Re: Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

2012-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 31 18:46, Doug wrote: On 08/31/2012 02:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 31.08.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: [1] Actually everything except Emacs. Emacs has many input methods of it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method.

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-09-01 Thread James Wilkinson
Artifex Maximus wrote: Is there any good tutorial on how to lower the power consumption of my netbook? I mean sysctl, proc, etc. settings. There is a tool called powertop in the standard Fedora repos: run it from a terminal as root. There is a tab (you get to it with the right arrow) called

Re: F17: Manual monitor adjustment required after each boot

2012-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 13 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, since upgrading from F16 to F17, I have a weird problem with the monitor settings on my desktop machine. I'm using the nouveau driver. The controller is an Nvidia GeForce 7100 GS. The controller is somewhat older, it has one DVI and one VGA

add a language in Ferdora 17

2012-09-01 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi I am trying to add a language in Ferdora, but the new language is not kept I go to System Settings Region and language Press + and select Dansih from the list. Then close the dialog window. After I open the dialog window again, the new language I added does not appear I tried the same with

Re: TB to claws-mail?

2012-09-01 Thread Lailah
I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough. Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app. I can't encourage you to make the change. Time ago I try Claws Mail but I didn't like and never

Re: TB to claws-mail?

2012-09-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:53:18 -0300, Lailah wrote: I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough. Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app. I can't encourage you to make the

Re: TB to claws-mail?

2012-09-01 Thread JD
On 09/01/2012 07:53 AM, Lailah wrote: I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough. Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app. I can't encourage you to make the change. Time ago I

Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
Good day... (or not depending on your POV ;) Situation: I have one 1TB drive in a usb enclosure, formatted ntfs. On my main Linux system (which runs Fedora 17 with NTFS-3G) I used this external drive to copy some files from my home dir. Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3 running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under .cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love? that ABSOLUTELY can´t be removed from WinXP, as

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being expanded? Yes, tried everything... wildcards, enclosing it, rename first, move, rename with wildcards nothing works. :-( And I´m afraid of running

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2012 12:27 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joe Zeffj...@zeff.us wrote: Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being expanded? Yes, tried everything... wildcards, enclosing it, rename first, move, rename with wildcards

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs. Thanks for the help and suggestion. I´m sure I´ll end up fixing this on Monday when I return and have access to the drive from my F17 Linux machine. Right now, I´m stuck with a XPSP3

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/01/2012 09:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3 running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under .cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love? that

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it. It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs). Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Zeff writes: On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it. It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs). Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: You cannot have filenames containing wildcard characters in MS-Windows. I do agree that NTFS and FAT drivers should reject filenames containing ?, *, :, and whatever else MS Windows barfs on. exactly my point. Where

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 September 2012 21:26, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it. It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs). Not

What the 'H is going on with Flash-plugin ???

2012-09-01 Thread Jim
F17 / KDE I have updated a couple of time and I loose the Flashplayer function to play Flash videos. I used fedorautils to install flash-plugin, and repaired it one time by deleting flash-plug and reinstalling it with fedorautils, but the second time around that did not work . any Ideals,

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:26:10 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid characters, such as spaces, by quoting the name so that the shell knows to pass it on to the program as one string so I suggested trying it in XP to see if it worked. What

Re: f16 preupdate from f14, xfce logout error

2012-09-01 Thread jackson byers
So I tried xfce via yum groupinstall xfce That seemed to complete without error not sure now, but I think gnome persisted even with reboots. Joe Zeff responded: Log out, then back in. When you log in, after you've selected your username, but before you give your password, there's a drop-down

Re: f16 preupdate from f14, xfce logout error

2012-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/01/2012 04:36 PM, jackson byers wrote: I wish I'd known this before I fumbled my way through xfce. I don't think I am getting that drop down box. Just to be clear. After you select your username, you get prompted for your password. At the bottom left of that window, there should be

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 16:27 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: And I´m afraid of running CHKDSK because I have tons of stuff there not backed up, and it wouldn´t be the first time that CHKDSK decides oh, there´s a lot of invalid dirs in there, I´ll now happily lose your data by mangling folder

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread John Wendel
On 09/01/2012 12:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3 running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under .cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love? that

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John Wendel jwende...@comcast.net wrote: Actually, '?' is not an invalid character in a Linux filename. Only / and the NULL character (0) are invalid in filenames. Regards, John Well, it´d be akin to writing FAT with filenames that later can´t be read from