Boxes - Ejecting ISO?

2018-01-06 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Greetings all, I have this issue I've been wracking my brains out trying to fix. I have installed Fedora 27 countless times, and I have decided to try the "Boxes" virtualization application. Everything runs smooth and easy, I tried installing Ubuntu and the install went great,. My question is: Af

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread François Patte
Le 06/01/2018 à 04:45, Matthew Miller a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:07:19PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Yes, and for reference the current release is Fedora 27. Jumping >> straight to F27 might be risky, so I'd do it in four steps: > > Note that we _do_ test "n-2" upgrades like this now

Re: Fedora 27, slow sata hdd access

2018-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 21:14 -0700, InvalidPath wrote: > So fully updated F27, using Plasma I have a 2TB Seagate drive as a secondary > storage device off a normal sata port. Accessing the disk via kdialog, > Dolphin and Nautilus is slooow. Can take anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds to > screens to u

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/06/2018 01:18 AM, François Patte wrote: Rick Stevens suggest to backup the system: meaning personnal data or the whole system? I would say only your personal data, but others might not agree. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-06 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I have problem to configure autofs, in order to use the partitions that I made on my USB HD - for backing up the data of the computer. -- *(I am thinking that, perhaps, the names to indicate the "mounting point" and the "automounter map" are not the same that are used in sftab file ).* I

Re: XPS 13 (9360)

2018-01-06 Thread Sean Smith
Dell just announced an updated (new) XPS 13 but the older (9360) series are still available- for a time? I've got two of the XPS13 9360:  i3, 4gb / 128ssd with Win10 preloaded and  i5 8gb 245ssd with Ubuntu preloaded.  I run/have run Linux on both.  I even tried the previous gen XPS13 develope

How to get rid of VGACON error

2018-01-06 Thread Dave B(Y)
Good afternoon! I managed by various means to get my Fedora 26 to run KDE, but it appears that all is not well... i) during login, I get    [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting (2 times) &    [drm] cannot get speed from usb address (approx) ii) the system then comes up with the dra

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-06 Thread stan
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:30:33 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I have problem to configure autofs, in order to use the partitions > that I made on my USB HD - for backing up the data of the computer. > > -- > *(I am thinking that, perhaps, the names to indicate the "mounting > point" and

!#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed Url in its address box on every new tab. Blasted thin is a royal pain to have to delete before I can just enter the one I want. How do I turn this excrement off?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Germano Corrêa
Well, this surely isn't a firefox feature, definitely not normal. Are you sure there isn't an extension doing this? Em sáb, 6 de jan de 2018 às 16:08, Beartooth escreveu: > > Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed Url in its address > box on every new tab. Blasted thin is a royal p

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Ted Roche
Running up-to-date FF57 on F27, and I'm not seeing that here. Is there an extension or plugin that might be "helping" you? On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed Url in its address > box on every new tab. Blasted thin is a royal p

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/06/2018 10:05 AM, Beartooth wrote: Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed Url in its address box on every new tab. Blasted thin is a royal pain to have to delete before I can just enter the one I want. How do I turn this excrement off?? I don't see this. What is the URL?

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Robert Washbourne
I'm running the same setup, are you talking about the url in a new tab? I have the humble new tab extension and I see a url in the new tab window On Jan 6, 2018 12:17 PM, "Samuel Sieb" wrote: > On 01/06/2018 10:05 AM, Beartooth wrote: > >> >> Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 18:05:08 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > Running under F27, Ffx 57 puts some accursed Url in its address > box on every new tab. I don't normally use firefox, but I just tried it on an f27 system I updated last night, and I just get the normal empty url field in a new tab. I d

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:12:21 +, Germano Corrêa wrote: > Well, this surely isn't a firefox feature, definitely not normal. Are > you sure there isn't an extension doing this? Well, if it is, it's invasive: I haven't even gotten around to looking at extensions since the "upgrade" to Ff

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/06/2018 10:27 AM, Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:12:21 +, Germano Corrêa wrote: Well, this surely isn't a firefox feature, definitely not normal. Are you sure there isn't an extension doing this? Well, if it is, it's invasive: I haven't even gotten around to looking

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 01/06/18 13:27, Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:12:21 +, Germano Corrêa wrote: Well, this surely isn't a firefox feature, definitely not normal. Are you sure there isn't an extension doing this? Well, if it is, it's invasive: I haven't even gotten around to looking at

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread JD
It could also be an error of settings. In Edit -> Preferences, the first tab (titled General) lets user type in the start page. The OP might have typed the stuff by mistake into that field. On 01/06/2018 11:12 AM, Germano Corrêa wrote: Well, this surely isn't a firefox feature, definitely not

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 6 January 2018 at 18:27, Beartooth wrote: > Here's the accursed address it foists on me: > > http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/?uc=20171228&ad=appfocus1&source=d- > lp0- > bb8&uid=911a5330-5a79-48c7-9194-5d37fac4d6cd&i_id=converter_100.3&page=newtab& That looks really sketchy. A qui

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox: SOLVED I THINK

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 12:24:41 -0600, Robert Washbourne wrote: > I'm running the same setup, are you talking about the url in a new tab? > I have the humble new tab extension and I see a url in the new tab > window > > On Jan 6, 2018 12:17 PM, "Samuel Sieb" wrote: > >> I don't see this. What is

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/06/2018 09:40 AM, stan wrote: I haven't done this, but from the article it seems that you have either an entry in fstab and use mount -a to mount the drive after plugging it in, or you follow the udev - autofs route without an entry in fstab. mount -a will mount everything in fstab. Is t

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-06 Thread stan
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 10:50:14 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/06/2018 09:40 AM, stan wrote: > > I haven't done this, but from the article it seems that you have > > either an entry in fstab and use mount -a to mount the drive after > > plugging it in, or you follow the udev - autofs route without an

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:41:14 +, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 6 January 2018 at 18:27, Beartooth wrote: >> Here's the accursed address it foists on me: >> >> http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/?uc=20171228&ad=appfocus1&source=d- >> lp0- >> bb8&uid=911a5330-5a79-48c7-9194-5d37fac4d6cd&i

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread SternData
On 01/06/2018 02:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:41:14 +, Andy Blanchard wrote: > >> On 6 January 2018 at 18:27, Beartooth wrote: >>> Here's the accursed address it foists on me: >>> >>> http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/?uc=20171228&ad=appfocus1&source=d- >>> lp0-

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/06/2018 01:11 PM, SternData wrote: On 01/06/2018 02:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: I've just run "dnf remove." It got qutebrowser, but not Iridium; it said it couldn't find it (with upper nor lower case I), and sure enough, Iridium still launches from the browser drawer on my panel.

Feature Request for long links

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to five lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate the spaces that come from line ends, and go to the site. With most other brow

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-06 Thread Joe Wulf
Interesting and thoughtful possibility.  However, be careful of what you ask for.I see the potential for malicious use of such a 'feature' by the multitudes of miscreants who deliberately do damage. From: Beartooth To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2018 4:2

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:21:11 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 01/06/2018 01:11 PM, SternData wrote: >> On 01/06/2018 02:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: >>> I've just run "dnf remove." It got qutebrowser, but not Iridium; >>> it said it couldn't find it (with upper nor lower case I), and sure >>> enough,

Signal, WhatsApp, Skype - Questions

2018-01-06 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Recently, I've become an active user of WhatsApp. Not only is it convenient on the phone, you can also use a web browser by using the phone app to login with QR code when it appears in the browser. One benefit is that you don't need to install dedicated software on your desktop or

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-06 Thread Doug
On 01/06/2018 04:22 PM, Beartooth wrote: Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to five lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate the spaces that come from line ends, and go to

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 6 January 2018 at 21:39, Beartooth wrote: > Hmmm... I get > > [btth@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i iridium > iridium-browser-62.0-1.fc27.x86_64 > [btth@localhost ~]$ which iridium > /usr/bin/which: no iridium in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/ > sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/btth/.loca

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-06 Thread Doug
rpm -qa |grep -i iridium will give you the name of the rpm from which it was installed. Then from root, do rpm -e iridium.rpm and it should be gone. --doug ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to user

Re: Signal, WhatsApp, Skype - Questions

2018-01-06 Thread Doug
On 01/06/2018 04:47 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Recently, I've become an active user of WhatsApp. Not only is it convenient on the phone, you can also use a web browser by using the phone app to login with QR code when it appears in the browser. One benefit is that you don't need to in

Re: Signal, WhatsApp, Skype - Questions

2018-01-06 Thread Harish Pillay
> Signal comes with a dedicated desktop; however, it's Linux incarnation is > only available for Debian-distributions, no rpm package as yet. Are there > any plans for one? If you run Chromium[0], you can then add a Signal as a Chromium App and you can then have the Signal desktop on your system.

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-06 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Beartooth sent: > Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature > that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to > five lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate > the spaces that come from line end

Re: Signal, WhatsApp, Skype - Questions

2018-01-06 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Max Pyziur sent: > everytime I login to my computer, Skype is automatically active. > Is there a way of disabling this feature? What's your desktop? If yours saves the session on exit, and Skype was running, it would run again next time you login. If you q

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/07/18 13:12, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Beartooth sent: >> Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature >> that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to >> five lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate >

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-06 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Really, (after many tests) I cannot understand what the problem can be... I disabled all auto mounting functions putting in comment all the rows of the file auto.master and after I checked the service autofs : = [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status autofs