No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of suspend. I need to open and close the lid again to suspend. Any idea why? Any solution? Is there any good tutorial on how to lower the power consumption o

[OT] was: Re: Magic sysrq key

2012-08-24 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:57:03AM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, 23. August 2012. 11.53.33 Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/23/2012 11:09 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > As many times before it is counter productive to call someone stupid, > even if you mispell stupid. *Especially* if you misspell

Re: [OT] was: Re: Magic sysrq key

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 August 2012 12:27, Jeff Gipson wrote: > I've completely given up correcting grammar, usage, and spelling errors in > threads. In addition to being counter-productive, I have come to recognize > that to many of those participating, English may not be the primary > language. Outside of compu

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > Hello! > > I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. > Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of > suspend. I need to open and close the lid again to suspend. Any idea > why? Any

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:38 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. > > Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of > > suspend. I need

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
Thanks Paul. It helped a lot. I have exactly the same behavior. After Nvidia binary become XRandR compatible, I encountered the same problem (feature!!??). Before that RandR reports one monitor with 3360x1050 monitor. (i have 2 22" 1680x1050 monitor in TwinView) Also, If application window size is

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
On 23 August 2012 17:03, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Kernel Guardian wrote: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651075 (When I read this I > had > > the impression that someone is trying to insult my intelligence.) > > Not fixed and a lot of discussi

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
On 23 August 2012 16:57, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 08/22/2012 02:38 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > > >As I found in Gnome 3.4 release notes, this is default options for all > > >applications. > > > > Are you serious about this? Who in th

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.08.2012 15:20, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:32 +0930, Tim wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key >>> only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed. >> >> D

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.08.2012 15:13, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > Well please try b and let me know if the reboot occurs. The problem is b > is the only one where the results are obvious. I am willing to believe > that people see the output in dmesg or /var/log/messages, but they don't > really know if the action is

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.08.2012 00:43, schrieb Joe Zeff: > It just happened again. I have reason to think that Firefox is responsible, > but at present, it's just a guess. > (One way I can tell it's happening is that I have an analog desktop clock > running, and don't maximize windows. As > long as the sweep-

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > and for that is STRG+ALT+Print+K which kills X really > and bring you back to the login-screen which is way > more helpful than a complete reboot or reset You can have that cheaper, without using m-sysrq, just press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. -- users mailing lis

Re: python-qt4 libqt4-qt3support

2012-08-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Is there any packages python-qt4 libqt4-qt3support for fedora? PyQt4, PyQt4-devel mind you scidavis was removed from fedora due to it being FTBFS (Fails to build from source), so don't be surprised if you run into problems. -- rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer from create access on the directory .gstreamer-0.10

2012-08-24 Thread SES
I keep getting this security warning- anyone have any ideas?: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer from create access on the directory .gstreamer-0.10 Thanks! SES -- "mysterium fide" THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRE

Re: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer from create access on the directory .gstreamer-0.10

2012-08-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
SES wrote: > I keep getting this security warning- anyone have any ideas?: > > SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer from create > access on the directory .gstreamer-0.10 Please run this command and reply with the output: $ restorecon -Rv ~/.gstreamer-0.10 See if the AVC goes aw

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:49:26AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:38 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. > > > Sometimes when

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-24 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 22.08.2012 15:13, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > > Well please try b and let me know if the reboot occurs. The problem is b > > is the only one where the results are obvious. I am willing to believe > > that people see the output i

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/24/2012 10:24 AM, fred smith uttered this comment: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:49:26AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:38 -0400, fred smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. >> Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of >> suspend. I need to ope

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 06:26 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: i explained you in my last mail that CTRL+ALT+PRINT+B is plain stoopid, so nobody will do this - i CONFIRMED multiple times that STRG+ALT+PRINT+S does a sync, i hear the drives and i get messages in dmesg, /var/log/messages AND also in a ALT-F2 console

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/24/2012 08:23 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 24.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: and for that is STRG+ALT+Print+K which kills X really and bring you back to the login-screen which is way more helpful than a complete reboot or reset You can have that cheaper, without using m-sysrq, just press CT

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/23/2012 06:09 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 23 August 2012 03:22, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu. Where you install a particular release, a

Natural Selection.....

2012-08-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with: PeppermintOS - laptop Ubuntu LTS - desktop Fedora laptop Linux Mint desktop PC-BSD desktop Will have to figure out which o

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

2012-08-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/23/2012 12:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/24/2012 12:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/2012 03:31 AM, Lailah wrote: How can Unity be installed in Fedora? Works fine? See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana There are pros and cons. I for one, will not be testing. Or may

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:03:24PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, fred smith > wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. > >> Sometimes when I