gnome-terminal's uglification in Fedora 7
by Sam Varshavchik
Whose bright idea was it to change gnome terminal (actually vte), so that
spaces are no longer underlined?
$ echo -e '\e[4mHelp me\e[24m'
The two words get underlined, the space character does not.
Does anyone realize just how many terminal applications use underlines to
visually indicate text-entry fields? Now, they all disappear, and everything
looks like crap.
I can't think of any valid reason for this change in behavior, since xterm
still gets it right -- the space character is underlined. I can't wait to
hear what was the urgent reason for this change that uglifies so many
existing terminal apps.
16 years, 10 months
A useful thing
by Karl Larsen
When I partitioned my big 160 GB hard drive the first two are too small.
I want to, with fdisk make the first 2 partitions into one which will be
15 GB and big enough for F7.
Doing this will screw up Grub of course, but I now know what to do. I
will edit /boot/grub/grub.conf so that the new changed partitions are
right based on what fdisk prints out. This will be simple knowing what
to do :-)
I want to put F7 in this new partition and that will be simple but I
will need to fix Grub again since it will be using F7 as the grub home.
Then the hard part. I like the FC6 kernel I am using now and want to use
it on F7 which will eliminate one big minus I had to F7. How do I yum
the FC6 kernel onto F7?
Karl
16 years, 10 months
Test Please ignore
by John Bowden
Test from MDV box to Fedora
--
Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament
with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!)
Registered Linux user number 414240
16 years, 10 months
hald ??
by Jeffrey Ross
had a segfault with hald
hald[3035]: segfault at 00002aaaaad88000 rip 000000000040e630 rsp
00007fff3bc8a7a0 error 4
I restartd hald and was able to have it automount a flash card. How do
I go about opening a bug?
TIA, Jeff
16 years, 10 months
Repos
by Karl Larsen
I am trying to add a couple of more places where Yum can get
software. In man yum it said there are these files that do this:
FILES
/etc/yum/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/
/var/cache/yum/
Well this is not the way it is on the F7 version. As usual I think
the docs are a bit behind. Does anyone know where repos.d is located now?
Karl
16 years, 10 months
Table present but OOo says data not available
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
When opening a certain table in a database of OpenOffice 2.2 Base, the
table does not open and I get the message
"No data available".
However, when I run queries involving that table, I get correct
results. Therefore, data are not lost; they are present.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
16 years, 10 months
recent lm_sensors update apparently breaks cpu monitoring
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I had to reboot after an update of a lot of kde stuff and since then, my cpu
temp is being reported as 261.5F with no variations.
I just re-ran sensors-detect and dbl-chk'd the settings, but its still
fubar'd.
[root@coyote ~]# sensors
w83627hf-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1: +1.68 V (min = +1.44 V, max = +1.86 V)
VCore 2: +1.79 V (min = +1.44 V, max = +1.86 V)
+3.3V: +3.30 V (min = +2.82 V, max = +3.79 V)
+5V: +4.76 V (min = +1.81 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
+12V: +11.80 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.95 V) ALARM
-12V: -12.28 V (min = -14.75 V, max = -14.91 V) ALARM
-5V: -5.05 V (min = +0.38 V, max = -7.61 V) ALARM
V5SB: +5.62 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.86 V) ALARM
VBat: +3.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.27 V) ALARM
fan1: 1687 RPM (min = -1 RPM, div = 16) ALARM
fan2: 2636 RPM (min = -1 RPM, div = 16) ALARM
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 2636 RPM, div = 16) ALARM
temp1: -48°C (high = +0°C, hyst = +11°C) sensor = thermistor
temp2: +127.5°C (high = +120°C, hyst = +115°C) sensor = diode ALARM
temp3: +127.5°C (high = +120°C, hyst = +115°C) sensor = diode ALARM
vid: +1.650 V (VRM Version 9.0)
Who is the current maintainer?
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
divorce, n:
A change of wife.
16 years, 10 months
Re: [Gimp-print-devel] I have an update problem.
by Gene Heskett
On Saturday 30 June 2007, Roger Leigh wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> writes:
>> On Saturday 30 June 2007, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>>>You should be able to have both versions of Gutenprint installed
>>>concurrently. Whether the RPM's are built that way is another matter.
>>
>> That's my point in the fedora list which I've added to the To: list
>>
>> But, we're talking about gimp-print-4.2.7-23 over-writing my
>> gutenprint-5.10-6 install with what is to me, broken code for my
>> epson printer(s)
>
>While it's perfectly possible to build both 4.2.7 and 5.0.x from
>source and install them concurrently, the package dependencies may
>still prevent it. For example, I don't permit it in Debian; there's
>just one gimp-print package which was 4.2.7 and is now 5.0.x; I didn't
>see any added value in allowing use of the old version. However, the
>shared libraries (libgutenprint1 and libgutenprint2) can still be
>installed side-by-side.
>
>Whether or not this is possible in Fedora depends upon how they
>decided to package it. I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I would
>suggest checking the package contents and dependencies to figure out
>why.
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command
that will cause yum to download only?
>At least in Debian, the GIMP package is built without printing support
>(no gimp-print 4.2.x dependencies) and then the Print plugin from
>Gutenprint is used to provide printing support.
Which is exactly how it should be. I've NDI why fedora chose to do it their
way and screw it up royally. Perhaps someone from fedora can offer a cogent,
sensible reason?
Thanks Roger.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
How come we never talk anymore?
16 years, 10 months
yum whatprovides ??
by Jeffrey Ross
I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate the
include library last night. Yum when through its process and came up
with nothing in a fairly short order.
Am I not using the command correctly?
Jeff
16 years, 10 months
Grub and old hard drives
by Karl Larsen
For several years I have let the anaconda loader put the grub boot
message in the spot for such things on /dev/hda/. Fine, a couple of
years later I bought a much bigger hard drive and this Linux is on that.
But Grub is still using /dev/hda/.
These are both Western Digital hard drives and I have had good luck
with them. But the first to fail will be the oldest I expect. When that
happens Grub will fail. This is a real hard thing to fix :-(
So I have a plan. First read "Info Grub" and see how to put a Grub
boot in the boot section of /dev/hdb/. This I think is pretty simple. I
can do this today. But how to cause the file /boot/grub/grub.conf to use
this new boot point may be difficult.
Assuming this is possible I will let the list know.
Karl
16 years, 10 months