key repeat problem
by Gary Stainburn
Hi folks
I've got a dual boot PC at home with Win-XP and Fedora 18. (I did also have
the problem when it used to run Fedora 10).
When in WinXP everything works perfectly. However when in Fedora the key
repeat doesn't work properly. Occassionally while typing I will get 2 or 3
of the same character which is rather annoying. What is even more annoying is
that when I use the backspace key to fix the problem it will sometimes delete
10 - 20 characters instead of 1-2.
The keyboard is a Microsoft badged multi-media keyboard but as I didn't have
to install any drivers in WinXP I think it's just the same as any other
multi-media keyboard.
Anyone got any ideas how I can fix it?
--
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk
11 years
Eric4 segmentation fault
by Martin Airs
Good day all,
I wonder if anyone else uses eric on here, and if someone has a fix/workaround
to get this running?
[martin@desktop ~]$ eric4
Segmentation fault
[martin@desktop ~]$
thanks
Martin
11 years
cups-pdf not installed by default, why?
by Fernando Cassia
Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first
thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution.
Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf'.
So if cups-pdf is only 47 KB big, and has no other dependencies (other
than cups, which is installed by default), then why on Earth isn't it
included in the LiveCD?
Booting from LiveCD and being able to print to pdf (for instance,
content one sees on the web and wants to mail it to someone else while
testing how well Fedora works), would be a big plus, if you ask me.
So, what is the official sanctioned, polite way to get things like
these accomplished in future Fedora releases?
FC
--
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un
Acto Revolucionario
- George Orwell
11 years
X displays test
by Richard Vickery
I want to know if I am late for the test. Moments ago, I read Mr. A.
Williamson's email about the Intel test today, and started upgrading to
Alpha over the last hour; I feel that it may to late. Am I correct in this
or are the tests allowable to the 25th?
Regards,
Richard
11 years
recoll and mime-text
by Dave Stevens
I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a
desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick.
I can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails.
So the one I'm looking for right now has an attached .pdf, but the
whole mail, headers and mime text and all, displays as ascii text.
I can use recoll's 'open' command, which fires up thunderbird and
shows the attachment with an automatically generated name (gibberish,
more or less) but when I try to save then view the attachment gedit is
showing me the ascii. I vaguely recall years ago having to manually
detach mime-encoded text but don't remember details.
Anyone?
Dave
--
The problem with being cynical is you can't keep up!
-- anon. philosopher
11 years
Fw: Email clients have gone crazy
by Aaron Konstam
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I am running F18. But suddenly this morning my e-mail clients claim not to
accept my server passwd.
When I open evolution it asks for a passwd whxih it has never done before. My
usual mail server passwds do not work.'
Thunderbird claims that my login or passwd is wrong. Where the login is my
e-mail address.
My mail servers are those from at&t. When I go ot the at&t web interface my
email address and server passwd works.
So I am very confused. Evolution did not owrk like this way yesterday or ever in
the last decade. What could be wrong?
11 years
'Unknown filesystem type: exfat'
by Fernando Cassia
F18 here. I thought Linux included support for Microsoft's exFat?
I get "'Unknown filesystem type: exfat' when plugging a Sandisk U3 8GB
Pen Drive formattted on WinXP with Exfat...
FC
--
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
- George Orwell
11 years
(Over)loading Browsers (was Re: Who? Me?? Attacked???)
by Beartooth
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:35:52 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Not in particular response to your actual problem, but...
>
> Allegedly, on or about 23 April 2013, Beartooth sent:
[....]
>> My guess is that Arora had well over a hundred, but well under two
>> hundred, tabs open when it crashed.
>
> I really don't know how anybody does that, with any browser. On any
> computer that I've ever used, including other people's, the thing grinds
> to a sludgey halt when anything more than about twenty tabs are open,
> often far less. Especially with any pages that aren't just plain text.
> Scripts, Flash, even just lots of pictures, are the kiss of death. And,
> no, my computer isn't paging out to swap.
Well, I can tell you how it comes about, if you're asking that.
Then maybe we can find out if any browser(s) tolerate it better than any
other(s).
Wikipedia is my usual downfall, because I try to treat it much as
I would a physical encyclopedia, especially a big single-volume one -- in
which case, having begun one article, I'd turn to related articles,
insert scraps of paper, and go back.
Say I start to read about aspirin. It's a short article, but as
usual, there are several links. One or two will be short enough to click
to, read, and return, without losing context. Others will turn out to be
pretty long; go back, click this time to open in another tab, and resume
reading about aspirin. Then still other links will refer to things I've
long wanted to read about; again, open a background tab. And so on --
recursively.
And if this sounds bad, be assured that when I had a carrel in
the stacks of a big library (as I did for twenty years) it was an order
of magnitude more onerous.
The thing of it is, though, that it's so insidious. The row of
tabs grows gradually, and the slowing down is also gradual, and it gets
to be a little like quicksand. However, any time I'm not otherwise
preoccupied, I can always read my way through a long and known to be
interesting sites, closing tabs behind me. But don't do it with any
browser that doesn't keep a current list of your tabs!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
11 years