Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:15:42 -0600 fed...@cwm030.com wrote: > And what are some pros and cons switching to IMAP? > > And what program do you use on Fedora for your email? I use fetchmail to download mail from every other mail server onto my home machine, where fetchmail then injects the mail int

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Horsley
My fix to anacron is to eradicate it and run everything in cron which doesn't randomize run times :-). Put back the traditional /etc/crontab and remove the /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron file, and now cron works the way it always did. ___ users mailing list -

Re: Flakey Bluetooth Devices

2022-02-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:32:30 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I've never had any bluetooth device reliably connecting to anything (linux, windows, my car's audio, you name it). I've always suspected that "flakey" was mandated in the bluetooth standard. ___

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:50:12 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: > Generally, sharing the storage > pool in order to avoid running out of space in one location when there > was still space left in the pool due to "bad" partitioning choices was > seen as a benefit. Yep, I've been partitioning systems th

Re: DRPM performance ?

2022-02-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:52:17 -0700 jim.cro...@gmail.com wrote: > Whats the "average" experience here ? My average for years was about 1%, and half of those would say "checksums don't match" and download the full rpm anyway. I turned off drpm a while back because it was so useless.

Re: Persistence of Grub2 menu overrides

2022-01-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:36:00 -0700 stan via users wrote: > I don't recall seeing any discussion of a change like this, but I could > have missed it. I haven't noticed this one either, but I do find a lot of the "helpful" stuff grub2 desperately tries to do for me annoying, so I have a script that

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:43:19 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > 2) Stuff that crammed down everyone's throat, for various non-technical > reasons and, otherwise, they have no technical merit of advantage that > anyone can identify and point to. At least NM had a reasonably valid reason - wireless

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:05:48 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > When > was the last time you tried to use it? A few years ago no doubt. It wasn't just the OK button. Value fields I wanted to type in were inactive, etc. This is one of my many objections to "helpful" GUI tools. At least the command line t

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:46:47 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > It > allows you to create and edit any type of network interface Only if the "OK" button isn't grayed out. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:17:06 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Install "nm-connection-editor" and it's easy. Not remotely correct unless perhaps you are the author and know what the gibberish it presents means. All my attempts to use it mostly left me with all the controls disabled and no hint of what i

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:20:50 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But there's just one problem. If you need to do a basic task, like that, you > have absolutely no clue where to begin. Without google, linux itself would be impossible :-). I got most of that from a google search when led me here: htt

Re: Network bridge with network-scripts

2022-01-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:45:14 -0500 Alex wrote: > Hi, can someone tell me if these instructions still work with fedora35 > to build a bridge? They might, but resistance is futile, you might as well use NetworkManager now before it becomes the only option. I setup a bridge on my system with nmcli

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
This is a simple shell script I wrote a long time ago which is invoked by a CGI script on a local web page and notices files that show up in a queue directory. #!/bin/bash # This script is started by the setuid program start-queue so that the # CGI script which makes queue entries can have the qu

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

2022-01-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:20:22 -0600 Thomas Cameron wrote: > But this is the behavior Linux has used for years and years. If you set > your hostname to localhost.localdomain, say via a kickstart script or a > golden image you use to spin up dozens of instances, previous versions > of Fedora would

Re: sddm missing pieces

2022-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:47:26 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Is sddm tied to wayland and won't > run in X11 ? Nope, I use it and only run X11. I seem to recall a bug that briefly existed before an update fixed it where if you logged out, it wouldn't prompt you to log in again. Here are t

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:01:22 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > Linux developers have to have a target class of users in mind Yes, a completely imaginary class of users they invent in their head to justify whatever insanity they decide they want to implement, so when people object they can say, "

Re: Fedora's memtest option doesn't work, but found something that seems to??

2022-01-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:48:26 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > I've noticed for a while running memtest from grub2 > menu just gives a blue screen and locks machine. Memtest and EFI seems to be tricky. I had to download the EFI compliant memtest86 (NOT memtest86+) and make a bootable

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Tom Horsley
For what it is worth: On one of my systems I have this .desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/cura.desktop Which looks like: [Desktop Entry] Name=Cura Exec=/usr/local/bin/Ultimaker_Cura-4.12.1.AppImage Type=Application Terminal=false Categories=Graphics; StartupNotify=true Comment=Cura 3d pr

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:12:04 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > that sounds interesting, but don't you also need separate / partitions > with all the release specific software? Yep. My actual scheme has a tiny grub2 stand alone partition which uses the "configfile" grub command to be able to boot on

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:47:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Three approaches: I go with the 4th approach: Keep two separate boot partitions and upgrade right away in one of them so I can go back to previous version trivially if it turns out something is horribly wrong. I running fedora 35 now wi

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 08:09:10 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > This commit enables those two features in mutter for both X11 and Wayland. It does make more sense for it to be in the software, especially for laptops where there is no "between" to wedge the microcode, but I really hope someone will

Re: I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:37:39 +1100 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > Would what you have done fix my ZenBook issue? Don't see how since the mousepad is built in to the hardware. My gadget works by sitting between the mouse and the computer, but with a laptop or tablet there is no place for a "bet

I have defeated Wayland!

2022-01-03 Thread Tom Horsley
https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/mouse-tailor/mouse-tailor.html My latest silly project adds all the mouse settings to microcode outside of the operating system so my trackball can be useful when I'm forced to use Wayland (which seems to have utterly discarded any useful mouse settings once availab

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:31:44 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So it seems not to be my problem? I guess not. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduc

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:14:23 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How do I know if I am using nouveau and then how to switch to nvidia? Run: lspci | fgrep VGA if that mentions an NVIDIA video card, then fedora will have used the nouveau drivers by default. You could also run lsmod and see if it ment

Re: F35 - yet another kernel crash

2021-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
If you are using the nouveau video drivers, try switching to the rpmfusion nvidia drivers. Every new release I try to use the nouveau drivers, and within a couple of weeks, I always get crashes like this, almost always when using a browser. So I switch to nvidia, and the crashes stop. _

EFI shell?

2021-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to use the EFI shell? (Secondary question: Would he be able to anyway?) Trying to decrypt the things I read I got the

Re: The definitive guide to replacing a disk in raid1?

2021-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:38:05 +0100 cen wrote: > I recently had to replace a bad disk in raid1 array and finding proper > docs was not a good experience. I've always noticed that about raid in general. Thousands of internet pages telling you how redundant arrays protect you from disk failures and

Re: Webcam not recognized

2021-12-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:10:38 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have an HD Pro Webcam C920 which has stopped working on my main > system I have a system at home in which almost all the USB ports stopped working, so maybe it isn't the camera. You might want to try every USB port and see if one work

Is wayland still missing virtually all libinput functionality?

2021-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
I had hoped after wayland had been around this long I might be able to make my trackball useful by doing whatever is the wayland equivalent of this (from my mouse setting script): xinput --set-button-map "$nm" 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "$nm" \ 'li

Re: Monitor Flickering

2021-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:28:17 +0200 Yoram Halberstam wrote: > Any idea how to fix it? If you are using the nouveau drivers, you could try switching to the rpmfusion closed source nvidia drivers. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Having strange result on processing UTF-8 file

2021-12-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:14:37 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Does it contain html? Just a (possibly) relevant note: I've seen many html pages with headers claiming they are UTF-8, but text that only displays correctly if you treat them as one of the windows code pages. Worse yet, some browsers have he

Re: Hundreds of These on Recent F35 Kernel Updates

2021-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:10:10 -0500 Tim Evans wrote: > Have noticed hundreds and hundreds of messages like this over the past > two or three F35 kernel updates (via dnf): > > hardlink: cannot link > /usr/src/kernels/5.15.7-200.fc35.x86_64+debug/./net/mptcp/Kconfig to > /usr/src/kernels/5.15.5-2

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

2021-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:09:28 -0600 Dave Ihnat wrote: > Most ISPs actually don't use DHCP as DHCP, _per se_; they're using it as an > IP address management tool. You will usually get, and keep, a particular IP > address almost indefinitely. My IP only changed on comcast when the cable system was d

Re: I need a temporary imap client

2021-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:39:27 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for an alternate > imap client whilst I wait for the bug to be fixed? I use claws-mail for everything, it talks to my local covecot IMAP server (which is filled from all my email accounts via fetchmail

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 04:29:40 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > How do I do that? Do you have a link I could go to and learn how to do it? > I have a KVM and whenever I switch from Fedora to the other PCs, I start > getting a bunch of lines on the journal complaining that the system could > not get the ED

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:19:17 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have disabled chronyd.  The main problem is the graphical.target vs > multi-user.target.  ntpd only starts in multi-user.target. graphical target includes everything from multi user target (but not vice veras).

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 05 Dec 2021 20:18:13 +0100 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > Sorry: I was comparing with chronyd Actually that's a good thing to look at. Have you disabled chrony? If not, they will fight over the NTP port. ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 08:20:12 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > The "Input not supported" error occurs on the active connection. But > what has changed recently to introduce this problem since booting on > older kernels does not exhibit it? I've noticed that the newer nouveau drivers somehow misinter

Re: several issues with f34

2021-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:16:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > So, you have a common keyboard, and monitor?  I've not used a KVM switch in a > long time but they sometimes would cause > problems. A lot of KVM switches don't pass through EDID info correcly (especially for connections not currently active)

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:46:30 +0100 (CET) Walter Cazzola wrote: > From your experience do you have some brand/model to suggest? Or something > that I should consider that I didn't list? I'm not sure it hits all your points, but I have a NAS I made from an old PC that happened to have a lot of disk

Re: Where are the src RPM's?

2021-11-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:20:22 -0800 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I am looking for the SRPM's for FC34. I can > only find the rpms. Where are the SRC RPM's > hiding? Looking on my f34 partition's /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file I see this: [fedora-source] name=Fedora $releasever - Source #b

Re: Will the real Adwaita theme, please stand up

2021-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:29:30 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Both laptops claim to be using Adwaita. Not exactly sure how this might be relevant, but in my from scratch f35 install I had this experience: I was desperately trying to get claws-mail to stop putting black text on a dark blue backgrou

Re: webcam

2021-11-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:10:28 +0100 Patrick Dupre wrote: > What am I missing? Possibly your user needs to be a member of the "video" group? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: Fedora 34: Some applications show weird font

2021-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:10:43 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > You should compare the > font settings between the two systems. Or at least the list of installed fonts on the two systems rpm -q -a | fgrep font should get you a list. ___ users mailing

Re: WiFi reconnecting periodically after upgrade to F35

2021-11-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:36:12 - Scott Talbert wrote: > What decides to switch frequencies - is that wpa_supplicant? NetworkManager? I think it is actually the router being "helpful". My router serves DHCP and allows me to set up permanent assignments of IP <=> MAC, so the first time I connect

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:34:37 -0700 linux guy wrote: > What > can I change to make it faster ? There are fantastic speed variations for different brand USB sticks. When I set up my 64GB stick, I got the Sandisk "Ultra Trek" specifically because reviews of USB sticks said it was the fastest USB 3 s

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
I've done a "normal" install of fedora on a 64GB USB 3 sandisk stick and it worked fine, so I imagine a bigger drive would work also (but I can carry around the stick on my keychain :-). I set the mount options to include noatime so it wouldn't do so much I/O to the usb stick, but that wasn't neces

Re: crontab -e now invokes nano! ARGH!!!

2021-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:27:49 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > What I don't understand is why so many people think that > vi/vim is so wonderful unless it's justifying the amount of work it took > them to learn it. Bingo! :-). Why would anyone think an editor with separate "modes" for moving the cursor a

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:24:57 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > That's probably why more are > going to Flatpak and/or Snap for distribution Appimage is another technique I've encountered. I'm running the new cura 12.0 via an appimage file now. ___ users mailin

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:07:19 -0600 SternData wrote: > Anyone know what's going on? And maybe interested in engaging them on > Twitter @slackhq to ask for reconsideration? Perhaps they finally figured out their fedora app is about 100 times more irritating than their web interface? :-). I tried

Re: minor upgrade errors

2021-11-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:56:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > I have seen the Failed to connect to bus error several times. > > Is this anything I should worry about? No idea, but I get lots of those every time I run dnf update on my f35 system (both the one I installed from scratch and the one I

amusing logwatch messages

2021-11-11 Thread Tom Horsley
Never seen this one before: **Unmatched Entries** app-glib-google\x2dchrome-509173.scope: No PIDs left to attach to the scope's control group, refusing: Success: 1 Time(s) I'm particularly fond of the "Success" at the end :-). But considering that PID numbers now go up into the millions, I

Re: How to dnf clean all of a specific repo?

2021-11-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 13:24:59 + Paul Smith wrote: > What am I doing wrong? Look inside that .repo file for the [name of repo] text at the top. Use that name in the enablerepo argument. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

fedora 35 cura bug? Or pythin bug?

2021-11-08 Thread Tom Horsley
Tried to 3D print something for the first time since switching to fedora 35, and cura complains about not being able to convert a python float to a C++ int then the print percentage displayed on the screen becomes something like -50%. I'll have to try a different model to see if it always happ

Re: F35 virtual machine viewer?

2021-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 07:50:00 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Not sure if there is any value running via virt-viewer v.s. using > virt-manager. I like it because I just get one window cluttering things up. I've tried closing or minimizing the virt-manager main window before and it takes the virtual mach

Re: F35 virtual machine viewer?

2021-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 07:41:37 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Not sure why.  Will try to investigate sometime. The script I use to start the viewer makes sure the virtual machine is already up and running then does: virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system "$1" Where $1 is the virtual machine name. ___

Re: F35 virtual machine viewer?

2021-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 16:03:06 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I added this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350390 Wrong virt-viewer bug, the one I just added is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2020872 ___ users mailing l

Re: F35 virtual machine viewer?

2021-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 03:52:11 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I upgraded my F34 system and when I open a VM from Virtual Manager nothing > has changed. Opening it from Virtual Manager is not the same as opening it in the virt-viewer app (even though they are similar) If I open it from virt-manager, the

F35 virtual machine viewer?

2021-11-06 Thread Tom Horsley
The nice text top menu is gone replaced with utterly meaningless icons. Worse yet, when I click on them to see what they mean, the one that lists a bunch of keys I can have it send is all greyed out, so I can't (for example) send Ctrl-Alt-Del to my Windows virtual machine. Did some low level mecha

Victory over GTK!

2021-11-05 Thread Tom Horsley
I mentioned the only annoying thing I wasn't able to fix in fedora 35 was the selected colors of folders and messages in claws-mail. Black letters with dark blue background, almost impossible to read. I used gimp to pick the color from a screen shot and determined that the dark blue was #3584e4, s

Re: f35 initial impressions

2021-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 17:42:55 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Haven't found anything else > busted yet. Actually there is one quite annoying thing. In claws-mail the selected folder and selected message shows up with black text on a dark blue background and is almost unreadable. I haven

Re: f35 initial impressions

2021-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 07:28:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Could you provide more detail about that?  I've not seen any problems. > But maybe I'm not using those features that are no longer supported. If I try to use it basically unaltered other than adding some forwarding directives, it pays absolute

f35 initial impressions

2021-11-04 Thread Tom Horsley
I installed fedora 35 on one machine using the dnf upgrade process and on another machine from scratch followed by manual configuration to copy previous install. Both seem to be working well. The missing arduino stuff doesn't seem to be used as I can still compile the Marlin firmware successfully w

arduino gone?

2021-11-03 Thread Tom Horsley
I noticed upgrading an old system that it wants to remove all the arduino* rpms. Is arduino development gone in fedora 35? Every once in a while I need to update the firmware in my 3D printer, do I need to keep around an old fedora 34 virtual machine for this? __

Re: F35 and nvidia from rpmFusion Caution

2021-11-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 02 Nov 2021 23:51:29 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Thanks Ed. I'm happy to see my modest GTX 1050 is supported. As is my even more modest GTX 960 :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: Fedora image on flash drive bootable both UEFI and Legacy

2021-11-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 20:19:10 +0100 Petr Menšík wrote: > I would be were grateful for any tips how to archieve my goal. I backup one level and simply have a USB stick with lots of ISO images on it and a grub that can boot an ISO image. I used instructions from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:17:11 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > That doesn't make sense. Which drivers are you using? Whatever I found when I first installed it years ago :-). Looking in printers.conf I see this: MakeModel Brother HL-2040 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e Or maybe that's what the brother installer

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-11-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:48:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Found it! https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263182 > > I no longer have an hp scanner or printer, so I removed > libsane-hpaio and hplip and no longer get the $@!# root > prompt in xsane or simple-scan AARGH! Appare

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:25:45 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > It works, but is exactly like xsane, it asks for the root > password before finding the scanner :-(. > > On the other hand, if I hit "cancel" instead of giving the > password, it is still able to scan, so someth

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:50:23 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > # dnf install simple-scan > > Here is how to get it to work on a network: > > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=196697 > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=143325 It works, but is exactly like xsane, it

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:08:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > If you give the root pw, scan, and then quit xsane and then restart xsane > does it ask for the > root pw again? Yep, asks every time. I did find some ancient entries down in ~/.sane for many older scanners I used once upon a time, so I dele

Re: Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 13:57:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > Is there any magic I can do to avoid that root prompt? I can't > > imagine I have to be root to connect to a network device. > > What type of scanner do you have and how is it networked? It is an old Epson Artisan 725 which can't print a

Run xsane without root password prompt?

2021-10-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I have a network scanner. Every time I start xsane, it thinks a bit, then prompts me for the root password, then finally the xsane windows come up and I can scan. Is there any magic I can do to avoid that root prompt? I can't imagine I have to be root to connect to a network device. __

Re: router silence. [solved]

2021-10-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:22:14 -0600 home user wrote: > Ed's solution worked. On the Fedora workstation, e-mail works both > ways; I surfed the web successfully. The ipad upgraded its OS > successfully, and after rebooting,I reached a web site via navigator. Check the dumb stuff first is always

Re: Wine NETBIOS (CIFS) name to IP?

2021-10-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:41:33 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Anyone know how to get Wine to cough up > (a highly technical term) the IP address > form a CIFS NETBIOS name? I know nothing about that, but I do know that I managed to switch all my windows systems (and linux file servers) to us

Re: Fedora 34: Sound stopped working out of the blue

2021-10-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:44:44 - Adi Pircalabu wrote: > I'm very confused at this point :) Check the dumb stuff first! I have forgotten I left mute on before :-). I've also had linux forget which sound device I told it to use. There's always booting off a live image and seeing if sound works th

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:50:01 +0100 Terry Barnaby wrote: > Yes, problems often occur due to you having done something, but I am > pretty sure nothing has changed apart from Fedora updates. But hardware is sneaky. It waits for you to install software updates, the breaks itself to make you think th

Re: USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:12:48 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Might be time to look at a new mobo in any case. I know I have one old computer where all the USB3 ports are mostly dead (work a little, then screw up a lot). The USB2 ports still work fine, so different bits of hardware can start t

Re: Where are the launchers?

2021-09-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:14:13 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Where are these > launchers located? I presume these are the .desktop files which can be installed in several places, but mostly reside in /usr/share/applications I believe per-user ones can live somewhere under ~/.local/share/app

Re: NFS mount lockups since about a month ago

2021-09-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:26:19 -0300 George N. White III wrote: > If you have cron jobs that use a lot of network bandwidth it may work > fine until some network issue causing lots of retransmits bogs it down. Which is why you should check the dumb stuff first! Has a critter chewed on the ethernet

Re: Virt-manager issues.

2021-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
Just to inject another option in this thread: You can also create a brand new storage directory in a place with more space (Edit>Connection Details>Storage tab). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: has anyone got pipewire working F34??

2021-09-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:51:34 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > and you change it back to a working state how?? thx. Usually just run gnome control center, see that the sound device is set wrong, and pick the one that is actually connected to speakers :-). ___

Re: has anyone got pipewire working F34??

2021-09-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:36:45 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > Is there a reason for you to expect it to stop? Normally, once it's > working it stays working unless you change something. I've had the default sound device get changed on me after an update every once in a while (not often, but it does happ

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

2021-09-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:22:34 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > I'm NOT having an issue with > installing Fedora. Before I figured out how to use grub2-install directly, I would sometimes get grub installed by installing fedora on the disk, then remove all the fedora bits and modify t

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

2021-09-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:39:27 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > At that step I end up getting the error message? > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI > platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. I've never gotten that error. Are use sure it is an er

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

2021-09-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:04:04 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Does anyone know of a process to make a UEFI USB Boot that > actual works using Fedora?? I've always used: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive I created a big utility USB stick with it than can boo

Re: pipewire configuration for f34

2021-09-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:34:19 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > > any idea why i am the lucky 'winner '?? > > Tish happens. Seriously, you might want to submit a bugzilla against > pipewire, listing the workaround so that the devs will know what it is > that doesn't always work right because if nobody r

Re: cups is the worst software....

2021-09-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:24:33 -0300 George N. White III wrote: > I'm not sure > where this leaves legacy printers that pre-date IPP Everywhere. All I know is that it takes me forever to get the printer working in my Window virtual machine once a year at tax time. It needs to use the fedora host to

Re: has anyone got pipewire working F34??

2021-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 06:49:04 -0700 Jack Craig wrote: > Sep 01 18:34:41 fedora pipewire[1888]: 'hdmi:0,1': playback open failed: > Invalid argument Where did the ',' come from? I'm pretty sure that's a '.' on my hdmi output. Run gnome-control-center sound and see if it lists an hdmi output device

Re: NFS mount

2021-08-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:07:06 -0700 Dave Close wrote: > The NAS only works with NFS v2. If it is that old, you may need "proto=udp" as well as "vers=2" in the mount options. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Re: F34 pipewire no audio after updates

2021-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:40:21 +0800 Ian Chapman wrote: > Maybe. I get sound, Pipewire just likes to change audio devices on me at > random. I must say, we definitely needed yet another audio system. Me too. I just did a big update yesterday and after reboot it had changed to audio output to spdif

Re: slack.

2021-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:59:59 -0600 home user wrote: > I've been asked to join a "Slack" team. I always used the web site when we used it at work, didn't have any problems with it. Also installed the app on my phone just to get notifications to remind me to look at the web page :-)

Re: scanner no longer detected?

2021-08-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:08:30 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > Now I run my Mac in wifi only or LAN only, and the problem has gone. I've always had the wireless turned off in my desktop, which is the only system I have that might possibly try to enable both. Just checked "ip addr" and there is a wlan

Re: New fc33/FF 90.0/amazon.com issue

2021-07-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:38:24 -0500 Dave Ulrick wrote: > perhaps more likely, something got > corrupted in the Firefox profile I've been using with the FC33 build. You could create a brand new user, log in as new user and try the same URL. ___ users mai

Re: Left-hand mouse click sometimes not recognized

2021-07-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:38:04 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > From time to time, I have to click several times to get a left-hand > mouse click recognized. Any ideas? Busted moving parts in mouse would be my guess as most likely. ___ users mailing list -- user

Re: scanner no longer detected?

2021-07-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:13:03 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I tried adding the IP addr to /etc/sane.d/net.conf, but nothing > changed. Never mind. I rebooted the router and it works now. I've noticed a lot of weirdness with this router (Netgear Nighthawk RAX200) and routing betwee

scanner no longer detected?

2021-07-27 Thread Tom Horsley
I was surprised recently when I tried xsane and discovered that it actually worked these days on my Epson Artisan 725 connected via the network. But I tried to use it again today, and found that xsane claims it can't find any scanners. I cranked up the Windows virtual machine and it talked to it

Re: The meaningless kernel bug ever

2021-07-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:14:47 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Can anyone think of an even more meaningless kernel bug? I've had my numlock light turned on at boot forever, so I've got an /etc/X11/xinit script to turn it off with xset. Maybe xset could turn off this light too :-). [The numlock state

Re: New fc33/FF 90.0/amazon.com issue

2021-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:32:02 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > Presumably, the trouble's at their end, or you wouldn't be getting that > message. HTH, HAND. There were recently a lot of stories about new internet outages. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

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