Re: gnome-terminal question

On 09/27/2009 02:09 PM, bruce wrote: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... i'm trying to figure out if you can use escape sequences, or modifying the

Re: Network Printer Problems

On 10/03/2009 09:45 PM, Jim wrote: FC11/KDE-4 Have printer setup as lpd://172.16.1.35 and I can ping the printer and driver is setup , but when I send a test page it Stops in print que. Policy setting is Error Policy : Retry Job Operation Policy: Default Behavior Cups is running in Servic

Re: Okular cannot open files with filenames with spaces

On 10/04/2009 06:22 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 11:48 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, When trying to open a pdf file with a filename with spaces, Okular cannot open it. For instance, try to open the following pdf file: http://www.esferadoslivros.pt/pdfs/Contos%20de%20

Re: How to determine if a file is in use

On 11/03/2009 01:31 PM, Donald Russell wrote: Another system uses FTP to drop files in a directory for me to process. I have a bash script to process the incoming files. The script is started by cron periodically. There's a problem if the FTP transfer is still in progress because the process

Re: ISo disck for fedora 12

On 11/28/2009 04:36 PM, Alex Bahoor wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install fedora 12 on a laptop. I don'wloaded the image, however, not sure which part of the image must be burnt in as iso. can some one please send me a pointer? thx, Alex http://docs.fedoraproject.org/installation-quick-start-guid

F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

pro/wireless 2200BG in a Dell Latitude D410. F12 Fully updated (as of 7 December). With Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 the wireless is completely disabled. This was the latest kernel installed. Backing down to kernel 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 everything returns to normal. This was the immedi

Re: Network manager wireless control works great in F9!

Arch Willingham wrote: In short, it is awesome! Inside our office, it immediately popped up asking for the required credentials and BANG! It connected. Ditto with every wireless hotspot I have tried. Also, it is much easier to explain how to use to an end user than the methods I was usin

Re: Upgrading to next version of Fedora

Dave Feustel wrote: What is involved in upgrading from one version of Fedora to the next? (eg from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 when F-10 becomes available) Thanks. You might look into preupgrade https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade yum install preupgrade I did my 8 to 9 upgrade on a desktop an

Re: Upgrading to next version of Fedora

Björn Persson wrote: Richard England wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: What is involved in upgrading from one version of Fedora to the next? (eg from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 when F-10 becomes available) You might look into preupgrade But you should be aware that Preupgrade is a

Re: Upgrading to next version of Fedora

Björn Persson wrote: lördagen den 2 augusti 2008 skrev Richard England: Björn Persson wrote: Richard England wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: What is involved in upgrading from one version of Fedora to the next? (eg from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 when F-10 becomes available

Re: A background for each workspace (in Gnome)

Rahul Sundaram wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: How can I set up Gnome to have a different background for each workspace, as can be done in KDE? Not by default however you can use a additional utility # yum install wallpapoz Rahul FYI http://wallpapoz.akbarhome.com/ contains a note saying

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: maybe you should have waited? ;o) Yes, he likely better should have. I said I was going to wait to facilitate a discussion, but I see no reason to wait on telling people I plan to hav

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

Dave Burns wrote: Know what I wish? That posts with the subject "Re: Infrastructure status" actually discussed infrastructure status, and that discussions of 'how to improve dissemination of info about infrastructure status' had a different subject. T Dave +2 What is it, the season, t

Re: Ooo writer: autocorrect MIA?

Peter Langfelder wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I enable autocorrect in writer? The help says to go to autocorrect->options and check 'use replacement table', but there is no such option. Any thoughts? I'm using 2.4.1-17.4.fc9.i386 (F

Re: Gnome Terminal and Session management Query

Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I've got fedora 9 installed and I'd like it to store sessions for all my routers,switches, firewalls, servers etc just like pu

Re: Gnome Terminal and Session management Query

Richard England wrote: Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I've got fedora 9 installed and I'd like it to store sessions for all my route

F9 - F10 Upgrade Left only GRUB prompt

I used preupgrade (1.0.0-1.fc9.noarch) to upgrade a Dell Latitude laptop from F9 to F10. Every thing seemed to go fine but on reboot I'm getting only a GRUB prompt. The machine had a fresh F9 install (not an upgrade) and was fully up to date. Is this a case of grub.conf being out of wack or

Re: F9 - F10 Upgrade Left only GRUB prompt

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Original message -- From: Richard England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I used preupgrade (1.0.0-1.fc9.noarch) to upgrade a Dell Latitude laptop from F9 to F10. Every thing seemed to go fine but on reboot I'm getting only a

Re: F9 DOS attack

Dave Feustel wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:25:26AM +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:54 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I spoke with a Comcast technician yesterday. He said there was nothing Comcast could do and that the problem was that the 'bomber' was able to get my ip addres

Re: F10 Crash on laptop Radeon 200M

Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 11:44 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:02:13 -0500, Wade Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Finally upgraded my Gateway laptop with ATI Radeon Express 200M video to Fedora 10. The computer now only stays up

Re: F8 > F9 Preupgrade

Frank Murphy wrote: from terminal typed sudo preupgrade When window opened F9 was not available as an upgrade option just F10. ver: preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc8 Frank Believe you need to findpreupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9.noarch The version you have is specifically for F10 -- fedora-list maili

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

Andre Costa wrote: Hi Marcelo, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47, Marcelo Magno T. Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Andre, Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Andre Costa escreveu: > Hi, > > I just installed F10 on my system (replacing -- not upgrading -- a > p

Re: Next silly Q, ktorrent this time.

Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I did the sha1sum on the burnt disk, it was good, but the dvd doesn't autoboot in the machine I was going to put it on. Ubuntu's Hardy Heron cd does, in the same dvd reader. I haven't tried it here to see if i

Re: want to prevent people from making mistakes?

Jose Celestino wrote: Words by David [Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:01:41PM -0500]: Fred Silsbee wrote: put F10 back in beta Everyone else has been polite as you rant and rave about 'no GUI root logins' by default. You want them? Change the settings. What? Who th

Re: want to prevent people from making mistakes?

Linuxguy123 wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 10:16 -0800, Richard England wrote: Jose Celestino wrote: FWIW, F10 is working fine on two systems here, one a self built, the other is an older Toshiba Satellite laptop. I have yet to encounter any of the issues that Fred has. So because

Re: want to prevent people from making mistakes?

Richard England wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 10:16 -0800, Richard England wrote: Jose Celestino wrote: FWIW, F10 is working fine on two systems here, one a self built, the other is an older Toshiba Satellite laptop. I have yet to encounter any of the issues that Fred

Re: want to prevent people from making mistakes?

Linuxguy123 wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 11:48 -0800, Richard England wrote: Telling everyone that the release is non-functional and should be recalled is not productive and wastes everyone's bandwidth. Not that I agree with him, but everyone is entitled to an opinion, right

Re: phone device connection

Garry T. Williams wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2008 04:31:35 Sandesh Karanth wrote: I want to access the files in the phone. Could you please mention how to? Try using bitpim. sudo yum install bitpim What kind of phone? Some programs only work with a restricted set of pho

Re: Is this problem solvable?

Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:43:18 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: IBM sells a card called RSA which has its own network connection, and which can provide console access, machine status, and reboot via system message or power cycle on command. The "big hammer" approach: http:/

Re: Problem: CUPS re-writing printers.conf

Timothy Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I am trying to print the CUPS Print Test Page from my laptop on a printer attached to another machine on my home LAN. But whenever I do this CUPS adds the line "AuthInfoRequired username,password" to /etc/cups/printers.conf on my laptop. The result is

Re: What are Microsoft codecs?

Tim wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 04:23 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: I would say much closer to 100. So Totem developers know about the problem You *know* this do you? You know that the people working on it have tried to do what you've done (as opposed to lots of other things that t

Re: What are Microsoft codecs?

Tim wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 10:01 -0700, Richard England wrote: I don't believe there is any ROI in these discussions. Risk Of Infection? I think there might be a danger of that... :-) Return On Inves

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

Steve Blackwell wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:14:10 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: When I filed a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592612 the response from the epiphany developers was "Thanks for taking the time to file this bug report. Can y

Re: discovering network printers on F11

On 09/14/2009 03:35 PM, Globe Trotter wrote: --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Stefano wrote: From: Stefano Subject: Re: discovering network printers on F11 To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:46 PM On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, I

Re: Cannot find DVD drive

Timothy Murphy wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I'm afraid this may be a very ignorant question, but how do I access the DVD drive on my desktop? It is shown by lshal: -- udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B' block.storage_device = '/org/freedes

Re: Problem of install tarball packages

Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 20:35 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 10:26 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 01:43 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECT

avahi-autoipd error during yumex update

Using yumex to update my F9 installation, this morning, and I encountered the following: 09:30:02 : Transaction Check Error: file /etc/avahi/avahi-autoipd.action from install of avahi-autoipd-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from package avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386 file /usr/sbin/avahi-a

[solved] Re: avahi-autoipd error during yumex update

Richard England wrote: Using yumex to update my F9 installation, this morning, and I encountered the following: 09:30:02 : Transaction Check Error: file /etc/avahi/avahi-autoipd.action from install of avahi-autoipd-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from package avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7

Re: install the Korn SHELL program

최용주 wrote: Dear. Actually I executed the same file on my former linux computer without any error message. But I reinstalled the linux, then it occurred the error. I attached the 'filter' and please check up. Thank you Best regards, Yongjoo CHOI -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Login sound -- library mode

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: Does anyone know how to silence F8 login sounds short of turning down login sounds and other audio Tossing /usr/share/sounds/login.wav to the side seems to be sloppy. It is the classic boot in a library or lecture hall problem but I do not see any easy 'designed'

Re: gnash and swfdec won't work

Martín Marqués wrote: I have a problem with a specific flash, which are tutorials done in presentations [1]. The thing is, flash-plugin (from adobe) shows the flash .swf ok (on an older i386 computer), with sound and everything. gnash and swfdec don't (on my new AMD64). gnash and swfdec shows OK

Re: Beeping while running

Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Recently, one of my machines (running F8) has started beeping and I can't figure out the reason why. After watching it this morning, I've noticed that every 30 minutes it seems to beep 20 times. It almost sounds like a BIOS beep, but the machine has 177 days of uptime

Re: CUPS "Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)!"

Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm trying to use a printer attached to a USB port on a remote machine, but I get the above message. I can access the computer in question with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.2 631 Trying 192.168.2.2... Connected to 192.168.2.2. Escap

Re: A New fedora user question

Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up having two of

Re: A New fedora user question

Tim wrote: Tim: How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else. Richard England: That's a question I wish I knew

Re: Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that will help me create professional looking invoices ? Thanks in advance OpenOffice 2.3 on my F8 system, and OpenOffice 2.4 on my F9 system both an invoice form available. I don't believe I've a

Re: Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:42 -0800, Richard England wrote: Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that will help me create professional looking invoices ? Thanks in advance OpenOffice 2.3 on my F8

Re: hplip scanner support?

Tom Horsley wrote: Sometime when I wasn't looking hplip seems to have gotten scanner support added for most of HP's all-in-one products (too bad they didn't retrofit support for their stand alone scanners). Is anyone actually using one of the HP all-in-one devices on fedora 10 and gotten the sca

Re: test

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Armin wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2009 10:30:14 Neal Becker wrote: test please ignore oh my god, I love these kinds of emails. They are so funny! (I know I should have ignored it, but something in me didn't let me do it!) Reminds me of the "

Assert error from Latest Firefox (just update)

Yum updated to Firefox this morning (firefox-3.0.6-1.fc9.i386) on my F9 system (fully updated) and now I'm getting a dialog box that shows the following info every time the browser is started. The browser comes up but throws this assert. My error or there? Thanks, ~~R ASSERT: *** Search

Re: Assert error from Latest Firefox (just update)

2009-02-07 at 08:32 -0800, Richard England wrote: Yum updated to Firefox this morning (firefox-3.0.6-1.fc9.i386) on my F9 system (fully updated) and now I'm getting a dialog box that shows the following info every time the browser is started. The browser comes up but throws this as

Re: Tools to work with a Sansa

Steve Snyder wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:09:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just got a Sansa 4Gb Connect MP3. This is audio and video. I am running FC10 and Gnome on an Asus 701. I plug the sansa in with its special USB cable and I show a USB device but it is not accessable.

Re: Tools to work with a Sansa

Richard England wrote: Steve Snyder wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:09:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just got a Sansa 4Gb Connect MP3. This is audio and video. I am running FC10 and Gnome on an Asus 701. I plug the sansa in with its special USB cable and I show a USB device but it

Re: Extending Expiration Date of an Already-Expired GPG Key

Robert L Cochran wrote: How do I fix this -- I'm using Thunderbird on Fedora 7 on my desktop machine. However, I travel a fair amount and when I do, I tar up my .thunderbird directory and scp it to my laptop, which is running Fedora 10. That lets me download and filter my email with the same ma

Re: Setting gnome-terminal default size

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say) 90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system. Thanks - jon For gnome, go to System > Preferences > Person

Re: printing from gvim

Michael Hennebry wrote: When printing a two-page file from gvim, it gives me a 3/4 inch margin at the top (I measured) and overflow at the bottom. A line is missing between the pages. How do I fix this? When I print a CUPS test page, the margins are in the range 0.1 to 0.2 inch. vim's default

Re: Rogue package

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I have an FC10 system that has kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i586 installed, yet yum nor rpm seem to think it is. It's in grub.conf, there are files in /usr/src/kernels/ pertaining to it ... but I can't remove it. The system is running kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.f

Re: Rogue package

Richard England wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I have an FC10 system that has kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i586 installed, yet yum nor rpm seem to think it is. It's in grub.conf, there are files in /usr/src/kernels/ pertaining to it ... but I can't remove it. The system

Re: NM fails to connect when booting ?? -[SOLVED]

Mark Haney wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I wish some guru who understands NM would bring out a variant that just connects on bootup. I'm pretty sure the standard version would rapidly fall into disuse. But, they have that feature already. It's the way network interfaces have started f

Re: Can't Reset gnome-keyring Password?

rgheck wrote: For some time now, my daughter's been having a problem with her WPA key: NM asks for it every time she logs on. I seem to have figured out why, more or less. Let me say that she's using LXDE under F10 on an Eee 901. When trying to debug something else, I reset her password to what

Re: weather report applet dead again?

Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 11:17 +0200, jamesh0317 wrote: I am having the same problem as you Bob. I am using the same version of the gweather-applet. I've noticed some flakiness as well, but it seems to come and go. A simple, if inelegant, workaround until the

Re: nautilus-open-terminal and current directory in F9

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 23:18 -0700, Richard England wrote: Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Amadeus W.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So did you find the solution? I saw that problem too and I thought it was w

Re: nautilus-open-terminal and current directory in F9

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 22:27 -0700, Richard England wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 23:18 -0700, Richard England wrote: Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Amadeus W.M. <[EM

Re: Thunderbird Thread balloons

Mike Evans wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Can someone tell me why my thread "balloons" in Thunderbird are messed up? I now have 2 machines the same way. Please see attached pic. Mine have always looked like tha

Changes in kernel mess up Cisco VPN build

Is there anyone here that builds kernel modules that might provide some insight into what might have changed in the kernel between 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 and 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 to cause an invalid module format to be built? These are, I believe the next to last and last kernel updates, respe

Re: Changes in kernel mess up Cisco VPN build

Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Richard England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Richard England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Changes in kernel mess up Cisco VPN build To: "For users of Fedora" Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 9:50 PM Is there anyone h

Re: Firefox for ever

Timothy Murphy wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Sorry to be mean, but why don't Fedora just admit that no browser they produce is likely to be as good as Firefox? Huh? That doesn't make any sense. Fedora doesn't "produce" any browser although it does contribut

Re: GRUB menu video mode

Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: Removing the splash= produces a pure text menu that the TV displays properly. Thank you, Mikkel. TV's, even modern flat screens, make lousy computer monitors. The basic purpose of this system is a DVR.  Jeremy K added the splash to grub to improve it, and as an advertis

Re: enter password for default keyring to unlock

Dave Burns wrote: I just installed fc9. I never knowingly set any password other than my login password and root password. But ever since I got wireless working when I log in I get a dialog: "enter password for default keyring to unlock The application 'NetworkManager Applet' wants access to the

Re: Thunderbird and junkmail

Ian Chapman wrote: Hi All, Does anybody have any idea why I can't get thunderbird to automatically move junk mail that arrives in my inbox, into the Junk folder? This used to work but for some reason it no longer is. It detects the junk, marks it as read but doesn't move it. If I manually ma

Re: Thunderbird and junkmail

Ian Chapman wrote: Richard England wrote: Does anybody have any idea why I can't get thunderbird to automatically move junk mail that ... OS version? Fedora 9 Thunderbird version? 2.0.0.14 Settings you have in place (filters)? Yes I have filters in place but only for one ac

Re: Chown ???

Rick Stevens wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:19 -0400, Jim wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Jim wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:27 +, g wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ttys 'b-'. you did not answer which model and

Re: Installing Moonlight?

Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:31 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:26:40 -0400 Matthew Saltzman wrote: I downloaded the file novell-moonlight-1.0.1-x86_64.xpi, which is a zip archive, but I'm not sure what to do with its contents. Anyone know the answer

Re: Editor to program in C

Dave Ihnat wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: Emacs is my editor of choice, and I disagree it has a learning curve. ... vi on the other hand ;) Aw, crud. I've dealt with this stupid war for 28 years. And just to throw gas on the fire--so I'm not paci

Re: Setting the fonts of X applications

Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Where can one set the fonts of the X applications (e.g., xmessage)? Thanks in advance, Paul Check out the documentations and see if "xmessasge" will utilize any configuration directives placed in ~/.Xdefaults. Most well behaved X applications will recognize s

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

Wendell Nichols wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallen wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7" netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. well, i got a kindle for father