Re: Firefox - how to lose top bar / title bar - ?

2022-08-14 Thread lejeczek via users



On 13/08/2022 22:58, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 8/13/22 01:05, lejeczek via users wrote:

How to lose title bar in current version of Firefox.

I have my user whose Firefox "profile" I kept for many 
years as Fedora & Firefox kept updating - there I have no 
title-bar.

I sudo to another user and title-bar is there.


I'm pretty sure it's because you're running it over an X 
connection so it doesn't use client-side decorations.

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correct - I can confirm what with su/sudo Firefox defaults 
to: Window Protocol    x11
I wonder why would that be - is it su/sudo which would not 
handle this "correctly"?
I also tried: MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 in sudoed-to user but 
that seems to change nothing.


I wonder if this is perhaps Wayland's "issue"?

a candidate for BZ?

thanks, L.

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Re: puzzling message/suggestion during weekly patches. [SOLVED]

2022-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 16:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 8/13/22 07:48, home user wrote:
> > On 8/12/22 3:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 13:43 -0600, home user wrote:
> > > > On 8/11/22 12:39 PM, home user wrote:
> > [... snip ...]
> > > 
> > > AFAIK Fefault Fedora Workstation installs don't have sendmail. I
> > > know
> > > mine certainly doesn't as there's no need for it, so I wonder why
> > > your
> > > system even has it installed.
> > > 
> > > poc
> > 
> > Patrick,
> > 
> > It was apparently a part of the initial Fedora install on this 
> > workstation a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away:
> 
> A long time ago, sendmail was part of the default install.

I think I remember that. Be that as it may, this is why I suggest a
reinstall might be in order. This is the kind of thing that an update
is never going to remove, because some package has been configured to
use it. The fact that said package could be reconfigured to not use it
is beyond dnf's capabilities, which is understandable.

poc
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Re: remote-viewer initial screen size?

2022-08-14 Thread ToddAndMargo via users

On 8/12/22 01:16, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:

Hi All,

With remote-viewer, is there a way to set the initial
screen size on start up?

Not finding it in:
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-remote-viewer/

Many thanks,
-T


I just added:

RFE: remote-viewer, please add command line window size
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118117
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Re: remote-viewer initial screen size?

2022-08-14 Thread Barry


> On 14 Aug 2022, at 12:56, ToddAndMargo via users 
>  wrote:
> 
> On 8/12/22 01:16, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> With remote-viewer, is there a way to set the initial
>> screen size on start up?
>> Not finding it in:
>> https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-remote-viewer/

>> Many thanks,
>> -T
> 
> I just added:
> 
> RFE: remote-viewer, please add command line window size
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118117

You need to ask remote-viewer devs to add this not fedora.
After that fedora can update its package.

Barry

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Re: remote-viewer initial screen size?

2022-08-14 Thread ToddAndMargo via users

On 8/14/22 04:56, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:

On 8/12/22 01:16, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:

Hi All,

With remote-viewer, is there a way to set the initial
screen size on start up?

Not finding it in:
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-remote-viewer/

Many thanks,
-T


I just added:

RFE: remote-viewer, please add command line window size
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118117


And:

RFE: remote-viewer, please add command line window size option

https://gitlab.com/virt-viewer/virt-viewer/-/issues/87
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Re: Current Fedora version of ImageMagick is from 2017

2022-08-14 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:30 AM Bob Marcan  wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:45:13 -0300
> "George N. White III"  wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:52 PM Paul Smith  wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to all who have answered! GraphicsMagick seems to be a good
> > > alternative to ImageMagick -- thanks for the suggestion.
> > >
> >
> > I use *Magick command-line tools (convert, etc.):  I don't get them from
> > GraphicsMagick:
> >
> >  % doas dnf provides /usr/bin/convert
> > Last metadata expiration check: 3:14:26 ago on Fri Aug 12 05:25:01 2022.
> > ImageMagick-1:6.9.12.44-1.fc36.i686 : An X application for displaying and
> > manipulating images
> > Repo: fedora
> > Matched from:
> > Filename: /usr/bin/convert
> >
> > ImageMagick-1:6.9.12.44-1.fc36.x86_64 : An X application for displaying
> and
> > manipulating images
> > Repo: fedora
> > Matched from:
> > Filename: /usr/bin/convert
> >
> > ImageMagick-1:6.9.12.52-1.fc36.i686 : An X application for displaying and
> > manipulating images
> > Repo: updates
> > Matched from:
> > Filename: /usr/bin/convert
> >
> > ImageMagick-1:6.9.12.52-1.fc36.x86_64 : An X application for displaying
> and
> > manipulating images
> > Repo: updates
> > Matched from:
> > Filename: /usr/bin/convert
> >
>
> http://www.graphicsmagick.org/GraphicsMagick.html
>
> gm animate [ options ... ] file [ [ options ... ] file ... ]
> [...]


The Debian/Ubuntu world has a compatibility package that provides Graphics
Magick versions of the
ImageMagick tools  My use cases are very basic so I hope the differences
with GraphicsMagick won't
cause problems.

Fedora requires some effort to avoid editing legacy scripts and makefiles
(that are shared with other users
so need to work across multiple platforms).  I  created a /usr/local/gm/bin
directory with a bunch of links to
"all.sh": that has "exec /usr/bin/gm ...".  and use environment modules to
add the new gm/bin directory to the
path when needed.

-- 
George N. White III
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Re: Firefox - how to lose top bar / title bar - ?

2022-08-14 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 8/14/22 01:16, lejeczek via users wrote:



On 13/08/2022 22:58, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 8/13/22 01:05, lejeczek via users wrote:

How to lose title bar in current version of Firefox.

I have my user whose Firefox "profile" I kept for many years as 
Fedora & Firefox kept updating - there I have no title-bar.

I sudo to another user and title-bar is there.


I'm pretty sure it's because you're running it over an X connection so 
it doesn't use client-side decorations.

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correct - I can confirm what with su/sudo Firefox defaults to: Window 
Protocol    x11
I wonder why would that be - is it su/sudo which would not handle this 
"correctly"?
I also tried: MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 in sudoed-to user but that seems to 
change nothing.


I wonder if this is perhaps Wayland's "issue"?


You can't connect to Wayland when you su because of permissions.  Well, 
maybe you could make it work if you share the $XAUTHORITY file and set 
the environment variable.

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opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. 
I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would 
be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My 
allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and 
fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.


    I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have 
installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are stored 
in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.


    Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to save 
my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump 
would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have 
created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.


Bill

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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Barry


> On 14 Aug 2022, at 22:08, Bill Cunningham  wrote:
> 
> I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I 
> have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good 
> for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 
> 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and fsarchiver. There's 
> backing up with btrfs too.
> 
> I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have 
> installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are stored in the 
> root directory of the user(s) and root account.
> 
> Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to save my 
> rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump would 
> backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have created dump 
> backups but not really restored from scratch.

Have a look at duplicity, it works well.
I use it to back from to my file server.
You can use it to run frequently, I run it every hour.
That provides Mac like time machine features.

Barry

> 
> Bill
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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400
Bill Cunningham  wrote:

>      I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people
> use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that
> would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big.
> My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar
> and fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.
> 
>      I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have 
> installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are
> stored in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.
> 
>      Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to
> save my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or
> dump would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I
> have created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.
> 
rsync with directory-specific excludes. All directories to be backed-up
in their own partitions, so as to avoid rpm-loaded code, which can 
be restored from the web.
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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400
Bill Cunningham wrote:

> Does anyone use any of these or other backups?

My main backup is rsyncing everything to a big old NAS I put together
from an old PC and truenas software. I use the --link-dest option
to get a complete copy of everything on every backup (with 99% of it
just being hard links to the previous days backup).

Unless you are on dial up or something, the least of your problems
will be re-downloading all the rpms. I just keep a list of rpms
using:

 rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n" -a > f36-rpms.txt

and update it every day on cron (and that list gets backed up
along with everything else).
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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 17:08 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>  I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people
> use. 
> I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that
> would 
> be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My 
> allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and 
> fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.
> 
>  I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have
> installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are
> stored 
> in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.
> 
>  Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to
> save 
> my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump
> would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have 
> created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.

I used to use rsnapshot, which is basically a front-end to rsync, and
it worked pretty well. Nowadays I use BorgBackup because it does
compression and de-duplication. My backup device is a pair of old HDDs
mounted on a USB3 dock and formatted as a BTRFS filesystem with Raid-1.

poc
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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Emmett Culley via users

On 8/14/22 2:08 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:

     I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I have 
thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good for 
modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 30 Gig, 
and it's not full. There's dar and xar and fsarchiver. There's backing up with 
btrfs too.

     I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have 
installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are stored in the 
root directory of the user(s) and root account.

     Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to save my rpms 
and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump would backup 
things like /sys or other system directories. I have created dump backups but 
not really restored from scratch.

Bill


I've been using BackupPC for many years.  It can use rsync via ssh for remote 
backups or rsync directly for local (LAN) backup.  It can automatically dedup 
as well.

I use it to do daily incremental backups and weekly full backups for 12 
systems, Four locally and eight remotely.  A couple of years ago my workshop, 
office and server room was destroyed in a fire.  Because I had recent backups I 
was able to get the four servers I lost back on-line and fully functional after 
only a single day scrambling to get new hardware and rebuild the backup server. 
 Note that I send compressed archive copies to a remote server and that is what 
I used to restore the primary backup server.
 
I have never had a problem with backups and have successfully restored complete servers and individual filesor  directories for many years.  My current primary backup server is running on CentOS 7 and has been since CentOS 7 was first available, and on CentOS 6 before that.  My secondary backup server is on my local Fedora workstation.


I'll be building a new backup server, probably on Rocky Linux 9, soon.  I 
cannot imagine using anything but BackupPC.

As for you wanting to backup your system's RPM files, BackupPC can be 
configured to backup an entire server or workstation, or only parts of them 
including individual files.  For example I backup only /etc, /home and a few 
other critical directories on four servers, and for each of them I cause a 
daily database dump and create a list of packages currently installed, that 
also get backed up.  It can take longer to restore those servers, but as they 
are not critical infrastructure, I wouldn't matter much if they were down for a 
day or two while we procure and rebuild those servers.

https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/

Emmett

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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Aug2022 15:22, Emmett Culley  wrote:
>I've been using BackupPC for many years.  It can use rsync via ssh for 
>remote backups or rsync directly for local (LAN) backup.  It can 
>automatically dedup as well.

We had a client using BackupPC. Maybe for a single PC it works well.  
They were backing up several (well over 10) PCs to a NAS. It hammered 
the system in both I/O and CPU. Combined with some (old kernel) 
filesystem bugs, it would mangle the filesystem. It seems to do the 
rsync protocol _in Perl_ at the BackupPC end, and uses an elaborate 
hash-named file tree for the deduplication function. It needed a special 
web interface to browse/restore.

It kind of works, but does not scale.

Now we use histbackup (disclaimer: a script of my own similar in use and 
implementation to rsnapshot). The backups are MUCH faster and we haven't 
had the (again, ancient kernel) filesystem bugs at all. because even 
though we run the backups in series, it is still much faster.

Basic scheme is:
- a directory per target (machine:subdir)
- timestampted hardlinked subtrees in each of the targets
Hardlink the previous backup to a new tree for today's backup, rsync 
from the target into the new tree.

rsnapshot does the same kind of thing and modern rsync even has a mode 
to do the "new hard link tree and sync" part of this as a command line 
switch.

The trees are just... directory trees you can cd around in etc.

We NFS export them from the NAS read only so they can be directly 
browsed. Because its NFS, the UIDs etc are identical and therefore 
people can't brwose stuff they can't browse in the live filesystems 
anyway.

These days I use this script:
https://github.com/cameron-simpson/css/blob/main/bin-cs/run-backups
for my personal backups. I'm usually prepared to rebuilt an utterly 
failed machine instead of restoring an OS from backup.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson 
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Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 14 Aug 2022 at 17:08, Bill Cunningham wrote:

Date sent:  Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
From:   Bill Cunningham 

Subject:opinions: backups
Send reply to:  Community support for Fedora 
users 

>      I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. 
> I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would 
> be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My 
> allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and 
> fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.
> 
>      I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have 
> installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are stored 
> in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.
> 
>      Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to save 
> my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump 
> would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have 
> created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.
> 

There have been a lot of replies, but I'll add an option 
that probable isn't a full solution. I've been the 
maintainer of G4L project on sourceforge since 2004. I 
build in on my Fedora 35 system at moment for next 
version. Last release version was built on Fedora 34. 

It is a bare metal backup system by default, making disk 
or partition backups that can be restored. Basically a dd 
image compressed using lzop or gzip. Can back to local 
disk or via network (default is ftp using ncftp). Does have 
fsarchiver include, but only tested it once. Had a user 
request adding it, so didn't and did hear it worked will for 
him. But being a bare metal backup, it copies everything. 
Clearing unused sectors before greatly reduces size of 
image. Using lzop is faster than using gzip, and image 
only slightly larger. Do a image every few months, but 
use rsync to copy critical directories between machine for  
things that need more often backups..

Recently migrated 3 machines from regular hard disk to 
ssd disk using clone option. With 1T drives it took 4 to 7 
hours, so speed is dependent on unbuffers speed. Made 
the mistake of hooking an ssd disk via a usb 2 adapter on 
the one that took 7 hours, but notebook only had 1 disk 
bay..

Kernels are built from source kernel.org, and try to 
include most disk and network controller. Boots from CD, 
or from USB, and can be added to a regular grub2 menu 
with 40_custom addition. Has a UEFI boot option, but 
haven't figured how to do a UEFI boot from grub2 setup.

Is text based using dialog screen.

Before retiring used it at college a lot. Could restore 
Windows 10 partition in about 10 minutes. Whole disk 
took about 45 minutes with Windows 10 and Fedora.
Also, used udpcast to image one system in lab to other 19 
machines using the multi-cast in about 45 minutes.

There is also G4U, Clonezilla and other similar programs.


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