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Notifications
by Danishka Navin 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Hi, Imagine no user logged in to neither GUI nor CLI but a background service is running. Is it possible to send a notification to GUI after completion of the processing running on the background? I have checked notify-send but could not find such a specific example. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Danishka Navin

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Bind my personal shell program to open only a specific text file extension (and not all text/plain files)
by Dario Lesca 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

I have a my personal application (~/bin/launch-app) that read a text file with .app extension (myapp.app) and run some stuff of things Since the myapp.app is a text file ... [lesca@dodo tmp]$ file myapp.app myapp.app: ASCII text if I try bind this file to my program launch-app via nemo, nautilus, thunar, ecc or via line command mimeopen, all other text (text/plain) file (es some.txt) are bind to my program. [lesca@dodo tmp]$ mimeopen -d /tmp/myapp.app Please choose a default application for files of type text/plain ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1) launch-app (userapp-launch-app-LF774Z) 2) LibreOffice Main (libreoffice) 3) Geany (geany) 4) .... How to bind only .app file to my application? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 30 Workstation)

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Re: how do I use gunzip with dd?
by ToddAndMargo 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

On 9/21/19 10:02 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: > Try replacing gunzip with zcat. > > - Derrik Worked. Thank you!

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KDE on Fedora 30/31
by William Oliver 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Folk, A few versions of Fedora ago, I got a little frustrated with the way KDE was running on my laptop. I don't remember the actual problem, really. I think it had to do with not being able to download and install icons or themes or some other eyecandy; there was always some sort of failure. The upshot was that I was more loyal to my desktop than my distro and switched to KDEneon since it worked. But, I've always had a soft spot for Fedora; I've been using it off and on ever since it has existed (and Red Hat Linux or Mandrake before that). I'm getting the itch to give it a go again, probably when 31 is finalized. So... for the KDE users out there, how is Fedora doing with KDE nowadays? billo

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rsync oddity
by Frank Elsner 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Hi all, when doing an rsync of /home to a remote host with options "--stats -av --hard-links --delete-during" I get sending incremental file list cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de/frank cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de/frank cannot delete non-empty directory: frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de This is strange because the directory does not exist # cd /home # file frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de: cannot open `frank/.sylpheed-2.0/imapcache/c64.shuttle.de' (No such file or directory) Can someone explain that? Kind regards, Frank

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grub regression in f30
by François Patte 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card and since at least f27 I had a high resolution (1280x1024) on the console screen during the boot. This is no more the case in f30. Why? I use the nvidia driver from rpm-fusion, nouveau does not work with my card. Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

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losetup failed to set up loop device while rescuing a SD card that does not mount
by Ranjan Maitra 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hi, I have been trying to rescue the files from a SD card that is connected to a USB adapter, and that can not mount in the usual way because I guess it is corrupt (complains of no read-write permission even though the SD card is unlocked). Following the instructions here: https://blog.tinned-software.net/rescue-data-from-corrupt-sd-card/ I get: $ sudo ddrescue -f /dev/sda SD_card_rescue.log GNU ddrescue 1.23 Press Ctrl-C to interrupt ipos: 322563 kB, non-trimmed: 0 B, current rate: 64000 B/s opos: 322563 kB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 1178 kB/s non-tried: 0 B, bad-sector: 19968 B, error rate: 0 B/s rescued: 8270 MB, bad areas: 26, run time: 1h 56m 58s pct rescued: 99.99%, read errors: 78, remaining time: 0s time since last successful read: n/a Finished However, when I try: $ sudo losetup -f -P SD_card_rescue.img losetup: SD_card_rescue.img: failed to set up loop device: No such file or directory Adding the full path name for the SD_card_rescue.img does not change the error. I looked around a bit and tried the following: https://askubuntu.com/questions/634501/cant-mount-iso-file-as-loop-device-e… It does not per se use losetup but I still get the same error. Any suggestions? I am on an updated F30. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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anacron
by Patrick Dupre 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hello, On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. I guess that I do not need crond. I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? systemctl status anacron Unit anacron.service could not be found systemctl status anacrond Unit anacrond.service could not be found while systemctl status crond ● crond.service - Command Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-09-22 09:09:21 CEST; 3h 5min ago Main PID: 1429 (crond) Tasks: 7 (limit: 4915) Memory: 4.3G CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service ├─ 1429 /usr/sbin/crond -n ├─ 8113 /usr/sbin/anacron -s ├─10084 /usr/bin/bash /bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly ├─10088 /bin/sh /etc/cron.weekly/backup.cron It seems that anacron is a service of crond. Is the only option to remove crontabs? Thanks =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

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mkexfatfs doesn't work?
by Richard Shaw 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

I just installed exfat-utils and I'm trying to format a 16GB microSD card: $ sudo mkfs.exfat /dev/sdb1 mkexfatfs 1.3.0 Creating... done. Flushing... done. File system created successfully. But it actually doesn't do anything. All the old files are still on the SD card. Thanks, Richard

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how do I use gunzip with dd?
by ToddAndMargo 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hi All, What am I doing wrong here? # gunzip DeadStick.FC30_2019-09-06.dd.gz | dd status=progress bs=4096 of=/dev/sdb 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 176.897 s, 0.0 kB/s Many thanks, -T

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