Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-12 Thread George Avrunin
On 11/12/23 13:19, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Thank you for this: downgrading emacs for me to 28.3 (F38) gets rid of > the problem that I was having, and that is, that emacs 29.1 can not load > a file for me (without emacs -Q). > > With emacs -Q in 29.1 (F39), I can load the file all right,

Re: recommendations, pros/cons for Fedora mail clients supporting OAUTH2 with GMail?

2022-06-21 Thread George Avrunin
thanks. George -- George Avrunin, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9305 413-545-4251 http://www.math.umass.edu/directory/faculty/george-avrunin pgps5CMfId7IZ.pgp Descript

Re: recommendations, pros/cons for Fedora mail clients supporting OAUTH2 with GMail?

2022-06-20 Thread George Avrunin
ble to get claws-mail to work with my university account even with 2-step verification and an app password. As I mentioned, I can make thunderbird work, but the last time I used it, I didn't like it very much. So I was wondering what people think about it now or what other suggestions peop

Re: recommendations, pros/cons for Fedora mail clients supporting OAUTH2 with GMail?

2022-06-20 Thread George Avrunin
aybe I could get away with it briefly, or at worst wait it out until December with Thunderbird or something and then use fetchmail this way. ;-) This kind of approach is certainly very tempting if it can be made to work. George -- George Avrunin, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and

recommendations, pros/cons for Fedora mail clients supporting OAUTH2 with GMail?

2022-06-20 Thread George Avrunin
might work, including more up-to-date views of Thunderbird, Evolution, etc. Thanks for any other ideas or comments. George -- George Avrunin, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9305 413-545-4251 ht

Re: "Restart is required" notification won't go away despite multiple restarts

2021-10-13 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:24:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > try running > > pkcon refresh force I actually removed PackageKit, which stopped the notifications. But I'll keep this in mind in case it gets confused on another machine or I have some reason to reinstall it on this laptop. Thanks. Ge

Re: "Restart is required" notification won't go away despite multiple restarts

2021-10-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:48:10 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > How do you do your system updates? > > From here, > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/why-does-fedora-34-a-reboot-after-every-update/15226 > it seems that kde plasma is now replicating the gnome behavior. You > might be able to turn t

"Restart is required" notification won't go away despite multiple restarts

2021-10-10 Thread George Avrunin
I have a Dell XPS 13" with a 3840x2160 screen running a fully updated Fedora 34 and use KDE with X, not Wayland. I believe this issue started after I connected the computer to a projector with a much lower screen resolution and had to fiddle with the display settings, though that could be a coincid

Re: machine suspending

2021-08-22 Thread George Avrunin
Following up here. Based on the discussion on systemd-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, it seems that this is due to gdm which imposes some Gnome defaults, including setting the machine to suspend after 20 minutes of inactivity (for some definition of inactivity?). There's some discussion of this, s

Re: machine suspending

2021-08-12 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:02:07 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I recently had a sort of similar problem because the XFCE screen saver > was active when I didn't have XFCE running. Perhaps you have more than > one screen saver, and the one you think isn't running is configured to > do your unwanted a

Re: machine suspending

2021-08-12 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:37:27 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yep > systemd-de...@lists.freedesktop.org I did post there. So far, one person says that on his machine (running Leap 15.3), it logs a lot of information when suspending or resuming and another notes that he sees, for instance, "Lid close

Re: machine suspending

2021-08-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 12:15:20 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yeah I have a bit of a gripe with systemd that it doesn't, by default, > insert the sleep request in the log. What exactly requested it? User > hit the power button? User closed the lid? Some service like apcuspd > requested it? I dunno, see

machine suspending

2021-08-09 Thread George Avrunin
My office workstation, a Dell Precision T1700 running Fedora 34 (mostly KDE when I'm at the machine), has been suspending itself after a power outage. This seems to be connected to a networking problem, but I don't really understand what's going on or where to look. It seems that the system tries

Re: Is Brave kicking you out too?

2020-09-02 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 13:57:38 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > I'm using KDE. Brave causes no problems except for breaking maybe one > Web site in twenty or twenty-five. But that's not a Fedora or KDE problem. > > Temlakos Also on KDE, Fedora 32, brave-browser-1.13.82-1.x86_64. No problem with the URL To

Re: how to control webcam.

2020-08-19 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:42:08 -, home user wrote: > (f31; gnome) > > I have a Ligitech HD Pro Webcam C920; it connects to the tower via USB > port. I have not been able to find anything installed to control it, > for example to get it to zoom in or out. I also tried dnf and > dnfdragora to t

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Audacity can't play audio on Fedora 32

2020-05-31 Thread George Avrunin
[Sreyan Chakravarty sent the reply directly to me, and apparently not to the list, but I'm moving the discussion back to the list.] On Sun, 31 May 2020 20:24:12 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/27/20 11:38 PM, George Avrunin wrote: > > I haven't used audacity in a l

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Audacity can't play audio on Fedora 32

2020-05-27 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:08:39 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On 5/27/20 9:52 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > So my guess would be it's a configuration issue. Perhaps they're not > > using pulseaudio, and are trying to use the hardware directly. > > Its interesting that you should say that beca

Re: "dnf upgrade" crashing machine

2020-04-29 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:08:44 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > installed 5.6.7 kernel on F32 machines and I thinkthat bug has been > solved. Please check also on your side Thanks. I did install 5.6.7 this morning (after switching disk schedulers to avoid crashing while installing the kernel).

Re: "dnf upgrade" crashing machine

2020-04-29 Thread George Avrunin
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:46:58 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The capsule summary here is that the system appears to lock up under high > I/O; either disk or network I/O. Doing a dnf upgrade puts a heavy load on > both disk and network I/O. Network I/O only in the case of the update itself >

Re: "dnf upgrade" crashing machine

2020-04-29 Thread George Avrunin
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:04:10 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > Andre Robatino posted a link to this bug awhile ago: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826091 > > That sounds like the symptoms you are seeing. It's a bug in the 5.6.6 > kernel. It should be fixed in the 5.6.7 kernel, whic

"dnf upgrade" crashing machine

2020-04-28 Thread George Avrunin
Fedora 31, fully upgraded (I think...) Summary: twice in the last three days (since getting kernel 5.6.6, though I have no idea if that's related), this machine has hung completely after running "sudo dnf upgrade" while logged in over ssh. It becomes completely unresponsive to the network and to t

Re: nvidia and zoom problem?

2020-03-26 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:21:15 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > External USB webcam? > Yeah, or just sharing a window from the laptop while reading the Zoom chat, the files I'm speaking from, etc., from the desktop.There are definitely workarounds. Thanks. pgpUv0VB_iTHm.pgp Description: Open

Re: nvidia and zoom problem?

2020-03-25 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:00:23 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > You don't mention if Wayland is involved. > > No Wayland, I'm running KDE with X11. ... > > Can you use an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard with the laptop (and > position > laptop for best camera placement)? > I probabl

Re: nvidia and zoom problem?

2020-03-25 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:46:05 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I didn't zoom was available for linux. If you go to zoom.us/download, you can get the app for Linux. The one for Fedora seems kind of old, though. > I'm using zoom under windows for > interactive meeting  while working from home and

nvidia and zoom problem?

2020-03-18 Thread George Avrunin
Like many universities, we are converting to working from home and doing only online instruction as of Monday. (This week is spring break and faculty get to use it to figure out how to make the online instruction work.) The campus has a Zoom license and we are urged to use that for class sessions

Re: F29 KDE weirdness

2018-12-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 23:29:35 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Upgraded to F29. On KDE desktop starting EMACS in a privileged command > window locks the system. Starting EMACS with sudo locks the system. On > XFCE4 normal EMACS access with privilege. > > Other file managers don't like ro

Re: Sticks with not lights

2018-11-06 Thread George Avrunin
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:07:22 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Rick: > > Thanks for reply. I went through a bunch on man pages that do not list > the -f option. After getting your email, I went looking for a bunch more > and finally found one that had the -f and -d option. > > I note that 'syn

Re: Dell laptop for Fedora (XPS 13 or Latitude 7490) or worthier alternatives?

2018-05-10 Thread George Avrunin
A couple of weeks ago, I got an XPS 13" 9370 with the 8th generation i7 and the same screen, SSD, and memory as the OP shows. On our university contract, I couldn't get the one with Ubuntu and had to take Windows (but Dell adjusted the price a bit so we didn't pay the full Microsoft tax). I delet

Re: selinux issue with dovecot after upgrade from F27 to F28

2018-05-03 Thread George Avrunin
Oops, I forgot to answer the question about the dovecot version: it's dovecot-2.2.35-2.fc28.x86_64, which is the latest available from the repos for F28. George pgpKfgfx2l2Yn.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- us

Re: selinux issue with dovecot after upgrade from F27 to F28

2018-05-03 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 3 May 2018 20:12:06 +0200, Lukas Vrabec wrote: > > > > Hi George, > > > > It's bug, What is your version of dovecot? We made some changes in > > policy to be more tighten, but Bug is on dovecot side. > > > > Check following comment: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560

selinux issue with dovecot after upgrade from F27 to F28

2018-05-03 Thread George Avrunin
I upgraded my office machine from F27 to F28 last night, using dnf system-upgrade. In most respects, the upgrade went fine. (There are some annoyances with sddm, but once I found out how to get rid of the user list in gdm, going back to gdm seems to be fine.) But I'm getting constant notices fro

Re: keyboard not bringing monitor back up after power management or dpms screen suspend

2016-07-04 Thread George Avrunin
On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 15:25:27 -0400, Lester Petrie wrote: > Yes, I see this also. I have a Dell desktop with AMD graphics. I have > turned screen blanking off, so that my screen saver runs all the time > after my machine goes idle. I hadn't discovered that switching to a VT > and back would activ

Re: keyboard not bringing monitor back up after power management or dpms screen suspend

2016-07-04 Thread George Avrunin
Some additional information: - The same thing happens on a very old Dell Inspiron (I think) desktop, also with Intel integrated graphics, that my wife uses. (But the two Precision workstations are less than 1.5 years old and the other machine is definitely more than 5 years old. ) - The p

keyboard not bringing monitor back up after power management or dpms screen suspend

2016-07-02 Thread George Avrunin
After upgrading to F24, I'm having the following problem. I have KDE Settings -> Power Management -> Energy Saving set to turn on "screen energy saving" after 10 minutes. This blanks the screen after 10 minutes of inactivity, as expected. (xset -q shows that DPMS is enabled, too, of course.) Pr

Re: sagemath problem

2016-02-01 Thread George Avrunin
On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:53:28 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Yesterday I dnf-installed sagemath on my Fedora-23/KDE laptop. > The brought over 200 packages and about 550MB with it. > Unfortunately when I run it I get the following error: > -- > [tim@william ~]$ sage > ┌

Re: Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-14 Thread George Avrunin
An addendum: konqueror (but not dolphin) supports the camera:/ protocol and can see the camera. And now (though this was definitely not true earlier, at least with F22--I'm not sure I even tried with F23), digikam can import from the camera. But the device notifier doesn't see any device, so it d

Re: Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-14 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:53:56 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > May or may not be related, but I had a similar issue with Gnome and my > MP3 player after upgrading to F21, not F22. So, it is probably a > slightly different, but likely a related issue. > > Anyway, my MP3 player is a USB storage devic

Re: Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:31:54 +, Ian Malone wrote: > I've also got a Canon not showing up, putting camera:// into the > dolphin address bar while it's connected works and I haven't got > around to finding out why it's doing this. Thanks, Ian. Just "camera://"? I tried that just now; when I h

Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-11 Thread George Avrunin
I have a Canon EOS SL1 camera (also known as an EOS 100D). With Fedora 20 and 21, when I connected the camera to a USB port, it was recognized and the KDE device notifier would ask whether I wanted to open it with the file manager or download photos with digikam. Digikam also recognized the camer

Re: digikam problem

2014-08-20 Thread George Avrunin
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:28:46 +0100, "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 17:51 -0400, George Avrunin wrote: > > I wrote to the digikam list about this a few days ago, but haven't > > gotten any response, so I thought I'd check here

digikam problem

2014-08-19 Thread George Avrunin
I wrote to the digikam list about this a few days ago, but haven't gotten any response, so I thought I'd check here before filing a bug. On a fully updated Fedora 20, I've had the following problems importing images from a Canon EOS SL1 since the update from digikam 3.5 to 4.0 (which I got July 26

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread George Avrunin
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:16:29 +0100, "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 12:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:48:38 +0100 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as > > > well, which is also

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:46:15 +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: > Don't install stuff manually when things have already been packages. > Fedora 18 features a complete TeXLive 2012 distribution; you can also > get it on Fedora 17 by Except that I think Fedora installs the versions from the TeX Live s

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:47:52 +, Tethys wrote: > I tried various > other options and ended up with ConTeXt, which I'm generally pretty > happy with. Except that it doesn't work on F17. At all. And yes, I do > mind migrating. For new projects, it's not so bad. But for already > published books, i

no zoom in korganizer?

2012-09-17 Thread George Avrunin
On a fully-updated F17 x86_64, I decided to try korganizer again after not using it for a couple of years. I would like to zoom vertically in the calendar section to increase the vertical space per hour (mostly in the work week view, but also in the day view). From the documentation I can find, I

Maximum number of (X) clients reached, F17 KDE

2012-06-07 Thread George Avrunin
I'm running Fedora 17, upgraded (through preupgrade) from 16. The installation is fully updated. I use KDE, with 12 virtual desktops (though I usually only have things open in 4 or 5 of them). I have one panel, and the only widgets running in the root window are the pager and a folder view that

BackupPC problems since upgrade to F17

2012-05-31 Thread George Avrunin
I used preupgrade to move from F16 to F17. The installation hung up (installing Steel Bank Common Lisp; this seems to be a problem other people have had, e.g., http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280318) but when I restarted, it completed and seems to have been successful. I did have t

Re: F15 preupgrade seems not to work with /boot on RAID

2011-05-27 Thread George Avrunin
On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:12:39 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > All packages downloaded, but preupgrade reported an error on the console > I ran it from regarding the fact that /boot was on a software RAID > device. The GUI, on the other hand, appeared to finish normally and > reported that the in

Change tracking problem with OpenOffice--options settings don't persist

2010-01-11 Thread George Avrunin
I am running Fedora 12 x86_64, but this problem goes back to earlier versions. (In fact, I think I recall some discussion of it on the list a year or so ago, but I couldn't find that when I searched so maybe I'm imagining it.) I have some colleagues who prefer to use Word (even to edit LaTeX sour