November 2025 - Lug-nuts

Re: Systemd
by Kevin Brisson 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Gary, computers are hard and shouldn't be used by retired folks. :) Run it like below, it will load last. Use AI for docs - much easier and faster than our brains. Type=idle Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of the service program is delayed until all active jobs are dispatched. This may be used to avoid interleaving the output of shell services with the status output on the console. Note that this type is useful only to improve console output, it is not useful as a general unit ordering tool, and the effect of this service type is subject to a 5s timeout, after which the service program is invoked anyway. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html Kevin

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Memory
by Chris Miller 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Hi Folks, I have some memory that I can't use, but may not be completely useless. If anybody is interested, speak up. 1 - 8GB PC3 10600 1333 MHz (2x4GB) 1 - 1GB PC3 1600 (1x8GB) 4 - 1GB PC2 6400 CL5 -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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X11 on Fedora 43
by Linus Sphinx 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Wasn't too hard, still desktop shopping. $ sudo dnf install lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter $ sudo dnf install @xfce-desktop-environment $ sudo systemctl disable gdm $ sudo systemctl enable lightdm $ systemctl reboot Have to pick the xsession at start, menu in the upper right corner, then log in, right click settings to change desktop image.

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Wayland and Fedora
by Linus Sphinx 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Has anyone seen it wake up? Just logging in it sits and the mouse cursor dies for 45 seconds, it lags all over the place. Now Fedora and Wayland both suck. Switching to Arch.

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This Feels Right
by Linus Sphinx 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Who says you can't go home again. Still the best looking. $ sudo dnf install enlightenment

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Wayland
by Linus Sphinx 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

I'm seeing the problem is not the OS, but the desktop, it's Gnome 50 and up that insists on Wayland. Trying to switch to XFCE and X11 before I completely dump the distro.

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SacLUG back at Kupros December
by Brian E. Lavender 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

See you at Kupros in December. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/december-2025.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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xslt in libre office
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

I have never used the xslt filter capability in libre office. Has anyone used it? https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/xsltfilter.html I did do some brief work witho FOP https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meeting tomorrow
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Don't forget we have the SacLUG tomorrow! https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/november-2025.html Kevin demonstrates AI document repository When: Mon November 17, 2025 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Speaker: Kevin Brisson Location: Bel Air #502 S.E.G.R. Kevin will present his Byte Vision local document analysis tool. https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision This talk will be at the Bel Aire Arden. Note that the meeting will be on Monday, rather than the usual Tuesday. 4320 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95864 -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Xorg stuff
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

While downloading F43 updates for my desktop, I found this thread on Xorg. Admittingly, I still do not fully understand how the windowing manager all fits together. I take it that there are various X libraries? https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-… I thought this quote was interesting: "Fedora will benefit from shipping an actively maintained Xserver instead of a moribund one whose maintainers themselves label as “unmaintained” (pushing Wayland as the replacement)." Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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