Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/29/18 00:09, Beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > I haven't yet in this case, but I will, yes. Any two pair of eyes > will indicate an intersection of their lines of sight, but redundancy is > often convenient, especially if the cursor has snu

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2018 02:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/29/18 00:09, Beartooth wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> I haven't yet in this case, but I will, yes. Any two pair of eyes >> will indicate an intersection of their lines of sight, but redundancy is >> o

Re: VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 16:34 +, Beartooth wrote: > This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference > between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? (Somewhat hand-wavy explanation follows): The usual terms are 'display manager' and 'desktop environment'. Recall

Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/29/18 00:09, Beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > I haven't yet in this case, but I will, yes. Any two pair of eyes > will indicate an intersection of their lines of sight, but redundancy is > often convenient, especially if the cursor has snu

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/29/18 03:25, home user via users wrote: > I don't know what a "panel meny" He mis-typed.  "panel menu" is what he meant -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2018 12:25 PM, home user via users wrote: > I use Gnome (mostly) and KDE (rarely). I'm not familiar with Mate; I don't > know what a "panel meny" is. But no, you don't need to reboot. If you have the xorg-x11-apps RPM installed, on Mate you can right-click on the panel, select "Add to

off-topic : Adobe reader doesn't show file window

2018-06-28 Thread Antonio M
as Adobe Reader cannot be fully replaced by evince or other application, I note that if I start Acroread and I use the File/open menu, it doesn't work. Using acroread name_of_file in a terminal it works. Any idea? sorry for the off-topic Antonio Montagnani Linux Fedora 28 Workstation da/from Gmail

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread home user via users
I use Gnome (mostly) and KDE (rarely). I'm not familiar with Mate; I don't know what a "panel meny" is. But no, you don't need to reboot. Regardless of which user name I log in as, I launch xeyes from ".bash_profile", and put it into the background. This way, the xeyes process and display is

Re: VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2018 10:01 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/28/2018 09:34 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference >> between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? > > It is confusing. The easiest way to think of it is the display manager > (c

Re: VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2018 09:34 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference > between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? It is confusing. The easiest way to think of it is the display manager (called the "DM") is what is presented to you after the

VDQ "dm"

2018-06-28 Thread Beartooth
This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? I'm trying to run MATE on F28, and succeeding to the extent that I do have a more or less MATE-like GUI, but only by grace of still having an F26 rescue kernel.

Re: Display Manager and applets

2018-06-28 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/28/18 00:25, Beartooth wrote: >> Unless I'm more confused than usual, I'm currently running lxdm >> (set to MATE) on F28. I'm glad to have a display manager that works; >> but it denies me the two applets I use most. I normally res

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-28 Thread ja
On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 21:25 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/25/2018 07:11 AM, ja wrote: > > Currently it is not known how the fedora installer determines which boot > > mechanism to use. > > What do you mean? If you boot using UEFI, it will install in the EFI > partition. If you boot using l