Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Doug
On 05/11/2014 09:24 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 19:36 -0400, Doug wrote: 2. If I do, is XP still subject to viruses like it was when it stood alone? Yes, it would be. The virtual machine acts as a "virtual machine." It emulates an actual machine as much as is possible. So what runs

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 19:36 -0400, Doug wrote: > 2. If I do, is XP still subject to viruses like it was when it stood > alone? Yes, it would be. The virtual machine acts as a "virtual machine." It emulates an actual machine as much as is possible. So what runs, runs, including malware. You can

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 11, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, > but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now. > > I found when I did this on a CentOS machine > I was unable to get back to Linux, > and had to re-install CentOS. > I don't un

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/12/14 07:39, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Ed Greshko writes: >> I found this for gnome/gdm. Maybe it will be useful for you if you use gdm? >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/gnome-run-script-on-logout-724453/ > I may have to do that. Thanks. Welcome. Sorry

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 10, 2014, at 5:50 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: >> >> This is true. My laptop's MS Windows XP doesn't seem to like GPT. Not >> sure about anything more recent. I only use the XP partition to load >> updated firmware on consumer devices, so I'm not

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Ed Greshko writes: > I found this for gnome/gdm. Maybe it will be useful for you if you use gdm? > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/gnome-run-script-on-logout-724453/ I may have to do that. Thanks. Strikes me as an oversight that one has to hack a file together and

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 9, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > The one limitation with GPT as I understand it is that in order to use GPT > you must also have UEFI active in the Bios. No. First, BIOS ≠ UEFI they are not the same thing and it's easy to remember because there's nothing basic about UEFI. S

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Doug
On 05/11/2014 11:19 AM, fedora wrote: Ever considered to install W XP as a VM on linux? I was successful with both of them (XP and 7) installed on VirtualBox in Linux. suomi On 2014-05-11 17:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, but I'd like t

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/12/14 07:16, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/12/14 00:52, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Any ideas? Do I have to keep track of the PID myself and find a logout >> hook to hang a kill -HUP onto? Does .bash_logout or .logout even get >> called? > FWIW, I know you're running cinnamon, I just had to

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/12/14 00:52, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Any ideas? Do I have to keep track of the PID myself and find a logout > hook to hang a kill -HUP onto? Does .bash_logout or .logout even get > called? FWIW, I know you're running cinnamon, I just had to go back and figure out what I did several

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/12/14 06:42, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Ed Greshko writes: >> In your .bash_logout file you could place a "killall" statement and >> name the process you want to kill off. See the killall man page. > Are you seeing .bash_logout called when you exit a desktop session? I > don't, but the

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Ed Greshko writes: > In your .bash_logout file you could place a "killall" statement and > name the process you want to kill off. See the killall man page. Are you seeing .bash_logout called when you exit a desktop session? I don't, but then our setups might differ a bit. (I'm using f20 w. cin

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_BIOS_systems I'm not sure if I completely understood the advice in this URL, or rather you would apply it, as you say, with a Live CD. As I understand it, I boot my Live Fedora USB stick, open a term

Re: stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/12/14 00:52, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > I'd assumed that the apps started by cinnamon when I logged in would > also be killed when I logged out. That doesn't seem to be the case for > non-X11 programs that hang around forever and watch files. Those > programs just get passed off to PID

Pulseaudio volume control crashes sound

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was trying to make a call on skype, and they couldn't hear me ( I guess I need to plug in a microphone;-) but in the process I ran the PA volume control, or tried to. It started, brought up a window saying something like " trying to talk to sound server, or connecting to sound server... I forget

Re: Sound not working on 3.12.x and 3.13.x kernels for Fedora 20

2014-05-11 Thread dwoody1
On 04/30/2014 10:08 AM, dwoody1 wrote: On 04/30/2014 08:42 AM, dwoody1 wrote: On 04/30/2014 05:25 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 04/29/2014 06:30 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: I see the pulseaudio volume meter telling me that it's playing, I see the level varying, etc., but nothing from the speaker

stopping cinnamon-started apps at logout

2014-05-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I'd assumed that the apps started by cinnamon when I logged in would also be killed when I logged out. That doesn't seem to be the case for non-X11 programs that hang around forever and watch files. Those programs just get passed off to PID 1 when one logs out and continue on their merry way til

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 11.05.2014 17:14, schrieb Timothy Murphy: I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now. I found when I did this on a CentOS machine I was unable to get back to Linux, and had to re-install CentOS. I don't understand why, as I ha

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 11 May 2014 at 16:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Timothy Murphy Subject:Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop Date sent: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:14:39 +0100 Organization: Trinity College D

Re: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread fedora
Ever considered to install W XP as a VM on linux? I was successful with both of them (XP and 7) installed on VirtualBox in Linux. suomi On 2014-05-11 17:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now. I

Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

2014-05-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now. I found when I did this on a CentOS machine I was unable to get back to Linux, and had to re-install CentOS. I don't understand why, as I had saved and re-installed the MBR. Am I wrong i

Re: Has anyone else's sound broken today?

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 05/11/2014 05:21 AM, Someone wrote: > This happened to me some weeks ago, and it just happened again: I > rebooted, and sound simply doesn't play. I'm running the LXDE spin, and > I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this issue. I wasn't sure my microphone was working properly, so I tried t

Has anyone else's sound broken today?

2014-05-11 Thread Someone
This happened to me some weeks ago, and it just happened again: I rebooted, and sound simply doesn't play. I'm running the LXDE spin, and I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this issue. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: Tips on burning to Bluray (BD-R) media under Fedora 20

2014-05-11 Thread poma
On 09.05.2014 08:00, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 14:37 -0500, Steven Ulrick wrote: >> I eventually found out that I messed up when I bought this drive... >> It can't burn Bluray discs. > > The same kind of thing happened when DVDs came out - there were a few > CD-burner/DVD-reader combo

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 May 2014 02:23, wrote: > Liam Proven writes: >> >> >> It will only install on NTFS, not FAT32 (& is too big to fit onto a >> FAT16 volume) but that's an entirely different issue. > > > A Fedora list is the last place I'd expect to get into an argument over what > Windows would install on. >

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.05.2014, Alan E. Davis wrote: > The biggest question for me is this: is it a kernel issue that I am only > seeing two governors, when other OSs see 4? First: I do not run Fedora kernels, and therefore I don't know how they are configured. The "problem" you describe is most probably cause