Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/04/2013 07:48 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Pretty standard legal bulls**t for a closed source application. Why, did > you expect it to be open sourced? > Valve's own wiki points to this location, so for now it's the "official" > way of getting it to run on Fedora. No, of course I didn't exp

Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/04/2013 07:04 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Correct, instead use http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam One should be aware of the license[1], including: "B. You may not, in whole or in part: copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer (with the exception of specific circums

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 08:49 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora > kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for > on my /boot partition :( > great. Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide?

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
On 01/03/2013 07:11 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own > kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and > reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel > (sandybridge atleas

Re: Steam on Fedora

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Smart
On 12/22/2012 12:14 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Update: looks like Spot's repo is now gone From memory, Steam is not re-distributable.. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users G

Chinese written character input support?

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Smart
Installed Fedora 17 on a laptop and trying to get Chinese input working for a user who doesn't know pinyin (therefore he needs to write the characters using mouse/tablet). I've tried WritRecogn and while it recognises characters, doesn't input them anywhere (like into Firefox). I've installed cel

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Try > > http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-intel/2.15.0/3.fc15/x86_64/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.15.0-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm > That package works well - no black screen. I tried to replicate your issues, but it was as solid as a rock

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Looks familiar.  It seems to only affect the Oxygen widget style and > window decorations, however.  Since I prefer Cleanlooks and Plastik > respectively, I had forgotten about it. Thanks. I changed the widget style and the problem goes away.

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > At this point, I'm reasonably happy.  I'm able to run KWin compositing > and OpenGL screensavers, which is all I really want to do. > Hey Ian, The laptop arrived and I put F15 on it which works well, including 3D. The only issue I have is s

Re: Amazing Linux victory!

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I just hooked up a Dell Zino HD via hdmi to a vizio HD TV > and no power on earth seemed to be able to get the desktop > to display at full width and height 1920x1080 resolution > with the ATI video that comes with it in Windows 7. How is the

Re: yum problems

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Users, > I'm just puzzled from an error I get from yum: > What if you clean out yum first? yum clean all -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > I'm running F15 on a Core i7 2600 system.  I believe that it has "HD > 2000" graphics, but I'm not sure what the actual difference is. Thanks Ian. AFAIK that's the same chip, just with slower clock than the 3000. > > At this point, I'm reaso

Intel HD 3000?

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone have any experience with Intel HD 3000 support in F14 or F15? -c -- 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

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:15 AM, JD wrote: > > I have disabled selinux. So I have no idea what/who > is changing it back. This is the reason why I am asking > this list. The virtualbox list does not seem to have > an answer. You probably need to create a udev rule to match your device and change t

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:29 AM, james tate wrote: > what language pack, there is no english pack in the fedora repo. I don't know about how Fedora packages it - like I said, it's a wild stab in the dark :-) From: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ "Important Download Information: The lang

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:00 AM, james tate wrote: > > And I got this output, what gives ? > Wild stab, but you might need a language pack? Also, I think tesseract only works with TIFFs of certain bit level and of certain compression. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Oracle Gives OpenOffice back

2011-04-17 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, we don't need two Or, perhaps it's now clear to Oracle that the need for OOo is over. We've heard these promises from Oracle before, frankly I think the Document Foundation is in a mu

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: [snip] > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > Dunno if this helps, but: https://kororaa.org/why-fedora/ -c -- u

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > FWIW, and for the archives, the nvidia kmod driver doesn't show the 'acorn > thingy' on boot, but a set of text-mode bars at the bottom of the screen, at > least on my F14 boxk, a Dell Precision M65 with an nVidia Quadro FX 350M.   > The OP sa

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM, DB wrote: > > The nearest I can do to a "normal boot" is to start in init 3 to the cli, > which gives in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > Everything is normal down to the last 3 or 4 lines > 481.125] (EE) No devices detected >         Fatal service error >         No scre

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB wrote: > Hi all, > > Yet again a problem! Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: Brasero has lost its mind!

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Brasero has been buggy for me (and apparently others, I've found) for > a while. Shouldn't the default burning app for Gnome get a little more > attention? It's never worked properly for me, on any machine I've tried, since it became the defau

Re: Need help with rpmbuild

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > Specifically the install section. I'm not understanding how the > %install section works with the %files section. > I hope this is not considered OT. AFAIK, the %install section is what you're actually copying as the contents of your pack

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:39 PM, JD wrote: > Is it possible to combine 2 and 3 into a single invocation? > Most likely, but I was breaking out the steps for clarification of what's actually happening. > Also, perhaps the 4th step wold be better as: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -dvd-video -speed=2 -

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex wrote: > > Yes, to answer another post from this thread, I am indeed trying to > create a standard DVD movie from an AVI for an older regular DVD > player that doesn't directly play AVIs. > Here's how you can create a basic DVD (no editing and no DVD menu) fr

Re: Brasero to create video DVD?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Lots of questions today. I'm trying to use brasero on fc14 x86_64 to > create a DVD video from an AVI that I downloaded, and was just > wondering what people's opinion was of this program? > sudo yum erase brasero sudo yum install k3b Proble

Re: AES-NI useful?

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Yes, the latest kernel supports it. Fedora 13 & 14 support it. It should > reduce the overhead of LUKS drive encryption to near nil from my > understanding. Great, that's what I was hoping! -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

AES-NI useful?

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone know how useful AES-NI are in new Intel CPUs for encrypting one's hard drive? Is it well supported in the kernel, and does the hardware implementation make a lot of difference (I'm guessing so, as that's the point, but can't find any specific references..) -c -- users mailing list users@li

Re: help setting umask corrently

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > > so I ended up with umask 003 Just to make sure you want it, this means everyone can read everyone else's data. It's equal to 774. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: help setting umask corrently

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > Hi. > > I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc > > umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r > A umask is back-to-front, so don't you want something like this in /etc/skel/bash.profile umask 077 That means, the user has full rwx, everyo

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > True, and this applies mostly to Western languages, with maybe Viet as > an exception. > > The 'real' fun starts when you have a file in German with the double s > character or an umlatted a, o or u and a file with the same but not > contai

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > > Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was Really? I thought it was Yellow Dog Linux for Power architecture (which Macs were at the time). > built on a case sensitive file system.  Thus, to this day, it remains

Re: Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

2011-03-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Beartooth wrote: > >        My attempts to try this out (after having asked for it!) have > been attended by great difficulty and annoyance, as Mark Twain said of > learning German. > >        But I have tried it, on an EeePC 701, and liked it. I don't use a > word

Re: Fedora/3.6.14-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.14 youTube colors are mostly red/yellow, how to reset?

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > The last two updates seems to have messed > up the color palette for FF YouTube videos. > All I see are mostly red/yellow colors. Hardware acceleration on Flash? Right click, disable. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: KDE Themes

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > I downloaded a theme for KDE (kde-look.org I think) and it's a tar'd > file.  I also extracted it.  How do I add it to KDE?  DO I point > something at the unextracted source file, or do I point something at the > 2 extracted files? > First o

Re: KDE Appearance/icons

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > I know one thing, I remember couple years ago seeing a KDE theme/widget > or something, that was part of the desktop that had all kinds of cook > stuff with it, and can't remember what it was. Not sure, but there are other places in System

Re: KDE Appearance/icons

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > In F14, when using gnome, I could go to where themes are selected > (personal/appearance?) and change icons that theme used. > > How do you do this in KDE in F14? > If I understand correctly, start up "System Settings" and then open "Applicat

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In addition to all the suggestions you already got, I'd add > a non-software one: replace the HDD with a SSD. It has > an amazing impact on the daemon starting phase. True, thanks. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:21 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > > I don't know about btime but I have used bootchart before. It > generates amazingly detailed charts for the entire boot process. All > you need to do is put init=/sbin/bootchartd in the kernel line and > once you have booted run 'bootchart ' to

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, g wrote: > > run "lsmod" to see all the modules loaded, many of which you do not need > because fedora, like most all linux distribs is written to be 'universal'. > that is 'one shoe fits all'. > > in so doing, there are many modules loaded that you do not need. >

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > What are you doing which is taking time? You can put a tool like btime in > rc.local to show what the system did during boot, in terms of cpu use and > iowait. Are you mounting filesystems which could be mounted after the login > prompt is up

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, wrote: > When  you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it > yourself? Can customise it yourself, or let it automatically do it. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, Has anyone got any tips for decreasing boot time? I've done the usual things, such as disable (what I think are) unnecessary services for a desktop, but are there any other tips? These are the services I'm disabling, please tell me if you think any of those are a stupid choice: capi, iscs

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV

2011-02-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Like I said, FWIW. > Sure, just making it clearer for him, in case. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV

2011-02-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> What does the xrandr command show when you have it plugged in? > > I have a (possibly) similar Sony Bravia. I'm running > 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10 on an ASUS P5N7A-VM with an nVidia MCP79 > (probably significant) HDMI video worked first time

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, barry yu wrote: > I have an HP Pavilion dv3 AMD Tution x2 dual core, pre loaded Vista H > Premium 64bit, the HDMI function works soon as the Vista starts booting > into desktop, both sound and video works fine with Sony 40" LCD 16x9 TV > through HDMI, I installed F

Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sebastian wrote: > Any hints to get wirless working? Is there a firmware update for your machine/wireless card? Seems to suggest that the EEPROM is too old..? http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2009-05/msg00293.html -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: Video editor

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Is there a video editor which can easily snip bits from several files and > write > them to another? We have video of a kids football game taken with multiple > cameras, and would like to quickly combine the pictures in chronological > seque

Re: USB 3.0 support, and results.

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > The first thing, of course, was to re-enable USB 3.0 (xHCI) functionality; > found that on the F14 bugs page ( > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#USB_3.0_ports_not_working ). > > Once that was done, the WD drive came up fine, and

rpmbuild download source?

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, Is there a way to get rpmbuild to download the source from the Source: URL in a spec file, rather than needing it in the SOURCES dir? Thanks, -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: username, password and proxy setting for yum and in general

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Alain Roger wrote: > Hi, > > at work i installed Fedora 14 and i needed to export http_proxy variable > because we use a proxy. What kind of proxy is it? Windows NTLM? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
If anyone's interested, Beta2 has been released (https://kororaa.org/download). This release includes several fixes, updates, as well as the following major changes: * GNOME version – that’s right, now Kororaa comes with GNOME too! * GNOME Shell – experience the future of the GNOME deskto

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > /etc/default/useradd contains the values used to fill out the "useradd" > command if you don't put in the options, but it doesn't supply anything > for the "-G|--groups" option of useradd.  You still need to add that > option to the command.

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, g wrote: > > then how about this; > > add an 'alias' to you '.bashrc', like 'usernew'  that will call a script > that takes name entry as argument and passes it to > I did something similar in the end, but I was looking for a "proper" way to set a configuration op

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > File a RFE.  I think it is actively maintained. > OK. I had thought that GNOME was moving away from this sort of thing (i.e. gksu) to PolicyKit. I think beesu/gksu is still useful, though! -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, g wrote: hey g > > consider /etc/default/useradd; > >  # useradd defaults file >  GROUP=100,20,63,1010,2020 Thanks, but I actually tried this and it didn't work because it treats them as a single group, "100,20,63.." and doesn't separate them :-( -c -- users mai

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > or see http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/ > for a tutorial Yep, that's the post I saw, thanks :-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > beesu should help Yep, thanks Rahul. I've added this and it works fine - would be good if it respected sudoers though, instead of always prompting for root's password :-) I saw another post about doing it the "proper" way with console-hel

Re: sudo in .desktop file when launching graphical app

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/ Ahhh, so _that's_ how it works.. thanks! -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Hiisi wrote: > What's the name of the program? One can usually find the actual command > executed by desktop icon examining it's properties. IMHO, there's not > yet a thing that can't be done in text mode. And hopefully will never > be. It's a bash script that uses

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Jatin K wrote: > su -c '/path/to/script'     > I didn't mention that the script is a graphical program which is launched by a .desktop file, so I never see the prompt to put in the password if I use su or sudo. Thanks for the link to gksu, that's what I used t

GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone know the GNOME version of kdesu? I thought it used to be gtksu or something, but I can't find it. I have a script which I want to run as root, so in KDE I have kdesu '/path/to/script' - how can I do this in GNOME? Thanks, -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > It uses either one. I also have xpdf installed, as well. No dice. Does it > work for you? > Yep, it works for me.. i.e. http://xena.sourceforge.net/media/DigitalPresevervationBrochure.pdf Comes up inside Firefox using xpdf. -c -- user

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > man adduser > > has some clues on adding a user to a default group with -g and > multiple groups with -G. There's further discussions in the man page > on these behaviors. Hope that helps. > Thanks Ted, I'm well aware of these but I'm specificall

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > How about a shell script that envokes adduser and then one or more chgrp > commands. Yeah, I did something like that in the end. I just was looking for the least disruptive and most in-line way to do it. Debian has a config file for specifyin

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure if I > have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links with PDF > files downloads them as any other file, instead of being opened with evince > inside a Fi

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Or is there not such config and in the scripts (such as firstboot) it > passes the group options to adduser command? Maybe I'll just alias it.. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > When you use the user add gui it puts that user into a group with his > username as the group name. Then you can use chgrp to put that user into > any group you want to. Sure, but I'm after a way to specify what groups a user should be added

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? > Or is there not such config and in the scripts (such as firstboot) it passes the group options to adduser command? -c -- users mailing list

Default user groups

2011-02-05 Thread Chris Smart
Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? Say I want to create a new user and have them automatically added to a few more groups, how can one do that? Thanks! -c --   _  °v° /(_)\  ^ ^  Chris Smart -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim wrote: > Why wouldn't they put that libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus in with the rest > of the RPM's and install all at once ? > Could be because they conflict with each other (and aren't required)? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > Or you can go into that directory and just install > libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-6.noarch.rpm (without the dir, > obviously). So that would be 2 commands: cd desktop-integration yum localinstall --nogpgcheck libreoffice3.3

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Jim wrote: > I forgot to install redhat-menus, I did so but I got the following error > when I ran  yum localinstall --nogpgcheck; Did you run it and pass the location of the redhat menus rpm? If you're in the extracted directory, then it should be in a sub direct

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Don't forget your menus: > sudo yum localinstall --nogpgckeck \ > desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus-3.3-6.noarch.rpm > Gah, with "check" spelt right: sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck \ desktop

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, L wrote: > I tried this > >    wget > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.3.0/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz > >    tar zxvf LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz > >    cd LibO_3.3.0rc4_Linux_x86_ins

Re: USB Serial Port

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > > Anyone know a simple way or the correct place to look for info about > this on the Web? When you plug it in, dmesg should tell you. It's probably something like /dev/ttyUSB0 -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Help test "extras" installer

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Smart
In case anyone's interested, please help me test the new Kororaa bash "extras" installer script for Fedora. Essentially, I’ve merged the original Flash and NVIDIA driver installers into a new bash script, which also handles AMD’s fglrx driver. It supports KDE, GNOME as well as console, and if you d

Re: HELP!!! I Borked Java...

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I tried following the guides to install SunOracle Java 1.6 Update 23 on > my F14 x64 system. It got completely messed up. This might help get Sun Java working, if you want to: http://oliver.net.au/?p=92 -c -- users mailing list

Re: PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > I've commented on the bug that you opened here: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33009 > Yep, thanks Richard. I've replied :-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > > You can trying putting the proxy in yum.conf > > man yum.conf > /proxy So you mean to override the proxy setting in yum.conf to nothing? That way PackageKit will use that one instead of the system proxy? I'll try that tomorrow.. -c -- users

PackageKit and no_proxy

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Smart
Greetings. We have some machines which need a proxy to access the Internet, but we use a local mirror for Fedora packages (which doesn't go through the proxy). The proxy settings are configured in the GNOME proxy tool, which sets environment variables such as http_proxy and https_proxy, etc. The n

Re: kde4 vs gnome ... stick with gnome for now

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Add it to the menu first. Right-click the kde menu icon, select menu editor, > do > an "add item" in a convenient position, save, close. Then go to the menu, > right-click your app, and select "add to panel". Make sure to unlock the > w

Re: Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Looks like a post to the Fedora Forums: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-27348.html Sorry, ignore that :-) Google can't help me, but it's about http://fedorafaq.com -c -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > What are you replying to? The message you quote is not in the archives. > Looks like a post to the Fedora Forums: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-27348.html -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Kororaa Lite beta released

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Beartooth wrote: > >        The old KDE merely rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. This > one, alas!, to me is not just Stefan George's barbed wire against the > uninitiated ("Stacheldraht wider Unberufene"), but great bodacious > hulking coils of razor wire. >

Re: Easy PPTP Setup?

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > >  How do I do that? > >  On the other machine that I don't have access right now (which > happens to be a laptop), there is a NetworkManager icon in the upper > right corner, on the menu bar. Plus, there is a menu item to start or > setu

Re: Easy PPTP Setup?

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > >  What tools can you recommend? Thanks! Perhaps try: su -c 'yum install NetworkManager-pptp' Then add it using NetworkManager? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Kororaa Lite beta released

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Beartooth wrote: > >        I keep getting some puny 1 1/2 K "html document" *instead of > the .iso I tell a browser (so far, Midori, Dillo, Opera) to get. > >         > Oh, really? What link are you downloading from? I just tried grabbing it from the download link

Kororaa Lite beta released

2010-12-31 Thread Chris Smart
Hi everyone, Happy New Year :-) I've just released a minimalistic version of Kororaa (KDE based Fedora Remix), which is designed to provide a basic KDE system with Internet connectivity. The idea is that users can take this and then install what they want on top - or not (if they just need a brow

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Beartooth wrote: >        Sorry! I didn't mean to diss KDE -- I don't require anyone else > to agree with me -- but only to say we have a dozen years' worth of head > start on Gnome that we'd lose going to KDE. > No worries ;-) -c -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > We could probably combine efforts or to the extend possible merge > kickstart changes. Hi Rahul, Sounds good, we'll stay in touch. There are some other things I still want to add to this, so we'll see how we go. Still looking for feedbac

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after > switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've > re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks > Rahul). I

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Beartooth wrote: >        There was a post in praise of it recently, I think on Novalug, as > a vehicle for current highest-tech eye candy, or so I understood it. Originally I based Kororaa off Gentoo, but the last release was in 2006. At the time, I created pre-b

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-25 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after > switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've > re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks > Rahul). I

Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Smart
Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks Rahul). I've just released an installable beta version of the x86_64 Live DVD (1.5GB) via

Re: command wvdial not found

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Adil Adil wrote: >[snip] > I checked on internet, I found there is a way to do that using "wvdial". But > I cannot find it. Does this command have another name in fedora? This should provide your answer: sudo yum provides */bin/wvdial -- users mailing list users@

Re: Is an update to ClamAV on the way?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > So there is an update on the way--that's what I wanted to know.  I > didn't see it on the website.  I assume we've already picked up the > database updates via freshclam (hence the warning). The ClamAV website says 0.96.5 is the latest (ht

Re: Is an update to ClamAV on the way?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > I just started seeing this warning: > Freshclam will still be getting the same definitions, so don't worry (as the message says). As Frank mentioned, there's a new version of ClamAV (the engine), which will be packaged in time. So you're st

Re: F14 Anaconda language options

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Hi all, > > In previous versions of Fedora I was able to pass the lang and keymap > options at boot to by-pass the need to select them later in Anaconda. > This is important because Australian English is not in the list for me

F14 Anaconda language options

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Smart
Hi all, In previous versions of Fedora I was able to pass the lang and keymap options at boot to by-pass the need to select them later in Anaconda. This is important because Australian English is not in the list for me to select, so it gets overridden to US English. Also, previously, I has to pass

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