Re: Well, I've switched to KDE now

2011-05-06 Thread David L
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David L wrote: > One thing > I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log > my consulting hours.  So I figured I'd attempt to use > a portable way of doing that, so I tried: > > xdg-screensaver status > FWIW, this seems to work to q

Well, I've switched to KDE now

2011-05-04 Thread David L
Since gnome shell wasn't working well for me, I've switched to KDE. I'm trying to get back some of the functionality I was using in gnome2. One thing I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log my consulting hours. So I figured I'd attempt to use a portable way of doing that, so I tried:

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-26 Thread David L
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Obsessively follow? All you had to do was install Fedora 12, 13 or 14 > and hit the 'GNOME Shell' button in desktop-effects. I can't speak for other people, but when I tried gnome shell in Fedora 13, it was just completely broken (at lea

mingw g++ problem in f14

2010-10-30 Thread David L
I tried cross compiling a c++ app with mingw in f14 and run it in wine and it kept crashing at startup. I stripped the app down to the small example below and it still crashes with the output after the example. The same test app works in fedora 12 and Ubuntu 10.10. I haven't tried running it unde

Re: pstoraster failed

2010-09-08 Thread David L
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:17:01PM -0700, David L wrote: >> When I try to print a test page to an HP 7210 in f14 alpha >> from system-config-printer, I get a dialogue saying that "there >> was a problem processing doc

pstoraster failed

2010-09-07 Thread David L
When I try to print a test page to an HP 7210 in f14 alpha from system-config-printer, I get a dialogue saying that "there was a problem processing document" and a printer state that says: Idle: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed When I try to run hp-setup to add the printer, I get an error th