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Fedora21 on a macbook pro - willing to pay!!!
by CS DBA 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

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...

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How to replace a newer package from dead repo with its older fedora version?
by Clemens Eisserer 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

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 Since then, Fedora-20 includes mesa-10.3 and most packages provided by fschwarz have been replaced by newer versions contained in the official fedora repo.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

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F21 - Huge icons
by David A. De Graaf 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

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.

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VM access to base system files
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

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

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emacs with emacs-slime shows error "Don't know how to compile nil"
by R Mercado 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

I see the error below when starting emacs ever since I added emacs-slime to my fedora 20 box. /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/slime.el:Error: Don't know how to compile nil Where to report the bug? Thanks

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Re: emacs with emacs-slime shows error "Don't know how to compile nil"
by R Mercado 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Thank you, very useful info and URLs. yumdownloader --source emacs-slime gave me a src.rpm that I will look through.

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Evolution not filtering
by Mike Chambers 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

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!"

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