Re: altered behavior opening hyperlink after F37 upgrade

2023-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:33:06AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 00:30 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: I use a mate/compiz desktop environment.  Typically I have 6 workspaces available with 3 to dedicated tasks.  WS#1 is my primary terminal windows.  WS#2 is firefox and WS#3

Re: auto-hibernate?

2023-01-18 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 16:38 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On further reflection I'm more than half convinced that the problem has > nothing to do with the keyboard. One detail I omitted to mention is > that my display is connected via a HDMI switch, and when the system > comes back after hibe

booting fedora project image

2023-01-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
I have tried to boot from Fedora's g'ziped tarball on GCP. I find it hard to understand how to do this. GCP's instructions seem vague Videos I find on youtube also seem to be old and out of date. I know you upload this to a bucket but how do you get it to a VM to install and boot? Is anyone fam

Re: Switching a Stadia controller to Bluetooth

2023-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 12:13 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The Google Stadia online gaming service is shutting down, and Google > have released an update to the game hardware controller to enable it > to > be used as a Bluetooth device with other platforms. See: > > https://stadia.google.com/

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread home user
On 1/18/23 11:59 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:51:36 -0700 home user wrote: The string "Videos" was not found anywhere in what the "mimes" website mentioned. Videos is just the name the .desktop file for the application says to call it so you won't know the actual name :-).

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC". [SOLVED]

2023-01-18 Thread home user
On 1/18/23 11:43 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/18/23 08:05, home user wrote: not a professional sys. admin. f36; Linux 6.0.18; gnome 42.2 last patched ("dnf upgrade") Thursday, Jan. 12 Good morning, When I put a commercial video DVD into my tower's disc player, gnome launches "Videos".  But in t

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:51:36 -0700 home user wrote: > The string "Videos" was not found anywhere in what the "mimes" website > mentioned. Videos is just the name the .desktop file for the application says to call it so you won't know the actual name :-). Poking around in my /usr/share/applicati

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread home user
On 1/18/23 9:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:05:38 -0700 home user wrote: Thank-you in advance. Definitely don't thank me, but this page I wrote up long ago might be a place to start increasing your confusion enough to be sure you'll never understand how to get it to do what

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/18/23 08:05, home user wrote: not a professional sys. admin. f36; Linux 6.0.18; gnome 42.2 last patched ("dnf upgrade") Thursday, Jan. 12 Good morning, When I put a commercial video DVD into my tower's disc player, gnome launches "Videos".  But in the gnome "Settings" tool, it's set to la

Re: auto-hibernate?

2023-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 12:37 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > When I wake the system I don't normally touch the keyboard until I > see > the screen come alive, as just moving the mouse is usually enough. > And > this only started happening with the new kb, never before. Not easy > to > narrow dow

Re: unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:05:38 -0700 home user wrote: > Thank-you in advance. Definitely don't thank me, but this page I wrote up long ago might be a place to start increasing your confusion enough to be sure you'll never understand how to get it to do what you want :-). https://tomhorsley.com/gam

unsettling settings: "Videos" launches instead of "VLC".

2023-01-18 Thread home user
not a professional sys. admin. f36; Linux 6.0.18; gnome 42.2 last patched ("dnf upgrade") Thursday, Jan. 12 Good morning, When I put a commercial video DVD into my tower's disc player, gnome launches "Videos".  But in the gnome "Settings" tool, it's set to launch "VLC media player" for videos. 

Switching a Stadia controller to Bluetooth

2023-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
The Google Stadia online gaming service is shutting down, and Google have released an update to the game hardware controller to enable it to be used as a Bluetooth device with other platforms. See: https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_GB.html Basically, you plug in the controller on a US

Re: altered behavior opening hyperlink after F37 upgrade

2023-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 00:30 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I use a mate/compiz desktop environment.  Typically I have > 6 workspaces available with 3 to dedicated tasks.  WS#1 is > my primary terminal windows.  WS#2 is firefox and WS#3 is > thunderbird and calendar. > > Sometimes I will highlight a w