F13: How to reset KDE user/session desktop to its defaults?
by Dan Thurman
Since I am a heavy gnome desktop user, I decided
to take a look at KDE.
The first thing I tried to do was to figure out how to
move the bottom panel to the top, and I tried to
drag and move it, but in the process, I "peeled" something
out from the bottom and I unexpectedly dropped it into the
middle of the screen... it appeared as a partial window,
there was only the title bar and what appeared to be, a 1/4"
semi-window with no content and it was not a complete box
encapsulation, it looked like two sticks on the left and right.
I tried to put this "panel" back into the bottom panel, to
no avail, giving up, I ended up deleting it.
I noted that the bottom panel was not looking the same
from its default.
What I would like to do is to restore/reset the desktop back
to a first time user.
Is this possible?
Some say to delete the .kde4 in the user's home directory
but on F13, I only see .kde, not .kde3 nor .kde4, so I am
assuming that F13 by default is probably KDE 3?
As noted, I have amarok and perhaps other kde apps in
gnome so it is perhaps not a good idea to simply blow
away the .kde directory nor to simply rename the .kde
to something else and expect to recover my gnome & kde
configurations, piecewise? In particular, I definitely do not
want to mess up my gnome settings, but since I am new to
KDE, all I care is to figure out how to restore KDE to its new
user defaults and proceed to learn how to configure KDE to
my taste.
Any advice?
13 years, 9 months
Compile kernel
by jarmo
Hi, I try compile kernel 2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.PAE just for
optimize prosessor.
There is now prosessor type pentium pro in use, but I'd like
compile pentium p4.
But when try after make menuconfig do make I get:
make
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
Any ideas what I'm missing :D ?
I can compile vanilla kernel without any errors.
Jarmo
13 years, 9 months
How do I add a password to KWallet?
by Timothy Murphy
I have 3 folders in knode.
Whenever I check for posts in one of them
KWallet asks me to enter my wallet password.
When I go in KWallet Manager to knode->Passwords
I see that the other two knode folders are listed,
but not this one.
What is the mechanism, if any, for adding a password
to KWallet?
I read the short KWallet Manager help/handbook ,
but this did not elucidate the problem.
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tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 9 months
VMWare and Fedora 13
by Krosh Ivanov
Hi guys,
I've installed VMWare and its dependencies ( kernel-headers ). kernel-devel,
kernel-pae-devel and others are installed too, but it keeps asking for
kernel-headers. What path should I put in "Location" field for VMWare to
work?
Thanks
13 years, 9 months
Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?
by Chris Kloiber
Is it just me, or are the Fedora 13 repos experiencing real problems
lately? I have to run yum upgrade as many as 10 times in a row to pull
down all the updates as I keep getting what amounts to transient 404
errors (may/may not work the second or third time, probably trying a
different mirror). Just wondering...
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Chris Kloiber
13 years, 9 months
Pulseaudio error on HP Probook 4515s
by Zoltan Hoppar
Hi,
This is an smaller problem around pulseaudio. I couldn't explain why is so,
but I think this is an PA bug. Currently the playback works every way but,
recording not. When I try to use Empathy jabber voice call option to my
partner, then rings out with voice, but after pick up - for an shiny brief
moment - the mic works, after that no more - and pops out an error that
"couldn't link source" (maybe the thread makes itsef suicide, perhaps?).
After that I have made an second try - I have attached an USB soundcard -
what is widely usable on many linux (it uses Cystal Sound chipset). The
result was disappointing - here the mic worked as should, but I heard no
voice in my headphone, nor even at my speakers.
Anybody could confirm this is an bug? Is there a known solution?
PS: If needed, I'm ready to debug.
Thanks,
Zoltan
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PGP: 06853DF7
13 years, 9 months
Printing problem on FC13
by Alex
Hi,
I've set up a printer entry for my Brother HL-5070N network printer,
and when I print a test page it instead prints one page with "ERROR
NAME; undefined COMMAND; -12345X@PJL OPERAND STACK", followed by pages
and pages of blank paper until I turn off the printer.
There is a choice of a number of print drivers, and I've tried a few
of them, including ljet4, hl1250, and a ghostscript driver, and they
all do the same thing.
It hasn't worked since I installed FC13, but did work when I
previously had Ubuntu and an older FC installed on this computer.
How can I troubleshoot this?
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 9 months
Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty
by Sam Varshavchik
I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon.
With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition
set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but
this server does not need to hibernate.
13 years, 9 months
Kmail - Hard-wrapping URLs when pasting
by Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone,
I'm runing 1.13.5 (Fedora 12) and noticed that, on the Composer window, when I
paste a long URL it hard-wraps it at the configured "word wrap at" setting.
This is not the behavior when you actually type it (there are some smarts
there that will detect you are writing an URL and won't wrap it) but it
doesn't when you paste it. This used to work back in Fedora 8 (don't know
what Kmail version was over there).
I've looked every setting and can't find any option for it.
Regards,
Jorge
13 years, 9 months