Re: user pictures on logon screen [SOLVED]

2018-10-23 Thread Tim via users
Tim wrote: >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the >> MATE desktop.  Is it possible to get it to show the user face >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? Todd Zullinger > I don't use MATE, but do still use GDM, so hopefully this is >

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

2018-10-23 Thread Porfirio Andrés Páiz Carrasco
El sáb., 20 de oct. de 2018 a la(s) 16:02, stan (stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net) escribió: > > Hi, > There's a big mail thread on fedora-devel about using a web forum > software called Discourse instead of mailing lists. The idea is that > it would invigorate the Fedora community by encouraging

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: > If you want 52.9 for F28, then you can get it from here: > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1104472 > > Then use versionlock or excludes to stop it from upgrading. Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. Now I have to figure out how to re-enable the

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/24/18 4:59 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. >> Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. >> >> That is not something that is supported. > I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the >

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/23/18 1:59 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. That is not something that is supported. I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the dependencies

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2018-10-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
I just started receiving a storm of mail delivery failed messages, probably one for every message I've sent to the list going back at least a month. I've emailed the list admins. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Ryzen APU best mainboard?

2018-10-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/23/18 1:13 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: > hi guys > > I'm on a Lenovo E485 and that is quite unstable system, still with > random lockups killing everything. > I read here and there that BIOS can help if is well done. Check this page for firmware updates:

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Ed Greshko wrote: > You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. > Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. > > That is not something that is supported. I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the dependencies that are killing me. --

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/24/18 4:34 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Trying to downgrade everything at once still seems excessive: > > # dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates27 > downgrade hunspell-1.5.4-4.fc27.x86_64 > dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates2 You're running F28

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
stan wrote: > Run this as > # dnf -x libreoffice\* --best --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 > --enablerepo=updates27 downgrade thunderbird-52.9.1-1.fc27.x86_64 > > and it should point to the dependency of libreoffice you want to > downgrade that causes it to be erased. > ... > It is probably

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > >> But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is > >> dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it! It certainly shouldn't > >> be dependent! > > > > The output from

Ryzen APU best mainboard?

2018-10-23 Thread lejeczek via users
hi guys I'm on a Lenovo E485 and that is quite unstable system, still with random lockups killing everything. I read here and there that BIOS can help if is well done. Would you have a mobo you could recommend? many thanks, L. ___ users mailing list

Re: raspberry pi aarch64 bcm2835-v4l2 (camera module)

2018-10-23 Thread Alessio Ciregia
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:33 PM Jiri Vanek wrote: > Have somebody sucsesfully run the official[1] rpi camera on Fedora, aarch64? Hello. FYI there is a mailing list dedicated to Fedora on ARM devices: Greetings, A.

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: >> After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very >> unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the >> easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with >> FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent

Re: raspberry pi aarch64 bcm2835-v4l2 (camera module)

2018-10-23 Thread YOUNG, MICHAEL A.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Jiri Vanek wrote: > Hi! > > Thanx! > > I think this is not f29 related. It is generally Fedora related issue (As far > as I was able to reaserch) > > My pi did not srvived update f27-f28 and in that time the cam was not working > either. You could also try the arm list

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/23/18 10:58 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is

Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it!

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

2018-10-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:03:31PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Forums provide a fixed, and IMO, usually poor web based interface > with suboptimal coposition tools (the web form, or occasionally some > ghastly WYSYWIG rich text editor) with no options for people to pick > their own. > >

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

2018-10-23 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:50 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Discourse has very good RSS support and I've been testing the feeds for > > several weeks now. That feature > > works quite well - and keeps you from cluttering your inbox

Re: raspberry pi aarch64 bcm2835-v4l2 (camera module)

2018-10-23 Thread Jiri Vanek
Hi! Thanx! I think this is not f29 related. It is generally Fedora related issue (As far as I was able to reaserch) My pi did not srvived update f27-f28 and in that time the cam was not working either. Thanx! J. On 10/23/18 6:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 15:41

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

2018-10-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Discourse has very good RSS support and I've been testing the feeds for > several weeks now. That feature > works quite well - and keeps you from cluttering your inbox with postings - > while still providing the content > and a simply way

Re: raspberry pi aarch64 bcm2835-v4l2 (camera module)

2018-10-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 15:41 +0200, Jiri Vanek wrote: > Hello! > > Have somebody sucsesfully run the official[1] rpi camera on Fedora, aarch64? > > I have f29 sucesfully running on pi 3B+ and the only glitch is my inability > tu run cammera:( > Best regards from Java world F29 is discussed on

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

2018-10-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:41:44 -0400 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 18:56 -0700, stan wrote: > >> I wasn't clear.  The link isn't to any potential replacement for > >> the users list. > > > > Oh really? What's the subject line for this thread say? And

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

2018-10-23 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:49 AM Berend De Schouwer < berend.de.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 20:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On 10/22/18 5:27 PM, SternData wrote: > > > > > I'm OK with a web forum as long as it has an RSS feed. > > > > You might not be aware about it,

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

2018-10-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 18:56 -0700, stan wrote: >> I wasn't clear.  The link isn't to any potential replacement for the >> users list. > > Oh really? What's the subject line for this thread say? And the > content of the first message. This thread that you started... (At

raspberry pi aarch64 bcm2835-v4l2 (camera module)

2018-10-23 Thread Jiri Vanek
Hello! Have somebody sucsesfully run the official[1] rpi camera on Fedora, aarch64? I have f29 sucesfully running on pi 3B+ and the only glitch is my inability tu run cammera:( Best regards from Java world J. [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/camera-module-v2/

Re: user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim via users wrote: > Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the > MATE desktop. Is it possible to get it to show the user face pictures, > without having to make user directories world executable? > > Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some

Re: user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-23 Thread wwp
Hello, On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:59:20 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the > >> MATE desktop.  Is it possible to get it to show the user face > >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? > >> > >>

Re: user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-23 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the >> MATE desktop.  Is it possible to get it to show the user face >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? >> >> Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some >> outside

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

2018-10-23 Thread Berend De Schouwer
On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 20:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/22/18 5:27 PM, SternData wrote: > > > I'm OK with a web forum as long as it has an RSS feed. > > You might not be aware about it, but RSS is effectivly dead, IIRC, > because major browsers soon will drop supporting RSS or already

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

2018-10-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 10/21/2018 12:55 AM, 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. I would disappear too, having been a subscriber since 2005 is probably enough.