Questions tagged [fedora-20]
Fedora is a Linux distribution. Version 20 Heisenbug coincides with the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Fedora Project.
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Adding X.509 certificate to UEFI secure boot database?
I have recently installed Fedora 20 on a custom desktop PC with a ASUS Z87-K motherboard. Given some commonly known bugs, I have installed the NVIDIA proprietary driver for my GeForce 630, and ...
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Why some commands don't take input redirection?
For example, echo:
[aesteban@localhost ~]$ cat tmp.txt
Angel
[aesteban@localhost ~]$ echo < tmp.txt
[aesteban@localhost ~]$
As you can see, the output is just a blank line. According to my ...
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Firefox thinks I'm using and older Flash version
I'm running Firefox 35.0 on Fedora 20. It has the current latest Adobe Flash version (11.2.202.440).
Firefox is blocking Flash and displaying an alert bar, claiming it is outdated:
In English: ...
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How to hide all windows except the one that I'm using?
I have set a shortcut to hide all the windows with Ctrl + Alt + D.
But now I would like to set one that hides all except the currently active window. Is that possible?
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Setting and keeping resolution settings for a display that's not autodetected on KDE/Fedora 20
I have a non standard 1280x800 screen which isn't detected correctly by my linux system
The screen is a 1280x800 native, 10.1 inch tablet display with an external controller board. I've got it ...
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Using root in fedora 20?
I want to be able to run commands as root... How do i do this?
sudo yum install @kde-desktop
cromwell is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I found a post saying to edit /etc/...
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Removed lines in .bash_history are still listed in history command. How to load the changes?
I removed command lines in my .bash_history. The problem is that when I execute the history command the deleted commands are still listed.
How do I load the changes ?
I tried source .bashrc and ...
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Plasma 5 on Fedora giving "Could not start d-bus. Can you call qdbus?"
I cannot start Plasma 5 in Fedora 20. I have installed using the following method:
yum install kf5-\*
dnf copr enable dvratil/plasma-5
yum install plasma-5
Everything went fine and plasmashell will ...
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How to disable the darkening of unfocused windows in Fedora 20? (Gnome3)
When I'm using a window, the other ones become darker.
The problem is I find it annoying because sometimes I need to keep open a manual in Gedit while I type commands in the terminal. The darkening ...
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No boot menu for Ubuntu 14.04 after dual boot installation
I assume, this is not a duplicate post. Please read my findings below before assuming so.
I have gone through several questions over the Internet regarding people complaining that they are not ...
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Sending too much data over IPv6
I have installed fedora 20 in my laptop, and got a problem that the data traffic, especially the sending part, increased heavily (>10MiB/s), while connecting networks with IPv6.
I have tried to use ...
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Virtualbox - Access guest Fedora apache server from host windows 8
Arrgh please help with this
HOST: Windows 8.1 x64
GUEST: Fedora APache server
Problem: I cannot access the guest webserver through the browser on my host (using http://192.168.2.12), I just get ...
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How To Synchronize Directories in two different external hard disks?
I have few big folders "cosmo_sim_9", "cosmo_sim_10".... in one of my external hard disk, and a old copy of this on another external hard disk. I want to Synchronize old directories with the new one(...
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Linux's poweroff resets the machine instead of powering it off
I'm using Fedora 20 with Gnome3, and sometimes when I click on Power Off, the machine resets instead of powering off. Actually I don't know if it's being reset or if it's being powered off and then it ...
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Fedora 20 is busted and hangs on boot
Final update : I did sudo yum update as per @Andre's suggestion, which on my crummy internet speed took a while but fixed everything. If yum reports it needs to download X MB it usually ends up ...
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