Re: Nitrogen
by Frank McCormick
On 07/08/2013 10:54 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 22:17:07 -0400,
> Frank McCormick <beacon(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>> My favorite wallpaper setter Nitrogen has been orphaned....so it's
>> unavailable
>> from the repositories.
>>
>> I run IceWm sometimes...and switch backgrounds quite often and
>> nitrogen was
>> the only piece of software that did it for me.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can get the last version for 19 ?
>
> You can try getting the source rpm from the last version of Fedora it
> appeared in and seeing if it still builds in f19.
>
It still builds fine. Thanks
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--Cheers--
10 years, 10 months
compatibility glibc in Fedora 19
by Amadeus W.M.
I have a DCP130C Brother printer+scanner that works perfectly under Linux
with proprietary drivers supplied by the manufacturer, except that they
require older glibc versions, which I can't seem to find in Fedora 19.
rpm -Uvh --test brscan2-0.2.5-1.x86_64.rpm brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.x86_64.rpm
dcp130c*
error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6 is needed by dcp130ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by dcp130ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by dcp130ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386
libc.so.6 is needed by dcp130clpr-1.0.1-1.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by dcp130clpr-1.0.1-1.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by dcp130clpr-1.0.1-1.i386
Do these still exist, or am I out of luck? Thanks!
10 years, 10 months
Re: rant of the day: installing fedora
by Wade Hampton
[snip]
> While I don't quite understand the rationale behind this new installer
> (started in F18), the installer itself is a hit-or-miss. Sometimes,
> after a lot of cursing, I have been successful, later coming back
[snip]
I concur with the frustration with the new installer. It needs
further work.
I installed F19 in a VM on my F18 desktop this weekend. It took
several tries. After setting up the disks and selecting packages,
it said it did not have enough disk space, but I could not go back
to unselect packages (I had to restart the install). The installer
crashed once as well.
I finally just increased the size of the VM to 10G, took the default
gnome desktop option, and let it run. I'll have to manually install
the development packages I need.
I'm trying another install today of F19, this time on Virtualbox on
top of Ubuntu.
Cheers,
--
Wade Hampton
10 years, 10 months
Anyone know dovecot?
by Tom Horsley
I keep getting this sort of garbage cluttering my logs:
dovecot: master: Warning: /ada/denmark is no longer mounted. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints: 1 Time(s)
I have indeed seen the wiki page mentioned, and even
tried what it says, but nothing seems to "stick".
Any time a filesystem gets mounted, I apparently
also have to invoke doveadm yet again to make
it ignore the new dadgum filesystem. (The wildcards
mentioned in that web page seem only to apply to
existing filesystems, not new mounts).
Is there a way to just make it stop forever?
Or is a rsyslog rule to simply throw away all the
no longer mounted messages my only hope?
10 years, 10 months
How to get rid of the clock lock screen
by Sam Varshavchik
I upgraded several laptops and machines to F19. On all of them except one
laptop, when waking up the desktop is blocked by a clock screen, that needs
to be rolled out of the way.
One laptop consistently wakes up directly into the desktop.
I compared all the configuration settings I can think of, and everything
seems to be the same but I'd like to fix all the other machines so that they
go directly into the desktop, without having to deal with the clock screen.
10 years, 10 months
RE: Urgent network help needed
by J.Witvliet@mindef.nl
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:33 AM
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Urgent network help needed
Rick Stevens wrote:
> Step 2: Reboot her laptop. Not a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del), but
> a full-tilt cold boot from power off. You say she uses a VPN to contact
> work, and it's often that the VPN clients leave crumbs in Windows'
> routing and DNS lookup tables.
That did the trick, thank you very much.
Marriage secured, at least until the next outage.
Actually, by a fluke the internet went off where I am in Italy tonight
for about 10 minutes.
How I hate that red light on the modem.
Makes me think again that I should have a backup system,
maybe tethering a mobile phone.
There is a competition in Ireland - maybe everywhere in the world -
between ISPs to see who can lie best about internet speed.
I suspect my ISP may be using their new modem, so called e-Fibre,
at the limit of their functionality.
Apropos of nothing, I recall being told by a Telecom engineer
when modem speeds increased from 300bps to 1200 bps
that it had been proved "scientifically"
that this was the fastest speed copper wire could support.
-----Original Message-----
I hate those red/yellow lights also, perhaps I'm "addicted to connectivity".
Don't know how often you got disconnected, but you might consider a "back-up connection".
At home, besides my fixed lines, I have two gsm-modems, one low-speed (that came free of charge with one of my fixed lines), the other is high speed, but pre-paid, normally off)
And of course switches, modems, firewall, mail-server on no-break power supply.
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10 years, 10 months
lightspark
by Peter G.
flash-plugin won't work in fedora 19, not even with
setsebool unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition 0.
The video plays for about 15 seconds, without
sound, then freezes.
As a result, I installed lightspark: yum install
lightspark.
Firefox shows no such plugin.
Upon investigation, I see that lightspark is in
/usr/bin/lightspark and that there is a sub-
directory called plugins with a pulse plugin.
There are no instructions as to where these files
are supposed to go, so I linked liblightspark in
/bin/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
Firefox still shows no such plugin.
How does one use lightspark? Where is the
pulseplugin supposed to go? How does one get it
to work?
10 years, 10 months
Digital camera: "operation not supported by backend device"
by Sam Varshavchik
After upgrading to F19, accessing a digital camera from Gnome is completely
broken.
Gnome detects the camera when I plug it in. I can browse its file directory
structure. The first indication that something is fubared is that none of
the picture files have thumbnails, just some generic icon. Dragging an icon
from the camera's folder to the desktop always fails with an "operation not
supported by backend device".
"Image browser" also has no issues showing the individual photos. Telling it
to save the photo to my desktop again fails with "operation not supported by
backend device".
In a shell, I see that instead of an ordinary USB mass storage mount in
/run/media, that I saw in F18, F19 has some strange FUSE mount. I can 'cd'
into the mount. I can navigate it. I can manually cp the individual files
off the weird mount, and onto my desktop with no issues, and the photos are
fine.
But I simply cannot access the camera via Gnome. It's completely borked.
After a few rounds, shotwell and image viewer fail to even browse the
camera's contents, whining that they can't obtain exclusive access to it, or
something.
10 years, 10 months
Minor problem with Fedora 19
by Frank McCormick
I installed Fedora 19 recently but wasn't paying attention when setting
up the username
portion of the installation. As a result I had an abbreviated form of my
full name as a user name.
So I used the system utility to change is to my preferred username.
Problem is my home directory is still named my old username and at
lightdm logon I have
to type in my new username and password ( which is the same). The logon
screen doesn't offer
me my new name, but still offers the old name. Anyway to fix ???
Thanks
--
--Cheers--
10 years, 10 months