Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-09 Thread JD
On 10/09/2012 07:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Friends, After years of providing services to students for free in installing Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to get out of it. The offending laptop is a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. We paritioned t

Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Friends, After years of providing services to students for free in installing Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to get out of it. The offending laptop is a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. We paritioned the HDD using Windows 7 creating a separate parti

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Sergio
manifestoe, I had some X problems (that I don't know if it was related with the font path file or not; can't say because I had other misconfigurations) and had to do a clean up on the X configs. While examining the issue I found out the way fonts add themselves to the X core system. They link th

Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-09 Thread Jim
On 10/09/2012 09:31 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 09/10/12 12:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:31 -0400, Jim wrote: On 10/08/2012 06:23 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 an 17 Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. When

Re: gnome classic interface with F17?

2012-10-09 Thread Ruben Schade
Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Thank you, that solved my problem > My pleasure, glad it worked. For what it's worth, I didn't like the Gnome Shell at first. I decided to try it for a few weeks, and now I can't live without it. You really get used to just flinging your mouse into the corner of the screen,

Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/12 12:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:31 -0400, Jim wrote: On 10/08/2012 06:23 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 an 17 Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. When opening the k3b Create window it shows blank m

Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-09 Thread Kevin Martin
On 10/09/12 06:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:31 -0400, Jim wrote: >> On 10/08/2012 06:23 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >>> On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 an 17 Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. When opening the k3b Cre

Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-09 Thread Kevin Martin
On 10/09/12 06:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:31 -0400, Jim wrote: >> On 10/08/2012 06:23 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >>> On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: Fedora 15 an 17 Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. When opening the k3b Cre

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Sergio
Just to clarify if anyone is wondering, it doesn't make any difference for modern apps. Installing fonts nowadays is a simple as dropping them in the font path as Matthew said. It's only for apps that use the legacy system. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Sergio
> yes, the rpm i've pointed to will do > all of that for you. > > The spec file is on the sourceforge site (same link), but > the spec file no > longer contains the core X and Xft commands.  Those are > in a shell script > that comes in the rpm.  You'll find the shell script in > the tarball at >

Re: Repeated segfaults in F17

2012-10-09 Thread Temlakos
On 10/09/2012 08:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/09/2012 01:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:16 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/08/2012 02:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 09:46 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/08/2012 04:38 AM, Temlako

Re: Repeated segfaults in F17

2012-10-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/09/2012 01:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:16 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/08/2012 02:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 09:46 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/08/2012 04:38 AM, Temlakos wrote: Beginning about an hour ago, I've bee

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread manifestoe
yes, the rpm i've pointed to will do all of that for you. The spec file is on the sourceforge site (same link), but the spec file no longer contains the core X and Xft commands. Those are in a shell script that comes in the rpm. You'll find the shell script in the tarball at https://sourceforge.

a better way to install ttf fonts [was Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found]

2012-10-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:33:14PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > The above reminds me about that joke about Unix being user friendly... > "it´s just selective about whom his friends are". So, one _could_ go through all that rigmarole. Or, you could just download the ttf files and drop them in ~/

Re: K3B won't burn Imaqe

2012-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:31 -0400, Jim wrote: > On 10/08/2012 06:23 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > > On 08/10/12 22:24, Jim wrote: > >> Fedora 15 an 17 > >> > >> Trying to burn Fedora image on CD-R , the disk is new. > >> > >> When opening the k3b Create window it shows blank media in cd/dvd > >> bu

Re: Repeated segfaults in F17

2012-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:16 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/08/2012 02:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 09:46 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 10/08/2012 04:38 AM, Temlakos wrote: > >>> Beginning about an hour ago, I've been hit with a ton of application > >>> te

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Sergio
--- Em ter, 9/10/12, Tim escreveu: > De: Tim > Assunto: Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found > Para: "Community support for Fedora users" > Data: Terça-feira, 9 de Outubro de 2012, 5:21 > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:33 -0300, > Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Really, nobody thought a

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Sergio
> You probably didn't run the X core > indexers. > > mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/msttcore > mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/msttcore > That how-to only asked to run mkfontdir for ttf fonts, not mkfontscale so I didn't run the latter. > assuming you've already added this > > cat > /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: OpenOffice.org alongside LibreOffice

2012-10-09 Thread Temlakos
On 10/09/2012 07:33 AM, Pasha R wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote: Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17? As a matter of curiosity, why would anyone want to have both OO and LO installed simultaneously? Ar

Re: OpenOffice.org alongside LibreOffice

2012-10-09 Thread Pasha R
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote: >> > Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17? > > As a matter of curiosity, why would anyone want to have both OO and LO > installed simultaneously? Aren't they mostly feature-equival

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-09 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:33 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Really, nobody thought about creating a bash script that does all of > the above?. I´m convinced that Linux needs less ´howtos´ with large > blobs of commands to cut-and-paste into a shell, and more ´howtos > turned into scripts, added to

Re: gnome classic interface with F17?

2012-10-09 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Thank you, that solved my problem 2012/10/9 Ruben Schade : > Adel ESSAFI wrote: >> Deal list >> I have installed F17 and I got the *new* gnome interface with allows >> to search for application when you move the mouse to the upper left >> corner. >> >> Is it possible to configure gnome to work

Re: gnome classic interface with F17?

2012-10-09 Thread Ruben Schade
Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Deal list > I have installed F17 and I got the *new* gnome interface with allows > to search for application when you move the mouse to the upper left > corner. > > Is it possible to configure gnome to work with the *classic* > interface (with panel) > > Regards > Adel >