F34: volumeicon error

2021-07-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I use volumeicon to control my volume from my system tray on openbox. However, over the past 2 weeks, since some Fedora 34 nightly update, I have been having the following: $ volumeicon snd_mixer_handle_events: No such file or directory How do I get around this problem? I looked around

F34: volumeicon does not work since last week's updates

2021-07-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, After last week's updates, I have the following issue with volumeicon: $ volumeicon snd_mixer_handle_events: No such file or directory It used to "work fine" before late last week (I update nightly). How do I get around this? Many thanks in advance for any help and best wishes, Ranjan

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I have not had yum installed on my system for a long time (like five years). I explicitly removed it using dnf erase yum then, and have carried on since without any apparent hitch for at least five years.   HTH, YMMV.   Ranjan   Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 at 1:25 PM From: "Cisco Tissera"

Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

2021-05-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34? On Thu, 6 May 2021 01:29:46 +0200 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Ouch! Yes, indeed! So designed aka desired by google to track and > display ads. I don't get that using NewPipe, and I hope not using mpv > + youtube-dl. Unless that technique somehow obfuscate

Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

2021-05-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at 5:42 PM From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34? On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 10:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I use NewPipe from the FDroid  repo on android to wat

Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

2021-05-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thank you very much for this! This is really helpful.   Best wishes, Ranjan     Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at 11:27 AM From: "Matti Pulkkinen" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34? ke, 2021-05-05 kello 10:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra

similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

2021-05-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I use NewPipe from the FDroid repo on android to watch YouUube videos, without downloading. I am aware of youtube-dl but is there something on F34 that makes it possible to watch streaming videos on YouTube? Thanks, Ranjan ___ users mailing list

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
  Matthew,   And to you and everybody else on this list, I (and I am sure, countless others) are very grateful! You answer even off-topic questions if you can. Thanks again! Ranjan   Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2021 at 3:55 PM From: "Matthew Miller" To: "lejeczek via users" Subject: Re:

OT: using an old tablet PC as an input device for laptop, both running F33

2021-01-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have an old Gateway PC tablet running F33. It is old and the only reason I have it around is the tablet function. However, I really do not like it that much, and I was wondering if I can use it as an input device (to simply use the touchscreen tablet part) for my Dell M3800 laptop. I am

Re: Android-tools does not find device

2021-01-12 Thread Ranjan Maitra
. I am trying to do a adb reboot of the tablet. Paul On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:47 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Several possibilities: > > 1. The cable is bad (the better option). > 2. The connector that connects the cable to the tablet is bad. > > I have #2 with my Samsung

Re: Android-tools does not find device

2021-01-12 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Several possibilities:   1. The cable is bad (the better option). 2. The connector that connects the cable to the tablet is bad.   I have #2 with my Samsung Galaxy S7 (I lost a day trying to figure this out) and it is a known problem with the device. What are you trying to do?   Ranjan  

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
it did not, for me.) Now the move to writing a muttrc which matches all the things I did with sylpheed (and more), phew! Thanks, Ranjan My bash script: #!/bin/bash # # sylpheedMH2Maildir # # Convert a sylpheed MH sequence of folders into a Maildir sequence of folders. # - Ranjan Maitra

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:11:23 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thanks, everybody, I am almost there. I am wondering how do I get to list the > files without the first two depths? So, here is a part of my code: > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir > MHDIR=$HOME/mail > FOLDERSPre=$(find $MHDIR

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks, everybody, I am almost there. I am wondering how do I get to list the files without the first two depths? So, here is a part of my code: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir MHDIR=$HOME/mail FOLDERSPre=$(find $MHDIR -type d -mindepth 1) So, then I get a list of directories: /home/username/mail/

Re: testing update

2020-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:37:04 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/20/20 11:12 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I did: > > dnf config-manager --set-disabled updates-testing > > > > But then , how to I uninstall the packages depending on updates-testing > > Why do you need to? Eventually those packages

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:25:11 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/20/20 10:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks, very much! Btw, how do I list a directory recursively with the more > > nested directories listed first inside a directory? I feel that I may want > > to do

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:28:37 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 11:34 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > In *my* case, I can nest folders, but a folder can contain only mail > > or another folder, not both together. > > > > But I do have sub-folders, and I use maildir. > > A

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:34:12 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 09:03 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > do you know if Maildir folders can have a mixture of files and sub- > > folders. So, let me explain: some of my sylpheed mh folders have > > messages i

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:52:52 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 20:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > There is one approach and that is set LD_PRELOAD to set the hostname > > as localhost.localdomain from this example in: > > https://catonmat.net/simple-ld-p

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:41:05 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 08:35 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > According to this post here: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/maildir/ t > > he filename has this "gator3018.hostgator.com" which I presume comes > &

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:20:50 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:11:27 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > as is happening with sylpheed > > Didn't sylpheed transform into claws-mail? Claws-mail seems > to get regular updates. Hi Tom, Thanks! Originally, s

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 20:23:37 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16Oct2020 21:11, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >Btw, I also noticed that you use(d) fvwm. I used that for a long time, > >switching to openbox (with bouts of pekwm) about 10 years ago. > > I think I'd still be usin

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 12:01:59 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17Oct2020 11:37, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >>Yes, I can switch to getmail but I honestly don't know how much a learning > >>curve that would be. Or are you recommending that I use getmail and then > >>mutt on that (instead of

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks! On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:37:27 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16Oct2020 18:53, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> >Thanks very much for this! I will try it out, but it appears to be for > >> >individual folders, is that correct? So, I will maybe write a script to &

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Cameron, Thanks! > >> https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/mh2maildir?rev=tip > >> > >> Hmm, some years ago now, looking at the opening comment. And I'm using > >> procmail for the conversion (!!!), so indeed quite a while ago. This > >> script moves the MH folder sideways and

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:56:19 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/16/20 3:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 16Oct2020 16:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing > >> mail. I just use IMAP and let somebody else worry about it. In

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:42:06 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16Oct2020 14:48, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:14:13 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> I run my own mail server, so all the emails are in my house which is > >> local enough. I access my

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:14:13 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/16/20 8:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:20:27 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > >> TBH I long ago gave up trying to juggle multiple machines and syncing > >> mail. I ju

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:20:27 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 08:44 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > As I said in the other response, the reason for how I set things up, and > > that has worked reasonably well, is that I read e-mail at work and home, &

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks, Sam! On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:02:24 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/15/20 10:15 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks very much for this. I have found a tool that can convert mh to > > mailbox: > > > > https://github.com/vuntz/mh2maildir/blob/master/mh2maild

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks, very much! On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:56:11 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16Oct2020 00:15, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:14:48 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> Mostly the races. > >> > >> To add, remove or flag in MH probabl

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:14:48 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15Oct2020 11:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >Thanks, yes, I used to use mbox long ago, when I did not understand things > >clearly, and I used pine then, but I moved to mh with the move to sylpheed. > >An added

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:51:42 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 18:45 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > am also deciding on whether to keep the mh folder structure or move > > to Maildir > > Looking at some (elsewhere) conversations, Maildir was developed to

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
:17:00 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 14Oct2020 18:45, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I have been mulling a move from sylpheed to neomutt > > Try regular mutt. A lot of development has happened in the last year or > so, and neomutt may no longer have many features not now available

OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, Of course, very OT. I have been mulling a move from sylpheed to neomutt (because it is not clear to me that sylpheed's development is happening all that much which is a worrisome sign for its future) and so am also deciding on whether to keep the mh folder structure or move to Maildir. I

Re: Any Emacs Users?

2020-10-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:40:21 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:40:06 +0200 > Lasse Kliemann wrote: > > > a) Is 'use-package' available for Fedora from a trustworthy source? (I > > avoid Emacs' own package management, since the last time I checked, it was > > a security

Re: advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:27:31 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/13/20 9:01 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > But, there is something that i was wondering how to get around, and if > > someone had an answer. So, the entire screen of the tablet maps to the > > screen of

Re: advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 15:47:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/5/20 3:40 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks! I use xournalpp (successor to xournal). So, I am sorry: how does > > this work. It is plugged in through USB(?) or Bluetooth, and where > > does the xournalpp point to

Re: (With updated info) Re: Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
wonder if the issue also happens with Fedora 31. Ranjan On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:19:27 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 16:33, Jerry James wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:12 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Thanks, so this appears to be

Re: (With updated info) Re: Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:33:05 -0600 Jerry James wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:12 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks, so this appears to be a Fedora problem. Btw, I tried oracle's > > jdk-14.0.2_linux-x64_bin.rpm and had the same result. > > > >

Re: (With updated info) Re: Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 15:52:26 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 13:33, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Thanks, I will file the bug report: should it be upstream or on Fedora? I > > know about Fedora's BZ, but what is upstream? > > >

Re: (With updated info) Re: Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks, I will file the bug report: should it be upstream or on Fedora? I know about Fedora's BZ, but what is upstream? Ranjan On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:15:57 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 10:57, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 08

(With updated info) Re: Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 08:08:23 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 18:34, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > I have a strange situation that shows up only on F32 (only linux > > distributions tried) but does

Figuring out reason behind java crash on F32 (not on Muck/Windoze)

2020-09-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, I have a strange situation that shows up only on F32 (only linux distributions tried) but does not show up on Windoze or Muck. The way to illustrate this is rather complicated, so I will first summarize. For my introductory students, I use a java-based front-end to R called

Re: advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 15:47:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/5/20 3:40 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks! I use xournalpp (successor to xournal). So, I am sorry: how does > > this work. It is plugged in through USB(?) or Bluetooth, and where > > does the xournalpp point to

Re: advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 19:30:12 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 17:26, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > With online instruction for large classes continuing into the near future, > > I am looking at writing t

Re: advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 13:33:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/5/20 1:25 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > With online instruction for large classes continuing into the near future, > > I am looking at writing tablets and wondering if any of these can be

advice on writing tablet for use with Fedora

2020-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, With online instruction for large classes continuing into the near future, I am looking at writing tablets and wondering if any of these can be integrated into Fedora. My examples are from: https://www.amazon.com/Mice-Keyboards-Computer-Add-Ons-Computers/b?node=172493 I am not

Re: system-upgrade f31 to f32 on CLI fails (update)

2020-09-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 19:55:24 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 13:57, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > So, I have been trying to upgrade this fully updated f31 machine on the > > CLI. I have tried the following: > > > > > >

Re: whatsapp

2020-09-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 09:11:56 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a whatsapp or equivalent for fedora? > The open-source, security-conscious signal, with signal-desktop available on Fedora copr repo (wish it were on the standard repos). Benefit over whatsapp: you don't need your

Re: system-upgrade f31 to f32 on CLI fails

2020-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 22:38:14 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: > 2020-09-02 20:10 UTC+02:00, Ranjan Maitra : > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:51:26 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > >> Have you installed any packages from outside Fedora's repos? > > > > I don't know the answer: a st

Re: system-upgrade f31 to f32 on CLI fails

2020-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:51:26 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/2/20 9:56 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > $ sudo dnf distro-sync > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:06 ago on Wed 02 Sep 2020 11:22:53 AM > > CDT. > > Error: > > Problem: The operation would

system-upgrade f31 to f32 on CLI fails

2020-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
So, I have been trying to upgrade this fully updated f31 machine on the CLI. I have tried the following: $ sudo dnf --refresh upgrade Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00 Fedora 31 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_646.6 kB/s | 986 B 00:00 Fedora

Re: OT: Command-line tool on Fedora 32 to remove a small portion of mp4

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:03:57 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/26/20 7:43 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I am writing to ask if there is a way to remove a small portion of a mp4 > > file. Basically, the file is my lecture (has both audio and video > > recorded using simplescree

OT: Command-line tool on Fedora 32 to remove a small portion of mp4

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am writing to ask if there is a way to remove a small portion of a mp4 file. Basically, the file is my lecture (has both audio and video recorded using simplescreenrecorder) and I want to remove a portion of the mp4 (from the 14:30 to the 15:50 time-points) of an mp4. The mp4 itself is

Re: anyone using pulseaudio on F32??

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:37:57 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/26/20 4:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I generally like PA, but it has a quirk with Zoom (likely the latter is to > > blame). Starts Zoom at around 50% of the audio. I miss quite a bit > > before I realize that

Re: anyone using pulseaudio on F32??

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:41:03 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 8/26/20 3:37 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > > now i got it working, i wonder if anyone else out there is using PA ?? > > > > anyone?? > > That's a strange question. Who wouldn't be using it? It's the default > sound system. You would have to

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:31:12 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: > On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 > > Andras Simon wrote: > > > >> FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now > >> for classes (audio, video, chat and screen

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, So, I wanted to dig up this old thread because a couple of weeks ago, I found an open source project on github for MS Teams called teams-for-linux at https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux which I have found is smaller than the dud made available by MS, and works reasonably well

Re: possibly OT: emacs update on Fedora does not like my default font [Solved]

2020-08-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:28:15 -0600 Jerry James wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 4:14 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > My own .emacs has the following set at: > > > > (set-default-font "10x20") > > > > > > Any suggestions as to what I should look

possibly OT: emacs update on Fedora does not like my default font

2020-08-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, After last night's update to emacs on F32, I can no longer use emacs with my default font. When I fire it up, I get a second window open and the following: Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/user/.emacs’: Symbol's function definition is void:

Re: Issue w Zoom - "sharing screen"

2020-08-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I use the version from Zoom itself (pain to keep track of upgrades, I know). I don't quite bother with flatpak. Anyway, I have not yet had issues with screensharing, and neither have my other panelists. However, I have never done it for Libreoffice: I stay away from PP-types as much as I can.

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
And here is a Fedora Magazine article: https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-jitsi/ I used to think that there was an Fedora rpm/repo for a desktop client somewhere, but I am not sure. It would be great if we had the ability to use a client (like pidgin for the case of IM) which would be

Re: Fedora Zoom? -

2020-08-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:27:26 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:53 AM Kevin Becker wrote: > > > Zoom is available for Fedora as a flatpak via flathub > > > > I've used the rpm zoom provides with good results. Same here. Btw, I also tried teams but gave up quickly. It was not

OT: WSL2

2020-06-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, As someone who does not see the value of Windows (or MacOS), I wonder what thoughts are regarding this: https://towardsdatascience.com/dual-boot-is-dead-windows-and-linux-are-now-one-27555902a128?source=post_internal_links-0-- For me, I hope that MS does

Re: which package for xournal

2020-06-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, this is unrelated, but I found xournalpp a month or so ago: it is a more improved version of xournal and also available on the F repos. Ranjan On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 10:05:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/4/20 4:07 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Which package should I install to get the

Re: Firefox stability?

2020-05-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
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 all the time nowadays but no issues there also from what I can tell. Ranjan On Mon, 18 May 2020 15:00:33 -0400 (EDT) Max

Re: purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora

2020-05-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 18 May 2020 17:58:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 09:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have any experience with > > https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora? Any > > recommend

Re: purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora

2020-05-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 18 May 2020 09:24:20 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any experience with > https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora? Any > recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have > not for 10 ye

purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora

2020-05-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp on Fedora? Any recommendations? I like Pidgin though I do not use it much any longer (have not for 10 years, I would guess). Thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set

Re: Upgrade F29 -> F32

2020-05-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 18 May 2020 13:54:47 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 15:52 +0300, jarmo wrote: > > Just upgraded from F29 to F32, all went smoothly except grub menuentry. > > Upgrade didn't add entry into grub.cfg. > > Boots into F32, but kernel is F29. System is 64bit. > > Is

Re: F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode) [Solved]

2020-05-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 17 May 2020 11:45:20 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/17/20 8:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Any suggestions as to what is wrong? The machine is sort of hard to get to > > simply because it is not online now, and I have to go in to get more > > information but I

F32 upgrade fails (boots into Emergency mode)

2020-05-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I was commenting yesterday afternoon on how painless the upgrade had been so far for me (4 laptops, 1 workstation). Got jinxed on a workstation at work! For me, F31 got upgraded to F32 using the methods oulined in https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-31-to-fedora-32/. All steps went

Re: dnf upgrade vs dnf system-upgrade?

2020-05-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 16 May 2020 17:14:53 +0100 (BST) Michael Young wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2020, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > There is an option called "upgrade" under dnf system-upgrade. > > > > However: https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-31-to-fedora-32/ does >

Re: dnf upgrade vs dnf system-upgrade?

2020-05-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 6 May 2020 10:21:03 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/6/20 7:42 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > So, my question: which of the two approaches is "better"? The latter is > > swankier while coming up, but is the one with the Windows-type message > > (Upgrading s

Re: new release of zoom needed in @system repository.

2020-05-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:48:33 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/14/20 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 05/14/2020 07:58 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > >> No, there will not be. Zoom isn't packaged in Fedora. You manually > >> installed > >> it. You'll have to reach out to the vendor for that one.

Re: dnf upgrade vs dnf system-upgrade?

2020-05-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 6 May 2020 10:21:03 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/6/20 7:42 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > So, my question: which of the two approaches is "better"? The latter is > > swankier while coming up, but is the one with the Windows-type message > > (Upgrading s

dnf upgrade vs dnf system-upgrade?

2020-05-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I recently (last night) upgraded the oldest of my machines. Because I was doing this from memory, I decided to do trial-and-error (not a good idea, I know, but it was late and I was lazy). So, I did: sudo dnf upgrade --releasever 31 and everything went through fine, including

Re: Upgrade to 32 stymied

2020-05-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
So, it appears based on your description that rxvt on F32 is behind rxvt on F31. I suspect that in this situation I would do one of two things. 1. Wait a few days and let the problem take care of itself as the F32 package gets updated. 2. dnf erase rxvt and upgrade. Then, after the system

Re: franz on Fedora?

2020-04-29 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:21:14 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-26 17:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 18:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > >> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> It is a way that some people/projects distribute their software. >

Re: AAUGH! More "helpful" software!

2020-04-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:17:23 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:07:41 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Failing that, google "gnome disable auto update"? > > This isn't gnome, it was well into the shutdown > process when this nonsense suddenly popped up. > > Imagine how convenient

Re: AAUGH! More "helpful" software!

2020-04-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:07:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-28 22:54, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I try to shutdown my new fedora 32 virtual machine. > > It immediately says: > > > > "Installing updates, do not turn off" > > > > AAUGH! I don't want to install frigging updates (yet). > > > >

Re: franz on Fedora?

2020-04-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 10:19:53 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-26 10:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been looking around and was wondering if franz exists on Fedora 31? > > > > https://github.com/meetfranz/franz > > > > There is t

franz on Fedora?

2020-04-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been looking around and was wondering if franz exists on Fedora 31? https://github.com/meetfranz/franz There is talk of an rpm in one of the issues, but I can not find how it got resolved: https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/647 Ranjan

Re: F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:18:05 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 14:30 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > is it safe to work now with the lid closed or will the laptop > > overheat? I have switched off the screen for the laptop using xrandr. > > That is going to

Re: F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:27:18 -0500 Roger Heflin wrote: > I would check the rating on your HDMI cable, the older ones aren't > supposed to be able to support greater than 1080p rates, so if you > cable is very old it may not support the speed. > > There is probably something written on the cable

Re: F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:47:14 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 16:30, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:49:59 -0700 stan via users < > > users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 21 A

Re: F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:49:59 -0700 stan via users wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:40:30 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:17:24 -0500 Ranjan Maitra > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently got mysel

Re: F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:17:24 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I recently got myself a UHD monitor. > > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JXCR263?tag=aboutcom02lifewire-20=ogi=1=1=4138562%7Cneef17e57867342f0bc4b3af20a9ba60801 > > However, when I connect to my 3840x2160 reso

F31 - getting UHD external monitor to display at 3840x2160 resolution

2020-04-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I recently got myself a UHD monitor. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JXCR263?tag=aboutcom02lifewire-20=ogi=1=1=4138562%7Cneef17e57867342f0bc4b3af20a9ba60801 However, when I connect to my 3840x2160 resolution laptop and use xrandr (through HDMI, supplied with the monitor) I do not even get an

Re: Alpine curiosity

2020-04-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:57:31 +0200 AV wrote: > I have been a longtime user of mutt but switched to > evolution and/of geary to have less configuration > hassle. > Yesterday I had an hour to spare so I decided to > have a look at the Alpine email client. > I installed and did a minimal config

Re: tip: upgrade to 32

2020-04-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I don't think that FC32 is released yet. Ranjan On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:10:27 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > To get FC32 to upgrade on on eof my VM's, I have to add > >--disablerepo=brave* > > to the following: > > > #dnf --enablerepo=* update --refresh

Re: postfix and selinux [SOLVED, at least for now]

2020-04-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:51:57 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/12/20 6:03 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:44:44 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 4/12/20 11:56 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> I have selinux enforcing and pos

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:22 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 4/17/20 5:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > So, I was able to hack out a python script [...] > > Ranjan: > > Thank you for the script .. with modifications I have it running under > python3 > > Paul

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:07:21 -0700 stan via users wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:41:22 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > The reason I need this is because the Cisco icon (that I need for VPN > > because of required third-party 2FA) is very tiny and almost > > im

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:38:45 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 08:41 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I thought that some of you might have suggestions. > > You might want to tell us what desktop you use. > > On MATE there are panel apps that can be

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:54:29 - "Doug Herr" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:54:37 +0800 Ed Greshko > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, yours is the script part. I am looking to feed this into an > > indicator which will > > blink red when 1 (in your case) and be steady green when 0 (in your >

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:54:37 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-16 21:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > Sorry, this is OT but I thought that some of you might have suggestions. > > > > I want to have an on-screen indicator i

OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, Sorry, this is OT but I thought that some of you might have suggestions. I want to have an on-screen indicator in the form of a icon or something that is blinking red if vpn is disconnected and steady green if vpn is up. Could also be extended to other features but right now let

Re: postfix and selinux

2020-04-12 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:51:57 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/12/20 6:03 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:44:44 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 4/12/20 11:56 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> I have selinux enforcing and pos

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