[Partially Solved] Re: GRUB Issue? Console Fonts and messages?

2023-06-17 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 16 Jun 2023, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Stephen Morris said:     I was under the impression that for UEFI boots Fedora loaded /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg which loads /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, so when you run grub2-mkconfig you need to specify grub2-mkconfig -o

Re: GRUB Issue? Console Fonts and messages?

2023-06-16 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [deleteded for the sake of brevity] If not: It's not clear to me: Are the console fonts still too small after your change in /etc/vconsole.conf - assuming you rebooted your computer - or do you see no boot messages at all, when the system starts?

Re: GRUB Issue? Console Fonts and messages?

2023-06-13 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 10:25:19PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: In my transition from a Dell XPS 13 L322X (2013 vintage) to a Dell XPS 13 9380 (2019 vintage), console fonts at bootup are incredibly small. Is there a way of controlling

GRUB Issue? Console Fonts and messages?

2023-06-09 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, In my transition from a Dell XPS 13 L322X (2013 vintage) to a Dell XPS 13 9380 (2019 vintage), console fonts at bootup are incredibly small. Is there a way of controlling that? Also, there is an odd little flashing message "Welcome to GRUB" at startup. Is there any way of

Re: find command problems

2023-05-28 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 28 May 2023, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 08:49 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: `find . -iname '*pdf' -type f -perm 755` Searching for "spaces" through the man file for find, I find this: Safer `find -print0 | xargs -0` approach • Find files

find command problems

2023-05-28 Thread Max Pyziur
: No such file or directory Similar results happen with this command: chmod 644 `find . -iname '*pdf' -type f -perm 755` Any suggestions? Thank you. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 15:15, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable

Re: rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 27 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/27/23 13:36, Max Pyziur wrote: Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup

rsync commands help request

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been using rsync to backup from my various desktops and laptops to an in-house networked server. A variant of the script is appended below. Located in /etc/cron.hourly, the script pings a machine to see if it is live; if so, it proceeds to do an incremental backup to a

More on Dell XPS 13s

2023-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings A few weeks ago I initiated a discussion on Dell XPS laptops of various vintages. One thing I requested was information on people's experience (if any ) with Dell XPS 13 9380s (of 2019 vintage). I have since acquired a refurbished variant, and have installed F38 on it. It seems

Re: Dell XPS 13 recommendations (used/refurbished)

2023-05-08 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 7 May 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've been using two Dell XPS L322X of early 2013 vintage acquired used since late 2017. They work very well, but I'm considering newer versions of this laptop

Dell XPS 13 recommendations (used/refurbished)

2023-05-07 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been using two Dell XPS L322X of early 2013 vintage acquired used since late 2017. They work very well, but I'm considering newer versions of this laptop. Specifically, I've seen some Dell XPS 13 9380s of 2019 vintage. There is some installation help at this webpage:

Re: Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-05-07 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 4 May 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/30/23 05:55, Max Pyziur wrote: Per the subject line any recommendations on F38 would be helpful. I had both installed on my Dell XPS 13 L322 laptop, but bc the upgrade failed I've had to do a fresh install and restore my data. Viber does provide

Re: Postgresql upgrade from 14 to 15

2023-05-07 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 5 May 2023, Clifford Snow wrote: I just successfully upgraded my laptop to Fedora 38. Unfortunately, upgrading postgresql isn't working for me. Running postgresql-setup upgrade produces and error log in /var/lib/pgsql/upgrade_postgresql.log which tells me to read the last few lines

[Solved, partially] Re: Post F38 upgrade/fresh install: printing text files via paps (a Postscript converter) prints raw postscript

2023-05-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 May 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2023 11:52:47 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: stan via users wrote: But, why is this a bug? Stable versions are often at lower release versions for rpms than newer versions. The bug is that 0.8.0 includes a fix which 0.7.9 lacks. That

Re: Post F38 upgrade/fresh install: printing text files via paps (a Postscript converter) prints raw postscript

2023-05-02 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 May 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2023 11:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: Working directly with the paps developer on github (https://github.com/dov/paps/discussions/63) We've come across a bug. Current F37 version is: paps-0.7.1-5.fc37 Current F38 version

Re: Post F38 upgrade/fresh install: printing text files via paps (a Postscript converter) prints raw postscript

2023-05-02 Thread Max Pyziur
maintainers and a new paps release needs to be made available. I'm like a rooster tap-dancing in golashes here. How does this get reported to Fedora maintainers? Max p...@brama.com On Mon, 1 May 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, My F38 upgrade on my desktop and my fresh install on my

Post F38 upgrade/fresh install: printing text files via paps (a Postscript converter) prints raw postscript

2023-05-01 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, My F38 upgrade on my desktop and my fresh install on my laptop (because of an upgrade crash) are taking place in less than stellar fashion. But given that things have been going very well in this regard since F27 (circa late 2017) something like this shouldn't be unexpected.

Re: Post F38 upgrade/install printing in mirror image from HP P3015

2023-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:43 AM Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm stumbling through both an F38 upgrade and a new installation (the latter due to an F38 major upgrade problem). Thankfully, data has been saved

Request for recommendations on installing Viber and Signal

2023-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
Per the subject line any recommendations on F38 would be helpful. I had both installed on my Dell XPS 13 L322 laptop, but bc the upgrade failed I've had to do a fresh install and restore my data. Viber does provide an rpm: rpm can be found here https://www.viber.com/en/download/ (look under

Post F38 upgrade/install printing in mirror image from HP P3015

2023-04-27 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I'm stumbling through both an F38 upgrade and a new installation (the latter due to an F38 major upgrade problem). Thankfully, data has been saved and recovered. But problems arise (sort of like knowing how to drive a 2000 model year vehicle and then being confronted with a 2020

F38 Fresh install from Live ISO - setting root password

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Per the subject line, where does the root password get set on an F38 fresh install. Thank you. Max p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: packages: NetworkManager, dnf, grub2-tools-minimal, sudo, systemd, systemd-udev I'm looking at your recommendations and now wondering how to proceed given that it seems I have probably about 4800+ packages

Re: Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: packages: NetworkManager, dnf, grub2-tools-minimal, sudo, systemd, systemd-udev I'm looking at your recommendations and now wondering how to proceed given that it seems I have probably about 4800+ packages that are both fc38 and fc37. Any advice here

Re: Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/23 13:38, Max Pyziur wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Upgrading F38 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop of something like

Re: Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:10:06 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Upgrading F38 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop of something like 2012 vintage w a 1TB SSD, the scriplet/upgrade to setroubleshoot-server

Re: Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Upgrading F38 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop of something like 2012 vintage w a 1TB SSD, the scriplet/upgrade to setroubleshoot-server is hanging. Seems that it's been this way for a least 5-10 minutes while everything before this has been

Upgrading to F38, setroubleshoot-server seems to be taking a long time

2023-04-25 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Upgrading F38 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop of something like 2012 vintage w a 1TB SSD, the scriplet/upgrade to setroubleshoot-server is hanging. Seems that it's been this way for a least 5-10 minutes while everything before this has been running briskly. Advice? Max Pyziur p

gthumb crash on startup and bugzilla reporting

2023-02-28 Thread Max Pyziur
somewhere in this report? Or do I have to acquire other credentials for this API? Thank you, Max PYziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Speech to text software in a Fedora Linux environment

2023-02-23 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 6:16 PM Max Pyziur wrote: Is there any speech-to-text software usable in a Fedora Linux environment? I've used CMU's Sphinx suite on Ubuntu and Fedora. I've used PocketSphinx on RaspberryPi's. My experience with Sphinx

Speech to text software in a Fedora Linux environment

2023-02-22 Thread Max Pyziur
Is there any speech-to-text software usable in a Fedora Linux environment? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Sycing to Memotoo w SyncEvolution post-Fedora 37 upgrade

2022-12-07 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been trying to sync my data today with memotoo, and I keep getting failure notices. I'm using both the UI as well as the CLI. I'm not sure how to check the error or problem. When using the CLI, here is my output: syncevolution --run --sync refresh-from-local memotoo [INFO]

Re: Caja File manager hotkey idiosyncracy

2022-07-12 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, c. marlow wrote: On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 14:03 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, When using the Caja file manager in xFce, if I shut it down using ctrl-W, I can restart it later. However, if I shut it down using ctrl-SpaceBar, then (C)lose, I can't restart

Caja File manager hotkey idiosyncracy

2022-07-12 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, When using the Caja file manager in xFce, if I shut it down using ctrl-W, I can restart it later. However, if I shut it down using ctrl-SpaceBar, then (C)lose, I can't restart it. Is this prevented by some "lock" file somewhere? Or something else? Thank you, Max

Solved: Re: gthumb - animated/moving gifs not showing up in browser

2022-06-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 19 Jun 2022, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I have a number of moving gifs in my various photo/image collections, all with Tags. As of some recent upgrade (or possible misconfiguration), they have stopped showing up. I can still view them using something like eog; but I've

gthumb - animated/moving gifs not showing up in browser

2022-06-19 Thread Max Pyziur
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Re: WiFi flakiness after recent upgrades

2022-03-23 Thread Max Pyziur
back to running the *14* kernel. Is there a way to report this problem? Much thanks, Max Regards, Chris On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 at 18:44, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, Tim Evans wrote: > On 3/20/22 10:50, Max Pyziur wrote: >> >> Greetings,

Re: WiFi flakiness after recent upgrades

2022-03-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, Tim Evans wrote: On 3/20/22 10:50, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I have an elderly Dell XPS 13 laptop (L321x); it seems that after a recent software upgrade, the Wifi has become intermittant. As a fallback, I have a USB ethernet connection to cabled switch

WiFi flakiness after recent upgrades

2022-03-20 Thread Max Pyziur
and operating correctly. Is anyone else having difficulties? Thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Seeking advice - Considering move to Google Contacts or something similar

2021-12-10 Thread Max Pyziur
services are available to sync to Evolution and then to the A52, if at all? - Or is syncing Evolution to Google Contacts and Calendar is satisfactory? -- if the latter, is there guidance on setting this up? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com

Re: Post F34 upgrade - Google Earth not starting

2021-05-08 Thread Max Pyziur
, Max Pyziur Regards John Whitley On 04/05/2021 14:14, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Starting Google Earth from the menu, nothing happens. When starting from the command line, the following is displayed: pyz@p ~> /usr/bin/google-earth-pro /usr/bin/google-earth-pro: line 21: 19949 Segmentat

Post F34 upgrade - Google Earth not starting

2021-05-04 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Starting Google Earth from the menu, nothing happens. When starting from the command line, the following is displayed: pyz@p ~> /usr/bin/google-earth-pro /usr/bin/google-earth-pro: line 21: 19949 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$(dirname "$(readlink -f

Re: F33->F34: paps output has changed

2021-05-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Garry T. Williams wrote: On Friday, April 30, 2021 12:45:40 PM EDT Max Pyziur wrote: I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred Heh. Never tried this program before. I always use a2ps instead. But... I tried --font="monosp

F33->F34: paps output has changed

2021-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
quality stuff. I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: Post F32->F33 upgrade rsync w ssh fails

2020-11-21 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:14:23 -0500 Max Pyziur wrote: Even though I had done the F33 upgrade sometime ago, I am only now seeing that it appears to have affected my rsync backups. When my CentOS server issues the rsync backup

Post F32->F33 upgrade rsync w ssh fails

2020-11-21 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Even though I had done the F33 upgrade sometime ago, I am only now seeing that it appears to have affected my rsync backups. When my CentOS server issues the rsync backup the following error appears: no hostkey alg rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)

Re: turn on the camera

2020-09-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, News, The bizarre thing that the camera works when run fedora-live. fn+f6 still does not work. Is is a driver issue? How can I solve? I have the following packages installed: cheese-3.34.0-3.fc32.x86_64 cheese-libs-3.34.0-3.fc32.x86_64

Issue w Zoom - "sharing screen"

2020-08-03 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Since we're discussing Zoom, one problem that I've had is sharing a screen while I'm presenting. Situation: I've prepared a presentation/powerpoint. I open it in Libreoffice, I then click Slide Show -> Start from Current Slide Continue then with Zoom. When it's my turn to share

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread Max Pyziur
use a repo, however. Bob Max Pyziur p...@brama.com --  Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: non-rpm R libraries not accessible now w R v 4.0.x

2020-07-19 Thread Max Pyziur
Consolidating our correspondance and answering your two questions ... On Sun, 19 Jul 2020, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Saturday, 18 July 2020 23.46.07 WEST Max Pyziur wrote: R6 is available as a F32 RPM; however, it comes back w the above error message, fyi. Are you sure? :-) What does

Re: non-rpm R libraries not accessible now w R v 4.0.x

2020-07-18 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, José Abílio Matos wrote: [deleted for the sake of brevity ]   All packages need to be rebuilt for R 4.0 be it installed from rpms or otherwise. That is a requirement from R 4.0 and not from our installation.   FWIW you can also install packages from cran as rpms using:

Re: non-rpm R libraries not accessible now w R v 4.0.x

2020-07-18 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Saturday, 18 July 2020 21.22.17 WEST Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed some R libraries that are not available as rpm packages, > specifically matlib and a few others. > > Recently, R was porte

non-rpm R libraries not accessible now w R v 4.0.x

2020-07-18 Thread Max Pyziur
or become problematic. Any advice? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ 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.org

gedit shortcut keys - did you know?

2020-07-07 Thread Max Pyziur
Accidentally I hit ctrl-; in gedit and it brings up a window pane allowing the selection of emojis. I can't find this as a documented feature. What else am I missing? Also, can something like this be done in vim? Thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com

Graphing/Charting software in Linux - recommendations?

2020-06-04 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I mostly use Python/MatPlotLib for my graphing charting needs for a bunch of self-built, production-oriented things I require. However, once in a while I need to assemble something ad-hoc, and I generally revert to MS Excel because of fidelity and functionality. I've tried

Re: Firefox stability?

2020-05-18 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 18 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/18/20 1:21 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2020, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Interesting, how lately? I have a similarly-aged XPS 13 with an i7 processor and it has not crashed. I am on F32. I also have a more recent (2018) XPS 13 which I am using

Re: Firefox stability?

2020-05-18 Thread Max Pyziur
) Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Lately, I've noticed that different tabs that I have open in Firefox are crashing. This seems to have started recently. They can be restored easily, but there's a nuisance factor here. Anyone else? Hardware/Software basic deets: Dell XPS 13 L322X laptop, vintage

Firefox stability?

2020-05-18 Thread Max Pyziur
Samsung Solid state drive 8GB RAM F32 - everything has been updated Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

libreoffice calc - sheet deletion blocked

2020-05-09 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I have a 48 tabbed spreadsheet in xlsx format. It was originally created and maintained in libreoffice, occasionally opened in MS Excel. Today, I see that I can't delete specific sheets. This seems to be only currently related to this sheet and no other. I've searched through

Re: 30GB ZIF Hitachi drive in Creative Zen Vision M

2020-02-06 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/6/20 3:57 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: If that's the drive, then that's not looking good for getting anything off of it.  What does this show: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 | od -a 1+0 records in 1+0 records out

Re: 30GB ZIF Hitachi drive in Creative Zen Vision M

2020-02-06 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/6/20 3:21 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: What do "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" and "file -s /dev/sdb" give you? (Replace block device name as necessary.) ~> fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 27.97 GiB, 3000

Re: 30GB ZIF Hitachi drive in Creative Zen Vision M

2020-02-06 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/6/20 2:43 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/6/20 8:06 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I have a Creative Zen Vision M that has a ZIF Drive (so it's described on the Internet). It seems that iPods and competitors like

Re: 30GB ZIF Hitachi drive in Creative Zen Vision M

2020-02-06 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/6/20 8:06 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I have a Creative Zen Vision M that has a ZIF Drive (so it's described on the Internet). It seems that iPods and competitors like the Creative Zen Vision M had a disk drive falling into the general category of ZIF

30GB ZIF Hitachi drive in Creative Zen Vision M

2020-02-06 Thread Max Pyziur
ecover the data? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ 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.org/en-US/projec

5-1/4 diskettes

2020-01-19 Thread Max Pyziur
interal drive on eBay and try to make it work in Linux? - find a service that will transfer the data at a cost? Thanks in advance, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: XFCE - Network connections

2019-07-21 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Max Pyziur writes: Greetings, At one time using xfce you could access and adjust Network Connections from the main menu: Settings -> Network Connections That functionality seems to have disappeared (or is it configurable so that it

XFCE - Network connections

2019-07-21 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, At one time using xfce you could access and adjust Network Connections from the main menu: Settings -> Network Connections That functionality seems to have disappeared (or is it configurable so that it can be unhidden?). Also, when clicking on the Network App on the tool bar,

Re: Caja and Files - not all files appearing [false alarm]

2019-07-08 Thread Max Pyziur
Sorry, I think that I found the problem. Apologies. M On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, While reviewing the contents of a directory using Caja, I saw that not all files were appearing that were visible when reviewing the list of files from the command line. I've moved

Caja and Files - not all files appearing

2019-07-08 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, While reviewing the contents of a directory using Caja, I saw that not all files were appearing that were visible when reviewing the list of files from the command line. I've moved/copied those files that are not visible in Caja's pane to other directories (say, /var/tmp), and

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request [solved]

2019-05-28 Thread Max Pyziur
verns, and you can go back to using vlc, mplayer, watch youtube, etc. fyi, M On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:18 AM Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2019, Seth Kenlon wrote: For a MIDI file to produce sound out of Rosegarden (and probably most DAWs) you do have to assign the MIDI file an instrume

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request [solved]

2019-05-27 Thread Max Pyziur
. fyi, MP On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 9:43 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/24/19 6:32 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden. I loaded a MIDI file, pushed "play,&q

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 24 May 2019, Andras Simon wrote: 2019-05-24 15:32 GMT+02:00, Max Pyziur : After reading some, I checked to see if I had the necessary software installed (I do). I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). Started jackd

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Max Pyziur
ck. As I mentioned, I can work w MuseScore, Transcribe!, Audacity, strip audio from videos using ffmpeg, etc. So, it seems that there are some services that need to be enabled/started or disabled/stopped to move further here. Thank you again, M On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:02 PM Max Pyz

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 22 May 2019, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/22/19 8:20 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using MIDI on Fedora? That's a wide topic. Could you explain more specifically what you want to do? I'm fluent in things like working

Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-22 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using MIDI on Fedora? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: F30 - has it officially been released? [solved, sort of]

2019-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Danny Horne via users wrote: On 30/04/2019 18:39, Max Pyziur wrote: Per the subject line, I see that there is this announcement (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/), but after starting the upgrade and downloading the packages, the upgrade made no progress

F30 - has it officially been released?

2019-04-30 Thread Max Pyziur
haven't received. Is the F30 release official? Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code

QGIS error & F29

2019-03-11 Thread Max Pyziur
and now I have access to the DB Manager functionality. Is the Fedora/QGis community aware of this issue? Thanks! Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedor

Re: LIghtweight editor to replace gedit?

2019-02-25 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else. The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the

Re: Strange directories auto-created in home folder

2019-01-14 Thread Max Pyziur
for strange directories in $HOME. (None, right?) (back to WM login) Login Check $HOME for strange directories. Today mine looked like this: drwxrwxr-x2 pyz pyz4096 Jan 14 09:16 ''$'\360'','$'\377''^^U' fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users

Re: upgrade from F28 to F29

2018-12-27 Thread Max Pyziur
upgraded to F29, then First: dnf install libidn1.34-1.34-1.fc29.i686 Then, rpm -ivh --force AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm But YMMV & fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

[SOLVED] Re: Problem AdobeReader after upgrade F28 to F29.

2018-11-21 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Max Pyziur wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 19:17:27 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: Ger Van Dijck, Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:32:43 +0100: The Acrobat Reader does not funktionate anymore : So I tried to reinstall it with AdbeRdr9.5.5

Re: Problem AdobeReader after upgrade F28 to F29.

2018-11-04 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 19:17:27 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: Ger Van Dijck, Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:32:43 +0100: The Acrobat Reader does not funktionate anymore : So I tried to reinstall it with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm . I get the message

Re: Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 10:48 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: [deleted for the sake of brevity ] You said an external DVD/CD drive. Are you certain it has burn capacity (is it a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive)? If you can post the model

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/19/18 9:04 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I can ssh into the desktop and use it that way. Since the system is running, it would be interesting to see what the kernel is finding. What is the output of "lspci | grep -i vga"? If you run "s

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/19/18 10:17 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: If it doesn't work, try getting a cheap video card and try that. I wouldn't go crazy on the video...some nVidia-based cards are cheap at $50USD or so and would probably be as good as the one built-in to the mobo.

Re: Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 10:16 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Problem #2, I have a Toshiba external USB DVD/CD drive. When plugged into my laptop, it lights up, and I can pop open the drive by pressing the external button. However working in Brasero

Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Problem #2, I have a Toshiba external USB DVD/CD drive. When plugged into my laptop, it lights up, and I can pop open the drive by pressing the external button. However working in Brasero or the command line, I can't find anyway to burn the iso image that I downloaded. Much

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 9:04 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm troubleshooting the video output on my F28 desktop. It's a prosaic system (Shuttle shoebox type of computer), basic video, not a gamer. I've had several of those. On today's bootup, I get

Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
you. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https

USB/Flash Drive backup strategies

2018-09-27 Thread Max Pyziur
to the dedicated machine; has anyone devised a method to do something like this? Thanks in advance, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: HP & Ghostscript - possible problems

2018-09-16 Thread Max Pyziur
the command-line: lpadmin -p YourPrinterName -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops That seemed to work for me. ymmv & fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Until recently, printing with our HP 3015 was a cinch: all jobs

HP & Ghostscript - possible problems

2018-09-14 Thread Max Pyziur
ntered something similar? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-co

Re: file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On 07/16/2018 12:05 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Twenty minutes of googling and still no answers. When I do a directory listing using 'ls -l' and I see -rw-rw-r-- -rw-r--r--. What's the final period indicate. I realize that this is a newbie

file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Twenty minutes of googling and still no answers. When I do a directory listing using 'ls -l' and I see -rw-rw-r-- -rw-r--r--. What's the final period indicate. I realize that this is a newbie question, but I'm stumped at finding an answer. Much thanks. Max

[SOLVED] Re: F27: Grub2 hosed; request rescue help

2018-03-14 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, While doing an upgrade on a non-critical laptop, including a kernel upgrade, the machine froze. Rebooting brought information to the effect that no boot image was available. I've been trying to find, and also using different CDs to rescue

F27: Grub2 hosed; request rescue help

2018-03-14 Thread Max Pyziur
workstation install DVD and a SuperGrub2 Disk. Along with having no Google-fu today, nothing seems to be enabling me to have much progress in rescuing this machine. It's a Dell Latitude E6220; 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM. Any suggestions and advice on links etc would be appreciated. Much thanks, Max Pyziur

configuring shortcut key in xFce

2018-03-07 Thread Max Pyziur
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[Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: [...] # Non-R packages: fonts-KOI8-R.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? perl-Tree-R.noarch There's an R SIG for Fedora, which looks like it's been

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages

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