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How do I do a group reinstall of Xfce?
by ToddAndMargo 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

Hi All, I have both MATE and Xfce installed. If I boot into MATE, such that Xfce is not running, or not start a GUI at all, how do I do a group reinstall of Xfce? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Shift+PrintScreen gone with F36?
by Frederic Muller 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Hi! Something I use almost daily and.. nothing happens now. Is there a replacement shortcut or a way to enable it back? Thank you. Fred

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Duplex Printer Problem
by Jonathan Ryshpan 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Whenever I try to print from Okular, a box with this message appears: There are conflicts in duplex settings. Do you want to fix them? And printing is in fact funky: the options for double sided printing: Okular->Print->Options are strange. The option "Long Side Printing" is selected (though greyed out); the option "Off" is selectable, but if selected, no other option can be selected afterward. Firefox doesn't allow control of duplex printing using its native print dialog, but duplex can be controlled using the system dialog. Does anyone know what's going on or how to fix it. Printer: HP Color Laserjet M255dw Cups Version: cups-2.4.2-4.fc36.x86_64 System Info: Operating System: Fedora Linux 36 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 Kernel Version: 5.19.4-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600 Manufacturer: ASUS -- Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net> Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent, not by 1 percent. --Edward Denison

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fstab: systemd still uses the old version
by Robert Nichols 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs" still returns the message: Mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload. This is Fedora 36, fully updated. What am I missing? -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start
by Eyal Lebedinsky 04 Sep '22

04 Sep '22

f36, just updated and received thunderbird-librnp-rnp-102.2.0-1.fc36.x86_64 from thunderbird-91.12.0-1.fc36.x86_64 tb brings up the expected display but no input is accepted. The process is shown as running with 100% CPU PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 72149 eyal 20 0 4075036 772700 223612 R 100.3 2.4 5:26.57 thunderbird It will not refresh(*) the panel and will start responding after about 1h. [later] I see the panel was refreshed after 50m but input was still not accepted and the display will not refresh. It resolved after 70m. After this is seems to be OK, I can read mail etc. To be sure, I made a copy of the profile where I deleted all the .msf files and observed the same thing. I tried this a few times. It is not just a one-off post-upgrade process. After it recovers and works, if I shut tb down and launch it then it repeats the problem. There are not too many emails here, maybe a few tens of thousand totaling just over 1GB (a few mailing lists). My main mail client is on another machine, still running tb 91, and not showing this problem. Searching the 'net I did not find a relevant report, where should I look? BTW, after reading the release notes, seeing the structural changes, I wonder if it is at all possible to downgrade to v91? TIA (*) "not refreshed" means the panel is not painted after minimize/restore, showing only a border. -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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/etc/grub2.cfg Flagged a Potenially missing
by Stephen Morris 01 Sep '22

01 Sep '22

Hi, /etc/extlinux.conf is flagged as missing, the file is displayed in red and the link is shown in white text on a red background. As mentioned in another thread on this list that file actually is missing. /etc/grub2.cfg and /etc/grub2-efi.cfg both of which point to the same file also display the same way as /etc/extlinux.conf, but in this case the file pointed to actually does exist, and is linking to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which I regularly write to with sudo and grub2-mkconfig, but I have also found that I need to use sudo to browse /boot/grub2. Is it normal for links to be flagged as missing when sudo is required to list the contents of the directory and why is sudo required to list the contents of /boot/grub2 when I don't need sudo to list the contents of /boot? /boot/efi seems to be in the same situation. regards, Steve

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Changing default settings for simple GNOME apps (which changed with latest Fedora)
by Frederic Muller 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Hi! A few basic things have changed in F36 such as terminal notification, default text editor and more... most of it is nice to have but I really suffer from 2 things I use plenty everyday: the (default) text editor and the image viewer. So I'd like to know if it's possible to just open an empty text file with no name when launching the text editor? Likewise I'd like to know if it's possible to have the image size in the 'footer' as it used to be rather than having to 2 times to get image properties and have the image window size reduced by half because of that? Also is it possible to actually open images at a specific ratio rather than what the app has decided? I'm looking for 100% but... you know.. is there a setting for that? Also, and that is not new, but since I'm in default settings... can document viewer not show the document index in a left-side panel as it always do (and I always press F9 to close it)? I think that'll be all for today. Thank you. Fred

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Wacom tablet input of traditional Chinese
by Nick Urbanik 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Dear Folks, I have failed to discover documentation written in English on how to configure Fedora with Gnome to input traditional Chinese characters from handwriting on a Wacom tablet. This is for my wife, who needs this type of input. I know other methods are far faster, but this is what she wants. Any pointers to documentation on how to get this working please? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org nicku(a)nicku.org GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

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clang
by Patrick Dupre 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hello, I can compile this code with gcc (-lm) but not with clang test.c:8:22: warning: implicit declaration of function 'CMPLX' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] double complex z = CMPLX (1., 2.) ; ^ 1 warning generated. /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/test-52cb2b.o: in function `main': test.c:(.text+0x1b): undefined reference to `CMPLX' clang-14: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <complex.h> int main () { double complex z = CMPLX (1., 2.) ; } I could not find any option of clang which let me compile it without this error. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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clang
by Patrick Dupre 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hello, I can compile this code with gcc (-lm) but not with clang test.c:8:22: warning: implicit declaration of function 'CMPLX' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] double complex z = CMPLX (1., 2.) ; ^ 1 warning generated. /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/test-52cb2b.o: in function `main': test.c:(.text+0x1b): undefined reference to `CMPLX' clang-14: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <complex.h> int main () { double complex z = CMPLX (1., 2.) ; } I could not find any option of clang which let me compile it without this error. Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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