Fedora 34: Some applications show weird font
by Dario Lesca
On my Notebook with Fedora 34 up to date (also on 35 new installation
on VM) some application show part of your text message with weird font
like this:
Torbrowser: https://i.imgur.com/7FRv4Xu.png
Libreoffice: https://i.imgur.com/9tkRqwH.png
On another PC with Fedora 34 up to date like my notebook this problem
not occurr and all work fine.
If I login with a new user the problem still exist
Seem a video driver or some package not installed o some other strange
think on my notebook
Someone can help me to analyse and resolve this issue?
Many thanks
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Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 34 Workstation)
2 years, 5 months
virt-viewer light theme?
by ToddAndMargo
HI All,
FC35
Xfce 4.16
virt-viewer-10.0-4.fc35.x86_64
Is there a way to switch virt-viewer's decorations
from its current dark theme to a light or different
theme?
Many thanks,
-T
2 years, 5 months
F35 install doesn't find existing Windows installation
by Matthew Saltzman
I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 (2nd generation), on which I was happily
running a dual boot of the original Windows 10 installation that came
with the machine and Fedora 34, which I had upgraded through a few
versions of Fedora.
This time, I decided to do a fresh install of Fedora 35 (to try out
BTRFS), but when the installation finished, there was no option to boot
Windows. The Windows data partition, Microsoft reserved partition, and
recovery partitions are all still in place. I attempted to use grub-
customizer to add a chainloader entry pointing to the Windows, but it
displays "Error building boot sequence. Check parameters!"
Gparted shows the Windows partition and the EFI partitio both have
bootable and esp flags set.
Thanks in advance!
How can I get my Windows system to be accessible again?
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Matthew Saltzman
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Clemson University
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
2 years, 5 months
Fedora 35 using XFS as default for Network iso / XFCE?
by Doug H.
Shortly after the release of Fedora 35 I downloaded:
Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-35-1.2.iso
I generally keep the current netinstall iso in case I might want to use
it for repair and I also generally use it to create a VitrualBox
install to show what a vanilla Xfce install looks like.
I am taking defaults for the disk partitioning but I am switching to
Xfce desktop.
I have stated the install and it is currently downloading the packages.
The interesting part is that I see that it has used XFS instead of
BTRFS.
Might this be expected?
Might it be due to the netinstall being a bit out of date?
Might it be due to XFCE desktop?
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Doug H.
2 years, 5 months
Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?
by linux guy
From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that involves
booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. Currently I
have 2 computers that need such attention.
In the past I've used Live bootable USB drives. They have a number of
limitations including:
- they use Gnome. I'm a KDE guy.
- they lack many of the tools I need - gparted, etc.
- they don't support persistence, so every time I boot with them I'm
running a script to get everything set up to where I was the last time I
booted.
One can supposedly make Live USB images persistent, but 1) it didn't work
when I tried it and 2) there are limitations, including that do a major
upgrade to the Live installation. (ie, no dnf updates)
So... I'm thinking of installing Fedora35 for real on a USB drive and then
using that for my maintenance work. Has anyone done this ? Tips ?
Tricks ? Advice ?
I'm specifically wondering about setting up partitions on a USB device.
Same as a SATA device ? Anything special about booting a USB device
instead of a SATA or NVME device ?
Thanks.
2 years, 5 months
Firefox laggy?
by Jeffrey Ross
I recently did a reinstall of Fedora as the upgrade from 34 to 35 failed
for me. I ended up doing a new install of Fedora 35 while retaining my
/home partition, all other partitions were reformatted during the install.
After the install I found that Firefox seems to be laggy when opening
pages and when typing in forms, I can often out type the display in FF,
I know I'm a relatively fast typist but I don't think I am that fast.
According to top, "Web Content" spikes to just over 100% when I'm typing
in FF and "GeckoMain" also spikes to 70% or so.
Suggestions?
Thanks, Jeff
2 years, 5 months
accessing a fedora box (latest fedora 35) from Windows using
PuTTY/WinSCP only possible with userid/password
by Walter H.
Hello,
can someone please give me a hint, where to look for the following
problem ...
I have several Linux VMs (all except this one are CentOS), and I took
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys from one of them
and copied it onto this Fedora box;
accessing from my Jump-VM also directly using SSH from Win10 works fine
using the private key,
but from when using PuTTY/WinSCP I get: "Server refused our key."
(all other Linux-VMs use the same authorized_keys and can be accessed
using PuTTY/WinSCP with this private key)
is there something I must change on the side of the Fedora box or
something I have to change in PuTTY/WinSCP?
(I'm using the latest releases of PuTTY/WinSCP)
Thanks,
Walter
2 years, 5 months
Packagekit background updates
by Matti Pulkkinen
Hello,
tl;dr is packagekit supposed to download updates in the background?
On Fedora Workstation, I have long been in the habit of installing
updates through Gnome Software every time before I shut down my
computer. Recently, however, I decided to see how the automatic
background updates work.
After about a week or so of not installing updates manually, I did get
a notification that updates were available, and I expected that when I
next go to shut down my computer, I would have the little checkbox
there that I could tick to install the pending updates. However, that
checkbox was not there.
The very first time booting the machine after installing F35
Workstation, updates really were downloaded in the background and the
checkbox was there, so I know the facility in question does work. It's
just that it does not seem to trigger on anything beyond the very first
boot. Is this intended behavior, even though I have the "automatic
updates" setting enabled in Gnome Software?
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Terveisin / Regards,
Matti Pulkkinen
2 years, 5 months