On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 12:55 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> It makes we wonder if the drive doesn't have whoops mode where it
> reinstalls firmware and rescans the drive to get its own internal
> mapping into a consistent state. I assume vendors try to design
> this (if it even is a real thing
On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 11:26 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
> And not related... I've have a keyboard go wonky in my Dell laptop
> ever since I stressed it out running Folding @ Home for a year.
> It was running ... hot... and the thermal stress has caused a
> permanent, intermittent flakiness.
Not too su
Tim:
>> I'm not sure why you're doing this with sudo. Aren't you resetting
>> your own user-account's dconf parameters?
Greg:
> Ye, that is the case: the ~/.config/dconf/user file gets modified.
If so, then definitely you wouldn't want to use sudo. Using sudo like
in the first message would be
On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 12:19 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> (And since you mention it, you didn't quote anything in your last
> message, which is not really recommended either).
Better that, than the mass quoting.
Another option is just word your reply so it makes sense on its own.
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On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 06:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Oh, look at that! Just as I suspected, the nvme controller fails
> when heavily used. The thing that surprised me is that I would have
> thought the nvme controller which just went down would have been on
> the pcie interface card. But now
On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote:
> I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious
> things.
> Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does.
It's the global "you," or "not me."
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On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 08:22 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I suspect part of the OP's intent with the reset is in case he, or
> some earlier install process, had differing defaults in the global
> area. Aplenty of things install a global config, if only to make the
> available configs apparent.
T
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 23:16 +0200, Matti Pulkkinen wrote:
> Mplayer itself had no OSD or other kind of interface visible, which
> I'm not sure is normal.
I haven't used it for ages, but the letter "o" key was a hotkey to
cycle through the on-screen-display options. Mplayer, itself, is a
command l
On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> To get anything faster I would need to step up to a faster CPU and MB
> and RAM... for not a lot of change.
For the average user, who just emails, browses the web, and does a bit
of typing, they could double their CPU speed (and other thing
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 13:40 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Although I haven't looked closely at this, I think the same is going
> to happen with any desktop MUA, given that Gmail implements this via
> its own non-standard "magic". If they used IMAP labels it could
> perhaps be made to work, bu
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 08:06 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> Basically, I imported my emails from CLAWS to Evolution by:
>
> * Opening Claws
>
> * Selecting all emails in that one mailbox
>
> * Clicked the file menu
>
> * EXPORT TO MBOX FILE
>
> then imported the emails into Evo by selecting the file
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 09:09 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> But there's one thing I cant stand about GMAIL imap, and that is when
> you go to delete a email and you tap the delete key, the emails get
> moved to [GMAIL/TRASH]. And when you go to look for something under
> ALL MAIL, Emails that you wanted
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 10:16 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> So I tried what you said:
>
> Created a folder called TEST
> opened up Nautilus into a small window
> then opened the TEST FOLDER in Evo
> and brought back up Nautilius and dragged that .mbox file into the
> TEST FOLDER
>
> Wow, that works so
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 09:45 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> Oh, is that what you're supposed to do?
>
> That's the correct way of using gmail with IMAP? oops
No. It's a thing you can do, it's not the way someone must do it.
> Whatever email client I am in, I just make a rule
>
> If users@lists.f
On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:48 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> If I create a rule in Evolution:
>
> MATCHES ALL RULES BELOW
> ACCOUNT: AccountNameHere
> APPLIES TO ALL MAIL
> MOVE TO: "INBOX ON THIS PC"
I don't understand the purpose of that rule. New mail will always go
into your inbox. Are you moving
Chris:
>> Now, I just have Evolution sort the emails into folders on the IMAP
>> server as they come in.
POC:
> That's what I do. It simplifies things rather than having two filter
> regimes fighting each other, though there may be some use cases where
> Evo's filtering would be a better fit.
Two
On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 22:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Actually it's the other way round. Gmail only has labels. It doesn't
> have folders, but in most cases labels can be treated as folders.
It certainly behaves like it does. I can make folders in Gmail using
Evolution, and they appear
On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this
> maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a
> folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call
> categories that auto-categorizes mail: inb
On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 17:47 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote:
> I read (a few) the manual and installed evolution, evolution-mapi and
> evolution-ews (seems I didn't need that one). Unfortunately in the
> email settings I do not see Microsoft Exchange in server type. I've
> tried a few things but nothi
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 10:16 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote:
> dnf install evolution-mapi . Not sure what else to do, and yes
> Evolution was not running when installing.
Parts of Evolution are always running when logged in. You may have had
to log out and in again to get Evolution to load new plug-
On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 23:44 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> edit your /etc/hosts file to give the hdhomerun unit a fixed IP
> address.
When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?
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On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 00:01 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Controlling an hdhr with a dhcp served IP address is basically
> impossible as it is hard to find that address and remember it for use
> in your program. Control of the unit with most digital tv programs
> requires a static IP address. Myth
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 13:08 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I think Tim's point is that the /etc/hosts file doesn't *assign* IP
> addresses, it merely *records* them.
Yep.
In a nutshell, if you haven't manually configured your PC (or other
device) to use a specific IP address, your PC gets gi
Tim:
>> Parts of Evolution are always running when logged in. You may have
>> had to log out and in again to get Evolution to load new plug-ins.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Not necessary. Just run "evolution --force-shutdown" and restart it.
I thought there was something like that, but mine didn't pr
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 17:49 +0200, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> so I have to :
> create (using gparted) only one big partition (1 TBit) on the HDD
> indicate to the process that install fedora the HDD (the partition)
> where to install the S.O.
> all the rest is done automatically by the installer
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 12:13 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 'Configuring the DHCP server to work that way', is to set it to
> deliver a static address. With a dhcp server, the problem is that any
> change in the network, or the items connecting to it, can cause the
> dhcp server to deliver a differen
Tim wrote:
>> If you want a predictable LAN, then I really only see two ways to
>> manage that without major pain:
>>
>> 1. Run a DHCP server with a DNS server...
>> 2. Manually configure each device to have a fixed IP.
R. G. Newbury:
> I think you left out a third method, which uses part of your
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 19:09 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> evolution --help-all
"evolution --force-shutdown" wasn't in there, either.
> or
> man evolution
Not installed on *this* distro, no man package available, and
apparently no man file is part of its "evolution-help" package.
Nonethele
On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 11:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Aren't you using Fedora?
Yes, but not on the PC that I do most of my email on. That one uses
CentOS, and I'm trying Linux Mint on the laptop at the moment. The
current version of Fedora was diabolical on it, it was as slow as a dog
On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 14:55 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Tim, you replied to this email previously. What did Evolution do
> with it when you tried to reply?
Just confirming that you're referring to his email with message id:
4cd89656f28227f26e2609705bc02285164f4ce2.ca...@cwm030.com
(though that m
On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 00:34 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> In my network, devices are assigned DHCP IP address according to
> their MAC address.
Mine too, virtually all DHCP servers do (even if not providing fixed
static addresses, but just nearly always giving the same addresses),
that's always been
R. G. Newbury:
> edit your /etc/hosts file to give the hdhomerun unit a fixed IP
> address.
Tim >>> When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?
R. G. Newbury
>>> You are correct, and I am completely wrong. A static address for
>>> the computer would be set by editing
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 11:22 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> i had a remote friend try traceroute to 108.220.213.121 to show the
> trace stopping at 108.90.204.76.
>
> i dont know why it stops short of my server???
Things only respond to pings if allowed to. Thanks to continual
hacking attempts, many
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 15:41 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Device vendor insists on a netmask 255.255.0.0, so
> % ifconfig eno1 169.254.10.6 netmask 255.255.0.0
> which changes netmask, but it soon reverts to the original
> value 255.255.255.255
>
> ifdown/ifup does not change the situation
Wha
Tim:
>> Your ISP may be ignoring pings, many other services in between, and
>> even your own router.
Jack Craig:
> but why can i traceroute up to my side of the me<-->isp lan
> segment??
Because some of the equipment responds, others don't. If you look back
at your first posting (repasted belo
R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> And did that version have an exception for when the sacrifice is to
>> be undertaken if being undertaken *in California*?
Joe Zeff:
> Having spent most of my 72 years in California, I know that the most
> important thing is to make sure you're using black candles.
>
It's
On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 12:27 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> 1. How do I set DNFDragora to skip a current version and call me
> back when it has a new version of the kernel for me to try out?
Doesn't the "exclude" option let you use the entire package name (with
the version number), or does it just let yo
On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 12:27 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> Today I recorded a video using Open Broadcast Studio (OBS) and a
> Logitech BRIO camera with build-in microphone that has delivered
> flawless performance to date.
>
> Imagine my shock and chagrin when I played a video I had just
> recorded, o
Samuel Sieb:
>> What text editor are you referring to?
Eddie O'Connor wrote:
> It's the "new" one that comes with F36 and Gnome 42.it's pretty
> nice, simple, a very clean interfacebut I didn't know where to go
> to get it to go "dark mode" but another person got me there!
>
When faced
On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 13:13 -0600, home user wrote:
> Assuming it's the monitor, is it realistically possible to replace
> bad components (a cpu, memory, etc.) within the monitor, or are such
> components available only to monitor manufacturers? If replacement
> is possible, how can I determine w
On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 14:26 -0600, home user wrote:
> "unearthed"? I know that isn't meant literally, but I don't know
> what you do mean. What is "unearthed" in this context?
Two-pin mains plug vs three-pin mains plug (live, neutral, earth).
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On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 16:23 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> How does one install F35?
> I've got the workstation iso on a DVD.
> It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect.
> I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step.
> What is the magic formula?
Have you booted
Tim:
>> With a certain amount of hunting around it was possible to go into
>> manual partitioning in the installers and select ones you'd already
>> made, overriding it doing things automatically. Not that I can
>> recall trying this with recent releases.
Joe Zeff:
> I've never had any trouble te
Ed Greshko:
> I've basically been following, yet ignoring this thread. As the
> amount of words make it difficult for understand the
> network topology. It would be correct to say that I'm lost.
I've felt the same way, I think this is what I can figure out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4cn_
On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 20:18 +, olivares33561 via users wrote:
> How can I convert a crontab
> #
> [olivares@fedora Downloads]$ crontab -l
> # min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
> # 0-59 0-231-311-12 0-6 0=sun 1=mon
> #50 04 * * 1-5 ~/.xalarm >/dev/null 2>&1
> #50 04 * * 0
On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 16:15 +, Beartooth wrote:
> There seems to be some setting somewhere in recent releases (I'm
> running F35) that causes the mouse cursor to jump around when it
> hits certain positions. How do I turn this off?
Are you using a desktop that does special functions when the
On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 21:28 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> I think Xorg makes one big "window" large enough to include both
> monitors. 96 dpi is the default. I've only used dual monitors on
> Xorg a few times, and the monitors were identical.
Many years ago I ran dual monitors for a while,
On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 17:52 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Anyway, I have a Dell XPS 13 (9370) circa 2018 and since this
> afternoon it has been making screeching sounds, sort of like it is
> screeching to a new place, then screeching back, and so on. It has a
> SSD (400-AVHW) so what could it be?
On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 20:25 -0700, Alexander Zhang wrote:
> I found this line in the logs that seems to indicate that a service
> called evolution-source-registry attempted to search Secret Service:
>
> Apr 15 19:43:15 fedora evolution-sourc[2546]:
> secret_monitor_scan_secrets_thread: Timeout wa
On Sun, 2022-04-17 at 22:47 -0700, Alexander Zhang wrote:
> I don't use Evolution, but like you said other things including
> GNOME Calendar use evolution-data-server. I can make KeePassXC not
> prompt me when a program tries to search, but I would have to
> remember to unlock the database every ti
On Mon, 2022-04-18 at 20:57 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> This is quite missing my point. I'm not interested in _arguing_ at
> all. The point is: your hyperbole about "hijacking" and etc. is not
> appropriate. This is an intentional, discussed, and approved change
> that went through the proper pr
On Mon, 2022-04-18 at 16:28 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> this mystery has been resolved and my server is online.
I just tried. Initially the browser was unable to connect. But after
a few retries it could.
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On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 12:57 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> I found this nifty tool in the world from some company called
> getsignal. it would look at your ports from the outside and tell you
> their status. so I keyed in HTTP and Https ports and sure enough from
> the Internet they were blocked
There
On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 13:28 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> i am looking for open source media streaming software that works well
> in the fedora world.
Audio or video?
Quite a few people use OBS for video streaming, I've dabbled with it.
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On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 02:41 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> i sent a reply to the question of what was the mystery ,
> but I don't see it on the thread did you get it?
It came through to the list. If you're reading in gmail, it's probably
doing that thing where it doesn't show messages to your own add
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 19:10 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
> That depends upon the printer. I have an HP6962 that has its own
> wifi node that broadcasts and is automatically found by Fedora. Its a
> pain in the behind, as all the other equipment also finds and lists
> the option to use this as the mai
Robert McBroom:
>> Back to the original question of accessing a printer on a windows
>> share.
Oops, I hadn't noticed that the printer question I responded to wasn't
the origin of the thread.
I tried looking up that printer on the HP support website and the
manual is very basic. Their old sales
On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 10:01 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> New install of Fedora 35. Any time a link is opened -- say from a
> terminal -- Firefox is opened. The default browser is set in "Default
> Applications" to chrome. Is there another place where the
> default browser is set?
If you try comm
On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 16:35 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I was going on the assumption that the poster accidentally attached
> the wrong image. Do you have a reason to think otherwise?
Well, you can ring their phone number and see what happens? (Which
could be a big bill.) I sort of wondered the sa
Michael D. Setzer:
> Noticed a number of lines in the message log that repeat this?
NB: Please write the whole message in the message, don't start in the
subject line then continue in the message.
In the past, I've noticed remnants of live boot things end up in hard
drive installs, and wondered i
On Sat, 2022-04-23 at 10:19 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> ome searching around found that people noticed this ten years ago,
> and it's something dynamic dns-related.
>
> There was no configuration option to turn it off when people were
> talking about it. There was only a compile-time option. I
On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 10:49 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> If thats the case, I would expect them to mail list owners and
> explain it... so far they have not done so.
If I'd made that kind of mistake, I'd be too embarrassed to try again.
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On Sun, 2022-04-24 at 10:48 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> The scriptlets will set /etc/resolv.conf to point to the
> systemd-resolved resolver if:
>
> * The /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't exist yet
> AND
> * systemd is being used to boot (so, it's not a container, etc)
> AND
> * systemd-resolved ser
On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 14:50 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> You make me curious what experience in open source maintenance you
> have.
I got involved in the mailing lists for non-open source programs on the
Amiga, that'd be in the 1990s, where some program authors were
promoting user-input. W
On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 10:41 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> you did make sure to umount it on Linux/BSD before removing it right?
>
> And if you hibernate the machine(any os) and remove the usb device
> while hibernated the filesystem may not be consistent, it has to be
> explicitly unmounted on both
On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 06:38 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> Alsa allows referencing sound devices by name, instead of the slot
> they were put into. That *should* allow pipewire to know which
> device to use no matter which slot it is put in at boot, so it
> shouldn't be necessary.
As far as I'm c
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 08:05 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> The only reason systemd-resolved exists is because glibc caches
> /etc/resolv.conf when a process performs its first DNS lookup. Having
> the means to have an existing process become aware that its been
> changed, and it should reread it
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 19:10 +, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote:
> I read this article
> https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/fedora_starts_to_simplify_linux/
> The question is whether we can still use old laptops. I have an HP
> 6710b and it works very well at the moment with Fedora 36.
I think
On Thu, 2022-04-28 at 11:10 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Very old nvidia drivers may not be available through rmpfusion but
> drivers back to the 304 series for Geforce 6 chips are still
> available on nvidia.com. You just download and install the rpm.
It was always bad news to install drivers d
On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 10:21 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Raspberry Pi in particular is problematic and outside Fedora's
> control, somewhat similar to nVidia GPUs. There are undocumented
> things, closed source blobs, etc. that make it hard to reliably
> support Pi. It's really unfortunate that th
Dave Stevens:
>> what if you try libreoffice7.3 --base
Robert Moskowitz:
> [rgm@lx140e ~]$ libreoffice7.3 --base
> bash: libreoffice7.3: command not found
> [rgm@lx140e ~]$ libreoffice --base
> [rgm@lx140e ~]$
>
> No dice. May be time to open a bug report???
I would try typing the beginning of
On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 02:02 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> I am finding many applications that I use are no longer being
> supported on Fedora or there are not enough people working to keep
> applications updated. I have started to use SNAP software to get
> current versions or applications at all.
On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 11:30 -0700, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
> My first thought is to do a general tidying up of the software by
> uninstalling, then reinstalling a fresh copy of the latest version
> of the code. Of course, before doing any such work, one should make
> a safe copy of all of the types
Matti Pulkkinen:
>> Gnome Software, at least, will happily update both your RPMs and
>> your Flatpaks.
George N. White III:
> But only when the stars are properly aligned. It is more accurate to
> say the intention is that Gnome Software will update both (using
> packagekit).
>
Oh the irony of
On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 08:48 -0700, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
> The Flatpak works across all supported Fedora versions - you don’t
> have to update trailing versions of Fedora for people to use the
> newest application version.
The same can be said about RPMs: They work across all supported
versions, a
On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 12:58 -0800, Fred wrote:
> Is it even possible to create an Access Database using Linux?
> Especially anything that could be kept in sync? Importing tables and
> queries is one thing but for using day to day??
On that kind of thing, a commercial application has zero interest
On Tue, 2022-05-10 at 09:21 -0600, home user wrote:
> Unfortunately, neither Times New Roman nor Vivaldi are available in
> Fedora-35. So I need a step 3: to convert the fonts to choices that
> are available in Fedora-35, and are expected to be available for a
> long time to come. It's that last
Tim:
>> There are are lookup tables that allow automatic substitution of
>> unavailable fonts. You can configure your own choices in them, so
>> when you load a file with missing fonts it substitutes your choice
>> when it displays it. You don't have to modify the document.
Bill:
> I looked at t
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 10:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The first thing the intro to gnome 42 tells me is to use the "Super"
> key. There is no key labelled "Super". Some hint about alternate
> names might help the newbies the intro is presumably designed
> to help (experimentation revealed it was
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote:
> I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not
> adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first
> converting the word-2010 documents to word-2016. Writer could not
> adequately handle those. Either way,
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 11:26 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I type quite a lot in Spanish, so I use dead keys for accents, thus:
> ' a -> á
> ' e -> é
> and so on. For other characters such as ¿ or ¡ I use a combo (Shift-
> AltGr-_ and Shift-AltGr-! respectively).
I tried dead keys, but it ma
Tom Horsley:
>> I don't even try to make my fingers work, I just look up special
>> characters on the web and cut and paste them from the browser :-).
>> (Obviously I don't need them a lot).
Roberto Ragusa:
> kcharselect from KDE also includes the ability to search for the char
> description
The
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> If the installation is GUI-based, would it make sense to show
> drawings of the Mac/Windows keys in the install/setup instructions,
> so new/forgetful users know what to look for?
Yes it would. But it doesn't mean programmers think that
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 07:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> LaTeX and ConTeXt source files are plain text, and with markup is
> intended to convey structure. The choices for fonts and
> "decorations" are provided in "styles". Publishers often provide
> their own styles to authors.
That's ho
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 10:23 -0600, home user wrote:
>> By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font
>> selection tools?
I can't say I've noticed that, but I haven't installed lots of fonts
recently. It's many years since I went on a font binge. I can think
of a few things:
The top
Tim:
>> I just wish they put the damn lights next to their keys, so it's
>> obvious which was which. My laptop is even worse, it has them
>> hidden behind a grill, so they're almost invisible.
Tom Horsley:
> My logitech MX keys keyboard has the indicator light build into the
> button (but it isn'
On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 08:47 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> My questions:
> 1. Is there another way to enable fractional scaling? (Gnome and
> Wayland)
In my opinion scaling is a bad hack to avoid properly sizing a GUI to
the current screen resolution and dimensions, and produced no end of
r
On Sat, 2022-05-14 at 07:42 -0600, James Szinger wrote:
> Try markdown if LaTeX is too complicated. Markdown is a simple,
> text-based markup language that can be automatically converted to
> other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, PDF, and MS Word.
I may have another look at these. I don't partic
Tim:
>> In my opinion scaling is a bad hack to avoid properly sizing a GUI
>> to the current screen resolution and dimensions, and produced
>> no end of rendering side effects when I messed with it in the past.
Anil Felipe Duggirala:
> I don't know what you mean by "end of rendering".
"no end of
On Sun, 2022-05-15 at 10:30 -0800, Fred wrote:
> I had to manually install the optional packages
Likewise. The ones people commonly want, and are required for them to
run are a basic installation.
It will probably change depending on which spin you install. One might
use the basic defaults, ano
On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 19:02 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> One of their motherboards keeps locking up on me. After some back and
> forth their last reply ended the discussion thread with a:
>
> # Since we do not fully support and validate Linux, we cannot offer full
> # support on Linux. Please t
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 19:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> the problem is, I have four monitors and I am never completely
> sure which one is the one causing problems. I have gone through a
> bunch of screensavers and have run across a handful that seem to peg
> the CPU. I don't recall seeing this
On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:23 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> Anyone else seen this? Anyone who can give a pointer on what to
> check?
Do you have more than one screensaver installed?
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Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> My screen blanks after 30 seconds of idle.
On a tangential note: What kind of slave driver thought a 30 second
timeout was appropriate for a screensaver? Work damn you, work, no
slacking off! I'm sure there's a Dilbert cartoon about that kind of
thing somewhere.
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Tim:
>> On a tangential note: What kind of slave driver thought a 30 second
>> timeout was appropriate for a screensaver? Work damn you, work, no
>> slacking off! I'm sure there's a Dilbert cartoon about that kind
>> of thing somewhere.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I don't have a dog in this fight, b
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 19:50 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> Some of your old working systems may be irreplaceable antiques to
> people still using old instruments. Even broken systems may be
> valuable sources of spare parts. It may be worth checking for
> listing of your models on for sale si
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
> are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bo
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> If they are unused, you don't need to use single-user mode. Just
> run fdisk on the cli or gparted or Gnome disks in the gui. Delete
> all the unused partitions and create a new one with the free space.
Even though you're only modifying unu
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
> they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
Terrible GUI design if it doesn't give you some indication that the
name's been truncated. Are users supposed to aro
Tim: [re duplicates of some fonts]
>> That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
>>
>> [tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold
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