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Alternatives to Theme Font size changer Firefox plugin?
by Sam Varshavchik 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

The popular theme font size changer Firefox plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/, no longer supports Linux. The default Firefox font size is too small for people with poor eyesight. As far as I can tell, the only thing that official "Firefox themes" do is set a background image for the UI. As Benny Hill would say, biiiiiiiiiiiiig …deal. The top-ranked comment on that extension page suggests hacking "userChrome- example.css" in ~/.mozilla/firefox. $ find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name userChrome-example.css -print $ There goes that idea. Googling around the only other suggestion I found was to hack layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting in about:config. All that did, apparently, was making the Firefox UI elements themselves bigger, but their font size – the menu and the URL bar – remained exactly the same. Anyone has other suggestions?

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Taskbar Panel in Plasma Won't Autohide
by Stephen Morris 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hi, I am trying to get the Taskbar Panel to autohide, but when I click on the options button in the panel, the left, right and center options are permanently highlighted but seem to function in terms of moving the indicator that reflects which option is active. Also the 'Always Visible', 'Auto Hide', 'Windows can Cover' and 'Windows go Below' options are also permanently highlighted but selecting the 2nd or 3rd option does nothing. It appears these options are highlighted because the colour scheme I am using, which is forget-me-not thinks they are push buttons. Does anyone know why these don't work anymore in Fedora 23? I am using Breeze for the Windows Style and Windows Decorations themes. regards, Steve

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yumex-dnf font size
by Beartooth 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

I need a much bigger font for yumex-dnf than the F24 default; where can I change it?

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CUDA on F24?
by Hiisi 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi! Have a fresh install of F24. The machine has Nvidia GTX 960 video card. I would like to enable GPU rendering in blender. Have installed nvidia drivers from rpmfusion repo and CUDA toolkit from nvidia. Can select now CUDA as rendering option in blender settings. However trying to render anything fails. Initially nvcc couldn't compile using gcc-6.1.1. After installing compat-gcc I have gcc-3.4. Added softlinks to it: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc34 /usr/local/cuda-7.5/bin/gcc And same for g++ Now CUDA's kernel compilation fails with the following error: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/bits/cpp_type_traits.h (334): error: expected an identifier 1 error detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_00001fa8_00000000-7_kernel.cpp1.ii". As I understand the issue is still related to some uncompatible versions of C++. Maybe not the compiler itself but std standard. Is there workaround? Anyone using successfully CUDA under F24? There must be thousands of you! Please give me some hint. -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: https://linuxcounter.net/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right.

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Seeking advice on router.
by Erik P. Olsen 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the distance from the router is more than 25 feet. What is the recommended router when it comes to signal strength? I would prefer one which can be flashed with dd-wrt. Thanks in advance -- Erik

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Fedora in the Middle Kingdom
by Sherman Grunewagen 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

I may soon be living in China, and wanted to ask those with experience what VPN they've found that works best to get through the GFC. I've done some research on my own, and one name keeps coming up---ExpressVPN. But I would like your opinions, esp. as it relates to Fedora. (I'm running 21.) Thanks! Sherman

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qemu + plan9(virtfs) and access(still) denied
by lejeczek 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

hi everybody I wonder if you had a chance to use virtfs with passthrough in qemu? I have a host that passes through a directory to a guest, in the guest I can mount the tag successfully and list the content of the mountpoint, but when I try to create a file or make a dir I get "permission denied", but... I can remove files/dirs - is this not weird? I believe I've fished out all denials and also with disabled silent denials I do not see anything. I wonder if somebody can comment whether it is selinux problem? I'm on Centos 7.2 with elrepo's kernel 4.7. many thanks. L

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F24: waking up from hibernate no longer wakes nm-applet (however existing connection works fine)
by Ranjan Maitra 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi, I understand that Fedora has gone the way of my hated linux distribution (Ubuntu) in actively disconnecting hibernate in a very disappointing distribution, but I still think that someone may know what to do so I thought that I would post this here and get suggestions and advice. I have set up, after installation, hibernate with F24 using the techniques that are now required since the days of F22 (or so). Here is what I did: 1. In /etc/default/grub add --> resume=UUID="****" <-- to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= where the uuid is obtained using blkid. then I do the following: 2. sudo bash -x grub2-mkconfig 3. sudo bash -x grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and after rebooting, hibernate works. However, of late, since F24, I have been having this problem that the laptop comes back from hibernate but the nm-applet does not. Basically, what happens is that the nm-applet has the disconnected symbol. The network does work (at the location it was working from when the laptop was hibernated). It will not work in a new location simply because nm-applet does not have the ability to provide me with a list of new possibly connections. I have not tried this part with ethernet but I suspect that the general idea would be similar. The only way I can get back to using nm-applet to provide me with Wifi connections (beyond the one to which it has been connected) is by killing and restarting nm-applet. The process has to be repeated for every hibernate. So, what should I be doing to avoid having to kill and restart my nm-applet? Is this a bug somewhere (some hook not being turned on, as used to happen with suspend in the bad old days of early Fedora) and if so, where should I file it (under what component in BZ)? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan PS: As an aside, one of the parameters in: /etc/default/grub, I have GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" -- I also tried with GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="false" but there was no visible effect. I am not completely sure what this parameter does because it seems to give me the same result irrespective of whether or not it is set to "true". Best wishes, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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Browser Privacy
by Drew Samson 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hello, Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online privacy and enhance their computer security. I'm simply trying to give back to the list for all the help I've received over the years. This is what I do... I use Firefox simply because it allows me to stay in control of my browser. If you didn't know... "about:config" in the address bar allows control of any available setting. While private browsing seems to work well I like to keep everything in a single window to permit more flexibility and take the tab-specific route to essentially equivalent security that private browsing provides. So these are my plugins: 1. NoScript - virtually every exploit/tracking out there starts with the scripting approach. This kills javacript & the others while providing real-time total control of the tool. 2. Better Privacy - this tool deals with LSO tracking. This is just in case since I don't use flash since I don't need it anymore. I'll get to that later. 3. Privacy Badger - this blocks trackers websites use; it's sponsored by eff.org. This is my Ghostery replacement since I don't like the recent developments with that tool. 4. uBlock Origin - this is a FOSS ad blocker. I use this to replace AdBlock Plus since I don't like recent developments with that tool either. Then in preferences I enable the 3rd party filters: Fanboy privacy, Fanboy social media, and hpHosts multipurpose list. 5. Cookie Controller - this deals with general-purpose cookies. These are my security essential plugins. Here is how I'm able to play videos on youtube & cnn etc. w/o flash. 1. I use the "Video Without Flash" plugin. 2. Install vlc with vlc extras also. 3. Install all the gstreamer & gstreamer1 plugins I don't watch many video's but this gives me everything I need. Perhaps there are some this approach won't play but I haven't run across them yet. Back to Firefox configuration in about:config... 1. search on geo and change geo:enabled to false (double click it) 2. geo.wifi.uri - change to localhost 3. browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults - change to false 4. search for pocket - disable I don't want anything auto-updating my system Then in my Firefox preferences I remove all the default search engines (they all try to track you) except DuckDuckGo and add the Startpage search engine as my default. This will give you google results privately and even provides a proxy thru which you may visit a site. FWIW I do the same geo stuff in Thunderbird in the Config Editor. I never get geographical-specific ads then and my browser does not remember anything about me since Firefox is also set to delete all history when it closes. The only thing sites are ever able to determine about me is thru my isp provided ip address and then they customize "stuff" for that location 100 miles away. Then more generally about security... I run this config inside a virtualbox vm. Yes that's Fedora running inside Virtualbox on a Fedora host. Why? To provide a layer of abstraction in case the worst happens, my primary system is not likely to be compromised. In reality all of this resides in a single file on the host which is then deleted or backed up or transferred easily. I run another separate vm for banking and that is its only function in life. It only boots once or twice a month so I can log in and pay bills or transfer $ etc. I still use FF with the above config but simply provide a permanent exception to NoScript so the bank or credit card site gives me the best experience. I don't ever visit other sites or check email or do anything else in my banking vm. Then I turn it off except to keep it updated. I try not to browse the web on my host and always keep an original vm "Fedora Master" copy so if I want to start from scratch - to ensure no trackers are present it's a simple clone / file copy and I have a brand new Fedora environment. I give it 4 cpu cores & 8gb ram from the host and get good response & performance. I have plenty more on the host. I have another vm dedicated solely to use TOR. Then here are some other plugins I use to make things more convenient. 1. New Tab Override sets specific page for new tabs 2. Mozilla Archive Format 3. Toolbar Buttons adds icons for convenient tasks. It has an icon for about:config and for noscript exceptions (so you don't have to pull down a menu) and many others. I like it. 4. Download Flash & Video even when the option is not available on the site 5. IdentFavIcon & FavIconReloader for when your bookmark loses its icon This works for me and provides a good experience since I'm able to run 1920x1440 inside a vm since my host is running 2560x1600. However on my 13" laptop it can get frustrating fast since it all get's so small so I rarely use vm's there. I just use the more general FF configuration. Perhaps this will provide info you haven't considered before. Drew

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Monitor not detected correctly
by Paul Smith 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Dear All, I have just bought a monitor, which is detected by Fedora 24 as a Goldstar company Lda 22", but the monitor is a LG of 27". How can this be fixed? Thanks in advance, Paul

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