f15 power button stopped working
by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I have two older AMD athlon machines that I use as headless servers for
backups etc. For years this wasn't a problem. Now, after the
F15/64-bit (clean) install the power buttons stopped working. Surely
I'm not expected to lug a monitor and keyboard over to the servers just
so I can click the on-screen power-off widget.
What do I need to lobotomize to get a power button that works as a power
button? All that happens now is it puts the servers into a state that
blinks the front pannel power led. I assume it is doing some sort of
sleep-to-ram instead of powering down. I can see that the logged in
user can elect what the power button does during the time they are
logged in. Where does the system-wide default come from?
-wolfgang
12 years, 11 months
Fedora 15 - copy and paste problem
by fedora
Hi all
when it came to upgrade gnome within Fedora 13, i could no longer use
the mouse-middle-button to paste the clipboard: i had to click both left
and right mouse keys.
OK, thats past.
Yesterday, however, i installed Fedora 15 and now neither of the keys
work: when i strike text with the right mouse key pressed, no text is
copied to the clipboard, and when i either push both left and right keys
of the mouse or i click the middle mouse key, nothing happens, no
clipboard copied to the input line.
the only way i can do copy-and-past now is to strike the text i want to
copy and then use the edit menu of the respective application, and click
copy there, and then move to the input line and click paste in the edit
menu of the respective application.
am i missing something with the mouse-key emulation in the X server?
How can i get back to the old Unix style behaviour?
thansk for all hints.
suomi
12 years, 11 months
Gnome shell does not respect me in the morning
by SternData
Most of the time, when the Gnome 3 shell blanks the screen after the 10
minute delay, I can get back in by wiggling the mouse a bit. Almost
every morning, however, all wiggling the mouse does is show the top bar
(with the time showing the time that the screensaver kicked in the prior
night). Hitting the keyboard or mouse clicking does not fully wake the
shell or allow me to continue access to the session.
At that point, I use CTRL-ALT-F2 to login and kill the gnome shell
process. Then, I ALT-F1 to get back to the GUI, where the shell
recreates itself.
This happens whether the shell is set to require a password or not when
blanking the screen.
It is getting annoying. Suggestions (other than "gnome shell sucks, use
KDE) welcome.
--
-- Steve
12 years, 11 months
F14->F15 compiz failure
by Dj YB
Hello,
I have upgraded recently and since then I can't use compiz.
every time it starts it crashes.
all the settings are new, when I try to load the old config file using import it
is being ignored.
anyone else experience this problem?
how can I downgrade for now back to 0.8.6 ?
Thanks,
YB.
12 years, 11 months
gnome does not start under realvnc...
by Georgios Petasis
Hi all,
I upgraded yesterday from Fedora 14 -> 15, and now I am having problems
with my desktop:
Gnome does not start under RealVnc (Enterprise edition, 4.6.1).
What I get is a big image, and a message "oh no! something has gone
wrong", with a prompt to logout and try again.
Looking at the xsession errors, the only crucial that I see is that
metacity re-spawns too quickly.
And indeed, trying to run metacity under a terminal, results in an
immediate crash.
Any ideas? How can I fix this?
My server is a remote one, always reached through VNC, so I have no
alternatives for the time being...
George
12 years, 11 months
Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????
by John Aldrich
Why does Google Chrome want my Gnome Keyring password? I don't use Gnome. I
use KDE/Openbox. It *only* happens when I'm accessing my computer from
remote using VNC, though. It does NOT happen when I'm accessing my computer
from the local console.
Don't know if that gives a hint as to why it's trying to open the Gnome
keyring, but I thought I ought to mention it.
12 years, 11 months
bluetooth f14
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I have just installed fedora 14 on my laptop.
bluetooth is not working. It used to work with fedora 10 using hdi2hci
Where can I find hdi2hci for fedora 14.
Thanks a lot.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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12 years, 11 months
Re: GNOME Shell - colour me deeply unimpressed
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
Hi Neil,
The basic video driver that comes with the GNOME Shell doesn't work well
on any video card, afaik. It did well on my netbook - without impressive
video card - but on the desktop - with highend video card - I first had to
go through the steps of the Fedora Forum on how to install the NVidia
drivers. Once they were installed though, the video card does everything I
expected it to do...
I really hope you give it a try. It's very addictive.
--
Greetz,
Roelof Kusters
aka Ben
The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it
draws you in.
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12 years, 11 months
Epson Stylus TX121 scanner
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
Hi There,
I recently bought a Epson Stylus TX121. It makes nice prints from Fedora,
but SimpleScan doesn't seem to recognise it. Does anyone have any idea
where to look (google doesn't help me much!) to get the scanner to work?
Thanks!
--
Greetz,
Roelof Kusters
aka Ben
The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it
draws you in!
12 years, 11 months
GNOME Shell - colour me deeply unimpressed
by Neil Bird
I'm already deeply suspicious of GNOME Shell, and while I'm willing to
give it a go, I'm certainly not upgrading my Fedora 14 boxes until I know I
can get on with it.
However, we must have tried 4 boxes or more now (not including VMs, and
all with different graphics cards, inc. a high-end nVidia) with the F15 live
disc, and every single one of them comes up in "fall-back" mode, so I've
actually yet to see GNOME Shell working at all. Not an auspicious start.
Is there a way of forcing GNOME Shell to start in "normal" mode, so I can
at least try it? Otherwise, it's going out the window.
--
[neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil@fnx ~]# exit
12 years, 11 months