Re: Chrome Fedora proxy configuration

2009-09-02 Thread John Thompson
On 09/02/2009 10:48 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/02/2009 11:38 AM, John Thompson wrote: >> Has anyone figured out how to configure a proxy server with Chrome? >> Going to "Options...Under the Hood" and clicking the "Change proxy >> settings" button

Chrome Fedora proxy configuration

2009-09-02 Thread John Thompson
Has anyone figured out how to configure a proxy server with Chrome? Going to "Options...Under the Hood" and clicking the "Change proxy settings" button just brings up a help screen, but I can't see anywhere to actually change the settings. -- -John (j...@os2.dhs.org) -- fedora-list mailing lis

xfig font failure

2009-09-01 Thread John Thompson
I haven't used xfig since updating from Fedora-10 to Fedora-11, and today when I finally had occasion to try it, it doesn't work: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Cannot convert string "6x13" to type FontStruct Warning: U

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/lib64

2009-08-30 Thread John Thompson
On 08/30/2009 07:23 PM, online.service@gmail.com wrote: > It seems i have two python2.6 folders located in /usr/lib vs > /usr/lib64 respectively. Most python stuff (source) is in > /usr/lib64/python2.6 but when in installed packages they have been put > into /usr/lib/python2.6 > > How the s

Re: thunderbird-lightning and sunbird: libcalbasecomps.so: undefined symbol: icaltime_compare_date_only_tz

2009-08-30 Thread John Thompson
Replying to my own prior message: > Lightning (1.0-0.6.20090715hg.fc11) and sunbird > (1.0-0.5.20090715hg.fc11) had been working well for me recently on > Fedora-11 x86_64 but this morning I am greeted with the error > message: > > [j...@lancre ~]$ thunderbird Registering Enigmail account manag

thunderbird-lightning and sunbird: libcalbasecomps.so: undefined symbol: icaltime_compare_date_only_tz

2009-08-29 Thread John Thompson
Lightning (1.0-0.6.20090715hg.fc11) and sunbird (1.0-0.5.20090715hg.fc11) had been working well for me recently on Fedora-11 x86_64 but this morning I am greeted with the error message: [j...@lancre ~]$ thunderbird Registering Enigmail account manager extension. Enigmail account manager extension

Re: Thunderbird-3.0b3 doesn't close cleanly on Fedora 11

2009-07-29 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Murphy wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 21:29:50 John Thompson wrote: > >> I *think* I may have tracked down the problem, at least on my system. >> I'm using F11-x86_64 and it appears nspluginwrapper hasn'

Re: Thunderbird-3.0b3 doesn't close cleanly on Fedora 11

2009-07-29 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Even stranger. This laptop and that netbook run >>> thunderbird-3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11.i586 yet the problem doesn't occur on this >>> laptop. >> I *think* I may have tracked down the problem, at least on my system. >> I'm using F11

Re: Thunderbird-3.0b3 doesn't close cleanly on Fedora 11

2009-07-29 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/29/2009 04:36 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 21:29:50 John Thompson wrote: >> I just updated to Fedora 11 and got TB-3.0b3 in the package. It works, >> but when I close the program it immediately pegs one of t

Thunderbird-3.0b3 doesn't close cleanly on Fedora 11

2009-07-28 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just updated to Fedora 11 and got TB-3.0b3 in the package. It works, but when I close the program it immediately pegs one of the cpu cores at 100% and stays that way until I manually kill the thunderbird process. It even does this in "safe-mode" so I

Re: xfconf (was: xfce4 button configuration)

2009-04-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > It's persistent for that user, saved in their settings. Great; thanks again! Is xfconf documented anywhere? I don't see anything on my system beyond the rather sparse "--help" message. Is it new with v4.6? I don't see it at al

Re: xfce4 button configuration

2009-04-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Fenzi wrote: | On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:39:41 -0500 | John Thompson wrote: |> |> Using Fedora 10 with xfce4-4.6.0 here. Is there a way to disable or |> hide the "Hibernate" and "Suspend" buttons in the exit dial

xfce4 button configuration

2009-04-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using Fedora 10 with xfce4-4.6.0 here. Is there a way to disable or hide the "Hibernate" and "Suspend" buttons in the exit dialog? - -- John (j...@os2.dhs.org) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ4NXcjXa7jixmuZsR

Re: Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

2009-03-04 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:09 -0600, John Thompson wrote: >> I can send mail from the desktop machine via gmail's smtp service, but >> copying the sent message to the IMAP folder fails, because th

Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

2009-03-04 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 2 computers here running linux and using Thunderbird for email. One is a laptop, running Vectorlinux-4.2; the other is a desktop, running Fedora 10 x86_64. Thunderbird is configured identically on both to ccess to separate IMAP accounts. Until t

miro seg fault on Fedora 10 x86_64

2009-03-01 Thread John Thompson
-1.9/" ~ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9 miro.real "$@" Using Miro-1.2.8, I have: ~ xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.6-1.fc10.x86_64 ~ xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.6-1.fc10.x86_64 ~ xulrunner-1.9.0.6-1.fc10.x86_64 Any ideas? - -- - -John Thompson (j...@os2.dhs.org) ~ Appleto

Fedora 10 dpms

2009-02-08 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a problem with DPMS since upgrading to Fedora 10. When I am logged in, DPMS works fine -- the screen blanks, then goes into standby, and eventually shuts off. If I leave the system at the gdm login screen, it doesn't work. The screen blank

Re: chkfontpath ?

2008-11-09 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Feustel wrote: |> Just "rpmbuild --rebuild chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.src.rpm" then install the |> binary RPM. | | OK. Got the package. Copied into root dir and executed the rpmbuild command. | which chkfontpath then does not find the program. | How d

Re: chkfontpath ?

2008-11-09 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Feustel wrote: | I want to add a collection of unicode fonts to my fontserver. I have | downloaded the fonts and unpacked them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I | have created the files fonts.scale and fonts.dir. Now I want to run the | command c

Re: gimp 2.6 for F8?

2008-10-12 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 François Patte wrote: |>> François Patte |> Try a local Fedora mirror and look in /development/x86_64/os/Packages. |> The packages are for Fedora 10. | Too many "failed dependencies" for me I'll wait! I was able to build gimp-2.6.1 for Fedora8-

Re: Nvidia Drivers for Fedora 9

2008-10-04 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Feldman wrote: | The advantage to using livna is that they are included in RPM packages. | If you get them directly from Nvidia, when you get an updated kernel you | would have to reinstall the drivers. | IMHO: It is usually better to use RPM p

Re: kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 - non graphical boot?

2008-10-02 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike wrote: | Is it just me or does kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 not give a graphical boot? Are you using a proprietary video driver? If so, perhaps you need to compile new modules to match the new kernel. - -- - -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGI

Re: Google Chrome

2008-10-01 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Bilonick wrote: | On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:49 -0500, John Thompson wrote: | Rick Bilonick wrote: | | | How did you get Chrome to install? | | What version of wine are you using? I'm using v1.1.4, which apparently | has some Chrome-related t

Re: pf packet filter on F9

2008-10-01 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Feustel wrote: | Can pf be used on F9? Doesn't iptables do what you need? | Would there be any advantage or disadvantage in doing so? The linux kernel is designed for iptables, I don't know what surgery you'd have to do to fit pf in instead.

Re: Linux and Lightscribe Technology

2008-10-01 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Poole wrote: | I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to | use my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs. But, | most of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old. That seems to | me

Google Chrome (was: flash plugin sound)

2008-10-01 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Bilonick wrote: | How did you get Chrome to install? What version of wine are you using? I'm using v1.1.4, which apparently has some Chrome-related tweaks to make it work. - -- - -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: flash plugin sound

2008-09-29 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Haney wrote: | My daughter told me over the weekend that there was no sound from | flash-enabled websites for the last couple of weeks on her Fedora 9 | system. (My middle daughter told me the same). | | I thought it was a pulseaudio problem, b

Re: Fedora 9 support for the XFS file system

2008-09-27 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter J. Stieber wrote: | I was using a 1 TB LaCie Big Disk | (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10923) and the board in | the drive died. I took the two hard drives that were in the drive (SATA | 500 GB each Raid 0 using the XFS file sy

Re: Nvidia-Xconfig

2008-09-25 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Makhlin wrote: | Lonni J Friedman wrote: |> As root: |> nvidia-xconfig |> |> Can't get any easier than that. | I tried that already but all I get is error "command not found". I even | tried going to the folder containing nvidia-xconfig but I s

Re: 32bit vs 64bit

2008-09-17 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henning Larsen wrote: | On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: | |> Now, when it comes to non-free binary blob device drivers, the availability |> of non-free binary blobs is somewhat better for 32 bit than for 64 bit. To |> my kno

Re: Problems after updates

2008-09-12 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: | On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:45 -0500, John Thompson wrote: |> |> I pulled down and installed about 90 updates, but since then none of the |> objects in my ~/Desktop will launch programs -- instead they open as

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > The Firefox issue is interesting... since we depend on external plugins > that are not open source and not 64 bit... Isn't that what "nspluginwrapper" is for? - -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Martin wrote: > John Thompson wrote: > >> AFAIK, Mozilla doesn't offer 64-bit builds of FF-3.x > The 32bit builds won't run on 64bit machines? I'm not sure what you > gain by running a 64bit build of FireFo

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Burger wrote: > FWIW, it's just as easy to get the SRPM for F9, and rpmbuild it on F8, > which is what I've been doing. That's what I do here. In fact, until last year I was running Fedora Core 1 and keeping it up to date in that way. When the h

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Martin wrote: | John Thompson wrote: | |> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm |> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.src.rpm | Why use the rpm's at all? Why not just get it from Mozil

Re: XFCE F9 ssh gui?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Murphy wrote: | On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:42 -0500, John Thompson wrote: | |> PuTTY for linux: |> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Networking/PuTTY-347.shtml |> | | The very thing. rpms are also available: http://fr.rpmfind.

Re: XFCE F9 ssh gui?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Murphy wrote: | I have added a rw\usb-stick as a ssh-client, pub-key added to server | authorised_keys etc.. | | What can I install in xfce to access the server gui based PuTTY for linux: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Networking/PuTTY-3

Problems after updates (was: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled)

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I pulled down and installed about 90 updates, but since then none of the objects in my ~/Desktop will launch programs -- instead they open as text files in the editor. I had this happen once before and managed to fix it, but for the life of me I can't

Re: Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

2008-09-11 Thread John Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Konstantin Svist wrote: > Is that being planned at all? Or is F8 only supported in terms of > security patches & such? I was able to compile FF-3.0.1 for 64-bit Fedora8 using the Fedora9 src.rpm and a little tweaking. If you want to try them: http:/

OOo-2.4.1 64 bit for Fedora8 build fails

2008-07-20 Thread John Thompson
urned 1 exit status dmake: Error code 1, while making '../../../unxlngx6.pro/lib/libspell680lx.so' I have hunspell/hunspell-devel-1.2.6 and xulrunner/xulrunner-devel-1.9 installed (compiled from src.rpm). - -- - -John Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Appleton WI USA -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Understanding how dd works

2008-06-25 Thread John Thompson
On 2008-06-25, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really appreciate the detailed explanation. It's a real eye opener. > Can you point me to any docs that I could read around this subject? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- fedora-list mailing list fed

Re: remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-04 Thread John Thompson
On 2008-06-03, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:25:21 -0700 > Jonathan Ryshpan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It looks like you're stuck, unless you rebuild the Open Office RPMs to >> remove their dependency on the Liberation fonts. > > He could probably install the

Re: Thunderbird

2008-06-03 Thread John Thompson
On 2008-06-03, Daniel B. Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couple of problems: > > 1) Deleting any item(s) from the folders do not actually remove > items from the folders. It just does not appear in Thurnderbird > and subsequently moved into "Trash". But using a different > IMAP