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Changing to SDDM on SuperMario (Fedora 22)
Whenever I boot up post upgrade to Fedora 22, it takes much longer to load KDM than it used to. So I thought maybe it has something to do with Wayland and the fact that KDM is EOL’d. So I thought I’d convert to SDDM. I had no idea how to change DMs in the…
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My First Attempt at Customizing my Fedora 22 KDE 5 Plasma Desktop 5
So I found out today that there is no way to re-enable different backgrounds and plasmoids per virtual desktop. It appears to be a mix of forcing people to finally use activities and a complication that was causing all kinds of bugs (according to their bugzilla). I was bummed for about an hour. The different…
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 5: supermario
I was pleasantly surprised to see the next day, when I woke up, that plasma had loaded up despite the fact that I removed kmod-nvidia. Also, I did not have the same issue with KDM as I did with tanukimario. I was loaded in with the blue triangle background. I was greeted with the message…
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 4: supermario
Today was the big one, time to upgrade supermario, my workhorse machine. As usual I had to remove the kmod-nvidia packages. This time around, because my card was getting a little long in the tooth, it was the kmod-nvidia-340xx packages. I also had a bunch of plasmoid packages to get rid of that I didn’t…
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 3: kuribo
Today I upgraded my netbook. Interestingly, this had less problems than yesterday with the guest computer. Perhaps because I wasn’t using KDM on my netbook? Anyway, I was actually expecting a worse time, but it worked out. It appears that KDE Netbook edition didn’t make the jump to Plasma 5. But maybe it’s just a…
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 2: tanukimario
Turns out that the issue was the Fedora SDDM theme. Once I changed that to the default KDE theme everything worked. I wonder what I need to do to get the Fedora theme so that works as well. At least I know for future computers what needs to be done.
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 1: tanukimario
Started off with the guest room computer as it’s the least used. If things go pear-shaped there’ll be less complaining. fedup had a complaint about the one of the dependencies of the Dolphin Emulator. I just uninstalled it for now. I’ll worry about reinstalling it later. Often during these upgrades it appears that the biggest…
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My Main Linux Activity Desktops
I just updated the Desktop Screenshot page. Here’s a gallery of my latest desktop with KDE 4:
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Taking Fedora 22 KDE Spin Beta for a spin
It’ll be of no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I’m both a fan of the Fedora distribution of Linux as well as the KDE desktop. For the first time in six years, the KDE desktop is changing again. While the change is not as radical as the change from KDE 3 to…
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Post Script to yesterday’s btrfs post
Looks like I was right about the non-commit and possibly also about the df -h. Last night at the time I wrote the post: # btrfs fi show /home Label: ‘Home1’ uuid: 89cfd56a-06c7-4805-9526-7be4d24a2872 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.91TiB devid 1 size 2.73TiB used 1.99TiB path /dev/sdb1 $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail…
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A Quick Update on my use of btrfs and snapshots
Because of grad school, my work on Snap in Time has been quite halting – my last commit was 8 months ago. So I haven’t finished the quarterly and yearly culling part of my script. Since I’ve been making semi-hourly snapshots since March 2014, I had accumulated something like 1052 snapshots. While performance did improve…
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Fedora Unleashed: My 2003 Gateway into Linux
I was happy to be interviewed for Fedora Magazine about How [I] Fedora and I mentioned that there was a Fedora book that led me to pick Fedora. (I also mentioned that on this blog here) Recently I’ve been cleaning up my bookshelves as I have run out of space for physical books. While I’ve…
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Progress marches on….
I can’t believe in 2006 I was excited about the new possibilities of an nVidia card with 128 MB of RAM. Today we’re talking about 4GB+ of DDR5!
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Upgrading SuperMario to Fedora 21
The latest curl works with XBMC (now Kodi) so it’s time to upgrade my main Fedora computer. fedup –network 21 –product=nonproduct So that started running at 1427. The d/l finishes at 1500, but as usual some stuff to take care of. Mostly packages left over from previous versions of Fedora. WARNING: problems were encountered during…
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Upgrading Kuribo
Upgraded my netbook, Kuribo, to Fedora 21. fedup –network 21 –product=nonproduct Went off without a hitch. Like the new login theme. Waiting to make sure the curl in F21 works with Kodi (formerly XBMC) since the current newest version in 20 doesn’t work.