firewall-applet
This is a little early since Fedora 18 will not be officially out until tomorrow. Did anyone test firewall-applet on a gnome desktop? On a kde desktop? I also tried xfce and there is got an applet on the panel. I am sure this is something about gnome shell or kde it it sure is not obvious Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Tor and Tor Browser repository for Fedora 17 and 18
On 01/17/2013 12:21 PM, Jamie Nguyen wrote: Hi, I'm the maintainer for Tor package on Fedora EPEL. I've set-up a (GPG signed) repository for Fedora 17 and 18 with Tor Browser RPM packages. It optionally includes SELinux protection for the Tor Browser. (Tor client/server already has SELinux protection on Fedora.) wget https://jamielinux.com/pub/jamielinux-tor-release.noarch.rpm yum install ./jamielinux-tor-release.noarch.rpm yum install tor tor-browser tor-browser-selinux More info here: https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/tor-and-tor-browser-repository-on-fedora/ Your packages need more work (at least on F18). Those to.service files you stuck under /usr/lib/systemd/system/ are old "init.d" scripts and not systemd. They do not work. That also says that not much testing was done. Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 19, Gnome 3, and Session Management
When I first updated to Fedora 19 I got a bit of a surprise. I have used a number of different desktops of the years but have settled on gnome. This included changing over to Gnome 3 and the gnome-shell when it became available. In previous years I had used session management and the capabilities to save running applications at logout (or as a special session save) to be restarted at login. I used this "session restore" to start all of the applications that I wanted running. Many of these applications were gnome-terminal windows coming up on different directories. So, with Fedora 19, I was surprised when no gnome-terminals restarted. I little investigation revealed that none were restarted because the session information was not saved even if the gnome-session-properties.option was enabled. This saving and restart did work on Fedora 18 where gnome-terminal-3.6.1 was installed but not Fedora 19 with gnome-terminal-3.8.4. Doing some research into the commits in the gnome-terminal git, I found that the eggSMClient support was removed in December 2011 and GtkApplication was installed in March 2012. This second part is important because, with gtk 3.4, gtk supports logout notification and negotiation similar to EggSMClient -- https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.7/gtk-migrating-smclient-GtkApplication.html However, it appears that Gnome 3 applications which include at least gnome-terminal and gedit are NOT supporting saving the session at logout. But, I cannot find any statement that this specific decision has been made. There is an old gnome bugzilla "discussion" https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79285 and a new low priority rfe https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704676 but I have come the the conclusion that perhaps the correct solution is to NOT save the session. My "new" thinking is to use gnome-session to define some new autostart applications for the applications I want running at login time. For applications such as thunderbird and firefox, I can use gnome-shell-extension-auto-move-windows to place those applications on specific workspaces/desktops. For the mutiple gnome-terminal windows I want started, I can use a combination of the --geometry=COLxROW+X+Y and execution of "wmctrl -s " to place a gnome-terminal window on a specific desktop. There might be a better way to specify the desktop for an application but I do not know what that might be. Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
connecting to Kindle Fire HD
I had a difficult time connecting to my kindle fire HD and really could not find much information on how to do it so when I did figure it out (or, rather when the magic did happen), I thought I would put something out and save others some time. 1. Update to Fedora 19 ... you need libmtp and gvfs-mtp (and, of course, the whole set of gvfs packages that goes with running gvfs). There is no gvfs-mtp for Fedora 18 which was part of my original problem. 2. I have nautilus managing my desktop and "Show mounted volumes" explicitly turned on. 3. After connecting my kindle, I had to logoff and logon again [so that "puff" the magic could happen] for the kindle to be recognized and mounted. That is nice. Now if only the kindle fire HD 8.9 handled (displayed) PDFs as well as my kindle-dx with the failing battery. Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Installing bootloader to sba1
On 09/08/2013 08:30 AM, Doctor Who wrote: I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where' other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi boot, so I would like the boot loader to be installed on /dev/sdb1. Is this possible to specify during the install? If so, how? Thanks. Yes, it is possible to specify installation into a partition rather than the MBR. However, this is NOT recommended with grub2 because there "may" not be sufficient space for what grub2 wants to put there and things may get screwed up. My solution is to have multiboot is to have one grub2 system installed into the MBR and then boot the other systems from there. This can be done either using osprobe (which may have stopped working in F20) or creating you own little scripts in /etc/grub.d/40_custom Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
/var/lib/libvirt/images on BTRFS (it works!)
Some of you may be interested in running your qemu-kvm (or other) disk image files on BTRFS. After some fumbling around, I have found out how to do it so it works and works very well (especially if it is on an SSD). Anyone investigating running on BTRFS immediately finds out that there is a fragmentation problem (just putting image files on btrfs can result in them having between 50,000 and 100,000 extents). Some may have seen that adding nodatacow to the mount option is a solution ... it is not. So what is the solution? 1. execute: chattr +C /var/lib/libvirt/images or wherever your image files are. This needs to be done on the directory whether you have a separate subvol or not. 2. This ONLY works for new files and ONLY works for "raw" storage format files. Pretty much by definition, qcow2 files are sparse format files and that is the primary problem on btrfs. So that the vm creation wizard will create a new disk using the raw storage format, you need to select: Edit->Preferences->VM Details->Default Storage Format->Raw After that, a created virtual will have the correct disk format. You can use "filefrag" to verify that things are working. Gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
