Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 07:27:11PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 01.11.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: I don't expect it will do any good to copy the general certificates to the Mac. Are there any CA-certificates installed on the Mac which are available to mutt? If not, it could

Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:39:52PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 31.10.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: Does it make any difference if mutt is compiled with '--with-gnutls' enabled or with '--with-openssl' enabled. When compiled with --with-ssl, it uses openssl for TLS

Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 02:19:27PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 01.11.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: Is that so. I didn't know that. How are you supposed to get the certificate then. Check if the cert.pem symlink points to something like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root49 Nov 1 14

gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-10-31 Thread Alexander Volovics
Does it make any difference if mutt is compiled with '--with-gnutls' enabled or with '--with-openssl' enabled. Mutt (Fed20/21/Rawhide package) shows that '--with-gnutls' is used. I ask because I have no problem connecting to my ISP Ziggo with mutt when using Fedora. With the following in

Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-19 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Confirm used dconf-editor instead to set the overrides and now those entries appear within gedit. What did you change? I just went through all of dconf-editor listed items and did not recognize anything to change that would

optimus laptops and the 3.12 kernel

2013-11-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
Reading about the 3.12 kernels I noticed that there should now be 'dynamic' power management for laptops with an Optimus design (DIS Nvidia + IGD Intel). It is not quite clear what I should expect from the patches: drastic power down for the nautilus driver or complete switching off of the

Re: optimus laptops and the 3.12 kernel

2013-11-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:11:54PM +0100, poma wrote: On 26.11.2013 11:35, Alexander Volovics wrote: Reading about the 3.12 kernels I noticed that there should now be 'dynamic' power management for laptops with an Optimus design (DIS Nvidia + IGD Intel). It is not quite clear what I

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 03:47:03PM +0200, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering buying a laptop with Nvidia Optimus, and this looks really bad! Have you managed to fix this issue? Did you get Fedora 19 to install? Do Ubuntu and Linux Mint work better with Nvidia Optimus graphics? I

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 01:26:47PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 27.07.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering buying a laptop with Nvidia Optimus, and this looks really bad! Do yourself a favour and don't buy a laptop with optimus. I have one, and to spare you the

Re: Why once 'umlaut+black rectangle' and once '?+?'

2013-07-16 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:09:35AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Why does the unicode bug get expressed in 2 different ways on 2 different laptops: I've seen it both ways on the same machine. Once when it appears in the grub menu (? and ?) and once when it is printed in the boot messages

Re: Why once 'umlaut+black rectangle' and once '?+?'

2013-07-16 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:21:15AM +0930, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 July 2013, Alexander Volovics sent: Why does the unicode bug get expressed in 2 different ways on 2 different laptops: On a Dell Inspiron laptop as: Schr?dinger?s Cat (?+?) On a Lenovo Thinkpad

Why once 'umlaut+black rectangle' and once '?+?'

2013-07-15 Thread Alexander Volovics
I already asked this in the mail Schrödinger▊s Schr?dinger?s to which I got a completely irrelevant answer (with irrelevant follow ups). Why does the unicode bug get expressed in 2 different ways on 2 different laptops: On a Dell Inspiron laptop as: Schr?dinger?s Cat (?+?) On a Lenovo Thinkpad

Schrödinger▊s Schr?dinger?s

2013-07-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
What can explain this difference? Dell Inspiron laptop: Schr?dinger?s Cat Lenovo Thinkpad: Schrödinger▊s Cat Both the same default Fed19 installs with standard default startup and grub screens. Can for example hardware (Optimus(Intel Ivybridge + Nvidia) vs Intel Sandybridge) make the difference.

Re: gnome

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:51:52PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: How do I add an application launcher to the top panel (fedora 18/19)? For example from the application list. I think you can do it using an extension Frippery Panel Favorites. I don't know if it works or how well but you can try:

Re: Fwd: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:12:12PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Le 08/07/2013 10:02, jehan procaccia a écrit : I did had the possibility to partition manually ! I choosed my disk, uncheck it and check it again then it proposed me to partition manullay (personalisé ). that's for the manual

Re: Fwd: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: The default should always be to leave things as they are, as far as possible. Did you protest against the new anaconda, I can't remember. I didn't because I believe in flexibility and adaptation, certainly when the end result is

Re: Disability relief

2013-04-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:06:26AM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +, Beartooth wrote: I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big

Re: F18 defect in playing CDs.

2013-03-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:29:26PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Previously in earlier versions of Fedora under GNOME when you put in a CD it played the CD with whatever program you indicated should be used automatically. Now that I have installed F18 on a second machine I found the same

Re: giac

2013-03-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:33:19PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Because of the lack of compatibility between the distributions, I perfer to ask how should I install giac (http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/install_fr#xcasrpm) possibility the last version on my fedora 18. Do you

F18: bumblebee/bbswitch stopped working after latest update

2013-01-27 Thread Alexander Volovics
Anybody else noticed that bumblebee and bbswitch stopped working after the latest update to Fed18 (kernel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.6-1.fc18.x86_64, etc.) This on a laptop with optimus (intel/nvidia). Could the fact that /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch is now a

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:12:30PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization for anything else these days where the virt-overhead is nearly zero and in many cases virtual machines are faster than physical setups Which is OK on desktops with

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:16:52PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:48:04 +0100 Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. I am using Full Widescreen

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:37:14PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:34:39 +0100 Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: When I tried with Ubuntu in F16 I could only get 4:3 fullscreen not 16:9 fullscreen. Is there some special trick or has KVM 'advanced'? I

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:12:37PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. Are you implying

What is status of vgaswitcheroo in Fed17/Fed18?

2013-01-09 Thread Alexander Volovics
Is anybody using vgaswitcheroo with Optimus(Intel/Nvidia) in Fed17 (or Fed18) with the 'i915' and 'nouveau' drivers. Does it work? Does it work dependably? Is it a viable alternative to bbswitch? If you switch to 'integrated' does it stay switched after shutdown/reboot/hibernate/suspend or do you

Re: Laptop Intel wireless card as access point

2012-12-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:12:01PM +0530, Suvayu Ali wrote: I wanted to configure the wireless card on my ThinkPad as a wireless access point for my Android phone. But it seems the Intel iwlwifi drivers do not support master mode. Can someone confirm? In case I'm wrong, could you please

Re: Laptop Intel wireless card as access point (reply nr 2)

2012-12-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:12:01PM +0530, Suvayu Ali wrote: I wanted to configure the wireless card on my ThinkPad as a wireless access point for my Android phone. But it seems the Intel iwlwifi drivers do not support master mode. Can someone confirm? In case I'm wrong, could you please

What to do with warnings like these?

2012-12-18 Thread Alexander Volovics
$ dmesg |grep -i -e warning [7.211363] ACPI Warning: 0xefa0-0xefbf SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251) [7.212758] ACPI Warning: 0x0428-0x042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:03:45PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the project's

Re: dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:47:39AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Has anyone tried a dual boot of Win 8 and Fedora 17? Are there any special problems in doing this? I suppose it will depend on how Win 8 is installed. 1) Win 8 + UEFI + Secure boot: a) If you do not (or can not) disable secure

Re: dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
correction: except - accept Alexander -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away:

Re: dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:28:24PM +0200, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: On 3.12.2012 17:17, Alexander Volovics wrote: b) If you disable secure boot there is no problem except that 'os-prober' does not work and I do not know if Win 8 will except this without fiddling

Re: dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:08:42PM +, Ian Malone wrote: Don't think it's that off-topic, since a lot of us may have to deal with it eventually to get Fedora working. FWIW, on a BIOS / NON-UEFI system Win8 + F16 are working okay (Win8 installed after Fedora and then reinstalled grub2).

Re: setting filters in thunderbird.

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:50:33PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/03/2012 12:26 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Since I am locked out of Manage Filters I am not sure that the configuration above is correct. The Help Contents will take you to the Thunderbird Support site. It's possible there's an

Re: [F18] How do I set browse as the default open type in nautilus?

2012-11-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:08:12 -0600 Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: Looks like Gnome is doing the same thing that Microsoft did after XP. I can no longer set nautilus so that when I double click on a directory, it opens up with the filesystem tree in the left pane,

problem with bbswitch module on reboot

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
I am using the 'bbswitch' module to disable the nvidia card and save power on a laptop with optimus. I removed nouveau permanently by blacklisting and then running dracut. I compiled bbswitch with 'dkms' and then added the following: #!/bin/sh if [ ! -c /proc/acpi/bbswitch ] ; then

Re: problem with bbswitch module on reboot

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:41:22AM +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: However when I 'restart' (from the menu or 'shutdown -r now') this does not work: 'bbswitch' can't find the discrete VGA device! And consequently it is not loaded. Any BIOS

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-10 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: You could do something like the following: Create in ~/ the files .mime.types and .mailcap ~/.mime.types application/pdf pdf ~/.mailcap application/pdf; evince %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY application/pdf; pdftotext %s

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 08:48:09AM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: There are a lot of filters; maildrop, mailfilter.. Though procmail seems not to be maintained anymore, I'm using it, because I have experience in writing procmail recipes and have been using it all my life. You can feed your mail

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:37:37AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: How does one handle attachments? I saw the pipe command and tried to pipe a pdf file to Evince, but it didn't seem to work as I had expected. Do I need an old school viewer like gv for this to work? It's also possible I didn't

socket files in /tmp/at-spi2

2012-07-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
When starting up Fed17 a number of 'sockets' get created in /tmp/at-spi2. The same when starting apps. However these sockets are not removed when closing the apps or shutting down Fed17. So the number of these sockets keeps increasing. Is this normal behaviour or should I file a bug? Alexander

Re: An apology is required from me.

2012-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 06/20/2012 03:53 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Since I am responsible for initiating the attacks on Fedora for using Gnome 3, I feel I should clarify with some kind of apology. I did not say nor do I mean that F17 is a defective version of Linux. Just that it has a defective Default Desktop

uvcvideo driver and Z-Star Microelectronics device

2012-05-15 Thread Alexander Volovics
Anybody have experience with newer Z-Star Microelectronics devices and the uvcvideo driver? I have a Z-Star 0ac8:c449 in a Lenovo PC. It is recognized by the kernel (Fed17beta TC5) at boot: [9.453984] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated Camera (0ac8:c449) [9.456016] usbcore:

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:59:19AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: It's maintainer kindly built an update a mere two hours after I filed the bug. :-) It's in updates-testing now. You can install it by running: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update b43-fwcutter If you install it,

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:23:50AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Alexander Volovics The wireless.kernel.org site also advices using b43-fwcutter version 0.15 but this version does not seem to be available for fed 16. Can this be the problem

Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
I have a Broadcom wlan 4312 [14e4:4315] in my laptop. After the latest kernel update to kernel-3.2.1-13 I decided to install the necessary firmware heeding the following dmesg output: [ 82.515047] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file b43/ucode15.fw not found [ 82.515054] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 01/24/2012 06:22 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 24/01/12 17:05, Alexander Volovics wrote: I have a Broadcom wlan 4312 [14e4:4315] in my laptop. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 remove or unload the broadcom-wl driver prior to using b43 You device is supported by b43 http

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 01/24/2012 06:33 PM, Jim wrote: On 01/24/2012 12:05 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: I have a Broadcom wlan 4312 [14e4:4315] in my laptop. After the latest kernel update to kernel-3.2.1-13 I decided to install the necessary firmware heeding the following dmesg output: [ 82.515047] b43-phy0

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 01/24/2012 06:53 PM, Jim wrote: You want ito nstall kmod-wl and it will install all dependencies . Then you want to go into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and enter blacklist b43-fwcutter w/o quotes Why would I do that? I already have a driver b43 from the new kernel-3.2 loaded and this

Re: Fed 16 and fingerprint scanners

2012-01-09 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:45:24AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/08/2012 05:40 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: Should I chalk this up to my unprintable fingers or can it be improved through 'tweaking' of some sort. I'd suggest having two or three of your friends try it. If it works well

Re: DVD Question

2012-01-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 01:44:01PM +0100, Frank Elsner wrote: On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:10:07 -0700 Mike Dwiggins wrote: Anyone know the best application to erase a DVD-RW with an iso image on it. dvd+rw-format from package dvd+rw-tools? ^ +-- Maybe that is a restriction

Fed 16 and fingerprint scanners

2012-01-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
I have a Thinkpad t520 with a fingerprint scanner/sensor/whatever. I don't really need it but as it's built in why not use it. However the success rate is about 20-30% Should I chalk this up to my unprintable fingers or can it be improved through 'tweaking' of some sort. AV *Rivers flow, work

Re: CDrom popup alert

2012-01-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:32:45AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I put a music CDrom in, I get a popup at the bottom of the screen asking if I want to start rythembox of a browser, well I had k3b open to copy the CD, so I tried to esc from this dialog but nothing I did seem to make it

Re: Yum update/bug alert

2012-01-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:30:01AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Where is it with f16/G3? I once saw that poor excuse of a popup at the bottom of the screen saying something about updates available. But if that all there is, who watches there screen all the time Granted, the popup is

The software is not from a trusted source ???

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
When using 'software update' to get and install the last batch of 7 updates the following was displayed: The software is not from a trusted source. Do not update these packages unless you are sure it is save to do so Is this something new in packagekit or does it have anything to do with the

Re: The software is not from a trusted source ???

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:13:54PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.01.2012 14:09, schrieb Alexander Volovics: When using 'software update' to get and install the last batch of 7 updates the following was displayed: The software is not from a trusted source. Do not update

Re: The software is not from a trusted source ???

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:37:33PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On 03/01/12 13:09, Alexander Volovics wrote: The software is not from a trusted source. Do not update these packages unless you are sure it is save to do so Do you have 3rd party repos. Yes rpmfusion

Re: The software is not from a trusted source ???

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:49:45PM +, Alan Cox wrote: I was just rather surprised to see this message and would like to know if packagekit is getting more sophisticated or there was some slight problem with one of the packages (unsigned?) Or the copy on your mirror has been tampered

Re: anyone else seeing gnome-packagekit freeze?

2011-12-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:32:44AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: In the past few weeks, when you update have you had the tool freeze on you after it is finished? I've reported bug 761092 that I can reproduce reliably on three different computers but I haven't seen anyone else talk about

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:10:54AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for my

Re: Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

2011-12-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:49:09AM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:35 -0800 Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/06/2011 05:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Except that your 4GB of memory will work more efficiently. 32-bit versions can't address all of the 4GB without

Re: Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:40:54PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/05/2011 07:54 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: On 12/06/2011 05:36 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I recently ordered a Levono x120e ($397 from BH) to replace my aged HP nc2400. I got the unit with the AMD Fusion E-240 CPU

Re: Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:12:54PM +0900, nomnex wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:45:43 -0500 Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: I've got the same laptop and I run Fedora 15 on it just fine. The FN keys (brightness, vol, etc.) where working out of the box? Yes. As far as I could test them (I

How is screen size handled in kvm/qemu

2011-11-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
I decided to try out virtualization in Fed 16 + Gnome 3.2 on my laptop. To begin I chose a small distro 'Crunchbang-10 64bits, based on Debian Live with the Openbox WM. No problems with the install. But the result is not comfortable because the laptop screen is 1600x900 and the virt manager

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:47:29AM +, Andre Robatino wrote: . But you can work around it for the moment by adding a 'picture' to your account. Click on your name, click on the picture button next to your name and add one of the 'pictures'. If you do this the extension keeps working

Re: can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?

2011-11-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:25:54PM -0500, Claude Jones wrote: On 11/23/2011 10:14 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Go to Edit Account Settings, then in the lower left corner select Account Actions Add Other Account , and finally in the dialog that appears select Unix Mailspool (Movemail).

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:42:13PM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu extension, it works, but as soon as I log out, I can't log back in again without the Oh no screen until I disable the extension. Yes, a bug. But you can work around it for

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:01:44PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: Descriptions by people like him of what Gnome 3 was going to be are why I don't use Gnome any more. It's clearly gone down a path I don't want . Joe With a little work Gnome 3.2 can be adapted to a desktop that you should have

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 24-11-2011 17:48, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with /root (10 GB)

Re: Error in booting F16 DVD

2011-11-17 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 11/16/2011 11:08 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I boot the F16 DVD I first get the screen with the: Install or Upgrade the Fedora After I hit return after what seems like an extended wait {30 sec. or so] I get the following error: systemd{1] failed to fully start up daemon : no such

Re: Bios boot partition question

2011-11-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:44:11PM -0800, Bryce Hardy wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel full of acronyms

dconf-editor icon-manager

2011-11-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
If I understand it correctly after installing 'gnome-shell-extension-icon-manager' and 'dconf-editor' it is possible to add/remove icons from the top-bar (Fed 16 + Gnome 3.2). However I can find no documentation to explain how to do this except

Re: dconf-editor icon-manager [solved]

2011-11-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 11/13/2011 02:53 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: If I understand it correctly after installing 'gnome-shell-extension-icon-manager' and 'dconf-editor' it is possible to add/remove icons from the top-bar (Fed 16 + Gnome 3.2). However I can find no documentation to explain how to do

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:19:05PM +, Andre Robatino wrote: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support, including a 64-bit repo. Just go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ , select YUM for Linux (YUM), download and install adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, and install flash-plugin from

Re: How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-10-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 07:43:33PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. cat /proc/bus

How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Volovics
I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad - TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint After install of F15 the trackpoint works but not the touchpad. The scroll

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:12:15AM -0700, Craig White wrote: No problem with your English whatsoever. The only problem that I have is with the logic that the fate of GNOME represents the fate of Open Source or Linux - it doesn't. Just look at the feedback on the new Macintosh OS X Lion or

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: When Linus Torvalds says I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3 the problem has to be taken seriously. (It's not just Linus, but he's a leading developer who represents

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:50:36AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: On 09/28/2011 11:47 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: When Linus Torvalds says I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-25 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:26:49AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: Its one thing to add tablet/phone (metro) mode - its another to make laptops (or desktops) much more difficult to use. You should stop and think about how 'ego-centric' your remarks are. We on this mailing list hardly

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-19 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:24:02PM +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 18:06 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: Ad point 1: who cares about mice, use the keyboard. There are various things that one does with a computer that are just about all graphical (e.g. working with photos

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-18 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:11:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: How about the way that you can only trigger a specific and needed action To me there are several - the weird 'mouse corner' behaviour - which is useless for any corner you choose on a big display, great for touchscreen, total

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-18 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:41:38AM -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: Polls only go so far. Users often don't know what they want, or think they want X and really want Y (or would have their actual needs better met by Y). It's the user experience designer's job to sift through that and give them

rpm's related to Dell

2011-09-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
I see that there are some rpm's that contain the name Dell in the title, like: - firmware-addon-dell - yum-dellsysid The description does not contain enough information to judge what these packages do. Are these packages supplied bij Dell themselves for use with Dell servers sold with Red Hat

Who supplies the information to configure Dell keyboards?

2011-09-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
I ask because using Fed15/Gnome3 not all keys on the following laptops (Dell Inspiron 1764 and Dell Vostr 3750) work. For example the key to switch on/off the touchpad. It does not work and also does not provide any 'notification'. However using Ubuntu 11.04 all keys do work on the Inspiron 1764.

Re: Who supplies the information to configure Dell keyboards?

2011-09-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:37:09PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/05/2011 03:57 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: I ask because using Fed15/Gnome3 not all keys on the following laptops (Dell Inspiron 1764 and Dell Vostr 3750) work. For example the key to switch on/off the touchpad. It does

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:32:07AM +, Amadeus W.M. wrote: Why did the UI have to change to something that looks and feels like a giant smart phone? Integrated chat and messaging? Where did that come from? Maybe because in the not too distant future all PCs will become giant (or dwarf)

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-05 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:51:09PM -0700, John Wendel wrote: Thanks for the reply. When I run the Nouveau driver, I get the Gnome fallback version. And I see a console message that says that there is no 3D hardware acceleration. I've got the same software versions. You mentioned that you

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote: Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse clicks don't work (but

systemctl shows 'errors'

2011-07-12 Thread Alexander Volovics
Investigating systemctl I came across the following: systemctl list-units --type=service --all |grep error dbus-org.bluez.serviceerror inactive dead dbus-org.bluez.service livesys-late.service error inactive dead livesys-late.service openct.serviceerror inactive dead

Re: systemctl shows 'errors'

2011-07-12 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:43:36AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Alexander Volovics wrote: Investigating systemctl I came across the following: systemctl list-units --type=service --all |grep error dbus-org.bluez.serviceerror inactive dead dbus-org.bluez.service livesys

Re: F15 Gnome 3 + Nvidia Driver = No Keyboard or Mouse buttons

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:05:54AM -0700, John Wendel wrote: I'd really like to run Gnome 3 on an older computer (P4) that has nvidia (7300 GS) graphics. I installed and tried it using the nouveau driver and found it was unusable, with terribly slow graphics. So I installed the Nvidia

Re: installing F-15 on Mac

2011-07-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 07:55:00AM -0400, Gary Waters wrote: I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more

Alps Electric touchpad and Fedora 15

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
I am looking at 2 laptops with an Alps touchpad and Fedora 15 + Gnome 3: 1) Dell Inspiron 1764 with Intel Core i5-430M 2) Dell Vostro 3750 with Intel Core i5-2410M (Sandy Bridge) 1) is almost 2 years older than 2) so I suspect the same goes for the Alps Electric touchpad. On both laptops the

Re: Alps Electric touchpad and Fedora 15

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:02:43AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:32 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: I am looking at 2 laptops with an Alps touchpad and Fedora 15 + Gnome 3: 1) Dell Inspiron 1764 with Intel Core i5-430M 2) Dell Vostro 3750 with Intel Core i5

Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

2011-06-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
This might become one of those never ending discussions, if somebody does not end the thread, but I feel like having 'my' last word, so here goes: I think it is almost impossible to design a desktop that the vast majority of users is comfortable with, certainly if you cannot arrange for large

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:55:29AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Ed Greshko Rahul Sundaram Hardly necessary as nouveau 3D is still a work in progress. The work in progress is guided by feedback from users. I would consider it necessary As a result of the community spirit your combined

retrace server always busy

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
Every time I try to use the retrace server to submit a bug report I get the message server busy, try again later. Do others have the same experience. Alexander -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:57:24PM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote: On 06/20/2011 09:44 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: There is a paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3 which I have not seen discussed on this list. I too noted the mouse deprecation in Gnome 3. Besides alienating a large group

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:04:04PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: (nouveau/radeon). And that the interaction of Gnome 3 with the proprietary drivers hasn't been checked (so that you can still run Gnome 3 if nouveau/radeon does

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