Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/28/18 08:01, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Is the plugin you're talking about really relevant?  The description of it >> says: >> >> This plugin is automatically installed by Mozilla to comply with the WebRTC >> specification and to enable WebRTC calls with devices that requir

News: gparted may be supporting LUKS pretty soon

2018-04-27 Thread ToddAndMargo
Hi All, GParted may be supporting LUKS partitions in the near future. Yippee! -T https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627701 Comment # 71 on bug 627701 from Mike Fleetwood Raised Bug 795617 "Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings" to capture code changes for the next step in

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Ed Greshko wrote: > Is the plugin you're talking about really relevant?  The description of it > says: > > This plugin is automatically installed by Mozilla to comply with the WebRTC > specification and to enable WebRTC calls with devices that require the H.264 > video codec. > > It doesn't app

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I distinctly recall that the automatic download and install of the external > plugin was explicitly disabled in Firefox, a year or so, ago. I was able to > find this thread in the archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-November/thread.html#19117

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/28/18 07:42, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Todd Zullinger writes: > >> Samuel Sieb wrote: >> > On 04/27/2018 01:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> >> I installed the f27 packages in f28 to test and that was >> >> not sufficient for H.264 on youtube though.  That might >> >> be the same thing you did.

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/27/2018 01:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> I installed the f27 packages in f28 to test and that was >> not sufficient for H.264 on youtube though. That might >> be the same thing you did. (I just changed $releasever >> in the fedora-cisco-openh

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/27/2018 01:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> I installed the f27 packages in f28 to test and that was >> not sufficient for H.264 on youtube though. That might >> be the same thing you did. (I just changed $releasever >> in the fedora-cisco-openh264 repo to 27 to install.

Re: Fedora 27: Remmina and VNC incoming connection

2018-04-27 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno ven, 27/04/2018 alle 15.33 -0700, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: > The change has been reverted so VNCI will be back whenever the > Fedora > packager updates remmina next. Ok. Thanks! -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 27 Workstation)___

Re: Fedora 27: Remmina and VNC incoming connection

2018-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/27/2018 03:28 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno gio, 19/04/2018 alle 09.48 -0700, stan ha scritto: Open a bugzilla against remmina package at the address below. Open: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572701 The change has been reverted so VNCI will be back whenever the Fedor

Re: Fedora 27: Remmina and VNC incoming connection

2018-04-27 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno gio, 19/04/2018 alle 09.48 -0700, stan ha scritto: > Open a bugzilla against remmina package at the address below. Open: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572701 -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 27 Workstation)___ users

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: That package is now in the rpmfusion-free repo for f28, on the master rpmfusion mirror. It should sync out to other mirrors in the next few hours/days. Thanks to Nicolas Heh, so I guess I manually installed the rpmfusion rawhide repo, in order to get another laptop u

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/27/2018 01:38 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: I installed the f27 packages in f28 to test and that was not sufficient for H.264 on youtube though. That might be the same thing you did. (I just changed $releasever in the fedora-cisco-openh264 repo to 27 to install.) Did you check that the plug

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/27/2018 07:26 AM, D&R wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 Tom H wrote: sudo -s sudo su sudo su -l sudo sh sudo sh -l sudo bash -l ... None of the sudo commands listed allow you to run a graphical program ie. meld. Is there some way to do that? Wayland does not let applications r

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/27/2018 05:13 AM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I suppose that's true, but in that case, there's probably a larger issue involved and you'll likely need a live boot of some sort anyway. There is one case where this does become a problem. If dracut runs i

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Todd Zullinger writes: > >> Except that you can't at the moment. :) >> >> That's what I was saying in my reply to Sam. The >> compat-ffmpeg28 package is not in the rpmfusion-free >> repositories for f28. This is most likely just a matter of >> things needing to be sync

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:24:36 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/26/2018 07:50 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:56:22 -0700 > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >> and utterly awesome and loveable) self. > > > > what?? what??? > > Are you saying I'm not awesome and lovable (des

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:26 AM, D&R wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/27/2018 07:26 AM, D&R wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wro

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/26/2018 07:50 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:56:22 -0700 > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> and utterly awesome and loveable) self. > > what?? what??? Are you saying I'm not awesome and lovable (despite my misspelling)? That kind of hurts (insert pouty face here). However, the r

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:22:12 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >>> On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I'm curious what you f

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. >>> >>> If I need to do more t

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 01:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >>> >>> Good to know that it will always be there. Habit for me is to use root >>> and su instead of sudo. old dog - new tricks :-) >> >> Same here. If I ever had to

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >> >> Good to know that it will always be there. Habit for me is to use >> root and su instead of sudo. old dog - new tricks :-) > > Same here. If I ever had to work with Ubuntu, one of the first things > I'd do

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 1:25 PM, stan wrote: > I think I remember reading that there will be no default root account > after install of F28 or later. For Fedora 28 Workstation. > Again, I think I remember the workaround was to use sudo, and then > create a root account with useradd. The root

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Todd Zullinger writes: Except that you can't at the moment. :) That's what I was saying in my reply to Sam. The compat-ffmpeg28 package is not in the rpmfusion-free repositories for f28. This is most likely just a matter of things needing to be synced from what was in the rpmfusion-free-rawh

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread AV
On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 14:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:03:58PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I installed Virtual Manager in this Fedora 27 workstation system > > and > > created afedora 28 beta installation and was surprised to find I > > haveonly user bobg, no root a

Re: H.264 video broken after updating to Fedora 28

2018-04-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 21:41 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading to Fedora 28, most of Youtube is broken in Firefox, claiming > lack of H.264 codec support. I know I'm wasting my breath, but F28 is not yet released, so this is a question for the Fedora Test list, where people who migh

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

2018-04-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 17:21 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > The window manager (WM, such as mutter, xfwm4, uwm, etc.) is what > manages the desktop environment's windows, decorations, themes and the > like. Each environment has its preferred WM (Gnome likes mutter, Xfce > prefers xfwm4). It should be

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-27 Thread Bob Marcan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:09:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/26/2018 01:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. > > > If I need to do more than one or two things as root, it's easier to > > > > beco