Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Slade Watkins via users
> On Apr 8, 2023, at 6:04 AM, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: > > VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player > has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking > it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to > work okay. > > You guys have a favorite sub for VLC? I use Parole in place of VLC

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 4/3/2023 9:14 PM, Tim via users wrote: I really wish more keyboards had some extra user keys down the left. For one thing it'd balance the layout of the keyboards with QWERTY off- centre because the cursor and numpad (which I do want). And have some way for you to type something directly tha

Re: what is my dns?

2023-03-26 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:57 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I have a caching server running. Other than digging > out my "forward" from /etc/named.conf to figure out > what my DNS server is, is there a way to use "dig" > or other to figure out what my actual

Re: locale screwup

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 23:17, Tim via users wrote: > Here's a weird one: After a bunch of updates yesterday my system has > changed from Australian locale to American. > > How do you even change that post-installation? I see no tool for it. Uhh... I think you can change it in /etc/locale.conf and/or locale

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 23:28, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Saw those from an earlier response and they have worked on updates to present. > The readme notes that the drivers ae expected to be in the 6.2 kernel. > > Waiting expectantly Yep, looks like at least the 88x2bu driver is now. I happened to see i

Re: 'mutt' issues

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 21:59, Jon LaBadie wrote: > While there may be some mutt expertise on the Fedora list, > you might consider posting to the mutt-users list.  Not > high volume, but high expertise.  Here are the list headers > from a recent post: Thank you so much, I will reach out to them. > I've been a

'mutt' issues

2023-03-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
Hi all, I've been wanting to switch from Thunderbird to 'mutt' when dealing with emails for some time, but unfortunately, I've had numerous issues getting mutt to actually load my inbox or any folders. I've tried getting it to cache them, since I only get a small number of new ones each time, but i

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/1/23 15:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the > recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? Honestly, in my experience, I've found software RAIDs to be much more reliable than hardware. But as always, your mileage may vary. -- Sla

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 2/23/23 12:30, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a > while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. > Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a > generalized driver but I d

Re: kdeconnectd error

2023-02-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 2/26/23 15:24, Go Canes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:51 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: >> >> I'm getting a ton of these error messages but have >> been unable to find information about them. >> >> kdeconnectd[4717]: kdeconnect.core: \ >> Too many remembered identities,\ >> ignorin

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

2023-02-24 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote: > > > > Please post under not above what you are commenting on. > > And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're > responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom. Also, Ge

Re: F37 update

2022-12-25 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing > > vmware-unistall -u vmware-workstation Hey Paolo, Okay probably a stupid question but super important regardless, did you perform the uninstall command (I assume you meant: vmw

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo) > What's going on? -srw ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le.

Re: Fwd: Fedora 37 on todays LUP

2022-11-18 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 6:19 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 04:18:09PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Interesting: pretty negative review. Unfortunate that the lawyers from IBM > > has so much to say in the release/package inclusion process. > > I have never once heard of a l

Re: Touchscreen not working on Surface Pro 8 - Fedora 36

2022-11-14 Thread Slade Watkins via users
Hi, On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 6:08 PM Sbob wrote: > > a clean install In that case, is linux-surface maybe worth a shot for you (if you haven't tried it already)? Seems to be a kernel specifically for Surface devices. https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Featu

Re: Touchscreen not working on Surface Pro 8 - Fedora 36

2022-11-14 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:45 PM Sbob wrote: > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise > caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown > senders. > > All; > > > I just installed Fedora 36 on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8, and did an > up

Re: Fedora 36: suspend failed with "PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected"

2022-11-07 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:14 PM Dario Lesca wrote: > > I have resolve this problem follow this Arch Linux howto: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#Hybrid-sleep_on_suspend_or_hibernation_request > > I have add these lines at the end of /etc/systemd/sleep.conf file > SuspendMode=sus

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 11/1/22 11:54 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I second shred. Only issue is that if drive is ssd chances are you > will not overwrite every sector. Ditto, as well. > > Todd, I do not know how old those iMacs are, but some (lampshade) had > the drives on the base while others have it behind the

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-11-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 11/1/22 5:30 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > We don't currently have any ARC setup. > > When / if we can get the list processor upgraded, I think newer versions > of mailman3 have native ARC support, and we could look at enabling that. > I think so, yeah. 100% worth looking at when/if upgraded. -

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 7:51 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an upcoming appointment with a customer > who wants a number of his old computers > (mostly iMacs) removed from service. > > With other computers, if I can remove the > drives, I just remove them and give them > to the custom

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 4:33 PM, Barry Scott wrote: > >> On 30 Oct 2022, at 16:54, Doug H. wrote: >> >> Today was >> the big kernel jump to 6.x kernel. As someone who tests 6.0 stable regularly, I can *assure you* it's nothing major. > No it is not a big jump it the one after 5.19. > After 20 minors Linux

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 3:57 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > no such -owner or similar addresses seem to be available in the > mail-headers sent to this list. I believe it's . -srw ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: old repo question

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/29/22 4:19 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Question: how long will I be able to use the > dnf's `--releasever=35` option?  Pretty sure they're archived all the way back to Core 1, in perpetuity. > How long are the defunct repo's maintained? See above. Thanks, -srw -- I use plain te

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/28/22 2:51 AM, Mike Wright wrote: > > > I just found the best explanation of the linux graphics system ever.  It > covers the history of Xorg, X11, and Wayland, and explains why Wayland > is the future.  Ironically, the future is always in the future... > > As informative as they come. Wi

Re: Can't unsubscribe from a list

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/29/22 7:50 AM, fs3000 via users wrote: > Still, would be nice to have someone to contact for matters like this. Most lists have an admin email (for instance, this one's is users-ow...@lists.fedoraproject.org) ... wouldn't that work? -srw ___ users

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/28/22 4:27 PM, Jake D wrote: > I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile and the ONLY > option is to start over Wanted to hop in here real fast and say: Pop!_OS, which is my primary distro (with Fedora being my secondary), has the option to go into recovery (has a small

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

2022-10-24 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/24/22 11:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard > drive and port it to qemu-kvm? Hm. Did a bit of digging... this is all I could find. https://manuel.kiessling.net/2013/03/19/converting-a-running-physical-machine-to-a-kvm-virtual-machine/ I'l

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 4:55 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > With respect to this item in that post: > >No or broken threading on emails. This one is so annoying. Doesn't >any of the people who use Discourse use threading anywhere. >Context is everything. > > This is fixed in current Disc

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-16 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 7:36 AM Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Roger and Felix. Roger's solution is a nice one! The only > drawback is that I cannot zoom in the contents of the preview window. > Is there some workaround for that? Try resizing the capture itself? That's the only way I know of. -srw

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-15 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:49 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > It might be overkill for this but obs-studio will do it. You have to > create/add a screen grab and pick a window or do screen capture and > once picked and working in the preview window right click on the > preview and click windowed previe

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-11 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 01:44:34PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > For starters, my qemu-kvm virtual machine would > not run 22H2, but I finally manually configured > it and solved the issue. The symptom was that > the VM could not boot off the 22H1 ISO and > solving that solved the new

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 8:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Three approaches: > > Upgrade 1 release close to the EOL of current release.  This way you are > moving to a mature release. I generally like to recommend staying 1 release behind for stability... but as you note: > > Choose your poison. it's

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 12:59 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:32 AM Matthew Miller > wrote: >> Oh! I see Ben has already changed it. Should be live soon. :) > > Well, once the build failures[1] are fixed. > > In addition to fixing the typo, I also de-indented the "Supported > Releases" an

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 10:57 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Sorry, which section? Do you have a link? We're working on redesigning the > layout of our docs, so looking at this is timely. :) > yes, happy to help! what I was referring to was the sorting of the sections in the sidebar on this page: https://d

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Until 4 weeks after the Fedora Linux 36 release. That's currently scheduled for 2022-04-19, which makes EOL for Fedora Linux 34 2022-05-17. I'm curious where you found the explanations that were confusing, and how we could improve them. hi, for me, i

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
hi, > Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? if I recall correctly, the End of Life (EOL) date is May 17th, 2022. someone else on the list can correct me if I am wrong though. > Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? would worry about it closer to EOL. best, slade

Re: movie screen shot?

2022-01-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
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