Re: OT: RGB mechanical keyboard

2021-09-04 Thread Tom Killian
Some keyboard reviews, from across the pond: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/30/how_good_are_cheap_mechanical_keyboards/ ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: What was that?

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Killian
> However, neither the keyboard or mouse were functioning. > I unplugged the wireless dongles for both of them and > plugged them back in, and now the mouse works, but the > keyboard still doesn't work. I've been seeing stuff like this in the syslog from recent kernels: Sep 30 08:59:34 dorotea

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread Tom Killian
My (F24) laptop's lid behavior, configured in the MATE control center, is to blank the display and leave everything else alone. The machine can overheat with the display running and the lid closed. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-26 Thread Tom Killian
Some years ago I had an IBM ThinkPad that one day failed to boot, and every subsystem diagnostic that ran at power-up (keyboard, memory, disk controller, ...) reported a problem. On a whim I put in a new clock battery and everything was fine. Now any time a machine suddenly goes flakey, the

Re: Odd behaviour for GREP

2016-10-03 Thread Tom Killian
Sorry, should be "directory is searchable bur not readable". On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Tom Killian <tom.kill...@gmail.com> wrote: > People, >> >> On F25 x86_64 as user "fedora" with default environment I get: >> >> grep Cock ap

Re: Odd behaviour for GREP

2016-10-03 Thread Tom Killian
> > People, > > On F25 x86_64 as user "fedora" with default environment I get: > > grep Cock application.html.erb > >Provider for the National Disability Insurance Trial Site in Kwinana/ > Cockburn > > grep Cock * > >grep: *: No such file or directory This behaviour generally means that

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Tom Killian
Once upon a time, SternData said: > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my > stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. > > There's *got* to be

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Tom Killian
> > It's an Apple keyboard, maybe six years old but I don't ever recall > seeing an Apple keyboard with numlock because there was never such a > thing as navigation by keypad on Macs. Maybe run xev and see what keystrokes it's actually sending. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Photo app's -

2016-04-11 Thread Tom Killian
> On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 12:09 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > On 04/11/16 11:48, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 11:43 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > > > > I just installed simple-mtpfs and gat > > > > the following: > > > > > > > > [root@Box10 bobg]#

Re: MATE on dual screen, put a panel on secondary screen?

2015-03-07 Thread Tom Killian
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:06:42 -0500 From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Message-ID: 20150307000642.ga25...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi all! Experimenting with dual screens on F20 using MATE.

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Tom Killian
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:46:58 +0200, frederic.b...@m4x.org wrote: What I want to know is, what does fedup do if, as in my case, Gnome isn't installed? Don't know that. Sorry. Frédéric I fedup'd (18-19) a system with only mate installed and it worked perfectly. -- users mailing list

Re: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1.

2012-07-30 Thread Tom Killian
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: To: For users of Fedora Core releases users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1. Message-ID: cone.1343570520.12.3982.1...@monster.email-scan.com Content-Type:

Re: Random kernel update breakage

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Killian
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:54 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot. This is just a minor

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Tom Killian
[a...@agena ~]$ cd /media/My* bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory this suggests that there may be a space at the *beginning* of the filename. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: chainloader +1, again

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Killian
Snipped from that shell: device (hd0,0) /dev/sdb grub root (hd0,1) root (hd0,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 grub setup (hd0,1) setup (hd0,1) i think you're close. 'device' refers to the whole drive, and grub counts partitions from 0 (partition type 0x82 is a swap partition,