VNC shows black screen

2019-03-16 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I am trying to get Tiger VNC working on a home machine running Fedora 29 with latest patches applied. I can connect and provide user's password but the screen is blank. On initial connection I got the Welcome Window that asked for keyboard style and such, but when I closed that window nothing b

Re: F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server

2019-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks very much! I guess that was it. Ranjan On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:40:24 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 17:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have > > set the http and https as my prox

Can't use MATE desktop with F29

2019-03-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,   I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29.  I installed th Gnome Classic and MATE desktops.  When the system boots up and I login using the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled.  A message appears saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it goes away

Re: F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server

2019-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 17:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have set > the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what I am > doing wrong? > > I am not quite sure what additional information to po

F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server

2019-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have set the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what I am doing wrong? I am not quite sure what additional information to post here, so please feel free to ask. Many thanks for any help and be

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 03/16/19 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: Just exactly that line and that's the right file.  However, I would suggest using a different number to avoid conflicts with the real localhost entry.  Anything starting with 127 works, but you can use "127.0.0.2 fonts.googleapis.com" for example.  I have

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/16/19 9:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote:   I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. . How do you do that? Google produced a suggestion

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:18:09 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > From time to time I've seen web pages where the headers claimed > UTF-8 encoding, but the actual text on the page was some windows > encoding (determined experimentally by display the text in > various codings till one of them made sense). I

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:37:52 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote: > > I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many > > web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages > > because it is so convenient. > . > How do you do th

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 03/16/19 11:55, stan via users wrote: I do block google fonts so they can't track me that way, and many web pages use all the free tracking tools of google on their pages because it is so convenient. . How do you do that? Google produced a suggestion to add "127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.c

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:55:24 -0700 stan via users wrote: > I'll keep an eye out, and if I run into a web page that shows the > problem, I'll post it here so experts like you can possibly track down > what is happening. From time to time I've seen web pages where the headers claimed UTF-8 encoding

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-16 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:31:41 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > Well, to even start to debug it, you'd have to mention some particular > webpage addresses that are failing. I was going to put some examples in, but when I went looking for web pages that had the problem, I couldn't find any. :-) > Co

Re: Can't play video dvd

2019-03-16 Thread Ger van Dijck
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:25:11 +0100, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2019, Paolo Galtieri sent: There is something about "Free Solo" which appears to confuse all 3 video players I've tried on F28. That's no surprise. Some authors deliberately create broken DVDs in an a

Re: F28 - Thunar crashes regularly

2019-03-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2019, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Thunar crashes regularly. Over time, Thunar has turned into a real mess. Just use Nautilus, as I do. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedo