Re: F28 - kernel-PAE missing?

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 12:04:58PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/03/2018 06:35 PM, Jim Simmons wrote: > >In journalctl, I see this and I think it is the problem: > > > >WARNING: PV W0e1Cx-ByMA-iRX6-OGxr-KfWC-zaUP-YXWgW5 on /dev/sdb8 was > >already found on sda8. > >WARNING: PV

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Beartooth sent: > > Under F27, they kept filling up with some sort of cruft, to the > point of refusing dnf upgrade; but when I found any of the cruft, it > was in places where I dared not lay about me with a cyber-battleaxe. > I jumped to F28 the day of

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On 05/21/18 04:02, Tom Horsley wrote: > Pretty simple really. Just do something like: > > systemctl disable gdm.service > systemctl enable kdm.service In actuality you just need one command. systemctl -f enable sddm   (or whatever new dm you want) -f = force   which means "When used with

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Sun, 20 May 2018 22:33:59 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > IIRC KDM is deprecated, so SDDM (now the default for KDE/Plasma) would > probably be better. No doubt so they could prevent me from changing any X server options :-). That's why I switched to kdm in the first place:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Sun, 2018-05-20 at 16:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:46:22 -0700 > stan wrote: > > > switch desktop managers. > > I ignored it since it didn't apply to me. > > Pretty simple really. Just do something like: > > systemctl disable gdm.service > systemctl enable

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

Sick or worn out. On 18 May 2018 at 23:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > state: fully-charged > warning-level: none > energy: 27.7816 Wh > energy-empty:0 Wh > energy-full: 27.7816 Wh > energy-full-design:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:46:22 -0700 stan wrote: > switch desktop managers. > I ignored it since it didn't apply to me. Pretty simple really. Just do something like: systemctl disable gdm.service systemctl enable kdm.service If you don't have the one you want installed, you can do something

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: Forgot this: > Finally, #1 has two F28 kernels -- which do no better than on > #2 nor #3 -- and a rescue kernel from F26. Sic. Twenty-six, not 27 > nor 28. But that rescue kernel does support almost my whole GUI (I

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: > I'd like to try replacing LDM with something else; how do I > do that?? (I like Mate well, and would prefer not to swap it out,too) I use openbox (it's in the Fedora repositories) with lxde. I usually use startx

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

I use SLiM. I read somewhere that there is no further development and it will stop working eventually but happily Fedora still packages it so as long as that holds, I guess I am fine. https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim Ranjan On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth

Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

I keep three PCs on my desk, running Fedora behind a KVM switch: #1 is my present biggest fastest, #2 its predecessor, and #3 that one's predecessor; I try try keep them as similar as is feasible. They've all been having troubles for months, which have only gotten worse. Under

Re: gimp-2.10

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 04:28:14PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > I have seen that in fedora 28, 2.8 version of gimp is still provided > Is there any chance to have the 2.10 version before f29 release? Yes. 2.10 is actually also offered, as a module. However, modules don't quite work right

Re: xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > I gave up on trying to get direct access as a different > user to the display, sometimes it would work, sometimes > it wouldn't work, and I could never track down why. Firefox had a habit of always trying to use the local browser window. I

Re: xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

I gave up on trying to get direct access as a different user to the display, sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't work, and I could never track down why. I always use ssh with X forwarding now to run apps as a different user. Something like this: ssh -l auser -X localhost firefox &

Re: xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

check to see if the firfox profile is accessible by auser. In FC27 the testing was not as strict as in FC28... suomi On 05/20/2018 01:14 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: hi there in f27 this: xhost +; su auser worked okey, I could use firefox just fine, but now in f28 firefox does not work

xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

hi there in f27 this: xhost +; su auser worked okey, I could use firefox just fine, but now in f28 firefox does not work anymore. It opens but does not load any content. I wonder if you guys know why? many thanks, L. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, John Morris sent: > Dunno about the other problems but those two behaviors are normal. > ~/Desktop is a standardized location so both desktop environments > will see a .desktop file dropped there. Well some window managers will use that for any file that's