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Apple camera formats heic and hevc
by Robert McBroom 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

Apple new formats for photos and videos are giving me trouble just transferring files from the phone. Keep getting invalid format in transfer even though the functions on the phone are fine. Anyone else having problems? Any editors? Gimp seems to overlap parts of the live photo to a ragged fixed photo.

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desktop power button
by ToddAndMargo 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Hi All, Fedora 39 MATE 1.26 I have been tasked to set up a kiosk at a cusomter's site with Fedroa: The users their are walk in customer's wanting to pay bills, etc.. So Firefox, Brave, LibreOffice, gcals, etc.. The users will be very, very, very low skill users. I was going to install MATE on it because it is danged simple to operate. The only issues is that the "system" shutdown/reboot is hard to find for such a low skill user(s). I would like a desktop icon to shutdown/reboot/sleep their computer. My own system is dual Xfce/MATE. A search of the MATE app installed does not show one or I can not find it. I see qshutdown on the web, but not in the Fedora repo. And it is a bit too complicated for low skill users. I do see kshutdown and gshutdown in the repo, but still a bit too complicated. Any ideas about a utility that would allow me to create really, really low skill user shutdown icon for their desktop? I may have to compromise on gshutdown. Be cool if I could locate what MATE calls from the system menu. Many thanks, -T

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chromium will not start
by Michael Hennebry 25 Nov '23

25 Nov '23

I recently installed the chromium browser on F38. It won't start. At least it won't stay started very long. When I start it from the command line, I get this: $ chromium-browser [297210:297210:1123/181637.109041:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (2215) on another computer (localhost-live.midcoip.net) Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium. [297210:297210:1123/181637.109237:ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(146)] Unable to show a dialog outside the UI thread message loop: Chromium - The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (2215) on another computer (localhost-live.midcoip.net) Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium. I don't even know what that means. What profile? What is Midcontinent doing with it? How? Why is a "profile" even involved? Who is making money off my "profile"? How? I have no idea how I would unlock my "profile". I suppose the claim will be made that it is for security. Grrr. -- Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along, cuts you open, and rips your guts out." -- Buffy

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weekly patches crippled my display.
by home user 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

(f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches. After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying anything, and then with a large, wide font. I saw no indication of trouble during the "dnf upgrade". The boot messages go by fast, but I think I saw something about a missing module, and nouveau being used. I'm not a sys.admin., and the display is very limited. What's the cause of these problems, and how do I fix things?

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OT: X11: how to make cut-and-paste with mouse also work on every window
by Ranjan Maitra 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

Hi, I know this is OT, but someone here might know the answer to this. So, I like the ability to highlight with my mouse left button, and paste with my middle (scroll) button. It works on `xterm` but not necessarily on my firefox window (some other windows too, but I do not recall now). Is there a way to set this up so that it can work reliably on every window? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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How to get rid of current color selection in terminal?
by Peter Boy 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

The current selection of color in Server ASCII terminal (not in Gnome terminal) and the choice of the prompt including the complete current path is quite awful for people who are dependent on glasses due to eye sight problems, for example. How can I switch back to the F38 of better F36 configuration? Or at least switch off the colors? All I found on the internet doesn’t work in Fedora. -- Peter Boy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy PBoy(a)fedoraproject.org Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) Fedora Server Edition Working Group member Fedora Docs team contributor and board member Java developer and enthusiast

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USB ethernet wake-on-LAN?
by Chris Adams 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

I have a new ThinkPad T14s AMD 4th gen notebook, and a USB-C ethernet adapter. I would like to be able to send wake-on-LAN to the notebook for some uses. The ethernet adapter also has a USB-C port for power delivery (so it can also charge the notebook). When the notebook is suspended, the ethernet link stays up (LEDs are lit on both it and the switch port). It also shows support for wake-on-LAN, defaulting to magic packet mode. I tried the "old-style" /proc/acpi/wakeup (which shows enabled for the USB in question) as well as /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/wakeup (which all defaulted to disabled, but I enabled them too). However, nothing seemed to work. I have other systems with built-in/PCIe NICs that I can wake; it's just this one with the USB (because no built-in NIC) that's a problem. The BIOS has a setting for USB wake-on-LAN with the official dock (which was enabled), but I didn't see anything else that looked relevant. Any suggestions? -- Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>

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Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Kit with Arc 770 and fedora 39
by Gianluca Cecchi 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Hi, a friend of mine has an Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Kit (NUC12SNKi72) with an Intel Arc 770 graphic card installed on it. By default fedora 39 anaconda freezes (black screen after skipping verify media and selecting install option). It seems the same scenario as described here for fedora 37: https://kevinquillen.com/getting-intel-arc-770m-work-fedora-37 Before going through all the same steps I would like to test something shorter, especially without disabling ACPI and PCIe Power mgmt in the bios, if possible in latest Fedora. Suggestions for anaconda boot parameters? Eg 1) using nomodeset option at installation phase. Could it work oob? 2) any way to specify an option for a kernel module during install? WHat syntax? I mean the equivalent of using the options i915 force_probe=5690 in /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf for an already installed system BTW: I have still to understand if the system will use both graphics cards (which one is primary in this case?) or if the onboard one will be disabled if using a discrete card on the Nuc. Thanks in advance, Gianluca

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Starting Wayland FC39
by Dave Close 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Until FC39, I had only run Wayland on one of my machines, not even trying to bring it up on the others. Since I intensely dislike the graphic login, I found a way to start it from a virtual terminal like I normally start X11. Instead of "startx", I have a short script I call "startw" that contains only the single line, "/usr/bin/dbus-run-session /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland". (Yes, I run KDE.) This worked on FC38. Now on the same machine with FC39 (upgraded with system-upgrade) this no longer works. Instead, it produces 248 lines of output and then terminates. Reviewing those lines, it appears that it is complaining about, 'failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"' and 'No suitable DRM devices have been found'. I'm not sure what device that refers to but there seems to be some indication that it is my display. The display certainly works fine for the virtual terminal I use to run this script, and it also works fine for X11 if I run "startx". Ok, so as a fallback I tried a graphic login. This reaches a completely blank screen and goes no further. The machine is up as I can reach it with SSH but the display is useless. It responds to Ctrl-Alt-Delete but nothing else. I can't get it to switch to a different desktop. I noticed that SDDM defaults to Wayland so I changed "sddm.conf" to include "DisplayServer=x11". The allowed the graphic login to reach a login page but nothing I entered there was accepted even when I switched to specify starting an X11 session instead of Wayland. There are some online references to a problem with the /dev/dri/card0 device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant. This machine is intended to run an application that only works on Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions would be very helpful. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 dave(a)compata.com dhclose(a)alumni.caltech.edu "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better." -- Giuseppe Verdi

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Software to view thermal camera images on Fedora 39
by Jeffrey Walton 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Hi Everyone, I purchased a Topdon Thermal Camera, <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7LMB22Q>. I'm trying to open the device on Fedora 39, x86_64, with the KDE spin. I'm having trouble finding a KDE app to open the camera on F39. I've tried Dragon (video), Kamoso (camera) and Kamera (camera) apps. None of them seem to recognize the camera, and none of them open it. Here is what dmesg has to say about the camera: [153944.011515] usb 3-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd [153944.307093] usb 3-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=5830,bcdDevice=11.01 [153944.307107] usb 3-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2 [153944.307111] usb 3-2.4: Product: USB Camera [153944.307113] usb 3-2.4: Manufacturer: Generic [153944.307116] usb 3-2.4: SerialNumber: 200901010001 [153944.326921] usb 3-2.4: Found UVC 1.00 device USB Camera (0bda:5830) The USB Camera (0bda:5830) is known to Linux, see <https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:0bda-5830>. And I may be doing something dumb, like not configuring one of the apps correctly. (I am used to using Cheese to open cameras like this, but I am not on Ubuntu). What KDE software can I use to view the images from the Topdon? Thanks in advance. Jeff

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