Re: Sending messages to all users

2023-04-03 Thread José María Terry Jiménez via users
El 2/4/23 a las 23:37, Robert Nichols escribió: Now that gnome-terminal (also mate-terminal, etc) no longer registers as a login session, what is the mechanism for sending messages to logged-in users? This is fairly important for shutdown, "UPS on bettery", etc. messages. The "wall" command doe

Re: Sending messages to all users

2023-04-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 4/3/23 05:24, José María Terry Jiménez via users wrote: El 2/4/23 a las 23:37, Robert Nichols escribió: Now that gnome-terminal (also mate-terminal, etc) no longer registers as a login session, what is the mechanism for sending messages to logged-in users? This is fairly important for shutdo

update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Barry Scott
I have released a tool that I have been using for a number of years to maintain my Fedora systems.     https://pypi.org/project/update-linux/2.0.0/ This tool allows you to update all your Fedora systems easily:     $ update-linux host1 host2 Or check if there are updates available:     $ upd

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Roger Heflin
What Tim says. Check to make sure your resolution is right and check to make sure the screen scaling is right. I have had both not always work as expected on my 4k monitor. It almost seems as if the assumption is that 4k is running on a small screen(17" laptop maybe) so scaling needs to be 200%

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 20:19:00 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Pressing the key alone yields this in the xev log > messages: > > KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x221, > root 0x428, subw 0x222, time 3388184737, (48,51), > root:(919,491), state 0x0, keycode 110 (key

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:19 -0400 Ranbir wrote: > In GNOME, the font used is bigger, the window borders are thicker, > buttons are bigger and there just seems to be more padding around > everything. I don't understand why windows in GNOME have such a thick > top bar. The Windows GUI in compariso

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/2/23 21:00, Ranbir wrote: On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 17:32 -0400, Roger Wells wrote: What part do you think is so big?  I find it's quite minimal. I think so as well. Interested to learn the concern I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Fedora 37. I don't boot into Windows nearly as

Re: update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello Barry and Fedora community. I would like to integrate Debian,Fedora,Arch or maybe some other distro into one single,homogeneous and flexible operating (OS) context. I would like to use Debian 11 as the host OS and the rest of the OSes ( Fedora,Arch) will be virtualized within different virt

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 07:41:32AM -0700, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 20:19:00 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I have to press + to see the message in xev: KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x221, root 0x428, subw 0x0, time 3390028490, (76,93), root:(947

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Ranbir
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 14:29 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Much of that is adjustable.  It used to be, and may still be, in > Gnome. > It definitely is with other desktops. > I don't see where in GNOME I can adjust the font size. Do I need to use gsettings or something? > I wonder if you've accid

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Ranbir
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 00:05 -0400, Edward G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >    > I had a friend who also thought this, I had recommended she try > Fedora in one of its other iterations?(KDEXFCECInnamon) > to see if something else might not be more to her liking...she ended > up with KDE...and wh

Re: what is my dns?

2023-04-03 Thread Petr Menšík
dnsmasq allows you to query servers using dig @localhost ch txt servers.bind. But no other server implements it. There is no common way to query forwarders from any cache. unbound-control list_forwards would list forwarders defined in unbound. bind has no runtime tool to show that, just read /e

Re: update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Barry Scott
> On 3 Apr 2023, at 17:03, Mario Marietto wrote: > > Hello Barry and Fedora community. > > I would like to integrate Debian,Fedora,Arch or maybe some other distro into > one single,homogeneous and flexible operating (OS) context. > > I would like to use Debian 11 as the host OS and the rest

Re: update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Mario Marietto
---> I'm not sure how you run your linux systems matters for an update automation tool. Not sure how an update tool helps with the backup and disaster recovery. because my idea is to improve your script to adapt it to work on Debian and Arch,too,so that,every time you issue the commands expected b

Re: update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Apr 3, 2023, at 17:26, Mario Marietto wrote: > >  > ---> I'm not sure how you run your linux systems matters for an update > automation tool. Not sure how an update tool helps with the backup and > disaster recovery. > > because my idea is to improve your script to adapt it to work on Debi

Re: update-linux command automates Fedora updates

2023-04-03 Thread Mario Marietto
Sometimes I feel creative and I want to create something new. Little projects,because I'm not experienced. Why not ? This is a method to learn just as the using of an existing tool. WIth a difference. That if I create something new I feel better than if I use a tool that already exists. Vagrant or

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Much of that is adjustable.  It used to be, and may still be, in >> Gnome. It definitely is with other desktops. Ranbir: > I don't see where in GNOME I can adjust the font size. Do I need to use > gsettings or something? Some time ago Gnome minimised customisation options, and various th

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 19:59 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Here's a picture of a keyboard that seems to be very similar to the > one I'm using. Please note the top row keys, and the bottom row > key: > > https://videogamesuncovered.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alienware-17-R4-keyboard-and-tr

Re: what is my dns?

2023-04-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 20:26 +0200, Petr Menšík wrote: > dnsmasq allows you to query servers using dig @localhost ch txt > servers.bind. But no other server implements it. Huh, what? "dig" comes from bind-utils, utilities for the BIND server. There's also "rndc" to twiddle with BIND from the com

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:39:25 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Icons, icons, icons! I can't find a damn thing by icons. Yes! A stop sign and an envelope are pretty much it for icons that make some sense, after those two it is all guesswork (and I wonder how the envelope will age with no one sending p

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/3/23 18:09, Tim via users wrote: Too CPU intensive (I don't have a fancy graphics card). I would be very surprised if your graphics device didn't have enough acceleration to run Gnome at a completely reasonable level. What CPU usage do you think is involved? The removal of an organis

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/03/2023 07:09 PM, Tim via users wrote: You don't have to use it, I don't. I don't like it for various reasons. And let's not forget that it's bloatware, taking up far too much RAM, and that the only apparent way to get control of it is by using a number of third-party extensions that t

Re: GNOME interface is too bulky

2023-04-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Icons, icons, icons! I can't find a damn thing by icons. Tom Horsley: > Yes! A stop sign and an envelope are pretty much it for icons that > make some sense, after those two it is all guesswork (and I wonder how > the envelope will age with no one sending physical letters > any longer :-)

Re: Where is the magic SysReq key?

2023-04-03 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 4/3/2023 9:14 PM, Tim via users wrote: I really wish more keyboards had some extra user keys down the left. For one thing it'd balance the layout of the keyboards with QWERTY off- centre because the cursor and numpad (which I do want). And have some way for you to type something directly tha