xml2rfc rpm
by Robert Moskowitz
I see the following rpms in the repo:
# grep xml2rfc dnf.lst
python2-xml2rfc.noarch 2.5.2-4.fc28 fedora
python3-xml2rfc.noarch 2.5.2-4.fc28 fedora
yet:
# dnf install xml2rfc
Last metadata expiration check: 2:22:41 ago on Sun 03 Jun 2018 05:33:23
PM EDT.
No match for argument: xml2rfc
Error: Unable to find a match
And anyway this is old, as I have xml2rfc-2.6.1.tar.gz from back last
August.
The IETF page: https://tools.ietf.org/tools/
says
There's a tutorial available on how to install from PyPi, or if you're
impatient you can try the following commands on the command line:
pip install xml2rfc
if that fails:
easy_install pip
pip install xml2rfc
if that fails, go to the tutorial above.
What is the recommended way to install this? I got to get working on a
BUNCH of drafts this week....
thanks
5 years, 10 months
Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28
by Peter Lesterhuis
> And you won't mount at /mnt/sda2, you'll mount at /home, /usr /tmp in
> order to do what you want. You'll have to create those directories
> under your new partition, and make sure they have the correct
> parameters (the same as /usr and /home have under /).
Thank you, and others, for replying.
I learned from you that /usr and /tmp should be on the SSD-drive in
order to have maximal profit from this fast drive.
Now I would like to have only "/home" on the HDD. This is the folder
which is going to contain large files (video, musix, etc).
I created a new partition on the HDD, mounted it (there is a line now in
fstab).
During the installation /home is now on the SSD. Can I make a symlink to
an new /home at the HDD-drive?
What would be the right command, if the mountpoint of de HDD-partion is
/mnt/linux-data
Would that be: "ln -s /home /mnt/linux-data/home"?
(Seems far to simple).
Or is the idea of symlinking not right.
5 years, 10 months
GnuCash's new reconciliation behavior
by Sam Varshavchik
I just experienced a slightly unexpected, new behavior of GnuCash's account
reconciliation dialog. Doing a quick check of my package installation
details, looks like I had GnuCash updated two weeks ago, and I guess this is
the first time I reconciled an account since then.
It seems that after clicking a transaction, to mark it as reconciled, what
happens now is that not only does the little checkbox next to the
transaction gets set, but the entire transaction gets shuffled to the bottom
of the transaction list, so that all reconciled transactions always appear
after the unreconciled ones.
So: as I go through my account statement, and check off each transaction,
each action appears to result in the transaction list getting reshuffled.
Even though I might already be eyeballing the next transaction to check off,
already, by the time I get to it, it's …somewhere else.
Digging through GnuCashs's preferences, I don't find any option of reverting
to the previous behavior, where I click each transaction to reconcile, and
this simply sets the checkbox next to it, without the entire transaction
list jumping around like something on a bad acid trip.
So, it looks like GnuCash took years' worth of existing UI behavior, and
just ripped it out and replaced with a UI that looks nearly identical but
acts in a completely different, and unexpected way.
Who do they think they are? Gnome?
5 years, 10 months
Re: How to change the default Internet browser on F28?
by R. G. Newbury
On 2018-06-01 09:28 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:>>>>
So, the following works for me....>>>> xdg-settings set
default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
>>>> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.deskto=
> p
>>>> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.deskt=
> op
>> I have the same problem on F27. And it is quite annoying.
>>
>> F27, KDE, Chrome, Thunderbird.
>> Using xdg-settings does not work*for me*, nor do the various settings =
> in the
>> Thunderbird config, such as network.protocol-handler-app.http
>>
>>
>>
> Are you saying that, after making the xdg-settings changes, if you do
>
> xdg-open http://fedoraproject.org
>
> it still opens firefox and not chrome?
Ooops we are talking about two different things.
xdg-open http://fedoraproject.org opens the chrome browser and loads the
fedora page, *but only does so from the command line*.
What I am searching for, is a solution, which allows we to right-click
on a url, and select 'Open Link in Browser' and have the same result.
At present, NOTHING happens when I do the right-click thing. It does not
matter if chrome is open or not: nothing happens.
It is neat that xdg-open does what it does, but, as noted, command line
only, which kinda defeats the urge to "just click that random link - you
know you want to".
R. Geoffrey Newbury
5 years, 10 months
web browser that will support java plugin(openjdk/icedtea)
by olivares33561@protonmail.com
Dear Fellow Fedora Users,
In light of many changes is there a web browser Fedora supported that honors the java plugins. The new firefox does not support java like it used to . Firefox-esr will soon deprecate the java support and we will not have access to the plugin. I have icedtea-web plugin plus openjdk installed. I search for several web browsers like palemoon but they are not in the official repo. I installed midori in the meantime. Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated.
[root@localhost ~]# dnf install palemoon
Last metadata expiration check: 1:37:56 ago on Fri 01 Jun 2018 09:26:17 AM CDT.
No match for argument: palemoon
Error: Unable to find a match
[root@localhost ~]#
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.16.12-300.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 25 21:13:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[olivares@localhost ~]$
Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.
5 years, 10 months
F28 audacity-free crashing with passthrough monitoring enabled
by Robert Moskowitz
Anyone here using Audacity?
I am recording some records through an amp to usb converter (ADS Tech
Instant Music). Been having problems with one Bach Concerti album
getting stuck. So after a couple tries, I tried enabling passthrough
mode in recording so I could listen to the record and nudge the arm past
the stuck part.
Everytime I started a record session Audacity just crashed with no
warning. Finally, I turned passthrough off and have increased the head
tracking weight (hey I bought this turntable back ~'73; I have touched
the settings for DECADES!). So far it looks like I added enough weight
and after the side is recorded I will see if it is OK at the higher weight.
Meanwhile, I would think the passthrough problem is a bug. I never
tried it in prior versions so I do not know if it is recent (guess I
could go back to that F21 system with the bad fan and see what
happens). So I am checking here first for other Audacity users before
filing a bug on it.
thanks
5 years, 10 months
/run/screen in systemd
by Kent Bair
I am running fresh install of fedora 28 and I am trying to set up a minecraft server for my kids following the systemd service file outlined here https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Server_startup_script then command being called is "ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/screen -DmS mc-server /usr/bin/java ..". I have written service files in the past so I have a basic understanding of systemd, However I have never tried to use screen in systemd. When I try to start the service I get an error "Directory '/run/screen' must have mode 777." to see if it worked I ran chmod and the service starts fine but then when I run "screen -ls" I get "Directory '/run/screen' must have mode 775." which is what /run/screen was set to originally.
What is causing the need for 777 from systemd? and how would I fix it? I really don't like the idea of having anything set to 777 and I have tried to find a solution online. There are many references to strace causing issues but that is not installed. And other articles said to check permissions of /usr/bin/screen so here is what I have
-rwxr-sr-x. 1 root screen 501248 Feb 9 14:10 /usr/bin/screen
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root screen 60 Jun 3 14:31 /run/screen
.
5 years, 10 months
Lenovo 120e speakers stop
by Robert Moskowitz
At least with F28/Xfce, so far, I am getting SOMETHING from the builtin
speakers. F24/Xfce got nothing...
I am listening to a session in Audacity. Stopping and starting to get
the track points so I can split it up into separate tracks. Internal
speakers stop playing. I have to plug in a little speaker until into
the headphone jack.
I unplug the speakers and start playing Audacity again, and internal
speakers work again. For a while. Then stop again.
Rinse and repeat.
Nothing reported in /var/log/messages about this.
Any advise on troubleshooting this?
5 years, 10 months
dual boot Windows10 fedora28
by peterlesterhuis@telfort.nl
Hi,
I purchased an Asus laptop with 2 hard drives (SSD 256 GB and HDD 1 TB).
Windows10 was preinstalled on the SSD and the HDD drive is used for data.
I wanted to install fedora alongside Windows.
So I shrinked the partition on the SSD drive (sdb) and also the partition on the HDD drive (sda).
I installed fedora on the new partition of the SDD drive.
So far so good. I can boot into Windows as well as Fedora.
Now I want to have /home, /usr/ and/ /tmp on the HDD drive, which I intend to use as data-drive.
I created a mountpoint for the new partition of the HDD drive (sudo mkdir /mnt/sda2 and sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2).
Now I am stuck. This is beyond my (limited) skills.
How do I realize that /home, /usr and and /tmp wil be stored on the HDD?
I need a step-by-step tutorial to proceed.
Thanks in advance.
Peter
5 years, 10 months