Re: fractional scaling in Fedora 36

2022-05-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 08:47 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > My questions: > 1. Is there another way to enable fractional scaling? (Gnome and > Wayland) In my opinion scaling is a bad hack to avoid properly sizing a GUI to the current screen resolution and dimensions, and produced no end of r

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I just wish they put the damn lights next to their keys, so it's >> obvious which was which. My laptop is even worse, it has them >> hidden behind a grill, so they're almost invisible. Tom Horsley: > My logitech MX keys keyboard has the indicator light build into the > button (but it isn'

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 10:23 -0600, home user wrote: >> By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font >> selection tools? I can't say I've noticed that, but I haven't installed lots of fonts recently. It's many years since I went on a font binge. I can think of a few things: The top

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 07:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > LaTeX and ConTeXt source files are plain text, and with markup is > intended to convey structure. The choices for fonts and > "decorations" are provided in "styles". Publishers often provide > their own styles to authors. That's ho

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 13 May 2022 18:54:03 + olivares33561 via users wrote: > yes using wayland. What do I have to do to get composing working? > I use right alt key. No idea if the user interface can do it, but I was having the same trouble with no way to remap mouse buttons, so I removed the problem by i

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:35 PM Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user wrote: > > > > Good morning, > > > > I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, > > that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to > > do this in

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread olivares33561 via users
Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. Sent with ProtonMail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 12:22 PM, James Szinger wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2022 00:45:50 + > olivares33561 via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > >

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user wrote: > > Good morning, > > I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, > that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to > do this in 3 steps Add a 4th step to your checklist. Backup and transfer the

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 13 May 2022 00:45:50 + olivares33561 via users wrote: > I am running Gnome and had a command in ~/.bash_profile to compose > setxkbmap -compose ralt key > > to put a ñ I used ~ and n but it does not work anymore :(. What is > the magic incantanation? I am using Tom's technique copy

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread home user
On 5/10/22 9:21 AM, home user wrote: I'd like to suspend this thread for a few days while I go to the LibreOffice community with a few LibreOffice-specific questions. thanks, Bill. Good morning, I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, that I'm converting to

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread home user
On 5/12/22 7:30 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote: I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first converting the word-2010 documents to word-2016. Writer could not adeq

Re: bluetooth mic input support on f35

2022-05-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alex said: > The "Configuration" tab shows the BH-M9 headset, and I've selected "High > Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink: SBC)" as the option. The others are > "unavailable." The playback (A2DP) profiles are all output-only. You need a Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP) profile to enable

Re: bluetooth mic input support on f35

2022-05-13 Thread Alex
> > > > > I can connect the the device to bluetooth, but it apparently doesn't > detect > > it as a potential input device. > > Bluetooth headsets typically offer multiple profiles, and usually Linux > defaults to the headphone (output only) profile. The easiest thing I've > found is to install pa

Re: bluetooth mic input support on f35

2022-05-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alex said: > I can connect the the device to bluetooth, but it apparently doesn't detect > it as a potential input device. Bluetooth headsets typically offer multiple profiles, and usually Linux defaults to the headphone (output only) profile. The easiest thing I've found is to

Re: Global Ambassador Call 2022-05-18, you coming?

2022-05-13 Thread Luna Jernberg
Will try to join the meeting and the sprint the day after too On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:04 PM Luna Jernberg wrote: > Hey! > > Have time and will try to be there, also coming to the Online Release > party that starts tomorrow and goes on over the weekend > > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:55 PM Sumant

bluetooth mic input support on f35

2022-05-13 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to use my Angteela BH-M9 bluetooth headset on fedora35. I can get the output speakers to work, but the mic does not. Is this supported? I've seen several other references to others having difficulty, but no solutions, or they were for much older versions of fedora. I can connect th

fractional scaling in Fedora 36

2022-05-13 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello everyone, I have installed Fedora 36 on a high-dpi laptop (Del XPS 9550) and Gnome; Im having trouble setting the scaling to 250% (200 is too small and 300 is too big). I tried "enabling" fractional scaling by doing: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-fr

No "User Session" login option on f36

2022-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
Just submitted this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2085487 I have the xorg-x11-xinit-session package installed. It creates a /usr/share/xsessions/xinit-compat.desktop file, but SDDM doesn't list "User Session" as a login option. Anyone know if the session file format changed a

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 9:21 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2022 11:07:56 +0930 > Tim via users wrote: > > > I just wish they put the damn lights next to their keys, so it's > > obvious which was which. My laptop is even worse, it has them hidden > > behind a grill, so they're almost inv

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 13 May 2022 11:07:56 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > I just wish they put the damn lights next to their keys, so it's > obvious which was which. My laptop is even worse, it has them hidden > behind a grill, so they're almost invisible. My logitech MX keys keyboard has the indicator light bu

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-13 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:31 PM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote: > > I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not > > adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first > > converting th

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 11:18 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > If the installation is GUI-based, would it make sense to show > > drawings of the Mac/Windows keys in the install/setup instructions, > > so new/forgetful users know what to look

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 00:15 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 12.05.22, 23:32 +0200, Patrick O'Callaghan: > > > One thing I've always admired about the MacOS UI (among a bunch of > > things I don't like about it) is the keyboard widget, which is > > always > > available. Click on it and you get th