Re: Artifacts running konsole under Fedora-35

2022-01-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I've just upgraded from F34 to F35 and have troubles with KDE vs > Wayland and X11. > > Wayland is very flaky, crashes of various kinds, sometimes killing > individual apps, sometimes an entire session. I can't reproduce the > crashes reliably; they happen when they

Re: Fedora 34, kde, wayland, klipper, no primary selection

2021-05-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded from Fedora 32. Now KDE uses wayland. I configure in > clipboard settings to sync primary seletion to no avail. Primary > selection only usable within the same window. > > I read on the internet it should be working. It works in some

Re: Weird graphics errors with recent kernels

2021-02-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The last 2 or 3 kernel updates seem to have triggered a regression in > the i915 (internal Intel GPU) driver. I get damaged screen updates, > very noticeable tearing on videos and occasional freezes in the DE > (Plasma under X11). Same here, I had to rollback to

Re: Plasma on Xorg Fails to Start After Last System Update

2021-02-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 28/1/21 02:43, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Stephen Morris wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Three days ago I did a dnf system upgrade to apply all available >>> Fedora updates. I have now tried to start Plasma under Xorg, but it now >&

Re: Plasma on Xorg Fails to Start After Last System Update

2021-01-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > Three days ago I did a dnf system upgrade to apply all available > Fedora updates. I have now tried to start Plasma under Xorg, but it now > refuses to start with a crash in ksplashqml, and if I press > ctrl-alt-delete to try to logout the ksmserver-greeter also

Re: F33 - KDE broken after dnf update

2020-12-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I don't even know which component is causing the problem. All I know is > that after the update, my KDE is broken. For starters, what packages were included in this update transaction? -- Rex ___ users mailing list --

Re: Logout cancelled by program

2020-10-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If I'm running qBittorrent and try to log out with Ctrl-Alt-Del, or by > using the DE's menu, I get this message. It doesn't matter if qBT is > actually doing anything at the time. I have to manually quit the > program before these logout methods will work. > > I'm

Re: What happened to k3b-extras-freeworld?

2020-05-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I jumped from F30 to F32 (I tend to skip releases). In F30 I had > k3b-extras-freeworld in rpmfusion free. > > It is not there in F32. It was EOL'd by a maintainer at rpmfusion:

Re: AAUGH! More "helpful" software!

2020-04-29 Thread Rex Dieter
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). > > How do I reinstall fedora and turn this crap off > before I shutdown the next time?

Re: Display Manager question

2020-04-07 Thread Rex Dieter
David wrote: > Last week, I replaced the file "default.png" in my background directory, > and was delightfully enjoying a new custom backsplash, instead of the new > fancy > one that Fedora has ( light color blue with some rectangular glass cluster > ). > > In my recent update yesterday,

Re: X11 connection rejected

2020-02-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > On a machine I can ssh -X and run xclock for example, but > sudo system-config-users > gives > > (process:5034): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:59:07.212: Locale not supported by C > library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. > X11 connection rejected because of wrong

Re: what library is GtkClipboard in?

2020-01-29 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-01-29 08:41, Rex Dieter wrote: >> ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> >> >>> Can anyone tell me what .so file GtkClipboard resides? >>> >>> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-Clipboards.html#GtkCl

Re: what library is GtkClipboard in?

2020-01-29 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Can anyone tell me what .so file GtkClipboard resides? > > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-Clipboards.html#GtkClipboard libgtk-3.so.0 -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: The (bad) state of Qt on GNOME / Wayland

2019-12-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Andy Paterson via users wrote: > Just to make a point, i have always disliked gnome & ever since it first > appeared have used kde on fedora, if qt support in fedora becomes broken, > i for one will ditch fedora Your point is based on a false premise, so no worries. -- rex

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Mihaly wrote: > I'll try to ask over at Spotify as well. Is this[1] the API you > mentioned? > > [1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/ I believe so, yes. -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Mihaly wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have an external monitor connected via HDMI which has better sounding > speakers than the internal ones. Sometimes I leave the machine idle while > keep playing audio on it, but shortly after the lock screen kicks the > external monitor is turned off

Re: cp and exclude?

2019-08-03 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it > exclude certain directories? cp can't do that, as far as I'm aware, but you can use other tools like rsync that can exclude items. -- Rex ___ users mailing list

Re: ccache on f30

2019-07-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Folks, > I installed the ccache package on F30. Doing a rpm -ql on the > package show a long list of files that are part of the package, but if I > do > > ls -l /usr/lib64/ccache/ > > it shows > > total 576 > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 193392 Jan 31 07:23 cc >

Re: tracer told me to systemctl restart dbus-broker - bad move

2019-07-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Whenever I do an dnf update, I run tracer to see what action I need to > take. Tracer tells you what needs restarting... but does not go into any of the possible consequences of doing so. -- rex ___ users mailing list --

Re: stange dependencies

2019-07-09 Thread Rex Dieter
François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I removed ssmtp from a machine (f30) and dnf has removed more than 100 > packages as dependencies of this package. A lot of perl modules (I did > not know that ssmtp was a perl script...) and *google-chrome* > > Is it serious? Most likely, something in

Re: how to install zoom client.

2019-07-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 7/2/19 10:22 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> home user via users wrote: >> >>> (background) >>> Last week, I was to participate in a "Zoom" meeting for a charity that >>> I'm involved in. I have the needed software on my rare

Re: how to install zoom client.

2019-07-02 Thread Rex Dieter
home user via users wrote: > (background) > Last week, I was to participate in a "Zoom" meeting for a charity that > I'm involved in. I have the needed software on my rarely-used windows-7 > box. But I could not complete the windows-7 login (some problem with a > windows-7 service). I've since

Re: Akonadi, Baloo, etc

2019-06-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Why does akonadi usually crash on system startup? Requires debugging and details to know why. Bugreports with abrt or drkonqi reports or backtraces, and relevant logs would likely be required to know more. > Why does akonadi or maybe baloo sometimes use 100% of

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Beartooth wrote: > > When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? What's your definition of "enslaved to google" in this context? > Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages? man:/ URL seems to work for me on fedora 30. -- Rex ___ users

Re: F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login

2019-05-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Barry Scott wrote: > I just raised https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1706756 > about this problem. > > KDE is complete dead after login on Fedora 30 with nouveau. This qt5-qtbase update may help, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f43ed18461 -- Rex

Re: F29-F30 Upgrade With KDE Plasma Desktop Problem

2019-05-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 5/7/19 7:08 AM, David Dembrow wrote: >> I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from >> fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde >> plasma desktop. >> >> Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent)

Re: F30 - KDE on nouveau driver freezes at login

2019-05-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Barry Scott wrote: > I just raised https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1706756 > about this problem. > > KDE is complete dead after login on Fedora 30 with nouveau. > > I you have nvidia hardware I suggest testing that lKDE live image works > for you before updating. Wish I had...

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Dario Lesca wrote: > On a i7+16Gb+SSD notebook of a my friend I have install Fedora 29 > workstation (all work fine! ... thank to all!) > and into qemu/kvm/libvirtd via virt-manager I have install a win10pro > with all virtio driver (disk, network, ecc..). > > After few days my friend say me

Re: Need a statement on Fedora's purpose

2019-03-30 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 3/30/19 6:16 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just had a vendor tell me they do not support Fedora Server >>> because the the developers of Fedora had sta

Re: Need a statement on Fedora's purpose

2019-03-30 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I just had a vendor tell me they do not support Fedora Server > because the the developers of Fedora had stated that it is not > a stable release and is used only as a testing ground for Red > Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). And as such, they only

Re: dnf didn't exclude and clobbered the package I wanted to keep - what went wrong...?

2019-02-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Morgan Read via users wrote: > YUP, YOU GUEST IT master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 GOT CLOBBERED!!! > > So, what the f' do I have to do to prevent > master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 from getting clobbered when installing > master-pdf-editor-5.3.16_qt5.x86_64.rpm dnf assumes only 1 copy of any

Re: KDE Desktop Environment Doesn't Boot After Installer Puts Entry in Desktop Manager in F29

2019-02-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > Given that it seems that F29 is standardizing > on Wayland instead of Xorg, why doesn't the KDE-desktop-environment > group also install this package to provide the needed Wayland support so > KDE can be started under Wayland, rather than require the user to > install it

Re: file server question: cifs vs nfs?

2018-12-08 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Then it occurred to me, why not put the shoe on > the other foot. If there is an NFS client for > Windows, why not use NFS? Any benefit of using > NFS over CIFS on this scenario? Samba does cifs much better than windows supports nfs in my experience. Short

Re: Gimp

2018-11-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Juan R. de Silva wrote: >>> As far as I can see from his comment he only disaprove some GNOME UI >>> decisions not GNOME entirely. >>> kind of comment is not welcome on the mailing list. >>> >>> Well, IMHO his is entitled to have his opinion. His comment is on topic >>> and in the right

Re: Gimp

2018-11-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:21:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 11/17/18 7:24 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> That is, indeed, hideous. >>> >>> Some out of work Gnome 3 UI Expert must've found a home at the Gimp >>> project. >> >> I think we've all figured out by now

Re: Cleaning up /etc/yum.repos.d

2018-11-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> How do I list installed packages from a specific repo? > > This may get you step in the right direction: > > rpm -q -f /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo > > will tell you which packages own each .repo file Just occurred to

Re: Cleaning up /etc/yum.repos.d

2018-11-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > My repos directory has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years, > things like unused COPR repos etc., so I wanted to clean it out. I have > a couple of questions: > > Do I need both fedora-* and fedora-*-modular repos? Depends on your definition of "need". On

Re: Will RedHat deprecate KDE on Fedora?

2018-11-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 09:00:17PM -0400, William Oliver wrote: >> I just read this in The Register -- that RH is deprecating KDE in >> RHEL. As a long time fan of KDE, I'm a bit saddened. Is this planned >> for Fedora as well? > > Red Hat doesn't make decisions for

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/16/18 7:58 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Ed Greshko wrote: >>> my login pw is the >>> same as my wallet pw and I'm still prompted for the kwallet pw on login. >> Interesting, that should be all that is required. Clearly something is >&g

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/16/18 3:25 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Stephen Morris wrote: >> >>> On 10/10/18 10:46 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 10/10/18 5:13 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>>> Is this a defect that I should raise in bugzilla if I can

Re: Wifi Connection in F28 KDE Timing out Waiting for Kwallet Password?

2018-10-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 10/10/18 10:46 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 10/10/18 5:13 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> Is this a defect that I should raise in bugzilla if I can remember how >>> to do it (including resetting my password if I need to)? >> I doubt it is a "defect'. More likely a

Re: Fedora 28 DM -

2018-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Bob Goodwin-Fastmail wrote: > On 10/04/18 15:47, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> . >> Yes, I generally prefer to use "startxfce4." > . > And when I do "systemctl set-default multi-user.target" it disables > lightdm which is why I am seeing no dm? It gets loaded but the status > hows "inactive: dead."

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-01 Thread Rex Dieter
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > Hi > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>> It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than >>> gnome. .. >> Is this documented anyw

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than > gnome. Is this documented anywhere, ideally in a bug report? -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: gnome-software disable third party repos

2018-09-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Louis Garcia wrote: > When gnome-software runs for the first time it asks you if you would like > to enable third party repos. how can I disable having users enable third > party stuff? I found org.gnome.software enable-repos-diaog=true but > turning that off still has the dialog but asks for

Re: libreoffice 6.1 ??

2018-08-15 Thread Rex Dieter
stan wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 22:00:04 -0700 > ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> Anyone know when we will see Libre Office 6.1 in the repos? > > It's not in koji. The maintainer is active as the last build was just > a few days ago, but it had problems with 6.0 in rawhide. I think > rawhide is

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > ask here: > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? on more > than one occasion, i've had to install

Re: sddm black screen:

2018-07-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Frédéric wrote: > Jul 08 21:41:15 gamma sddm-greeter[2174]: Failed to create OpenGL > context for format QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options > QFlags(), depthBufferSize 24, > redBufferSize -1, gree This is likely it: Jul 08 21:41:15 gamma sddm-greeter[2174]: Failed to create OpenGL context for

Re: sddm black screen:

2018-07-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Frédéric wrote: >>> #2 0x7fc06f4677a7 _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz (libQt5Core.so.5) >> >> This line means the fatal error was logged to syslog/journal. Look there >> for more details. > > But isn't it what journalctl gives me which I just showed? Where else > should I look at? You

Re: sddm black screen: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib64/security/pam_elogind.so)

2018-07-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Frédéric wrote: > #2 0x7fc06f4677a7 _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz (libQt5Core.so.5) This line means the fatal error was logged to syslog/journal. Look there for more details. -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [F27] Dolphin status bar has become huge!

2018-06-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Frédéric wrote: > Hi , > > I am running F27. I updated my distribution on Friday evening and > Dolphin has now a huge status bar which is very annoying (see attached > picture). I suspect this may help fix it, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ce355274aa -- Rex

Re: better subject

2018-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:28:59AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >>François Patte wrote: >> >>> Bonjour, >> >>such inflammatory subject lines are not welcome, please do better next >>time. > I agree the subject line (like th

Re: better subject

2018-06-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 08:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> François Patte wrote: >> >> > Bonjour, >> >> such inflammatory subject lines are not welcome, please do better next >> time. > > I know you were joking, but that

better subject

2018-06-22 Thread Rex Dieter
François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, such inflammatory subject lines are not welcome, please do better next time. -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: network-manager-applet

2018-06-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Fedora 28 (and the fusion lists) appears not to provide the > network-manager-applet. Am I looking in the wrong place, or is it no > longer distributed? It's on my f28 box: $ rpm -q -f /usr/bin/nm-applet network-manager-applet-1.8.10-2.fc28.2.x86_64 -- Rex

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 06/03/2018 12:43 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 06/02/2018 02:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Also, I usually have a VM running (Windows 10) that I prefer not to >>> have to restart just because I updated one of Linux's libraries that >>> the VM doesn't

Re: F28 - K3b failure on image copy

2018-05-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/30/18 20:55, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> On 05/29/2018 06:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> Are you using the lightdm desktop manager and pam-kwallet? This may >>>> be related to the other issues this

Re: F28 - K3b failure on image copy

2018-05-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 05/29/2018 06:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Are you using the lightdm desktop manager and pam-kwallet? This may >> be related to the other issues this combination causes (seems like it's >> poking its nose into a lot of things). > > No. Xfce. Pretty sure Xfce spin

Re: F28 - K3b failure on image copy

2018-05-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Seems the error is that my user needs to be added to group cdrom. This > was not the case in the past... That should not be required now either. Mind filing a bug? -- Rex > On 05/29/2018 04:53 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> First time using K3b on this system.

Re: F28 system-config-date?

2018-05-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > On 05/25/2018 01:33 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> The trend has been to move away from the Redhat GUI tools and to rely >> on each individual desktop to have their own app... >> >> Are you running Gnome, KDE or one of the others? > > And system-config-printer

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-23 Thread Rex Dieter
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > >> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. First, upon login I got an >> XFCE polkit error popup, which is singularly useless in telling you >> anything you can troubleshoot with. Then, I had no

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the > system to end all users processes after logout. Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: KillUserProcesses=yes -- Rex ___ users mailing list --

Re: Fedora 28 today?

2018-05-01 Thread Rex Dieter
Danny Horne via users wrote: > I'm sure I saw in the list that OpenSSL would be upgraded to > 1.1.1, mine still shows as 1.1.0 f28 currently includes openssl-1.1.0h-3.fc28 -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: 28?

2018-04-29 Thread Rex Dieter
ToddAndMargo wrote: > Anyone know the latest rumor as to when 28 general release will hit? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule spoiler: may 1 -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: Switching to Wayland on F27

2018-04-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Digimer wrote: > On 2018-04-19 08:40 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Danny Horne via users wrote: >> >>> On 19/04/18 04:50, Digimer wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I've updated my OS a few times now and it would appear that I am >>>

Re: Switching to Wayland on F27

2018-04-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Danny Horne via users wrote: > On 19/04/18 04:50, Digimer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've updated my OS a few times now and it would appear that I am still >> on Xorg of Fedora 27 workstation; >> >> Any hint on how to enable Wayland? >> >> Thanks. >> > I had to switch from Wayland to Xorg a

Re: what package would one bugzilla package group issues against?

2018-04-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > seems to me that some of the current dnf packages related to > virtualization and containers could be adjusted and cleaned up, but > i'm not sure against which component one would file a BZ issue > against. Not bugzilla, but... https://pagure.io/fedora-comps --

Re: rpm says package isn't installed but it is, and related question

2018-03-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Chris Murphy wrote: > $ rpm -q kernel-core kernel-core-4.15.12-300.fc27.x86_64 > $ sudo rpm -q -i kernel-core-4.15.14-300.fc27.x86_64.rpm Try instead: rpm -q -i kernel-core-4.15.14-300.fc27.x86_64 to match the output of rpm -q above, should give the output you expect -- Rex

Re: "Malformed URL" popup when trying to mount an external drive (KDE)

2018-03-27 Thread Rex Dieter
PropAAS DBA wrote: > I'm running Fedora 27 KDE spin, fully updated. Every time I plug in an > external drive, no matter what file system is on the drive (i.e. a > windows usb stick, an ext4 external ssd drive, etc) and click "Open With > File Manager" I get a popup that simply says "Malformed

Re: superfluous (??) proliferation

2018-02-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Beartooth wrote: > > I'm running F27, fully updated; but my query has to do with a > phenomenon I've been noticing for years. It's probably innocuous, but I'd > be glad of reassurance about that. > > Let me say in advance that I realize any application I launch may > itself launch others,

Re: Speech-dispatcher

2018-02-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >> I never use it. It gets in the way and uses computer resources. > > Any resources besides disk space? > >> How can I get rid of it? > > You can't at the moment. I can look into implementing it if

Re: Speech-dispatcher

2018-02-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I never use it. It gets in the way and uses computer resources. Any resources besides disk space? > How can I get rid of it? You can't at the moment. I can look into implementing it if there is demand. -- Rex ___ users

Re: Removing @gnome-desktop but leave the deps?

2018-01-24 Thread Rex Dieter
InvalidPath wrote: > I run Plasma specifically, and in chasing down some journalctl errors > today I found a few that were errors generated by gnome dependencies. > Since I > dont use Gnome I want to remove it. However running dnf remove > @gnome-desktop also want's to remove things like qemu,

Re: Samba version woes

2018-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/14/18 21:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I have a Samba server running on a NAS, but according to my Windows VM >> it's running SMB1 and is thus insecure, so Windows won't connect to it. >> >> I've added the line "min protocol = SMB2" to the smb.conf file and >>

Re: Samba version woes

2018-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 08:57 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> > I have a Samba server running on a NAS, but according to my Windows VM >> > it's running SMB1 and is thus insecure, so Windows won't con

Re: Samba version woes

2018-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a Samba server running on a NAS, but according to my Windows VM > it's running SMB1 and is thus insecure, so Windows won't connect to it. > > I've added the line "min protocol = SMB2" to the smb.conf file and > restarted the service, but Windows remains

Re: Where are my configuration and service management tools?

2017-12-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Temlakos wrote: > What is the KDE equivalent? kcm_systemd is the package you want (I think it should be installed by default if you used the kde spin). Then there should be a 'systemd' item listed in systemsettings5 -- rex ___ users mailing list

Re: F27: how to disable packagekit to download updates

2017-12-03 Thread Rex Dieter
stan wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:54:35 -0500 > Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> Dario Lesca wrote: >> > How to I can disable packagekid to download update? > >> You can disable downloading of updates via gsettings: >> >> gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false

Re: how to substitute mariadb to mysql while compiling

2017-12-01 Thread Rex Dieter
François Patte wrote: > I try to compile gerbera in order to test this dlna server. There is an > option to have mysql as a database but, mysql no longer exists on > fedora mysql does still exist, package names prefixed with: community-mysql- -- Rex

Re: What the heck is a rc.local stop job?

2017-11-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:26:49 +0100 > francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > >> Why not: > 2. Because using rc.local is 10,000 times easier than > decrypting systemd dependency operations. Mind you, rc.local is a systemd service itself, nothing extra special about it:

Re: Is there a crypto policy or not?

2017-11-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > The /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on my fedora 27 partition says: > > # To opt out, uncomment a line with redefinition of CRYPTO_POLICY= > # variable in /etc/sysconfig/sshd to overwrite the policy. > # For more information, see manual page for update-crypto-policies(8). > >

Re: Login Page changed after last fedora 26 update

2017-11-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > ogio spam wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Il giorno lun, 13/11/2017 alle 22.49 +0800, Ed Greshko ha scritto: >> >>> I have fully updated F26 systems and the login displays have not >>> changed for me. So, >>> I can

Re: Login Page changed after last fedora 26 update

2017-11-14 Thread Rex Dieter
ogio spam wrote: > Hi all, > > Il giorno lun, 13/11/2017 alle 22.49 +0800, Ed Greshko ha scritto: > >> I have fully updated F26 systems and the login displays have not >> changed for me. So, >> I can't think of what may have happened for you. >> >> I am not entirely clear on what you display

Re: Looking up certain Packagename

2017-08-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: > Hello, > > > I am developing an iBus library , I tested with ubuntu and arch, can any > of you please give me the equivalent of these ubuntu/arch packages of > Fedora so that I can add build instruction for Fedora too ? > > > build-essential cmake libibus-1.0-dev

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Emmett Culley wrote: > Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers > that I manage? > > For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I > updated to the current release. Even the switch to KDE4 was not such a > problem. At least a few

Re: qt5 version(s) in f26

2017-07-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothée Floure wrote: > Hello, > > I thought f26 would bring me qt 5.8 and improve a few things with my > qutebrowser's experience. However, after the update (from f25) > qutebrowser was still using qt 5.7.1 : weird. So I decided to take a > look to the installed version of

Re: F26 Run KDE under wayland on nouveau driver

2017-07-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Barry Scott wrote: > I'm running KDE plasma under X11 at the moment and would like > switch to wayland. > > First is this supported? If so where is the config that I need to change > to start up in the wayland world and not the Xorg world? Not exactly supported, more like a "tech-preview" type

Re: f23 :: kde and qt updates broken

2016-12-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! It would seem that the configs for the qt and kde updates were broken > .. trying to update i have this : Should be fixed by: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-22b09070a2 -- Rex ___ users mailing list --

Re: qt

2016-11-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Yes, > rpm -q qt-devel > qt-devel-4.8.7-18.fc24.x86_64 > > Even after a dnf reinstall qt-devel, > I still have the issue: > > which qmake > /usr/bin/which: no qmake in Use /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 or /qt4/bin/qmake -- Rex ___ users

Re: Good article on systemd

2016-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 01 October 2016, Ed Greshko sent: >> Maybe the point Rex was making was simply that discussion could be had >> and frustrations could be vented but minus the Ad Hominem attacks? > > Dunno. There is no dunno here, it is clear our community does not condone

Re: Good article on systemd

2016-09-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > ... This type of an intentional blind spot is quite typical, > inside the systemd reality distortion field. Comments like that are neither considerate or respectful, and are not welcome in the fedora community. https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct I encourage any

Re: a stop job is running....

2016-09-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:40:19 +0200 > François Patte wrote: > >> Why theses messages? > > Because systemd has a gazillion bugs like this In cases like this in general, it's not systemd, but the individual services that have bugs. In this particular case, it's the user

Re: brightness

2016-09-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > How can I manage the brightness of my laptop ? > xbacklight -get (or -set) > does not work. xbacklight should work, if not, there's a bug somewhere (I'd encourage you to report it). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: rpm rebuilt fails

2016-08-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to recompile the package: > qcad-3.15.2.0-2.fc24.src.rpm > I did rpm -ivh > and then: > rpmbuild -bb qcad.spec --clean > but I get an error: > error: Failed build dependencies: > pkgconfig(QtWebKit) is needed by qcad-3.15.2.0-2.fc24.i686 > while

Re: systemd vs. autofs/nfs

2016-07-28 Thread Rex Dieter
David A. De Graaf wrote: > systemd and autofs/nfs are at war and have been ever since systemd > appeared. > > Specifically, if machine A has an open connection to machine B > and B goes down or become inaccessible, then A cannot shutdown. > A's shutdown sequence hangs, waiting for B to respond

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/28/16 14:07, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Joachim Backes wrote: >> >>> does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation >>> to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? >> >> short

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? short answer: no -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Blank screen after 5 minutes idle

2016-04-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running Fedora/KDE 23 on a ThinkPad T510 laptop. > If I leave the laptop open but idle for about 5 minutes > the screen goes blank, and I see no way to "wake" it. Normally the screen blank/dimming should stop when you press a key or move the mouse. Otherwise, you

Re: Skipping packages with broken dependencies...

2016-04-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone > I just attempted to run "dnf upgrade" on my system (which is running > Fedora 23. Fresh install, not an upgrade from another version.) > > I will let the output of "dnf upgrade" speak for itself: > >> [root@afolkey2 ~]# dnf upgrade >> Last metadata

Re: Fedora 23 Apper display garbled

2016-04-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Mayavimmer wrote: > Hello list, this is my first question on Fedora lists. Gentle guiding > appreciated. > > Problem: when I run Apper the progress information, such as "Downloading > gcc" and similar, is a bit garbled. It seems that it writes > "Downloading" first, then overwrites it with

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