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Opening URL's in Kwrite ?
by Mickey 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

How can I execute URL's from a kwrite file to automatically open Firefox and goto a website ?

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Power management and docks
by John Morris 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

Been banging my head against a minor problem for months now. Finally giving up and asking... Have a Thinkpad and a dock. Mate still allows for this arrangement, I can even configure it to stay powered on with the lid closed off of the dock if I want. The problem is I can't logout and back in or reboot. The second Mate releases control over power the machine suspends if the lid is down, like most cases while docked. Googled, poked around in config files, etc. Nothing seems to allow changing of the power policy while at the login screen. I can totally disable the lid from /etc/systemd/logind.conf but that is overkill. I do want the system to suspend if the AC is disconnected and the lid closes.

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Discovering and controlling paps font choices
by Max Pyziur 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

Greetings, I realize that it was sometime ago, but much thanks to whomever passed on the advice of using paps in place of enscript, especially when unicode/UTF-8 is involved. Since then I've essentially stopped using enscript and am working with paps. However, I still don't have a good handle on how to control fonts; by example, my standard commandline using paps looks like this: paps --landscape --paper=letter --columns=2 --font="Monospace-Bold 6" SomeFileName | lpr -P MyLinePrinter Using this particular font choice, gives me an Arial-like font, not something monospaced. If I replace the hyphen w/ a space, I then get Courier. I've looked a bit both googling and the various installed RPMs to see if I could determine the naming of the fonts, but with no good results. Any advice in this regard? Much thanks in advance, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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Raid-1 setup -
by Bob Goodwin 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

If I select two large drives and check the boxes for Raid mirrored does it create a raid-1 system for me or must I first set up the system before running the installer? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE

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Firefox BookMarks, Where ?
by Mickey 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Where is the Bookmarks in ~/,mozilla/default ?

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if I install 21 beta how do I
by William Biggs 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

If I install the beta of 21 and when the final release come out Do I need to reinstall it or just let it keep updating it ?

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Fedora 20 Mate System Sounds
by Rich 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hi, I've been running Fedora Mate 20 for about 6 months and it is admirable. Everythng appears to work except for my system sounds, example: login sound, shutdown sound, etc... I've tried everything I know and can't seem to get them working. I've loaded the few sounds themes available to me. Sound works when testing using the mixer, as well as when using Chrome and netflix. Has anyone else had this problem? Rich

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torrent.fedoraproject.org RSS feed?
by Ben Blankley 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

I sent the following note to the infrastructure list, but maybe it's better suited to users? It was never approved for the infrastructure list. Please delete if it is offtopic. With the impending release of F21, I was planning on setting up my RSS-enabled Bittorrent client to get the F21 final ISO downloading as soon as possible. Is there an RSS feed for torrent.fedoraproject.org? If not, is there a mirror-friendly way to automate such a download upon final release, whether through Bittorrent, rsync, or http? I have a few systems at home that will need a full new installation from F20, and since I'm on slow internet I'd rather just download packages once, while I'm at work in CST. I haven't figured out how to set up a local update mirror cache yet. Thanks, Ben Blankley

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Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!
by Philip Rhoades 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

People, I just updated from F20 x86_64 to F21 via fedup and although it took a while - it was completely painless! The only thing that was odd was when downloading RPMs (console) parts of one line would be duplicated over the whole screen and then letters would start disappearing (an odd screensaver thing?) - I don't know what that was about but it was just a display thing and pushing SHIFT caused a sensible output again. The only package issue was some dependency problem with pdftk but I will worry about that later. Thanks again people! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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downloading a stream
by JD 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

fc20. using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how do I download a stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says is made of many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any media player.

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libX11.so.6 for 21
by William Biggs 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

I using a app called quick and easy web builder that is look for libX11.so.6 I'm runing the beta I went to rpmfind.net I can not get the file installed . Dose any one know how to get it

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how to set LC_TIME in gnome?
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

How can I set LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 for all users, to get a sensible ISO date format in most programs? Setting /etc/locale.conf doesn't help: [mjc@xena ~]$ more /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 After rebooting, and launching a terminal in gnome-shell, LC_TIME is stuck at en_US: [mjc@xena ~]$ locale | grep LC_TIME LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

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OT: bridging firewall for Comcast static IPv4 addresses
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Comcast has a business offering with '13' static IPv4 addresses. But if you get this, you MUST use their router. They will soon also be providing a /54 IPv6 static allocation along side this. I don't want to rely on their box for firewall rules, so I want to put my own box behind theirs. But can't very well route to an internal firewall a /28 v4 block. I would have to run a briding firewall. Anyone know of bridging firewall functionality to add to Fedora? Or something else? I currently have a /26 v4 allocation which I route all over inside my network, but my ISP is only DSL and it is sssllloowww.

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Fedora and HP Pavillion11 x360 notebook
by Fernando Lozano 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hi there, In need of a cheap and very portable notebook, but able to run a few VMs, i got a HP Pavillion11 x360. Can't go wrong with a "standard" Celeron machine, right? ;-) Hope anyone else has tried that machine and can give me hints. If not, I'll start digging to try to provide useful bug reports. Started using the F20 Live CD, ends ups to a blank (actually dark) screen. Caps lock doesn't light up, Ctrl+Alt+FX won't work, I guess it's frozen. Got the F21 Beta live CD and it works fine! After all, with little over a week for final release, it should be quite stable. Screen resolution correct, sound, wireless, touch screen... mounted the windows C: partition and installed Minecraft there (I have kids), very playable. So I installed F21Beta to the hard drive (not worried if it ended up erasing Windows 8, but it didn't). After installing needed apps (LibreOffice, Gimp, Skype) followed by yum update and reboot problems started: frozen during boot -- almost at finish, the progress image almost full. Hopefully selecting the older kernel the system boots... most of the time. How can I find where exactly boot is frozen? WiFi became unstable -- I don't understand why, it looked fine at first, downloading updates with no problem. Tried disabling the internal wifi card (reviews on the net says it's crap) and using a usb dongle. A tenda one showed no improvement (but never failed me under F19) and a linksys one looked better, but I still had a few disconnects. Another machine using F19 was using wifi fine at the same time, besides many android devices, so it doesn't looks like Internet link or AP problems. The trackpad cant detect taps (clicks). I never liked trackpads, always use an external wireless mouse, but it would be nice having the trackpad working. Finally shutdown doesn't turns the computer of. It drops to the text screen showing "powering off" but I have to keep pressed the on/off button to actually power it of. I'm spoiled, used to have no hardware problems with Fedora over the latest few years... :-) []s, Fernando Lozano

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Send pictures by Fpaste.org
by Mickey 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

How can I send pictures by fpaste.org

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Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

I have a server here that has no GUI installed. No gnome, xfce, or any other. And I want to install a printer. It is an HP8610 and I have the url for it. I strangely thought that system-config-printer would work, but that also requires more than just a text window as I get: # system-config-printer Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (system-config-printer.py:15388): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Oh, yes, no monitor at ALL. Only a serial console or SSH terminal.

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5tFTW: Fedora 21 release on track, new leadership and thanks to the old; counting users; more... (2014-12-02)
by Matthew Miller 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-12-02/>. Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for December 2nd, 2014: Fedora 21 on track for Dec. 9! ------------------------------ Things are looking good for our scheduled December 9th release. We’re in the process of validating release candidates, and everything seems in great shape. (And it's not too late to join in: see the announcement on the test list if you're interested in helping.) Assuming no unexpected showstoppers, we’ll approve this as official at the Thursday “Go / No-Go” meeting, and then it’ll be off to the mirror network for release next Tuesday morning! * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2014-December/00096… Presenting the New Fedora Council --------------------------------- With the conclusion of the first round of elections, the new Fedora Council is in place! If you’ve missed it (perhaps you’re just coming by to see what’s up with the new Fedora 21 release and this happened while you weren’t watching), read up on it on the Fedora Council wiki page. Five of the six full-vote members are in place: - **Elected Representative:** Rex Dieter - **Elected Representative:** Langdon White - **Engineering Representative:** Josh Boyer - **Outreach Representative:** Christoph Wickert - **Fedora Project Leader:** Matthew Miller The sixth seat is the **Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator**, which will be a full-time position hired and funded by Red Hat’s Open Source and Standards group. (More on this job opening here: * http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-community-action-and-impact-job-opening-re… The council also includes a number of *auxiliary seats*. As the Council charter explains: > They are intended to have significant positive impact on the project > as a whole, but in order to minimize the overall influence of > appointed positions vs. those selected by the community, their votes > in the consensus process are expected to be related to the scope of > the respective role. One of these is the **Fedora Program Manager** — Jaroslav Resnik. Another is the **Diversity Advisor**, a position for which we will be appointing a search committee shortly. And finally, the Council will select **Objective Leads** — more on that on my previous Fedora Magazine post about project objectives. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:OSAS * http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/ Thanks to the Outgoing Board ---------------------------- I want to offer a huge personal and also official thank you to all previous members of the Fedora Project Board, whose care and dedication have been instrumental in guiding Fedora to where we are today. And I particularly want to thank the most recent board members — Christoph Wickert, Garret Holmstrom, John Rose, Matthew Garrett, Eric Chrstensen, Josh Boyer, Haïkel Guémar, and Neville Cross — and all other project contributors who provided ideas, feedback, wisdom, and significant effort in constructing the new governance model. Fedora EMEA Gets Ready for F21 ------------------------------ Jiří Eischmann has a blog post about getting the physical manifestation of the Fedora release ready for the Europe / Middle East / Africa region. > I’ve been using Fedora 21 on my home computer since alpha, so it’s > really nothing new for me, but I’m really excited about the release. > In my opinion, it will be the most significant release since Fedora 7 > when Core and Extras got merged. It’s also been the most stable > release of Fedora I’ve used. > > While Fedora QA guys are working on the final polishing as that F21 > can meet the final criteria, ambassadors are getting ready for the > release. [...] In addition to background notes about stickers, Jiří includes a preview of the awesome F21 DVD sleeves designed by Alexander Smirnov (a.k.a. “inkscaper”). * https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/getting-ready-for-fedora-21/ How many users does Fedora have? -------------------------------- Alec Leamas started an interesting discussion on the Fedora Devel list, asking, “How many users does Fedora have?“. The answer is… we don’t really know. This is notoriously hard to count, and Fedora has always opted for more privacy-preserving options, something many in our contributor community care very strongly about. Stephen Smoogen is working on coming up with some graphs based on mirror traffic, but that’s only part of the picture, and an imperfect one. Finding useful metrics for progress towards project goals and then iteratively acting to improve them is a powerful tool for making sure that our effort goes towards what we want to do [*] in the most effective way. Ben Cotton started a sub-thread about _asking the right questions_, which reminded me of ticket #1 for the Fedora Council (copied over from previous work by the Board). Let’s keep this discussion going. (And, one more plug here… helping get these metrics right is part of the job responsibilities of the future Community Action and Impact position.) * This topic is probably better for the Fedora Council Discuss mailing list, (renamed from board-discuss and, before that, advisory-board), since it’s not strictly about Fedora development, but, eh, not everyone is aware of that list. Next time! :) * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/204804.html * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/204873.html * https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/1 * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss * http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/>

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Is my USB drive dying?
by Robert Moskowitz 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Logwatch says: --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ WARNING: Kernel Errors Present EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): e ...: 80 Time(s) sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descr ...: 14 Time(s) ---------------------- Kernel End ------------------------- And in /var/log/messages I see: Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 72 01 04 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 3a a6 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 00 32 00 06 40 50 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x1d Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 72 01 04 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 3a 00 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: 00 4f 00 c2 00 50 Nov 30 07:41:11 homebase kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x1d This is both my backup drive and where my repos are located. So given this is the time of the 'big sales' is this drive failing and it is time to buy a replacement?

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GRUB setup (after using clonezilla)
by Angelo Moreschini 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hi, I tried Clonezilla. I made an image-backup of the disk where Fedora is installed, and after I restored, on the same disk, the image that I backuped . Actually, when I boot the disk where there is the restored image,at the begin I get the prompt of the GRUB . I know that I didn't use Clonezilla in correct mode (probabilly I could backup the disck with better option to include the GRUB installation) . But in this moment I woud like to make setup of GRUB (from the command line) for booting Fedora. Can I have some suggestions how to do it? >From the prompt of GRUB I wrote this command line: and I got this output: ------------------- GRUB > ls -l device proc: filesystem type procfs sector size 512 total size 0KiB device hd0: no know filesystem detected sector size 512 B total size ....... partition hd0, msdos2: no know filesystem detected partion start at .. tot size partition hd0, msdos1: filesystem type ext* last mod ..partion start at .. tot sz device hd1: no know filesystem detected sector size 512 B total size ....... partition hd1, msdos1: filesystem type ext* label try_clonezilla last mod. ...partion start at .. tot sz -------------------- Thenk you regards Angelo

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Pleasant experience with yumex on F21 beta
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Maybe because I am using Xfce instead of Gnome, but I doubt it. First on startup, it does not go off and read the packages for update, eventhough this is diabled. Just a bad behaviour on F20. But it is just fast now. In the past I only used yumex when I really needed to search for something. I may be more inclined to use it now.

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Re: grub : how to edit grub config by command / script ?
by santosh 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Thanks to all of you for responses. Now I am able to do the required task using "grubby" Thanks Santosh

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A gmane mystery
by Timothy Murphy 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

I've been collecting redhat.fedora from gmane for several years, but about a week ago I found that while I could read gmane newsgroups I was unable to post to them - that is, my posts did not appear. I was able to post to gmane.test, and could read these posts. So I assume there is no problem with my From: or other headers. I'm not sure if the gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general is in fact "mirroring" this mailing list? And if so, whether the problem lies with the list rather than the newsgroup? I seem to be properly subscribed to the mailing list, with my current email address. Any enlightenment or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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