Fedora21 on a macbook pro - willing to pay!!!
by CS DBA
All;
I want to run Fedora21 on a mid-2014 Macbook pro 13" retina...
I can get the install done easy enough but I want all the buttons & such
to work such as :
- auto setting for the backlit keyboard
- the mac keyboard keys for screen brightness
- the mac 'show desktop' (F3) key
- sound volume keys
- etc
Can anyone point me in the right direction? If some of these just don't
exist I'd be willing to pay for it's development.
Thanks in advance...
9 years, 3 months
How to replace a newer package from dead repo with its older fedora version?
by Clemens Eisserer
Hi,
I once installed the unofficial mesa-10.1 update provided by fschwarz
- which also installed a newer version of libxcb.
Since then, Fedora-20 includes mesa-10.3 and most packages provided by
fschwarz have been replaced by newer versions contained in the
official fedora repo.
However, I still have a newer version of libxcb installed (1.10.1)
whereas fedora only provides 1.9.1.
Recently I tried installing QT5 and it failed:
Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.4.0-2.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: libxcb-xkb.so.0()(64bit)
Available: libxcb-1.9.1-3.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
libxcb-xkb.so.0()(64bit)
Installed: libxcb-1.10-1.fc20.i686 (@fschwarz-mesa10-i686)
Not found
Error: Package: qt5-qtbase-gui-5.4.0-2.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: libxcb-sync.so.0()(64bit)
Available: libxcb-1.9.1-3.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
libxcb-sync.so.0()(64bit)
Installed: libxcb-1.10-1.fc20.i686 (@fschwarz-mesa10-i686)
Not found
Any attempts to replace libxcb-1.10 with the officially provided
libxcb-1.9.1 failed.
"yum reinstall" complains libxcb-1.10 is no longer available, and yum
remove would pull all dependencies along with libxcb (3.9G) which also
isn't such a great idea.
So any idea how to get rid of libxcb-1.10.1 are very welcome ;)
Thank you in advance, Clemens
9 years, 3 months
F21 - Huge icons
by David A. De Graaf
Icons are taking over the World! In Fedora 21, that is.
I've always been afraid that the GUI generation would eventually
make Linux completely unusable, and now they've almost succeeded. :-)
In a few F21 GUI panels the icons are grotesquely large - 1.75 inches
square on a 15 inch wide monitor. Normal size would be ~0.25 in.
This makes the panel nearly incomprehensible. This occurs in, eg,
system-config-printer
system-config-firewall
virt-manager
A screenshot is attached of virt-manager running an instance of Centos
7 on the Fedora 21 host.
[No, it's not! GUI's are OK; images of them are too big for this
list. Sigh...]
The virt-manager icons are so big that that
the virtual window cannot be enlarged to a proper size.
A possible clue to the error are the messages in the root window
following the virt-manager command:
[root@datwiz ~]
# virt-manager
[root@datwiz ~]
#
(virt-manager:1994): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error:
gtk.css:67:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
(virt-manager:1994): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error:
gtk.css:67:20: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
Similar messages appear when system-config-printer is invoked.
Unfortunately these mean nothing to me.
FWIW, I installed F20 using the wonderful Live Xfce4 images ( thank you
Kevin Fenzi ), and have completely avoided the dreaded Gnome. I've
enabled multi-user.target so that neither lightdm nor gdm can destroy
my env variables.
My questions to you all:
Does anyone see these huge icons in the example programs?
Can anyone guess the problem with the Theme?
Am I the only one with the problem? On three machines, so far?
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us
Progress (n.): The process through which the Internet has evolved
from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of
smart terminals.
9 years, 3 months
VM access to base system files
by Robert Moskowitz
Well I got my first VM created and in it. Got Firefox installed and
adblock plugged in...
There are two things I want to do next.
First to access files in my base system. Like my real /home/me stuff.
So far my searching how to do this has come up empty.
Next I will want to set up firefox to run proxy through an SSH tunnel to
a server on my net. This is for when I am on the road to give me a
trusted connection for a number of things. But hopefully this will be a
'simple' SSH tunnel with port 80/443 proxy support.
thanks
9 years, 3 months
Evolution not filtering
by Mike Chambers
In Fedora 21, using evolution-3.12.9, in KDE (maybe it happens in gnome
as well?), anyone having trouble with evolution not downloading all the
emails, via imap, as in just stops? Mine does that, and if I close it,
then open again, it shows and gets the emails. And sometimes it either
doesn't filter at all, or it does, and acts like it leaves a copy
showing in the inbox? Had no issues with the version from fedora 20 at
all.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"Best little town on Earth!"
9 years, 3 months