slightly wonky 2nd display settings in F14
by Dave Stevens
Hi,
I've been meaning for some time to add a second monitor to my F14 setup. I did
so today and found the monitor detected and the display size correctly set as
soon as it powered on. Very nice. The second screen is physically to the right
of the original and is so configured in the system settings. But the panels
migrated to the second screen. I assume this is because the new screen is
somehow misconfigured as my primary monitor. I can't see where to change this,
can someone direct me? Gnome desktop.
Dave
--
When a respected information source covers something where you have on-the-
ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal
matter you've swallowed in areas outside your own expertise.
-- Rusty Russell
13 years, 3 months
sudo a graphical app? still not working
by kellyremo
Fedora 14:
i cleared all the firewall rules, then:
visudo:
Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORITY"
MYTRUEUSER ALL=(transmission-user) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
$ sudo -u transmission-user -- /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
No protocol specified
Cannot open display:
$
if i ps | grep transmission, i can see it's running.
how could i see the transmission's GUI?
i tried:
xhost +127.0.0.1
but it doesn't work, error message is the same.
13 years, 3 months
Run application with other user
by kellyremo
OS: Fedora 14
GUI: GNOME
I need to run an application with another user then the "default" (normally used).
Purpose: create a ".desktop" file on my desktop to run e.g.: Google Chrome with another user (NOT ROOT! - so beesu doesn't count.)
There aren't any gksu, or kdesu packages in Fedora 14. Why?
So i want to create a user with "adduser SOMEONE", and i want to run e.g.: Google Chrome with "SOMEONE" - then it will have minimum permissions, "more security".
Thank you!
13 years, 3 months
Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone,
I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13
and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated.
I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this from
any email in KMail:
No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?
and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?</body>
If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased
online, it looks like this when I paste it:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>9101128882300487354725</body>
In the above example, this is the procedure I followed:
1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired email.
2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy"
3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste"
4. The result is always the same. I get the text that I selected, plus a whole
lot HTML markup...
I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only.
In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail. If I copy
from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly. Also,
when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then check
my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<body>9101128882300487354725</body>
As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur. I do
know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within KMail)
I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then pasted
the result into any application, I would get this:
"9101128882300487354725"
That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for me
now :(
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Steven P. Ulrick
13 years, 3 months
Hardware for Gnome3
by mike cloaked
With the advent of Gnome3 not far around the corner and with a huge
array of different desktop and laptop machines with many different
chipsets and graphics cards in use by the community, I wondered if
there is a list of likely supported hardware that will have a
reasonable chance of being able to successfully run Gnome3 when Fedora
15 is released?
I know that we have the Gnome 3 alpha test days running (as of
yesterday) but presumably those running the tests have hardware that
is already expected to work with the new desktop experience with 3d
support. It would nice nice if a user could run a quick probe of
their current hardware and then go to a list of kit that is expected
would be likely to run, or definitely won't run, Gnome 3.
Is there such a list? Of course one can run commands to see if 3d
support is in principle available on your own machine - but in the
past having this information has not been a guarantee of getting a
working 3d machine for eg desktop effects, even though 3d is
"nominally" available. Clearly nouveau has been under heavy
development in the past year or two, and ATI support has been
accelerating too..... at what point does the experimental mesa stuff
become stable enough to use for prime time?
Would be nice to know.
In the meantime it will be very valuable to see as many tests as
possible being executed on as wide a set of different types of
hardware as possible for the gnome 3 test days to maximise the chance
that the largest number or users will be able to see a working desktop
as soon as F15 is installed after release.
--
mike c
13 years, 3 months
Re: KRandRtray ??
by DB
On 02/07/2011 04:42 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: KRandRtray ??
> From:
> Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu>
> Date:
> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0600
>
> To:
> users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
>
> DB wrote:
>
>> > I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've got
>> > something set wrong on my box.....)
> it*is* true:) , but not free of bugs. Sounds like you've found one, if
> you could be so kind as to file one @ bugs.kde.org ?
>
> -- Rex
>
>
Thanks for the reply!
Bug is filed:
Bug 265710 - KRandRtray loses changes at next start
Dave
13 years, 3 months
Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?
by Mickey
Fedora 14 / KDE
Today my Thunderbird-3.1.7 crashed and sent all my 1500 emails to the
Trash Can. Thunderbird was taking so long to compact and other
things it had to do and locking up my desktop and Web Browser.
In Fedora is there a better email Browser ?
I tried Evolution but it just does not seem to work very good in Fedora 14.
13 years, 3 months
Update tex-live package?
by H Xu
Hello,
Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new
version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package.
Thanks.
Regards,
H Xu
02/08/2011
13 years, 3 months
mplayer doesn't like me again
by Michael Hennebry
It doesn't tell me my computer is too slow,
it just gives me a rather pixelated image.
People look like there made of burlap.
The output from mplayer has two things
that look like error messages to me.
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
and
> [VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.0.051 ct: -0.030 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
I don't even know why it looks for VDPAU.
I have a GeForce card.
Presumably things would go badly if it found libvdpau_nvidia.so .
Once upon a time, I knew what DRI failure meant,
but I've forgotten and googling turns up questions but no answers.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log includes, among other things:
> [ 86356.565] Dac detection success
> [ 86356.565] (II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
> [ 86356.565] Unhandled monitor type 0
> [ 86356.565] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0
from mplayer -V, the last lineis
> vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized..
Any ideas?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
13 years, 3 months