VNC: Which desktop it displays
by Shane Presley
Hello,
I'm running VNC (pre-installed) with FC3. My client/view is on Windows 2000.
To configure VNC I modified /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS="1:root"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600"
And set a password. Then started the service "service vncserver start"
Starts up fine, and I can connect with my viewer to port 5901.
I'm new to Linux, so I'm confused about what desktop I am seeing. I
know with VNC server on a windows server, you get the display that the
local mouse/keyboard/monitor sees. There's only one desktop.
With FC3, I seem to be getting a new virtual desktop. I guess that
would be useful to run X applications. But is there a way to use VNC
to display the exact same thing that my locally attached
keyboard/mouse/monitor see? So if I change something remotely using
VNC, the local monitor also displays my changes. Just as if I was at
the console?
Thanks
Shane
17 years, 4 months
Installing Python 2.4
by Mariano Draghi
In http://www.python.org/2.4/rpms.html there are RPM packages for FC3,
and a Yum repository provided by python.org (hey! so far FC3 is the only
distro with RPMs provided by python.org itself!)
I'd like to know if anybody have installed these packages, and if they
fit pleasently into FC3. As Fedora uses Python *heavely*, I don't want
to break anything.
So, it's safe to install this, or I'd be better waiting for an official
update? (assuming there are plans for such an update...)
TIA,
--
Mariano
17 years, 4 months
scim and transliteration
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I would like to know if there is an input method in scim which could
provide roman transliteration letters: I need vowel with macron,
consonnant with upper and underdot etc.
I have found "latin pre" and "latin post" virtual keyboard but they do
not provide all composed letters I need. Is it possible to add some
composed letters?
There is also an "unicode" and "utf-8" keyboard: is there a
configuration method of scim which could allow to define keyboard short
cuts giving the letter corresponding to a code; for example, I define
"Alt a" short cut with u+0101 and get a lowercase a-macron, "Alt A" will
give uppercase a macron, and so on.
Thank you for attention and (I hope) answer.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 4 months
scim problem
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I installed scim to write some exotic scrips and it works quite good but
there is a problem that took me a long time to understand (and solve):
the assignation of the variable GTK_IM_MODULE to scim.
This is done when scim is running (for me at start time) and this makes
some applications crash: acroread, gxine (but not xine), realplayer....
I had to modify (or create) a script for these apps which unset first
this variable.
My question is: why scim cannot run smoothly with other applications?
I have another question, maybe off topics (but scim commes with fedora),
is there a keyboard in scim for transliteration of other scripts in
roman script? I mean a virtual keyboard which allow you to add letter
with diacritical marks (macron, underdots, overdots and so on.
Thank you.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris 5 - Paris
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 4 months
Triple boot Fedora, XP, and Vista
by Thomas Paine
I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora,
XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all
on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250
for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle
xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use
grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this
case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
--
-=/>Thom
17 years, 4 months
Bash problems?
by Tomas Larsson
Dear group.
How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I empty or not.
Cant find a way to do this in a simple way.
With best regards
Tomas Larsson
Sweden
Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
17 years, 4 months
Warning light on Fedora System
by WGregory
Thanks to the list, I am now able to play an audio sound and recording
from my Fedora 5 box to warn out our night crew of a problem (play
[filename].wav/ogg). I also would like to connect a warning light or
strobe to the system to provide visual warning. In addition to lan, I
have serial and usb ports available on my system.
Does anyone know of such a product? And how to trigger it to alert from
Fedora? Needless to say, also need way to turn if off from the Fedora.
17 years, 4 months
2nd try - e2fsck parallelism
by Terry Horsnell
I didnt get any response to my first query, so
I'm asking again. Apologies if you replied and
I missed it - please re-send.
I have a system with about 50 SCSI drives spread across
5 buses, mostly with 1 ext3 filesystem per drive.
After a crash I decided to accept the boot-time offer
to fsck them. About half a dozen proceeded to be checked
simultaneously, but thereafter the rest went off one by one.
Is this a bug? Should fsck be able to handle this many in
parallel? Or should it do things in smaller parallel chunks?
I have to confess that I'm running RHEL4 and my e2fsck
version is still 1.35, 28-Feb-2004. Maybe someone knows
that this has been fixed in a later version.
My fstab has a '2' in the 6th position for all filesystems
except root, which has a '1' as instructed in 'man fstab'
Cheers,
Terry.
17 years, 5 months
GFS and Fedora
by Giulio Sorrentino
Which could be advantages for home users using that filesystem?
17 years, 5 months
FC6 radeonfb and radeon xorg conflict
by Matthew Saltzman
Some Thinkpads with Radeon video cards have a suspend issue that requires
loading the radeonfb kernel module in the initrd. When this happens, the
radeon xorg driver refuses to display at any resolution other than
640x480. Everything works normally (except for the suspend problem) when
the radeonfb is not loaded.
Anyone else seeing this? Any solution? Is it an xorg bug or a kernel
bug?
TIA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
17 years, 5 months
