Is there a "real" 3d desktop for Fedora?
by William Oliver
This talk about desktop in the no-maintenance thread got me thinking. Some years ago when I was still using Windows, I played around with a 3D desktop that had a cute virtual environment with 3d-ish rooms, etc where you could stash applications. Back in the day, it was called "3DNA." I think the company who made it is dead and it's not supported, but it's still downloadable, apparently, for Windows:
http://3dna-desktop.en.softonic.com/
It had a few fun themes -- a villa on the coast, the inside of a submarine, etc. When I was playing with these things there were a couple of other sorta-working attempts at this using game engines.
It was kind of toy-like, but I thought it was fun.
Is there anything like this for Fedora? I'm not talking about the rotating cube stuff, but a working 3d environment...
billo
9 years, 6 months
rpm editor for MasterPdfEditor
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
Is there a fedora rpm available/repo for MasterPdfEditor?
http://code-industry.net/pdfeditor.php
I would like to try this out, but thought that I would ask around for a rpm first before installing manually. Searching on DDG did not yield a definitive answer.
Many thanks,
Ranjan
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Broadcom BCM4312 wireless
by Mickey
Fedora 20/ KDE
Can't get a broadcom BCM4312 to work in F20. worked in previous fedora's
on a Dell Mini 1012.
lspci -v says it uses the driver b43-pci-wireless, but that is not so.
please help
9 years, 6 months
list of all updates
by Ger van Dijck
Hello,
I have a question : Is it possible to display a list of ALL updates ?
I mean from the very beginning : So after install F20 , then the first
installed update till the last installed update.
Yum extender displays only a part of ALL uodates.
Be so kind to inform me.
Ger van Dijck.
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Re: Making rc.local work on F20.
by R. G. Newbury
>> On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 21:25 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
:
>> cd /etc
>> echo '#!/bin/bash' > rc.d/rc.local
>> ln -s rc.d/rc.local rc.local
>> chmod 755 rc.d/rc.local
As noted, previously you should use 'vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local' to add the
'#!/bin/bash' line and any testing lines (like 'touch /var/tmp/hello')
After re-booting, check that the file
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service exists. It is *supposed* to be
created when/if /etc/rc,d/rc.local exists and is executable *but* it may
not. If it does not, then rc-local.service should contain:
*********************************
# rc-local.service
<snip>
# This unit gets pulled automatically into multi-user.target by
# systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/rc.d/rc.local is executable.
[Unit]
Description=/etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.d/rc.local
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/rc.local start
TimeoutSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes
SysVStartPriority=99
**********************************
You don't actually need the 'start' on the 4th last line. With this file
in place and a systemctl enable rc-local.service' you should be good to go.
Note:
In my experience, this method is NOT stable. My guess is that, although
the priority of 99 is supposed to be last, systemd has started processes
which have not yet completed, when this is called, and things just fail.
In particular, modules may get loaded in the wrong order, so that the
hardware 'fails'. This sort of failure may not even be apparent in dmesg
etc.
I have had success and stable results using the following line in
*root's* crontab. (See Extensions in 'man 8 crontab')
@reboot /etc/rc.d/rc.local
And disabling/masking the rc-local.service file so it is still there but
not used.
This seems to depend entirely upon the hardware connected/installed in
the computer. My desktop machine is fine with rc-local.service, but the
mythtv box at home requires use of the crontab work-around to boot
reliably with everything properly loaded. Note that I have to remove and
re-install modules in rc.local to ensure the correct loading order. YMMV
R. Geoffrey Newbury
9 years, 6 months
Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
I am running Fedora 20 x86_64 with all updates.
These days I am, among many other things, reordering old family pictures
scanned in several occasions, by different people.
So I have folders with many, many files named like:
196511-holidays-1.jpg
1968summer.jpg
1961-july-15-birthday.jpg
and so on. The problem is that, while the files are obviously sorted
correctly at the prompt when I do ls -l, this does NOT happen in any GUI
application I've tried so far: nautilus, gwenview, dolphin... They all
couldn't care less that I DO tell them to "sort by name". They keep
showing the pictures in some other, NOT alphanumerical order, as in the
example above. Which makes it very time consuming to catalog the
pictures, of course, but above all makes me wonder if there is something
wrong going on.
I've seen around some bug reports of the same "class", like
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169883, but this seems a more
serious issue. My file names all start with the 4-digits year, so I
can't see how or why a file manager should not sort them correctly by
"name".
Any clue? Thanks!
Marco
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9 years, 6 months
Making rc.local work on F20.
by Derrik Walker v2.0
There has been discussion of what it takes to make rc.local work. It
seems that some people are struggling with it.
There are a couple of important details, but for the most part, It's
almost trivial, as long as your not missing the important parts.
First thing I did was:
# cd/etc
# echo '$!/bin/bash' > /rc.d/rc.local
# ln -s rc.d/rc.local rc.local # because certain things are just burned
into my brain.
# chmod 755 rc.d/rc.local
# vi /etc/rc.local
Setting the file permissions and making sure '#!/bin/bash' at the top
are VERY important.
So, if you are poking around on my system:
# ls -l /etc/rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Mar 1 13:47 /etc/rc.local -> rc.d/rc.local
# ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 376 Jun 26 09:05 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
# cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/bash
# Fix the scheduler of the SSD
#
# changed to use deadline per benchmarks:
# http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?item=linux_316_iosched&page=article
# 2014-06-26 dw2
#
# echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
#
# send an email on a (re)boot
#
echo $(hostname) booted on $(date) | mail -s "$(hostname) boot" root
And as you can see, it works:
# systemctl status rc-local
rc-local.service - /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2014-10-07 23:20:39 EDT; 2 weeks 3
days ago
Main PID: 1036 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/rc-local.service
Oct 07 23:20:39 tesla systemd[1]: Started /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility.
Oct 07 23:20:39 tesla sendmail[1036]: s983Kd5f001036: from=root,
size=244, ...st
Oct 07 23:20:40 tesla sendmail[1036]: s983Kd5f001036: to=root,
ctladdr=root...y)
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop [deadline] cfq
That's it.
Really, all you need is to create a proper shell script in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local with the correct permissions and it should work.
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9 years, 6 months
dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg
by Stefan Huchler
When I update to a new kernel with dnf or yum, it
installs it, creates a working initramfs file like it should, but it does
not update grub.cfg in /boot/grub2/ .
I see following error:
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
when I do then:
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
all works fine but I have to do that on each kernel update.
System Fedora Core 20 x86_64
9 years, 6 months
Package versions
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
I am trying to update a package in a copr repo I maintain, but for some
reason I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong with the package
versions. dnf does not seem to think the new package is an update.
Installed version: notmuch-0.18.1-5.20140902.git.ef5e66ae.fc20.x86_64
Updated version: notmuch-0.18.2-2.20141025.git.96193798.fc20.x86_64
I would expect this to work, but it doesn't; and before anyone points
out, I cleared the repo metadata with dnf clean metadata.
This is the build:
http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/fatka/notmuch/build/54915/
Any thoughts anyone?
Cheers,
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9 years, 6 months
