Re: dmesg suddenly fails when run as normal user on FC39

2024-03-13 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 3/13/2024 6:54 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ron Flory via users writes: »Hi-  does not happen on FC38, or any prior RedHat/Fedora version since forever. Sounds like this has landed: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread

dmesg suddenly fails when run as normal user on FC39

2024-03-13 Thread Ron Flory via users
Hi-  does not happen on FC38, or any prior RedHat/Fedora version since forever.    dmesg    dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted  Userspace scripts (such as used to read pics from cameras & sdcards) and many progs often use dmesg to detect or identify things like startup

Re: port forwarding and RDP or ssh

2024-03-12 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 3/11/24 12:45, Alex wrote: I now have his PC with me on my local network, and commands executed through ssh -X still display on his screen instead of mine.  From his gnome-terminal on my PC: [gary@fedora ~]$ echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 How do I set the display for commands executed remotel

Re: Problem with SD card

2023-08-07 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 8/7/2023 10:18 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I have a 1TB SanDisk XC SD card, which has developed a reluctance to create files. UUID=0fd984c4-cf88-408a-8ba5-15b64500bd5c /Media/SDXC ext4 noauto,rw,user 0 0 % sudo mount /Media/SDXC % touch /Media/SDXC/foo % ls /Media/SDXC/foo /Media/SDXC/foo %

Re: Help needed: disabling system wide the Caps lock key in GNOME/Xwayland

2023-08-02 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 8/2/2023 10:42 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, I had that issue recently, the way I sorted it was with gsettings/dconf: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['ctrl:nocaps']" I suspect this is what gnome-tweaks does. Actually as far as I know, Wayland still sources xkb files,

Re: question: does "diff" use short cuts?

2023-07-07 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 7/7/2023 12:42 PM, home user wrote: When I try to verify a back-up, I use "diff -r".  The directory trees being compared contain about 870 files (mostly binary, like PNG, JPG, and so on), and take up about 707 megabytes.  The trees being compared are on the hard drive and on a USB-3 stick. 

Re: Missing "standard" headers in FC37 arm (aarch64) C/C++ cross-compiler RPMs ??

2023-06-04 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 6/3/23 08:55, stan via users wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:29:54 - ron flory via users wrote: Results: hello_world.c:1:10: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory 1 | #include | ^ compilation terminated. - Hello_world sample consists of: #include #include int

Missing "standard" headers in FC37 arm (aarch64) C/C++ cross-compiler RPMs ??

2023-06-01 Thread ron flory via users
Hi- am hopefully missing something dumb/obvious here--- Am trying to cross-compile for raspberry-pi, but some basic headers appear to be missing, or not redirecting to 'generics'. - Install the cross-compiler(s): dnf install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gcc-c++-aarch64-linux-gnu - Compi

Re: How do I do a group reinstall of Xfce?

2023-04-09 Thread Ron Flory via users
muel Sieb wrote: On 4/9/23 14:51, Ron Flory via users wrote:    (I wonder why/when dnf removed their "-force" switch (for install) ?) dnf never had a "force" option, just rpm.  Why do you need it? What would it do?  Do you really want it to remove itself?

Re: How do I do a group reinstall of Xfce?

2023-04-09 Thread Ron Flory via users
;-force" switch (for install) ?) ron On 4/9/2023 4:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/09/2023 02:34 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:   Note: I start FC37 in text-mode (lightdm), and only run X when I need it by running 

Re: How do I do a group reinstall of Xfce?

2023-04-09 Thread Ron Flory via users
Hopefully reactivating an old thread whose reply does not work with FC37...  I have an x86 FC37 XFCE-spin whose GUI setups had a kind of creeping death, then went bonkers.  I'd like to force-reinstall XFCE completely (no desire to save any X/XFCE configs-  would like all that re-initialized,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for,>,> the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-20 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 7/20/2022 10:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 7/20/22 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition > > UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my PhD thesis > > in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'),