Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a repair if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight into single user, or find out again how. I spent a few days tryi

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 4/17/19 5:22 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Yes I did reboot but somewhat later I went into settings to see what the > screen > resolution was. I tried to change it into something more resonable and then, > lo and > behold, the screen did actually resize. And all is well. Good, and FWIW, VirtualB

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2019-04-17 at 02:24:08 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 4/16/19 10:37 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > Thanks a lot. Did install it and now this problem was solved. However, a > > new problem > > showed up: the screen auto resize did not work. Maybe I should get in > > contact with > > Oracle about it. Hop

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 04/16/19 16:01, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you check the IP subnets? . Yes, and in desperation I just changed my router back to 192.168.1.1, same as isp router, I had it at 192.168.0.1 which seems like it should be to differentiate them? Also setting up the NAT is complicated, and taxiing m

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/16/19 12:59 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: According to everything I've found it should work with their modem feeding mine but I can't seem to get it working with the reworked modem I am using so I ordered a new one which should be here tomorrow and intend to try that. I hesitate to reset mine to

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 04/15/19 17:51, Mike Chambers wrote: Do you have to use their modems? I have been on ATT, charter, and now spectrum (all same thing just diff business bought them out), and I've been using my own model for years now, and I don't have to pay a monthly fee. I just called and gave them my in

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread David Dusanic
Richard England: On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars,

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread David Dusanic
Patrick O'Callaghan: This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I for one can't remember the last time I did a fresh install. I've been updating version after version for at least the past 4 year

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED and a new problem.

2019-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 4/16/19 10:37 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Thanks a lot. Did install it and now this problem was solved. However, a new > problem > showed up: the screen auto resize did not work. Maybe I should get in contact > with Oracle > about it. Hope they will listen. Did you reboot?  I have no issues.

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Tim via users
(Re: *my* installing rather than upgrading) On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've > had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and > that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on > the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of > updating? I tried to forestall that question by saying "But sometimes for instance I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Richard England
On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps > that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that > one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the > profile that was c

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED and a new problem.

2019-04-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2019-04-16 at 14:56:33 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 4/16/19 2:52 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2019-04-16 at 11:09:17 Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> On 4/16/19 8:39 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >>> On 4/15/19 5:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 4/16/19 7:04 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > That 

x2go trivia question

2019-04-16 Thread Tom Horsley
Sometimes when I run x2go, the remote desktop window will come up with a name for itself like: X2GO-tweety-50-1555418435_stD.x2goinit_dp24 Other times it will come up with a name like: x2go-tomh Anyone have any idea why it sometimes chooses one and sometimes the other (like I said, just c

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread sixpack13
> > ...I haven't had any upgrade issues for a long time. +++1 yep, the "proven packager" did it very well since several Releases ! ;-) "Beta-Release-Day is *MY* Release-Day" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: What is "org.freedesktop.UDisks2"

2019-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 06:36:06AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 09:22:39PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer writes: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 08:47:37PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: And more importantly, why is it having a cow with kernel 5.0.5 on one,

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 18:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:33:08 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > so are you flipping between two > > partitions on each new install > > Correct. I have a 64G SSD drive with two partitions for > two versions of fedora, and I flip between

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 12:48 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? > > I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it > spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating indi

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/15/19 8:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual packages), and I