Fedora Scrolling Lag
by c. marlow
Fresh Install of Fedora 20 installed last night.
When browsing Facebook and I use the mouse wheel to scroll down, Firefox
pauses before it jumps down ( meaning it pauses for a few sec before it
finally gets the command that I scrolled down and the page finally goes
down)
I am using Fedora 20 Mate
2 gigs of ram
custom built pc
250 gig Hardrive
Installed last night full format since I was coming from Kubuntu
Only programs open Evolution and Firefox
Memory Usage currently: 357.2 MB ( 17.7 % )
Swap: 0 of 2 gigs
fully updated last night ( and fresh update of 384 patches was
slowwwwwwwwwww I had to let it run overnight on my 12 down 1 up sat
connection)
Thanks,
Christopher
10 years
Updated to F20, now perl can't find installed modules
by sean darcy
Just upgraded from F19 to F20. perl-5.18.2-289.fc20.x86_64
As root:
# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=3.11.9-200.fc19.x86_64,
archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
..........
Built under linux
Compiled at Jan 7 2014 14:47:21
%ENV:
PERL5LIB="/root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi:/root/perl5/lib/perl5"
PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/root/perl5"
PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base /root/perl5"
PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/root/perl5"
@INC:
/root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/root/perl5/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib64/perl5
/usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
BTW, there is no /root/perl5 folder.
# perl -e 'use strict; print map {"$_ => $INC{$_}\n"} keys %I'
strict.pm => /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
As a user:
$ perl -e 'use strict; print "ok"'
Can't locate strict.pm: Permission denied at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
$ ls -l /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3933 Jan 7 09:48 /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
$ perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
/root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/root/perl5/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib64/perl5
/usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
This works as root. And used to work as a user in F19. And works on
another F19 machine.
Any help appreciated.
sean
10 years
Fwd: Fan speed going up and down?
by c. marlow
Hi,
I have installed F20 Mate for the first time and have been using it
for 2 or 3 days now, and when opening Firefox the fan picks up speed
and gets faster, slower, faster, slow. But it seems like when I close
FF the fan goes back to a normal lower speed? Why is that? Is this
normal?
Thanks,
Christopher
10 years
how to request RPMfusion to create an rpm
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I was wondering how one goes about requesting RPMfusion to create a
package which does not fall within Fedora's guidelines. The package I
am interested in is:
https://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/
I had moderate trouble installing it on one 64-bit WS, but on the other
one, I am still working on it (not easy). I was thinking if such an RPM
was available from RPMfusion, etc, this would be very useful to people
like me.
I looked up BZ for RPMfusion, but you can only file against a specific
component. Since this component does not exist on RPMfusion, I wonder
how to go about filling in a request.
I understand that this request can be denied (it is after all a
volunteer effort), but it still can not hurt to try!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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10 years
Display issues
by CS DBA
All;
We have a laptop running fedora 20, we plugged it into an hdmi
projector, then the fun started...
the second monitor never connected, since then if we go to
system settings --> "Display and Monitor" we see the second monitor
(greyed out) even after we disconnected the projector, and it's
persistent across reboots...
How can we get rid of this phantom second display?
Thanks in advance
10 years
Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
I have been trying my luck at using Garamond fonts in LaTeX with
Fedora. From the repo, I found
texlive-ebgaramond-svn30741.0.15__2013_05_22_-4.fc20.noarch
and installed it. I got LaTeX to compile my document, however, I am
unable to get the boldface fonts. Not sure why this is, so can someone
suggest how I can get boldface fonts to work.
According to this website (which uses garamond as opposed to
ebgaramond fonts), I should be able to get it to work. (I wonder what
the difference between the garamond and ebgaramond packages are, if
any.)
http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/index.html
Can anyone please help with what I am missing?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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10 years
re: message not coming through
by CWMAR30＠GMAIL.COM
Ok, I think I have gotten my DNS settings fixed hopefully everything is coming through?
Thanks,
Christopher
10 years
Posting issues?
by c. marlow
I cannot get posts to go through my domain email account. I am testing to see if this gmail account will accept posts.
I posted a question but never got a acknowledgement email.
It was working, then it just stopped... And nothing is going to the spam folder neither. this is odd.
Thanks
~ CHRISTOPHER~
chris(a)marlows.org
10 years
Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)
by Vikram Goyal
I am using fedora or rather redhat based distribution since there was
Redhat 5 ( probably in middle ninteies or something )
As far as I can tell the disk partitioning scheme under F1/20 definetly
needs some kind of rework to make it unambigious to users.
The developers must understand one thing from user's perspective that:
1} The systems being installed are mostly dual boot having other
OSes &/Or partitions, already having precious data in them.
2} The users are always jittery if they do not fully understand where
the whole thing is leading to, especially in regard to partioning.
So a bit of more verbosity & transparency of what exactly the
installer is doing will go a long way in mitigating the user's
complaints.
3} Developers have built the UI & know its INs & OUTs. If they try to
use the UI 'as a user', it will always lead to false analysis because
their knowledge will always warp the UI experience & they will always
make the right decisions even if those decisions are the most
difficult. So in order to understand the UI from a User's Perspective
they should always listen to users & give weightage to their
complaints because that is exactly what the UI is delivering & not
what the developers are thinking.
But then point 3 goes for all the UI in place be it installer or full
fledged Desktop GUI. In case of installer, it just becomes a very dicey
from the user's point of view with so much at stake & so little
information.
Developers must understand that even if what appears to be a very dumb
question/complaint, it actually is not dumb but just plain ambigiousness
in UI. Confusion mostly arises from inadequate info where decision making
is required, which is amply available with the developers but to the
users, due to bad UI.
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10 years
