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how to install zoom client.
by home user 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Good morning, (f-29) (background) Last week, I was to participate in a "Zoom" meeting for a charity that I'm involved in. I have the needed software on my rarely-used windows-7 box. But I could not complete the windows-7 login (some problem with a windows-7 service). I've since found there is a "Zoom" client for Fedora. "dnfdragora" does not find anything for it. But I found a web page that I hope has what I need. I've downloaded the package ("zoom_x86_64.rpm"), and I've downloaded a "Public Key" ("package-signing-key.pub"). The web site from which I've downloaded these also has a line: Key fingerprint: [some 40 hex digit number] (4 questions) 1. Do the 2 files need to be in a specific place to do the install? If yes, where? 2. Do I need to be "root" to do the install? 3. What do I do with the "Key fingerprint"? 4. How do I do the install (preferably using "dnf")? thanks, Bill.

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VideoConference Package?
by John Mellor 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a videoconference package available? Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for free, and not available for a local install. I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-) I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos. I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good. However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell installer for some unknown reason. This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't announced it yet?

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AMD GPU not used by Fedora 31
by Sreyan Chakravarty 11 May '20

11 May '20

My laptop model is the HP-ac179tx. Full Specs here: https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04919819 It has an AMD Radeon R5 M330 Graphics (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) GPU which is currently not being used by Wayland Gnome in Fedora. This is the output of: $ lspci | grep -i VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07) As you can see it is operating on the in-built Intel Graphics. I want all display operations to happen through the AMD GPU, is that possible? Now, I know video card drivers has always been a dicey topic, where there is no stable drivers, just softwares that fail a little less than other counterparts. So, I have a few questions: 1) I am using Gnome-Wayland. Are there at all any video card drivers out there for Wayland ? 2) To use video drivers is it necessary to switch to XOrg ? 3) Is it possible to transfer all display operations to the GPU ? Like my desktop has the monitor connected to the GPU directly, which means all display is handled by the GPU. Is something similar possible here? I did try installing the AMDGPU-Pro Driver from here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-radpro-lin-16-40 But it fails with the error: No match for argument: amdgpu Error: Unable to find a match: amdgpu Also Fedora was even listed in page, so I guess that means that it is not supported. Some relevant diagnostic information about my laptop: $ sudo kmod list | grep amd amdgpu 5308416 0 amd_iommu_v2 20480 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 36864 1 amdgpu ttm 122880 2 amdgpu,radeon i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 drm_kms_helper 233472 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 drm 585728 13 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,radeon,i915,ttm $ sudo rpm -qa | grep vulkan | sort mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 vulkan-loader-1.2.131.1-1.fc31.x86_64 $ sudo rpm -qa | grep mesa | sort mesa-dri-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-filesystem-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libEGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libgbm-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libglapi-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libGLU-9.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libOpenCL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libxatracker-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 Lastly, I have LVM snapshotting enabled, so I should be able to try out things so long as they don't involve my /boot and /boot/efi directories as they are not included in the LVM. Let me know what is the best course of action here. Thanks. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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minor gnome annoyance
by Tom Horsley 03 May '20

03 May '20

They finally got rid of the "you have to scroll the screen all the way up from the bottom" to get out of the lock screen. Now it says click or hit any key. If you hit a key, it does get you out of the lock screen, but that key also winds up being passed to the password entry field as the first character of your password, so then you type your actual password and get a login error :-). Stick to clicking.

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What's that?
by Frank Elsner 02 May '20

02 May '20

Hi community, I've found the following strangeness on my regulary updated Fedora 31: file /boot/System.map-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64 is not owned by any package file /boot/.vmlinuz-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64.hmac is not owned by any package file /boot/config-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64 is not owned by any package file /boot/initramfs-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64.img is not owned by any package file /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64 is not owned by any package file /boot/loader/entries/e731a672c5634346bf52bf901e274268-5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64.conf is not owned by any package file /usr/share/licenses/kernel-core/COPYING-5.4.14 is not owned by any package file /usr/share/doc/kernel-keys/5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64 is not owned by any package file /usr/lib/modules/5.4.14-200.fc31.x86_64 is not owned by any package How could this happen? Is it save to remove remove? Stayed at home, Frank Elsner

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Fedora questions.
by Mmobilea 01 May '20

01 May '20

Hello all, I'm testing fedora on virtual machine in vmware. I have some questions. 1. How to get desktop icons for gnome? 2. If it's inpossible, how to get mate-desktop environment with desktop icons, but without compiz manager, because of problems with orca screenreader. 3. Is it usable by beginners? 4. How to install drivers and games on wine? 5. What antivirus do you recommend? 6. How to automatically update fedora? Thank you all?

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F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"
by sean darcy 01 May '20

01 May '20

The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is not setup. This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31. Before that error, and maybe related to it, there are errors loading 2 X.509 certificates. 1. Microsoft Windows Production 2. Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 3. Acer Database 4. Linpus 5. Error 6. Error 7. Fedora Secure Boot I've tried booting with Secure Boot on and with it off. AND, there's an rdsosreport.txt file generated. The console suggests you save it on a usb stick or in /boot. I can't figure out how to mount either. Any way to save it? sean

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gimp and F32 upgrade
by SternData 01 May '20

01 May '20

I do not have gimp installed, but do have Glimpse installed via flatpak. system upgrade reports: Modular dependency problem: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(platform:f31) needed by module gimp:2.10:3120191106095052:f636be4b-0.x86_64 removing glimpse and flatpak does not remove the problem. What should I try next? -- -- Steve

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GNOME 3.36 power off in less than 4 clicks?
by Frederic Muller 01 May '20

01 May '20

Hi! With the new GNOME version it seems we're one more click away from powering off one PC. And so it takes 4 clicks now. Is there a shorter way to achieve the same thing? Thank you. Fred

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Re: Run firefox across ssh?
by Peter Skensved 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

> Hi there, > > > I tried this: > > > > ssh -Y mac_ip > > > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > > > $ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox > > > > But no joy > > > > Thoughts? Is this possible? > > No idea about the Mac, but the same thing on a Linux box instead of the Mac > works just with > > local$ ssh -X remote_linux_box > remote$ firefox > > I'm not sure anymore about doing something with DISPLAY, on either end... > It just works. > > Stay safe. > > Iosif Fettich This work from Linux box to Linux box . Not sure about Macs : local> ssh -Y remote-ip remote> firefox -no-remote Note the -no-remote . It forces requests to come from the remote box rather than the local one ( which is the default ) peter

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