Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -
by Bob Goodwin
I have a new Fedora-18 64 bit XFCE Live install and and I find that
ctrl+alt+backspace does not work. Is that expected?
I need that function with my equipment. I have two Saitek
illuminated keyboards the have done strange things when I switch the
color/brightness since F-16. After the color/brightness is toggled
to max I have to log out and in again using ctrl+alt+backspace. This
on two different computers. On this F-17 box I can log out/in that
way, not on the new F-18 install.
How can I change that?
Bob
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box7
11 years, 3 months
Firefox Tabs -
by Bob Goodwin
It appears that the option "browser.tabs.onTop" has been removed
from about:config in Firefox 17.01!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It appears to be another
instance of our being forced to use what someone else prefers. It
bothers me enough to consider other browsers ...
On this computer, apparently upgraded from an earlier Firefox, the
tabs are still where I want them on bottom, although the item no
longer appears in about:config but on a new install on another
computer they are on top and I have not found a way to correct this.
There must be a fix for this, does anyone know how?
Bob
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box7
11 years, 3 months
Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -
by Bob Goodwin
On 31/12/12 08:24, Scott Robbins wrote:
> Last I remember you could create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or add this if the
> file exists.)
>
> Ah, I see it's deprecated. Ok, apparently typing
>
> setxkbmap -optio9n terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
>
> might work .
>
>
>
Yes, that does the trick, ran the command and Ctrl+ALT+Backspace log
me out as needed!
Than you, a seemingly minor thing but it really simplifies things here.
Bob
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box7
11 years, 3 months
Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea
by Thomas Dineen
Gentle People:
A heartfelt plea from a user:
Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then
Keep the "Fall Back Mode" in ALL future versions of Fedora.
Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable.
Please read the justification below:
I just installed, last night, Fedora 17, on a PC! Things went very
well overall.
Bravo good work!
Following this I successfully loaded all the updates with the
update tool,
and again bravo it worked!
But, But, But I have found a number of what I consider disastrous
bugs in Gnome 3,
too many to list here!
But I include a few:
1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very
dark, to
the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the
monitor, an HP
w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with three others via a
four way switch.
The other computers produce a bright screen, each working as expected.
So is there
any way to adjust this? Keeping in mind that I spent the evening going
through the menus.
2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the
boundaries of menu
entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that
has lost horizontal
sync.
3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point
of being unreadable!
4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading.
Thank You For Your Time.
Thomas Dineen
11 years, 3 months
Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager
by R. G. Newbury
> It won't accept the key and the mode. It will only accept Mode as
> Managed. the key is the one in the router, under Wireless Security .
>
> The problem is the wireless network is not starting. It cannot find the
> Gateway 192.168.1.1 , and that is the correct setting
>
> How do you start the wireless network ?
>
> Remember I'm not using NetworkManager
Use wicd instead of NM.
The network service apparently will *never* start a wireless device. It
may have once upon a time, but not now. (I can't remember if it ever
did, or not)
Yum install wicd* should install what you need, then
systemctl enable wicd.service
systemctl start wicd.service
Geoff
11 years, 3 months
USB Live Install problem -
by Bob Goodwin
On this computer I have a copy of
"Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso" I would like to
install on another computer. It has a GiGabyte GA-E350N
motherboard which has a recognized problem booting from a
thumb drive. I've used "livecreator" on three different
thumb drives and tried everything I can find to get it to
boot without success, although in the past I have managed,
not this time!
Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash
drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a
scheme for installing over the LAN connection? About all I
can think of at this point is to swap a drive into another
computer that will boot from the flash drive but that's more
work than I planned on, but could do ...
Bob
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box7
11 years, 3 months
Re: Whats happened to SELinux commands and directories on F18 ?
by Aaron Gray
On 30 December 2012 19:23, Lars Seipel <lars.seipel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> On Sunday 30 December 2012 18:56:05 Aaron Gray wrote:
> > I have tried to get audit2allow command
>
> Audit2allow is available in policycoreutils-devel.
>
Thanks !
>
> > and to disable SELinux using 'echo
> > 0 >/selinux/enforce'
>
> The SELinux filesystem was moved to /sys/fs/selinux some time ago. You can
> also
> use setenforce(1) to change mode.
>
> Lars
>
> PS: removed devel from CC as the users list is more appropriate for this
> issue
>
Thanks, yes I should have tried users group first, thanks.
Aaron
11 years, 3 months
Whats happened to SELinux commands and directories on F18 ?
by Aaron Gray
Hi,
I have tried to get audit2allow command and to disable SELinux using 'echo
0 >/selinux/enforce' but neither seem to work.
Can someone point me in the right direction with SELinux on F18 please ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
11 years, 3 months
min install to graphical, sans gnome, how to start graphical.target
by Joel Rees
Used the netinstall CD image on a USB stick to install the minimal
install -- F17 64 bit.
Boots to the text console.
yum groupinstalled Window Managers, X Window System, and Xfce.
/lib/systemd/system/default.target points to graphical.target .
/lib/systemd/system//graphical.target.wants contains
display.manager.service which is a link to
/usr/lib/systemd/system/display.manager.service .
I think I saw a message about gnome not being found at some point in
the boot process.
gdm is installed, for what it's worth, but man -k gdm doesn't tell me anything.
I can login to the text console and do
systemctl start graphical.target
and get the X11 login and login to the xfce desktop. Functions fine
from there. Reboot brings me back to the console login.
switchdesk xfce says it switched to xfce.
What do I need to look for? With all the earth moving under our feet
because of /usr merge and systemd, I have no idea where else needs to
be set up.
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Joel Rees
11 years, 3 months