Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8
by William Perkins
There is a feature on X windows when used in Fedora-7 that allowed
you to zoom the desktop in and out using ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus.
This feature does not work with the Fedora-8 version of X windows. This
feture does not even work with the same xorg.conf file that was used with
Fedora-7.
This is show stopper for us. Our vision impaired users are screaming bloody
murder about not being able to use this feature with Fedora-8. We have
had to install Fedora-7 in place of Fedora-8 on those systems, and we will
have to do this Fedora-7 install on all of our servers in order to have
all systems using the same distribution version of Linux.
We understand a change to the Xorg software was made to the Fedora-8
version to accommodate users of multiple displays. This change apparently
broke the Zoom feature and on the Fedora-8 distribution the Zoom feature
was disabled. Apparently there is a patch to the X windows server that
can be used to re-enable the Zoom feature, but there appears to be no
information available that documents how you get this patch and implement
the feature.
We will be testing Fedora-9 when it is released to see if the Zoom feature
has been fixed. Otherwise, we will continue to use Fedora-7 as long as we
can until an alternative software distribution can be found, Our having
to use Fedora-7 over Fedora-8 puts a real crimp in our development effort.
Bill
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William M. Perkins E-mail - wmp(a)grnwood.net
The Greenwood UNIX Systems Administration
Reston, Virginia (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)
16 years, 1 month
ssh only after login
by Christoph Höger
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Hi,
I'm seeing something really strange on my F8 notebook.
When I use it as a secondary computer (ca. 1m away on my desk) I'm just
too lazy to go to it for doing something.
So in common I just ssh over to it. But when I do that now, I got "no
route to host" if I'm not logged in locally.
As soon as I log in, everything works.
Is that some kind of NM-configuration bug?
I would suppose ssh to work, when no one is logged in already, as that
is, what I tend to do: log in.
any comments on that?
Christoph
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16 years, 1 month
bug in nautilus? - search as you type doesn't work
by Lewi Kristianto
I've trouble in nautilus nautilus-2.20.0-9 newest update in fedora8,
I also enable GL Desktop (if that can give more info),
nautilus "sometimes" does't work when I start typing letter to search in the
current folder for a name (Icon and List mode also),
and I don't know how to produce too, sometime can...some other time
can't....there is no error output in ~/.xsession-errors
does anyone experience the same thing?
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Lewi S. Kristianto (ichtus)
http://www.mbone.info
16 years, 1 month
Xorg.conf, What keeps changing Modes at Bootup
by Jim
FC7 , 2.6.23.15-83 , Radeon driver.
I set the display setting in Aminstration > Display to 1024x768 and in
xorg.conf I set the Modes "1024x768" and when I reboot box it keeps
changing settings to 1280x800 in Display and changes Modes and adds
lower resolution settings.
There are no other Modes "1024x768" , settings in xorg.conf than
Section "Screen0"
What is causing these settings changes in xorg.conf ?
16 years, 1 month
Bumping Live CD install to regular install after installation?
by Arch Willingham
Is there any way to run a script that will bump an installation created by a live CD up to a standard installation? If that is confusing, here is what I want to be able to do.
1. Boot to a Live CD
2. Tell it to install to the hard disk and then reboot to the new hard drive installation.
3. After it boots, a very limited version of the installation is there. I would like to then be able to tell it to update the new installation so that it has the same basic packages as a standard installation.
I started to do the "yum groupinstall Base", "yum groupinstall xxx", etc but it looks like that are fifty bazillion groups and, they seem to install a ton of packages you don't need. Is there an easy way to do this (I know...someone will say "Just do a standard installation" but I'm stymied there for a variety of reasons that no one here would probably find interesting)?
Thanks,
Arch
16 years, 1 month
Heads up on new firefox3 beta 5
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
If you all have been doing as I do, blowing away the nearly empty plugins dir
of the new install, and softlinking it to a ../plugins dir so you don't lose
your plugins when upgrading, AND your systems video isn't capable of doing
overlays which disables such as tvtime, then you will need to remove anything
related to xine from your plugins dir, else the new FF3b5 turns into a
crash-o-matic.
--
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)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI", Part IV
16 years, 1 month
how to get focus for my app at login screen.
by Michal
Hallo Group Members.
I am using kde 3.5.8 on my fc6.
just when I get KDE login screen (where user puts its login/password),
I switch to text console, login as root, then: # export DISPLAY=:.0.0
then:
# kdialog --textbox "enter Your text: "
this appears on login screen, and that's what I expect.
But unfortunatelly I cannot get focus to enter some text. clicking on
mouse buttons works ok, but I cannot "activate" a line where text is
inserted, hence I cannot insert it.
I also run:
# fvwm2 &
beforehand, in hope that this is a lack of window manager problem, but
it didn't help.
have You got idea on how to do this.
regards,
Michal.
ps. to run application at login screen, I created /etc/X0.hosts, with
following contents:
localhost.localdomain
16 years, 1 month
wireless on HP 6710b Fedora 8 X86_64
by L
Hi,
I think my laptop fitted with Intel Pro 3945 Wireless a/b/g/n hardware. The
default F8 installed both
iwl3945-firmware-2.14.1.5-2
iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.20-1
But the system seems picking up 4965 as showing from
dmesg | grep iw
iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs'
how to let system pick up iwl3945?
Thanks
Y
16 years, 1 month