Re: clock applet not showing weather

2023-11-15 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Tim: I am running Centos 7 and at some point I noticed that weather info vanished. I just ran journalctl and can see the same message. Paul On 11/15/23 21:28, Tim via users wrote: Lately, across several different Linux installs the MATE's clock applet that shows the time and date on the titl

Re: Something keeps creating Events.json in my home directory

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/20/22 20:17, Jerry James wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:12 AM Matti Pulkkinen wrote: Something keeps creating a file, Events.json, in my home directory. It only ever contains an empty JSON array, but if I remove the file, something just creates it again. Has anyone seen this before? Wha

Re: movie screen shot?

2022-01-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
T: I was recommended vokoscreen and, though it took a bit of work to figure it out, has been able to do entire screen or any window on screen. Not certain if it supports random area of screen Paul On 1/2/22 23:32, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I need to send a tech support guy a mo

Re: Can't burn a CentOS 7.9 DVD

2021-03-13 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/13/21 4:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote: On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 15:28 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/12/21 2:55 PM, George N. White III wrote: I had same problem with 7.9.2009. I used a DVD-R DL with k3b and it worked. Paul, If by DVD-R DL you mean "dual

Re: Can't burn a CentOS 7.9 DVD

2021-03-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/12/21 2:55 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 18:49, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 16:22 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote: Did you check the checksums?  Bad download? On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at

Re: microphone

2021-01-11 Thread Jonathan Allen
Patrick, Edward said: > probably a usb external sound adapter that works with linux > would be required? You can get some nice USB headsets that simply come with a USB plug on the end, ready to go. It works well here. Jonathan ___ users mailing list -

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-18 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 4/18/20 5:44 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:22 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 4/17/20 5:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: So, I was able to hack out a python script [...] Ranjan: Thank you for the script .. with modifications I have it running under python3 Paul

Re: OT: simplest way to display on-screen blinking colored indicator

2020-04-17 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 4/17/20 5:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: So, I was able to hack out a python script [...] Ranjan: Thank you for the script .. with modifications I have it running under python3 Paul ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: sudo related

2020-03-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/30/20 10:40 PM, David wrote: On the virus-front, Regarding your non-Fedora "On the virus front" Repulsive beyond belief and, more to the point, having nothing to do with Fedora or any flavor on Linux Shame ___ users mailing list -- users@li

Re: CUPS forcing single-sided printing

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Tim: I am running Centos 7 and have weirdness with my HP printer. My original printer, which worked single and double sided perfectly with the pre-installed hplip, died and I had to get a new printer whose driver was unknown to hplip on Centos 7. I am away from my system so I have to rely on

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-29 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 6/29/19 9:54 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: There used to be, and may still be, a feature that beeped when the caps lock was pressed. At least you got an early warning, that way, if you accidentally pressed it. Paul Allen Newell Would be nice to know what that "beep" funct

Re: Disable Caps Lock -

2019-06-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 6/28/19 5:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 16:46 -0700, stan via users wrote: I find myself missing the tab key and hitting the caps lock key pretty regularly There used to be, and may still be, a feature that beeped when the caps lock was pressed. At least you got an ear

Re: I need a data and time clock for my desktop

2018-11-09 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/09/2018 09:39 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 11/9/18 9:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/09/2018 08:35 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I need a data and time clock for my desktop.  Duck Duck go inundates me with command line options. -T You might try TzClock.  I've found

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/07/2018 04:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/7/18 4:06 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/07/2018 03:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/8/18 6:52 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This is the dismount part of my script:   sync; sync

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/07/2018 05:08 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 8:03 PM Paul Allen Newell mailto:pnewell0...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 11/07/2018 03:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/8/18 6:52 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> >> On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, T

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/07/2018 03:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/8/18 6:52 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This is the dismount part of my script: sync; sync umount $StickTarget Calling sync twice? Must be an "old" person.  It

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: This is the dismount part of my script: sync; sync umount $StickTarget Calling sync twice? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 01:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/6/18 12:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Not certain why these options are more readily visible. I probably should have dug deeper

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 11:46 AM, George Avrunin wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Not certain why these options are more readily visible. I probably should have dug deeper but after a bunch of online docs showing no options I just figured there weren't any.

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/06/2018 09:56 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/5/18 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: ToddAndMargo: I am struggling with this one as well. To the best of my googling, it seems that the "sync" command needs to be done before clicking "safely remove" (or whatever). Doc

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-05 Thread Paul Allen Newell
ToddAndMargo: I am struggling with this one as well. To the best of my googling, it seems that the "sync" command needs to be done before clicking "safely remove" (or whatever). Documentation also says that "sudo umount " should do it, but I have experienced at least one instance where it did

Re: Would RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora Remain Open Source/Free Software After IBM Buys Red Hat for $34 Billion?

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/30/2018 09:44 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 10/30/2018 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/31/18 11:47 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: This is of paramount importance. Would Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora remain open source/free software after IBM

Re: Would RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora Remain Open Source/Free Software After IBM Buys Red Hat for $34 Billion?

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/30/2018 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/31/18 11:47 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: This is of paramount importance. Would Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora remain open source/free software after IBM buys Red Hat for $34 Billion? Oh, please! Let's not g

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/30/2018 12:53 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:19:44 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: ToddAndMargo: Using/watching what Fedora is doing is a good way to prepare for what might be coming in RHEL/Centos Paul yes but not as good as a written roadmap d agreed

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/29/2018 09:14 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/29/18 8:31 PM, Richard England wrote: On 10/29/18 6:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:26:46PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/29/18 11:41 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:02:32 -0700 ToddA

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/20/18 9:03 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 20Oct2018 18:55, Stephen Perkins wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:01 PM stan wrote: Would you willingly or reluctantly migrate to the new platform? Neither.  If this list disappears, I will too. Likewise. And another likewise

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-20 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 02/20/2018 12:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/20/18 15:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: In earlier email in this thread, you stated: Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a non-patched gcc. ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 02/19/2018 06:04 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/19/18 21:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What do these mean, and what is the needed mitigation, if any? Basically, it means that everything that can currently be done to lessen the chances of a security breach is being done. Otherwise you may see some

Re: how to change emails [correction]

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 01/16/2018 07:39 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 01/16/2018 07:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/17/18 11:24, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for reply. Yeah, new account under new address is probably going to be the solution ... though it strikes me odd that there doesn't seem to

Re: how to change emails [correction]

2018-01-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 01/16/2018 07:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/17/18 11:24, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for reply. Yeah, new account under new address is probably going to be the solution ... though it strikes me odd that there doesn't seem to be a way to contact to say something is wrong with

Re: how to change emails [correction]

2018-01-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 01/16/2018 07:09 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17Jan2018 14:00, Cameron Simpson wrote: Still haven't figured out a way to change address since I am no longer able to log into Fedora or make contact with someone to figure out why my email and/or username is not recognized as "reset passwo

Re: how to change emails [correction]

2018-01-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 01/16/2018 12:24 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Jan2018 20:28, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2018, Paul Allen Newell sent: Changing emails after 20+ years is madness ... Too true.  Having your own domain name means that you'll never *have* to do that, it'

Re: how to change emails [correction]

2018-01-15 Thread Paul Allen Newell
old email) Changing emails after 20+ years is madness ... Paul On 01/15/2018 11:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 01/15/2018 03:00 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/15/18 16:40, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Dear users@lists.fedoraproject.org: I am in need of changing my email address to this list. I canno

how to change emails

2018-01-15 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Dear users@lists.fedoraproject.org: I am in need of changing my email address to this list. I cannot see any easy way to do this except for unsubscribing and then re-subscribing to this list. The monthly email which confirms my email and passwd does not work when I try to use it. And I am not

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-08-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 08/01/2017 09:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/02/2017 12:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Not to keep beating this as I think it is resolved given seeing things working after reloading flash when it didn't work prior, I did want to mention that tonight (sorry for the delay in doing thi

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-08-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 10:30 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/30/2017 09:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: You could always run FF with NoScript disabled to verify. Assuming you didn't install FF in a non-Fedora way. I think I would go about relabeling, just for peace of mind. To do that, I would

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 09:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 08:50 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/30/2017 05:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 07:44 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/30/2017 04:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Are you saying you printed the puzzle? If that is the case, what

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 05:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 07:44 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/30/2017 04:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Are you saying you printed the puzzle? If that is the case, what is the output of getsebool unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition as well as

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 04:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 07:30 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/30/2017 04:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 07:06 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: OK, good that it is all sorted. Appreciate the information. Everything I found online indicated to me

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 04:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2017 07:06 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: OK, good that it is all sorted. Appreciate the information. Everything I found online indicated to me that others have gotten the same warnings and the setsebool is the default action to take. I

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/30/2017 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/30/2017 03:56 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed's suggestion of "setsebool -P unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition 0" is exactly what SELinux advises me to do now that I have NVidia instead of nouveau installed when dealing with

Re: Print crossword puzzle -

2017-07-30 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/24/2017 01:13 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 07/23/17 20:34, Ed Greshko wrote: First, I hardly ever use firefox. I have it set up to use a network proxy for a specific use case that I occasionally need. With that in mind. My "thought" process and diagnosis when about like this S

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 07:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 10:36, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I admit that I am newbie here and might be making wrong conclusions, but with each correction I get a little bit better understanding. I feel that if you're really interested into why certain

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 07:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 09:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for info. I found this for long-lived: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTkxOA. I am assuming short-lived is for Fedoras and the like in which they may want/need to mov

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 06:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 08:35, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Oh, I definitely missed that aspect. Middle of page of https://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia where it lists kmod-nvidia-xx is what led me to believe that. I can see on https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 05:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 07:17, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for correcting me on the Centos vs Fedora issue, I made a leap of faith that I shouldn't have. That being said, if you say RPMFusion is 375.66 then that is the same one available at ElRepo.

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 02:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/08/17 16:47, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I can't begin to figure out what is happening and where to report as I am too much of a newbie regarding NVidia on Linux Problems with nouveau, like all packages actually supplied by fedora pr

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 01:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/08/2017 12:29 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze and I have to reboot. I get these messages

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 12:29 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze and I have to reboot. I get these messages in the logs: nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware l

Re: attempts to hack in? [SOLVED]

2017-07-06 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/06/2017 08:57 PM, William wrote: Good evening, Turning off ssh in the public zone, and entering the commands * systemctl stop sshd * systemctl mask sshd * systemctl stop httpd * systemctl mask httpd do seem to be working. After three days, I'm still not seeing any indications in journal

Re: sudo su

2017-05-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 05/28/2017 02:21 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 05/28/2017 01:40 AM, Tom H wrote: You replied off-list On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 05/28/2017 01:04 AM, Tom H wrote: "-i" is faster than "su -l" :) huh? sudo -i is faster than su

How to view empathy IRC windows?

2017-04-03 Thread Richard Allen Megginson
When I run empathy in F25, all I see is the Contact List which is basically only my AIM contacts. I have used empathy-accounts to add my IRC servers. How do I get empathy to show my IRC servers and allow me to join channels? ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: Tab Completion Broken

2016-11-05 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > On Nov 5, 2016 20:41, "Michael B Allen" wrote: >> Can someone tell me how to disable this "helpful" behavior? > > Maybe the second half of this post: > > https://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disab

Tab Completion Broken

2016-11-05 Thread Michael B Allen
I have two files: SUM-12_schematic.pdf VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.1-1379776.x86_64.txt Doing: # ls SUM works as expected and completes the filename but doing: # sh -f VMw does not work. The filename is not completed. Clearly someone is trying to "help" me and not complete a file that sh is

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-05 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > It is a best practice to leave .local for mDNS. Even Microsoft > recommends now against using .local https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.loca > l offers some good information on the subject. > > And for DNS-domains you better use only officially

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > The wireless routers use .local. I know for > a fact the Verizon ones do and have for a long time. Actually I have to retract this. I'm not sure routers use .local. Mine is configure for .local but I may have just changed that

Re: gnome-terminal --display-factory

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:34:32PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: >> Does anyone have a recommended work-around? > > AFAIK the only workaround would be in the program itself -- it would > have to know to wait for somethin

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/04/2016 02:40 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> I don't think this was a MS thing. I recall .local being used a >> lng time ago. It used to be that .local was absolutely the >> recommended method

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/04/2016 12:58 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> I never understood these logical meta languages. Pam is another >> example. It's basically just an obscure way of writing code so it's >> not obvious to me why t

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 11/04/2016 12:58 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >>>> >>>> Of course my local network is a .lo

gnome-terminal --display-factory

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
I have been using this external editor command for the Sylpheed mailer: gnome-terminal --disable-factory -x vim '%s' This allows launching a terminal with vi so that I can capture shell command output, edit things with vi and insert files and such. This is a very powerful and important feature.

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/04/2016 12:58 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> Of course my local network is a .local domain so it seems at least in >> my case mdns cannot really be used effectively. >> > Well, that right there is your prob

Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/04/2016 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:03:41 -0400 >> Michael B Allen wrote: >> >>> Is mDNS supposed to coexist with DNS? >> >> I have no idea what is "supposed"

Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

2016-11-04 Thread Michael B Allen
Is mDNS supposed to coexist with DNS? I have a proper DNS server but if I just try to ping an FQDN it tries mDNS UDP 5353 which fails. OTOH I just installed my printer and I'm guessing mDNS helped with that so maybe mDNS is something I need? I have no experience with mDNS but I am assuming that

Re: [SOLVED] Dell E7470 Install: No bootable device found

2016-11-03 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:47 PM, stan wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:31:48 -0400 > Michael B Allen wrote: > >> I just tried to install F24 and everything went smoothly but after >> reboot I just get "No bootable devices found". > > I think if this is a recent

Dell E7470 Install: No bootable device found

2016-11-03 Thread Michael B Allen
I just tried to install F24 and everything went smoothly but after reboot I just get "No bootable devices found". I've been using Linux as my primary machine since kernel 2.0.35 and my instinct tells me this looks like the bootloader wasn't installed correctly. Is this a known problem? When I "r

New(er) kernel RPMs?

2016-10-17 Thread Michael B Allen
I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live. However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only way I'm going to get

Re: Dell Latitude E7470 Install: Selected boot device failed

2016-10-13 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > I'm trying to boot the latest Fedora Live iso on a brand new Dell and > I'm getting: > > Selected boot device failed > > What is the trick to getting this to boot? > > I just dd'd the iso on the US

Dell Latitude E7470 Install: Selected boot device failed

2016-10-13 Thread Michael B Allen
I'm trying to boot the latest Fedora Live iso on a brand new Dell and I'm getting: Selected boot device failed What is the trick to getting this to boot? I just dd'd the iso on the USB drive. Do I need to make it bootable or some such? I updated the BIOS to the latest. I verfied everything wo

Re: Laptop Printer Problem [Solved]

2016-03-11 Thread Jonathan Allen
Stan, > It sounds like it is a communication problem. Is there anything > different about the firewall or printer configuration compared with one > of the workstations that work? How about the permissions or context > of files and directories? That was it - the laptop's setup and import of the

Re: Laptop Printer Problem

2016-03-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
Stan, Sorry for the delay in responding - the laptop was out being used ... > > Unknown directive JobPrivateAccess on line 84 > > of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. E [06/Mar/2016:12:03:16 +] Unknown > > directive JobPrivateValues on line 85 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. E > > [06/Mar/2016:12:03:16 +] U

Laptop Printer Problem

2016-03-06 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear List, I'm trying to connect a new laptop into an otherwise entirely Fedora LAN. The new machine can see all the (shared, CUPS) printers, but won't actually print anything. 'lpr' appears to complete normally, teh job says 'completed rending' but the printer status is shown as paused. The de

Re: NFS on new workstation

2015-10-15 Thread Jonathan Allen
Matthew, > Sorry, I made two mistakes there. First, since the nfs client stuff > isn't directly a service, you need to have .target on the end, and > actually you want nfs-client, not nfs, so: > > sudo systemctl enable nfs-client.target Great - that's just fine now. Thank you. Jonathan --

Re: How do I start GPM?

2015-10-15 Thread Jonathan Allen
Bruno, > Normally you set it to run at boot by running the following as root: > systemctl enable gpm That's got it, thank you. Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedor

Re: How do I start GPM?

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joachim, > >The journal log contains multiple lines saying: > > > >*** info [daemon/getmousedata.c(85)]: > >Skipping a data packet(?) > > > >What does that mean/imply? > > Don't know! But is your mouse running in graphical sessions? It works fine in graphical sessions. GPM is to make it

Re: NFS on new workstation

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Matthew, Thank you for your suggestion. > > How can I make the 'nfs' service package start at boot time so that the > > rpc.statd service is available ? > > To clarify -- to do this, you can do `systemctl enable nfs` (Yeah, the > verb-object relationship is switched from the service command to >

Re: How do I start GPM?

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joachim, > > Did you try: "chkconfig gpm on" and "sudo service gpm start"? > > Neither reported an error, but gpm is not working in console sessions. The journal log contains multiple lines saying: *** info [daemon/getmousedata.c(85)]: Skipping a data packet(?) What does that mean/imply?

Re: How do I start GPM?

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Joachim, > >How can I start 'gpm' on a F22 laptop? I've installed the GPM package, > >but it doesn't seem to want to start ... > > Did you try: "chkconfig gpm on" and "sudo service gpm start"? Neither reported an error, but gpm is not working in console sessions. Jonathan -- users mailing lis

How do I start GPM?

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear List, How can I start 'gpm' on a F22 laptop? I've installed the GPM package, but it doesn't seem to want to start ... Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Co

A strange error message ...

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear List, My new F22 laptop is producing a stange message. When I log in as root in graphics mode, a little bacl box with a white sad face appears, telling me that /usr/bin/gnome-shell crashed. What does that mean? Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Starting network at all

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear List, Taking one step back, how do I make F22 auto-start networking? Out of the box, it seems I have to do settings->network->wired 'on' to get it to pick up the network at all. Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

NFS on new workstation

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear List, I have just added a new laptop to our network configuration and put F22 on it. Lots of things look quite different from older versions. My main problem is the networking. I want the machine, when it is plugged into our wired network or locates it over Wifi, to auto-mount the shared f

Re: Fedora on Asus?

2015-08-30 Thread Jonathan Allen
Richard, > Intel graphics is generally very well supported. I couldn't find which > chipset the wireless is though in my quick search, if it's Intel as well > you should be fine. Thanks for that. Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Fedora on Asus?

2015-08-30 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear Fedora Experts, My daughter is looking at an Asus Zenbook UX305, which has a 128Gb SSD but no hard-drive. It comes with Win 8.1, but is it likely to work with Linux? Graphics are Intel HD5300. Jonathan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: Stuck Maximised ... xfdesktop backdrop

2015-04-12 Thread Jonathan Allen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 04:28:02PM +0200, poma wrote: > Then here's a tip, to not waste time with Xfce configs: > - backup "stuck" user data > - delete "stuck" user > - create homonymous user > - restore backuped data > - reconfigure Xfce session Thank you. Pretty much done. It all came back to

Re: Stuck Maximised ... xfdesktop backdrop

2015-04-12 Thread Jonathan Allen
Poma, > Perhaps we have already solved it, what you say? :) I did respond to John and confirmed that the size parameter he suggested did exist, but had the value 'normal' > Allen asked for another issue - background/wallpaper, > and still didn't respond about advice

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-06 Thread Jonathan Allen
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 06:21:53AM +0200, poma wrote: > Maximize / unmaximize windows > http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/getting-stated#maximizeunmaximize_windows > > You can make any window appear in fullscreen mode (it will then use all the > size of your screen without showing the window borders

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
Ron, > > Well, I thought it was full-screen. It looks like super-fullscreen. The > > desktop top bar is obscured. The task top bar doesn't have a minimise, > > maximise or close button in the top right hand corner. Right click on > > the task top bar (which offers File ... Help at the LH end)

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:13:58PM +0200, bitlord wrote: > I don't know, but if I understand you, you are in fullscreen mode? I'm > not using thunderbird, but firefox, probably is the same (they share a > lot of "technology"), F11 works for fullscreen, also on top bar/panel of > the window you can

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
Stephen, > >'Resize' is greyed out. Maximise does nothing and Minimise has its > >usual action, but then selecting the task pulls it back to > >full-full screen. Jonathan > > When I have a window non-full screen I can use Resize and the arrow > keys to change the window size. When I do Alt-Space

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:21:43PM +0200, bitlord wrote: > > > > Going to maximise thunderbird on a graphic screen session, I > > accidentally clicked on the box next door and it maximised to being > > absolutely full screen, with no top bar and all the normal desktop > > stuff obscured. I can st

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
> >Going to maximise thunderbird on a graphic screen session, I accidentally > >clicked on the box next door and it maximised to being absolutely full > >screen, with no top bar and all the normal desktop stuff obscured. I can > >still switch tasks using Alt-Tab, in which case the top bars and the

Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear Fedora List, Going to maximise thunderbird on a graphic screen session, I accidentally clicked on the box next door and it maximised to being absolutely full screen, with no top bar and all the normal desktop stuff obscured. I can still switch tasks using Alt-Tab, in which case the top bars

Re: The Fedora Store is live!

2015-02-09 Thread Joshua Allen Holm
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 00:13 -0300, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda wrote: > On 8 February 2015 at 00:09, Joshua Allen Holm wrote: > > Check to see if your "Shopper Type" is set to "General Consumer" not "Red > > Hat Employee" in the settings

Re: The Fedora Store is live!

2015-02-07 Thread Joshua Allen Holm
ng). Check to see if your "Shopper Type" is set to "General Consumer" not "Red Hat Employee" in the settings on https://redhat.corpmerchandise.com/Customer.aspx If it is set to the wrong thing, that might be the cause of your problems. -- Joshua Allen Holm

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/15/2014 10:30 PM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf read

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and wi

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/09/2014 09:48 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:01:46 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19

Re: HD Video editing

2014-08-22 Thread Jonathan Allen
Ed Greshko said: > A quick test shows that avidemux can edit the file. I've not checked to > see if some components from RPM Fusion are required. And, I've not check > to see if there is any loss in quality when standard defaults are used to > "copy" the video. For the ignorant among us, I want

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