Pycharm repository package crashes on me

2020-06-01 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am new to Fedora, and am happy about it. I installed Fedora 32 and was offered to "install" third party repositories by the Software application. There is one repository included in this list, which contains the Pycharm IDE software. I have 2 questions: 1. What can you gain from ins

reboot after upgrade? and best practice

2020-07-19 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello everyone, I would like to ask what is the best practice for upgrading (updating all packages, ie. "dnf upgrade") in my Fedora 32 Workstation. The Gnome Software graphical application provides a way for me to do this, but it can also be achieved in the command line. Do these two methods ach

Re: reboot after upgrade? and best practice

2020-07-20 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Thanks everyone for your answers. This is very clear to me now. I guess I will go the gui way for now, sometimes one can even upgrade/update while shutting down the machine, which is useful. thanks again. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproje

video in Firefox not streaming

2020-07-25 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am sorry to ask this here but am wondering why the last couple of times I have installed Fedora 32 workstation, video playback in Firefox is not working out of the box for some sites. So I can play videos on youtube, but for example, trying to play a video in cnn.com ("something went

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

2020-07-25 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
I think this will be a permissions problem. When you say permissions, what permissions do you mean exactly? Like user permissions in my local machine? or like permissions for websites to execute certain types of code? Another thing that can cause this is add-ons. Try creating a new user,

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

2020-07-26 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 7/26/20 2:23 PM, Jerry James wrote: The repo is enabled by default starting in Fedora 32, but the Firefox plugin is not. If you want to use it, open the Firefox menu and choose "Add-ons". Choose the "Plugins" tab. You'll see the OpenH264 Video Codec plugin, but it is disabled. Select it an

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

2020-07-27 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 7/26/20 5:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-27 05:37, Jerry James wrote: Have you installed ffmpeg? See upthread. Maybe the OP is not familiar with rpmfusion?  It may be helpful to tell him he can enable rpmfusion repos by the command  (all on one line) sudo dnf install https://downloa

Re: video in Firefox not streaming

2020-07-27 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Well, I did verify that even the FF downloaded from mozilla requires ffmpeg in order to play the video when the embedded JW Player is served by the website. I don't believe that this is an issue with required plugins at this point. As a new example, the video in https://www.iceni.com/transpdf

pgadmin3 in Fedora 32 Workstation

2020-08-03 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I have 2 separate questions regarding pgadmin installation in Fedora 32. 1. pgadminIII, I believe only supports postgresql up to version 11.x. The default version (fedora repo) of postgresql is 12.3. So the pgadmin3 (pgadmin4 is not available) package in the default repository is not c

pgadmin3 in Fedora 32 Workstation

2020-08-03 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I have 2 separate questions regarding pgadmin installation in Fedora 32. 1. pgadminIII, I believe only supports postgresql up to version 11.x. The default version (fedora repo) of postgresql is 12.3. So the pgadmin3 (pgadmin4 is not available) package in the default repository is not c

system default installed packages Workstation

2020-08-06 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, Could someone tell me, if I wanted to know, which are all the python packages (modules) that come installed by default in Fedora 32 Workstation, how would I be able to get that list? thank you, ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Firefox unable to play online videos

2020-09-10 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 9/7/20 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Well I had tried everything else so I activited the rpm fusion repository, installled ffmpeg (a HUGE download and install) and it solved my problem. Videos now work everywhere. Thanks for the suggestion and I jhope it will solve your problem as well.

installing wine on F33 wants to downgrade packages

2020-10-23 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am looking to install wine on my new Fedora 33 laptop. When doing 'dnf install wine' I am getting: A bunch of i686 packages that will be installed (I think this is normal), and a bunch of installed x86_64 packages to be downgraded (I believe to the version corresponding to the avail

wine fonts folder

2020-10-24 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I have installed wine, which by default installs a bunch of fonts packages along with it. However, when using a particular piece of software I am not seeing any fonts available for use. This is not the first time this happens to me using wine. I remember once having to place all fonts

Grub default kernel is oldest in Fedora 33

2020-10-30 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello I am running F33 and after install, I believe a newer linux kernel was installed. Now when booting Grub shows two options of kernels to boot from, namely: kernel-5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64 kernel-5.8.16-300.fc33.x86_64 However, the default (first highlighted) option is kernel-5.8.16-300.f

error at bootup with packagekitd

2020-11-17 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, When booting up I am seeing an error: [   42.705549] packagekitd[1249]: segfault at 8 ip 55e54df483ea sp 7ffdb2914ac0 error 4 in packagekitd[55e54df44000+28000] This error may be slowing down my bootup, I believe, there is step in bootup that is taking up more time than the re

Re: Search engines -

2020-12-19 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
I searched for potato bake recipes without ham, and every recipe it found had ham in it. The words with or without are quite important for getting a search right. I hope they never get involved in AI for futuristic police robots, because saying "don't shoot" is going to get you shot. You mig

How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2020-12-28 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello. Ive tried searching for a clear answer to this without avail. How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation of Fedora? I am aware of the Live Fedora 33 Workstation images. But, for example, when boothing from that, your settings (program setting) are not saved. How c

how to monitor data usage by app

2021-01-15 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am trying to save my phone data when I use it connecting my Fedora 33 workstation laptop to it. Today for example, 100MB of data were used in the first few minutes after I connected my laptop to this connection. The Gnome Wifi settings have a allowed me to set this connection as a Me

Re: how to monitor data usage by app

2021-01-18 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 1/15/21 11:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: nethogs and/or jnettop might be useful. poc Thank you. Nethogs will allow me to see what is happening, if I run it right after connecting. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2021-01-18 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 12/29/20 12:57 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:37 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation of Fedora? How can I have a Fedora usb that I can use on different

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2021-01-18 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On 12/28/20 11:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Tim already mentioned that you can install directly to a USB drive, When you say install directly to a USB drive, does this necessarily mean I need to create a live installer on another USB drive to run the install on the target USB drive? but you ca

default root password on mysql (mariadb)

2022-01-26 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am following these instructions (https://fedoramagazine.org/howto-install-wordpress-fedora/) to install MariaDb on Fedora 34. Trying to set the "root" password for mysql is not working for me, doing: sudo mysqladmin -u root password Gives error: Warning: Since password will be sent to s

laptop failing with latest kernel update

2022-02-08 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I performed a normal update today after some time without updating, which I believed contained a kernel update (to 5.16.5-100.fc34.x86_64 I believe). After doing the update and rebooting my pc started behaving erratically. Bootup time was longer, then it sort of got stuck, then some probl

how to test Wireless/Bluetooth card on Fedora

2022-02-19 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I am having some issues with my Bluetooth connections. I tested a Bluetooth mouse and it worked but had an issue, it became laggy after a few seconds of being connected. One would move the mouse but the movement of the pointer on the screen was noticeably laggy. I also tried using a bluet

Re: how to test Wireless/Bluetooth card on Fedora

2022-02-21 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, at 3:33 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > On my laptop bought in late 2016 (v6/7th gen cpu/Sunrise Point-LP > chipset in lspci), I replaced the wifi/bluetooth card with an Intel > AX200. I bought mine on Amazon. There are branded/boxed intel cards > for about $27US. This card is at

Re: how to test Wireless/Bluetooth card on Fedora

2022-02-21 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, at 3:07 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > A couple of general comments. > > Bluetooth audio will lag behind the video due to the nature of wireless > protocols. There are a few different audio protocols for bluetooth and > some have less lag than others. Sometimes you can tell the

Re: how to test Wireless/Bluetooth card on Fedora

2022-02-21 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, at 2:40 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > The AX200 card is a Form Factors: NGFF M2 2230 A/E key, so if your > current card is a M2 2230 A or E key then the card should fit, and > will very likely work. > > What kind of laptop is it and what intel cpu and chipset does it have? > And

fractional scaling in Fedora 36

2022-05-13 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello everyone, I have installed Fedora 36 on a high-dpi laptop (Del XPS 9550) and Gnome; Im having trouble setting the scaling to 250% (200 is too small and 300 is too big). I tried "enabling" fractional scaling by doing: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-fr

Re: fractional scaling in Fedora 36

2022-05-14 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Sat, May 14 2022 at 11:33:17 AM +0930, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 08:47 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: My questions: 1. Is there another way to enable fractional scaling? (Gnome and Wayland) In my opinion scaling is a bad hack to avoid properly sizing a GUI to

scale or change monitor resolution on high dpi

2022-07-08 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello, I have a laptop with a high dpi monitor, 4k on a 15" screen. 'Im on F36, Gnome. I'm wondering whats the better alternative, change the resolution of the display or use scaling? (performance and usability) Is there any update on fractional scaling? It didn't work last time I tried it (just

Re: scale or change monitor resolution on high dpi

2022-07-12 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Sat, Jul 9, 2022, at 12:20 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Fractional scaling works for me. But maybe I don't do anything > tricky. There may be a better way, but this is what I use: > > dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/experimental-features > "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" Thanks for th

install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

2022-08-11 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello everyone, I have done this before, but now I have one big doubt when completing installation of F36 alongside Win 10. I shrunk one of the Win partitions to create good space for my Fedora installation. I have booted the Live installer and entered the Installation destination section (scree

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

2022-08-11 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what to do. If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will it proceed to install F alongside Win in a dual boot setup? Or will it clean the whole disk and leave only Fedora? Thank you. __

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

2022-08-12 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 3:49 PM, George N. White III wrote: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/install-guide/install/Installing_Using_Anaconda/ > > With automatic partitioning, you can also select the `I would like to > make additional > ` > `space available` option below. Use

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

2022-08-12 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I suggest you try it. The last time I did this was many years ago, but > IIRC Fedora did not blindly remove an existing Windows partition (or > other Linux for that matter). In any case it will tell you what it's > about to do and ask

Re: install F36 KDE alongside Win 10

2022-08-12 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 6:07 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > mounted as the installer wanted, and then it proceeded to completion. As > Patrick said, I would expect the automatic installation to set up the > necessary partitions for you, but I don't know for sure as I have never > done an automati

NVidia graphics card on F33

2021-03-17 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello everyone, I have just installed Fedora 33 workstation on my laptop. I have never had an additional graphics card on a pc and want some guidance as to what I am supposed to do. This is a Dell XPS 9550, which has the integrated Intel HD Graphics 530, and the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M.

Re: NVidia graphics card on F33

2021-03-26 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 4:33 PM, George N. White III wrote: > You have "hybrid graphics": > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics. For laptops > there is usually a video switch that connects the "active" graphics > device to the display, and can > switch from discrete to integr

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > On 6/21/21 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > PackageKit and dnf keep separate metadata in /var/cache and they > > update periodically. PackageKit seems to do this on login, but I've > > also noticed it trigger an update when I switch networks.

plantronics blackwire 3310 in F33 workstation

2021-11-15 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello everyone, I have just bought a Plantronics Blackwire 3310 headset, it connects via USB. I am connecting the headset and it appears to work well (I tested with skype). I have, however, a question. Is it normal for this device to show up in my Input Devices (in the Sound settings - Gnome) as

Re: plantronics blackwire 3310 in F33 workstation

2021-11-16 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, at 5:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > It's a USB sound device sampling an analog source (your microphone). A > digital input would be something like SPDIF. Thanks Samuel. That makes it clearer to me, now I just need to find out what SPDIF is and how different input devices fall

support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the explanations I found elsewhere. Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? thank you, Anil F ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:11:24PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: >> I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the explanations I >> found elsewhere. Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? > &g