F34 - what happened to Switch User?
by Temlakos
Everyone:
Last week I did my usual command-line upgrade, from F33 to F34.
Most things still work, and some (like the KDE clipboard) work better.
But of course the Applications menu changed radically. It took time for
me to find the new places for things, and one thing I never found:
Switch User.
I now find it impossible to start a new session with another registered
user. Now the only way to use a secondary user account is to log out,
then log in as the secondary. And do the same in reverse when I'm done.
The biggest reason I abandoned GNOME, years ago, was that GNOME did not
provide, in its Graphical User Interface, a convenient way to switch
users, and have two users logged on at once. KDE did.
Until now.
It used to be on a menu called "Leave." Along with options labeled "Log
off", "Sleep," "Hibernate," "Restart," and "Shut Down."
Today all those options, other than "Switch User," appear at the bottom
of the applications menu screen. Which is mighty convenient for those
other options, but not for Switch User, which is gone.
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
Temlakos
2 years, 11 months
Have virtual consoles been moved?
by Patrick O'Callaghan
IIRC in every previous Fedora release console 1 (i.e. what you get if
hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1) has been the default, and F2 etc. got you
additional text consoles as required. Now I find that the default is F2
and F1 is a blank screen.
This is on KDE/Plasma. Has there been a policy change or is something
wrong?
poc
2 years, 11 months
Fedora 34, kde, wayland, klipper, no primary selection
by Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hi,
I just upgraded from Fedora 32. Now KDE uses wayland. I configure in
clipboard settings to sync primary seletion to no avail. Primary
selection only usable within the same window.
I read on the internet it should be working.
Any ideas?
PS Any idea how to fix kwallet that gives me this after entering my gpg
key password:
> Encryption error while attempting to save the wallet kdewallet. Error
code is 53 (Unusable public key). Please fix your system configuration,
then try again. This error may occur if you are not using a full trust
GPG key. Please ensure you have the secret key for the key you are using.
2 years, 11 months
Receiving files via Bluetooth
by m3freak@thesandhufamily.ca
Hello,
I have an old BlackBerry Z30 successfully paired with my Fedora 32
desktop. I can send files to the phone from Fedora without any
problems. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to receive
files from the phone.
Every time I try to share a file over BlueTooth from the phone to my
paired desktop, the phone starts the transfer and then immediately
errors out with the message, "Failed to find service".
I've tried a number very random things, but nothing seems to work. I
don't even know how to start explaining what I've tried. :/ Frustrated
doesn't begin to explain what I'm feeling right now because two other
file transfer methods from the phone that have worked in years past
refuse to work now. I figured that Bluetooth would be the simplest!
Is this suppose to just work or have I neglected to do something?
--
Ranbir
2 years, 11 months
After latest dnfupate Firefox taking about 2:43 to load??
by Michael D. Setzer II
Running firefox with strace shows it hitting these two poll lines, where it just
sits doing nothing for a long time? Actually, pauses after displaying up to the
NULL,8 then it goes on until it hits the second one.
First on has always been fd=10, but have seen fd=14 or fd=13 for second??
ppoll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, {tv_sec=119, tv_nsec=999420000},
NULL, 8) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=46,
tv_nsec=773625894})
ppoll([{fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 1, {tv_sec=119, tv_nsec=999274000},
NULL, 8) = 1 ([{fd=14, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=113,
tv_nsec=850834948})
$ time firefox
real 2m43.247s
user 0m3.097s
sys 0m0.795s
As soon as I shows the firefox windows clicked on X to close to get approximate
time.
Firefox had been updated earlier, and didn't seem to do this, but just updated
to the latest kernel 5.11.17-200.fc33.x86_64 and rebooted, and the noticed it?
looked at lines before this after directing strace to a file, but didn't see anything
obvious?
Thanks.
2 years, 11 months
Exactly what is "tor"?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I went to tor's web site, but could not figure out
what exactly it was or how to use it with my browser.
????
-T
2 years, 11 months
system-upgrade in plymouth vs console, and logging
by Sam Varshavchik
I updated a laptop to F34. The laptop uses the spinfinity plymouth theme.
system-upgrade ran while the theme was chugging along, showing brief status
messages in a top level corner, i.e. "Updating <package name>". This is my
regular upgrade experience; and nothin unusual about that.
I just started the upgrade on another laptop, but after plymouth came up, it
bumped down to the system console to run the upgrade. It's running now just
fine, on the system console. I don't recall if this laptop always did that,
some of my other servers don't use plymouth and run through upgraded on the
console.
But these two laptops are both set up to use the spinfinity theme, and it's
just my idle curiosity as to why one of them is running the upgrade on the
console. They do use different video hardware, but it just looks nicer in
plymouth, and why would video hardware matter, for something like that?
On a related note, after the first upgrade I needed to figure out why it
installed a bunch of java bloat, for some reason. I didn't find the usual
/root/upgrade.log, and some poking around found "dnf system-upgrade log", as
its replacement.
I was surprised to see that "dnf system-upgrade log" offered me logs going
all the way back to the F30-F31 upgrade in 2019. They certainly don't take
up much space, but I'm just wondering if they ever get cleaned up. I don't
see a dnf option to do that.
2 years, 11 months
Questions on DNF's UUID
by ml-devel@keemail.me
Hello everyone.
I recently got to know that Fedora's DNF creates an UUID to help keep track of the number of unique Fedora users. As per my understanding, before implementing this UUID mechanism, they obtained their user-base estimate through the use of IP addresses.
I would appreciate it if someone could clarify these concerns of mine:
- Is the generated UUID based on the hardware configuration of the Fedora user, or is it a random UUID? (If the user re-installs Fedora, will the re-generated UUID be alike to the first one, in any way?)
- Will the user's UUID be sent to package mirrors each time they perform an update/installation of packages? (If so, would this mean that a malicious mirror could potentially map a user's UUID with all the associated package-requests?)
- Is there any way to opt out of providing data for this user-base statistical analysis?
Could someone also point to the file in the source-code (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf) where this UUID-feature has been implemented?
2 years, 11 months
Question about broken link files?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Just upgraded my notebook to sdd drive and then did dnf
update to Fedora 33.
Ran the following command in / to see what it finds.
find . -xtype l >/badlinks
Summary of results of broken links by top directory
/etc 15
/home 17
/proc 170
/root 2
/run 145
/usr 325
674
Not an awful lot, but wonder if they should be fixed or
just left alone?
One was projectM have a link to some fonts, but the fonts
and the directory they are suppose to be in don't exist.
The there are a number K50netconsole files in /etc
/proc and /run not sure of??
/home seem to be mostly files in .wine
Thanks..
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2 years, 11 months
No Microphone input on fedora 34 (pipewire)
by Mike Martin
Since installing fedora 34 I have no input from microphone.
The microphone appears in audiomixer (pavucontrol I assume)
All modules seem to be loaded and playback is fine
the only error message I can see is from dmesg -T
traps: gnome-sound-rec[2335] trap int3 ip:7f9b4652df7f sp:7ffdf71ddc70
error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6800.1[7f9b464ef000+90000]
lspci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1802 Analog [VT1802 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pw-record --list-targets
Available targets ("*" denotes default):
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.input_analog-stereo
* 42: description="Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Input" prio=2000
But zero input from mic
If I plug in a cheap microphone it works, so something weird is happening
Any ideas
2 years, 11 months