Re: Gimp initial setup
by DAVID BALAZIC
Richard England <rengland(a)europa.com> wrote:
>DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
>
>>Gimp initial setupWhen running gimp for the first time, it run a wizard for some settings.
>>Part of it is creating some files and dirs by running some shell comands,
>>like mkdir and cp. The stdout of the commands is shown and on the botton it
>>says :
>>Did you notice any error messages in the lines above?
>>If not, installation was successful!
>>Otherwise, quit and investigate the possible reason...
>>
>>Is this some insider joke ?
>>Or do the GIMP developers not know of the existance of return codes ?
>>
>>Version is gimp-1.2.3-20.2 ( fedora test 3 system ).
>>( hmm, gimp.org has v 1.2.5 )
>>
>>There is also a screen for manually measuring the display DPI.
>>It shows two rulers, on each of them is a black triangle arrow that
>>can be moved by the mouse. What is the purpose of that arrow ?
>>
>In complex installation scripts it is not always possible to trap the
complex scripts ?
It is just a cuple of "mkdir"s and a few "cp"s.
>error codes of nested script invocations or utilites. I'm sure this is
It is always possible to trap error codes. Especially with free software
where you can not only fix your own code, but also every other.
>just a last level of checking by the ever flexible and much more astute
>human involved in the installation.
>
>Move the "arrows" until the measurement on the screen match the
>comparable measurement on a ruler placed on your display device. When
>they are both set, accept the settings with the button provided in the
>lower right corner.
No, I tried moving the arrows, and they do no affect the result.
Besides, if it were like you said, why doesn't the text on the screen say
so ?
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20 years, 7 months
OT: the LG drive issue @ L-M
by Vanco, Don
FYI - Mandrake has fixed the LG drive destruction issue - the problem is
with LG "reusing" a command against the ATAPI spec. Details at:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3
....but basically, LG used the "FLUSH_CACHE" command as a means to write to
the device flash (as opposed to flushing cache, which it does not have), and
the L-M kernels were issuing that command.
Don
20 years, 7 months
Trimming mount points in anaconda
by DAVID BALAZIC
during gui install I added partition with the mount point "///var".
/etc/fstab now looks like this :
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=///var ///var ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
It is only cosmetic, but "/var" as a mount point would look nicer.
Anaconda ( disk druid ) also refused "///" as a valid mount point.
I disagree with that, "///" is a valid mount point.
Regards,
David
PS: This is on Fedora test3
20 years, 7 months
Interactive startup not working ?
by DAVID BALAZIC
In fedora test 3 , if I press the 'i' key when the
"press I for interactive startup" message is printed
during boot, nothing happens. The boot proceeds in standard
mode, not interactive ( with the confirmations ).
Is it needed to also press ENTER after 'i' ?
IIRC, just 'i' was sufficient in older releases.
Regards,
David
20 years, 7 months
Gimp initial setup
by DAVID BALAZIC
Gimp initial setupWhen running gimp for the first time, it run a wizard for some settings.
Part of it is creating some files and dirs by running some shell comands,
like mkdir and cp. The stdout of the commands is shown and on the botton it
says :
Did you notice any error messages in the lines above?
If not, installation was successful!
Otherwise, quit and investigate the possible reason...
Is this some insider joke ?
Or do the GIMP developers not know of the existance of return codes ?
Version is gimp-1.2.3-20.2 ( fedora test 3 system ).
( hmm, gimp.org has v 1.2.5 )
There is also a screen for manually measuring the display DPI.
It shows two rulers, on each of them is a black triangle arrow that
can be moved by the mouse. What is the purpose of that arrow ?
Regards,
David
20 years, 7 months
why can't I edit applications:///
by Ryan G.
Here's one I'm just now getting around to figuring out.
I'm unable to add launchers, create folders or move around items in the
nautilus applications:/// window. This seems to be a major problem
since gnome doesn't provide any kind of menu editor.
Today in a relevent gnome list I read this;
"RH has crippled gnome by disabling editin of applications:///"
So is this true and if so what's the justification. I know this isn't
all redhats doing but currently menus on the panel are very buggy and
not feature full at all and with the absence of a menu editor (it's
been years now hasn't it?) it sure seems like editing applications://
would be nice.
On an unrelated note, is there a way I can alt-tab my way through
windows on ALL workspaces?
thanks all, you rock!
-ry
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20 years, 7 months
undefined symbol: FT_Get_BDF_Property
by The Pirate Kings
I've had a few problems since upgrading my RH9 box to
Fedora.
One problem is that I can't run a few applications
(notably synaptic and xchat) because there's some sort
of problem with a fontconf library. I get this
message:
xchat: relocation error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1:
undefined symbol: FT_Get_BDF_Property
Googling led me to thinkt hat fontconfig or
fontconfig-devel might not be installed, but they're
both installed and current to version 2.2.1-4.
The other problem I'm having is that trying to run
Starcraft (Brood War) under Winex 3.3 works, but some
sounds don't play after a little while, and some
sounds are distorted. I imagine the Transgaming folks
will eventually get their heads around this, but if
anyone knows a workaround in the meantime I'd
appreciate it.
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20 years, 7 months
up2date errors on latest up2date
by Will H. Backman
Ran up2date up2date --nosig.
Still getting the following after up2date -fu --nosig:
w3c-libwww-5.4.0-7.i386.rpm ########################## Done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1187, in ?
sys.exit(main() or 0)
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 765, in main
fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1050, in batchRun
batch.run()
File "up2dateBatch.py", line 82, in run
File "up2dateBatch.py", line 153, in __installPackages
File "up2date.py", line 604, in installPackages
File "up2date.py", line 173, in getRealHeader
rpm.error: public key not trusted
20 years, 7 months
Network Config
by JDK
This is sort of off-topic, as it isn't specific to distro,
but Fedora happens to be what I'm running at the moment...
I'm have Fedora Core 1 Test Release 3 running nicely on
my home network. I've decided I'd like to use my Linux box
to try and filter internet access for a PC for my kids. My
theory was to install a second nic in my linux box, and then
setup squid, and probably Dan's Guardian. I'm fairly
confident that I can get the software working once I get the
connectivity, but I've not much of a network guy, and have
not been able to get it all talking. Here is my layout:
cable
modem
|
|
======== router ========
/ | | \
/ | | \
Laptop X-Box Linux WAP
|
Kids PC
I was thinking I could just slap the second nic in, leave
everything set as DHCP, and be along my happy way. No joy.
I got kicked into Kudzu on reboot, and it correctly found and
config'd the new nic, but eth1 fails to start. I tried to
switch it to static IP, and then could not get network on
either nic. I got internet back when I disabled eth1. I
can't get the Kid's PC to get an IP in either scenario. Can
someone tell me what the network settings should be for eth1
in this type of config?
Thanks in advance!
jdk
20 years, 7 months