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Ban a specific mirror in dnf
by Suvayu Ali 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

Hi, I would like to ban a particularly slow mirror[1]. It's the closest mirror to my geographical location (one of only two mirrors in my country, India). Every time I see a bad download error message from that mirror, everything subsequent to that speeds up and uses the full capacity of my connection. How can I achieve this? Also, is there a way to report this? Mirrormanager shouldn't even be listing this mirror, it considerably degrades the user experience. Thanks, [1] Ironically it is hosted by the CS department at IIT Kanpur! -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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xfce live iso
by ToddAndMargo 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Hi All, Anyone know who maintains the Xfce Live ISO for Fedora 30? Xfce 4.14 is about it hit an a few days and a fresh spin would be capitol! Many thanks, -T

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Live cd's have problems booting with amd 3700x cpu and MSI x 570 a pro mother board
by rmorehouse＠cox.net 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

i had problems installing fedora on a new pc and wanted to share what happened. i filed a bugzilla report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740334 using gtx 1660 ti video card fails on fedora 29 using gtx 1050 ti works on fedora 29 using fedora 30 fails with both gtx 1050 ti and gtx 1660 ti video cards mother board is msi x 570 a pro. cpu is amd 3700x with bios update from 7-3-2019 fedora 30 kde spin live cd would not boot and showed systemd fail messages and then hung in both cases. after switching to a gtx 1050 ti video card i was able to boot the fedora 29 kde spin and install it did a dnf system-upgrade download and then a dnf system upgrade reboot to upgrade to fedora 30 system runs fine now with gtx 1050 ti video card after the upgrade to fedora 30

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Canon CanoScan LIDE 300 Problem of Detection
by das 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

Dear Friends After I connected the new scanner to the USB port and ran 'xsane', it showed 'no devices available'. But if I run 'lsusb' it is getting this canon device: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:12fe Canon, Inc I downloaded the driver from this link: http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwOTkzMjAx&cmp… And the driver scangearmp2-3.70-1.x86_64.rpm was installed. But still 'xsane' is not finding it but 'lsusb' is showing it. Can I do anything here? Thanks in advance. Das

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Can the size of eurlatgr font be changed
by IK 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

I have not looked at configuring consolefonts in a long time. I see that Fedora now uses the "eurlatgr.psfu" font by default. Can the size of the eurlatgr font be changed or must I switch to another font. /etc/vconsole.conf only contains the lines: KEYMAP="us" FONT="eurlatgr" from which I get the impression that one size fits all and I can't find any documentation. AV

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udev rule for permissions & symlink for /dev/usb/lp0
by Eric Smith 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

I'm setting up a turnkey system that uses a Zebra brand USB barcode printer. I need to use it without CUPS, directly printing from an application. I've verified that this works when my application writes to /dev/usb/lp0. I've had to either run the application as root or change the permissions on /dev/usb/lp0. I though I could solve this problem by using a udev rule to recognize the printer, create a symlink, and set the permissions. I created the following rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-zebra.rules. SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0a5f", ATTRS{idProduct}=="011c", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="zebra This sort of works, but not in any useful way. It does recognize the printer, but instead of creating the symlink to /dev/usb/lp0 and changing the permission of that device file, it creates a symlink to e.g. /dev/bus/usb/001/002, and sets the permissions of that. However, I can't print to /dev/bus/usb/001/002 (or the symlink to that). Printing to /dev/usb/lp0 still works fine. How do I write a udev rule that will set the permission of and symlink to /dev/usb/lp0 instead of the raw USB device? Thanks! Eric

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Any good text editor supporting PGP encryption and packaged for Fedora?
by Frederic Muller 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

Hi! I've been using Gjots2 for the above and am very happy with it... except that the last release no longer support asking for the PGP passphrase when opening an encrypted file. I did get a patch here (thank you very much), I also did file a bug but get tired of compiling or using an older package version at every Fedora release. So that's it, I'm willing to move on! I found CryptoTE as an alternative but again last package I found from their website is for Fedora 14 and of course there is no package under the current F30 repositories. I have to say that I like the structured Gjots2 layout with the ability to create different pages for different topics. So something similar would be nice. Does anyone have any suggestion for such a "simple" text editor? Thank you very much. Fred

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CSV to text -
by Bob Goodwin 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

How can I convert a .csv file to text in a Fedora system. Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-30/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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missing /sys/class/drm/* on official Fedora kernels
by jim.cromie＠gmail.com 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

starting with 4.19.5, all my fedora kernels fail to get edid info during boot and are consequently missing /sys/class/drm/* so graphical resolution is degraded to vga Dec 02 02:29:36 popeye kernel: Linux version 4.19.5-300.fc29.i686 (mockbuild(a)bkernel04.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 8.2.1 20181105 (Red Hat 8.2.1-5) (GCC)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 7 19:30:11 UTC 2018 Dec 02 09:31:48 popeye gsd-color[1561]: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output Dec 02 09:31:48 popeye gsd-color[1561]: unable to get EDID for xrandr-default: unable to get EDID for output Ive not really concerned myself too much with it, cuz Ive been building my own kernels from kernel.org, and they pick up EDID fwiw, I start with fedora.config, and do localmodconfig. iiuc, this reduces module builds to those usable on the hardware? and its an old box, or someone else would have noticed vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz stepping : 10 microcode : 0xa0b cpu MHz : 2792.715 but in the ensuing months, grub2-mkconfig is failing to update grub.cfg properly, so its slightly more tedious, and I should start investigating proper fixes.

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Default scrolling in Firefox (F30)
by Lukas Zapletal 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop (X1 6th gen) and I am trying out Gnome on Wayland with all the default settings. Everything is superb, except two-finger scrolling in Firefox. It looks like it has different scrolling behavior than other applications. Now, it's difficult to describe what I feel, but ramp-up time of scrolling is quite slow and feels like there is a lag. Then actual scrolling (using two fingers) is a bit fast (too much content scrolled) and finally when I remove my fingers then the decay time is a bit fast. I would like to feel more of like iPad. I know I should be asking on Mozilla lists, but I think this might be also Wayland, libinput or touchpad driver related so trying here. Which settings should I tune to make this experience more closer to Safari on MacOS? Am I searching for about:config settings or some other settings in Fedora? I tried the kernel setting psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 but no difference. Tried to play around in Gnome settings without luck. And finally spent some time fiddling with about:config values but there are so many combinations and documentation is almost zero. No surprise I came to zero conclusions. Thanks for sharing your experience with that. I use trackpoint for work but I like touchpad for casual browsing in the evening (Twitter etc :-) LZ

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