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Fedora 36 gnome connections shows only top half of a window
by George N. White III 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

I was gifted a 2013 vintage iMac with a "Fusion" drive whose SSD was failing. Since it has a nice screen, I was using Apple's VNC client when I wanted a GUI on my head-challenged Fedora systems (currently one on F35 and one F36). When the SSD died, I installed F35 on an external USB drive. Gnome Connections was working well, so I installed F36 on the internal hard disk. That seemed to go well, but Connections is only showing the top half of the VNC screens for both servers. lshw says: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GK107M [GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 I tried novnc_proxy and that is working properly, but I wanted to ask if others have seen this. I'm reluctant to try a non-free driver unless I encounter a problem with novnc_proxy or a spell of weather that keeps me indoors (next winter?). -- George N. White III

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cursor color?
by Jack Craig 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

hi folks, Normally the cursor is black. is it possible to change the cursor color on F34? tia, jackc...

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Adding /29 netblock to existing system
by Alex 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hi, I have a fedora36 system with a single static IP. I'd now like to add a /29 to it. Ideally, I'd like to create a bridge and associate all IPs with that. It used to be that I could edit the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but I know I can't do that any longer. Now I have to use nmcli, but I was hoping someone could guide me through that process. It appears I need to create a profile, then activate it? But I want all 6 usable addresses from the /29 and the one /32 address to be active at the same time, much like we used to do with eth0 and eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. I've done quite a bit of reading of nmcli tutorials, and none seem to discuss how to not only add a /29 (+ipv4.addresses ?) but also have it active at the same time as the /32 I already have. Thanks, Alex

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Dual monitor setup with Wayland not working
by Simon Colston 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hi, I am using Fedora Workstation 36 and have 2 monitors connected via HDMI to graphics on the motherboard (Intel) and a nvidia graphics card. Everything works fine when I log in using Xorg. However, if I log in using Wayland, the monitor connected to the motherboard stays blank. The monitor is detected in Settings and appears to be 'working' i.e. if I move a window to the blank monitor I can click on it and it works as expected, it's just that nothing is displayed on that monitor. Do you have any suggestions as to how I could make this setup work with Wayland? Below is come information which I thought may be helpful. $ uname -rsvp Linux 5.17.12-300.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 30 16:56:53 UTC 2022 x86_64 $ lspci -k | grep -A 5 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] (rev 02) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8694 Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller -- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] (rev a1) Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 6336 Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 6336 $ cat .config/monitors.xml <monitors version="2"> <configuration> <logicalmonitor> <x>0</x> <y>0</y> <scale>1</scale> <primary>yes</primary> <monitor> <monitorspec> <connector>HDMI-2</connector> <vendor>DEL</vendor> <product>DELL U2518D</product> <serial>3C4YP93RAEDL</serial> </monitorspec> <mode> <width>2560</width> <height>1440</height> <rate>59.950550079345703</rate> </mode> </monitor> </logicalmonitor> <logicalmonitor> <x>2560</x> <y>0</y> <scale>1</scale> <monitor> <monitorspec> <connector>HDMI-1-1</connector> <vendor>DEL</vendor> <product>DELL U2518D</product> <serial>3C4YP93LAYAL</serial> </monitorspec> <mode> <width>2560</width> <height>1440</height> <rate>59.950550079345703</rate> </mode> </monitor> </logicalmonitor> </configuration> </monitors> Thanks, Simon -- Simon Colston

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resurrecting old laptops
by jim.cromie＠gmail.com 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

so Ive got some old i686 computers, electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that, I thought Id try to get them working 1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive, clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot. I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support) but booting it, I get a 2-line error: This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686 unable to boot - ... I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it. next is hp pavilion g7 pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else. f2, f10, esc during boot dont help, screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST to do something different, NO CHANGE. Any suggestions? but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba. I also have a dell pentium2-233, running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel, its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever) I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines in the past, but Im running out of options. I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware thanks

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font tools (was "font longevity questions.").
by home user 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

(Fedora 35) In the original post of the "font longevity questions/", I said: > By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice > in the font selection tools? First, the only fonts I recall installing myself are the "Nimbus Roman No9 L" fonts. The tools are (in gnome) "Fonts" and "MATE Font Viewer". There might be others not showing up when I click gnome's "Activities". I did two screen captures to show what I'm referring to. They're on the google drive here: 1. "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BkB55RW4jqym7_8xRdkExPtPD_XxR1Np/view?usp=…". 2. "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7Pe_ASGEkfJj8XnIZAVaoznPHj1UOsp/view?usp=…". Notice in the first, each of the "Nimbus" fonts shows up twice. When I clicked on them, I saw no difference. In the second screen capture, some "Open Sans" fonts show up twice. When I clicked on them, I saw no difference. Is this how it should be, or is there a bug in the font tools, or are some fonts actually on my work station twice? A second issue is that fonts that are different show up in the font tools with the same name. In this screen capture (on the google drive): "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qMfya_ObKot3jNbzYjTI7y17Kb0S83lz/view?usp=…", notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans". They are different from each other. Notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans, Bold". They are different from each other. There are other examples. This is only my opinion, but they should have different names. Is the problem in the font tools or in the fonts themselves? If the problem is in the fonts themselves, then there should be a standard requiring unique naming of fonts.

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Strange mount behaviour
by Patrick O'Callaghan 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

I have a couple of /etc/fstab entries which include the options "noauto,nofail,user,x-systemd.automount", yet when I reboot the system those entries are being mounted, despite the "noauto". Furthermore, under my user account I can't access them: $ sudo ls -ld GDrive/Media/ drwxrwxr-x. 1 poc poc 16 Feb 19 10:46 GDrive/Media/ $ sudo ls -l GDrive/Media/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Jun 3 11:24 Movies drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Jun 3 11:24 TV $ ls GDrive/Media/ ls: cannot access 'GDrive/Media/TV': Permission denied ls: cannot access 'GDrive/Media/Movies': Permission denied The mounting is done via Rclone, if it matters. If I run it manually as myself it works as expected, so apparently this is somehow being caused by systemd running as root., even though the directory permissions appear to be as they should. Is there a way to fix this without having to create a separate systemd mount unit? poc

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font longevity questions.
by home user 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Good morning, I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to do this in 3 steps: 1. In windows-7, content is copied from the word files to Writer files. Tweaks are made to line spacing in tables. The word documents use two fonts: Times New Roman (various sizes; sometimes regular, sometimes italic, sometimes bold), and Vivaldi. Writer in windows-7 seems to support all the fonts used in the word documents. 2. Writer files are copied to my Fedora workstation. Unfortunately, neither Times New Roman nor Vivaldi are available in Fedora-35. So I need a step 3: to convert the fonts to choices that are available in Fedora-35, and are expected to be available for a long time to come. It's that last condition that I need help with. It's happened to me in the past that a font that I used in Writer (in Fedora) ceased to be available, so I changed it to the closest match that was available. Then that font ceased to be available. So before I start step 3 with them 240ish Writer files, how do I know which fonts are likely to be permanent or supported in Fedora for many years, and which are most vulnerable to being sunset sooner rather than later? By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font selection tools? Thank-you in advance.

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OpenVPN breakage
by Ron Yorston 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Today OpenVPN was updated from 2.5.6-1 to 2.5.7-1 and my VPN connection broke. The log says: nm-openvpn[8655]: --cipher is not set. Previous OpenVPN version defaulted to BF-CBC as fallback when cipher negotiation failed in this case. If you need this fallback please add '--data-ciphers-fallback BF-CBC' to your configuration and/or add BF-CBC to --data-ciphers. nm-openvpn[8655]: OpenVPN 2.5.7 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on May 31 2022 nm-openvpn[8655]: library versions: OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022, LZO 2.10 nm-openvpn[8655]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts nm-openvpn[8655]: Cipher BF-CBC not supported nm-openvpn[8655]: Exiting due to fatal error 2.5.6-1 says almost exactly the same, apart from the last two lines, and doesn't break. Adding 'cipher=AES-256-GCM' to the NetworkManager keyfile for the VPN got it working again. The advice about 'data-ciphers-fallback' and 'data-ciphers' is bogus because NetworkManager doesn't know about those options. Not happy, Ron

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Middle click paste to terminal doesn't hit [enter]
by Thomas Cameron 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

I use Xfce on Fedora 36. When using the shell (xfce4-terminal), I used to be able to double click on text in one shell window and middle click on another shell window to paste the command. If I am logged into a bunch of kvm instances, for instance, I could double click on yum -y update on one system and then paste it into the others. Now, when I paste, even if I paste a newline at the end, the command is not run in the other shell windows unless I hit [enter]. This is kind of a pain, and I can't figure out how to enable pasting a command with a newline to actually process that newline. I've dug through the settings for the terminal (edit/preferences) and I can't see anything that I can set to make this work. Anyone got a pointer? Thanks! Thomas

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