Re: Emulate3Buttons -

2016-10-15 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/14/2016 05:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 15:11 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >I find emulate 3 buttons for cop/paste essential. I usually add: > > > >Section "InputClass" >

Emulate3Buttons -

2016-10-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf however that has no effect with Fedora 25 beta. Can someone tell me how to add this function. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7 FEDORA-24/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

Re: Firefox steals display -

2015-09-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 09/25/15 15:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 09/25/2015 07:50 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: It still "steals" the Thunderbird screen. Very annoying to click on a link and suddenly be confronted with a different screen. Does anyone know what I can do to change this. Did those changes work

Firefox steals display -

2015-09-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
"steals" the Thunderbird screen. Very annoying to click on a link and suddenly be confronted with a different screen. Does anyone know what I can do to change this. Other than that I /have configured the XFCE spin to look the way I want it as usual and things "just work." / Bob

Re: A DNF problem -

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/05/15 04:58, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: This morning's dnf update results in a number of error messages and fails to complete: I did dnf distro-sync and then dnf clean metadata and the update completed. Now to reboot to run the updated kernel ... Bob -- Bob Go

A DNF problem -

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
12 03:54:34 2015. python: /builddir/build/BUILD/libsolv-99edb54e18f4971f50a359803633f44fdeb08428/src/solver.c:2403: solver_run_sat: Assertion `dq.count > 1' failed. Aborted (core dumped) Do I have a problem in my equipment? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-30 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
iPhone text messages are displayed without any problem. I don't know what is causing the problem with the F-22 on the other drive. However I the other drive will be cleared and used for something else. Hopefully the problem was "cured with a re-install!" What can I say, sorry for the n

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-27 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/26/15 22:03, Ed Greshko wrote: I think you should change the wording to say "the text won't display in F22 for me".:-) :-) As I don't see any issue, maybe others will try what I did and confirm that it works or doesn't work for them. Yes, I agree, I have this problem and it may be un

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/25/15 13:36, poma wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ2X82555 It seems to be designed to last 5 years, just as manufacturer warranty is.;) 5 years, I didn't check that. It should have six months to go, maybe I can return it? I'll check on that ... -- http://w

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/25/15 13:08, poma wrote: On that page, click on the "Descendants build" link: "buildArch (thunderbird-31.6.0-1.fc22.src.rpm, x86_64)" You'll find there a link for: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm Next you know what to do? Good, Thunderbird is now ver. 31.6.0 per Help > About ...

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/25/15 13:08, poma wrote: What exactly is the hard drive - vendor & model? . The failed drive was a WD Black, WD6401AALS, Date: 21 Oct 2010. It was a "refurbished" bargain, as best I can remember, from Newegg and I used it for a couple of years. -- http://www.qrz.com/db/w2bod box1

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/25/15 12:54, poma wrote: "This system updated today, Thunderbird 31.5.0 can not display text" > arm build failed http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9492463 so the overall build was stated as failed You are beta tester? No, I had a hard drive fail, had to re-install, and

Re: Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/25/2015 12:25 PM, poma wrote: This system updated today, Thunderbird 35.5.0 can not display text >messages sent from an iPhone. https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/thunderbird/?C=M;O=D Where is Thunderbird 35.5.0? Sorry, I mistyped that "This system updated today, Thunderbird 3

Can't display text messaging -

2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
This system updated today, Thunderbird 35.5.0 can not display text messages sent from an iPhone. Message source shows the following: Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:22:11 + MIME-Version:1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; type="application/smil"; boundary="__CONTENT_64564_PART_BOUNDARY__332432

grub -

2015-04-23 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
Can I simply delete "rhgb quiet" in order to show what's happening during the boot process, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= ? I hesitate to make a change and find that I can't boot the computer ... [bobg@box10 ~]$ cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/sy

Re: Copy/paste problem -_-

2015-04-23 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/23/2015 12:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: F22 does not use evdev any more. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg I don't know if it's possible to do middle button emulation in this way with libinput, CCing Hans. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey I don't oft

Re: Copy/paste problem -_-

2015-04-23 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/23/2015 07:56 AM, poma wrote: On 23.04.2015 13:29, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/23/2015 06:49 AM, poma wrote: man 5 xorg.conf ... DESCRIPTION Xorg uses a configuration file called xorg.conf and files ending in the suffix .conf from the directory

Re: Copy/paste problem -_-

2015-04-23 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/23/2015 06:49 AM, poma wrote: man 5 xorg.conf ... DESCRIPTION Xorg uses a configuration file called xorg.conf and files ending in the suffix .conf from the directory xorg.conf.d for its initial setup. The xorg.conf configuration file is searched for in the foll

Copy/paste problem -

2015-04-23 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
At least to me it is impotent that I have a convenient copy/paste routine without a lot of complicated clicking here and there. From my notes: To make 2-button copy/paste work in F-14 add the following section to: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf - Section "InputClass" Ident

Fedora-21a -

2014-11-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have an updated F-21 alpha that is working well. Is it any different than F-21 beta and eventually the final release? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: Grub boot order -

2014-10-10 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/10/14 04:29, Christopher Meng wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I now have three kernels listed in grub. What is the correct way to make it > boot from the newest? I changed GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to GRUB_DEFAULT=0. That > moved it from the oldest t

Grub boot order -

2014-10-10 Thread Bob Goodwin
I now have three kernels listed in grub. What is the correct way to make it boot from the newest? I changed GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to GRUB_DEFAULT=0. That moved it from the oldest to the second, not the latest as I expected. I did run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and as I said I saw a c

Re: test request: kernel 3.17 for F21

2014-10-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/09/14 02:25, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi, folks! It'd be great if people could test this kernel: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.17.0-301.fc21 -- Adam Williamson Yum update installed kernel-3.17.0-300.fc21 early this morning. I haven't done much on that computer since but

Re: Password not recognized - LightDM U.P.G.R.A.D.E.

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/08/14 17:09, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 17:14 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 10/07/14 16:24, poma wrote: > > LightDM-1.12.0 works OK, there is no need for "Until fixed, you can do the following:".:) > > U.P.G.R.A.D.E. >

Re: Password not recognized - LightDM U.P.G.R.A.D.E.

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 16:24, poma wrote: LightDM-1.12.0 works OK, there is no need for "Until fixed, you can do the following:". :) U.P.G.R.A.D.E. poma As for me I can live with what I have until there's a Fedora rpm or a yum update. I prefer text to the graphic default, will eventually change to m

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 15:46, Gene Czarcinski wrote: I have/had the problem with lightdm after recent updates. Something in lightdm (what you get with xfce) is broken. Until fixed, you can do the following: yum install -y lxdm systemctl --force enable lxdm.service Reboot and select the

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 11:49, Adam Williamson wrote: >Ok, I repeated the re-boot test and have new data but it is 1638 lines! >Do you want that here? You can post it tohttp://fpaste.org/ and link here. -- Adam Williamson Well if this works as expected you should find a copy of the log at: *Shortened UR

Re: Password IS recognized - upgrade LightDM

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 11:43, poma wrote: Man, there's no need to apologize, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but beware of health in the first place. After all, you're the oldest among all of us here. $ rpm -q lightdm BTW, you ain't gonna find the latest&greatest LightDM version, but you can download it

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 11:05, Adam Williamson wrote: You need to run it as root to get the full set of logs. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. 'journalctl -b' gets the logs from the current boot, 'journalctl -b-1' gets the logs from the previous boot, and so forth. -- Adam Williamson Ok, I repeated the re

Re: Password IS recognized - upgrade LightDM

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 10:50, poma wrote: Have you considered the possibility to read the message? poma What part of the message did I not read? I thought I read the whole thing but sometimes you obscure vital bits of information. I am reading a number of messages on two computers, taking phone calls

Re: Password IS recognized - upgrade LightDM

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 09:44, Paul Cartwright wrote: > How do I determine what version of lightdm is installed? > > Bob > yum list lightdm Loaded plugins: langpacks Installed Packages lightdm.x86_641.10.2-1.fc21@updates-testing -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #3

Re: Password IS recognized - upgrade LightDM

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/07/14 05:59, poma wrote: > [bobg@box7 ~]$ systemctl show display-manager -p Id > Id=lightdm.service > > Bob How do I determine what version of lightdm is installed? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/06/14 20:34, poma wrote: systemctl show display-manager -p Id [bobg@box7 ~]$ systemctl show display-manager -p Id Id=lightdm.service Bob # uname -a Linux box7 3.16.3-302.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 26 14:27:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- test mailing list test@lists.f

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/06/14 19:13, Adam Williamson wrote: Look at the logs from the current boot around the time you tried to log in graphically. You should see some kind of error indicating what's going wrong with the graphical login. -- Adam Williamson I've just switched on and booted this computer. Graphic

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/06/14 14:05, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 12:48 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I've "fixed the problem" by eliminating the login gui and reverting to a "runlevel 3" type text boot screen. I prefer that anyway. This morning&#

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/06/14 12:55, Michael Cronenworth wrote: You should not have to start X or start DEs by hand. Yes I know that. I am trying to determine if I am a unique case. It may be that no one has booted since this morning's update? I reboot after every one. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD b

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/06/14 12:43, Adam Williamson wrote: Does logging in at a console (ctrl-alt-f2) work? I haven't seen this, but then I haven't rebooted for a couple of days... Yes that did work but it protested about starting xfce, it required "startxfce -- :1" From there on I could do what needed to be do

Re: Password not recognized -

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 10/06/14 10:47, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have an updated Fedora 21 alpha that has worked perfectly until this morning's update. I rebooted and it no longer recognizes my password at the GUI loin screen. I does recognize me from this F-20 computer as bobg or root vi

Password not recognized -

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have an updated Fedora 21 alpha that has worked perfectly until this morning's update. I rebooted and it no longer recognizes my password at the GUI loin screen. I does recognize me from this F-20 computer as bobg or root via ssh. I thought perhaps caps lock was on but no? Is it just me ? B

Re: Setting wireless network printer issue

2013-01-04 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/01/13 04:35, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: No luck. On my network, HP eStation ip address is 192.168.1.67 with network name HPFFBBC9. Somehow, hp-setup does not detect the printer presence in wireless netowrk (it did on F17). I am puzzled why hp-setup failed on F18. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Grap

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - Solved

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/12/12 07:06, Sam Varshavchik wrote: . On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <mailto:bobgood...@wildblue.net>bobgood...@wildblue.net> wrote: I have a new Fedora-18 64 bit XFCE Live install and and I find that ctrl+alt+backspace does

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -

2012-12-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/12/12 08:24, Scott Robbins wrote: Last I remember you could create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or add this if the file exists.) Ah, I see it's deprecated. Ok, apparently typing setxkbmap -optio9n terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp might work . Yes, that does the trick, ran the command and Ctr

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -

2012-12-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 31/12/12 05:12, Frank Murphy wrote: How can I change that? > > Bob Read the reply you got on the user list? -- Regards, Frank Did that but did not find a menu item specifically for ctrl+alt+backspace or anything similar. Tried setting to US International, even rebooted, st

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -

2012-12-31 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have a new Fedora-18 64 bit XFCE Live install and and I find that ctrl+alt+backspace does not work. Is that expected? I need that function with my equipment. I have two Saitek illuminated keyboards the have done strange things when I switch the color/brightness since F-16. After