Lost Mate-panel : SOLVED

2020-05-21 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 01 May 2020 20:16:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > Upgrading an E-series Thinkpad, a year or two old, running Fedora 31, > via CLI, the upgrade kept failing with complaints about i.686 -- till I > did "dnf remove mate-*.i.686" -- then it completed, or seemed to. This &

Arora browser failing under F32

2020-05-09 Thread Beartooth
; that completed normally, but didn't help. The little box reporting trouble showed, but said nothing, and also closed without offering either to dump any data or to send anything to RedHat. The same happened on another F32 machine, but not on one running F31. -- Beartooth Staffwright

More 686 woe

2020-05-08 Thread Beartooth
-1.24.0-4.fc32.x86_64 This is AFTER running with ' --skip-broken --allowerasing' -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-08 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 07 May 2020 16:46:49 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On May 7, 2020, at 16:42, Beartooth wrote: >>I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something >> onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to >> do so. But I've searc

Browser list?

2020-05-08 Thread Beartooth
can use. I also thought, only just now, to try searching 'browser' in dnfdragora, and did find a couple, which I installed and will play with. Anybody know any others? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-08 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 07 May 2020 13:44:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/7/20 1:41 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something >> onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to >> do so. But I've searched d

VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-07 Thread Beartooth
I'm pretty sure the Fedora machine I want to use to put something onto a thumb drive doesn't have the thumb drive software installed to do so. But I've searched dnfdragora up one side and down the other without finding it. What is it called? Pretty please? -- Beartooth Staffwright

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-06 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 05 May 2020 13:01:12 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> All right, I now have it booted into F32 Live, with a Mate- >> terminal open. > > I've never use the Mate live boot. Did it have an install option when > it started up? If not, check the menus for an install option. It

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-05 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 05 May 2020 11:46:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/5/20 11:43 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 05 May 2020 10:37:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>> It sounds like you started the the upgrade process but it failed part >>> way through. I think doi

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-05 Thread Beartooth
k a guess at "re-install" and got it wrong -- trying to re-do what I had. Can I actually do something like "dnf re-install xyz"?? What do I put for xyz when it's a whole OS?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-05 Thread Beartooth
he upgrade; it reminded me to refresh, and I did; it installed inxi, whatever that is. Then it hit the upgrade problems again, and this time suggested "--allowerasing"; so I added that to " --skip-broken." It stopped with the problem of sudo, systemd, and systemd-udev

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-04 Thread Beartooth
s. I opened a terminal which gave me this prompt: [beartooth@localhost-live ~]$ > Can you login? Yes, with a lot of little boxes complaining about various applets and offering to remove them. I told it not to. Then I did su - and it took my regular root password.

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-04 Thread Beartooth
Doing this back and forth between two machines is very awkward, and doing it with the KVM switch was worse. If I could make the live medium run Pan, I could jump back and forth with the workspace switcher. Is there a way to do that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-04 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 03 May 2020 14:41:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/20 10:49 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sat, 02 May 2020 14:24:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>> I'm not familiar with Mate, but try opening the file browser. At >>> least on Gnome, the available

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-03 Thread Beartooth
lling to be walked through whatever it takes; I owe Fedora and all its people big time. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-02 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 01 May 2020 20:16:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] > > Do I go looking for a live distro that may let me mount the Thpd's > hard drive and try to fix the panels somehow? > > Do I just call it a total loss and install F 32 from a freshly > downloa

Re: Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-02 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 01 May 2020 14:03:10 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/1/20 1:16 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> Since the upgrade reboot, when I KVM to the Thinkpad, I see blank >> flashing panels on each monitor. There is no terminal emulator >> anywhere. >> I've tried a couple t

Old Red Hat bugzilla pwd

2020-05-02 Thread Beartooth
occasion to use it in years (Yay Fedora!), and have no clue any more what my old password may be. Is there a way I can legitimate myself and have that password (or if need be, the whole old account) deleted, so that I can report a new oddity? Should I just report it here? -- Beartooth Staffwright

What are pcscd and sys_nice??

2020-05-02 Thread Beartooth
Upon trying to open a 5-line URL at NYT, I just got an alert saying, "SELinux is preventing pcscd from using the sys_nice capability." I tried searching, and got nothing specific to SELinux nor Fedora; what I did find is way over my head. -- Beartooth Staffwright,

Lost Mate-panel

2020-05-01 Thread Beartooth
pd's hard drive and try to fix the panels somehow? Do I just call it a total loss and install F 32 from a freshly downloaded iso on a thumb drive? Is there a third way? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little ide

Re: F32, Mate, i686 vs, 86_64

2020-04-30 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:56:04 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/29/20 1:41 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> Can I somehow remove all of one with a single command? (I expect >> more such conflicts.) > > Something must have brought the 32-bit libs in, do you have wine > instal

F32, Mate, i686 vs, 86_64

2020-04-29 Thread Beartooth
I'm getting failure because of conflicts in Mate-panel between i686 and 86_64. Can I somehow remove all of one with a single command? (I expect more such conflicts.) How do I tell which a given machine should be pared down to? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite

Re: dnf list color bad

2020-04-28 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:06:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/28/20 9:14 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:12:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:43:36 +0200, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: >>>> >>>>&g

Re: dnf list color bad

2020-04-28 Thread Beartooth
on which machine I'm on at the moment. (I allow NO window to obscure the background on any side.) Setting all this up on each new release is a bore, and I wish I need not do it over and over; but it's worth it in use. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: dnf list color bad

2020-04-27 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:43:36 +0200, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: > Try: > dnf --color=never install python3-pygame I tried it, on all four machines. No joy. I rebooted them, and did another upgrade. Still no joy. I even tried "eval dnf" on one (Wow!), but that didn't help, either. :-{

Re: dnf list color bad

2020-04-23 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:37:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:11:22 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> Today all of a sudden on all four machines on my desk, the list >> that dnf gives me of what it proposes to do is an unreadable chart

dnf list color bad

2020-04-23 Thread Beartooth
I'm running F31 Mate. Today all of a sudden on all four machines on my desk, the list that dnf gives me of what it proposes to do is an unreadable chartreuse color. Could this be something I've done?? How do I fix it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User

kf5

2020-04-12 Thread Beartooth
I run F31 Mate. When I run dnf upgrade, I often get dozens of kf5 entries (23 today, by my count) -- presumably because I install and sometimes use K3B or Konqueror; I don't think I ever launch any other KDE app, at least not knowingly. In particular, I used to use Konqueror

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