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X-windows only gives a mouse pointer
by solarflow99 08 Jul '18

08 Jul '18

Hi, I have installed the fedora 28 server image for ARM, and wanted to have x-windows, so I did a groupinstall of LXQt Desktop and also LXDE Desktop. But running startx just gives me a black screen and a mouse pointer, nothing else works. isolating graphical.target doesn't work at all. Perhaps there are more components i'm missing, does anyone have an idea what else was needed? Thanks,

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Installing PCF Fonts
by Craig T. Lanning 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I'm currently running Fedora 26. I have several fonts that are in PCF format that I'd like to create an RPM for. I used to have them in an RPM, but that RPM no longer works so I need to rebuild it. How do I install these fonts into Fedora 26 and does this method still hold for later versions of Fedora? I searched Google, but the methods it mentioned for installing PCF fonts didn't seem to work for me. Craig Lanning

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Can't perform update when double nat'ing
by Richard Shaw 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

I know the default answer, don't double nat, but in this case what I'm doing is that I have a wireless travel router with WISP and I am using it to create my own private & secured network behind a public network. Web browsing works fine but when I try to perform a "dnf update" I get a "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'." Since it's simple download, i,e, not a complicated connection like a VPN. I don't know why it wouldn't work, but it apparently does not. Ideas? Thanks, Richard

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Live ISO image creation
by Jozsef K 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi, I have a question about live ISO image creation. What I would like to achieve is to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat while I am in live environment and then to create a new ISO image file which would be the same as the one I booted but with addition of those two packages. Is that possible? Best, Jozsef K. http://racunar.h1n.ru

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Suspend with kernel-4.17.x broken?
by Frank Elsner 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello, with the 4.16.x kernels suspend works perfect on my ThinkPad x230i. But with the 4.17.x kernels this has stopped working. Screen is blanked but the system does not suspend. My current kernel parameters read net.ifnames=0 selinux=0 quiet acpi_backlight=vendor thinkpad-acpi.brightness_enable=1 What has changed? How can I get suspend working again? Cheers, Frank

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Strange PDF file (Version 1.7)
by Dario Lesca 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

How to read this kind of PDF file without Adobe Reader? [lesca@dodo pdf-reader]$ file strange-adobe-pdf.pdf strange-adobe- pdf.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7[lesca@dodo pdf-reader]$ If I open with one of the Linux PDF Reader I get this message: Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDFviewer may not be able to display this type of document. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® byvisiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download. For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acr reader. Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademarkof Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and othercountries Thanks for suggest. -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 28 Workstation)

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[F27] Dolphin status bar has become huge!
by Frédéric 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hi , I am running F27. I updated my distribution on Friday evening and Dolphin has now a huge status bar which is very annoying (see attached picture). The version of dolphin is 17.12.2. Kind regards, F

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hidpi screens and terminal-based applications
by Matt Morgan 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

I have a 3200x1800 pixel screen on my HP laptop. Everything running under Gnome is fine, even when I connect to an external monitor--something figures out automatically how to resize the windows/fonts. Great! But with Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress, the text-based parts display so small as to be unreadable. With Minecraft it's OK since you eventually get to the actual game. With Dwarf Fortress it's unplayable. Does anyone have a suggestion for this? FYI, I'm not very familiar with Dwarf Fortress, so if there's a way to fix this inside the game that would be great, too. Thanks, Matt

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How to get rid of the gnome desktop popup menu entry " keep aligned"
by Joachim Backes 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

Hi gnome users, it happens very often the I hit the gnome desktop menu entry "keep aligned" (which will align all desktop icons). Any chance to get rid of this feature? Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight) Kernel-4.17.3-200.fc28.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

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