Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On 24/11/2012 05:36, Frank Griffin wrote: > I haven't tested since, because this was the straw on the camel's back > that finally got me to pull enough teeth to find out that NM won't work > in KDE without manual intervention. Once I got NM to work, I never went > back. For those of us still stru

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Frank Griffin
On 11/23/2012 11:12 AM, Olivier Blin wrote: Frank Griffin writes: "Can't win" is appropriate. You may want to check the comments in bug#8169. Apart from any net-applet crash, ifplugd is failing to start wireless interfaces with current kernels Hi, Do you have any more details about this?

[Mageia-dev] Video players

2012-11-23 Thread Pierre Jarillon
For Mageia 3 it is necessary to read all kinds of videos. I have a set of video to test the distro. Totem is out of service but its is however the defaut reader... For some videos, Dragon is not shown in the list of players but works. http://vimeo.com/53980967 from vimeo works with Mageia 1 but no

Re: [Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [321297] imported package nemo

2012-11-23 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Friday 23. November 2012 22.46, Anne Nicolas wrote: > There has already been zillions of discussions about this. Discussions some of us have never heard of, including me. > We will not have Cinnamon. I am not talking about Cinnamon. I couldn't care less about Cinnamon, as I didn't know what

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary "/bin/rm"

2012-11-23 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Michael Wood at 22/11/12 14:45 did gyre and gimble: Or if you happy to run rm as it was written and risk deleting something you didn't want too, then comment out the alias (and any others that get on your nerves:) ) from /etc/profile.d/60alias.sh Whi

Re: [Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [321297] imported package nemo

2012-11-23 Thread Anne Nicolas
Le 23/11/2012 22:39, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Friday 23. November 2012 18.43, D.Morgan wrote: we decided to not allow Cinnamon in mageia for now. Is there a list somewhere of Free and open source software that for whatever reason is not allowed in Mageia? There has already been zillion

Re: [Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [321297] imported package nemo

2012-11-23 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Friday 23. November 2012 18.43, D.Morgan wrote: > we decided to not allow Cinnamon in mageia for now. Is there a list somewhere of Free and open source software that for whatever reason is not allowed in Mageia? -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a

[Mageia-dev] OpenVPN missing PID dir

2012-11-23 Thread Richard Couture
While teaching a class in OpenVPN today I noted that urpmi does NOT create the /var/run/openvpn directory which openvpn uses to write it's PID This causes openvpn sufficient grief that it refuses to start... My system uses MGA 2 with all updates applied Richard -- LinuxCabal Asociación Civil

[Mageia-dev] Locking screen

2012-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
After today's Cauldron update I find that my screen is locked frequently, requiring my password to unlock it. Since I normally work with two laptops at the same time - Cauldron and M2 - this is a huge nuisance to me. Where can I change that setting? Anne

[Mageia-dev] Locking screen

2012-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After today's Cauldron update I find that my screen is locked frequently, requiring my password to unlock it. Since I normally work with two laptops at the same time - Cauldron and M2 - this is a huge nuisance to me. Where can I change that setting?

Re: [Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [321297] imported package nemo

2012-11-23 Thread D.Morgan
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > +Summary: File manager for Cinnamon Please don't we decided to not allow Cinnamon in mageia for now.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Olivier Blin
Frank Griffin writes: > On 11/23/2012 03:46 AM, Robert Fox wrote: >> There has been much discussion over the KDE NetApplet and the lack of >> reliability with it - on my laptop (Thinkpad X220) it crashes regularly >> and I can't get it to switch between WWAN0 and WLAN0 without failing. >> Strange

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Frank Griffin
On 11/23/2012 03:46 AM, Robert Fox wrote: There has been much discussion over the KDE NetApplet and the lack of reliability with it - on my laptop (Thinkpad X220) it crashes regularly and I can't get it to switch between WWAN0 and WLAN0 without failing. Strangely, under Gnome - the Gnome network

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary "/bin/rm"

2012-11-23 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012 23:10:51, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : > Le 22/11/2012 20:11, Anne Wilson a écrit : > > I know someone else who said that :-) Then one day I was standing > > beside him when he hit Enter, and "Sh" - yes, he'd wiped the lot. > > The world of unix admins is divided i

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:46:43AM +0100, Robert Fox wrote: > On the other hand, I use Evolution as my main e-mail client (since many > years now) - oddly, when I am in Gnome - I can not click on calendar > invites (accept / decline) - but in KDE using Evolution - I can. Weird bug! Maybe related t

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 06:44 -0300, John Balcaen wrote: > > Le 23 nov. 2012 06:37, "Robert Fox" a écrit : > > > > On Fr, 2012-11-23 at 06:14 -0300, John Balcaen wrote: > > > If the problem if with net_applet & that networkmanager does work > for > > > you under gnome, why not simply using the > >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread John Balcaen
Le 23 nov. 2012 06:37, "Robert Fox" a écrit : > > On Fr, 2012-11-23 at 06:14 -0300, John Balcaen wrote: > > If the problem if with net_applet & that networkmanager does work for > > you under gnome, why not simply using the > > plasma-applet-networkmanagement in kde ? > > > > (You did of course re

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Fox
On Fr, 2012-11-23 at 06:14 -0300, John Balcaen wrote: > If the problem if with net_applet & that networkmanager does work for > you under gnome, why not simply using the > plasma-applet-networkmanagement in kde ? > > (You did of course report bug crash for the netapplet ? ) > I will try the plas

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread John Balcaen
Le 23 nov. 2012 05:46, "Robert Fox" a écrit : > > There has been much discussion over the KDE NetApplet and the lack of > reliability with it - on my laptop (Thinkpad X220) it crashes regularly > and I can't get it to switch between WWAN0 and WLAN0 without failing. > Strangely, under Gnome - the G

[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Fox
There has been much discussion over the KDE NetApplet and the lack of reliability with it - on my laptop (Thinkpad X220) it crashes regularly and I can't get it to switch between WWAN0 and WLAN0 without failing. Strangely, under Gnome - the Gnome network manager works flawlessly. I can easily star