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.
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.
I see that Sonic offered Usenet service until 2016
https://sonicstatus.com/2016/09/09/usenet-service-ended/
I haven't connected to a Usenet server for I believe around ten years!
Brian
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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
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.
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
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
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
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
