Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 1/10/22 17:38, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Someone who's already used traditional desktop environments, with desktop shortcut icons, a taskbar (on top or the bottom), with something that looks like a "Start" menu, a tray, a pager, and a few other familiar UI icons –

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 07:15 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively > Gnome and  > KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in order to > ditch X,  > and also target the same userbase. This won't happen anytime soon, > but it 

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
Well, usually a real hardware error (uncorrectable memory MCE, or CPU memory MCE, or PCI MCE) will cause an immediate reset (no reset button needed). That error could be a result of the reset button being pressed, and not really a hardware error. I work with enterprise vendors hw and they

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 07:16, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I just had the system lock-up hard, requiring hitting the reset button. > > I now see in the system log: > > Jan 11 19:28:54 e7 kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot: > Jan 11 19:28:54 e7 kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity:

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: Tim: >> I find this just crazy. Why should just the desktop interface >> require a beefy graphics card? I use Mate because of that >> silliness. Samuel Sieb: > It doesn't need to be beefy. Pretty much any video card made in the > last 10 years should work. Since the

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread lejeczek via users
On 11/01/2022 17:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If a graphical user interface needs instructions to be usable, it's >> failed in its creation. The whole point of having such an >> interface is that you can see what's on offer, and how to use it. Samuel Sieb: > Are you trying to tell me that if I gave a system running Mate to >

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I find this just crazy. Why should just the desktop interface >> require a beefy graphics card? I use Mate because of that >> silliness. Samuel Sieb: > It doesn't need to be beefy. Pretty much any video card made in the > last 10 years should work. Since the capability is there, why

Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I just had the system lock-up hard, requiring hitting the reset button. I now see in the system log: Jan 11 19:28:54 e7 kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot: Jan 11 19:28:54 e7 kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal Jan 11 19:28:54 e7 kernel: [Hardware Error]: Error 0, type:

Re: Does anybody still use `starship'?

2022-01-11 Thread Michal Schorm
I'd be happy if the package didn't die and was updated at least from time to time. I did an initial configuration based on what I liked and I don't expect to to change it for months. I'm personally not looking into the latest features but rather stability of what I already have. ❯ rpm -qa | grep

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 01:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/10/22 19:10, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 14:07 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> Gnome really isn't intended for those systems anyway. Gnome-shell > >> requires a reasonable 3d-capable video card to run well. I have a > >>

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
If it is intel microcode (ucode), then one would need to replace the intel ucode for that specific cpu in the firmware directory that contains it. The last 2-3 years of ucode fixes on older cpus were for the various memory bleed bugs where one user could snoop root's and other users data.And

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 09:20, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Tim via users writes: > > > >> Tim: > >> >> I find this just crazy. Why should just the desktop interface > >> >> require a beefy graphics card? I use Mate because of that > >> >>

More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be not enough. $ free    total    used    free  shared buff/cache   available Mem: 7380668 6930852  262676    1492 187140  221144 Swap:   24157176    12044096    12113080

sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread lejeczek via users
Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. many thanks, L ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/11/22 10:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app from prompt with & to release it from Terminal. Kind of works. I use Xfce and have this one liner to run Thunar as root: beesu - thunar

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread C Linus Hicks
Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su - or sudo to get an interactive session for

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 04:53, Tim via users wrote: Tim: If a graphical user interface needs instructions to be usable, it's failed in its creation. The whole point of having such an interface is that you can see what's on offer, and how to use it. Samuel Sieb: Are you trying to tell me that if I gave

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
George N. White III writes: One advantage of linux is that you can choose a UI you like and stick with it for years.   Complaining that Gnome is horrible only serves to trash the reputation of linux and linux users.  What would be more helpful is some insight into use cases (e.g., ancient

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Tim via users writes: Tim: >> I find this just crazy.  Why should just the desktop interface >> require a beefy graphics card?  I use Mate because of that >> silliness. Samuel Sieb: > It doesn't need to be beefy.  Pretty much any video card made in

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Looks like more memory is "well" supported: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X140e-Review-and-Upgrade-Information-WLAN-WWAN-Memory-HDD/m-p/1931897 So 16GB for ~$90.  Going to have to figure out the best good deal on 2x*GB memory. And look at 32GB options. But also look

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 18:39, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Robert Moskowitz writes: > > > On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> > >> Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively Gnome > and > >> KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in order to ditch > X,

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 17:15, linux guy wrote: > I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35. I'm embarrassed to > admit it isn't going well. > Don't be embarrassed, Managing the PATH has problematic since UNIX was a teenager, as evidenced by the date in the following publication

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Jan2022 15:32, linux guy wrote: >Comments below. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer. >- when you start a terminal it may or may not run a login shell; this >> can be controlled with the settings for your terminal emulator. What >> are you using? > >Konsole. According to its

Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35. I'm embarrassed to admit it isn't going well. Where is PATH stored in F35 ? When exactly does .bash_profile get executed ? How does one get the bash environment reloaded without logging out and logging in ? $source ? $exec bash ? ./bash

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
For root run GUI apps in KDE, I use kdesu. ___ 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/project/code-of-conduct/

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread John Mellor
What on earth are you doing in Firefox and Thunderbird to use that swap?  I have multiple 8GB machines running the same Fedora, Firefox and Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all.  Two the these machines are also Lenovo.  This makes no sense, so there must be something else

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
If you have too many tabs open on some badly behaved websites firefox will eat all of your ram. weather.com is a good one, leave it setting for a few days open and that tab will use up the ram. It seems ok on my bigger machines (32gb) but is a real issue on the machine with 10gb. My 10gb ram

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:56 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In a couple days, I will see the swap usage grow. Until I Quit firefox, > then restart with all the old windows opening. > > But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to. > TabSessionManager is your friend. Look for it in AddOns.

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
You can go into the firefox about:config and reduce the number of threads to less. Too many threads seem to make the ram creep worse. ps axuww | sort -k 6n I have earlyoom taking care of killing as needed. in /etc/default/earlyoom I have this set: EARLYOOM_ARGS="-s 90,90 -r 300 -m 2 --prefer

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
if it is not installed, dnf install earlyoom. On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 4:04 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > You can go into the firefox about:config and reduce the number of > threads to less. Too many threads seem to make the ram creep worse. > > ps axuww | sort -k 6n > > I have earlyoom taking care

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 17:00, linux guy wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:56 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: In a couple days, I will see the swap usage grow.  Until I Quit firefox, then restart with all the old windows opening. But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to.

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/01/2022 01:30, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be not  enough. $ free    total    used    free  shared buff/cache   available Mem: 7380668 6930852  2626761492 187140  221144

Re: Easy way to keep my F35 laptop and desktop computers perfectly sync'd. Rsync ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:32 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > I used to maintain a small fleet of RedHat servers, and had a couple of > scripts for package comparison: > Thanks for the reply. I took a closer look at the use cases on my laptop and my workstation and decided against keeping them

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
Firefox uses a lot of RAM if you have a lot of windows/tabs open. Another way to see how much memory FF is using is to do an about:performance in the URL field. A bare minimum hardware spec for me these days is 16GB of RAM. I purchased a laptop this summer and bumped that to 32 GB. My desktop

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have 18 instances of Firefox running.  All with multiple tabs for different projects.  I use top a lot, but only with defaults and don't see from the manpage how to sort by RSS.  Here is a 'simple' copy of top: Tasks: 266 total,   2 running, 264 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie %Cpu(s):

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
top -b -n 1 > top.txt Not sure why the CPU% ages are so high. Webpages normally take only a 10% or so per page. GeckoMain = FF main thread. Isolated Web C0 = various web pages. top - 14:55:15 up 6 days, 16:01, 10 users, load average: 5.78, 6.13, 3.77 Tasks: 538 total, 1 running, 537

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 16:51, Roger Heflin wrote: If you have too many tabs open on some badly behaved websites firefox will eat all of your ram. Yep.  What I live with. Thunderbird also seems strange. weather.com is a good one, leave it setting for a few days open and that tab will use up the ram.

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
I have 75 Windows with 550 tabs. Across 5 desktops and 4 activities. My machine has 64GB of RAM. It is always responsive. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Jan2022 14:15, linux guy wrote: >I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35. I'm embarrassed to >admit it isn't going well. > >Where is PATH stored in F35 ? In your processes' memory. Unhelpful. But it is _initialised_ by your login sequence. Yes, being pedantic here. >When

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/01/2022 05:15, linux guy wrote: I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35.  I'm embarrassed to admit it isn't going well. Where is PATH stored in F35 ? When exactly does .bash_profile get executed ? How does one get the bash environment reloaded without logging out and logging

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I should have included some context: The mobo is a Gigabyte Z390 UD The CPU is Intel Core i7-9700 LGA1151 The firmware is the one originally on it, F8. It was not upgraded because it was noted that with the newer F9 fw the sensor chip (ITE IT8688E) does not work with the it87

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 11/01/2022 23.57, Roger Heflin wrote: Well, usually a real hardware error (uncorrectable memory MCE, or CPU memory MCE, or PCI MCE) will cause an immediate reset (no reset button needed). That error could be a result of the reset button being pressed, and Looks like it was the reset.

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
Comments below. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer. On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:13 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 11Jan2022 14:15, linux guy wrote: > >I'm trying to add a few directories to PATH in F35. I'm embarrassed to > >admit it isn't going well. > > > >Where is PATH stored in F35 ? >

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Moskowitz writes: On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't happen anytime soon, but it

Re: Messages following a crash: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
Maybe. You might also check messages for MCE and/or machine check and see. I have seen PCI errors on my SAS2008 when doing high io so I assume the same thing could happen if the video card was doing high traffic. I removed all of the cards, cleaned the connectors on the cards, and vacuumed

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/11/22 05:18, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I use the Windows 10 generally. I briefly poked the tires on the current, default Gnome desktop in Ubuntu, last year. There were some claims that Windows is moving closer to Gnome's UI paradigms, but I just didn't see that. Perhaps that was referring to

Re: Wayland and Xfce

2022-01-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
George N. White III writes: > Much of Fedora is user developed.  So this need not be the case.  It is  > clear from what I read over in Xfce-land that better tools are needed.  > Probably to even better migrate Gnome and KDE to Wayland. > > This is a bigger change than systemd

Re: Where is PATH stored these days ? Why isn't .bash_profile executed in F35 ?

2022-01-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 11, 2022, at 17:14, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > In a GUI such as a desktop the situation is more complicated: > > - the GUI startup does not automatically run a login shell (to some > extend because interaction or mistakes can then easily break the GUI > startup). It’s actually a lot

[389-users] report script

2022-01-11 Thread Angel Bosch Mora
Hi, sorry for this dumb question but I've been searching for it and I can't find it anywhere. Where's the script that shows you a report of most searched objects and other performance related stuff? I remember using it in my old installations to adjust some indexes but I've been playing

[389-users] Re: report script

2022-01-11 Thread Pierre Rogier
Hi Angel, I think you are speaking about logconv.pl that analyze the access log Regards Pierre On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:21 AM Angel Bosch Mora wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for this dumb question but I've been searching for it and I can't > find it anywhere. > > Where's the script that shows

[389-users] Re: report script

2022-01-11 Thread Pierre Rogier
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:39 AM Pierre Rogier wrote: > Hi Angel, > > I think you are speaking about logconv.pl that analyze the access log > it is in /bin/logconv.pl > > Regards > Pierre > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:21 AM Angel Bosch Mora > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> sorry for this dumb

[389-users] nsslapd-logging-backend

2022-01-11 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
We set up a few 389 Directory Server instances and set up replication among them. Each instance has its own internal logs. We need to centralize all the logs to one place by using syslog-ng. I learned a new configuration nsslapd-logging-backend -

[389-users] Re: getent netgroup yields no hits

2022-01-11 Thread Mark Reynolds
On 1/11/22 2:51 AM, Dudas Tibor ABRAXAS wrote: Hello I would like to configure authentication and authorization via nisNetgroups in 389ds. With "getent" on the 389ds client I see my groups and my users. If I query the netgroup via "getent netgroup " I do not get any hit. My netgroup you