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nc missing option -z
by Suvayu Ali 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi, I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z option in particular. But now I see that has been removed: $ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh ncat: invalid option -- 'z' Here is the excerpt from the old manual page: -z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -l option. Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement? Thanks for any ideas. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Alternatives to Theme Font size changer Firefox plugin?
by Sam Varshavchik 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

The popular theme font size changer Firefox plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/, no longer supports Linux. The default Firefox font size is too small for people with poor eyesight. As far as I can tell, the only thing that official "Firefox themes" do is set a background image for the UI. As Benny Hill would say, biiiiiiiiiiiiig …deal. The top-ranked comment on that extension page suggests hacking "userChrome- example.css" in ~/.mozilla/firefox. $ find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name userChrome-example.css -print $ There goes that idea. Googling around the only other suggestion I found was to hack layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting in about:config. All that did, apparently, was making the Firefox UI elements themselves bigger, but their font size – the menu and the URL bar – remained exactly the same. Anyone has other suggestions?

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Taskbar Panel in Plasma Won't Autohide
by Stephen Morris 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hi, I am trying to get the Taskbar Panel to autohide, but when I click on the options button in the panel, the left, right and center options are permanently highlighted but seem to function in terms of moving the indicator that reflects which option is active. Also the 'Always Visible', 'Auto Hide', 'Windows can Cover' and 'Windows go Below' options are also permanently highlighted but selecting the 2nd or 3rd option does nothing. It appears these options are highlighted because the colour scheme I am using, which is forget-me-not thinks they are push buttons. Does anyone know why these don't work anymore in Fedora 23? I am using Breeze for the Windows Style and Windows Decorations themes. regards, Steve

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F21: Thunderbird insists on calling Fedora list messages junk!
by William Mattison 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Good afternoon, Most messages received from this fedora list are labelled junk by Thunderbird. This is even though I whitelisted "From" = "users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org". Actually, I have this problem both in my Fedora-21 and my windows-7 systems. Any ideas? Surely messages from this list are not junk! thanks, Bill.

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enp0s8 not configured notification popups every few minutes (annoying)
by Kenneth Wolcott 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

Hi; enp0s8 not configured notification popups every few minutes (annoying) I just installed Fedora Live 64-bit KDE as a VirtualBox Guest OS. I want to have two VirtualBox ethernet interfaces: One for the vm to "see" outwards (NAT Network) and Two for me to ssh into it (Host-only) so that I'm not forced to use the console. Every few minutes (it seems like every few seconds), I get a notification popup that states that enp0s8 is not configured and then a notification popup that it is being disabled. How do I configure my outgoing ethernet interface? I used to edit a file called something like /etc/network*/interface and then I could change the default DHCP setting to be static and the default disabled (off) setting to be enabled (on). How does one do that kind of stuff now? Is that a systemd thing? Thanks, Ken Wolcott

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how to set 24-hour clock (military time) on Fedora 20 in KDE?
by Kenneth Wolcott 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Hi; I can't seem to find any way to change the Fedora 20 KDE time and date settings so that the time is displayed in the 24-hour format like military time. Is this not possible? Thanks, Ken Wolcott

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installing via VNC over ipv6
by Chris Murphy 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

This suggests installation using vnc over ipv6 is supported: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/Ipv6OnlyInstallation But when I use inst.vnc boot option, I get an text screen that says to connect to an ipv4 address, an ipv6 address isn't listed. When I go to a shell and use 'ip addr' there is a global ipv6 address, but no formatting for tigervnc I've come up with will connect, it won't connect: vncviewer.desktop[12590]: CConn: unable connect to socket: Invalid argument (22) If I boot Fedora 23 Server on this same hardware, the 'ip addr' address can be used successfully to ssh into the server, and also point a browser to https://[ipv6]:9090 to reach the Cockpit interface successfully. root 1744 0.0 0.9 251060 36468 pts/0 Sl+ 03:29 0:00 Xvnc :1 -depth 16 -br IdleTimeout=0 -auth /dev/null -once DisconnectClients=false desktop=Fedora rawhide installation on host 10.0.0.15 SecurityTypes=None rfbauth=0 I can't tell if -InTransports needs to explicitly specify ipv6 for it to work. But at this point I'm stumped and can't tell if it's user error or a bug. And netstat isn't on non-live media apparently so I don't have access to that while xvnc is running to see if it's listening over something other than just an ipv4 address. -- Chris Murphy

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Balsa -
by Bob Goodwin 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

I have installed Balsa in this updated Fedora 23 computer, it runs but will not connect to the mail server. I can click on "check" and it appears to be checking for mail but produces an error message ending in "ERR Invalid Command." I've been through the account set up process again thinking I may have had a typo, but still no luck. Also after having run Balsa from a terminal I see the following: (balsa:22220): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files ** Message: init gpgme version 1.4.3 ** Message: protocol OpenPGP: engine /usr/bin/gpg2 (home (null), version 2.1.11) ** Message: protocol CMS: engine /usr/bin/gpgsm (home (null), version (null)) ** Message: protocol GPGCONF: engine /usr/bin/gpgconf (home (null), version 2.1.11) ** Message: protocol Assuan: engine /home/bobg/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent (home !GPG_AGENT, version 1.0) ** Message: protocol UIServer: engine /home/bobg/.gnupg/S.uiserver (home (null), version 1.0) ** Message: OpenPGP protocol supported ** Message: CMS protocol not supported, S/MIME will not work! Network is available (Tue May 10 16:31:42 2016) So "** Message: CMS protocol not supported, S/MIME will not work!" is the problem? Can I fix that? If so what must I do ... I've tried this running both xfce and gnome in Fedora 23 and in a VM with Fedora 24b, the result is always the same, I can't collect any mail with balsa ... Same error message. Any thoughts appreciated, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3

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Dual boot
by Celso Viana 05 Jun '16

05 Jun '16

Hi all, You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 /dev/sda BIOS -> Fedora 23 x64 The machine only starts with Windows; not appear the boot menu Thanks! -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org Palmas/TO

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Re: Posting to the Fedora message boards
by Tom Horsley 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

On Tue, 31 May 2016 12:11:40 -0400 Paul W. Frields wrote: > You might want to file an enhancement request for Hyperkitty to add a > feature for this. I would have thought it was just css setup by whoever runs the hyperkitty web site to make it looks like whatever they want. If it is hard coded and not css, then hyperkitty needs a much much bigger enhancement request :-).

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