Re: How to pick up external speakers?

2016-05-06 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 23:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/05/2016 11:20 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 08:11 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > > > > Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained >

Re: How to pick up external speakers?

2016-05-06 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 08:11 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > I sitting at our summer house with limited TV choices before our > "cable" service is renewed.  > So, having gotten a "new" (well at least larger) Plasma (and TV > display through the SCART connection

How to pick up external speakers?

2016-05-06 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
I sitting at our summer house with limited TV choices before our "cable" service is renewed.  So, having gotten a "new" (well at least larger) Plasma (and TV display through the SCART connection from our cable provider- Hyundai PD421) screen with gazillions of ports to connect to stuff I thought

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

2016-03-08 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On 08/03/16 09:05, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Tim wrote: >> >>> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: >>>> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. >>>> As I said, ad

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

2016-03-08 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On 07/03/16 16:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> Allegedly, on or about 06 March 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: >>> I have gnuchess, knights and xboard installed. >>> As I said, adding the --xboards option to gnuchess has no effect. >> "xboard" vs "--xboards" >> >> Have you checked for

Re: KDE autostarting app

2016-03-07 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On 08/03/16 02:59, Rex Dieter wrote: > Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I keep having Dolphin autostarting on login in KDE (but not in Cinnamon) >> but I can't see where this behaviour is saved. At least it isn't in KDE >> autostart. Any ideas? >

KDE autostarting app

2016-03-07 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, I keep having Dolphin autostarting on login in KDE (but not in Cinnamon) but I can't see where this behaviour is saved. At least it isn't in KDE autostart. Any ideas? /Martin S -- This address is for technical mail lists only. For all other matters, please use my main address at the .org

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-14 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On 12/02/16 22:24, Go Canes wrote: > I'm trying to convert my wife's laptop from Windows 7 to Fedora 22 > running KDE 5. However, when she browses the web, occasionally the > page will scroll as fast it can - either up or down - with no input on > her part, other than loading the page. Nothing

Re: Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
> On 28/01/16 15:33, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >    > > On 01/28/16 22:19, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > > >    > > > On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >   > > > > Also, depending on how you've configured

Re: Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 15:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > Before the community sighing begins. > > Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to > > the server are correct. > > And googled umpteen

Re: Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin? > > > You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed > > > to > > > sending, correct?  IMAP > > > or POP3? > > Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy. > > > > > >

Re: Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

2016-01-28 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >  > Also, depending on how you've configured the IMAP sever, you may want > to try 143 with NONE > and Normal Password. Hmm weird, that worked > > Your IMAP server it is the "Courier IMAP" server? Yep, old and venerable =) /Martin S

Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

2016-01-27 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, Before the community sighing begins. Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are correct. And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified - most of them telling me GMail changed their login routine ... No, it's not a Gmail account, it's

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-03 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 03:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/02/15 23:54, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > I ran an update on the system, and now everything works as > > supposed. A bit sluggish though. > > What sort of hardware do you have? Also, what video card? HP ProBoo

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-03 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 08:38 +0100, John Horne wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 14:06 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > not. > > > > After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma > > as environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting Martin Skjöldebrand <mar...@skjoldebrand.eu>: On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 21:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/15 21:38, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > Yes > > $ sudo dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > [sudo] password for marskj: > Last metadata exp

KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
not. After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma as environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a pointer to move. Looks like it doesn't even load a window manager. cat /var/log/messages | grep plasma reveals Sep 2 13:42:22 localhost

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/02/15 20:06, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma > > as > > environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a > > pointer > &g

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 21:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/02/15 21:38, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > Yes > > > > $ sudo dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > > [sudo] password for marskj: > > Last metadata expiration check performed

Re: Removing LXDE

2015-09-01 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 07:53 +0200, Luigi Votta wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:51:29 +0200 > Martin Skjöldebrand <mar...@skjoldebrand.eu> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > By mistake I ran "sudo dnf install @lxde-desktop" on Fedora 22. > > How do I revers

Removing LXDE

2015-08-31 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, By mistake I ran "sudo dnf install @lxde-desktop" on Fedora 22. How do I reverse that? Grouperase or remove lxde-desktop doesn't seem to work as it can't find lxde-desktop. /Martin S -- This address is for technical mail lists only.For all other matters, please use my main addressat the

Re: Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-27 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, In the end it turned out that the SASL authentication setup had become corrupted, so didn't authenticate users. That's what I discovered once I got port 587 up instead of 25. /Martin S -- This address is for technical mail lists only.For all other matters, please use my main addressat the

Re: Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-23 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: On 08/23/15 14:13, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Been googling this a bit without find a solution. I installed Fedora 22 on my laptop, and I find that I can recieve mail in Evolution, but not send. Only thing that happens is that the sending process

Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-23 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, Been googling this a bit without find a solution. I installed Fedora 22 on my laptop, and I find that I can recieve mail in Evolution, but not send. Only thing that happens is that the sending process times out. I tried with my perosnal mail server, and - to check with a server that

Re: Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-23 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting g gel...@bellsouth.net: On 08/23/15 01:13, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Hi, . hello. Been googling this a bit without find a solution. I installed Fedora 22 on my laptop, and I find that I can recieve mail in Evolution, but not send. Only thing that happens is that the sending

Re: Fedora 22: unable to send mail

2015-08-23 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Update so far: Using Thunderbird I am able to connect properly and send email on my GMail account. It finds and autoconfigures all settings. On Evolution it doesn't. I can recieve mail on both Thunderbird and Evolution. Regarding my own server Thunderbird reports that the password/username

Re: phone no longer mounts over usb

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Monday 05 August 2013 10.28.25 Gregory Hosler wrote: Hi all, I have a Samsong phone. I used to mount it as Mass Storage (selected on the phone) over the micro usb connection, to copy files to/from. Starting with kernel 3.10.3-300.fc19.x86_64, and continuing with kernel

Re: phone no longer mounts over usb

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Monday 05 August 2013 10.28.25 Gregory Hosler wrote: Hi all, I have a Samsong phone. I used to mount it as Mass Storage (selected on the phone) over the micro usb connection, to copy files to/from. Starting with kernel 3.10.3-300.fc19.x86_64, and continuing with kernel

bootproblems

2013-08-03 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
I'm starting to see the following startup error the last few boots. Aug 3 17:30:46 localhost systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager. Aug 3 17:30:49 localhost systemd[1]: NetworkManager-wait-online.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 3 17:30:49 localhost systemd[1]:

Fedora crash

2013-07-29 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Would you expect a crash in this situation? I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to leave my place for a bit and when I got back the laptop had gone into hiberantion. Then when getting home, I

Re: Fedora crash

2013-07-29 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Would you expect a crash in this situation? I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to leave my place for a bit

Re: How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?

2013-07-29 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Monday 29 July 2013 15.12.53 lee wrote: আনন্দ কুমার সমাদ্দার Ananda Samaddar asamad...@myopera.com writes: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:49:42 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: To do a minimal install, when the main anaconda (install) window appears, click where it says Gnome Desktop

Re: LibreOfffice and its new UI

2013-07-29 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Tuesday 30 July 2013 07.05.26 Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/13 06:52, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 07:33:39AM +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: What is it supposed to look like? It is not a new UI. You can add a sidebar, taken from IBM Symphony. It is not working

Re: How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?

2013-07-28 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Sunday 28 July 2013 23.45.40 lee wrote: Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com writes: lee writes: Hi, how does one get a clean installation of Fedora? Clean means that only those packages are installed that are actually needed and only those services are running that are actually

Re: HTML5

2013-07-27 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Saturday 27 July 2013 17.32.55 James Hogarth wrote: On 27 July 2013 05:33, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: Are there Linux testing tools for HTML5 code? Blackberry offers tools that developers can open in Windows or Mac, and offer nothing for Linux. I suppose I am

Re: Backup settings

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Thursday 25 July 2013 01.19.41 Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/25/2013 12:46 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: There apprently is a backup service in Fedora, which can automatically copy files to various cloud-services or other places. What is needed to be able to add /var/log/yum.log to the files

Re: Partition fuckup

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Friday 26 July 2013 17.47.16 David Beveridge wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com wrote: I want them the other way round really. What would be the best way of trying to achieve this? You can do it with Logical Volume Manager, assuming LVM

Re: Partition fuckup

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Friday 26 July 2013 08.58.30 Alan Findly wrote: On 7/26/2013 2:40 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: On Friday 26 July 2013 17.47.16 David Beveridge wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com wrote: I want them the other way round really. What

Re: Partition fuckup

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Friday 26 July 2013 19.38.06 Paul W. Frields wrote: I really like how you quoted my reply which thanked someone for sending input to my question and saying I should be banned to post to the list ... OK, I'll never thank anyone ever again Your thanks were very polite. :-)

Backup settings

2013-07-25 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
There apprently is a backup service in Fedora, which can automatically copy files to various cloud-services or other places. What is needed to be able to add /var/log/yum.log to the files that are backed up. The file is greyed out, and I can't select it. How do I solve this or should I go for

Partition fuckup

2013-07-25 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Hi, Now I'm pretty pissed with myself as i managed to fuckup the partitions on my laptop. I've got 2 partitions one with 50 Gb the other with 250 Gb. Unfortunately they contain the wrong things. / is 50 Gb /home is 250 Gb I want them the other way round really. What would be the best way of

Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-23 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Tuesday 23 July 2013 08.17.18 Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? Just keeping the Open File dialog open for a bit longer than usually

Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-22 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Monday 22 July 2013 13.51.04 lee wrote: Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com writes: Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program

unstable libreoffice

2013-07-21 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? Just keeping the Open File dialog open for a bit longer than usually is needed to open a file, makes in crash. It doesn't happen all the time, but at frustratingly bad times (like when saving a doc for the first time).