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[SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? A quick fix seems to be to take Firefox to proper fullscreen and back to normal window mode using F11 F11. But after a while Firefox reverts to semi-fullscreen mode. Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
Sonia == Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sonia I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've Sonia noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of Sonia automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Sonia Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed Sonia over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? I think this may be devilspie. I removed it, because it made everything start in fullscreen mode, and go spontaneously into fullscreen mode whenever selected. You can try removing it, if you don;t need its features; or trying to configure it if you do. Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
Peter Chubb wrote: Sonia == Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sonia I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've Sonia noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of Sonia automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Sonia Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed Sonia over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? I think this may be devilspie. I removed it, because it made everything start in fullscreen mode, and go spontaneously into fullscreen mode whenever selected. You can try removing it, if you don;t need its features; or trying to configure it if you do. Thanks Peter, but devilspie isn't installed... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search domain on reboot. I'm using a static address. If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf is re-created without the search domain. Where should the search domain be stored? I thought it was in /etc/network/interfaces but apparently not according to man interfaces. Previously there was a line: dns-search kenpro.com.au I was expecting something like .gconf/system/networking but that doesn't exist and I can't find anything similar. Any help appreciated. I've found the question on google, but not the answer :( System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) which doesn't surprise me because there is no authentication option in the GUI??? I upgraded my laptop to 8.10 and ended up with a different looking configuration GUI tool, but I can't figure out why they are different. The laptop version works. As usual, in their infinite wisdom (sic) to dum things down they have stuffed it up. (and there are bug reports to wit) I removed the /etc/dbus-1/event.d/ *network-manager* (from memory S25.. and S26) next edit /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf == auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.5.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.5.1 bridge_ports eth0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual === I'm stuffing around with bridges to have VBox servers, but the real-working file says it all James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf
quote who=david Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search domain on reboot. I'm using a static address. If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf is re-created without the search domain. Where should the search domain be stored? I thought it was in /etc/network/interfaces but apparently not according to man interfaces. Previously there was a line: dns-search kenpro.com.au I was expecting something like .gconf/system/networking but that doesn't exist and I can't find anything similar. Never edit the GConf database directly [1], use the tools. In this case, you want the Network Manager connections editor which you can find by context clicking on the Network Manager panel icon (then Edit Connections...) or System Preferences Network Configuration. Choose the wired or wireless connection you want to set a search domain for, and click Edit. To set the search domain you want the IPv4 Settings tab, static addresses, etc. Sure, some people don't like Network Manager because it pulls you out of the comfy configuration files you might be used to, but it does a whole lot of stuff for you if you don't want to bother with them anymore (or never found them easy or comfy in the first place -- ie. my Mum). Also, if you set stuff up in /etc/network/interfaces, Network Manager will ignore it... at which point the resolvconf package will be a handy way to manage your resolv.conf settings via /etc/network/interfaces. :-) - Jeff [1] Not because it's impossible to do so, but because it's almost never the easiest way to achieve your goals. -- linux.conf.au 2009: Hobart, Tasmania http://marchsouth.org/ I tried to make money ass signing, but the bottom fell out of the market. - Liam Quin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? A quick fix seems to be to take Firefox to proper fullscreen and back to normal window mode using F11 F11. But after a while Firefox reverts to semi-fullscreen mode. url:about:config http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries I didit, but stuffed up other stuff, so no howto. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf
Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go back to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! We are being dumbed down. I'm quite happy to have simple tools for my Mum, but surely in a perfect world the simple tools would advise us what's going on under the hood. At the moment it seems to be as secret as Windows. At the moment, my work around is to edit resolv.conf every time I reboot. Luckily that isn't often, but I'm sure it wouldn't be the ideal solution for my Mum. If the configs are no longer stored in /etc/network/interfaces or resolv.conf, then perhaps it would be nice if the powers that be had generated a comment such as: # NetworkManager generates this file from data stored in /path/to/new/config instead of the cryptic and utterly useless # Generated by NetworkManager While I'm spitting dummies. take a look at man networkmanager or man nm-tool. just as cryptic and as far as I can see equally useless. so next I try lynx /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.debian which tells me about a config file.. ahh, thought I, this may be just what i want! : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf: No such file or directory I would have thought that if I'm serious (or silly?) enough to want to edit /etc/resolv.conf then it's not unreasonable for the writers of the software to give me some clues. Your average mum is not likely to be editing config files. Meantime, I still can't permanently set my search domain. Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=david Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search domain on reboot. I'm using a static address. If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf is re-created without the search domain. Where should the search domain be stored? I thought it was in /etc/network/interfaces but apparently not according to man interfaces. Previously there was a line:dns-search kenpro.com.au I was expecting something like .gconf/system/networking but that doesn't exist and I can't find anything similar. Never edit the GConf database directly [1], use the tools. In this case, you want the Network Manager connections editor which you can find by context clicking on the Network Manager panel icon (then Edit Connections...) or System Preferences Network Configuration. Choose the wired or wireless connection you want to set a search domain for, and click Edit. To set the search domain you want the IPv4 Settings tab, static addresses, etc. Sure, some people don't like Network Manager because it pulls you out of the comfy configuration files you might be used to, but it does a whole lot of stuff for you if you don't want to bother with them anymore (or never found them easy or comfy in the first place -- ie. my Mum). Also, if you set stuff up in /etc/network/interfaces, Network Manager will ignore it... at which point the resolvconf package will be a handy way to manage your resolv.conf settings via /etc/network/interfaces. :-) - Jeff [1] Not because it's impossible to do so, but because it's almost never the easiest way to achieve your goals. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf
Hi David, Not sure if this is still valid for 8.10, but on my 8.04 machines, I added this to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf: supersede domain-name example.com; david wrote: Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go back to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! We are being dumbed down. I'm quite happy to have simple tools for my Mum, but surely in a perfect world the simple tools would advise us what's going on under the hood. At the moment it seems to be as secret as Windows. At the moment, my work around is to edit resolv.conf every time I reboot. Luckily that isn't often, but I'm sure it wouldn't be the ideal solution for my Mum. If the configs are no longer stored in /etc/network/interfaces or resolv.conf, then perhaps it would be nice if the powers that be had generated a comment such as: # NetworkManager generates this file from data stored in /path/to/new/config instead of the cryptic and utterly useless # Generated by NetworkManager While I'm spitting dummies. take a look at man networkmanager or man nm-tool. just as cryptic and as far as I can see equally useless. so next I try lynx /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.debian which tells me about a config file.. ahh, thought I, this may be just what i want! : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf: No such file or directory I would have thought that if I'm serious (or silly?) enough to want to edit /etc/resolv.conf then it's not unreasonable for the writers of the software to give me some clues. Your average mum is not likely to be editing config files. Meantime, I still can't permanently set my search domain. Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=david Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search domain on reboot. I'm using a static address. If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf is re-created without the search domain. Where should the search domain be stored? I thought it was in /etc/network/interfaces but apparently not according to man interfaces. Previously there was a line: dns-search kenpro.com.au I was expecting something like .gconf/system/networking but that doesn't exist and I can't find anything similar. Never edit the GConf database directly [1], use the tools. In this case, you want the Network Manager connections editor which you can find by context clicking on the Network Manager panel icon (then Edit Connections...) or System Preferences Network Configuration. Choose the wired or wireless connection you want to set a search domain for, and click Edit. To set the search domain you want the IPv4 Settings tab, static addresses, etc. Sure, some people don't like Network Manager because it pulls you out of the comfy configuration files you might be used to, but it does a whole lot of stuff for you if you don't want to bother with them anymore (or never found them easy or comfy in the first place -- ie. my Mum). Also, if you set stuff up in /etc/network/interfaces, Network Manager will ignore it... at which point the resolvconf package will be a handy way to manage your resolv.conf settings via /etc/network/interfaces. :-) - Jeff [1] Not because it's impossible to do so, but because it's almost never the easiest way to achieve your goals. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
On Nov 24, 4:18 pm, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go back to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? Not saying you should, but I confess to having done this when I got a new laptop earlier this year. NM was working on my system but occasionally it wouldn't and when this happened I was hosed especially with wireless. I think what I did was to go into /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager and 26NetworkManagerDispatcher and disable the start scripts (ubuntu 8.04) That's probably totally totally wrong but it works for me. My resolv.conf hasn't been eaten since the 29-Mar-08. I have a shell script for switching between wireless and wired modes (involving wpa_supplicant etc) on top of the ifup-ifdown-etc/network/ interfaces stuff. -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network manager over writes resolv.conf
quote who=david Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go back to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! Well, a) that's not the GUI tool I directed you to (it's no longer relevant in Ubuntu 8.10, so you should uninstall it) and b) I did mention in my mail about how you can go back to the config files and NM will very happily let you do it (by ignoring the interfaces you've configured). We are being dumbed down. I'm quite happy to have simple tools for my Mum, but surely in a perfect world the simple tools would advise us what's going on under the hood. At the moment it seems to be as secret as Windows. The tools would advise you? Like Hi David's Mum, you don't care about this, and it's more than likely to confuse the fuck out of you, but I'm now editing BLAH BLAH BLINGDEE BBZZZT WIDGET. Have a nice day! As a technical user, there are certainly methods for you to better understand what is going on underneath the covers, but there's no reason to expose that machinery to users who don't give a shit. (And it's not quite as simple as generated from ...) Due to advances driven by NM, I haven't edited /e/n/i on a desktop or laptop system for years. I switch between VPNs, wired and wifi, and most recently plugged in a 3G card... and it all just works. I happen to grok what's going on under the hood, but I don't have to care about it, so I can spend more of my synapses on stuff that actually matters. Making computers do the stupid shit for us helps both we computer-interested and the non-computer-interested. That's what they're for. Meantime, I still can't permanently set my search domain. I'd encourage you to follow the actual instructions I provided. :-) [Hint: I pointed you to the NM configuration tool under System Preferences, not the old one which should no longer exist under System Administration.] - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ Hunch, n.: U.S. Foreign Policy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
quote who=Daniel Bush If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? If you configure an interface in /e/n/i, NM will ignore it. This, from my perspective is just works for the computer-interested. :-) I have a shell script for switching between wireless and wired modes (involving wpa_supplicant etc) on top of the ifup-ifdown-etc/network/ interfaces stuff. /e/n/i (through scripts in the wpasupplicant package) supports all of that in a really easy-to-use fashion. Check out the README.Debian file in the wpasupplicant package (and man interfaces to see how mapping works). Of course, it's way easier to get NM to do the heavy lifting for you... ;-) - Jeff -- Robot Parade http://www.robotparade.com.au/ m. +61 423 989 818 p. +61 2 9318 0284 f. +61 2 9318 2884 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
