Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 00:43 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > On 3/30/21 12:09 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/29/21 2:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 15:46 -0500, David wrote: > > > > Thank you Mr. Matthew Miller, > > > > > > It's easier to know what your post is

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:43:33AM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Perhaps some readers may not know what the compose key is good for. > Using compose plus > two other key-strokes, will get you just about all the diacritical > marks used in most European languages, > common fractions, currency symbo

Re: How to debug grub2-efi -> kernel transition issues?

2021-03-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:02:58PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:55 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > > I have a weird problem on an old Asus Zenbook UX305C where new kernels > > cannot be installed by grub. Specifically what happens is they appear > > in the boot me

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread David
Sorry for the confusion in my recent post. Fedora 34 WS along with Gnome 40 ships with the "Compose Key" disabled. I chose to enable it, following Mr. Miller's advice from a previous post ( related to Gnome 40 Tweaks ) and his suggestion, to set the CAPS-Lock Key as the Compose Key. I ha

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-30 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 21:51, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 19:30 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > There have also been efforts to predict eminent drive failure (e.g., > > using S.M.A.R.T) but without much success. > > It took me a moment to wonder what would be famous/respect

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 31/03/2021 04:54, David wrote: I chose to enable it, following Mr. Miller's advice from a previous post ( related to Gnome 40 Tweaks ) and his suggestion, to set the CAPS-Lock Key as the Compose Key. I have not figured out yet how to use either the CAPS-Lock Key,  nor a Compose Key. My keyb

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread David
> > Thank you very much, Mr. Greshko. I had never heard of ibus either. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus One of these days, I am going to read some articles on things I should already know by now. I was 53 years old, when I started to become interested in computers.But the good n

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/30/21 1:54 PM, David wrote: Sorry for the confusion in my recent post.      Fedora 34 WS along with Gnome 40 ships with the "Compose Key" disabled.  I chose to enable it, following Mr. Miller's advice from a previous post ( related to Gnome 40 Tweaks ) and his suggestion, to set the CA

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 31/03/2021 06:47, David wrote: I had never heard of ibus either. ibus is installed and enabled by default on Workstation. -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

software trivia

2021-03-30 Thread David
Somewhere deeply hidden in the author credits to a program that ships with Fedora is the phrase: "Help poor children in Uganda !" Can you guess that program ? I guess that is an easy question for all you serious / hard-core Fedorans. Nothing against Uganda, but I doubt anybody reading that is

Re: software trivia

2021-03-30 Thread Jack Craig
emacs & vim On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:06 PM David wrote: > Somewhere deeply hidden in the author credits to a program that > ships with Fedora > > is the phrase: > > "Help poor children in Uganda !" > > Can you guess that program ? > > I guess that is an easy question for all you serious / hard-

Re: Compose Key

2021-03-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 3/30/21 4:54 PM, David wrote: Sorry for the confusion in my recent post. Fedora 34 WS along with Gnome 40 ships with the "Compose Key" disabled.  I chose to enable it, following Mr. Miller's advice from a previous post ( related to Gnome 40 Tweaks ) and his suggestion, to set the CAPS-

Suggestion to improve documentation of Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression

2021-03-30 Thread misterx42--- via users
Just a small thing, but as someone who never actually played around with filesystems so far, I was looking to try out the changes outlined in Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression, but the command on the page: btrfs filesystem defrag -czstd -r doesnt work without an additional argument. This is p

Re: Suggestion to improve documentation of Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression

2021-03-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:29 PM misterx42--- via users wrote: > > Just a small thing, but as someone who never actually played around with > filesystems so far, I was looking to try out the changes outlined in > Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression, but the command on the page: > > btrfs filesys