Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

2009-12-28 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 15:55 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:27:39 -0800 > Gordon Charrick wrote: > > > Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly > > bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found > > any Linux apps that can handle this task

F12 GNOME panel has big gaps between launchers

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mury
I recently made the move from F11 to F12. Application launchers on GNOME panels have much larger gaps between them than they did on F11. I can move the icons by dragging with the middle mouse button, but I cannot get them any closer together. This wastes a lot of space on the panels, and I would r

Re: [SOLVED] F12 GNOME panel has big gaps between launchers

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 23:38 +0100, Mohamed ELMORABITY wrote: > this is an evolution described in the F12 release notes. These same > release notes describe how to reset the gap between icons to 0: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_in_Fedor

Re: Skype & other application

2009-10-07 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 14:29, Antonio M wrote: > Skype is working fine on my two boxesI note only that if I am > playing music by Rhythmbox and a contact comes in or goes out music is > interrupted and doesn't resume on one of my boxes (even if I make a > call) Edit ~/.pulse/default.pa to cha

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:37 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I recently ran "yum update" and encountered a conflict > with iptstate requiring libnetfilter.conntrack . > > OK, that is simple enough; > but if I remove iptstate > I can then re-install it without any problem. ipstate requires libnetfil

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:23 -0800, Brian Mury wrote: > ipstate Replace all occurrences of "ipstate" in my post with "iptstate". Oops! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http:/

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 23:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > But now it seems to say that iptstate requires libnetfilter_conntrack. > So why didn't it say that before when I yum-installed iptstate? It didn't say that before because you already had libnetfilter_conntrack installed. You must have had

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:39, stan wrote: > The workaround for this sort of thing is to do something like the > following: > > yum list updates > updates > vim updates (or your favorite text editor) > insert a #! /bin/bash at the top > record a macro that converts each line to yum -y update packa

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Mury
> There is nothing to download.  "--skip-broken" is built into yum. > "man yum" will reveal it to you: > >  --skip-broken         skip packages with depsolving problems That's what I initially thought - but then I found this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/SoftwareManagementGuide/Custo

Re: Creating a VPN with network connection wizard

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:46 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote: > I try to connect to a VPN using the network connection wizard of Feodra 12. > (System->Preference->Network Connections). > I select the "VPN" tab. > I press "Add" and choose PPTP. > I enter what is needed and created a VPN connection named VP

Re: Google Earth locks up system

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:31 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 12/21/2009 10:53 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > > Since I'm not sure when, Google Earth completely locks up my system, > The crash is well known, and has been around for a long time (since at > least FC6). Really? It worked fine for me u

Re: F10 Firefox 3.0.4 - text entry field ugliness/corruption

2008-11-27 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:45 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After upgrading from F9 to F10, the new Firefox 3.0.4 comes up with its UI > text entry fields (such as the URL field) initially drawn with light gray > background color. [snip] > Anyone else seeing same fugliness? Yes. I upgraded fro

Re: F10 Firefox 3.0.4 - text entry field ugliness/corruption

2008-11-28 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:32 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I think I figured it out. This happens if your default Gnome theme specifies > a non-white background for text entry fields. If you switch to a Gnome theme > with white text entry fields, this fugliness goes away. Not here. My Gnome the

F10 display problems

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Mury
Hello, I've been having several display problems since installing F10. None of these problems existed with F9. I experienced the problems after an upgrade, did a fresh install, and am still seeing them. Graphics card is a Radeon 9200 (RV280). If I switch to a console (such as Ctrl-Alt-F2) and ba

Re: F10 and beagle?

2008-12-08 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 13:30 +0100, Niels Weber wrote: > Clicking on "run" seems to start the > service, but half a minute later it has again stopped. The same > happens, when I start beagled from the command line. beagled runs for about a minute here. I was going to post a message tonight, but you

Re: Fedora 10 + Intel 945 poor GL performance

2008-12-08 Thread Brian Mury
Hi Steve, On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 15:27 +, Steve Hill wrote: > The performance of Compiz has hit rock bottom - with wobbly windows turned > on, dragging a window is slw, with the window lagging behind the mouse > pointer by a good few seconds. Turning wobbly windows off at least makes >

Re: F10 and beagle?

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:19 +0100, Niels Weber wrote: > 2008/12/9 Brian Mury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 20081207 21:58:52.2820 05607 Beagle WARN: Inotify watches may be too low > > (8192) for some users! Increase it to > > at least 65535 by setting fs.inotify.max_user_

Re: Corsair 16G USB Flash Drive

2008-09-21 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 20:46 -0700, Les wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I cannot get my F8 system to mount my Corsair flash drive. I looked at > the Forum, searched Corsair's website, and no joy. Looks like a known bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446845 Try running "rmmod ehci_hcd" as r

Re: smart package manager crashes

2008-11-14 Thread Brian Mury
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 09:47 -0500, oleksandr korneta wrote: > smart package manager crashes when there is a combinations of ":/" > symbols in the search keyword. True for both command-line and gui versions. I see that too on F9 (same version of smart). Have you reported it to the author? The smar

Re: Non-Graphical PreUpgrade

2008-11-15 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 15:41 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:06:19AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > preupgrade-cli > > Yum doesn't find this package. It is part of the preupgrade package. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://w

Re: Fedora compatible Headset recommendations?

2009-03-15 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:29 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > That helps. I am concerned that if I grab a USB model it may need propietary > drivers to use. I have a Logitech USB headset which I use with Skype. I plugged it in, told Skype to use it, and it worked. I didn't have to install or configu

Re: Fedora compatible Headset recommendations?

2009-03-17 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 02:09 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I used (from alsa-utils-1.0.19-4.fc11.i586): > alsamixer -c 0 I'm already familiar with that, it hasn't helped. Still works fine with Skype set up to not use pulseaudio though. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To uns

Re: F9: libusb & palm syncing not working

2008-06-04 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:35 +0100, Kevin Page wrote: > It seems very likely that this is an incompatibility between the > pilot-link libusb code and m130 handhelds (and therefore a problem with > libusb on all distributions), not a problem with the PolicyKit config in > F9. Yeah, that's the conclu

Re: F9: libusb & palm syncing not working

2008-06-05 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:29 +0100, Kevin Page wrote: > What does lsusb show when the handheld is connected? Bus 003 Device 067: ID 0830:0050 Palm, Inc. m130 The full verbose output is at the end of this email if you want to see it. I wonder if the weird iProduct value is to blame? idVendor

Re: F9 and gnome-pilot-conduits

2008-06-05 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:41 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I don't see any way to synchonize my addressbook and calendar between > Evolution <=> Palm as neither addressbook nor calendar conduits are > offered since I upgraded. > > rpm -ql gnome-pilot-conduits shows... You need the evolution-conduits

Re: Desktop effects, workspaces, and the workspace switcher

2008-06-20 Thread Brian Mury
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces. > > I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice that the > switcher no longer displays an iconic representation of windows in > other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this be

F9: USB memory stick won't mount

2008-07-01 Thread Brian Mury
Hello, I am trying to use a USB memory stick with F9. When I plug it in, Nautilus shows an unmounted "USB Drive". Double-clicking on causes a "Unable to mount location - Can't mount file" error. Right-clicking and selecting "Mount Volume" appears to do nothing. I can mount it from the shell with

Re: F9: USB memory stick won't mount

2008-07-01 Thread Brian Mury
A reply to my own post with a couple additional details; > Any ideas? Worked as expected with F8, though it was a different drive > (which I no longer have, so I can't test it). I tried it on my Ubuntu laptop, it does not work there either. I tried a different brand/model USB drive on F9 and it

Re: F9: USB memory stick won't mount [SOLVED???]

2008-07-01 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:58 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > It looks from the messages that it is being properly detected, but > HAL is not mounting it. While it does not explain the problem, you lsusb shows it as "Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar". Google found this, and some other similar

Re: F9: USB memory stick won't mount [SOLVED???]

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 07:43 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > So now it mounts as a non-root user? Yes. > Or was it never unmounted but just yanked from the machine? No, it was never unplugged without being unmounted. > Sounds like a permissions problem with your mounting as a non-root > user. Poss

Re: Latest updates break graphic start of Fedora

2008-07-03 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:38 +0200, Antonio M wrote: > Alt-F1 is not working on my system!!! so our problems are not > completely similar. That should be Ctrl-Alt-F1. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Fedora 11 scrollbar corruption

2009-06-10 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:41 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > With Fedora 11 (updated from Rawhide a few days prior to the F12 switch), > I see the following screen corruption > > > http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/fedora11-scrollbar-corruption-claws-mail.png > > > in Claws Mail's folder lis

Re: F11 - monitor doesn't sleep

2009-06-11 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I didn't need to do a darn thing with the video -- it just works.  However, > my monitor never goes to sleep any more. I have the same problem with F11. Worked fine with F10. I might have been using xscreensaver on F10 (I can't remember), I am c

Re: How to resize images?

2009-06-11 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:40 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:05:03 +0530 > amit rp wrote: > > > How to resize images? i.e.from 1.2MB to 200KB. I have Fedora > > 10 i686. > > There are many methods. If you want to do it interactively, you can use > the "scale image" option in

Re: glxgears nonsense on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 17:30 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: > date. When I run glxgears I get the gear display in the yop left > corner, just as I expect but instead of getting the frame rate display > in the terminal window I get endless ream of this: > > CS section size missmatch start at (r300_c

Re: Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 15:03, Robert Wuest wrote: > Skype was working fine on Fedora 10, but on 11 it consumes 100% of a CPU Is the CPU at 100% all of the time, or only when Skype is in use? Is Skype configured to use PulseAudio? If I set Skype to use PulseAudio for the ringing device, it uses 1

Re: Skype is a CPU hog on Fedora 11

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 17:43 -0600, Robert Wuest wrote: > I do not see an ALSA > option. Only the default (no workie), several HDA Intel options (no > workie), HDMI (no workie), and Pulse (works). By "ALSA" I meant any of the non-pulse options - it's my understanding that Skype is using ALSA.