Re: Mouse pointer moves but does not click

Do you have multiple pointing devices attached? Like a second mouse, a touchpad, trackpoint, etc... Then a mouse operation started on one can block button operations on the other. Ctrl-s is pretty universal to save in both windows and linux apps. Den tor. 3. mai 2018, 17.09 skrev Paul Smith

Re: anyone using linux client for AT's global network client

The old linux client is java based and still works on rhel 6 at least. 1. mar. 2017 11.42 p.m. skrev "Ed Greshko" : > On 03/01/17 23:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm going to pry into the latest rpm later today to see what's > > salvageable, but if someone already

Re: F22 and WebEx

You must have icedtea-web installed. It is the java plugin for firefox. Java does not work in chrome. 17. nov. 2015 5.26 p.m. skrev Robert Moskowitz : > > I need to join a WebEx conference this afternoon.   I no longer have a > Win system I can steal for a couple hours. 

Re: Upgrade advice

Since i have been running on btrfs for some time now i have the option to install to a fresh root subvolume, while reusing the existing swap and home. When i am certain i have everything set up i can delete the old root subvolume. No repartitioning needed. 2. nov. 2015 1.13 p.m. skrev Michael

Re: Bluetooth woes (again)

One thing i have seen a few times with wireless keyboards/mice is that if you have both as wireless the placement of the dongle can become important. Try placing the dongle where you minimize interference between the devices. This usually affects the keyboard when the mouse is directly between

Re: Viewing a web server hosted on a server on the LAN - but seeing the modem/router instead

This is off topic since the router is responsible here. When you use fqdn you are probably hitting your routers public ip, right? You then use port forwarding to forward the requests to the internal server. Sadly, many routers only do that port forwarding when you actually hit from the

Re: missing repo, no repomd, no metalink.xml

Since fedora releases about every 6 months and only supports two old releases you really need to upgrade either one version every 6 months or two releases in a yearly upgrade session. If you need to run a distro that is quite like fedora but can be kept for a longer time look at CentOS (pure

Re: F22/23 + nvidia = no boot...

How did you install the nvidia drivers? Manually or did you use the rpmfusion packages. For rpmfusion, did you use kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia? I have a few systems running akmod-nvidia-304xx, and have no problems. linux guy : >I know that the nvidia driver is

Re: F22: how to mount AFS directory?

Once you start the OpenAFS client it will by default attach itself at /afs IIRC. You can change the default in a config file or the command line. The way I used AFS a lng time back, it used Kerberos to authenticate you to the AFS network, and everything you had access to was available in that

SV: Sending a desktop to a big screen

I have not tried this, but you can run the vnc viewer in listening mode on the big screen tv, then run vncconnect on a workstation to connect an existing vnc server there to the viewer. Could be worth a try. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Amit Prahesh skrev -- users

SV: Offline uncorrectable sectors

Sounds like you already have smartmontools installed. Use smartctl to look at your disks SMART data and also run the built in diagnostics. ddrescue is a good tool to recover your data. Look at the example section in the manual. info ddrescue. The first pass will read the whole disk with a

SV: Laptop 'Sleep' with 4.1.x Kernels

It seems to work fine on my Lenovo X1 Carbon 2nd gen. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Tim Evans skrev Anyone else lost the ability for laptop acpi sleep since 4.1.x kernels came out? My Lenovo T530 works properly when lid is closed with 4.0.8-300.fc22, but does not with any

SV: Re: Clone SD card -

Remember that you cannot trust the size of sd cards. If you need to make a backup of a card and ensure the image will fit on a card of the same claimed size you should shrink the last partition on the device a bit before backing up. Otherwise you can end up with a damaged file system. Sendt

SV: Re: Fedora 22 is here!

The lenovo USB 3 dock uses DisplayLink chips for the display part. DisplayLink have not provided a linux driver for the new chip set yet even if they promised so when they launched it. :-( The Lenovo OneLink dock has USB 3, power and DisplayPort in one cable. If you have a lenovo pc with the

SV: Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

Can you find any hints here? This describes installing the vendor driver. The usb vendor and product ids are the same, so yours ought to be the same as this. http://superuser.com/questions/738096/how-to-install-mediatek-mt7610u-rt2860-driver Maintaining a driver manually sucks, but it may help

SV: Is there any way to go back to 21?

If you run on a snapshot-capable file system and have the snapshot pluign for yum you should have a way to revert. I run on btrfs with said plugin. I crated my own cron job to remove all but the last 3 yum-created snapshots. I have never had to actually reboot from a snapshot, but it should be

SV: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

Impossible to say without knowing which chip set it uses. And manufacturers sometimes don't tell you that because they want to be able to switch if a different chip becomes cheaper. With kind regards Birger jd1008 skrev I am considering buying such a plug. It is described as: Mini

SV: Re: SV: Re: partitioning new machine

and then restored it afterwards. Make a backup just to be safe before experimenting. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Neal Becker skrev birger wrote: Look at your current fstab. Are there lines for / and /home? Do they use the subvol mount option? Yes they do. My question

SV: Re: partitioning new machine

Look at your current fstab. Are there lines for / and /home? Do they use the subvol mount option? Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Neal Becker skrev birger wrote: With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume. The default is to have separate subvolumes

SV: can anaconda install into a btrfs subvolume?

You can destroy the old subvol in anaconda and install to a brand new one. Or install to a new one and keep the old until you know you can delete it. Yes, you can keep /home. Of course a backup is always wise. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Neal Becker skrev actually, I

Re: partitioning new machine

With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume. The default is to have separate subvolumes for / and /home. When doing a new install you can create a new / with a new subvolume name within the same btrfs file system. rootfs-22 instead of just root for example. That way you can

SV: Re: Video Editing with Blender on Fedora 21 x86_64

I just want to second this. OpenShot is a bit quirky at first, but when you get used to it... When using a camera without optical zoom (smartphone...) i never zoom. I use steady, calm movements. Then i have full freedom to cut scenes afterwards and add zooming, panning, etc. Zooming on a

Re: SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

ma., 04.05.2015 kl. 01.48 +0200, skrev Frantisek Hanzlik: Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this fortunately is not Linux case... That was not what I wrote at all. I gave reasons why

SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

First of all, supporting multiple init systems is not something a distro wants to do. It would involve forcing package maintainers to support them when getting enough package maintainers is a problem already. The alternative is to create a respin with another init system and its own builds of

Re: /tmp vs /var/tmp

don't really want to write all your big temporary files) while in a system with multiple disks /var/tmp is more probable to be on traditional disk. So my vote is to keep the distinction as it used to be, and perhaps report the new firefox behaviour as a bug if it really is a new default. birger

SV: Re: Most likely OT: rsync to cifs mount

Deduplication kind of handles sparse files since all blocks containing only zero will get mapped to the same storage. As soon as one of those blocks sharing storage get written to it will be written to a new block, and the usage counter of the shared block gets reduced by one. Once usage

SV: Re: SV: sometimes boots f21, sometimes hangs

, Neal Becker wrote: Tried any different boot options? birger wrote: I see the same, also on a x1. Btrfs root and home on mine. Ran nicely since f21 forked from rawhide, but sees this more and more often. I think it started with 3.18 kernels. Same on 3.19.1. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia

SV: sometimes boots f21, sometimes hangs

I see the same, also on a x1. Btrfs root and home on mine. Ran nicely since f21 forked from rawhide, but sees this more and more often. I think it started with 3.18 kernels. Same on 3.19.1. Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon Neal Becker skrev New lenovo X1 carbon. Sometimes

SV: sector hard errors

Install the smartmon tools. Run smartctl -a on the drive. It may tell you something. Has the disk ever been dropped? Is the on time in smart too high compared to when you bought it (have they sold you a second hand drive)? Sendt fra min Sony Xperia™-smarttelefon jd1008 skrev Hi all,

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

before and after since some config files could have changed enough that some service stops working. birger Martín Marqués martin.marq...@gmail.com: That's all I want (what's in the subject). I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I have /var on another partition

Re: Version of packages in repository

yum list ??? Sitat Luc MAIGNAN luc.maig...@winxpert.com: Hi, When I do a 'yum search', I find the packages available in repository but not their versions (unless I do a yum install). How to find the version of the packages without trying to install them ? -- users mailing list

Re: F14-F15 after preupgrade boot hang

. It seems to hang completely right after grub with a black screen and the cursor in the upper left corner. Just wait. And wait. In the end it has always recovered and booted normally. I don't see this once F15 is installed. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Do a memory test before upgrading to Fedora 15

handy, it should be as simple as installing memtest86+ and then run memtest-setup to add it to the grub menu. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:58 -0700, Les wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:25 +0200, birger wrote: But if it works and it means we (the back-end admins) can continue to override the users wishes and provide what they need instead of what they ask for, I'm all for it (like when DBA's come

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

think... -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: User password trouble - SOLVED -

it was kept for a long time :-) birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: OT: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

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Re: AD Alternative - 389 Directory Server and Samba 4

is that you can move all your directory structure into 389, and use 389 as the back-end for everything that speaks LDAP. Then add Samba as an additional layer for AD-compatibility, still using 389 as the directory. I have by no means tested this, but it looks very nice on paper at least. -- birger

Re: SSH / permissions problem

it could affect existing X sessions on that host, but being a virtual system I assume you are not logged in on the console. The next ssh should then recreate the file with only a cookie for the ssh session. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Q about swap size

with respect to attacks, but also software bugs that could make some unused service become a resource hog. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Q about swap size

. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Server hangs

for the latest and greatest bleeding-edge release with frequent updates. If you still have the same problem (I would guess not), please come back, telling wether you can still ping the server and/or log in to it remotely with ssh (remember to enable the ssh service before it hangs). -- birger

Re: Help me troubleshoot this problem

. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Linux Games for Kids

On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 05:53 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: On 07/02/2010 01:08 AM, birger wrote: Ok. Steering Wheel w/linux support? Do tell! Uhmm? Should that be a problem? Seriously, I am amazed at the amount of peripherals that just work with Fedora 13. I use a Logitech steering wheel

Re: Linux Games for Kids

. Once that fight is done the wheel works fine. It would actually be nice if apps like tuxkart, tuxtype, tuxracer ++ had some command line option to go into a 'kids' mode where configuration settings 'disappeared'. I guess your kids are like mine. They just have to test any menu option... -- birger

Re: Linux Games for Kids

see the squeak-vm has changed quite a bit. At least the packaging. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: A virus scanner on linux for windows partition

the signatures on the web I usually find that one is the component that initially infected the system. That one then downloads and installs a root kit to hide itself, and then a backdoor to offer services. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Linux Games for Kids

. A browser with flash and a quick search for the simple dress-up and coloring games would make you popular. -- birger Typed on my cellphone so any non-conformity with regard to posting rules can be blamed on my mailer -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F13 - Advanced Volume control

doesn't handle properly. My Logitech USB headset has this kind of problem. I always have to use alsamixer to find it and turn up the volume. It appears as a separate soundcard when I press F6 in alsamixer. The numbering of the soundcards has varied, so I gave up on the -c syntax. -- birger -- users

Re: Native ZFS in Fedora?

and zfs fit into their strategy. I assume Oracle would like to merge zfs with their cluster file system... I am not certain they would like to make that product open source. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Network monitoring tool: any other/better than Nagios in the trend?

You could look at centreon. It wraps nagios with data logging to sql, graphing, and web based configuration. I especially like the graphs that pop up on mouseover. -- birger Typed on my cellphone so any non-conformity with regard to posting rules can be blamed on my mailer -- users mailing

Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything

chain) I would try with a physically sound disk to replace the failed drive so the slave should work again, and check that only the slave has an active, bootable partition. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: How to find a needle in a haystack?

, updatedb.conf locate and mlocate.db. The last one is very optional. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

(one 32-bit and one 64-bit). -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:46 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: On 18 May 2010 22:34, birger bir...@birger.sh wrote: The larger image would presumably be the one installed on the 2 toolbox memory sticks I usually carry around (one 32-bit and one 64-bit). This intrigued me... Why specifically do

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

to run a job at non-default priority create an override file. And please read the chkconfig man page. -- birger Typed on my cellphone so any non-conformity with regard to posting rules can be blamed on my mailer -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

Have you tried the bg mount option? It should background any mount that fails and retry periodically. man nfs -- birger Typed on my cellphone so any non-conformity with regard to posting rules can be blamed on my mailer -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

at 1800m altitude getting ready for a hike to 2469m on the 17th. And my boots are brand new... More seriously, my main reason for running AntiVirus software is that it would be very bad for my professional image if I passed on a virus. Any nastiness coming in should stop here. -- birger -- users

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

Creator, it should be easy to install the live image on a 2GB memory stick (or bigger) adding an overlay big enough to hold OpenOffice. Perhaps on first boot the live image could detect the overlay and offer installation of an extended application set? birger -- users mailing list users

Re: only output the nth line

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 20:07 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: You can try some awk, methinks; I don't remeber how to do it, but I say it's a good direction. awk 'NR == 1 || NR == 2 || NR == 4 { print }' file.txt birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: X11 forward in F12

secret into the .Xauthority file. When ssh'ing between systems with a common home directory the file is there already, so a missing xauth may not really matter. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Grandtec Key-3000

. Of course you then have to log in using the laptop keyboard before you can switch. If your keyboard is similar, I guess all that is needed is to get the plug recognized as a keyboard/mouse provider. Post a little more info and I am sure you can get help. birger -- users mailing list users

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:46 +0930, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:53 +0200, birger wrote: I tried it years ago, and it was very unstable with severe memory leaks so if I managed to keep it up for a few days it would slow down my pc to a crawl. Just curious. Do you keep

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

to evolution on all of my systems. For MAPI/exchange accounts it keeps getting better, but there are lots of issues. I keep testing it whenever I have time to do a little bug reporting, and my bugs actually keep getting picked up and worked on. birger -- users mailing list users

Re: ogm video

handle. The relevant question for this list would be: Can we use 64-bit windows codecs with our 64-bit linux apps? birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Jobulator

of a widget. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Charging USB devices with Fedora

have seen some Sony Ericsson phones as well as iPods that refused to charge from Windows desktops that didn't have the appropriate drivers installed. With linux on the same hardware they charged happily. -- birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: gmpc sound not working

with decent speakers and mpd. Then everyone can add music to the queue, pause it when needed (boss on the phone) and so on. Ideal for any setting where you want one dedicated system to power the music but distributed control. Not what you wanted. Wrong tool :-) birger -- users mailing list users

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

to 10 seconds. Thats faster than vista wakes from hibernation on the same hardware. I prefer spending my energy going forward instead of fighting old bugs. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

switch to RHEL. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

, and if the parent is xterm run in the terminal. if it is anything else, start it in a new xterm. You will then get a new xterm if people are logged in remotely or escaping out from some other app. Perhaps you can live with that? birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: screen brightness - full brightness on battery not possible ?

By BIOS 'controls' I assume you mean the brightness controls on your laptop. Have you looked through all BIOS settings to see if there is a power management/battery saver feature in the BIOS that Gnome may not be able to override? birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

will never be positioned as a server or desktop operating system. :-) Getting some Nokia, Intel and TrollTech programmers aboard wouldn't hurt, would it? So: Welcome, MeeGo. May you ship on millions of devices. :-) birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

on older hardware (getting rid of gradients in window borders and so on). Seriously, a netbook is more powerful than what I used to run linux on just 1-2 years ago. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Display settings should not be per user

technologies' to handle all of this? The display configuration could then have a button to launch this tool. birger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Display settings should not be per user

is, they have a build system that supports changing these defaults at compile time. All you need for Fedora is then a spec-file that specifies the arguments for the build systems so the package gets built correctly for Fedora. If GnuStep is well-coded it should be easy to rebuild it to conform. birger