Re: Fedora 40 is available

2024-04-25 Thread Andras Simon
Le jeu. 25 avr. 2024 à 20:35, home user a écrit : > xv is maintained by a github group named "jasper-software". > The current release is v5.0.0, less than 3 months ago. > There was a significant enhancement almost a year ago to support "webp" > images. > > The web site for this xv is here: >

Re: How to discover latex fonts

2024-02-15 Thread Andras Simon
2024-02-15 6:39 UTC+01:00, Michael Hennebry : > Antykwa ToruÅ ska Condensed is at > https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/antykwatorunskacondensed/ . > Somehow I discovered that I needed > texlive-antt-10:svn18651.2.08-65.fc38.noarch to use package anttor , > so I installed it with dnf. > No go: > LaTeX

Re: how to remove unwanted old kernels.

2023-12-02 Thread Andras Simon
2023-12-02 18:04 UTC+01:00, Thomas Cameron via users : > Here's what I do. It's on RHEL, but the process is the same for Fedora. > > First, find all kernels which are installed.The last one is the latest, > so we ignore that one. > > -- > [root@neuromancer ~]# rpm

Re: [Off List] Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-14 Thread Andras Simon
2023-11-14 20:36 UTC+01:00, Joe Zeff : > On 11/14/2023 12:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: >> What really irritates me about vi and its friends is that it throws you >> out of editing (insert) mode in order to save the file, and needs >> another key to come back in. > > You might want to

Re: f38 & snapd

2023-08-23 Thread Andras Simon
2023-08-23 19:19 UTC+02:00, François Patte : > Le 2023-08-23 13:20, Ulf Volmer a écrit : >> Am Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:10:01PM +0200 schrieb François Patte: >> >>> I, at last, found a squashfs kernel module in another directory and >>> installed it in >>>

Re: Poweroff on Fedora 37

2023-05-12 Thread Andras Simon
2023-05-04 12:58 UTC+02:00, t_pol : > Hi all. > > Frequently "systemctl poweroff" does NOT really "power off" the machine but > simply halts the system. Does shutdown -h now work? If yes, would it be an adequate replacement? If no, I'd look into the log files for a clue.

Re: unlocking the login keyring

2023-05-07 Thread Andras Simon
Le dim. 7 mai 2023 à 23:50, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > On May 7, 2023, at 15:40, Andras Simon wrote: > > > > Shouldn't one's login password do that? It did so far, but not > > anymore. How should I go about fixing it? > > You probably changed your login password,

unlocking the login keyring

2023-05-07 Thread Andras Simon
Shouldn't one's login password do that? It did so far, but not anymore. How should I go about fixing it? I'm using Xfce on Fedora 37. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: More space needed on the / filesystem to upgrade from F37 to F38

2023-04-30 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-30 16:23 UTC+02:00, Paul Smith : > Dear All, > > I am trying to use > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38 > > to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error: > > -- > - > Error Summary > - > Disk Requirements: >At

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-21 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-21 1:36 UTC+02:00, Robert Nichols : > On 4/20/23 14:08, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2023-04-20 19:41 UTC+02:00, Bill C : >>> Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the key. >>> Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue. >

Re: Encryption for internet storage

2023-04-20 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-20 19:41 UTC+02:00, Bill C : > Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the key. > Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue. If you store these files unencrypted on your computer (besides having their encrypted version in the cloud), you may as well

Re: Using python3-pycryptodomex

2023-04-20 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-20 15:59 UTC+02:00, Robert Moskowitz : > >>> from Crypto.Cipher import Salsa20 > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "", line 1, in > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Crypto' Courtesy of TAB-completion in ipython: from Cryptodome.Cipher import Salsa20

Re: Python cSHAKE hash function for Fedora?

2023-04-19 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-19 23:07 UTC+02:00, Robert Moskowitz : > I have been using pip3 to install updates, as --user, to xml2rfc. This > is for IETF Internet Drafts. Now I know I can just drop the '3'... And perhaps 'pip', too, and dnf install python3-xml2rfc ___

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-08 12:04 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users : > Hi All, > > 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? mplayer Andras

Re: firefox needs-restarting

2023-03-23 Thread Andras Simon
2023-03-23 16:43 UTC+01:00, stan via users : > On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:38:08 +0100 > Andras Simon wrote: > >> firefox got updated today, and after restarting it, dnf >> needs-restarting says it needs to be restarted. To be on the safe >> side, I did restart it

firefox needs-restarting

2023-03-23 Thread Andras Simon
firefox got updated today, and after restarting it, dnf needs-restarting says it needs to be restarted. To be on the safe side, I did restart it once again, but to no avail. Might there be a reason for dnf needs-restarting's insistence? [Fedora 36, fully upgraded though not running the latest

Re: sigil ebook editor?

2023-02-01 Thread Andras Simon
2023-02-01 23:01 UTC+01:00, Tom Horsley : > Wanted to see if I could edit a slightly busted epub and found > that the version of sigil in the fedora repos is very old. > Any chance it will be updated soon? I don't know, but wouldn't you be better off editing it by hand, using your favourite text

Re: Vivaldi web browser - anybody?

2023-01-31 Thread Andras Simon
2023-01-31 19:19 UTC+01:00, lejeczek via users : > Hi guys. > > Does anybody use Vivaldi? > I've had for a few years but have used it only for specific > subset of wwws. I've only recently noticed I do not get > sound during video playback, Youtube and others. > Can somebody confirm, using their

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Andras Simon
2022-10-11 18:09 UTC+02:00, Beartooth : > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:14:56 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > >> If he did install it outside of Fedora, wouldn't it be better to >> uninstall it and install the Fedora version? That way he would get >> regular updates along with

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-10 Thread Andras Simon
Le lun. 10 oct. 2022 à 17:08, stan via users a écrit : > > At some point you must have installed firefox outside of fedora, which > defaults to automatic updates. You can fix this by going into > edit->settings->general If you page down, near the bottom there will > be a setting to allow or

Re: Current Fedora version of ImageMagick is from 2017

2022-08-10 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-10 18:02 UTC+02:00, Terry Polzin : > The package may have been depreciated in favor of something else, you'll > have to review the release notes. > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:59 AM Andras Simon wrote: > >> 2022-08-10 17:42 UTC+02:00, Paul Smith : >> > D

Re: Current Fedora version of ImageMagick is from 2017

2022-08-10 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-10 17:42 UTC+02:00, Paul Smith : > Dear All, > > I have just noticed that the current Fedora version of > > ImageMagick > > is from 2017. Why is that? I don't know. But have a look at GraphicsMagick, which is 'An ImageMagick fork, offering faster image generation and better quality'.

Re: spill chucking

2022-08-10 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-10 10:09 UTC+02:00, Tim via users : > Hi, > > How many spell checking thingies are in place on a run-of-the-mill > installation? > > I've forgotten which application it was, now, but the other day I was > having to add ordinary words to the dictionary, as it was flagging up > normal words

Re: Firefox issue

2022-08-08 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-08 8:09 UTC+02:00, Samuel Sieb : > On 8/7/22 01:38, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2022-08-06 23:03 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users >> : >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Fedora 36 >>> firefox-102.0-1.fc36.x86_64 >>> >>> This seems t

Re: Firefox issue

2022-08-07 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-07 11:00 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users : > On 8/7/22 01:38, Andras Simon wrote: >> If you click on "Lean more...", you'll end up in a few steps on this >> page: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Certificate-contains-the-same-serial-number-as-an

Re: Firefox issue

2022-08-07 Thread Andras Simon
2022-08-06 23:03 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users : > Hi All, > > Fedora 36 > firefox-102.0-1.fc36.x86_64 > > This seems to be an issue specific to the > repo's edition of Firefox. Everyone on > the Firefox newsgroup get it to work. > Removing and reinstalling did not help: > >

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Andras Simon
2022-07-29 19:23 UTC+02:00, Ranjan Maitra : > Neal, > > Not recently, but why should I try WebEx through the browser, and > potentially give them all the information that they can vacuum up from the > browser? I just wonder why the video for the linux client stopped working. I think you answered

Re: Cleaning /var/lib/dnf/yumdb

2022-06-30 Thread Andras Simon
2022-06-30 0:45 UTC+02:00, Michael D. Setzer II : > On 29 Jun 2022 at 22:20, Andras Simon wrote: [...] >> > Thanks. I have 3 other machines in room that are running >> > Fedora 35, and none of them have the /var/lib/dnf/yumdb >> > directory at all. >> >&g

Re: Cleaning /var/lib/dnf/yumdb

2022-06-29 Thread Andras Simon
2022-06-29 19:24 UTC+02:00, Michael D. Setzer II via users : > Thanks. I have 3 other machines in room that are running > Fedora 35, and none of them have the /var/lib/dnf/yumdb > directory at all. This is strange, because that directory belongs to the dnf-data package, and I'm sure you have

Re: subtitles conversion question

2022-05-31 Thread Andras Simon
2022-05-31 19:37 UTC+02:00, François Patte : > Bonjour, > > I have some films in mkv format with many subtitles tracks : > hdmv_pgs_subtitles > > I can extract these tracks and I want to convert them in srt text > format. > > I use a java script (found on the web) BDSup2Sub512.jar which can >

Re: resurrecting old laptops

2022-05-23 Thread Andras Simon
2022-05-23 16:59 UTC+02:00, jim.cro...@gmail.com : [...] > I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines > in the past, but Im running out of options. > I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware https://www.lxle.net works for me on a netbook from around 2008.

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-02 Thread Andras Simon
2022-05-02 3:31 UTC+02:00, Robert Moskowitz : > I want to create an Access Database on my F35 system so my wife can also > use it on her Windows system using Access. > > So I did a quick bit of googling and found that maybe LibreOffice Base > is what I want. > > So I did: > > dnf install

Re: OT: laptop SSD(?) makes screeching sounds

2022-04-14 Thread Andras Simon
2022-04-14 4:03 UTC+02:00, Ranjan Maitra : > There is no DVD. It is possible that it is the fan, and that is my suspicion > but I can not tell. It does happen only when there is some sort of activity > in the disk. This is not the usual mild rattling sound that happens almost > all the time, but

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Andras Simon
2022-01-12 13:21 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 12:46 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2022-01-12 12:09 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan >> : >> >> > You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It >> > periodically >

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Andras Simon
2022-01-12 12:09 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It periodically > (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and can restore them > again on startup, but optionally not actually load each page until you > decide to visit it. I

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andras Simon
2021-11-18 11:25 UTC+01:00, Samuel Sieb : > On 11/18/21 02:21, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko : >>> On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: >>>> "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one >

Re: dnf upgrade to Fedora 35 using --downloaddir just wiped out my entire home dir !

2021-11-18 Thread Andras Simon
2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko : > On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: >> "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters >> "rm -rf /home"." >> >> Sorry, not the same context. Giving an app a directory to use does not >> allow the app to delete data it didn't

Re: Does the program llvm break all the hardware or only some of it ?

2021-11-01 Thread Andras Simon
2021-11-01 12:57 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 10:25 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2021-10-31 23:56 UTC+01:00, Samuel Sieb : >> > On 2021-10-31 15:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> [...] >> > > I've looked at Google Translate between E

Re: Does the program llvm break all the hardware or only some of it ?

2021-11-01 Thread Andras Simon
2021-10-31 23:56 UTC+01:00, Samuel Sieb : > On 2021-10-31 15:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] >> I've looked at Google Translate between English and Spanish, and in my >> experience it's pretty terrible on extended texts (i.e. more than one >> or two words at a time). I've found Reverso

Re: F34 pipewire no audio after updates

2021-08-14 Thread Andras Simon
2021-08-14 16:30 UTC+02:00, George N. White III : [...] > On Fedora 33 neither pulseaudio nopipewire can be removed (using > Gnome only because that is what most of my colleagues use for software > that won't run on Windows): > > Error: > Problem: The operation would result in removing the

Re: upgrading to fedora 34

2021-05-16 Thread Andras Simon
2021-05-16 14:10 UTC+02:00, Angelo Moreschini : > it is someone that can give me a clue to understand because after I > upgraded Fedora to 34, > I still continue to read Fedora 32 on the information of my > computer ? > > Is it really still Fedora 32 or is it only a bad information, that I >

Re: suspend doesn't lock

2021-04-21 Thread Andras Simon
2021-04-21 21:46 UTC+02:00, Samuel Sieb : > On 2021-04-21 11:57 a.m., Andras Simon wrote: >> 2021-04-21 20:05 UTC+02:00, Frank Elsner via users >> : >> >>> >>>> What are the screen lock settings at right now? >>> >>> Activate screen

Re: suspend doesn't lock

2021-04-21 Thread Andras Simon
2021-04-21 20:05 UTC+02:00, Frank Elsner via users : > >> What are the screen lock settings at right now? > > Activate screensaver when computer is idle [after 1 h] > Lock screen when screensaver is active [Yes] Just a shot in the dark, but how long is your computer suspended before you wake it

Re: dangling symlinks and upgrades (was "invisible application after upgrade").

2021-04-12 Thread Andras Simon
2021-04-12 19:12 UTC+02:00, home user : > (context) > In the "invisible application after upgrade" thread, Ed did not know how > I did my upgrade to f33. I responded that I mostly followed the Fedora > upgrade instructions from here: >

Re: invisible application after upgrade.

2021-04-11 Thread Andras Simon
2021-04-11 23:02 UTC+02:00, home user : >> 2021-04-11 6:38 UTC+02:00, home user > >> [...] >> >> >> This isn't necessarily a good idea, because those dangling symlinks >> may belong to their respective packages. If so, removing them will >> compromise the integrity of the package they belong to. >

Re: invisible application after upgrade.

2021-04-11 Thread Andras Simon
2021-04-11 6:38 UTC+02:00, home user : [...] > * symlinks -r -d /usr This isn't necessarily a good idea, because those dangling symlinks may belong to their respective packages. If so, removing them will compromise the integrity of the package they belong to.

Re: dependency question

2021-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
2021-03-01 20:47 UTC+01:00, Samuel Sieb : >> I missed 'kernel-modules-extra' among the packages that were installed. >> Thanks! > > Yes, that was an annoying bug from a while back. The debug packages got > pulled in instead of the non-debug one. I was wondering how and why all those debug

Re: dependency question

2021-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
2021-03-01 16:22 UTC+01:00, Jerry James : > The NetworkManager-l2tp package depends on xl2tpd, which depends on > kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko). > > $ dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko)' > kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:5.10.18-200.fc33.x86_64 > kernel-modules-extra-0:5.10.18-200.fc33.x86_64 > >

dependency question

2021-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
Just out of curiosity: if package B depends on A, shown by the that removing A removes B, too, how come that after removing both, B can be installed without installing A? Here's what happened: # dnf erase kernel-debug-* Dependencies resolved.

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

2020-12-06 Thread Andras Simon
2020-12-06 8:51 UTC+01:00, Sreyan Chakravarty : > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 10:33 AM Tim via users > > wrote: > >> On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps >> > quite a lot for most workloads. >> >> I'm curious how

Re: HTML/PDF -

2020-11-23 Thread Andras Simon
2020-11-23 20:37 UTC+01:00, Bob Goodwin : > What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. I have a two page > report in HTML form that I want to change to PDF. I can scan a printed > copy but I would like to convert the HTML file I received to PDF. > LibreOffice reformat it into a four page

Re: Speech to text -

2020-11-17 Thread Andras Simon
2020-11-17 22:05 UTC+01:00, Bob Goodwin : > > The answer to my original question is no, there is nothing available to > do what I asked, essentially to produce a text message by dictation. You asked for a voice to text program. Doesn't this fit the bill? Name : pocketsphinx Epoch

Re: flatpak question

2020-09-28 Thread Andras Simon
2020-09-28 4:06 UTC+02:00, Tim via users : > The end of life just means what it says. That Fedora 31 has run past > the end of its life, it's now going to be ignored (no more updates > produced for it) and you have to upgrade to the next release to stay > current. No, Fedora 31 is alive and

Re: system-upgrade f31 to f32 on CLI fails

2020-09-02 Thread Andras Simon
2020-09-02 20:10 UTC+02:00, Ranjan Maitra : > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:51:26 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Have you installed any packages from outside Fedora's repos? > > I don't know the answer: a student who knows quite a bit about Fedora used > to use it. But it has never been a problem to

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-20 Thread Andras Simon
2020-07-19 16:14 UTC+02:00, Garry T. Williams : > I looked at the dnf logs and spotted this. > > Upgrading webkit2gtk3 caused flatpak to be installed (along with > xdg-desktop-portal-kde): > > Installing weak dependencies: > flatpak x86_64 1.6.4-1.fc32updates > 1.5 M

Re: lgrenc.def

2020-06-23 Thread Andras Simon
2020-06-23 14:19 UTC+02:00, Qiyu Yan : > Test related things can be installed by > dnf install 'tex(filename)' > Hope this will help you next time. This looks very useful! Thanks, Andras ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: lgrenc.def

2020-06-23 Thread Andras Simon
2020-06-23 11:31 UTC+02:00, Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > Is there a package which provide lgrenc.def? > dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'lgrenc.def' > did not offer me any thing. Yes: texlive-greek-fontenc At least according to dnf repoquery -l texlive-greek-fontenc Andras

Re: Looking for a .so

2020-05-31 Thread Andras Simon
2020-05-31 16:08 UTC+02:00, Geoffrey Leach : > I have a build that references '-lz'. This fails, because gcc expects > to find libz.so in the library search path. The package that installs > zlib, zlib-1.2.11-21.fc32.x86_64 does not create a symlink from > libz.so.1.2.11 I think that you need to

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-28 Thread Andras Simon
2020-05-28 15:00 UTC+02:00, Ralf Corsepius : > Please do yourself a favor and check which packages and which packages > you talking about. As I wrote before, there are obvious patterns, but we > all know the people in charge are not interested. Wouldn't it be simpler if you told us, instead of

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-28 Thread Andras Simon
2020-05-28 13:30 UTC+02:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 18:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote: [...] >> Perhaps there should be an automated culling of participants. If you >> step up the plate to say you'll maintain a package, but don't, *you* >> get dumped from bugzilla. > > I

Re: night light

2020-04-27 Thread Andras Simon
2020-04-27 22:26 UTC+02:00, Patrick Dupre : > From the hardware, I can change the brightness, but not the temperature. > > Is there another tool under fedora to adjust the color temperature? redshift - set color temperature of display according to time of day

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Andras Simon
Le lun. 30 mars 2020 à 15:28, Tom Horsley a écrit : > > We just used Microsoft Teams (which I imagine isn't remotely > free, but our work IT department is obsessed with Microsoft). > It was moderately OK, has an unbelievably annoying linux > version: For instance, you can't ever exit, it keeps

Re: XTerm font resource

2020-02-27 Thread Andras Simon
2020-02-27 7:01 GMT+01:00, Dave Close : >> Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? What options can I use on a >> command line to get the same font as selecting "Small" with the xterm >> menu? Maybe this could help you locate the right font: xfontsel - point and click selection of X11 font

Re: xfce4 suspend problem

2020-02-20 Thread Andras Simon
2020-02-20 12:00 GMT+01:00, François Patte : > Bonjour, > > When I suspend my computer, it suspends for a few seconds, then > resumes So it is impossible to suspend! > > Once upon a time, I could find some information the pm-suspend.log file. > Today, I cannot find this file! Is there no more

Re: Is This Windows?.....

2019-12-29 Thread Andras Simon
2019-12-29 21:50 GMT+01:00, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : > Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being > prompted to "restart & Install"?.. > > > WTH! Are you using gnome? Then you may find this thread interesting:

Re: filter for up-arrow in terminal

2019-11-25 Thread Andras Simon
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 15:31 SternData wrote: > A long time ago, in an operating system far, far away I used a tool > called PCED. It had one really nice feature: If I had typed a command > like > > copy a b > > it saved it, just like bash does. But when I typed > >copy > > and pressed

Re: Someone here using restic (Backup)

2019-11-17 Thread Andras Simon
2019-11-17 20:02 GMT+01:00, sixpack13 : >> >> Anyway, if the OP used a thread-aware client, he wouldn't have been >> overwhelmed by 300 messages a day. > > like TB ? I'm not using TB, but I guess so. > I wonder why would a thread-aware client reduce the numbers of messages. > If I'm subscribed

Re: Someone here using restic (Backup)

2019-11-16 Thread Andras Simon
2019-11-16 14:29 GMT+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 13:06 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2019-11-16 12:54 GMT+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : [...] >> > > did that years ago and getting a head full of steam. >> > > - Okay, it was the time where

Re: Someone here using restic (Backup)

2019-11-16 Thread Andras Simon
2019-11-16 12:54 GMT+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 23:54 +, sixpack13 wrote: >> > I would encourage you do that. Any half-decent MUA will do. I use >> > Evolution, others people use Thunderbird, Claws, Mutt etc. It doesn't >> > greatly matter. >> > >> >> did that years

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

2019-10-07 Thread Andras Simon
2019-10-07 3:08 GMT+02:00, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : > Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think > its FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox, this behavior also has hit > my OpenSuSE and my CEntOS laptopssomething is eating up the RAM on > them when Firefox is

Re: root tutorials

2019-06-19 Thread Andras Simon
2019-06-19 15:28 GMT+02:00, Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > It seems that root must have some tutorials and test > > https://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/1188.html > > I cannot find them. Is this what you're looking for? (The link you gave points to 20 year old post.) dnf info

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-08 Thread Andras Simon
2019-06-07 6:02 GMT+02:00, Tim via users : > > Having never dealt with any such forms, I had a quick look, and found > this example, which suggests Open Office can create them: > > http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf > > Saved it, loaded it in Atril document viewer (in Mate),

Re: What to prune?

2019-06-06 Thread Andras Simon
2019-06-05 19:16 GMT+02:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 17:11 +, Beartooth wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:06:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> > On 05/06/2019 00:52, Beartooth wrote: >> > > I run Mate under F30. I assume Mate calls a lot of Gnome code >> > > (most or all

Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

2019-05-24 Thread Andras Simon
2019-05-24 15:32 GMT+02:00, Max Pyziur : > After reading some, I checked to see if I had the necessary software > installed (I do). > > I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB > MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25). > > Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden. >

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

2019-05-05 Thread Andras Simon
2019-05-05 15:48 GMT+02:00, Sam Varshavchik : > Important: set yourself a calendar reminder, oh, a week from now to turn > both options back on. I'm just guessing that this dumpster fire will get > sorted out before then, and you want to reenable it. The first link you sent

Re: alternative to pdftk

2019-04-15 Thread Andras Simon
2019-04-15 21:48 GMT+02:00, Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > What are the alternatives to pdftk? > I need to rotate a pdf file. There's pdf90 (part of texlive-pdfjam) which, according to its man page, "rotates the pages of files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) through 90 degrees

Re: How to disable CapsLock.

2019-02-07 Thread Andras Simon
2019-02-07 15:57 GMT+01:00, Erik P. Olsen : > Is there a way to make CapsLock a dead key? I never use this key on purpose > and it's > irritating when I sometimes hit it without knowing, so I would rather have > it doing > nothing. I use xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = NoSymbol" for this. xev is

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-07 Thread Andras Simon
2018-11-07 8:58 GMT+01:00, Ron Yorston : > Matthew Miller wrote: >>While I can't disagree with the general sentiment, I certainly hope Fedora >>isn't being pigeonholed into "bleeding edge". Fedora also certainly "just >>works". > > Except when it doesn't. In the week since F29 was released I've >

Re: fc29 beta

2018-09-29 Thread Andras Simon
2018-09-29 10:18 GMT+02:00, John Pilkington : > On 29/09/18 08:55, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 15:46 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> On 9/28/18 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 11:48 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I just

Re: Markdown viewer

2018-09-27 Thread Andras Simon
2018-09-27 19:34 GMT+02:00, stan : > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:38:12 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> I'm not familiar with vim plugins, but I copied >> /usr/share/vim/vim81/syntax/markdown.vim to ~/.vim/plugin and fired up >> vim with a .md file. It didn't seem to do anything (i.e. I just

Re: Dependency failed for Suspend

2018-04-18 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-18 8:58 GMT+02:00, Neal Becker : > Recently my system has been refusing to suspend. How can I debug? > (I've recently installed expressvpn, could this be the issue?) > Here's what the log says: > > Apr 18 02:30:01 nbecker2 systemd[1]: Started Suspend. > Apr 18

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-05 0:29 GMT+02:00, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com>: > Andras Simon writes: [...] >> I can't resist recommending the late Erik Naggum's xml rant (one of >> many): >> >> https://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html >> >>

Re: html to man page

2018-04-04 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-04 13:53 GMT+02:00, Tim via users : > Allegedly, on or about 2 April 2018, Cameron Simpson sent: >> I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source >> format for human written content. It is massively hostile to >> authoring by hand. > > As I

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 20:08 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares : > Thanks for helping me. I am close but I get error: [...] dnf install unifont-font (as root) will solve this problem. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 19:07 GMT+01:00, François Patte : > > Here is MWE: > > \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} > > \usepackage{fontspec} > \newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont} > > \begin{document} > > {\uni% > \symbol{"26BD} > } > > \end{document} > > This suppose that you

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares : >On Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:04:26 AM CDT, François Patte > wrote: > > Le 19/03/2018 à 15:12, Antonio Olivares a écrit : >> Dear fellow fedora users, >> >> In including a soccer

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-03-05 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-05 16:00 GMT+01:00, Temlakos : > On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: >>> I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a >>> fatal error: >>> "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? >> >> Do

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-02-23 Thread Andras Simon
2018-02-23 13:48 GMT+01:00, Temlakos : > Everyone: > > Firefox crippled most of its extensions beginning with Version 57. (Why > they borrowed technology from Google, I'll never know.) The developers > of the Video Download Helper responded by creating a Companion Application.

Re: Which fedora package can read EPUB docs?

2017-12-17 Thread Andras Simon
2017-12-17 18:56 GMT+01:00, Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco <porfiriop...@gmail.com>: > On Dec 11, 2017 10:41 PM, "Andras Simon" <sza...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> fbreader or calibre . If you install calibre, use ebook-reader, not > calibre itself, unless you w

Re: Which fedora package can read EPUB docs?

2017-12-11 Thread Andras Simon
You can check it with (un)zip. On Dec 12, 2017 05:47, "JD" <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanx. > My ebook file seems to be corrupted, as /bin/FBReader producted an empty > file. > > > On 12/11/2017 09:40 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > >> fbreader or calibre

Re: Which fedora package can read EPUB docs?

2017-12-11 Thread Andras Simon
fbreader or calibre . If you install calibre, use ebook-reader, not calibre itself, unless you want it to build (without asking for your permission, of course) a database of all your documents. On Dec 12, 2017 04:51, "JD" wrote: > Downloaded a freebie doc from Amazon, > and

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-05 Thread Andras Simon
2017-09-05 5:14 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: > On 09/04/2017 07:18 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2017-09-04 18:36 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: >>> [...] >>> >>> Actually, I'd recommend Fedora/RH to drop all other

Re: End of i686 Support

2017-09-04 Thread Andras Simon
2017-09-04 18:36 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius : >[...] > > Actually, I'd recommend Fedora/RH to drop all other "secondary" archs, > because they do not have a community user base. How do you know? ___ users mailing list --

Re: dnf going crazy?

2016-12-07 Thread Andras Simon
2016-12-07 13:48 GMT+01:00, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:39:13 +0100 > Andras Simon wrote: > >> Are you sure about this? It seems to work here with >> bash-completion-2.1-8.20150513git1950590.fc23.noarch > > I suppose they

Re: dnf going crazy?

2016-12-07 Thread Andras Simon
2016-12-07 12:27 GMT+01:00, Tom Horsley : > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 10:34:19 + > Andy Blanchard wrote: > >> It doesn't *need* it, but apparently the packager thinks dnf is easier >> to use with it installed which seems a bit arbitary. > > Actually, dnf is one of the commands

Re: F25: Howto remove wayland from Fedora Workstation (gnome)

2016-11-26 Thread Andras Simon
2016-11-23 18:06 GMT+01:00, Dario Lesca : > ... Or finally disable it > > Wayland Do not work great like Xorg, and I do not have time to wait for > all bugs are removed > Can't one simply dnf erase a few packages? Andras ___ users

Re: Umatrix Firefox Addon -

2016-11-25 Thread Andras Simon
2016-11-25 12:54 GMT+01:00, Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us>: > On 11/25/16 05:23, Andras Simon wrote: >> FWIW Umatrix works here on F23 with Firefox 50. >> >> Andras > + > Strange, one more reason for me to go > back and try again. I certainly had a

Re: Umatrix Firefox Addon -

2016-11-25 Thread Andras Simon
2016-11-25 1:47 GMT+01:00, Bob Goodwin : > Does anyone know why Firefox no longer > allows the umatrix addon, not since the > update to Firefox 50 two days ago. > Umatrix was removed and would not > install. I had to downgrade to Firefox > 49 and install a copy from the

Re: dnf system-upgrades wants to remove the running kernel

2016-11-23 Thread Andras Simon
2016-11-24 1:42 GMT+01:00, Jon LaBadie <jo...@jgcomp.com>: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:25:30PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2016-11-23 21:30 GMT+01:00, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>: >> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >

Re: dnf system-upgrades wants to remove the running kernel

2016-11-23 Thread Andras Simon
2016-11-23 21:30 GMT+01:00, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> The same: it wants to remove that old kernel. But after booting again >> the latest kernel and starting the upgrade, dnf wanted to er

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