Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Slade Watkins via users
> On Apr 8, 2023, at 6:04 AM, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: > > 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? I use Parole in place of VLC

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 4/3/2023 9:14 PM, Tim via users wrote: I really wish more keyboards had some extra user keys down the left. For one thing it'd balance the layout of the keyboards with QWERTY off- centre because the cursor and numpad (which I do want). And have some way for you to type something directly

Re: what is my dns?

2023-03-26 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:57 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I have a caching server running. Other than digging > out my "forward" from /etc/named.conf to figure out > what my DNS server is, is there a way to use "dig" > or other to figure out what my

Re: locale screwup

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 23:17, Tim via users wrote: > Here's a weird one: After a bunch of updates yesterday my system has > changed from Australian locale to American. > > How do you even change that post-installation? I see no tool for it. Uhh... I think you can change it in /etc/locale.conf and/or

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 23:28, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Saw those from an earlier response and they have worked on updates to present. > The readme notes that the drivers ae expected to be in the 6.2 kernel. > > Waiting expectantly Yep, looks like at least the 88x2bu driver is now. I happened to see

Re: 'mutt' issues

2023-03-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/3/23 21:59, Jon LaBadie wrote: > While there may be some mutt expertise on the Fedora list, > you might consider posting to the mutt-users list.  Not > high volume, but high expertise.  Here are the list headers > from a recent post: Thank you so much, I will reach out to them. > I've been

'mutt' issues

2023-03-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
Hi all, I've been wanting to switch from Thunderbird to 'mutt' when dealing with emails for some time, but unfortunately, I've had numerous issues getting mutt to actually load my inbox or any folders. I've tried getting it to cache them, since I only get a small number of new ones each time, but

Re: software or hardware raid?

2023-03-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 3/1/23 15:01, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I would like to RAID two of my disks, and I was wondering if the > recommendation is to do software or hardware RAID? Honestly, in my experience, I've found software RAIDs to be much more reliable than hardware. But as always, your mileage may vary. --

Re: Drivers for Realtec USB wifi adapters

2023-02-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 2/23/23 12:30, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > I have two Realtec USB wifi adapters an rtl8812au and rtl8822bu. For a > while I tracked driver updates on git with varying degrees of success. > Haven't seen anything since the 5.6 kernels. There was some note about a > generalized driver but I

Re: kdeconnectd error

2023-02-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 2/26/23 15:24, Go Canes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:51 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: >> >> I'm getting a ton of these error messages but have >> been unable to find information about them. >> >> kdeconnectd[4717]: kdeconnect.core: \ >> Too many remembered identities,\ >>

Re: Unable to login after fedora re-install

2023-02-24 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:40 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 2/22/23 16:17, Barry wrote: > > > > Please post under not above what you are commenting on. > > And while you're at it, trim out the parts of the post you're > responding to that aren't relevant, like the boilerplate at the bottom. Also,

Re: F37 update

2022-12-25 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > It was VMworkstation Pro 16.1 and it was uninstalled doing > > vmware-unistall -u vmware-workstation Hey Paolo, Okay probably a stupid question but super important regardless, did you perform the uninstall command (I assume you meant:

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo) > What's going on? -srw ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Fwd: Fedora 37 on todays LUP

2022-11-18 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 6:19 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 04:18:09PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Interesting: pretty negative review. Unfortunate that the lawyers from IBM > > has so much to say in the release/package inclusion process. > > I have never once heard of a

Re: Touchscreen not working on Surface Pro 8 - Fedora 36

2022-11-14 Thread Slade Watkins via users
Hi, On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 6:08 PM Sbob wrote: > > a clean install In that case, is linux-surface maybe worth a shot for you (if you haven't tried it already)? Seems to be a kernel specifically for Surface devices.

Re: Touchscreen not working on Surface Pro 8 - Fedora 36

2022-11-14 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:45 PM Sbob wrote: > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise > caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown > senders. > > All; > > > I just installed Fedora 36 on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8, and did an >

Re: Fedora 36: suspend failed with "PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected"

2022-11-07 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:14 PM Dario Lesca wrote: > > I have resolve this problem follow this Arch Linux howto: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#Hybrid-sleep_on_suspend_or_hibernation_request > > I have add these lines at the end of /etc/systemd/sleep.conf file >

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-11-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 11/1/22 11:54 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I second shred. Only issue is that if drive is ssd chances are you > will not overwrite every sector. Ditto, as well. > > Todd, I do not know how old those iMacs are, but some (lampshade) had > the drives on the base while others have it behind the

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-11-01 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 11/1/22 5:30 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > We don't currently have any ARC setup. > > When / if we can get the list processor upgraded, I think newer versions > of mailman3 have native ARC support, and we could look at enabling that. > I think so, yeah. 100% worth looking at when/if upgraded.

Re: Can I see an iMac drive with a Live USB?

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 7:51 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an upcoming appointment with a customer > who wants a number of his old computers > (mostly iMacs) removed from service. > > With other computers, if I can remove the > drives, I just remove them and give them > to the

Re: New kernel install had issues. (6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64)

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 4:33 PM, Barry Scott wrote: > >> On 30 Oct 2022, at 16:54, Doug H. wrote: >> >> Today was >> the big kernel jump to 6.x kernel. As someone who tests 6.0 stable regularly, I can *assure you* it's nothing major. > No it is not a big jump it the one after 5.19. > After 20 minors Linux

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-10-30 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/30/22 3:57 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > no such -owner or similar addresses seem to be available in the > mail-headers sent to this list. I believe it's . -srw ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: old repo question

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/29/22 4:19 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Question: how long will I be able to use the > dnf's `--releasever=35` option?  Pretty sure they're archived all the way back to Core 1, in perpetuity. > How long are the defunct repo's maintained? See above. Thanks, -srw -- I use plain

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/28/22 2:51 AM, Mike Wright wrote: > > > I just found the best explanation of the linux graphics system ever.  It > covers the history of Xorg, X11, and Wayland, and explains why Wayland > is the future.  Ironically, the future is always in the future... > > As informative as they come.

Re: Can't unsubscribe from a list

2022-10-29 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/29/22 7:50 AM, fs3000 via users wrote: > Still, would be nice to have someone to contact for matters like this. Most lists have an admin email (for instance, this one's is users-ow...@lists.fedoraproject.org) ... wouldn't that work? -srw ___

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/28/22 4:27 PM, Jake D wrote: > I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile and the ONLY > option is to start over Wanted to hop in here real fast and say: Pop!_OS, which is my primary distro (with Fedora being my secondary), has the option to go into recovery (has a

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

2022-10-24 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 10/24/22 11:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard > drive and port it to qemu-kvm? Hm. Did a bit of digging... this is all I could find. https://manuel.kiessling.net/2013/03/19/converting-a-running-physical-machine-to-a-kvm-virtual-machine/

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 4:55 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > With respect to this item in that post: > >No or broken threading on emails. This one is so annoying. Doesn't >any of the people who use Discourse use threading anywhere. >Context is everything. > > This is fixed in current

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-16 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 7:36 AM Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Roger and Felix. Roger's solution is a nice one! The only > drawback is that I cannot zoom in the contents of the preview window. > Is there some workaround for that? Try resizing the capture itself? That's the only way I know of. -srw

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-15 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:49 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > It might be overkill for this but obs-studio will do it. You have to > create/add a screen grab and pick a window or do screen capture and > once picked and working in the preview window right click on the > preview and click windowed

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-11 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 01:44:34PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > For starters, my qemu-kvm virtual machine would > not run 22H2, but I finally manually configured > it and solved the issue. The symptom was that > the VM could not boot off the 22H1 ISO and > solving that solved the new

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-02-14 Thread Slade Watkins
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022, at 1:15 PM, fed...@cwm030.com wrote: > And It's getting harder and harder for me to hop around and try new > email clients out when they come out being a..GET READY TO > CRINGE. POP3 user. AHH CRINGE... haha. > > I thought about making the change to IMAP, but

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 8:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Three approaches: > > Upgrade 1 release close to the EOL of current release.  This way you are > moving to a mature release. I generally like to recommend staying 1 release behind for stability... but as you note: > > Choose your poison.

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 12:59 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:32 AM Matthew Miller > wrote: >> Oh! I see Ben has already changed it. Should be live soon. :) > > Well, once the build failures[1] are fixed. > > In addition to fixing the typo, I also de-indented the "Supported > Releases"

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 10:57 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Sorry, which section? Do you have a link? We're working on redesigning the > layout of our docs, so looking at this is timely. :) > yes, happy to help! what I was referring to was the sorting of the sections in the sidebar on this page:

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Until 4 weeks after the Fedora Linux 36 release. That's currently scheduled for 2022-04-19, which makes EOL for Fedora Linux 34 2022-05-17. I'm curious where you found the explanations that were confusing, and how we could improve them. hi, for me,

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
hi, > Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? if I recall correctly, the End of Life (EOL) date is May 17th, 2022. someone else on the list can correct me if I am wrong though. > Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? would worry about it closer to EOL. best, slade

Re: movie screen shot?

2022-01-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
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RE: Updating F32 (with Nvidia drivers) and startup hangs.

2022-01-01 Thread Slade Watkins
John Pilkington wrote: > There have been several posts in the last few days arising from the shift of > some nvidia cards to 'legacy' status. Cards supported by the > 470 series driver but not by 495 now have to add the 470xx tag to the > rpmfusion package name. > > The GTX2060 is listed as

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 1:24 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Often, when the vendors do any security updates, they'll do just the > minimum needed (which does make sense, since it's also the least likely > to break devices that can be difficult or impossible to recover from an > update failure). If

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 10:52 AM Qiyu Yan wrote: > Usually, a botnet is made up of those unmaintained but still running > device. > > I happened to have read a article about a botnet build on hacked modems > in China, https://blog.netlab.360.com/pink-en/ in this case, when > devices gets hacked,

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-25 Thread Slade Watkins
On 12/25/2021 6:15 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On a whim I opened up the: > *Legal DisclaimerOpen Source Licenses* > in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) and > discovered that the kernel is rather old: > *linux kernel - Version 3.4.11* > There are about 163 other

Re: Teamviewer/Quickassist install Windows XP ?

2021-12-20 Thread Slade Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:27 AM Ger van Dijck wrote: > > > Maybe a strange question because it concerns not Fedora : Teamviewer > does not support Windows XP and Windows 7 anymore . > > So the question is how can I download and install Quickassist for > Windows XP and Windows 7 ? hi, XP isn't

Re: latest F35 version of ca-certificates breaks gnome-shell-extension-openweather

2021-12-19 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 8:59 AM Andre Robatino wrote: > > With the latest version of ca-certificates (2021.2.52-1.0.fc35), > gnome-shell-extension-openweather no longer works, it's always stuck on > "Loading...". If I downgrade to 2021.2.50-3.fc35 and restart GNOME, it works > again. No

Re: I need a temporary imap client

2021-12-16 Thread Slade Watkins
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Anyone have a recommendation for an alternate > imap client whilst I wait for the bug to be fixed? hi, this was a bit ago, but i'll throw my votes in for Evolution or Claws Mail. both are good, though i do prefer Thunderbird.

Re: F35/Xfce window focus problem

2021-12-16 Thread Slade Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 6:29 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Any pointers? hi, aagh, that's annoying. honestly just submit a bug report. it can't hurt, and it definitely seems like that might be one. best, slade -- This email message may contain sensitive or otherwise confidential information

Re: Seeking advice - Considering move to Google Contacts or something similar

2021-12-12 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 7:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > This is the last time I respond to incoherent babble. You are now muted > from my mail feed. I also muted them from my mail feed. I have no idea what they were even going on about. It wasn't even on topic in the slightest. Slade

Re: Retroarch opens then closes (pretty fast) on KDE

2021-12-11 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 4:54 PM Reon Beon via users wrote: > > Anyone else with that issue? No... Try reinstalling it maybe? Slade -- This email message may contain sensitive or otherwise confidential information and is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you believe to have received this

Re: Losing audio on GStreamer-based video player after manual seek

2021-11-28 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 2:14 PM Stephane Travostino wrote: [snip] > When I open a video file the default GNOME video player (Totem) or with > another GStreamer based video player (such as Clapper from Flathub), audio > and video works fine. If I seek manually forward, audio is gone, while video

Re: xrandr (X11), Wayland xrandr alternative

2021-11-25 Thread Slade Watkins
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Slade Watkins wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Joe Zeff wrote: Add them to ~/.bashrc Jeff, *Joe. Sorry - some things got messed up working with my text editor. Not sure what happened there. -slade ___ users mailing

Re: xrandr (X11), Wayland xrandr alternative

2021-11-25 Thread Slade Watkins
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Joe Zeff wrote: Add them to ~/.bashrc Jeff, My understanding is that ~/.bashrc runs before login, and not when GNOME is launched. I'm probably wrong but that's what some resources online are stating... I've also tried adding things into that file and it hasn't worked,

xrandr (X11), Wayland xrandr alternative

2021-11-25 Thread Slade Watkins
Hey there, Anyone know of an alternative to xrandr on Wayland that has proper Colorspace and Broadcast RGB (Full) support? I want to use Wayland (and get off of X.Org) for better trackpad gesture support but am out of luck due to not having something that works with it. If not, then I'm fine

Re: NVIDIA Legacy drivers

2021-11-23 Thread Slade Watkins
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 1:22 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Just to confuse things, there are at least 2 very different Variants > of GeForce GT 730's. One is based on Kepler and I know is > supported by 470.x(GK208B), and there is an older one that probably > needs 340(GF108). Roger, I know,