Re: hdmi monitor blanks when starting some apps

2017-05-30 Thread DJ Delorie
Rick Stevens writes: > Is the window for the app on the HDMI monitor? No. > It may simply be that the monitor is adapting to the size of the > display desired. I have four monitors configured as one desktop, they should never change resolution. ___ u

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-30 Thread William Mattison
I wasn't fully convinced these problems are due to the battery. That's why I listed the four things I found "odd". On the other hand, I recall hearing and reading that the output of lithium batteries is almost flat (better than any other type of battery), but then very quickly drops (faster th

Re: hdmi monitor blanks when starting some apps

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/30/2017 05:46 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I have multiple monitors on my system, one of which is HDMI (the rest > are DP or DVI). It's not the main monitor. When I start some apps > (esp games), the HDMI monitor blanks for a few seconds until the app's > window comes up (not full screen). >

hdmi monitor blanks when starting some apps

2017-05-30 Thread DJ Delorie
I have multiple monitors on my system, one of which is HDMI (the rest are DP or DVI). It's not the main monitor. When I start some apps (esp games), the HDMI monitor blanks for a few seconds until the app's window comes up (not full screen). Is this a normal thing? Can it be prevented? Fedora

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/17 07:40, Rick Leir wrote: > How many people like me will have a machine out of action for a week > because that piece of doco did not jump out at them? I would say an extremely small number. Why? Because the vast majority would be installing a desktop and using the DM supplied with th

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
> No, I don't think there should be a dependency that a greeter is > installed since it is documented that you can use lightdm without a > greeter if you have an autologin setup. Ed, How many people like me will have a machine out of action for a week because that piece of doco did not jump out

Re: Video editing disaster

2017-05-30 Thread Wagner Marques
Why not fedora spin for cinelerra? It would not be great? Wagner França Marques 954731643 967256050 2017-05-30 8:44 GMT-03:00 Wade Hampton : > One suggestion was Cinelerra. I tried the GG version 5.1 > and it worked. However it would play and not stop. Also, > I rendered to WEBM and the resul

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/17 00:30, Rick Leir wrote: > > > as my cursory searches show, one needs to have a "greeter" installed > > Thanks for telling me, I had not heard of "greeter"s (embarrassed). > Even though I remember FC6. Your advice is most welcome. > > Black screen .. that was my problem, and I was deep i

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-30 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 02:42 +, William Mattison wrote: > The fix on Thursday, May 18 did not last. This past Thursday, my > workstation again failed to boot. This time, it dropped me into an > emergency shell, not the dracut shell. This time, the log file was > almost twice as long. But it

Re: sudo su

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/29/2017 12:17 PM, fred roller wrote: > >> On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote: >>> you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged > on as well. >> >> I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I > ran who, it >> just showed me, logged in once and no root.

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
> as my cursory searches show, one needs to have a "greeter" installed Thanks for telling me, I had not heard of "greeter"s (embarrassed). Even though I remember FC6. Your advice is most welcome. Black screen .. that was my problem, and I was deep into X11 logs trying to find the fix. Do you t

Re: Moderator approval?

2017-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 05/28/2017 07:30 AM, wwp wrote: > I did that, it worked :-). Thanks! > > BTW, the bounce message says: > > === > The message is being held because: > > N/A > === > > N/A is not informative, but I'm glad you found some information about > it, thanks again. Yeah, it seems its a bug: htt

Re: Video editing disaster

2017-05-30 Thread Wade Hampton
One suggestion was Cinelerra. I tried the GG version 5.1 and it worked. However it would play and not stop. Also, I rendered to WEBM and the result was purple. I loaded handbrake and it wanted me to erase some program and install a new ffmpeg. That fixed kdenlive which now works great on Fedor

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/17 18:39, Rick Leir wrote: > previously had graphics card problems so there is quite a history of > uninstall / reinstall this and that. But each time you run dnf, it > should be checking dependencies, am I not right? > > Is there a way to check whether I installed something with the -f >

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
Ed I previously had graphics card problems so there is quite a history of uninstall / reinstall this and that. But each time you run dnf, it should be checking dependencies, am I not right? Is there a way to check whether I installed something with the -f force option? And perhaps a way to cl

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/17 17:28, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/30/17 17:15, Rick Leir wrote: >> It seems that Fedora 26 allowed me to have KDM and LightDM installed >> without gdm, gnome-shell, and mutter. >> I had a crash while attempting to login using LightDM: > > Of course F26 is still in Alpha. So, if you man

Re: Install on Zotac Zbox CI327?

2017-05-30 Thread wwp
Hello Branko, On Sun, 28 May 2017 21:20:13 +0200 Branko Grubic wrote: > On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 15:12 +0200, wwp wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > (after a looong time not using Fedora, just back to it!) > > > > I've tried installing Fedora on a Zotac Zbox CI327 (Intel Celeron > > N3450 inside) b

Re: dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/17 17:15, Rick Leir wrote: > It seems that Fedora 26 allowed me to have KDM and LightDM installed > without gdm, gnome-shell, and mutter. > I had a crash while attempting to login using LightDM: Of course F26 is still in Alpha. So, if you managed to get LightDM installed without its de

dependencies for kdm and gdm

2017-05-30 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all It seems that Fedora 26 allowed me to have KDM and LightDM installed without gdm, gnome-shell, and mutter. I had a crash while attempting to login using LightDM: # journalctl -e #2 0x7feb273ed783 gtk_css_static_style_co