Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13
by Ranjan Maitra
Does anyone have any experience with F18 on a Dell XPS13 with the FHD
1080p display? What does this Full High-Definition 1080p mean
anyway? I guess my question is: is this the real resolution or some
virtual resolution not obtained via linux.
I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical
resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.
Note that Dell sells this with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (for a price more than
with MS Windoze).
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
Ranjan
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fedup from beta
by Richard Vickery
I hope this isn't in HTML - please alert me if it is; I don't know if
fedup changed the mail setup, and forget where Thunderbird's check-box
is to fix it.
I'm just curious as to how to fedup when F19 comes out; I am aware that
the command is
fedup F18->F19
however, this is the beta as opposed to F18. Of course, F18 is available
to boot into, and I guess users boot into that to use the command above.
I suppose I answered my own question.
11 years
my machine is suddenly extremely slow
by Frédéric Bron
Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200
and nvidia proprietary drivers.
I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home.
Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some
programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical.
I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when
the processor is nearly idle.
What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something else?
Thanks for help,
Frédéric
11 years
Gnome desktop issues
by Jeffrey Ross
How do I reset my desktop back to what was there on a fresh install, or
am I better off creating a new home directory and simply moving my
"known" files back?
When I log in the screen flashes the icons (other accounts are fine) and
the CPU goes to 100% with the "tracker-extract" process
OS Fedora 16
Thanks, Jeff
11 years
Custom service file F18 needs Display=:0 Looking for pointers
by Frank Murphy
Having seen this in Xfce list: (non PK update notifier)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2013-May/001886.html
The pythonscript in the link does work.
I figured could make a .service file for it.
(as a learning challenge)
### pyupdatesd.service ##########
# xfce updates-available icon
# Based on work pyupdatesd from kirsle
[Unit]
Description=Updates Available
DefaultDependencies=no
Requires=graphical.target
After=graphical.target
[Service]
User=frank
Type=oneshot
Type=dbus
# BusName=org.freedesktop.PyUpdatesd
RemainAfterExit=yes
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStart=/etc/sysconfig/pyupdatesd
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target
################################
# systemctl status pyupdatesd.service
pyupdatesd.service - Updates Available
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/pyupdatesd.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2013-05-31 16:36:28
IST; 7s ago Main PID: 3804
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/pyupdatesd.service
May 31 16:34:58 my.pc.here systemd[1]: Starting Updates
Available... May 31 16:36:28 my.pc.here systemd[1]:
pyupdatesd.service operation timed out. Terminating. May 31 16:36:28
my.pc.here systemd[1]: Failed to start Updates Available.
May 31 16:36:28 my.pc.here systemd[1]: Unit
pyupdatesd.service entered failed state
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11 years
Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!
by Martin Holec
Are you tired of using VNC?
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "David Jaša" <djasa(a)redhat.com>
To: brno-memo-list(a)redhat.com, spice-list(a)redhat.com, tech-list(a)redhat.com, desktop-qa-list(a)redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:37:04 PM
Subject: Thursday is Spice Test Day!
Hi All,
The day has come to test Spice! The project got several new features,
half of them developed almost exclusively by the community. There are
several test cases on the Test Day page that allow you to try these
features:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-05-30_Spice
if you have any questions, ask on IRC channels (#fedora-test-day @
Freenode, #spice @ gimpnet)
Happy testing!
David
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11 years
Fedora on a x86 (AMD) Tablet - the good the bad and the ugly
by Fernando Cassia
I've been enjoying my 'new' (It's actually a bit old, being based in the
original AMD Brazos platform, z01 CPU, but still, dual-core and updated to
8GB RAM, purchased late 2012 and only having had time to play with it
now)....
The good news: Fedora boots fine and runs smoothly, BUT!...
1. The Gnome 3.x "hitting the top-left corner" system works and seems
designed with a mouse in mind, NOT touch. If I touch with the finger in the
upper left corner of the screen, 99.1% of the time (rough estimate ;) ....
NOTHING HAPPENS. That surely is because the "focus point"of the "hit" is
too narrow for a finger. In other words, it's expecting the mouse pointer
to be at 0x0 (or 1x1) pixel coordinate for a splt second before invoking
the gnome screens. With a finger hit, surely one fat finger translates to
coordinates 0-40 x to 0-40y.
It doesn't matter if I just position the finger in the corner, or if I try
to emulate the mouse action of doing a small travel with the finger and
"hitting" the corner. It only works on about 1 in every 20 tries.
So, how to fix this? how to make the "invocation area" bigger?
2. The unit comes with 3 sensor keys (virtual buttons drawn over the right
edge of the touch screen), that provide the following functions:
a. O-Easy (on Windows, this calls a custom MSI app that allows you to,
among other things, easy one-touch enable-disable of several tablet
components, ie WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, cameras, etc). Before OS loads,
"O-easy" is mapped in the BIOS to the ENTER key, which together with the
volume up/down buttons on the side (mapped to cursor up/down) allow
navigating the Win7 boot menus without a keyboard and before the OS loads.
b. Home (used to minimize everything and get a look at the desktop, pressd
again, maximized apps return)
c. Hang. This simulates a Ctrl-Alt-Del. Used with win7, it's very handy to
invoke the Win7 task manager when a misbehaving app needs to be killed.
Well, on Fedora 'virtual keys' (a) and (b) do nothing, but (c) is the
worrying one as it sends Fedora on the awful standard Ctrl-Alt-Del "system
is shutting down in 60 secs..." dialog unles you cancel it.
I've been reading complaints about this default Ctrl-Alt-Del behaviour in
Linux since at least 2005... Isn't it time to change the dialog that AT
LEAST lets the user choose between many options, one of them being
"shutdown/reboot and another Start Task Manager?". It would be a great step
forward on the usability angle, specially for people coming from Windows.
(and not to mention on this table when you can simply invoke a shumtdown if
you're not paying much attention and tap into the Hang virtual button with
the corner of your hand while grabbing the tablet...
ANY IDEAS of how to fix/improve any of the points raised above is of course
welcome.
The good:
1. I can do everything I used to do with a netbook, with a tablet.
2. I can run Virtualbox!. Try VBox on a ARM/Android based *TOY*
Final question: is F18/F19 SSD aware, or is there any manual tweak I must
take into account? (wrt flash device life, filesystem used (ext2 to
minimize writes, perhaps?)
FC
PS: Tablet is a MSI WIndpad 110W, AMD Brazos z01. Still available in
Canada* (it was also in Amazon.com until December '12, that's when I bought
it, as it was the only non-Intel, x86 tablet that provided the best
price/performance -$450-550 and expandability -up to 8GB ram unlike its
only competitor at the time the Acer Iconia Tab W500).
* http://www.shopbot.ca/pp-msi-windpad-110w-msi-price-325350.html
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11 years
Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!
by poma
On 30.05.2013 19:23, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:53 +0200, poma wrote:
>> On 30.05.2013 14:16, Martin Holec wrote:
>>> Are you tired of using VNC?
>>
>> Nope.
>> Do you have any issues with VNC?
>
> It's slow, doesn't have as good guest integration as Spice, and misses
> lots of spice's advanced features...
In this respect, is there a comparison study and where?
poma
11 years
Zathura -
by Bob Goodwin
On 24/05/13 02:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Regrettably, epdfview is dead. The best option is to switch to evince
> or zathura, following:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904148
>
> I switched to zathura, and all pdf's render.
>
> Ranjan
I just yum installed zathura in F-18/64/XFCE. It appears to run but displays a blank form with only [No name] at the bottom left.
[bobg@box10 ~]$ zathura /mnt/HOME1/Documents/Toro/3375-638.pdf
error: could not open plugin directory: /usr/lib64/zathura
error: unknown file type
Perhaps it wont work with XFCE?
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