You may need to select xfce during login (the gear in the lower right corner of the screen where you enter the password)
All done…!!! Wonderful, I did select XFCE on the boot screen, bottom left…
Thank you all so much for the hand-holding, took all the trepidation out of hurling myself into Fedora, really pleased with it… There is currently an issue with the latest debian kernel not liking nvidia drivers, which is what has finally motivated me to do this.
Going to spend the rest of the evening exploring Fedora but I have to say, chuffed to bits so far…
Thank you again…!
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Wasnt all butterflies and rainbows this evening, although xfce installed fine and I logged into the xfce desktop, KDE kept intruding in several ways. eg kept getting the KDE wallet hassling me for a password so in the end I search this forum and found a way to uninstall KDE;
which seemed to have worked, especially after removing the KDE files and folders from ./config and ./local. Several reboots later and all seems ok…
But I am getting an error when I fire up Ardour;
WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory. This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out of memory.
Typing ulimit -l into a terminal gives;
hpboy@fedora:~$ ulimit -l
8192
I have 64Gb of DDR4. Checking online I have found various reactions to this error, but they usually start with creating an audio group and adding a few lines to various .conf files. Have not done that yet as this is Fedora Jam and I had assumed that audio groups would have already been created as an integral part of the OS.
Typed ‘groups’ into a terminal and got;
hpboy@fedora:~$ groups
hpboy wheel
which does not look promising…?
This is the guide I was going to follow from the Ardour forum;
First open a terminal window and then you open config files in the nano editor and edit them.
Add the following lines to limits.conf: sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock 10000000
Add the user that is going to be running Ardour to the group: audio
sudo usermod -a -G audio mika
Add the following lines to 99-sysctl.conf: sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness = 10
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
Reboot
Could one of you wizards have a peek at this before I do it please? I am a bit hesitant at treating this OS the same as the debian one I used before (AV MX Linux)…
Those config settings look safe to use Steve, you can try them out and if you run into any issues you can just remove them again.
Thanks Oliver… so create the ‘audio’ group too? Am assuming I replace ‘mika’ with my user hpboy…
sudo usermod -a -G audio mika
I’m not really familiar with Ardour myself and how it uses the audio group. You could try it first without the group? If it keeps complaining you could create the group and add your own user to it yes.
Coool… will give it a go…
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The audio group exists by default so adding your user there is quite safe.
that’s what “--hidden” is for:
dnf group list --hidden
The groups that didn’t show are “hidden” groups, see in “man dnf-group”
EXAMPLES
dnf5 group list --hidden
Show list of all groups, including hidden ones.
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Ouch that’s poor software design, thanks for the tip that’s good to know!
See all the flags in man dnf5-group
OPTIONS FOR LIST AND INFO
--available
Show only available groups. Those which are not installed, but known to DNF5.
--installed
Show only installed groups.
--hidden
Show also hidden groups.
--contains-pkgs
Show only groups containing packages with specified names. List option, supports globs.
I don’t understand the point of ‘hidden’ groups as a class. The only possible reason I think think of is decluttering the dnf group output but what’s weird is that it’s even possible to have a hidden group that’s installed (!). I would have thought a ‘hidden’ group would be an available one that’s of low importance and not installed. At the moment I install a group, I think it should not be hidden from me.
Yes it’s weird… packages and groups shouldn’t be hidden in the first place, why would they? Just like rpm -qa lists all the packages, dnf group list should list all the groups. Then there could be extra filter options to narrow down the results if needed.
The selections for hidden groups are also weird, since e.g. kde-desktop and cosmic-desktop are visible, but xfce-desktop and gnome-desktop are hidden. Why?
Lastly the name of the parameter is weird, since --hidden could suggest it only shows hidden groups but not also hidden group. Something like --include=hidden would then be more sensible (but still weird).
Not a fan of this implementation choice.