Old Gnome - New Gnome
by Clyde E. Kunkel
It seems that if you have a common home directory that you reuse from
fedora version to fedora version, you cannot automatically go into the
gnome shell in F15 Alpha gnome 3. I have a home directory that has been
around since about Fedora 6. I don't know what all you have to
eliminate--I just cleared out all gconf* gnome* gtk* metacity folders
and now Fedora 15 RC2 goes into the shell when logging on to the
desktop. Before I had to issue a gnome-shell --replace in a terminal.
I wonder what other problems reusing was/is causing?
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Regards,
OldFart
12 years
Missing desktop icons and installation
by drago01
Now that we no longer display desktop icons by default it is not
obvious on how to install the operating system,
as there is no longer a "Install to Hardisk" icon on the desktop. So
the live cd does no longer promote any install option.
I am wondering on why nobody noticed that till now and the obvious
question is what should we do?
Adding the desktop icons back is obviously not what we want, but I
don't have any suggestion other than temporary display it and remove
it post
install.
Toughs? Suggestions?
12 years
How do we change fonts now
by Clyde E. Kunkel
Please, oh please, someone tell me how to change the fonts in gnome 3
now. My old eyes, even with glasses and a magnifying glass are starting
to hurt.
TIA
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Regards,
OldFart
12 years
Re: Please review potential blockers for F15 Alpha
by Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 06:12 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 11:50 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hey, folks. At the blocker review meeting today we agreed that we were
> > not in a position to decide on the status of these potential blockers:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677842
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677371
> >
> > they apparently cause an unusable system as Shell repeatedly crashes and
> > fallback mode does not kick in. We are unsure of the extent of the
> > impact; several different reporters seem to have hit these (including
> > the Chinese install testers, though they didn't add a comment to the
> > bug, they mentioned it in their test report).
>
> Looks like all post r600 ATI cards would be affected, something must
> have changed in mutter to trigger this, the quickest solution I can see
> at the moment is to rebase mesa and pray. If you want a targeted fix
> it'll take longer to actually work out why its going so horribly wrong.
Thanks for the info! Can you quantify 'longer'? If we delayed Alpha by a
week, would that be enough time?
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 1 month
Please review potential blockers for F15 Alpha
by Adam Williamson
Hey, folks. At the blocker review meeting today we agreed that we were
not in a position to decide on the status of these potential blockers:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677842
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677371
they apparently cause an unusable system as Shell repeatedly crashes and
fallback mode does not kick in. We are unsure of the extent of the
impact; several different reporters seem to have hit these (including
the Chinese install testers, though they didn't add a comment to the
bug, they mentioned it in their test report).
Can you please take a look and see if you can provide any additional
information on these bugs so we can evaluate their blocker-iness?
Thanks!
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 1 month
tracker bug for failed fallback created
by Adam Williamson
Hey, folks. Just a note that I set up a tracker bug for known cases
where trying to start GNOME 3 results in something totally unusable -
Shell fails and fallback does not work correctly. So far there's a
couple of bugs blocking it. The tracker is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678116 , it has the alias
F15GNOMEfail. Please add any appropriate bugs to it, for convenience.
thanks!
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 1 month
Font changes / Cantarell
by Jared K. Smith
I know that Gnome is using Cantarell as its default font, and it seems
that something has changed in Fedora to make Cantarell the default
font for all desktops. I heard from the KDE SIG this morning that
there is some confusion as to whether that was intended to be a global
change, or a change only for the Gnome desktop.
I don't pretend to have a clue when it comes to fonts or the
fontconfig stuff -- but I'd like to kick off this discussion so that
there is less confusion and that nobody tries to ascribe to malice
that which can be explained by miscommunication. Is there someone
that understands the change that can fill me in on the missing
details?
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Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
12 years, 1 month
RFE: Restart option inside Gnome Shell
by Michael Cronenworth
Hello,
During the first week of February, I had downloaded a Fedora 15 nightly
Live CD ISO. After booting into the Live image from my USB stick and
testing some of the new Fedora 15 features, I desired to restart my
computer and return to my Fedora 14 installation on my SSD drives. Upon
searching throughout the Gnome Shell I found no option to restart. I did
not want to shut down my computer. I felt trapped in Gnome Shell.
I request a restart option in Gnome Shell. A restart option has been
necessary functionality for computers since before I was born.
If usage cases are necessary I will provide a few below:
-Reinitialize hardware that has frozen
Some USB devices or PCI-based devices lockup and require a restart to
reinitialize.
-Live CD images.
Users running Fedora temporarily do not need to shut down and power
off the hardware. A Restart is the only option necessary.
-Software updates
Kernel updates require a system reboot. I do not need to shut down
and power off my hardware to perform this.
-Customer support
When dealing with less-informed computer users, it is sometimes
necessary to walk them through a restart of the system. They do not need
to power off the hardware (and sometimes they do not know how to power
on their hardware).
Thanks,
Michael
P.S.
I realize there is the "reboot" shell command, or "shutdown -r" command,
however, this is a non-aesthetic solution.
12 years, 1 month
gnome shell compatible vga cards
by Clyde E. Kunkel
Hello,
I am wondering if:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
2600 Series]
is acceptable for the new gnome shell? It seems to work sometimes, and
at other times not. For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get
a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in
F15Alpha TC1.
Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series? Is
there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported
in gnome 3.
TIA
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Regards,
OldFart
12 years, 1 month
