sort of rpm-distro related

2020-10-29 Thread David
The only distro that I have used in the past year and a half has been Fedora Workstation. I have been using it on hardware only and using it for daily personal use, but also for my hobby business, which is the only income I have. Today, I was feeling like I needed to explore some other distros and

Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-29 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Monday, October 26, 2020 11:46:00 AM WET George N. White III wrote: > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer > relevant. It has been clear for some time that X Org was not getting much > attention,

Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/10/20 5:21 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 28/10/2020 13:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: I realize that you really don't like Gnome for some reason, but there's no reason to be making false claims like that.  Aside from the various smaller window managers that either already support Wayland or are addin

logout problems?

2020-10-29 Thread Tom Horsley
Just noticed this fedora 33 problem: With rpmfusion nvidia drivers installed, running a GNOME on Xorg session with sddm as my login manager. (What part of this is relevant, I don't know :-). If I choose "logout" from the menu in the top right, I get the logout dialog, click on logout now, then th

printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread antonio montagnani
I deleted a network printer and then I reinstalled (by Hplip, by cups, by system-config-printer, for testing) and while in Hplip, Cups or system-config-printer I get only one printer in the list, if I print from Firefox, Thunderbird for example I have in the list also the deleted printers that

Re: firewalld

2020-10-29 Thread Michael J. Baars
Hi Samuel, On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 01:58 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/26/20 7:44 AM, Michael J. Baars wrote: > > I'm writing a client and server program for cluster computation. I noticed > > that nmap sees a specific port as open on Fedora Server and as filtered on > > Fedora > > Workstation

Re: firewalld

2020-10-29 Thread Michael J. Baars
On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 17:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 26/10/2020 22:44, Michael J. Baars wrote: > > Can someone please tell me how to close these ports on Fedora Workstation? > > And why does nmap report the ports as filtered on Fedora Workstation and as > > open/close on Fedora Server? > > I

Re: firewalld

2020-10-29 Thread Michael J. Baars
On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 17:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 26/10/2020 22:44, Michael J. Baars wrote: > > After removing these specific lines from > > /etc/firewalld/zones/FedoraWorkstation.xml, using firewall-cmd, the ports > > are still accessible by the client and > > server > > program. > > An

Re: firewalld

2020-10-29 Thread Michael J. Baars
On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 17:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 26/10/2020 22:44, Michael J. Baars wrote: > > After removing these specific lines from > > /etc/firewalld/zones/FedoraWorkstation.xml, using firewall-cmd, the ports > > are still accessible by the client and > > server > > program. > > An

Re: sort of rpm-distro related

2020-10-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 04:30:35AM -0400, David wrote: > ***The point to the discussion below is just to show some observations > related to rpm-based distros assuming that this first-hand info might > encourage or discourage a Fedora user from repeating what I just did. *** Thanks for sharing. I

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 15:07 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: > I deleted a network printer and then I reinstalled (by Hplip, by > cups, by system-config-printer, for testing) and while in Hplip, Cups > or system-config-printer I get only one printer in the list, if I > print from Firefox, Thunderbi

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 10/29/20 6:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: there was another post about the same kind of thing in the last few days. That would be me. "Most" (watch the weasel word) of my programs found the deletions. Some held on to them. Never figured out how to get those few to finally update. Hold ou

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 30/10/2020 11:55, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 10/29/20 6:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: there was another post about the same kind of thing in the last few days. That would be me.  "Most" (watch the weasel word) of my programs found the deletions.  Some held on to them.  Never figured

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 30/10/2020 12:05, Ed Greshko wrote: On 30/10/2020 11:55, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 10/29/20 6:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: there was another post about the same kind of thing in the last few days. That would be me.  "Most" (watch the weasel word) of my programs found the deletions

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 30/10/2020 12:30, Ed Greshko wrote: Never mind.  I found a system here with that issue.  And it isn't a "user"  issue. Humm. Ahh, never mind again. libreoffice was sending out mdns requests and someone setup a printer on the LAN and reused a name they shouldn't have. --- The key to