Non-https site for opening up proxy
by Robert Moskowitz
My firewall proxy requires an initial http connection to set up a
session. After that, https works.
In past Firefox, I could put in a http url, even though the site
requires https. Firefox would leave it alone and the proxy intercepts,
presents the login dialog and everything is fine.
Now FF insists on changing the url to https and I can't open the
firewall proxy. I have to fiddle around until I can send the plan http url
Does anyone know of a public site that is NOT https so I can use that
URL as my initial access?
URGH!!!
2 years, 1 month
KDE manual session saving seems to be missing
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I haven't used KDE in some time and am trying it again now.
I can't seem to find where sessions can be saved.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong?
Any/all hints tips suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards and STAY SAFE!
George...
2 years, 1 month
Alternate text consoles
by Joe Zeff
I've long been accustomed to using the alternate text consoles because
there are times that something's stuck on the GUI or there are similar
needs to be taken care of. Now, I've installed F 35 Xfce spin on my new
laptop and they're not available. Is there something you have to
configure now to allow it or have they simply removed this feature?
2 years, 1 month
Languages in GUI
by GianPiero Puccioni
Hi,
recently I found out some problem with the language of some GUI programs, shuch
as Xsane and PDF-shuffler.
my locale is:
$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
F35 is in english with a US-international KB
but both program start in Italian (I am in Italy but why?)
Same if I try
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 PROG
or en_GB or en_US.UTF-8 or en_US .
LANG=C works and LANG=en gives an error and defaults to C
What should I do?
Thanks,
GiP
2 years, 1 month
keyboard dongle
by Tom Horsley
Just curious if others have this problem. Every so often, I'll
do a kernel update and when I reboot, by wireless keyboard won't
work. If I root around to find where the keyboard dongle is
plugged in, remove it, then plug it back in, all works well
again, but it is annoying to have to do this.
Just happened on my upgrade to 5.16.7-200.fc35.x86_64 from
5.16.5-200.fc35.x86_64 with my logitech MX-keys keyboard.
2 years, 1 month
software to control smart locks
by Jon LaBadie
In my new home the builder installed Kwikset smart
door locks. Control and query of the locks is working
over WiFi to my smart phone.
One capability lacking is repeating scheduled locking.
Say lock the door every night at 10PM.
If software were available for my Fedora systems to
control the lock it would be a simple cronjob.
Anyone know of such lock control software (preferably
CLI) for Fedora (or any Linux)? I've not found any.
Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com
2 years, 1 month
Re: Does it is better to '''python3 -m install the_program'''
instead '''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader
primary ?
by Cameron Simpson
On 11Feb2022 18:31, Dorian ROSSE <dorianbrice(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
>Does it is better to '''python3 -m install the_program''' instead
>'''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader
>primary ?
That would be:
python3 -m pip3 install the_program
The version with `python3` is generally better because it ensures that
the install is associated with your `python3` command - that way when
you run a programme with `python3` the module is available.
This is because a module is installed against a particular version of
Python, and it is possible the the `pip3` you run is not associated with
the same Python as `python3` in complicated setups.
You will of course want to adjust `python3` to be whatever Python
executable you're working with, but in the basic case that is just
`python3` as you have in your example.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>
2 years, 1 month
Re: Does it is better to '''python3 -m install the_program''' instead '''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader primary ?
by Jonathan Billings
On Feb 11, 2022, at 13:33, Dorian ROSSE <dorianbrice(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Does it is better to '''python3 -m pip install the_program''' instead '''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader primary ?
Both are essentially the same. The pip executable uses the pip module.
HOWEVER…
You should never run either as root on a Fedora system that you expect to ever use “dnf” on at a later point. Pip can and will install libraries that can break OS tools that are written in python (such as dnf). Not only that, but the RPM database won’t know about the new or updated libraries, causing general confusion.
If you want to install extra modules, use the “venv” module to create a separate python environment to install into, which doesn’t replace system libraries. It’s fairly painless and you can have multiple environments, activated on demand.
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Jonathan Billings
2 years, 1 month