upgrade report F34
by old sixpack13
Hallo
as often(!!!) the last years I upgraded to F34 Beta.
the most things went smooth with [1].
some selinux troubleshooting needed
*Big* Thanks to all involved.
some thoughts, though:
1. gnome power (?) menu:
I would like to see a more "desktop user" friendly power menue.
I guess all normal user do either poweroff or restart, lesser switch user.
so it should be at the end of the menue, with poweroff at last and without additional "yes, I really want to shut down"
2. nautilus
I usually start home brewed scripts out of nautilus.
with F33 I could start them by double click.
okay, now there is a "run as a program", but somewhere in the menu (3rd position).
Q.: is double click somehow (re-)configurable ?
as mentioned above with the power menue:
I first need to find the right entry in the menue and need to concentrate clicking the right one.
it also should be more user friendly:
one "blind" click on an exposed position in the menue (top/end) and the box shuts off or script runs; NOT long reading and concentrating
some of the scripts generates their output to an file which usually is in same directory as the script.
now, all goes to /home/<user>
tested it under gnome-Xorg with an "echo $(pwd) && read" in the script, it only turns out "/home/<username>"
Q.: what to do here ?
idea's ?
btw.:
- geeqie seg faults under wayland
- the new gcc throws some warnings during kernel compile compared with gcc under F33
[1]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/
3 years
Re: Fedora 33 Update: harvey-1.0.0-12.fc33
by Tim
This sort of thing really annoys me:
> Name : harvey
> Product : Fedora 33
> Version : 1.0.0
> Release : 12.fc33
> URL : https://github.com/danrabbit/harvey
> Summary : The hero that Gotham needs right now
> Description : Calculate and visualize color contrast. Harvey checks a
> given set of colors for WCAG contrast compliance.
The summary SHOULD give useful information about the package, but this
clearly is abusing the system. If you were searching through the
YUM/DNF interface for a package to do a job, that information would be
of no use to you.
That, and descriptions which point to useless or dead websites for more
information.
--
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 18:28:22 UTC 2021 x86_64
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.
3 years
wi-fi connection question
by David
My wi-fi adapter on my Gigabyte motherboard:
Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi
I am staying in a very crappy motel, so the wi-fi is lousy.
I am using my Rawhide Gnome 40 install, on primary NVMe.
NetworkManager finds the motel wi-fi and several others ( including the
hot-spot on my very crappy iPhone / cheap cell-provider ). But
NetworkManager will
not connect to the motel's wi-fi. It will connect to the hot-spot on
my iPhone, ( which I am using
now to type this. )
I have not updated Fedora in about two weeks, so I am still on Gnome 40 RC1
and some
Beta packages.
I am too scared to update, since I have a poor hot-spot signal.
Any suggestions ?
I am thinking about getting a bigger antenna to put on the wi-fi.
However, my
iPhone, has no problem connecting to the motel's wi-fi.
My other option, is that I have a new wi-fi card adapter, somewhere, that
works
great, but I will have to hunt for it, and so I can't do that today.
David Locklear
3 years
Confirming a command for switching kernels
by Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone,
Because of some wi-fi problems I'm having with the latest 5.12 rc4
kernel in rawhide, I'd like to switch back to 5.12 rc3, because I recall
that wi-fi worked.
The command, credits to Ed, I tried, was
sudo grub2-editenv - set
"saved_entry=133a2487cda040dbbe9609f0ab827def-5.12.0-0.rc3.20210319git8b12a62a4e3e.172.fc35.x86_64
but it didn't work, so I'm wondering if that entry thing needs to be
changed.
If so, how? what should I do?
Thanks for any answer.
Best regards.
Francisco.
3 years
Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.
by R. G. Newbury
> Subject: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.
> I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which can
> power up and down the drives as needed.
>
> I have a systemd automount unit that correctly powers up the dock when
> accessed, then mounts the drives (thanks Ed).
>
> After an idle time, automount unmounts the drives. A script detects
> when this happens and powers them down ... *at which point they
> immediately power up again, and remain up until I intervene manually,
> even though they are unmounted*.
>
> This never happens if I run the script directly from the command line
> (i.e. the drives power down and stay down).
> I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas.
The systemd service unit has a Restart=on-failure, or a Restart=always
line???
Geoff
3 years
Hooks for automount
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Is there a way to invoke scripts before auto-mounting and after auto-
unmounting? I want to be able to power an external drive up and down as
needed.
poc
3 years
NVidia graphics card on F33
by 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.
When will the laptop be using the NVIDIA card? Is this graphics card now working on my new installation?
Regarding installation of drivers:
Does Fedora already carry a default driver for this graphics card? Do I need to install a driver?
I have noticed there is a specific repository for NVIDIA graphics cards drivers (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver), which provides the Nouveau driver. Should I install this repository and a specific package contained in it?
Does NVIDIA provide another driver for this card in linux? Would this be recommended over the open source alternative for any reason?
thanks very much,
3 years
Firefox tab switch looks bad in high-dpi scaled Gnome
by Anil F Duggirala
hello,
When switching tabs in Firefox on a high-dpi display that has been
scaled (200%) in Gnome. The tabs appear on top of each other. All tabs
are shown, but they are on top of each other in a cascade sort of
layout. It looks really bad. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how
to fix this? So that tabs are shown spread out, even if not all tabs are
shown on the screen at one time.
thank you,
3 years
A problem with compiling the latest version of Orca screen reader on
F 33 and Rawhide
by Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone,
The problem I'v having is this:
When i clone orca into the orca directory, cd to it, and run
./autogen.sh, everything goes ok, eccept...
configure: error: Package requirements (pygobject-3.0 >= 3.18) were not met:
Package 'pygobject-3.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PYGOBJECT_CFLAGS
and PYGOBJECT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
[francisco@Blueblink orca]$
I tried reinstalling the packages, but funny thing is, that the packages
were already there. i also tried some pip solutions I found on the web,
but, as you can see, none of them worked out that well.
Has anyone encountered this missing library thing somewhere? if so, how
would I go about fixing it?
Thanks for any answer.
Best regards.
Francisco
3 years
Mounting device using UUID by non-root
by Geoffrey Leach
Suppose I have a USB stick with UUID 1234. I am able to mount it as root
# mount UUID=1234 /Media
or as a non-root user
% sudo mount UUID=1234 /Media
unsafe!
Question: is there any way to perform the mount (from the command line)
without the sudo?
Thanks.
3 years
