locating the cursor with F-25 wayland

Hi, everyone, Just upgraded to f25. Wonderful once I got past a google earth bug with help from the developers (use rpm -e to remove the misbehaving package if you run into that issue.) BUT, and for me it is a tough one... No mouse tails, and the control key no longer highlights th

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

On 12/02/2016 05:28 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Gee, once the gnome developers get everything to the state of perfect flawlessness they are seeking, it will be impossible to actually use a computer to do any work. If that's how you feel, why are you still using Gnome? ___

missing virtual consoles

hi all, i went to use a virtual console recently on my fedora workstation and found it not available. worse, google provides No insight how to build a virtual console service. i thought i recall a process to clone/config a getty service and thereby enable the virtual consoles. is there a clue y'

Re: Terminal scroll bar -

On 02.12.2016 22:20, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/02/16 12:18, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 12/02/16 11:48, SternData wrote: >>> From EDIT -> Profile preferences, >>> what do you have set for "Scrolling"? >>> >>> http://i.imgur.com/9wjPcqn.png >>> >>> + >> > I changed the desktop theme under xfce > ap

Setting biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 in Fedora 25 seems no to work

Hello, There is a way to avoid using the enp2s* naming conventions for ethernet cards and use eth* instead by adding biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 to the kernel command line. I used it in earlier Fedora distros, but with F25 it does not work. My Kernel command line now after adding "biosdevname=0 ne

anacron

Hello, using anacrontab weekly: This is what I have in my anacrontab file: 7 15 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It seems that it run will be run 7 days after the date in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly Can I change this date ? Thank.

Re: missing virtual consoles

Hi Jack, What does: systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service return ? And I assume that you try virtual console when working with Xwindows mode (as u mentioned ctrl/alt/1-7, and not with terminal console mode, right? Also, is it Fedora 25 ? (BTW, once it happened to me, quite a time ago, t

nedit-5.6-1.fc23.x86_64

Hello, With nedit on fedora 24, I get manyt time the following error message: NEdit warning: XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked. when I make a copy paste from one file to another file. Any idea ? Thank.

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:40:49 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > If that's how you feel, why are you still using Gnome? I'm not. I'm using FVWM with a .fvwmrc file that I don't change every release to hide everything I used to know about :-). But the problem is that as "the one true way" engulphs everything e

Re: Setting biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 in Fedora 25 seems no to work

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 14:46:49 +0200 Kevin Wilson wrote: > Still "ifconfig -a" shows devices like enp0s25, enp2s0f0. enp2s0f1 and > so on, and not eth* devices. In my notes, I say I also ought to do this: ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules Plus, if there are already files na

Re: can not install fedora 25

2016-12-02 00:41 skrev Michael Schwendt: On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:34:02 -0500, William Biggs wrote: 15 min That's a lot. I would have gotten nervous after a few minutes already and would have switched through the virtual consoles in hope of noticing activity/error messages. I have the same pro

Re: anacron

On 3 December 2016 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > using anacrontab weekly: > This is what I have in my anacrontab file: > 7 15 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > It seems that it run will be run 7 days after the date in > /var/spool/anacron/cron.wee

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 08:04 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:40:49 -0800 > Joe Zeff wrote: > > > If that's how you feel, why are you still using Gnome? > > I'm not. I'm using FVWM with a .fvwmrc file that I don't > change every release to hide everything I used to know > about :-

Re: Setting biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 in Fedora 25 seems no to work

On 03-12-16 13:46, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hello, There is a way to avoid using the enp2s* naming conventions for ethernet cards and use eth* instead by adding biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 Try net.ifnames=0 HTH, Patrick ___ users mailing list -- users@li

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

On 3 December 2016 at 03:28, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Check this upstream bug for details: >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736660 >> >> -- >> >> Ahmad, >> >> Thank you for the link. That surely explains the problem. Looks like

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 15:48:06 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: > Not going to close this until we have a credible story... Which sounds to me like their highest priority is inventing an excuse to do it anyway, but they are desperately searching for an excuse that isn't lame :-). ___

Re: nedit-5.6-1.fc23.x86_64

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 13:59:25 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > With nedit on fedora 24, I get manyt time the following error message: > > NEdit warning: > XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked. > > when I make a copy paste from one file to another file. > > Any idea ? I

Re: Terminal scroll bar -

On 12/03/16 06:17, poma wrote: >I changed the desktop theme under xfce >appearance to Adwaita instead of >XFCE-Dusk and got a scroll bar. > >Bob You can test with this themes, compatible across all Fedoras, 24 to 26, i.e. GTK+ 3.20.9 to 3.22.4, and GTK+ 2.24.31. http://goo.gl/Gm4ffO source/etc

Re: missing virtual consoles

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi Jack, > What does: > systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service > return ? > > And I assume that you try virtual console when working with > Xwindows mode (as u mentioned ctrl/alt/1-7, and not with terminal > console mode, right? > > Als

system-config-samba?

I admit the old system-config-samba tool looked very lame, but it was the only non-cryptic way I ever found to define a samba user for my Windows systems to connect as. In that tool, I'd go to Preferences>Samba Users.. then I could associate a unix user name with a windows user name and specify a

Re: system-config-samba?

Date Sat, 3 Dec 2016 12:31:56 -0500 Tom Horsley : > Can anyone translate the options for me to > tell me which option means unix user, which > means windows user and how I'll specify the > password? It was very confusing for me as well, but now I woudn't touch system-config-samba with a stick. :)

Re: nedit-5.6-1.fc23.x86_64

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Re: system-config-samba?

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 18:58:31 +0100 Łukasz Posadowski wrote: > Date Sat, 3 Dec 2016 12:31:56 -0500 > Tom Horsley : > > > Can anyone translate the options for me to > > tell me which option means unix user, which > > means windows user and how I'll specify the > > password? > > It was very confus

Re: Setting biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 in Fedora 25 seems no to work

Hi Patrick, >Try net.ifnames=0 Not sure what you mean; the cat /proc/cmdline in my post mentioned that it includes: "biosdevname=0 netif.names=0" Do you mean to use netif.names=0 in the kernel command line without biosdevname=0? Regards, Kevin On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Patrick Laimbock

Re: Setting biosdevname=0 netif.names=0 in Fedora 25 seems no to work

It is spelled wrong it is net.ifnames no netif.names On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > >Try net.ifnames=0 > Not sure what you mean; the cat /proc/cmdline in my post mentioned > that it includes: > "biosdevname=0 netif.names=0" > > Do you mean to use netif.nam

F24 CUPS : all errors go to syslog

I'm trying to add a printer to headless server. I've edited cupsd.conf so I can log on remotely. I've set up the printer on cups, but on printing a test page I get "filter failed"' I've set LogLevel to debug and restarted. No output to error_log. MaxLogSize 0 LogLevel debug # Allow remote acce

Install Woes with F25

I've had multiple failed installs on a brand new Dell XPS 8900 today. During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport :00:1c.0 PCIebus Error: severity: corrected, type=physical layer, id.

Re: Install Woes with F25

On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport :00:1c.0 PCIebus Error: severity: corrected, type=physical layer, id.00e0 (Receiver ID) This sounds

Re: system-config-samba?

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Or even better, can anyone tell me where in the blue blazes the > password file is stored so I can copy it from my fedora24 partition to > my fedora25 partition? /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb (users) /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb (m

Re: [spam?] Re: Install Woes with F25

On 12/03/2016 04:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport :00:1c.0 PCIebus Error: severity: corrected, type=physical l

fedora 25 mate-compiz compiz application ghost windows issue

Anyone else seeing ghost windows when an application windows is moved around in fedora 25 with mate-compiz spin? Any idea when it will be fixed? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fe

writing iso image to blank dvd

Any ideas? As root: # time dd if=/tmp/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso of=/dev/sr0 bs=128K dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sr0’: Read-only file system real0m0.04s user0m0.00s sys 0m0.00s # ls -l /dev/sr0 brw-rw+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Dec 4 00:55 /dev/sr0 I have an icon on the

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 5:12 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Any ideas? > > As root: > > # time dd if=/tmp/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso of=/dev/sr0 > bs=128K > dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sr0’: Read-only file system > > real0m0.04s > user0m0.00s > sys 0m0.00s > # ls -l /dev/sr0 > brw-rw-

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

On 12/03/2016 06:47 PM, Jack Craig wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 5:12 PM, jd1008 > wrote: Any ideas? As root: # time dd if=/tmp/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso of=/dev/sr0 bs=128K dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sr0’: Read-only file system

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

see writing lead in/out for cdrom, see mkisofs... cdrtools On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 5:58 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/03/2016 06:47 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 5:12 PM, jd1008 > jd1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Any ideas? >> >> As root: >> >> # time dd if=/t

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

On 12/03/2016 05:58 PM, jd1008 wrote: Yes, I know gui apps work. But I am a very old unix/linux user and I have ALWAYS used dd to write iso images onto blank media, and then boot that media. Why is it that current linux versions of dd cannot write to blank media??? Really? I've never heard of

Wifi issue on lenovo v310-15ISK

Hi guys, I have a lenovo v310-15ISK laptop with an Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3165. I tried out the solution on https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi and selected the iwlwifi-7265-ucode-16.242414.0 However the wifi still does not work. My kernel is version 4.8 Running

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 06:12:58PM -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Any ideas? > > As root: > > # time dd if=/tmp/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso of=/dev/sr0 > bs=128K > dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sr0’: Read-only file system > > real0m0.04s > user0m0.00s > sys 0m0.00s > # ls -l /dev/sr

Re: [spam?] Re: Install Woes with F25

On 12/03/2016 03:35 PM, Tim Evans wrote: On 12/03/2016 04:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport :00:1c.0 PCIebus E

Re: Install Woes with F25

On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I've had multiple failed installs on a brand new Dell XPS 8900 today. I'm guessing it's an Intel Skylake chipset inside. During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of the following ilk showed up: [nn] printk messages dropped [

Re: missing virtual consoles

On 12/03/2016 01:23 AM, Jack Craig wrote: i went to use a virtual console recently on my fedora workstation and found it not available. worse, google provides No insight how to build a virtual console service. i thought i recall a process to clone/config a getty service and thereby enable the vi