Firefox update.
by Gain Paolo Mureddu
This past thursday an updated version of firefox was released that
fixed a possible vulnerability with IDN (International Domain Name)
display in the location bar. I was wondering when will there be an
updated version from Fedora for this?
Thanks
18 years, 1 month
KDE blues
by bj
Hi !
I am running Free X and KDE in my Red Hat 8.0 box .
I have a few queries regarding KDE use . Help is appriciated .
1. How to exit a program which does not have a menu such as FILE/EDIT/VIEW
etc . The circle on the top left hand corner of the active program minimizes
it and turns it into a small icom . The square on the top right hand side is
for changing the size .
So How Do I exit the program.
2. If it is possible , How do I change resolution , windows style.
3.If possible , how do I do a print screen on an application such as K-write
or any other application equivalent to microsoft paint ?
Thank you for your help in advance.
Cheers,
bj
18 years, 1 month
FC3, GNOME question
by Chris Gramer
Hello!
I recently installed Fedora Core 3 and set up the system with nary a
glitch and logged in using my regular account under GNOME. After
installing, I used up2date to update all my packages. I then logged
out, choosing "Save Current Settings." When I restarted and tried to
log back in using my regular account and GNOME, after entering my
password it would show the splash screen briefly, show that it was
loading the first couple items on the splash screen, and then I'd get a
blank blue screen. (The FC3 BSOD?) I was able to Ctrl-Alt-Del to
access the logout/shutdown dialog and log out, and could then log into
the system using my regular account under KDE without problems. I can
also log in using GNOME or KDE as root. Any ideas what could be going
on? Any hardware info you need? Just in case:
Running a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 1 GB of DDR400 RAM
Western Digital 160 GB SATA hard drive, Linux on a 60 GB partition, XP
Pro on the 100 GB partition
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (recognized by Linux initially as a Radeon 9800)
Happy to provide any other info...
Thanks in advance!!
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Chris Gramer
cgramer(a)fastmail.fm
18 years, 1 month
Fedora will not display remote X
by GaryCarr
I have a Fedora 1 system I've just set up.
I cannot seem to get the system to allow display of remote X apps on Fedora
host.
I have firewall turned off, try setting "xhost +" to allow all connections,
but any attempt to run remote application is denied. I can ping fedora
host, or ssh into it from remote.
If I ssh to the remote host, then applications run fine through the ssh tunnel.
I am new to Linux administration, am I missing something simple here?
18 years, 1 month
Capturing screen action to a movie file, how?
by Gain Paolo Mureddu
I was wondering how easy would it be to do capture screen action to
a movie file... What I want to do do is something similar to what Apple
has done to show off their OSX where you can see some on-screen actions,
like opening X or Y program, then switch tasks, etc, etc. I was
wondering if there is a program for Linux (ok, for X) that would allow
you to do exactly that, and then be able to transcode that into an .ogm
file, for instance. If so what's that program and where do I get it??
I want to do a series of tutorials for my family, but instead of me
being present at each computer, they could only open the file, see how a
certain task is done and that's about it. You could say I want to do
some Linux marketing too :-P
18 years, 1 month
Composite and Metacity.
by Gain Paolo Mureddu
I've tried to enable dropshadows in two systems running FC3, in
both I stumbled into problems with Metacity. In one system with an
nVidia GF FX5900, window borders would be transparent, and only
"unmanaged" (borderless) windows would cast shadows (menus, dragged
icons, etc), while managed windows would not, the window border would be
traslucent, and not cast a shadow. The other system, a laptop, will not
focus windows when loged into GNOME, I cannot even run xcompmgr to
activate dropshadows when I have active the Composite and RENDER
extensions. However KDE works in both systems just fine with
dropshadows, why isn't Metacity working as it should? Is there
somethening that can be done, do I need a newer metacity or a patched one?
Thanks.
18 years, 1 month
Making global X changes.
by Gain Paolo Mureddu
What file must I edit so whenever X starts, it does something I want
differently. I've altready tried /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, but that file
doesnot seem to have the effect I'm looking for. What I want is to add
the following command as a global X startup option: "xcompgr -c -C -f -D
20", problem is that I don't know where to put it... Any ideas?
18 years, 1 month
Including gCursor.
by Nando
Hi,
What about including gcursor in fedora?
Currently it has the feaures mising in the current theme selector, that
is changing also the cursor theme.
It woud be nice to have it's functions integrated in the current theme
selector, and have one tool to control everything.
But, if that's not possible having gursor in the preferences too, would
not be bad.
I've been trying it, and it works ok. The only feature, that it won't do
is to change instantly the cursor theme we need to
restart the X so it apply the changes.
But maybe this can be fixed too.
Best regards,
Fernando Morais
18 years, 1 month
External Volume Buttons in GNOME
by Karol Krizka
Hello,
I have tried to get my volume buttons working on my Presario R3320CA
under FC3 x86_64, but got no success. What I did was open up the
Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts menu and bound the Volume mute/up/down
to the volume buttons on the side. This is what it got set to:
0Xa0/0xae/0xb0. When I tried it then, it didn't work. Then just to see
if it's a problem with the buttons, I bind volume down to a keyboard
key (Control+.). That had no effect eighter. Has anyone go this
working?
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Cheers,
Karol Krizka
18 years, 2 months
Re: Synaptic not feeling well
by Nils Breunese
> This message is posted two two lists as I am quite uncertain as to
> which of them would be less unappropriate.
This is the list for Fedora Desktop Development, you might ask this kind
of questions on the Fedora users list.
> Today, when I went to open synaptic from the kde menu on FC3, I
> noticed that it was missing! So I opened it from a terminal, but
> cannot update- no matter what I try to update I get this error (or one
> vey similar):
>
> APT system reports:
> E: Unknown signature
> /var/cache/apt/archives/taglib_0%3a1.3.1-1_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1
> md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#1ac70ce6)
> E: Unknown signature
> /var/cache/apt/archives/amarok_0%3a1.1.0-2_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1
> md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#1ac70ce6)
> E: Error(s) while checking package signatures:
> 0 unsigned package(s)
> 2 package(s) with unknown signatures
> 0 package(s) with illegal/corrupted signatures
>
> Um, what can I do? I should probably mention that I have about two
> weeks of linux experience under my belt.
It seems you added the Fedora Pre-Extras repository, but that you have not
imported its GPG key yet. Execute this command to import the key:
rpm --import
http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Pre-Extras
Nils Breunese.
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"I got a funny feeling they got plastic in the afterlife" - Beck
18 years, 2 months
