Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > If the installation is GUI-based, would it make sense to show > drawings of the Mac/Windows keys in the install/setup instructions, > so new/forgetful users know what to look for? Yes it would. But it doesn't mean programmers think that

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Tim via users
Tom Horsley: >> I don't even try to make my fingers work, I just look up special >> characters on the web and cut and paste them from the browser :-). >> (Obviously I don't need them a lot). Roberto Ragusa: > kcharselect from KDE also includes the ability to search for the char > description The

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 11:26 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I type quite a lot in Spanish, so I use dead keys for accents, thus: > ' a -> á > ' e -> é > and so on. For other characters such as ¿ or ¡ I use a combo (Shift- > AltGr-_ and Shift-AltGr-! respectively). I tried dead keys, but it ma

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-12 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote: > I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not > adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first > converting the word-2010 documents to word-2016. Writer could not > adequately handle those. Either way,

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/12/22 17:45, olivares33561 via users wrote: I am running Gnome and had a command in ~/.bash_profile to compose setxkbmap -compose ralt key to put a ñ I used ~ and n but it does not work anymore :(. What is the magic incantanation? I am using Tom's technique copy paste from web browser. B

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread olivares33561 via users
Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. Sent with ProtonMail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 10:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 07:50 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > > > > I type quite a lot in Spanish,

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
12.05.22, 23:32 +0200, Patrick O'Callaghan: One thing I've always admired about the MacOS UI (among a bunch of things I don't like about it) is the keyboard widget, which is always available. Click on it and you get the layout of the keyboard, but it's *dynamic*. Press Shift, Ctrl, Command etc.

Nvidia open sources some kernel GPU drivers

2022-05-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/nvidia-takes-first-step-toward-open-source-linux-gpu-drivers/ It's a first step at least: Nvidia is specifically releasing an open source kernel driver under a dual MIT/GPL license and is not currently open-sourcing parts of the driver that run in

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 12:36 AM Tim via users > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 10:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > The first thing the intro to gnome 42 tells me is to use the > > > "Super" > > > key. There is no key labelled "

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 19:58 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 5/12/22 5:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2022 07:50:31 -0700 > > Mike Wright wrote: > > > > > When I can't find what I need > > > > I don't even try to make my fingers work, I just look up special > > characters > > on th

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 12:36 AM Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 10:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > The first thing the intro to gnome 42 tells me is to use the "Super" > > key. There is no key labelled "Super". Some hint about alternate > > names might help the newbies the intro i

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/12/22 13:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/12/22 07:50, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/12/22 03:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote: You define some key to be your compose key (e.g. the right logo key), then you tap it and two character keys, one after

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/12/22 07:50, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/12/22 03:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote: You define some key to be your compose key (e.g. the right logo key), then you tap it and two character keys, one after another, to compose a character out o

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 5/12/22 5:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2022 07:50:31 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: When I can't find what I need I don't even try to make my fingers work, I just look up special characters on the web and cut and paste them from the browser :-). (Obviously I don't need them a lot).

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 07:50 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > > I type quite a lot in Spanish, so I use dead keys for accents, > > thus: > > ' a -> á > > ' e -> é > > and so on. For other characters such as ¿ or ¡ I use a combo > > (Shift- > > AltGr-_ and Shift-AltGr-! respectively). I also defined the S

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 12 May 2022 07:50:31 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > When I can't find what I need I don't even try to make my fingers work, I just look up special characters on the web and cut and paste them from the browser :-). (Obviously I don't need them a lot). __

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/12/22 03:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote: You define some key to be your compose key (e.g. the right logo key), then you tap it and two character keys, one after another, to compose a character out of symbols that look like what you want

Re: Problems with ssh after upgrade to F36

2022-05-12 Thread Jouk
Setting the crypto policies dis not help. So I will have to install the f35 version. Jouk ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: Global Ambassador Call 2022-05-18, you coming?

2022-05-12 Thread Luna Jernberg
Hey! Have time and will try to be there, also coming to the Online Release party that starts tomorrow and goes on over the weekend On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:55 PM Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > Hola, Amigos! > > Let's start by congratulating ourselves on the fabulous feature-packed > Fedora 36. >

Global Ambassador Call 2022-05-18, you coming?

2022-05-12 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hola, Amigos! Let's start by congratulating ourselves on the fabulous feature-packed Fedora 36. As a part of the celebration, we have a Release Party coming up and even you can join/host something in your area! More of that later, Today we announce the dates and time for our next Global Ambassado

Re: Problems with ssh after upgrade to F36

2022-05-12 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 12 May 2022 08:43:39 +0200 (CEST) "Jouk Jansen" wrote: > L.S. > > After upgrading to F36 I have problems accessing the F36 server with > ssh form OpenVMS machines. The problem is probably (again) that > OpenVMS only supports "old" keys. In the past I added the following [snip] > This wor

Re: First 5 minutes with f36

2022-05-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > You define some key to be your compose key (e.g. the right logo key), > then you tap it and two character keys, one after another, to compose > a > character out of symbols that look like what you want to achieve (or > are otherwise memorabl