Congrats on F21. fedup worked great!
by Tony Camuso
Updated from F20 to F21 on two systems, one a VM, the other
bare metal. Used nonproduct to accommodate customizations.
Had zero problems.
9 years, 3 months
Samsung Gs3 and F21/Xfce
by Robert Moskowitz
When I was running F20 with Gnome, I could mount my Samsung Gs3. First
it mounted the windows installer. I did nothing, just waited, and this
mount disappeared then the Samsung device mount appeared and I could
access the files. Mostly to move videos and pictures around.
Now on F21 with Xfce, I only get the Windows install mount which
disappears after a bit, then nothing. No device is showing under /dev
I really need to get some files onto the phone, and take some off. And
no F20 or Gnome systems here.
Anyone else working with a Samsung phone and F21?
I am planning on upgrading my phone. Either to a Gs4 or Note4. Does
anyone have experience with either of these?
My cellular account is with VerizonWireless if this makes any difference.
thanks
9 years, 3 months
Need soundcard advice
by William W. Austin
My wife composes, and for playback she has used an Audigy2 PCI card in
her desktop machine for years. That computer is beyond it's last legs
now, and her new one has only PCIE slots. (Yes she uses Linux for her
composing and playback.)
The problem is that she uses the Midi feature of that card and has
sound fonts that she loads (about 126 MB in size) into it. She has
given up trying to find one and has asked me to help... but so far I've
struck out.
Are there ANY PCIE sound which is roughly the equivalent of the Audigy
2 cards? I won't say "money is no object", but I'm approaching the
point where cost is less important than finding such a card if on
exists.
Any pointers on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
- Bill
--
william w. austin airedad(a)att.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
9 years, 3 months
Terminal bell/beep in XFCE
by Sam Varshavchik
After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal
beep/bell.
I don't see any promising setting in xfce4-terminal. What I'm looking for is
what Gnome did – use an audio effect for a terminal beep, and not the
motherboard speaker. Anyone knows if that's possible?
9 years, 3 months
How NOT to have Xfce restart all running apps on restart
by Robert Moskowitz
It is kind of nice but too many things just don't work write. I would
rather start everything my self and in the right workspace (some are
starting up in different workspaces).
The 'settings' > 'sessin and startup' dialog on Application Autostart
tab basically says you have no control over restarting what was
previously running.
Seems like I grumbled about this during the beta, but lost what was said
about dumbing down Xfce startup.
9 years, 3 months
Xfce Thunar directory size
by Robert Moskowitz
Shows the Kb of the directory.
I am use to Nautilus and Nemo showing how many files are in the directory.
I looked through the various settings, but could not find how to get
Thunar to behave like Nautilus and Nemo.
thanks for the help
BTW, I have completed the migration from my F20/Gnome to the new
F21/Xfce laptop. Had to backup and copy ~110Gb of files. Both systems
are Lenovo x102e units with 240Gb SSD installed.
The only major hangup is that the screen is not turned off with
screensaver. And, yes Poma, it is xflock4 that is being run with
<ctl-alt-del> and it is NOT turning off the backlight. And I noticed
the last night with the room light off, that my Asus ee900 (i386
install) also has its backlight on, but much dimmer than the Lenovo's
backlight (which can be seen in a lit room).
see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175015
I need to update the bug report for the Asus problem.
9 years, 3 months
F21 Xfce on Asus ee900 not seeing wireless adapter
by Robert Moskowitz
I just noticed this, as I have been using wired all this time. But went
to do some wireless testing, only to find out no wireless.
How do I go about finding out if it is even recognizing the wireless card?
9 years, 3 months
assigning a usbdevice to a gnome-boxes guest/domain
by Stefan Huchler
I want to assign to a guest/domain in gnome-boxes a usb-device a
chipcardreader.
In general if I use the gui method it works like expected.
The problem is that you have to activate the usbdevice after each
suspention of the guest again and again.
So after searching for a solution Ive seen some suggestion like that:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>
<source>
<vendor id='0x0763'/>
<product id='0x202a'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
I start virsh and edit form there the host add this under devices and
restart the guest. When I try to resume the domain from gnome-boxes I
get an error like "cant resume" no specifics why.
When I then restart the gnome-boxes programm and try resuming again it
works. But the usb device is not forwarded so I have to forward it
manual again. In the xml file with edit command I dont find this part I
added.
So Gnome-boxes seems to overwrite it on start with something or virsh
does not save it.
I think it has something to do with this spicevmc devices I think they
fight over the same usb-devices.
9 years, 3 months
tmpfs
by Geoffrey Leach
I thought I would try having /tmp as a tmpfs. It's not mentioned in the Fedora 21 docs. Is this because:
o It worked so well (beginning in Fedora 18) that it's standard practice?
o It was a bad idea, and is no longer used?
9 years, 3 months