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portable (really) Fedora on stick
by Aleksandar Kostadinov 21 May '18

21 May '18

Hi, I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. I would really like to create Fedora on USB that I can plug anywhere and work off it. I was thinking that perhaps I can just install regular fedora on a USB stick like I would do on a hard drive. Then it can be updated and used just like any other Fedora machine. Perhaps disable persistent logging and swap so that flash memory doesn't wear out. One issue I presently know about is dracut. It creates by default images that only support a specific hardware. i.e. if I install kernel on a machine with an nforce disk controller, it will put in intird only that module thus Fedora will not boot on a machine with AHCI controller. Maybe this wouldn't matter when all things are on the USB drive but then can there be a problem with different USB controller modules? I was wondering if anybody tried that and has tips for greated portability. Thank you, Aleksandar [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/creating-and-using-a-live-i…

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alternative to skype
by Patrick Dupre 18 May '18

18 May '18

Hello, Is there an alternative to skype which would also allow me to exchange documents ? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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Fonts in F27
by Gordon Messmer 11 May '18

11 May '18

After upgrading to F27, I noticed that fonts looked "off". I made a screenshot of Thunderbird and gnome-terminal displaying roughly identical contents on Fedora 25, 26, and 27. The older two releases are identical, but F27's fonts (both fixed-width and variable-width) appear to be the same width as they were previously, but taller. Characters like monospace 'o' used to be round and are now oblong. Everything seems slightly heavier as a result of the additional pixels. Does anyone know if this change was intentional? Personally, I think it's worse than before.

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empty messages from fedora users list.
by William Mattison 11 May '18

11 May '18

Good morning, Since March 08, I've received 11 messages from this list that appear empty, including 2 so far today. I have received a few (less) not empty, none today and 3 yesterday. What's causing this problem, and how do I fix it? My e-mail client is Thunderbird 52.5.2. I will occasionally check the Fedora Hyperkitty for replies. thanks, Bill.

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printer and Fedora support.
by home user 08 May '18

08 May '18

I'm having to replace my 5-year old desktop printer. Like any good project, I start with requirements! 1. desktop printer. 2. the manufacturer provides real support for the printer running on Fedora as well as windows-7. 3. has printing, scanning, and copying. 4. color and black-and-white, colors are correct when printing from Fedora as well as when from windows-7. 5. at least 600 dpi. 6. USB cable connection (not ethernet or wi-fi) between printer and workstation's tower. 7. either laser or LED, not ink-jet (I'm in a very low-humidity climate). I am especially concerned with requirement #1, and that's why I'm asking this list. What fulfils all the above requirements? Support needs to be more than simply providing a driver for me to download. The at least 600 DPI has to be real, not merely "effective", "simulated", etc. My now dead printer, a Xerox Workcentre 6015, claimed either 1200x1200 or 1200x2400 resolution, but I only got 600 real dots per inch, both in windows-7 and in Fedora. When printing from Fedora, colors were not even close, but were ok when printing from windows-7. Which is better overall: laser or LED? Thank-you for your advice. Bill.

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F26 update: gnome-terminal doesn't launch; locale issues
by Mike Zingale 07 May '18

07 May '18

I just did an update from F25 to F26 via dnf. After it boots, I can no longer start gnome terminal (nothing shows). If I ssh into the machine and try it remotely, I see the following: $ gnome-terminal (process:3586): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached So it looks like there is a locale issue in my update. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Switching to Wayland on F27
by Digimer 06 May '18

06 May '18

Hi all, I've updated my OS a few times now and it would appear that I am still on Xorg of Fedora 27 workstation; From: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/f27/system-administrators-guide/Wayland.html ==== 0 digimer@pulsar:~$ loginctl SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY c2 42 gdm seat0 /dev/tty1 3 1000 digimer seat0 /dev/tty2 2 sessions listed. 0 digimer@pulsar:~$ loginctl show-session 3 -p Type Type=x11 ==== That link doesn't say how to switch to Wayland, though. When I click on the gear icon at the login screen, I only have "Gnome" and "Gnome Classic" as options. Any hint on how to enable Wayland? Thanks. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

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problems to install NetBeans 8 on fedora 27
by Angelo Moreschini 06 May '18

06 May '18

Hi, I installed many times NetBeans in a linux environment, without problems ... But now I have problems to do it , after then I installed fedora 27. When I try the installation, the output that I get is : -------------------- [root@localhost Downloads]#* ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh <http://netbeans-8.2-linux.sh>* Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... *Running the installer wizard...* *Can`t initialize UIRunning in headless mode* *Exception: java.awt.HeadlessException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "main"* -------------------- This is a problem about the java environment ? it can be also a problem with the graphical environment of fedora ... (?) I worked around many time without a result... Can I have some help please ? Thank you regards Angelo

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Thunderbird issue (OT).
by William Mattison 02 May '18

02 May '18

Good morning, When I try to sign in to a (verizon) yahoo e-mail account via Thunderbird, it takes several seconds to get a response, then I often get this error message: ------ Thunderbird The current operation on 'Inbox' did not succeed. The mail server for account [my e-mail account] responded: [CLIENTBUG] SELECT Command is not valid in this state. ------ I then have to exit Thunderbird, and sign in again to all the accounts I want to connect to. I usually have to do this 2-4 times before it finally downloads the folder structure and message headers successfully (though v-e-r-y slowly). I experience this problem randomly but frequently (almost daily) with all 6 of my (verizon) yahoo accounts. My incoming server is set to "imap.mail.yahoo.com:993"; my outgoing server is set to "smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465"; connection security is set to "SSL/TLS". Yahoo e-mail does not work properly in my browser, so that's not a good work-around. I've checked both yahoo and Thunderbird on-line help; I get nothing really helpful, though I notice the problem is not unique to me. What's the real cause of this problem, and what do I fix it? Thank-you for your help. Bill.

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Mate Session + child Caja consuming 98% of io badwidth to/from boot drive
by JD 01 May '18

01 May '18

I have not seen this before, so I do not know what might be causing this. All tasks are quiescent, except that I am watching a youtube video. So I stopped the YT video and waited to see if the activity of Caja would abate. NOP!!! It stays at 92 to 98 %

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