Fedora's memtest option doesn't work, but found something that seems to??

2022-01-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
I've noticed for a while running memtest from grub2 menu just gives a blue screen and locks machine. Had a similar issue running it from grub4dos, but found running syslinux memdisk and then running program worked, but exact same thing didn't work with grub2?? So, just tried using the iso versu

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 18:50, Raman Gupta wrote: > Off the top of my head the tools that are either completely broken or > partially broken on Wayland that work fine on X11. > > * Google Meet > * Zoom > * MS Teams > * Slack screen sharing > * Discord screen sharing > > and then there are the vario

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
Off the top of my head the tools that are either completely broken or partially broken on Wayland that work fine on X11. * Google Meet * Zoom * MS Teams * Slack screen sharing * Discord screen sharing and then there are the various broken desktop sharing apps: * TeamViewer * AnyDesk * Chrome Rem

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/7/22 13:37, Michael Hennebry wrote: Much of my problem seems to have been that when I decided to try making wtf.desktop a global application, the bad wtf.desktop in my directory was seen first. Gnome never even looked at the global version. That will do it. Local configuration almost alwa

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Tom Horsley wrote: For what it is worth: On one of my systems I have this .desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/cura.desktop Which looks like: Thanks. I will keep it around for reference. Much of my problem seems to have been that when I decided to try making wtf.des

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/7/22 10:34, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm starting to think that my copy of gnome might be broken. I have two files wtf.desktop and vicious.desktop that are identical except for the Name field. vicious.desktop shows up and wtf.desktop does not. If I use mv to exchange the files, vicious.deskto

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/7/22 08:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've not done anything to change the default. Perhaps we are using "menu" differently. I have no .directory files. If I click on "Activities" in the upper right corner, I get a column of icons, at the bottom of which is 9 dots. Clicking on that, I see a s

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 7, 2022, at 11:16, stan via users wrote: > > Thanks for the information, but you lost me at the multiple EFI > executables in different directories. How would boot know which > executable to choose? I thought it was the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora that > cued it that this is the system to boot.

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Tom Horsley
For what it is worth: On one of my systems I have this .desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/cura.desktop Which looks like: [Desktop Entry] Name=Cura Exec=/usr/local/bin/Ultimaker_Cura-4.12.1.AppImage Type=Application Terminal=false Categories=Graphics; StartupNotify=true Comment=Cura 3d pr

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Joe Zeff wrote: On 1/7/22 11:34 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm starting to think that my copy of gnome might be broken. I have two files wtf.desktop and vicious.desktop that are identical except for the Name field. How did you create the two files? Did you start off with

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 09:50, Raman Gupta wrote: > It's very unfortunate in this day and age of remote working that screen > sharing is > so broken on a modern Linux desktop. Back to X11 for me as well. > For many users, screen sharing is no longer the preferred option for remote work because the

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/7/22 11:34 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm starting to think that my copy of gnome might be broken. I have two files wtf.desktop and vicious.desktop that are identical except for the Name field. How did you create the two files? Did you start off with one, edit it to change the Name fiel

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Michael Hennebry wrote: The column of icons mentioned in a previous post now includes an icon for every window I have open. Makes for a narrow column. Went away after I closed and re-opened firefox. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm starting to think that my copy of gnome might be broken. I have two files wtf.desktop and vicious.desktop that are identical except for the Name field. vicious.desktop shows up and wtf.desktop does not. If I use mv to exchange the files, vicious.desktop shows up and wtf.desktop does not. I hav

Re: how do I an application to show up on gnome's menu?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Samuel Sieb wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I don't use the menus. They aren't on by default and I don't find them useful. The application does show up in the overview. I did enable the menu extension and I can't figure out how to get it to show up in there. However, if

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:09:42 -0500 Jonathan Billings wrote: > But you can have multiple EFI volumes, and with boot loader spec > configuration, you don’t need a lot of special configuration in the > EFI volume anymore, so I bet you can get away with multiple EFI > executables in different directo

Re: Screen sharing: global solution for Wayland that works for all apps

2022-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
It's very unfortunate in this day and age of remote working that screen sharing is so broken on a modern Linux desktop. Back to X11 for me as well. For anyone else on KDE making the switch, keep in mind the workaround in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385135. On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:56 PM

Re: Does Wayland and x11 should be delete from my program?

2022-01-07 Thread Dorian ROSSE
I found some meaning of viruses for xcb and Wayland... Must I remove from thoses programs? For x11 it is a need of Marcos ! Thanks you in advance for your answer, Regards. Dorian Rosse. From: Dorian ROSSE Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 11:32:04 AM To: fedora

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 14:13, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:25:10 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:12:04 -0500 > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > that sounds interesting, but don't you also need separate / > > > partitions with all the release specific sof

Does Wayland and x11 should be delete from my program?

2022-01-07 Thread Dorian ROSSE
Hello, I have build some programs with Wayland and x11 but too xcb, Does thoses programs are some viruses ? Thanks you in advance for your answer, Have a nice end of week from the France it is twelve to twent nine here and the sun shine, Regards. Dorian Rosse. _