Re: F24 and general problems (fonts, GNOME extensions...)

2016-10-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/24/2016 06:12 PM, Alex wrote: Another issue relates to gnome-tweak-tool and GNOME extensions. When the system is idle for a few minutes, the screensaver is enabled and a password is required to unlock it. I used gnome-tweak-tool in the past to disable this, but it's been enabled again. G

F24 and general problems (fonts, GNOME extensions...)

2016-10-24 Thread Alex
Hi, I've just upgraded from fedora23 to fedora24 on my desktop, and the fonts have changed. They now appear to be much smaller by default, and perhaps not as well-defined (anti-aliased?). I don't even know where to start to troubleshoot this issue. I've been using Linux for decades, but haven't f

Using screen on fedora24

2016-10-24 Thread Alex
Hi, I've just upgraded from fedora23 to fedora24 on my desktop. For some reason now when I run GNU screen, it no longer sets the hostname in the footer at the bottom of the screen. I typically start screen like this, from a terminal window: [alex@sage ~]$ ssh-agent bash [alex@sage ~]$ ssh-add Ent

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/24/2016 03:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/24/2016 02:34 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> >> Yes, I get that. But why would it be better for the scheduler to start >> up database servers on multiple hosts and allow them to compete for a >> lock, rather than pick one host to start the database and

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2016 02:34 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Yes, I get that. But why would it be better for the scheduler to start up database servers on multiple hosts and allow them to compete for a lock, rather than pick one host to start the database and start one instance? The former is what JD is sugg

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/24/2016 02:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: A database running on a server probably doesn't want more than one process to be modifying it at any given time. Yes, I get that. But why would it be better for the scheduler to start up database servers on multiple hosts and allow them to compete for

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2016 01:28 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: I honestly can't think of any good reason to spawn multiple children that compete for a lock to do work, when the process that's starting them*should* have adequate information about which clients are active and which are idle, and can use that infor

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 24.10.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:41:37 +0200 Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: I am totally bewildered now: I just wanted to interrupt delivery of mails for four weeks (going on a visit to India), wanted to edit my subscription correspondingly like I did for years. C

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Parallel server processes: > The server process might be coded so that for each request, it forks a child > process to serve the request. > Now, child processes have to compete for a lock on the list of files to be > served, one of the children will

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:41:37 +0200 Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > I am totally bewildered now: I just wanted to interrupt delivery of > mails for four weeks (going on a visit to India), wanted to edit my > subscription correspondingly like I did for years. Couldn't log in to > anything (trying m

Re: Off Topic- Architectural Question..

2016-10-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 10/22/2016 03:13 PM, bruce wrote: > I've thought of having a "pid" file on the nfs, where each clientApp > would reset/lock/use the pidFile to then get/use/delete the file as > required, but this seems tb slow.. but doable. I would experiment with using the atomicity of the filesystem rename.

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
I am totally bewildered now: I just wanted to interrupt delivery of mails for four weeks (going on a visit to India), wanted to edit my subscription correspondingly like I did for years. Couldn't log in to anything (trying my Google account). I choose to reset my password and received a passwor

Re: Splash screen -

2016-10-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:57:29 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > For the last several versions of Fedora, back to F-22 and probably > before that, when I starttxfce the xffce splash screen I selected is > displayed for less than a second and immediately replaced by an ugly > gray screen with a "spinnin

Splash screen -

2016-10-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
. For the last several versions of Fedora, back to F-22 and probably before that, when I starttxfce the xffce splash screen I selected is displayed for less than a second and immediately replaced by an ugly gray screen with a "spinning worm" in the center that just does nothing else for perha

cut & paste to virtual machine in x2go session?

2016-10-24 Thread Tom Horsley
Obscure question here: If I start a virtual machine on my desktop at home, I can "cut" stuff from other windows on my desktop and "paste" it into windows inside the virtual machine display in virt-viewer. If I access that same desktop system remotely via an x2go session, then doing a "cut" in som