On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> It's obviously a matter of opinion, not fact, as evidenced by the lack of
> universal agreement by fairly reasonable people. I think email is such
> amazing piles of steaming poo that my happiness is inversely proportional to
> the number/r
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, pgaltieri . wrote:
> I'm asking this question out of frustration. What's the point of filing
> bugs against Fedora at bugzilla.redhat.com when the response I get is "ask
> up stream they can help you"?
At least you got a response. Half of the bugs I filed just r
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> If the bug is a packaging or dependency related bug, then use RHBZ. If it's
> a feature request, or broken feature that surely would affect every distro's
> instance of that component, then file it upstream. Often the Fedora package
> maintai
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Please see my second e-mail.
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/445481.html
You seem to be missing the point. With SysV init, you could just edit
the appropriate file in /etc/init.d and tell it not to try
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> So, let me get this straight, DNF doesn't check the (online?) repo
> metadata when I call 'sudo dnf update'? That's how I'm reading this.
> If that's true, why the devil not?
At a guess, for marketing reasons. People see apt as being quicker
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> The metadata are quite large and downloading them every single time is
> time consuming.
I can't think of an occasion on which I'd want to say "update this
package, but not to the latest version". For installing new software,
maybe. But updati
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> Since the normal way to boot a PC now is a complete functioning OS on
> a single removable-media volume - be that an optical disk or USB flash
> media
Uhhh... wow. That's quite some selection bias you have going on there.
For the record, I'm
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, bruce wrote:
> Now. I do a simple sed search/replace if it just focuses on the txt, but
> crafting a sed that uses the entire input as a search due to the parens '()'
> is a bit painful! Doing the sed using the \( for the ( wasn't quite
> successful!
localhost:~
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Andras Simon wrote:
> In 25+ years of using linux, I haven't seen anything that comes close
> to xv.
Correct answer. I've been using it since the late '80s, and it's still
the best option for the vast majority of use cases. For the few
exceptions, I tend to use
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Gary Stainburn
wrote:
> Because some people don't know which way up to put pages into a fax machine I
> also give the user the ability to invert a fax by calling
>
> /usr/bin/convert $1 -rotate 180 $2
>
> However, the resulting PDF file is very poor quality so I ch
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I agree with you that pdftk is excellent for manipulating pdfs, but why
> do you say "ImageMagick is rarely the right option anyway"? I use it
> all the time to manipulate images (jpg, png, etc); it seems to work
> quite well. Please do not ta
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> Quite possibly it's the slow keys feature. I found that if I use gdm to
> log in, when you hold the shift key for several seconds, the slow key
> feature is turned on
Yes, I have exactly this problem, specifically on F17. But SlowKeys
ge
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> After using every release from four on, 17 still looks like the sweet spot
> between functionality and stability, hope this one is in the ballpark.
Uhhh... wow. Your experiences are very different to mine. I've used
every RH and then Fedora
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> where was F17 unstable?
>
> running in production since months for any sort of
> servers, routers and gateways without a single crash
Different environment, different experiences. My work desktop, running
an up to date F17, hangs solid pret
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> Bug reports are more useful than "it doesn't work".
I agree. That's why most of my problems are logged in bugzilla. But
they generally follow the standard Fedora bug lifecycle: bug is
created, then ignored for two releases, then closed bec
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you are trying to keep a system running to get work done without big
> changes you want Centos rather than Fedora - definitely.
Even then, I'm not so sure any more. My recent CentOS 6 install was a
pretty horrendous experience, and I still ca
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)
You don't need a standalone application. This should suffice:
scanimage | pnmtops | ps2pdf - output.pdf
Obviously, each of those commands can take various flags to c
How can I set a background image now that xsri is now longer being
distributed with Fedora? I couldn't see anything in the release notes
about it being dropped or about a suitable replacement. For the time
being, I'm using "xv -rmode 1", but clearly that's not the approved
solution, since it's not
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:47 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> The only "solution" I've found for this (other than hacking that feature
> out of X ;) is to put this in my .xsession:
>
> xkbset sl 1
>
> This doesn't disable slow keys, but sets slow keys at the fastest
> possible timeout so that the keyboard
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> This is "supposed" to work, but so far I haven't been successful.
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard slowkeys-enable false
It doesn't work for me either. I know nothing about gsettings, but I
suspect the reason it's not working
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> You suggest the scenario where just package A would be installed, and if
> I happen to need some functionality of A (as opposed to some more
> elementary functionality of A which would be good enough for you), I
> would need to install B m
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> yum --optional-deps install foo
>
> I'm not entirely clear from your email whether or not you understand
> why most dependencies exist. If a linked library is not present the
> program will not run, regardless of whether you need the f
So here I am, sat with an inbox full of bugs that I reported when F17
came out and now they're being closed as F17 is EOL. Once again,
several of them don't appear to have even been looked over *at all* by
the package maintainer. I wonder why I bother sometimes...
Tet
--
"Java is a DSL for takin
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> Probably a reference to the very early days of RPM (pre-yum). You'd
> install a package, then find some library was missing and go to install
> that, which led to something else missing, etc. A few cycles of this and
> you know what "dependency
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Tim wrote:
> If you get hacked, changing the password after the event is too late.
> And if they installed a backdoor, changing your password will be
> completely pointless.
>
> If you haven't been hacked, you're just making life harder for yourself,
> trying to r
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:08 AM Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> Now the only issue is I need to force all traffic originated by me (eg
> when I'm the client) out eth0 and only use vpn0 when traffic
> specifically hits that interface.
This is called policy routing and is pretty straightforward. All of
the
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> Not to be snarky, but if upgrading terrifies you then perhaps Fedora is
> not the right distro for your needs. Regular updating is part of the
> Fedora mindset. The system is designed to be updated at least once a
> year.
The problem
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> The problem is that newer versions tend to break everything, which
>>> makes for a sucky end user experience. I've been doing this since Red
>>> Hat 3.0.3 and up, so it's not as if this is all new to me.
>
> Well, I guess you are aware th
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:19 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
>
> [...]
>
> You command ought to be
> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep
Well no. It should be:
pgrep -a pulse
Tet
--
I saw cout being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped
right there. — Stev
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Is anyone using a 4K monitor on fedora with open source
> video drivers and actually getting a 60HZ 3840x2160
> image of a single desktop?
>
> If so, care to share which video card and monitor
> you use?
Not on a single monitor, but I have a
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> So is there a USB 11n dongle that IS supported and can be had for < $20?
I use a TP-Link TL-WN725N v2. It works, but not out of the box. The
in-kernel driver didn't work for me, although that could have been a
bad interaction with the (no
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Since the primary use of this dongle will be on a F21 test system, compiling
> driver might be a all too often process. And it is for an armv7 box at
> that!
The raspberry pi people have a precompiled ARM driver for it, if that helps.
T
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Orange Paranoid
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need a regular font resembling how a human being writes in the real
> world. Beginners learning the English language need such a font.
>
> My requirement is in this video:
>
> http://youtu.be/BnA8dkN0ROU
You'll probably s
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple capital
> block letters first. Then lower case.
I have to say that's precisely the opposite to everything I've ever
encountered. Lower case is taught first. Then later upper
I had an old machine running some ancient version of Fedora (13 or
something, I think). All was good. But obviously obsolete and probably
insecure. So I upgraded to Fedora 20 before Christmas. I typically use
fvwm. However, when I move windows, an image of the window in its
previous position remain
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> A lot of things have changed since F13. First, see if you have an
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. If so, rename it to something else and reboot.
No, this was a fresh install. I didn't keep anything from the old
installation. There is no xorg.conf
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Patrick Dupre
wrote:
> I installes texlive2012,
> but apparently the fonts are not installed!
> In additon, when I make,
>
> rpm -ql texlive
> I get:
> (contains no files)
>
> while:
> rpm -q texlive
> texlive-2012-16.20130205_r29034.fc18.x86_64
>
> Whould I finis
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> There are other FOSS options for this, you know. If you don't mind
> migrating from a markup language to a GUI, you might consider Scribus. I've
> had good luck with it on small projects, and I know that there are
> professionals out there using
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> You may find this interesting, then. PDF files created by Scribus are
> considerably larger than those created by Adobe. This is because Adobe sets
> the position for a line, then inserts a string of characters for that line.
> Scribus sets the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> If you install Fedora, what you get for support is, essentially,
> answers people are willing to give you for free here, in forums, in
> IRC, and so on. If you install CentOS or SL, I believe the answer is
> roughly the same. This does n
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Thomas Cameron
wrote:
>> The annoying thing is, I'd *gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd
>> charge me a sensible amount
>
> [...]
>
> Horse feathers.
>
> You can get a personal, developer subscription for $99:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developer
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It's a massive usability fail, masquerading as an accessibility feature.
Yep. And there has been a depressing lack of willingness in the Fedora
community to find out what's causing it. It spontaneously activates
for me with no apparen
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if anyone out there
> in fedora-land has run a display at 3840x2160 and if so
> what video card and/or cards you used (and if open source
> drivers worked)?
Not precisely those resolutions, but not far o
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joe Wulf wrote:
> It is configured to be a usable 16:9 aspect ratio. Very pleased to see
> that.
I can't imagine why! 16:9 is pretty much the worst of the common
monitor aspect ratios. It's a shame it's also the one that seems to be
becoming most widespread.
Te
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Any suggestions? The man page for hugin lists dozens of command line tools,
> and I script netpbm commands, and have even written a few tools, but if
> there's a "best practice" solution I can at least start looking in the right
> place.
yu
I have a resolv.conf that says:
; generated by /usr/sbin/dhclient-script
That's fine. But I need to add a custom domain to my search path that
isn't supplied by the DHCP server. According to the documentation,
adding the following to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf should be enought to
do this:
interfac
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 9:16 AM Frank Elsner via users
wrote:
> Is there an equivalent to pavucontrol? I need it to adjust
> the level of my external audio interface?
>
> I'm heavy interested in any experience - especially pitfalls - before
> I start the upgrade.
I've had mixed success. pavucont
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:19 PM Tethys wrote:
> I've had mixed success. pavucontrol continues to work. However,
> alsamixer and amixer (both of which I relied on in various places)
> don't. The switch to pipewire has not been a pleasant experience for
> me.
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