Finding minimized GNOME windows on a VNC desktop
by Colin Paul Adams
I have configured a vncserver to use my normal GNOME desktop.
But the bottom panel is empty, and I can't find minimized windows, nor
switch between virtual desktop panes.
As a result, if I minimize a window, it is gone forever.
Any suggestions?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
16 years, 2 months
Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general
by Gene Heskett
Greetings all;
I guess I'm getting lazy in my dotage, but do we have in our current bag of
tricks, a gui program that can display the available cifs/samba shares on the
local network, and then allow the local mounting of such a visible share by
nothing more elegant than having the user enter both the username to log in
as, and the password, hopefully remembering those items till the rapture or
some such silly amount of time?
I ask because I just spent over an hour trying to get the syntax right for a
mount.cifs invocation to do just that. I hate manpages without any actual,
known to work examples.
Also, where did smbmount go? Its loss means that even if I could have
recovered my even more complex script from the old FC6/etc/init.d, it would
have failed. I can reinvent that wheel eventually but its been 7 or 8 years
since I had to fool with this & things get rusty, call it CRS, whatever.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be;
They are but broken lights of thee.
-- Tennyson
16 years, 2 months
NIS Problems
by Brent Snow, Mr.
Hi All,
I have a Server with a quad-core Intel Xeon processor and 4
GB of RAM that I just installed Fedora 8 X-64 on. I am trying to set it
up to work with NIS from a RHEL 4.0 Server. We just use NIS for auto
mounting users homes.
I can get everything configured properly, but I cannot
manage to make auto mount to work. I have read a lot of the info on NIS
not working in Fedora 8, but have not found a workaround/hack yet to
make this work (if someone has a work around please share).
I also have a problem with gdmgreeter crashing that
apparently this is related to having NIS enabled on the system, and
something about it starting NIS before GDM is started.
Thanks for any help you can provide
Regards Brent
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye
by Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:53:28 +1000 (EST)
Res <res(a)ausics.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Craig White wrote:
>
> > at least I don't get my fun by antagonizing others.
>
> I have a valid point,
*snip*
You point is valid in your own mind. You are just being argumentative
for the sake of posting text. You telling him (or others) that they
have no right to ask others to drop a subject is nothing less then you
being a list cop (that you yourself pointed out he was being).
Pot calling the kettle black?!
--
Best regards,
Chris
T-1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server.
16 years, 2 months
Trouble with Microphone
by Art Giles
Dear everyone,
How do you unmute the microphone and turn up the volume for the
microphone? I am using Xlite Sip phone and I receive no audio from the
microphone. I am using Xlite for the SIP phone and using Fedora 8.
Art Giles (Oltimer)
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye
by Craig White
at least I don't get my fun by antagonizing others.
Craig
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:12 +1000, Res wrote:
> or u could stop reading it, mr self appointed net cop
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Craig White wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 21:54 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
> >> Tim wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 08:58 -0800, Paul Shaffer wrote:
> >>>> I just knew the moment I read Karl's original post this was going to
> >>>> turn into a flame thread of epic proportions. Too bad he felt
> >>>> compelled to say good bye at all, and didn't merely disappear
> >>>> quietly.
> >>>
> >>> But that was his way - to be antagonistic in all points. Did you expect
> >>> something different than a dummy spit from him?
> >>
> >> Be thankful he's gone, he's up to his old antics on the Ubuntu
> >> list. Right now he's rambling about Grub. Didn't he just go through
> >> this on this list?
> > ----
> > those who are interested will tune into the Ubuntu list.
> >
> > please let this thread die in peace.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
> mysql> update auth set Framed-IP-Address='127.0.0.127' where user= 'troll';
>
16 years, 2 months
Maintaining a local yum repository
by Derek Tattersall
Hello,
I currently have 3 computers running Fedora 8. I think it would probably
be a good thing to set up a local repository for yum, rather than
downloading each package 3 times.
I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really
happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular
mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date.
It seems to me that this would have some problems. For one thing it puts
a bigger load on whichever mirror I am rsync'ing to. For another thing,
It seems to that there might be some security issues with just grabbing
the packages without checking the key as yum does.
Is there a better way to keep a local repository up to date? Ideally, I
would like to find a way to just download the packages that my local
users ask for, not the whole thing. And I would prefer to use the mirror
list at fedora rather than just use one particular server.
I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing it
manually.
Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off just
continuing to use the fedora repository?
Thanks
--
Derek Tattersall tatters(a)newsguy.com
16 years, 2 months
Re: Good bye - So long and thanks for all the fish.
by Kelly Miller
Res wrote:
> You will never get help because your not in the "in crowd" of lamers
> who have nothing better to do than rack up post hits by speaking
> complete tripe :)
Um, why exactly do you even stay on this list? I have yet to see
anything remotely resembling a helpful email from you; instead, it's
constant attacks, whether on people, on the project, on specific
components...
Do you not have anything better to do or something?
16 years, 2 months
Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?
by Chris G
I tend to use the command line most of the time but I occasionally use
Nautilus when, for example, I'm housekeeping image files and it's
useful to be able to see the images.
However, for me, nautilus has some very annoying defaults and I'm
wondering if they can be changed, i.e. :-
Nautilus opens a new window for every directory, this rapidly gets
annoying with deep hierarchies. Is there an option to get
Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the *same* window?
(Windows can do it, when using XP I always have this option set)
When using the File - Open Location option nautilus defaults the
location to the home directory *and* selects it so that it
overwrites what's in the clipboard. This is *intensely* annoying
if you have just carefully selected the directory you want to go
to (in another window) and have put it in the copy buffer already.
Can I turn off the auto-entry of the home directory and/or the
automatic selection of the text?
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Chris Green
16 years, 2 months
