Goodbye Fedora XDMCP and VNC
by Robert Myers
I have configured, reconfigured, and wrestled with exporting the Gnome
desktop using either XDMCP or VNC. With all the various idiosyncracies, it
has been a time-consuming struggle in which I have rarely gotten exactly
what I wanted.
Here is the map to freedom from all this nastiness:
use ssh -X to export X from applications to a desktop with an X-server.
Use the utility alacarte to export a handy guide for all the features that
are normally accessed via graphical menus. Use "properties" of each menu
item to find the command line necessary to invoke a GUI application that
would normally be invoked through a menu. Use tuxmc or anything you like
other than nautilus as a file manager.
Live the rest of your life without worrying what fedora or gnome has changed
relative to the nautilus, gnome desktop, xdmcp, vnc, or remote access with
whatever release or upgrade you are using.
If you always access a machine remotely, issue telinit 3 to shut down the
graphical interface and x-server you will never need again. If you can ssh
into your remote box and have a local x-server, you are good to go.
Robert.
13 years, 11 months
More nvidia kmod strangeness
by Jonathan Ryshpan
is that when I activate the screensaver, the screen goes dark suddenly,
after about 1/2 second pause. When the nouveau driver was installed the
screen faded to black, taking about 1/2 second to do this.
jon
13 years, 11 months
Unwanted space preceeding cursor in Konsole
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone
I have recently received an unwanted space before the cursor in Konsole. There
is also some "corruption" of the fonts as one moves the cursor over text that is
on the command line:
1. I have a script called "UpdateGeeqie"
2. Open up "konsole"
3. After the normal "[steve@localhost ~]$" there is a space and then the cursor.
4. If I just type "UpdateGeeqie" it types as expected, except there is that
space after the last letter, then the cursor.
5. If I use tab completion, it goes like this: "Update "
6. If I then hit tab again, I get a list of other scripts that start with the
word "Update" This is as expected.
7. But, if I hit backspace, "Update" becomes "Updat"
8. If I let it complete to "UpdateGeeqie" I get two "spaces" at the end. Of
course the one is the normal one that you get when there are no more matching
commands.
I think that I have read something about this before. I have certainly never
had it happen before, and I was not able to find anything about it through
Google. I have a feeling that this might end up being a really embaressing
one...
As you may already know from other threads of mine, I am now running the
rpmfusion nVidia driver. All this started after I got that running. I do not
currently have any desktop effects enabled in my user account.
I even tried creating a new user, and it does it with a new user as well...
Almost forgot: xterm and gnome-terminal do not exhibit this behavior. Only
Konsole on KDE 4.4.3 (from the Fedora repo.)
Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.
Steven P. Ulrick
13 years, 11 months
preupgrade 12 to 13 error
by Alan Gagne
Need a little help to determine next step.
After reboot from running preupgrade I get the following message.
Error downloading kickstart file.
Then I am being requested to modify the following parameter.
ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg
This machine is a fully updated fresh install of F12 with a 300mb /boot
on mdraid.
FROM GRUB:
title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Goddard)
kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade
repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
ks=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/ks.cfg
stage2=hd:UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8:/upgrade/install.img
initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us quiet
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791 elevator=noop
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64.img
FROM FSTAB:
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Apr 5 20:18:40 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_root / ext4
noatime,errors=remount-ro 1 1
UUID=d99009ca-09f4-4607-9176-c3a6f6863fa8 /boot ext4
noatime,errors=remount-ro 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_linux8-lv_swap swap swap
defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs
defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs
defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc
defaults 0 0
/dev/vg_linux8_1/lv_opt /opt ext4 defaults
1 2
13 years, 11 months
Googleearth segfault on startup using nvidia kmod driver
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Googleearth has started to crash on startup now that I have installed
the kmod Nvidia drivers. It ran (though slowly) when the nouveau
drivers were being installed. I have installed all the packages
recommended in a recent discussion about this on the list, following the
advice at:
http://bigjim-network.be/2009/06/24/google-earth-on-fedora-11-64-bit/
Any further ideas on getting Googleearth to run?
Googleearth has produced a crash log, and a suggestion to submit it to
<somebody>; does anyone know how or where to file such a crash report?
System info:
Fedora-13 with all updates installed
Video Card: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
System: 4-processor AMD x86_64
Thanks - jon
13 years, 11 months
[Fwd: Re: F13 - goodnewws and bad news]-addendum
by Aaron Konstam
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: F13 - goodnewws and bad news
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:21:41 -0500
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 08:32 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 08:48 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:19 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > 2. For more than 15 years I have found that the GUI partition
> > > > installer hard to use and in F13 it is even more impossible to use.
> > > > This is mainly because the various options are hard to distinguish
> > > > from one another. I know someone will say it was easy fo them but I
> > > > challenge them in the basic configuration to remove the separation of
> > > > root from home.
> > >
> > > Do you mean the root user space (typically /root)? That shouldn't be
> > > inside /home, and that's not a partitioning issue.
> >
> > No, the basic disk structure created by the partitioner has separate LVM partitions for /root and
> > /home. I wanted to combine them to a single LVM partition. I failed
> > miserably. It does not make much sense what I wanted to do but I was
> > frustrated that I couldn't do it. What I really wanted to do is to
> > have the partitions other than swap in a single partition. I got that
> > done but I am apprehensive about being able to do it again on my laptop
> > which also has a Windows XP partition. I find the whole GUI partitioning
> > application confusing.
> ----
> /home and /root are not connected to each other and could only become
> part of the same partition if the / filesystem were part of the
> partition as that is the connection between them. Of course
> putting /, /root and /home in the same LVM partition is actually the
> default so what you are trying to do is nonsensical. But since you
> admitted that what you are trying to do doesn't make any sense it seems
> there is really no reason to complain that what your are trying to do
> won't work.
>
> Craig
But your conclusion that / is in the same partition as /root and /home
does not correspond to what one sees in Figure 7.27 in the Installation
Guide (see my other post) so your assertion makes no sense either.
I should point out the fallacy with your analysis. If /, /root and /home are in the same partition
then the size of the partition would be larger than the sum of the size of
/root and /home. But they are exactly the same.
--
=======================================================================
"Looks clean and obviously correct to me, but then _everything_ I write
always looks obviously correct yo me." - Linus
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
13 years, 11 months
Xplane
by Michael Miles
Has anyone been successful in installing X Plane v9 on a Fedora 12 x64 box?
I have solved the symbloic link to libopenal.so.0 but now I am getting a
glx error
I am using Nvidia proprietary drivers 195.36.24
It comes Whoa, no matter how hard I try unable to open a glx graphic
window. Something is wonky with my system
Quite the error
Mesa drivers are installed for both x64 and i686
As well as the development packages.
I am using the X Plane v9 no DVD for linux
Any successful installs out there
Michael
13 years, 11 months
Omega boot time on an old EeePC
by Beartooth
My install of the new and otherwise excellent Omega, in its
present new release as well as in the previous release, has one sad
problem. It takes too long to boot -- like ten or twenty minutes with the
camera card in place, and two to four without.
The machine is an ASUS EeePC 701, for which I have an 8 GB camera
card -- and, much to my surprise and incomprehension, those times -- two
to four minutes *without* card, and twelve to fifteen *with* -- are no
typo. Booting really is an order of magnitude faster without the card.
Is the machine already a museum piece -- id est, just too old a/o
too small?
Have I put too much stuff on it? (I did first use the package-kit
to remove everything I could find that I don't expect to use, or not on
the EeePC -- including such things as OpenOffice, which I'll run on a
laptop or preferably a PC if/when I run it at all.)
"df -h" shows 3.1 of 3.5 GB used, with 443 MB available; baobab
shows 3.1 of 3.7 GB used and 604.7 MB available. Oddly, the real bulge
according to baobab (*if* I understand that correctly) is *not* in /home/
btth (643.6 MB), but in /usr (1.6 GB; mostly in /usr/share/locale)
Is the problem something I'm doing or have done that I shouldn't?
The EeePC's main raison d'etre for me, as for many others unless
I miss my guess, is to be at hand whenever I find myself in a waiting
room with wifi -- in which case a quick start makes all the difference.
Anybody got a clue, or a suggestion?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
13 years, 11 months
Re: Omega live -
by Rahul Sundaram
On 06/06/2010 11:19 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> Actually even better. I clicked the gpk-viewer icon; it did its
> normal thing *and* also popped a box up telling me the preupgrade was
> available, and asking if I wanted it. Very nice!
>
> Many, many thanks!
>
That happens with standard Fedora as well. Nothing Omega specific about
it.
Rahul
13 years, 11 months
Ufraw seems strange to me and to my brand new camera
by Antonio M
I am using Ufraw+Gimp to work on my photo.
I have been using a Pentax 1stDs for a long time, but I bought a new kx.
Today I went to an historical car race in Monza and surprise, PEF file
coming from the new camera are mismanaged, in particular red is
completely missing, therefore all colours are wrong!!!
I went to Ufraw site and I see that kx is in the list of cameras that
are o.k with UFraw.
Do they mean that I hace to shot in DGN and not in PEF format???
What is funny that if I open same files with Fspot colours are o.k.
Shall I file a bug against UFraw???
--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : amontag52
SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net
13 years, 11 months